- Additional Authors
- Gruen, John
- Description
- 1 streaming audio file (approximately one hour and two minutes): digital
- Summary
- Streaming audio file (approximately one hour and two minutes). [Begins abruptly.] John Gruen, as host, introduces Maurice Béjart; Gruen and Maurice Béjart speak about the upcoming New York performances of his company [Ballet du XXe Siecle]; his new work Notre Faust including the roles he performs; his interest in joining dance with theater; his thoughts on music; the relative status of male and female dancers in different types of dance [a recording of Maurice Ravel's Bolero, used in Béjart's ballet Bolero is played]; [commercial announcement]; Gruen and Béjart speak about his ballet Bolero; Isadora Duncan and his work Isadora; Suzanne Farrell as a person and as a dancer; how he started dancing [a recording of the last of the four songs from Gustav Mahler's Songs of a wayfarer (Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen) is played]; Gruen's closing remarks; [news and music].
- Donor/Sponsor
- Oral History Archive.
- Uniform Title
- Sound of dance (Radio program)
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Radio programs.
- Sound recordings.
- Note
- Interview with Maurice Béjart conducted by John Gruen, as host, for broadcast on March 20, 1977 by radio station WNCN-FM, New York on its series The sound of dance.
- Title supplied by cataloger.
- Sound quality is good overall. The recording is marred by occasional distortion, but the speakers' voices are almost always 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
- *MGZTC 3-369 Side B
- OCLC
- 78574938
- Author
Béjart, Maurice, interviewee.
- Title
Interview with Maurice Béjart , 1977
- Production
1977
- Type of Content
spoken word
- Type of Medium
audio
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
audio file
- Event
Recorded for broadcast by WNCN-FM, New York 1977, March 20 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 one hour and two minutes); transferred to wav file and streaming file format in 2015: myd_mgztco3369_v01f02_sc.
- Local Note
Former class mark: *MGZTC 3-369 Side B.
- Connect to:
- Local Subject
Male dancing.
- Added Author
Gruen, John, interviewer.
- Added Title
Sound of dance (Radio program)
- Research Call Number
*MGZTC 3-369 Side B