Research Catalog

Title

The Poetry and Dance Festival, Tribute to Lincoln Kirstein [videorecording] / presented by the Poetry Society of America and the Dance Collection of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.

Publication

c1996.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Nichols, Madeleine M.
• Paschen, Elise.
• Jenkins, Nicholas (Nicholas Richard)
• LeClerc, Paul, 1941-
• Ashbery, John, 1927-2017.
• D'Amboise, Jacques, 1934-2021
• Garafola, Lynn.
• Howard, Richard, 1929-2022.
• Mendelson, Edward.
• Kirstein, Lincoln, 1907-1996.
• Welsh, Eric.
• Poetry Society of America.
• New York Public Library. Dance Collection.
• Poetry and Dance Festival (1996 : New York, N.Y.)
• DHCA.

Description

2 videocassettes (U-matic, NTSC) (74 min.) : sd., col.; 3/4 in.

Summary

Part of the three-day Poetry and Dance Festival. Reading of Lincoln Kirstein's poetry by John Ashbery, Jacques d'Amboise, Lynn Garafola, Richard Howard, Paul LeClerc, and Edward Mendelson, with an introduction by Nicholas Jenkins, Kirstein's literary executor.

Alternative Title

Tribute to Lincoln Kirstein

Subjects

• Video
• Kirstein, Lincoln, 1907-1996
• Readings
• American poetry > 20th century

Genre/Form

• Readings.
• Video.

Note

• Recording made possible by the Poetry Society of America. Credits added by the Jerome Robbins Archive of the Recorded Moving Image of the Dance Collection of The New York Public Library.

Event (note)

• Videotaped at the Bruno Walter Auditorium of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, New York, on May 6, 1996, by Eric Welsh.

Funding (note)

• Recorded with the assistance of grants from New York State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Contents

• Cassette 1 (ca. 54 min.). Welcome / by Madeleine Nichols, curator of the Dance Collection, and Elise Paschen, executive director of the Poetry Society of America -- Introduction / by Nicholas Jenkins -- Reading / by Paul LeClerc, president of The New York Public Library -- Reading / by John Ashbery -- Reading / by Jacques d'Amboise -- Reading / by Lynn Garafola -- Partial recording of the reading by Richard Howard. For a full recording of Howard's reading, see cassette 2.
• Cassette 2 (ca. 20 min.). Reading / by Richard Howard -- Reading / by Edward Mendelson -- [Closing speech] / by Elise Paschen.

Call Number

*MGZIC 9-5635

OCLC

NYPY98-F2963

Title

The Poetry and Dance Festival, Tribute to Lincoln Kirstein [videorecording] / presented by the Poetry Society of America and the Dance Collection of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.

Imprint

c1996.

Country of Producing Entity

U.S.

Event

Videotaped at the Bruno Walter Auditorium of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, New York, on May 6, 1996, by Eric Welsh.

Funding

Recorded with the assistance of grants from New York State Council on the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Added Author

Nichols, Madeleine M. Speaker

Paschen, Elise. Speaker

Jenkins, Nicholas (Nicholas Richard) Speaker

LeClerc, Paul, 1941- speaker.

Ashbery, John, 1927-2017. Speaker

D'Amboise, Jacques, 1934-2021, speaker.

Garafola, Lynn. Speaker

Howard, Richard, 1929-2022. Speaker

Mendelson, Edward. Speaker

Kirstein, Lincoln, 1907-1996. Author

Welsh, Eric. Videographer

Poetry Society of America.

New York Public Library. Dance Collection.

Poetry and Dance Festival (1996 : New York, N.Y.)

DHCA.

Research Call Number

*MGZIC 9-5635