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Interview with Melissa Hayden

Title: Interview with Melissa Hayden [sound recording].
Author: Hayden, Melissa.
Publication: [1965?]

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Request Appointment 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 4-2871	Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance
Request Appointment Not available - Please for assistance.	Audio	Use in library	*MGZT 7-82	Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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Description

1 sound disc (ca. 22 min.) : digital; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

Walter Terry introduces Melissa Hayden; Hayden speaks with Terry about her early dance training and her decision to become a dancer, including the influence of her contact with [Walter K.] De Basil's Ballet Russe company; moving to New York City to pursue her dance studies; her first professional job, in the corps de ballet at Radio City Music Hall and why it was such a good experience; the circumstances of her joining Ballet Theatre [later American Ballet Theatre]; her roles at Ballet Theatre including in Jerome Robbins' Interplay; joining the New York City Ballet in its first year; her roles with the New York City Ballet including Robbins' The cage; dramatic roles compared with bravura roles; the subscription audience and newcomers; her plans for teaching and coaching upon retirement from performing.

Uniform Title

Invitation to dance (Radio program)

Subjects

Note

Interview with Melissa Hayden conducted by Walter Terry as host, by radio station WNYC, New York, on its series Invitation to dance, broadcast on May 8, probably in 1965.

Funding (note)

Preservation was funded in part by the New York State Council on the Arts, 2010-2011 and the National Endowment for the Arts, 2010-2011.

System Details (note)

Transferred from 1 sound tape reel (ca. 22 min.; 3 3/4 in. per sec.; 7 in.; 1 channel, acetate, half track; originally recorded in 1965?) to wav file and compact disc formats in Oct. 2010.

Call Number

*MGZTL 4-2871

OCLC

77702436

Author

Hayden, Melissa. Interviewee

Title

Interview with Melissa Hayden [sound recording].

Imprint

[1965?]

System Details

Transferred from 1 sound tape reel (ca. 22 min.; 3 3/4 in. per sec.; 7 in.; 1 channel, acetate, half track; originally recorded in 1965?) to wav file and compact disc formats in Oct. 2010.

Funding

Preservation was funded in part by the New York State Council on the Arts, 2010-2011 and the National Endowment for the Arts, 2010-2011.

Local Note

Sound quality is good.

Former call number: *MGZT 7-82

Former call number: *MGZTL 4-2651

Archival original: *MGZTO 7-82

Added Author

Terry, Walter. Interviewer

National Endowment for the Arts, 2010-2011.

New York State Council on the Arts, 2010-2011.

Oral history archive.

Added Title

Invitation to dance (Radio program)

Research Call Number

*MGZTL 4-2871

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