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Music and ballet: Ballet looks forward
- Title
- Music and ballet: Ballet looks forward [sound recording].
- Publication
- 1938.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. 99 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance |
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- Additional Authors
- Deakin, Irving.
- Found In
- Music and ballet (Radio program) [sound recording]: commentary and music, no. 99.
- Summary
- Ballet looks forward, no. 99 (ca. 46 min.). [Music]. Introductory remarks by announcer identified only as Rex Benwehr [spelling uncertain]; Irving Deakin speaks about ballet in general terms and recites verses written by John Masefield; Deakin illustrates the forward path ballet has taken since the time of the late nineteenth century in Russia to the present, by broadcasting excerpts of music from the following ballets, accompanied by his commentary (which sometimes takes the form of reciting poetry): La bella durmiente [The sleeping beauty], Swan lake, and The nutcracker; Coppélia; Michel Fokine's ballets Prince Igor, Les sylphides, Le spectre de la rose, and Scheherazade; Leonide Massine's ballets The good humored ladies, La boutique fantasque, The three-cornered hat, Le beau Danube, and Présages; Nijinska's Bolero; Adolph Bolm's Ballet mécanique; and Massine's Gaîté parisienne. Closing remarks and announcements.
- Alternative Title
- Ballet looks forward
- Dance Audio Archive.
- Subjects
- Note
- Sound quality is good.
- Ballet looks forward, the 99th program in the radio series Music and ballet, with Irving Deakin as host, broadcast on Dec. 29, 1938 by radio station WQXR, New York.
- 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. 99
- OCLC
- 497827569
- Title
- Music and ballet: Ballet looks forward [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
- Request *MGZTL 4-1, no. 99.
- Added Author
- Deakin, Irving. Host
- Added Title
- Ballet looks forward
- Found In:
- Music and ballet (Radio program) [sound recording]: commentary and music, no. 99.