Research Catalog

Title

Interview with Ray Green [sound recording].

Author

Green, Ray, 1908-1997.

Publication

1993.

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Details

Additional Authors

• McDonagh, Don.
• Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

Description

2 sound discs (ca. 80 min.) : digital, stereo; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

• Part one (ca. 47 min.). Ray Green speaks with Don McDonagh about composing music for the Martha Graham Company; how he came about scoring music for Graham's dances as an acquaintance of Louis Horst's; Graham's search for a composer and his work with Graham; scoring music for various other events; working with Louis Horst more than with Graham directly; rehearsing with Graham and Erick Hawkins at Bennington, and his impressions of Bennington; his opinion on Graham's interactions with Hawkins, and the nature of their relationship.
• Part two (ca. 32 min.). Ray Green speaks with Don McDonagh about a much later performance in which he was asked by Ron Protas to work on the music for a re-enactment of American document; seeing the interpretation of the dance and deciding to pull out of the project; his opinions of Ron Protas; his interactions with Martha Graham in later years; his relationship with Graham; May O'Donnell's later work, including Suspension, and O'Donnell's principal dancers; ends the interview by giving his opinions of working with Graham [abrupt end].

Subjects

• Graham, Martha > American document
• Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance
• O'Donnell, May, 1906-2004
• Martha Graham Dance Company
• Graham, Martha > Influence
• Suspension (Choreographic work : O'Donnell)
• Horst, Louis
• Hawkins, Erick
• Bennington School of the Dance
• Green, Ray, 1908-1997 > Interviews
• Protas, Ron

Note

• Interview with Ray Green conducted by Don McDonagh on July 14, 1993.
• Recording quality is poor with the presence of humming noise; each disc ends abruptly.
• Open as of August 22, 2012.

Funding (note)

• Recording was preserved through a grant from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

Source (note)

• Don McDonagh ;

Call Number

*MGZTL 4-2525

OCLC

262557822

Author

Green, Ray, 1908-1997. Interviewee

Title

Interview with Ray Green [sound recording].

Imprint

1993.

Funding

Recording was preserved through a grant from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

Local Note

Archive orig. : *MGZTCO 3-2525, nos. 1-2

Dubbing master : *MGZTD 4-2525, nos. 1-2

Source

Gift; Don McDonagh ; 2007

Added Author

McDonagh, Don. Interviewer

McDonagh, Don. Donor

Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

Research Call Number

*MGZTL 4-2525 sound disc