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Interview with Martha Graham

Title: Interview with Martha Graham [sound recording].
Author: Graham, Martha.
Publication: 1973.

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Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Audio	Supervised use	*MGZTL 4-438	Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance
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1 sound disc (ca. 47 min.) : digital; (4 3/4 in.)

Summary

[Commercial announcements for initial ca. 3:00 min. followed by Martha Deane's introduction of Martha Graham]. Graham speaks with Deane about audiences unfamiliar with modern dance or Graham's work; her first public performances; what has been referred to as her "long, woolen underwear period;" her belief that freedom is discipline [commercial announcements]; the end of her performing career; her diet; her image of the dancer as a shell [fish]; her philosophy of teaching; her new works Mendicants of an evening and Myth of a voyage; the character Clytemnestra [interview ends at end of track 7; tracks 8-11 consist of commercial announcements and a news broadcast].

Uniform Title

Martha Deane program (Radio program)

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Note

Interview with Martha Graham interviewed by Martha Deane, as the host on the series The Martha Deane show, on the radio station WOR-AM, New York, broadcast on April 24, 1973. The recording contains approx. 15 min. of commercial announcements and news broadcasts, including the last ca. 11 min.
Martha Deane was the pseudonym of Marian Young Taylor, who was host of The Martha Deane program from 1941-1973. This was also the pseudonym used by the first host, Mary Margaret McBride, who hosted the show until 1940, and of Bessie Beatty, who was the second host.
Sound quality is good. There are several interruptions for commercial announcements.

System Details (note)

Transferred from 1 sound reel (ca. 47 min.; 3 3/4 in. per sec.; 1 channel, half-track, 5 in.; polyester; originally recorded in 1973) to wav file and compact disc formats in 2010.

Call Number

*MGZTL 4-438

OCLC

80196604

Author

Graham, Martha. Interviewee

Title

Interview with Martha Graham [sound recording].

Imprint

1973.

System Details

Transferred from 1 sound reel (ca. 47 min.; 3 3/4 in. per sec.; 1 channel, half-track, 5 in.; polyester; originally recorded in 1973) to wav file and compact disc formats in 2010.

Local Note

Former call number: *MGZT 7-438

Archive original: *MGZTO 7-438

Added Author

Deane, Martha. Interviewer

Taylor, Marian Young, 1908-1973.

National Endowment for the Arts, 2009-2010.

New York State Council on the Arts, 2009-2010.

Oral history archive.

Added Title

Martha Deane program (Radio program)

Research Call Number

*MGZTL 4-438

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