Research Catalog

Title

Music and ballet: Herbert Kingsley's music for Catherine Littlefield's ballet, Terminal. May 12, 1938 [sound recording].

Publication

1938.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Deakin, Irving.
• Kingsley, Herbert.
• Herzer, Clifford.

Found In

Music and ballet (Radio program) [sound recording]: commentary and music, no. 66

Summary

Music and ballet, no. 66 (ca. 32 min.). Introductory remarks by announcer identified only as Rex Benwehr [spelling uncertain]; Irving Deakin speaks about Catherine Littlefield, the choreographer of the ballet Terminal, and the Philadelphia Ballet Company; Herbert Kingsley, the composer of the music for Terminal; the scenario of the ballet; Kingsley and Herzer play on the piano excerpts from the music for Terminal accompanied by Kingsley's commentary. Closing remarks and announcements.

Alternative Title

• Herbert Kingsley's music for Catherine Littlefield's ballet, Terminal. May 12, 1938
• Dance Audio Archive.

Subjects

• Littlefield, Catherine
• Kingsley, Herbert
• Audiotapes > Kingsley, H
• Terminal (Choreographic work : Littlefield, C)
• Audiotapes > Deakin, I
• Music and dance

Note

• Sound quality overall is good, but Herbert Kingsley's voice is very soft, and the recording is marred by an extraneous crackling noise.
• Herbert Kingsley's music for Catherine Littlefield's ballet, Terminal, the 66th program in the radio series Music and ballet, with Irving Deakin as host, broadcast on May 5, 1938 by radio station WQXR, New York. Herbert Kingsley participates as a guest speaker and pianist and Clifford Herzer participates as a pianist. A later program, no. 162, broadcast on March 14, 1940, also features Herbert Kingsley's music for Terminal, with Bert Shefter as a second pianist. In the later program Bert Shefter also plays his original composition S.O.S.

Funding (note)

• Preservation was funded in part with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, 2008-2009 and the National Endowment for the Arts, 2008-2009.

Call Number

*MGZTL 4-1, no. 66

OCLC

497828041

Title

Music and ballet: Herbert Kingsley's music for Catherine Littlefield's ballet, Terminal. May 12, 1938 [sound recording].

Imprint

1938.

Funding

Preservation was funded in part with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, 2008-2009 and the National Endowment for the Arts, 2008-2009.

Local Note

For the recording of the later program in this series, no. 162, broadcast on March 14, 1940, which also features Herbert Kingsley's music for Terminal, see *MGZTL 4-1, no. 162.

Request *MGZTL 4-1, no. 66.

Added Author

Deakin, Irving. Host

Kingsley, Herbert. Speaker

Herzer, Clifford. Instrumentalist

Added Title

Herbert Kingsley's music for Catherine Littlefield's ballet, Terminal. May 12, 1938

Found In:

Music and ballet (Radio program) [sound recording]: commentary and music, no. 66