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12. Radio Collection
- Description:
- Wide-ranging collection spanning 1928-70s and beyond. Holdings include local programming from stations throughout the country, including WBAI, WCBS, WNEW, WRCA, WMCA, WRVA, WNWK, WABC, WWL, WNEW, WOR, WHN, WQXR, WNYC, WBRC, WBRD, WBYN, WCAU, WCKY, WOL, WCOI, WEA, WFUN, WGAR, WIIN, WIFE, WINS, WJZ, WJVA, WKIX, WKLO, WLEA, WLOD, WLS, WXRK, WOKO, WONE, WPLI, WQAM, WQUA, WSAF, WTAN, WTYC, WTRY, KFOX, KMET, KABC, KPFK, KPHO, KRLA, KLSX, KROC, Pacifica. Content includes news coverage, interviews, classical and popular music, drama, sports, non-English language programming, etc. Personalities include later-nationally famous hosts and DJs and hosts such as Bob Fass, Dr. Demento, Casey Kasem, Alan Freed, Bob Crane, Arthur Godfrey, among others.
- Content types:
- Sounds
- Formats:
- Disc (Commercial, Homemade, Transcription), Reel-to-reel, Audiocassette, Videotape, Digital tape (DAT, DCC), and CD
- Extent:
- 3,300+
- Repository/Collector:
- The Paley Center for Media
- Online finding aid:
- View on www.paleycenter.org
13. 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
14. 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
15. WHRW materials
- Description:
- News + public affairs shows (including coverage of Vietnam War protests + student takeover of campus administration building), freeform music shows, and "Film" and video interviews with former station workers. Additional documentation includes runs of station program guides. Dates pick up in 60s and run through 70s and beyond.
- Content types:
- Sounds and Other
- Formats:
- Disc (Commercial, Homemade, Transcription), Reel-to-reel, Audiocassette, Film, Videotape, Digital tape (DAT, DCC), and CD
- Repository/Collector:
- Noa Eshkar
16. WNYC
- Description:
- Way too numerous to list.
- Content types:
- Sounds and Other
- Formats:
- Cylinder, Reel-to-reel, Audiocassette, Digital tape (DAT, DCC), CD, MiniDisc, External drive, and Website
- Extent:
- 34,290 CDs; 19,873 1/4 inch audio tape; 14,084 broadcast wav files; 8,252 DATs; 6,035 x-WAV audio files; 3,887 Beta PCM files; 2,973 audio compact cassettes; 2,969 minidiscs; 765 VHS tapes
- Repository/Collector:
- WNYC New York Public Radio Archive