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Music and ballet: Tribute to Tchaikovsky
- Title
- Music and ballet: Tribute to Tchaikovsky [sound recording].
- Publication
- 1940.
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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. 166 | 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. 166.
- Summary
- Tribute to Tchaikovsky (track 1- track 8, at ca. 3:55 min.; total ca. 39 min.). Irving Deakin speaks about Peter IlichTchaikovsky on the 100th anniversary of his birth; recorded excerpts of his Theme and variations [from Suite no. 3 in G major, op. 55] are broadcast, accompanied by Deakin's commentary; he speaks about Tchaikovsky's music for the ballet Casse noisette [The nutcracker or Shchelkunchik]; recorded excerpts are broadcast accompanied by Deakin's commentary.
- Critical commentary on the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo's spring season at the Metropolitan Opera House (track 8, at ca. 8:55 min. - track 9; total ca. 4 min.). [Introduction by unidentified announcer]. Irving Deakin speaks about the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo's 1940 spring season at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City, in particular about a new work [Nuages] by Nini Theilade set to Claude Debussy's Clouds [Nuages from his Nocturnes] and George Balanchine's Baiser de la fée; Irina Baronova as a street dancer in [Leonide Massine's] Le beau Danube and as a doll in [Michel Fokine's] Petrouchka; and Alicia Markova in [Frederick Ashton's] Devil's holiday.
- Alternative Title
- Tribute to Tchaikovsky
- Dance Audio Archive.
- Subjects
- Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich, 1840-1893
- Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo
- Balanchine, George > Baiser de la fée
- Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich, 1840-1893 > Suites, orchestra, no. 3, op. 55, G major Tema con variazioni
- Audiotapes > Deakin, I
- Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich, 1840-1893 > Shchelkunchik
- Music and dance
- Nuages (Choreographic work : Theilade)
- Note
- Sound quality is very good.
- Tribute to Tchaikovsky (tracks 1-8 ) and Critical commentary on the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo's 1940 spring season at the Metropolitan Opera House (track 8-9); the 166th program in the radio series Music and ballet, with Irving Deakin as host, broadcast on April 11, 1940, 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. 166
- OCLC
- 497826283
- Title
- Music and ballet: Tribute to Tchaikovsky [sound recording].
- Imprint
- 1940.
- 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. 166.
- Added Author
- Deakin, Irving. Host
- Added Title
- Tribute to Tchaikovsky
- Found In:
- Music and ballet (Radio program) [sound recording]: commentary and music, no. 166.