- Additional Authors
- Gruen, John
- Description
- 1 streaming audio file (approximately 59 minutes): digital
- Summary
- Streaming audio file (approximately 59 minutes). John Gruen, host, introduces his guest Norma McLain Stoop; Stoop and Gruen speak about ballroom dancing, including its popularity worldwide; the qualifications of a professional ballroom dancer, in the United States and in Europe; technique [a recording of tango music is played]; Stoop and Gruen speak about tango dancing; the incorporation of music and steps associated with ballroom dancing into choreography created for ballet companies; Maurice Béjart and his Ballet du XXe Siècle including the company's poor critical reception and its very favorable public reception; Béjart's penchant for theatricality and large, unusual venues [a recording of music by Ray Barretto, titled Mercy, mercy, baby, is played]; Stoop speaks further about ballroom dancing including teaching; the increasing interest in ballroom dancing in the United States; her personal life [commercial announcement]; photographing dance performances including as compared to photographing rehearsals; Stoop's background; the upcoming visits of the Royal Ballet and the Royal Danish Ballet [commercial announcements]; Stoop and Gruen speak further about the Royal Danish Ballet; the inaugural program, on the Joffrey Ballet, of the television series, Dance in America [a recording of guitar music titled La playa is played]; Gruen and Stoop speak about the Anna Pavlova issue of Dance Magazine [commercial announcement by Oscar Buhler is followed by Gruen's closing remarks; music; Buhler's closing announcement].
- Donor/Sponsor
- Oral History Archive.
- Uniform Title
- Sound of dance (Radio program)
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Radio programs.
- Sound recordings.
- Note
- Interview with Norma McLain Stoop conducted by John Gruen, as host, for broadcast on January 19, 1976 by radio station WNCN-FM, New York on its series The sound of dance.
- Title supplied by cataloger.
- Sound quality is fair. The recording is marred by slight distortion, but the speakers' voices are easily intelligible.
- 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.
- Call Number
- *MGZTCO 3-321 Side A
- OCLC
- 83577307
- Author
Stoop, Norma McLain, interviewee.
- Title
Interview with Norma McLain Stoop, 1976
- Production
1976
- Type of Content
spoken word
- Type of Medium
audio
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
audio file
- Event
Recorded by WNCN-FM, New York 1976, January 19 New York (N.Y.)
- 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.
- Original Version
Original format: one sound cassette (approximately 59 minutes); transferred to wav file and streaming file format in 2015: myd_mgztco3321_v01f01_sc.
- Local Note
Former class mark: *MGZTC 3-321 Side A.
- Connect to:
- Local Subject
State aid to dance.
- Local Subject
Exhibition ballroom dancing.
- Added Author
Gruen, John, interviewer.
- Added Title
Sound of dance (Radio program)
- Research Call Number
*MGZTCO 3-321 Side A