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Interview notes regarding the ballet Agon

Title: Interview notes regarding the ballet Agon / Leigh Witchel.
Author: Witchel, Leigh, 1963-

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[23] leaves typescript (photocopy); 28 cm.

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Leigh Witchel's notes of interviews he conducted in 1997 as research for his article Four decades of Agon (published in Ballet review, v. 25, no. 3, fall 1997, p. 52-78) as well as his notes comparing several filmed versions of Agon. Interviewees include Todd Bolender, Barbara Walczak, Melissa Hayden, Barbara Milberg Fisher, Edward Villella, Brian Reeder, Patricia Neary, and Francia Russell.

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Interview notes: Todd Bolender (by telephone, on April 9, 1997; 2 p.) -- Francia Russell (3 p.) -- Brian Reeder (by telephone, on June 30, 1997; p. 3 p.) -- Melissa Hayden (by telephone, on June 6, 1997; 2 p.) -- Barbara Milberg Fisher (April 19, 1997 ; 3 p.) -- Patricia Neary (by telephone, on June 13, 1997; 2 p.)-- Edward Villella (May 21, 1997; 1 p.) -- Barbara Walczak (April 8, 1997 ; 4 p.)-- Witchel's notes on several filmed versions of Agon (3 p.).

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*MGZM-Res. Wit L

OCLC

187149187

Author

Witchel, Leigh, 1963-

Title

Interview notes regarding the ballet Agon / Leigh Witchel.

Local Note

Films referred to in Witchel's notes include a kinescope made for L'heure du concert by Radio Canada, cataloged in the Library's collection as *MGZIC 9-1024 [in Witchel's notes, the date of this film is given as 1960; it is 1957 in the Library's catalog record], and the 1971 film Agon, produced by RM [Reiner Moritz] Productions, Berlin, and cataloged in the Library's collection as *MGZIC 9-3550.

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Bolender, Todd. Interviewee

Russell, Francia. Interviewee

Reeder, Brian. Interviewee

Fisher, Barbara M. (Barbara Milberg), 1931-2020 Interviewee

Villella, Edward, 1936- Interviewee

Walczak, Barbara. Interviewee

Hayden, Melissa. Interviewee

Neary, Patricia. Interviewee

Witchel, Leigh, 1963- Interviewer

Witchel, Leigh, 1963- Donor

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*MGZM-Res. Wit L

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