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A conversation with Twyla Tharp
- Title
- A conversation with Twyla Tharp [sound recording].
- Author
- Tharp, Twyla
- Publication
- 2002.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Spoken word recording | Use in library | *MGZTL 4-2381 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Sveja, Jim
- Description
- 1 sound disc (ca. 58 min.) : digital; 4 3/4 in.
- Donor/Sponsor
- Oral History Archive.
- National Endowment for the Arts, 2002-2003.
- Subject
- Note
- Interview with Twyla Tharp conducted by Jim Svejda for the radio program The record shelf, on KUSC, 97.5 FM, Los Angeles, on March 27, 2002.
- Funding (note)
- Preservation was funded in part with public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, 2002-2003.
- Local note
- Archive original compact disc: *MGZTLO 4-2381
- Preservation master: *MGZTP 4-2381
- Dubbing master: *MGZTD 4-2381
- Call Number
- *MGZTL 4-2381
- OCLC
- NYPY05-R10009
- Author
- Tharp, Twyla. Interviewee
- Title
- A conversation with Twyla Tharp [sound recording].
- Imprint
- 2002.
- Summary
- [Music is played throughout the recording.] The program host, Jim Sveja, speaks briefly with Twyla Tharp about her interest in dance from early childhood; outlines her professional background; Tharp speaks about her and Jerome Robbins? work Brahms/Handel; her work Push comes to shove, in particular the choice of Haydn's Symphony no. 82 for [part of] the score; working on the film Amadeus, including her thoughts on Mozart?s opera The magic flute; her current company; working freelance versus having a company; dance films; her feelings about choreographing to Beethoven?s music; her thoughts on Brahms as a person and as a composer; Mozart?s quintet for clarinet [Clarinet Quintet K. 581] as her inspiration for starting a new company; her concept of fraternity as expressed in dance; reasons for society?s view of dance as a secondary art compared to music and literature; reasons she likes Webern?s music and thinks it is suitable for dance scores; her thoughts on Beethoven?s Symphony no. 7 [the score in Tharp's work The Beethoven seventh].
- Funding
- Preservation was funded in part with public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, 2002-2003.
- Local Note
- Archive original compact disc: *MGZTLO 4-2381Preservation master: *MGZTP 4-2381Dubbing master: *MGZTD 4-2381
- Local Subject
- Audiotapes -- Tharp, T.
- Added Author
- Sveja, Jim. Host
- Research Call Number
- *MGZTL 4-2381