Research Catalog

Title

Interview with Leslie Caird [sound recording].

Author

Leslie, Caird, 1899-1970.

Publication

[between 1960 and 1970]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Horosko, Marian.
• National Endowment for the Arts, 2010-2011.
• New York State Council on the Arts, 2010-2011.
• Oral history archive.

Description

1 sound disc (ca. 64 min.) : digital; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

[Begins abruptly.]. Caird Leslie speaks with Marian Horosko about his life and career including his first stage name, Walker Leslie; his family and his background; his coming to New York City and studying dance with Adolf Bolm and [Luigi] Albertieri; briefly, Lydia Lopokova; briefly, Bolm's company, Ballet Intime; briefly, Bolm's friendship with Nijinsky; Leslie's collection of photographs of dancers; his friendship with Bolm; classes with Albertieri; dancing in opera ballets in San Francisco and at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City; Bolm as a dancer and as a teacher; Michel Fokine's ballet Prince Igor; Vitale Fokine; his auditioning for Anna Pavlova's company in London and his decision to stay with Bolm; Leslie, himself, as a teacher; studying with Nicolas Legat in Paris, France; Michel Fokine as a teacher; Bolm's family; more on Fokine, Legat, and Albertieri as teachers; Enrico Cecchetti including discussion of what constitutes the Cecchetti style; more on Leslie himself as a teacher.

Subjects

• Fokine, Michel, 1880-1942
• Ballet Intime
• Leslie, Caird, 1899-1970
• Albertieri, Luigi
• Bolm, Adolph, 1884-1951

Note

• Interview with Caird Leslie conducted by Marian Horosko at the Ballet Center, New York City, Caird Leslie's studio and home.
• Sound quality is good. The speakers' voices are always intelligible but there is an extraneous hum.

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 2 sound tape reels (ca. 64 min.; 3 3/4 in. per sec.; 5 in.; acetate, quarter track; tail-end out and recorded on track 1 only; originally recorded between 1960 and 1970) to wav file and compact disc formats in Oct. 2010.

Source (note)

• Marian Horosko.

Call Number

*MGZTL 4-120

OCLC

82931704

Author

Leslie, Caird, 1899-1970. Interviewee

Title

Interview with Leslie Caird [sound recording].

Imprint

[between 1960 and 1970]

System Details

Transferred from 2 sound tape reels (ca. 64 min.; 3 3/4 in. per sec.; 5 in.; acetate, quarter track; tail-end out and recorded on track 1 only; originally recorded between 1960 and 1970) 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

The dating of this recording to "between 1960 and 1970" is based on an internal reference to Leslie's seeing a performance by Nureyev of Prince Igor, which event is not likely to have been earlier than 1960, and the fact that Caird Leslie, the oral author, died in 1970.

Former call number: *MGZT 5-120

Archival original: *MGZTO 5-120

Added Author

Horosko, Marian. Interviewer

Horosko, Marian. Donor

National Endowment for the Arts, 2010-2011.

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

Oral history archive.

Research Call Number

*MGZTL 4-120