Research Catalog

Title

Interview with Jerome Robbins. June 8, 1974.

Author

Robbins, Jerome

Publication

1974.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

Reynolds, Nancy, 1938-

Description

Two compact sound discs (approximately one hour and 19 minutes) : digital

Subject

• Robbins, Jerome > Interviews
• Balanchine, George
• New York City Ballet
• Robbins, Jerome. Age of anxiety
• Robbins, Jerome. Guests
• Balanchine, George. Pulcinella
• Balanchine, George. Tyl Ulenspiegel
• Balanchine, George. Fils Prodigue
• Robbins, Jerome. Afternoon of a faun
• Robbins, Jerome. Four chamber works

Genre/Form

• Interviews.
• Sound recordings.

Note

• Interview with Jerome Robbins conducted by Nancy Reynolds on June 8, 1974, for her book, Repertory in review: 40 years of the New York City Ballet (New York: Dial Press, 1977). The contents of sound disc 1 of this recording (approximately one hour and three minutes) are the same as that of the recording entitled Interview with Jerome Robbins, 1974, cataloged under the call number of *MGZTL 4-3075 JRC in the Library catalog. Sound disc 2 of this recording (approximately 16 minutes) contains the continuation of the interview.
• Title supplied by cataloger.
• Sound quality is fair. The recording is marred by occasional extraneous noise, "tape hiss," and short gaps.
• The summary of sound disc 1 was taken almost verbatim from that in *MGZTL 4-3075 JRC.

Access (note)

• Permission required.

Funding (note)

• The conservation and cataloging of this recording was made possible in part by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. The support of the National Endowment for the Arts is also gratefully acknowledged.

Source (note)

• Jowitt, Deborah

Call Number

*MGZTL 4-3323

OCLC

939552243

Author

Robbins, Jerome, interviewee.

Title

Interview with Jerome Robbins. June 8, 1974.

Production

1974.

Type of Content

spoken word

Type of Medium

audio

Type of Carrier

audio disc

Restricted Access

Permission required.

Event

Recorded by Nancy Reynolds 1974, June 8 New York (N.Y.)

Summary

Sound disc 1 (approximately one hour and three minutes). Jerome Robbins speaks with Nancy Reynolds about his early work and association with George Balanchine; joining and later becoming an artistic director of the New York City Ballet; the creative evolution of his ballet, The Guests (1949); dancing the lead role in Balanchine's Prodigal son (1950); Balanchine's method of conveying his choreography to dancers; Robbins' ability to reconstruct his ballets from memory and other methods for preserving his choreography; the financial resources of New York City Ballet; its audience; more on dancing the lead role in Prodigal son; his leading role in Balanchine's ballet Tyl Ulenspiegel (1951) and the production in general; his transition from performer to choreographer; Reynolds and Robbins discuss the role of dancers versus choreographers in the creative process; Robbins discusses corps de ballet dancers and their ability to become principals; the creation and production of his ballet, The age of Anxiety (1950); the costuming and scenery for the ballet; collaborating with George Balanchine on the ballets Jones Beach (1950) and Pulcinella (1972); Robbins and Reynolds discuss the problems of writing about ballet; Robbins discusses his ballets Ballade (1952), Pied piper (1951), The cage (1951), Interplay (1945), The concert (1956) and Afternoon of a faun (1953).

Sound disc 2 (approximately 16 minutes). Jerome Robbins continues speaking with Nancy Reynolds about his ballet Afternoon of a faun; his ballet Fanfare; his ballet Quartet; the collaborative atmosphere at New York City Ballet.

Original Version

Original format: two sound cassettes (approximately one hour and 19 minutes); quarter-track; 1.875 ips.; transferred to wav file and streaming file (myd_mgztco33323_v01f01_sc, myd_mgztco33323_v01f02_sc, and myd_mgztco33323_v02f01_sc) in 2015; listener copies in compact disc format were made from the wav files in 2016. The archive original sound cassettes used to make the digital files are copies of the original recordings.

Funding

The conservation and cataloging of this recording was made possible in part by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. The support of the National Endowment for the Arts is also gratefully acknowledged.

Source

Gift Jowitt, Deborah

Connect to:

NYPL Digital Collections

Added Author

Reynolds, Nancy, 1938- interviewer.

Research Call Number

*MGZTL 4-3323