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Music and ballet: Catherine Littlefield's ballet: Ladies' better dresses
- Title
- Music and ballet: Catherine Littlefield's ballet: Ladies' better dresses [sound recording].
- Publication
- 1938.
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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. 124 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance |
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- Music and ballet (Radio program) [sound recording]: commentary and music, no. 124.
- Summary
- Catherine Littlefield's Ladies' better dresses (ca. 44 min.). [Music]. An announcer identified only as Mr. Rex Benwehr [spelling uncertain] introduces the program, the radio premiere of Catherine Littlefield's ballet Ladies' better dresses. Irving Deakin speaks about Littlefield and the Philadelphia Ballet Company; the composer Herbert Kingsley, who wrote the music for Ladies' better dresses; Littlefield describes the opening scenario of the ballet; music from the ballet (arranged for two pianos by Kingsley) is played by Kingsley and Clifford Herzer accompanied by Littlefield's commentary; closing remarks by Deakin regarding Littlefield and her ballet. Kingsley performs his musical settings of Langston Hughes' poems Lament over love and [Ballad of] the gypsy. Closing remarks and announcements.
- Alternative Title
- Catherine Littlefield's ballet: Ladies' better dresses
- Dance Audio Archive.
- Subjects
- Note
- Catherine Littlefield's Ladies' better dresses, the 124th program in the radio series Music and ballet, with Irving Deakin as host, broadcast on June 22, 1939, by radio station WQXR, New York. Catherine Littlefield participates as a speaker. Herbert Kingsley and Clifford Herzer participate as pianists.
- Sound quality is very good although the recording is marred by occasional extraneous noise.
- Call Number
- *MGZTL 4-1, no. 124
- OCLC
- 497829215
- Title
- Music and ballet: Catherine Littlefield's ballet: Ladies' better dresses [sound recording].
- Imprint
- 1938.
- Local Note
- Request *MGZTL 4-1, no. 124.
- Added Author
- Littlefield, Catherine. SpeakerKingsley, Herbert. PerformerHerzer, Clifford. InstrumentalistDeakin, Irving. Host
- Added Title
- Catherine Littlefield's ballet: Ladies' better dresses
- Found In:
- Music and ballet (Radio program) [sound recording]: commentary and music, no. 124.