Recordings of broadcasts by local Buffalo musicians (ND) + interviews with Historical Society staff on WKBW program Panorama Spotlight (1965-67), plus recordings of 1960s broadcasts from WBEN, WBFO and WEBR, and miscellaneous radio recordings
Content types:
Spoken word
Formats:
Cylinder, Acetate open reel tape, and Analog audiocassette
The Turmoil Radio Collection documents the world's longest running punk rock and hardcore music radio program. Founded by Steven Kreitzer, it aired on Stony Brook University's campus radio station, WUSB (90.1 FM) on Wednesday evenings (8 to 10 p.m.) from December 1980 through 2004. The collection is comprised of approximately 100 cubic feet of items that document the Turmoil radio program; contents include correspondence, business files, sound recordings, magazines, fanzines, posters, broadsides, ephemera, textiles, and artifacts.
Content types:
Spoken word, Text, Perfomed music, and Still image
Formats:
Photographic print, Text document, Pressed 78rpm disc, Pressed 45rpm disc, Analog audiocassette, and VHS (including SVHS and VHS-C)
Collection of 50 plays and radio scripts (published and unpublished) relating to patriotic themes or labor issues. Most of the scripts date from the 1930s or the World War II period.
Extensive collection of scores, orchestrations, and program notes accumulated by Haenschen for radio musical programming, 1925-1952. While the name of the program is usually identified on the score, in general, the collection cannot be searched by program name.
Contains notes and scripts for the Metropolitan Opera Broadcasts, 1931-1975, scripts for The Chamber Music Society of Lower Basin Street, 1942-1944, WJZ 's Piano House, 1949-1950, General Motors Concerts, 1934-1936, and ABC's Festival, 1955-1957. Also includes handwritten stories for The Children's Hour plus correspondence, clippings and sound recordings.
Includes recordings of Milestones in the History of Music, 1938-1940 and 1950-1953, NBC University of the Air and NBC Orchestras of the Nation series as well as various special concerts, speeches and lectures by Hanson.
Repository/Collector:
Sibley Music Library, Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester
An oral history of Yiddish radio, 1930s-1950s, produced by the NPR program All Things Considered and available on 2 CDs. Also available in many libraries or can be purchased through the web site.
Contains personal and business correspondence, office memos, photographs, news clips, a few radio scripts and other miscellaneous items from WBEN, Buffalo, NY and WBEN-TV from the late 1920s to late 1970s. Most of the radio scripts are incomplete. Also includes miscellaneous information about the "Buffalo Evening News" which owned the station. Haeffner worked with E. H. Butler Jr., owner of the newspaper, in the establishment of the radio station. A detailed inventory of the collection is available.
Repository/Collector:
Archives and Special Collections, Buffalo State College
Contains transcripts of the weekly news/news analysis program entitled either The Week in Review or The News in Review broadcast January, 1935-May, 1940 on either WBEN or WEBR, Buffalo, NY. The program was hosted by Zavitz who also wrote the scripts. Also includes miscellaneous correspondence and newspaper clippings, 1933-1949.
Repository/Collector:
Archives and Special Collections, Buffalo State College
Contains scripts, correspondence and other papers relating to her writings for radio and television. Includes scripts for My True Story, 1948-1960 and Whispering Streets, 1953-1960. Also includes outlines and storylines for future scripts, possible plots and audition scripts that Sangster wrote and correspondence she received from ABC and NBC. Little personal information is included in collection.
The "Papers" portion of the collection contains promotional items, including program schedules, advertisements, newsletters, promotional booklets, cookbooks and press releases. The "Recordings" portion contains more than 20 programs, including the 50th anniversary special in 1972 and a recording of a Bobsled Ride in 1941. The "Photograph" collection contains 5,000 images of the station, 1925-1955.
Research Division Records, 1929-1948, bulk 1933-1945. Includes typewritten copies of public statements and copies of broadcasts by President Roosevelt and printed materials about Roosevelt and his policies, chiefly relating to his years in the White House with some material pertaining to him as Governor of New York and as a Presidential candidate.
Martin Bookspan interviews composer and music theorist George Perle. Perle discusses his background, his career as a composer, and his influences.The composer talks about his article on Webern's 12-tone sketches, and explains the 12-tone system that he uses in his music in some detail. He talks about the influence of Berg and Stravinsky in his composition, but though he uses aspects of their methods in his own composing, he never adoptes them fully. He speaks about the meaning of avant-garde and new classical music in past and today, and compares it to "conservative music." He discusses the opera Lulu by Alban Berg. The composer introduces each of the following works, which are then played in their entierty: String quartert no. 5, Solo partita (for violin and viola), Serenade no. 1 (for solo viola and chamber orchestra).
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
In 2nd work: Paul Matthen, baritone ; Bertha Melnik, piano. In 4th work: Little Orchestra Society ; Thomas Scherman, conductor. In 5th and 9th work: Philadelphia Orchestra Pops ; Alexander Hilsberg, conductor. In 6th work: Paul Matthen, baritone ; Emilia Mitrani, piano. In 7th work: Tom Lehrer, performer. In 8th and 10th works: Winterthur Symphony Orchestra ; Henry Swoboda, conductor. In 11th work: Nuovo madrigaletto italiano, performers. In 12th work: Ruth Rubin, performer. In 14th work: Symphony Orchestra of Radio Berlin ; Artur Rother, conductor. In 15th work: Hazel Shermet, performer. David Randolph, host ; with unidentified radio announcer.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
In 1st work: Siegfried Borries, violin ; Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra ; Artur Rother, conductor. In 2nd and 4th works: Parrenin String Quartet. In 3rd work: Alfred Brendel, piano ; Vienna State Orchestra ; Jonathan Sternberg, conductor. In 5th work: Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra ; Rolf Kleinert, conductor. David Randolph, host ; with unidentified radio announcer.
Content types:
Sounds
Formats:
CD
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Sinfonia concertante in B♭ major, op. 84 / J. Haydn -- [Concerto for string quartet and orchestra (1931) / B. Martinů -- Closing movement of Double concerto in A major / G. B. Viotti.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Opening portion of Te Deum / J.-B. Lully -- Lęcons de Ténèbres (3rd lec̦on) / F. Couperin -- Portions of Sacred service / D. Milhaud -- Opening movement of the Mass of the poor / E. Satie.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Excerpt of unidentified 20th century work -- Gavotte of Suite no. 1 [BWV 1066 in C major] ; Et misericordia (from "Magnificat") / J. S. Bach -- Excerpt of slow movement of Symphony no. 4 / J. Brahms -- [Pavane (Orchestra version) / G. Fauré] -- [Excerpt of Scherzo: Pizzicato ostinato of Symphony no. 4 / P. Tchaikovsky] -- Scherzo [Allegretto pizzicato] of Quartet no. 4 / B. Bartók -- 2 excerpts and first movement from "Harp" quartet / L. van Beethoven -- 1st of Three pieces for string quartet / I. Stravinsky -- Slow movement of String quartet, no. 3 [i.e. no. 4], op. 22 / P. Hindemith. Note WNYC inventory no.: WNYC-CONN-1965-12-05; Catalog: 53627. 934th broadcast. Language Spoken in English; sung in Latin. Source Gift; WNYC (Radio station : New York, N. Y.) ; 2007. Subject Radio programs, Musical. Genre/Form Classical music radio programs. Subject Suites (Orchestra) -- Excerpts. Oratorios -- Excerpts. Symphonies -- Excerpts. String quartets -- Excerpts. Orchestral music, Arranged. Added Author Randolph, David, Host. Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750. Suites, orchestra, BWV 1066, C major. Gavotte, no. 1-2. Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750. Magnificat, BWV 243, D major. Et misericordia. Brahms, Johannes, 1833-1897. Symphonies, no. 4, op. 98, E minor. Andante moderato. Selections. Fauré, Gabriel, 1845-1924. Pavan, orchestra, op. 50, F♯ minor. Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich, 1840-1893. Symphonies, no. 4, op. 36, F minor. Scherzo. Selections. Bartók, Béla, 1881-1945. Quartets, strings, no. 4. Allegretto pizzicato. Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827. Quartets, strings, no. 10, op. 74, E♭ major. Poco adagio. Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971. Pièces, string quartet. No. 1. Hindemith, Paul, 1895-1963. Quartets, strings, no. 4, op. 22. Ruhige Viertel: Stets fliessend. Fine Arts Quartet, Performer. WNYC (Radio station : New York, N.Y.) WNYC (Radio station : New York, N. Y.) Donor. NN-RHA Added Title David Randolph concerts Instrumental usages Research Call Number *LDC 48617
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Two final movements of The little symphonies for small orchestra [No. 1, "Printemps"] / D. Milhaud -- Scherzo movement ["Jig"] of Sonata no. 1 for violin and piano / H. Cowell -- Concerto for viola and small orchestra based on old German folk tunes (aka Der Schwanendreher) / P. Hindemith -- Excerpt of Academic Festival overture / J. Brahms -- La vieille maison ("The old house"), a French folk song -- Chanson hébraïque, a setting of a Jewish folk song ["Mejerke, main suhn"] / M. Ravel -- Concluding portions [Saturday night waltz and Hoe-down sections] of the ballet suite Rodeo / A. Copland.
Content types:
Sounds
Formats:
CD
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
La mulita -- Korobeyniki (The peddler or The box) -- Schwefelhölze (Sulphur matches) -- Hanging Johnny -- Sample of Flamenco music -- A soulcake -- Panou sta alonia -- Gitare ; Sheltn, shelt ich dem tog -- Folksong from French Africa (excerpt) -- Xango, a Brazilian Negro cantata for soprano, chorus and orchestra / J. Siqueira -- Brief talk (from 2nd World Festival of Folksong and Folk dance, summer 1953) / R. Vaughan Williams ; [Jabadao] (Brittany, France) ; Chanson de fête (Basque, Spain) -- Agur izar eri (Basque) -- Why do you sit up until midnight? (Russian folk song)
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
In 1st work: David Saxon and Barnett Cardell [i.e. Gardel], violins ; Kellman Flizig [i.e. Calman Flesig], viola ; George Fayer, violoncello. In 2nd-4th work: William Warfield, baritone ; Otto Hertz [i.e. Herz], piano. In 5th work: Claude Debussy, piano. David Randolph ; with unidentified radio announcer.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
in 1st work: Arminas Santana (?), conductor ; with unidentified performers and Italian orchestra. In 2nd work: Nicolas Agroff, baritone ; Orchestre Radio-symphonique de Paris ; René Leibowitz, conductor. In 3rd work: Serge Lemeshev, tenor ; Bolshoi Opera and Chorus ; Vassily Nebolsin, conductor. In 4th work: Mattawilda Dobbs, soprano ; Hughes Cuénod and Joseph Peyron, tenors ; Bernard Demigny, baritone ; Orchestre philharmonique de Paris ; René Leibowitz, conductor. David Randolph, host ; with unidentified radio announcer.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
In this recording, "David Randolph directs his remarks in this broadcast to classical music lovers who do not like modern music ... He attempts, with examples, and a little psychology, to get the die-hard classical listener to be a little more open minded about modern music"
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
In 1st work: Kurt Appelbaum, piano. In 2nd-3rd works: The Randolph Singers ; David Randolph, conductor. In 4th work: Polymusic Chamber Orchestra ; Vladimir Cherniavsky, conductor. In 5th work: Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra ; Antal Dorati, conductor. In 6th work: [Erika Stiedry-Wagner, soprano] ; Arnold Schoenburg, conductor. In 7th work: Eileen Farrell, soprano ; Mack Harrell, baritone ; New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra ; Dmitri Mitropoulos, conductor. In 8th work: Henry Cowell, piano. David Randolph, host ; with unidentified radio announcer.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
In 1st work: Italian Chamber Orchestra ; Newell Jenkins, conductor. In 2nd work: Virtuosi di Roma ; [Renato Fasano, conductor]. In 3rd work: NBC Symphony Orchestra ; Arturo Toscanini, conductor. David Randolph, host ; with unidentified radio announcer.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
In 1st work: Vienna Symphony Orchestra ; Henry Swoboda, conductor. In 2nd work: Joseph Szigeti, violin ; [Mitchell Miller, oboe ; Robert McGinnis, clarinet ; Bert Gassman, English horn ; Sol Schoenbach, bassoon] ; Igor Stravinsky, conductor. In 3rd work: Jean Pougnet, violin ; Frederick Riddle, viola ; Anthony Pini, violoncello. In 4th work: [London Baroque Ensemble ; Karl Haas, conductor.] In 5th work: Philadelphia Orchestra ; Eugene Ormandy, conductor.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
In 1st work: Harry Zarief and David Mankovitz, violins ; William Schoen, viola ; Maurice Bialkin, violoncello. In 2nd-6th works: Joan Bishop, soprano ; Vernon Duke, piano. David Randolph, host ; with unidentifed radio announcer.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
In 1st-2nd, 4th-6th, 8th-9th, 12th, 14th, 16th-17th work: unidentified performers. In 3rd work: National Symphony Orchestra ; Walter Damrosch, conductor. In 7th work: Benny Goodman, clarinet ; New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra ; [John Barbirolli, conductor]. In 10th work: Arthur Whittemore and Jack Lowe, pianos ; RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra ; Dimitri Mitropoulos, conductor. In 11th work: Gaby and Robert Casadeus, pianos. In 13th work: The Randolph Singers ; [David Randolph, conductor]. In 15th work: Lionel Hampton, vibraphone ; Benny Goodman Sextet. David Randolph, host ; with unidentified radio announcer.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
In 1st work: unidentifed performers. In 2nd work: American Recording Society Orchestra ; Walter Hendl, conductor. In 3rd work: National Gallery Orchestra ; Richard Bales, conductor. David Randolph, host ; with unidentifed radio announcer.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
The Randolph Singers (Anna Louise Kautz and Harriet Hill, sopranos ; Mildred Greenberg, contralto ; Abram Sheer, tenor ; Bert Spero, bass) ; David Randolph, host and conductor ; with unidentified radio announcer.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
In 1st work (playing live in studio): Joseph Zwilich, violin ; Shirley Reisman, piano. In 2nd work: Unidentified performers. David Randolph, host ; with unidenified radio announcer.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
In 2nd work: Ralph Kirkpatrick, clavichord. In 3rd work: Helma Elsner, harpsichord ; Pro Musica Orchestra ; Rolf Reinhardt, conductor. In 4th work: Theodor Sack, harpsichord. In 5th work: Fernando Valenti, harpsichord ; Soulima Stravinsky, piano. In 6th work: Louis Kaufman, violin ; Marçal Cerrera, violoncello ; Artur Balsam, piano. In 7th work: Walter [sic] Schneiderhan and Gustav Swoboda, violins ; Senta Benesch, violoncello ; Franz Holetschek, harpsichord. In 8th work: Arnold Dolmetsch, piano. In 9th work: Leonid Hambro, piano. In 10th work: Maro Ajemian, piano. In 11th-15th works: Henry Cowell, piano and additional commentary. David Randolph, host ; with unidentified radio announcer.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
In 2nd work: Leon Temerson and Eva [Maskin](?), violins ; Harvey [Blumberg](?), viola ; Otto [Diereich](?), violoncello. In 3th work: Bach Cantata Guild, performers ; Peter Sozio, conductor. In 4th work: George Finckel, violoncello ; Claude Frank, piano. In 5th-6th works: William Warfield, baritone ; Vally Weigl, piano. In 7th work: Paul Doktor, viola ; Karl Weigl, piano. In 8th work: Alice Howland, soprano ; Beaux-Arts [String] Quartet. David Randolph, host ; with unidentified radio announcer.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Two excerpts [Moderato and Allegretto (1st movement)] from Symphonetta, op. 60 ; [Third movement of] Suite for strings ; Last movement of Taras Bulba, an orchestral rhapsody ; Two movements of Concertino for piano and instruments [Più mosso and Con moto] ; Symphonetta, op. 60 (full version) / L. Janáček.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
In 3rd work: Paul Loyonnet, piano. In 5th, 11th and 13th works: Lazare Lévy, piano. In 9th-10th works: Jeanne-Marie Darre, piano. David Randolph, host and additional commentary (7th work) ; with unidentified radio announcer.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
First movement of Concerto [op. 3, no. 10] in B minor for four violins and orchestra / A. Vivaldi -- First movement of Concerto [BWV 1065, in A minor] for four pianos and orchestra / J. S. Bach -- Second and third movements of Concerto [op. 3, no. 10] in B minor for four violins and orchestra / A. Vivaldi -- Second and third movements of Concerto [BWV 1065, in A minor] for four pianos / J. S. Bach -- Come again, sweet love (for solo voice and lute) ; Come again, sweet love (transcribed for 4 voices, arr. by composer) ; Come again, sweet love (transcribed for large unidentified chorus) / J. Dowland -- Slow movement of String quartet, op. 135 (string quartet) ; Slow movement of string quartet, op. 135 [no. 16 in F major] (transcribed for full string orchestra) / L. van Beethoven.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
In 1st work: Wilhelm Hübner, violin ; Richard Harand, violoncello ; Franz Holetschek, piano. In 2nd work: Marçal Cervera, violoncello ; Winterthur Symphony Orchestra ; Clemens Dahinden, conductor. In 3rd work: Oscar Levant, piano ; Columbia Symphony Orchestra ; Fritz Reiner, conductor. In 4th work: Peter Rybar, violin ; Winterthur Symphony Orchestra ; Henry Swoboda, conductor.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
In [1st ] and 5th work: Sigurd Rascher, saxophone ; David Tudor, piano. In 2nd work: Vienna Symphony Orchestra ; Hermann Scherchen, conductor. In 3rd work: Symphony Orchestra of Radio Berlin ; Artur Rother, conductor. In 4th work: Juilliard [String] Quartet. In 6th work: Ejnar Hansen, 18th century glass harmonica. In 7th work: Larry Adler, harmonica ; Lee Colin, piano. In 8th work: Rey de la Torre, guitar ; Stuyvesant String Quartet. In 9th work: Danny Daniels, tap dancer ; Rochester Pops Orchestra ; Morton Gould, conductor. In 10th work: Henry Cowell, piano. In 11th work: Maro Ajemian, piano. In 12th work: Juilliard Percussion Orchestra. David Randolph, host ; with unidentifed radio announcer.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
In 1st and 5th works: Hugo Steurer, piano. In 2nd work: Swabian Choral Singers ; Tonstudio Orchestra, Stuttgart ; Hans Grischkat, conductor. In 3rd work: Pascal String Quartet. In 4th work: Little Orchestra Society ; Thomas Scherman, conductor. In 6th work: Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra ; Antal Dorati, conductor. In 7th work: Randolph Singers with Gordon Myers, baritone. In 8th work: Vienna Chamber Orchestra ; Franz Litschauer, conductor. David Randolph, host ; with unidentified radio announcer.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Includes playscripts, correspondence about his scripts, poems, notebooks and other manuscripts, including drafts, typescripts, notes, photographs, mimeographed scripts and printed materials relating to Cooper's plays, radio and television scripts, short stories and novels.
Repository/Collector:
Rare Book and Manuscript Collections, Butler Library
Contains files of Lincoln Kelsey, primarily relating to Cornell United Religious Work (CURW) and to the Christian Rural Fellowship movement, including radio scripts, 1932-1941.
Includes material on radio talks, ca. 1930-late 1940s, of the Cornell University Department of Natural Resources, formerly the Conservation Department.
Recordings from Corwin’s CBS radio series (One World Flight, This is Radio, Radio is Here to Stay, Columbia Presents Corwin, An American in England, etc.). Broadcast from the mid-1930s to the mid-1950s.
Content types:
Sounds and Other
Formats:
Disc (Commercial, Homemade, Transcription) and Reel-to-reel
Extent:
374 16-inch glass and aluminum based lacquer discs and a few reel tapes
Corwin discusses his career as a writer, director and producer, his early days in radio, WQXR, the Twenty-Six by Corwin program, advertising agencies, and "Red Channels."
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
Collection includes recordings of speeches of the President, political speeches and radio appearances by administration spokesmen, radio dramatizations produced by government agencies and political and nonpolitical radio addresses by associates and members of the President's family, including his wife, Eleanor and mother Sara Delano Roosevelt.
Daniel Duell speaks with Kyra Lynn Kaptzan about his childhood dance training at the Schwarz School of Dance, in Dayton, Ohio, including his teacher David McClain; being chosen by Violette Verdy to study at the School of American Ballet; joining New York City Ballet as an apprentice; touring with City Ballet, including in the former Soviet Union; favorite roles, including the pas de trois in George Balanchine's work Agon; learning roles previously danced by Edward Villella; more on touring; male dancers who he finds inspiring, including Villella, Jacques D'Amboise, Peter Martins, and Misha [Mikhail] Baryshnikov; partnering his wife, Kyra Nichols; partnering Heather Watts; working with Jerome Robbins on a new ballet [a section of a ballet with the working title Arts of the gentleman] and other Robbins works, including Dybbuk; increased prominence of male dancers in ballet; Baryshnikov and his position in City Ballet; leisure activities; a typical work day.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Recording of "Symphony of the Birds," an 11 minute tape of bird songs recorded and produced in 1955 and 1956 by Peter Paul Kellogg and Jim Facett who hosted a CBS radio symphony orchestra program at the Cornell University Laboratory of Ornithology. Also includes a recording of Arthur Augustus Allen talking about the hummingbird and taped excerpts of a program Hanselman produced for the Farm and Home Radio Show, Christmas, 1957. The program includes a 1954 recording of Bristow Adams telling the story of the Christmas bells.
Includes scripts for Original Pantomimes, 1942, n.d., The Eternal Light, 1956, and some unidentified scripts and other papers. Davis was the program editor for The Eternal Light.
An unidentified speaker expounds on the idea of the final judgment of the individual more than the end of world, drawing primarily on the gospels of Christianity but also mentioning the idea of final judgment in Judaism, Islam, and other religions. The theme of personal salvation, from a Christian perspective is also extensively discussed.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Denise Jackson speaks with Kyra Lynn Kaptzan about joining the Joffrey Ballet; her early training at the Joffrey Ballet School and her apprenticeship with the company; her parents' occupations as an influence on her choice of career; choosing to join the Joffrey Ballet because of its varied repertoire and choreographers; her varied repertoire, her preference for classical choreography and the challenge of performing modern works; working on Margo Sappington's ballet Weewis; her favorite roles including George Balanchine's Tchaikovsky pas de deux and Frederick Ashton's The dream; looking forward to Robert Joffrey's full-length Cinderella [not produced?]; the Joffrey's season at the Mark Hellinger Theater; working with Rudolf Nureyev; her feelings about performing the same program every night at the Hellinger; performing Leonide Massine's Three-cornered hat; working with Robert Joffrey and Gerald Arpino and their differing styles of choreographing; touring abroad and in the U.S.[short gap]; future plans.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Dennis Wayne speaks with Kyra Lynn Kaptzan about the formation of his company, Dancers; selecting dancers and acquiring ballets for the company; assigning roles to company members; building a new audience for ballet; touring; foundation and government support for dance companies; developing his company school, Dancers; Lawrence Rhodes' teaching at the school; teaching children, especially disadvantaged and blind children; his childhood; his dance training and early dance appearances; dancing with American Ballet Theatre, the Joffrey Ballet, and the Harkness Ballet; dancing ballets created by [Gerald] Arpino, [Jerome] Robbins and [Antony] Tudor; his feelings about having his own company; Joanne Woodward's support for his company; favorite roles, including the second sailor in Fancy free; working with Robbins; future plans for Dancers, including an upcoming benefit at [the New York City nightclub] Studio 54.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
A radio dramatization based on the story of the birth of the spirituals; script by Richard Durham. Spirituals sung by the Progressive Baptist Church Senior Choir.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Contains correspondence and manuscripts consisting of letters, poems, short stories, novels, plays, broadcast transcripts for Invitation to Learning and other papers.
Repository/Collector:
Rare Book and Manuscript Collections, Butler Library
Gordon discusses her early experience in radio, including the Children's Corner, 1930, Yesterday's Children and Youth Forums for "The New York Times," 1943.
Includes scripts for FBI In Action, FM Playhouse and Chick Carter, Boy Detective. Sweeney was a sound effects person on WOY during World War II and the scripts include her handwritten notes regarding the sound effects for the programs.
Contains correspondence, pamphlets and clippings concerning or authored by Eastman on agricultural issues. Also includes speeches, radio talks, notes, scrapbooks, reports and surveys.
Edward Villella speaks with Kyra Lynn Kaptzan about his early dance training in Bayside, Queens and at the School of American Ballet; the interruption in this training to attend the New York State Maritime College [State University of New York Maritime College]; joining New York City Ballet in 1957 and his apprehension about learning the company's repertoire; an anecdote about Villella having been the inspiration for Jerome Robbins' Afternoon of a faun; George Balanchine's restaging of his ballet The prodigal son for Villella; reasons this role was a milestone for Villella; his appearance in the musical comedy Brigadoon; performing as a guest artist in classical ballets such as Giselle, La sylphide and Romeo and Juliet; the challenges of Balanchine's ballet Tarantella; his partners including Patricia McBride, Melissa Hayden, and Violette Verdy; the principles that guide his partnering; Balanchine's ballet Apollo and the importance of restraint; choreographing for the camera; his son's interest in dance; his injuries and retiring from performing; his work with the National Council on the Arts and other arts organizations in support of increased funding for dance; his plans for a touring ensemble; working on his autobiography. Side B is blank.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Consists of two volumes of typescripts of Dr. Hoffmeister's speeches, convocation addresses, commencement addresses, radio talks, writings, etc., 1934-1960.
Includes three radio series, 1940-1941, 1948-1949 and 1950-1951, which featured guests interviewed by Mrs. Roosevelt or her daughter Anna and discussions.
Martin Bookspan interviews American contemporary music composer Elias Tanenbaum. Tanenbaum talks about his career as a composer, and the wide variety of musical styles that he writes; about his special interest in electronic and serial music composition; and about non-western and Western European influences on his works. The composer discusses in detail each of the following works, excerpts of which are then played during the interview: Patterns and improvisations (for brass quintet and tape) (1969); and electronic music created on the Arp synthesizer with soprano voice (Arp art: Blue fantasy, Movements, Contrasts, For the "Bird") (1973). For the "Bird" includes recorded excerpts played by alto saxophonist Charlie "Bird" Parker.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Included are Sanger's personal diaries (1936-1967) relating to WQXR. Also included is a complete bound file of the WQXR PROGRAM GUIDE (June 1936-December 1963) containing a record of the broadcasting of classical music in New York City, the daily schedule, and essays on composers, music festivals, individual compositions and music in general by such writers as Irwin Edman, Will Durant, M. Lincoln Schuster, Edward Johnson, John Barbirolli, as well as by Sanger and his co-founder, John V. L. Hogan. There are also four tape recordings of radio broadcast interviews with Mr. Sanger aired in 1973.
Extent:
3 linear ft. ( 8 boxes)
Repository/Collector:
Rare Book and Manuscript Collections, Butler Library
Enrique Martínez speaks with Kyra Lynn Kaptzan about his early training in Havana first as an actor and then as a ballet dancer; performing in Cuba with Sociedad Pro-Arte Musical; being chosen by Lucia Chase to join American Ballet Theatre when the company toured in Cuba; his roles with American Ballet Theatre, including in Jerome Robbins' Fancy free and John Taras' Designs with strings; working with choreographers at American Ballet Theatre and being inspired to choreograph; joining Alicia Alonso's company [Ballet Alicia Alonso]; touring in South America in 1950; choreographing Fiesta for Alicia Alonso, which was performed by Alonso and Igor Youskevitch; becoming regisseur, ballet master and assistant director with American Ballet Theatre; returning to Cuba after the Cuban revolution [in 1959] and dancing with Ballet Nacional de Cuba; his responsibilities as assistant ballet master and regisseur; the upcoming directorship of Mikhail Baryshnikov at American Ballet Theatre; his favorite roles, including in Robbins' Afternoon of a faun, Prince Igor, and Robbins' Fancy free; dancing character roles; restaging Coppélia with the inclusion of his own choreography; restaging classic ballets such as Giselle for companies in the U.S.; filming dance; touring in the U.S. and performing at the Metropolitan Opera House and other theaters; performing in the [1977] film The turning point; American Ballet Theatre's upcoming season; touring abroad.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center