Recordings entered for Peabody Awards consideration from 1940 to the present day. Programs come in all genres and are locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally produced.
Content types:
Sounds and Other
Formats:
Disc (Commercial, Homemade, Transcription), Reel-to-reel, Audiocassette, Digital tape (DAT, DCC), CD, Digital file (.WAV), and Digital file (.MP3)
Extent:
19000 recordings
Repository/Collector:
Walter J. Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection
Contains excerpts from a radio program in which Jonathan Schwartz plays recordings of various songs written by Ira Gershwin as a tribute to the lyricist, and comments on them. Program is incomplete.
Content types:
Sounds
Formats:
Audiocassette
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
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
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
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
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