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2. On the lock-in [sound recording] : LuEsther Hall performance and radio spots / by David Langston Smryl.
- Description:
- Cassettes contain both the full performance and two radio commercial spots of the NYSF musical On the lock-in. The radio spots were broadcast on WBLS FM.
- Content types:
- Sounds
- Formats:
- Audiocassette
- Extent:
- 2 recordings
- Repository/Collector:
- New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
- Online finding aid:
- View on catalog.nypl.org
3. Interview with Christian Holder
- Description:
- Side A. [Music and announcements.] Christian Holder speaks with Kyra Lynn Kaptzan about his family's performing arts background; his early training in London in dance and theater; seeing Jerome Robbins' musical comedy West Side Story and Ballets: U.S.A. as an influence on his decision to dance; moving to New York City in l964; his scholarship to the Martha Graham School [Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance]; attending the New York City High School of the Performing Arts; joining the Joffrey Ballet in 1966; his theatrical experience as a child; his favorite role, Death, in Kurt Jooss's The green table; other roles he enjoys, including in [José Limón's] Moor's pavane, [Robert Joffrey's] Astarte, and the narrator in [Frederick Ashton's] Wedding bouquet; roles he and Gary Chryst perform; his preference for a diverse repertory [short gap]; working with Leonide Massine; dancing in Massine's work Parade; dancing in the Joffrey Ballet's program titled Homage to Diaghilev [Parade, Petruschka, Spectre de la rose, and Afternoon of a faun], including the difficulty of performing the same roles every night; working with Rudolf Nureyev; the Joffrey repertoire and how works are selected for performance; the attempted censorship of certain works when the Joffrey toured in the former Soviet Union; touring in the U.S., including audience reactions; Holder's choreographing, including his work Five dances; how working with Jerome Robbins and other choreographers has helped him as a choreographer; his experience with costume design. [Music and announcements.] Side B is blank.
- Content types:
- Sounds
- Formats:
- Audiocassette
- Extent:
- 1 recording
- Repository/Collector:
- New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
- Online finding aid:
- View on catalog.nypl.org
4. Interview with Cynthia Harvey
- Description:
- Cynthia Harvey speaks with Kyra Lynn Kaptzan about the employee lock-out at American Ballet Theatre, including cancellation of the company's performances at the Kennedy Center [John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts]; dancing in Mikhail Baryshnikov's production of Don Quixote; dancing her first major role in Eliot Feld's At midnight; taking on roles at the last minute; dancing Glen Tetley's Contredances with Patrick Bissell; the function of the company's choreologist in teaching roles; working with different partners, including Anthony Dowell; working with Tetley on Contredances and Rite of spring; working with Antony Tudor on The leaves are fading; working with Baryshnikov on Don Quixote; his taking over the direction of American Ballet Theatre; Cynthia Gregory's and Gelsey Kirkland's resignations, including their effect on the company; working with Natalia Makarova on La bayadère; her favorite ballets, including Swan lake; attending performances of New York City Ballet and other companies; her dance training, including two summers at the School of American Ballet; attending the National Ballet of Canada School and joining the National Ballet of Canada briefly; moving to New York City; joining American Ballet Theatre in 1974; leisure activities; future goals; absence of overt competitiveness among the dancers at American Ballet Theatre [ends abruptly].
- Content types:
- Sounds
- Formats:
- Audiocassette
- Extent:
- 1 recording
- Repository/Collector:
- New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
- Online finding aid:
- View on catalog.nypl.org
5. Tribute to Yip Harburg on the Jonathan Schwartz radio program
- Description:
- Jonathan Schwartz talks about the life and career of American lyricist Yip Harburg, and plays recordings of various songs written by Yip Harburg as a tribute to him. Includes compilation of the excerpts from various intherviews with Harburg, and comments by Stephen Sondheim. Jonathan Schwartz and Stephen Sondheim read fragments from Harburg's lyrics.
- Content types:
- Sounds
- Formats:
- Audiocassette
- Extent:
- 1 recording
- Repository/Collector:
- New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
- Online finding aid:
- View on catalog.nypl.org