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Music and ballet: Nijinsky: a life
- Title
- Music and ballet: Nijinsky: a life [sound recording].
- Publication
- 1938.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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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. | Audio | Supervised use | *MGZTL 4-1, no. 61 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance |
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- Found In
- Music and ballet (Radio program) [sound recording]: commentary and music, no. 61.
- Summary
- Nijinsky: a life (ca. 47 min.). [Music]. An announcer identified only as Mr. Rex Benwehr [spelling uncertain] introduces the program, a play entitled Nijinsky: a life, written by Alder M. Jenkins for radio, and directed by the program's host, Irving Deakin. Deakin [?] speaks briefly about Waslaw Nijinsky. Male and female actors [identified by the announcer at the end of the recording and including Kyra Deakin, by her stage name, Kyra Alanova] perform the play, a dramatization of scenes [as reconstructed by the playwright] from Nijinsky's life, including recorded music and other sound effects. Closing remarks and announcements.
- Alternative Title
- Nijinsky: a life
- Dance Audio Archive.
- Subjects
- Note
- Nijinsky: a life, the 61st program in the radio series Music and ballet, with Irving Deakin as host, broadcast on April 7, 1938, by radio station WQXR, New York.
- Sound quality is good overall, but there is some distortion in the voices and extraneous noise.
- Call Number
- *MGZTL 4-1, no. 61
- OCLC
- 497827316
- Title
- Music and ballet: Nijinsky: a life [sound recording].
- Imprint
- 1938.
- Local Note
- Request *MGZTL 4-1, no. 61.
- Added Author
- Deakin, Kyra. ActorDeakin, Irving. Host
- Added Title
- Nijinsky: a life
- Found In:
- Music and ballet (Radio program) [sound recording]: commentary and music, no. 61.