Research Catalog

Title

Interview with Leonide Massine [sound recording].

Author

Massine, Leonide, 1896-1979.

Publication

1977.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Hunt, Marilyn, 1937-
• National Endowment for the Arts, 2007-2008.
• New York State Council on the Arts, 2007-2008.

Description

2 sound discs (ca. 112 min.): digital; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

• Disc 1 (ca. 54 min.). Begins abruptly. Leonide Massine speaks with Marilyn Hunt about the technical system he developed for teaching dancers choreographed movement, including with respect to the expression of emotions; the revival of his ballet Parade by the Joffrey Ballet; teaching the theory of composition at the Royal Ballet School; plans to teach in Rochester, N.Y. [trails off and continues directly on disc 2] .
• Disc 2 (ca. 58 min.). Leonide Massine speaks with Marilyn Hunt about how much he still has to learn about choreography; current projects; including an all-Danish production of The red shoes; the original production of his ballet Tricorne [Three-cornered hat], including his research on Spanish dance and the collaboration with Picasso; unauthorized performances of his dances; the original production of his ballet Parade including Serge Diaghilev's instructions to Jean Cocteau regarding the libretto; Cocteau as an artist; Diaghilev, including Massine's first meeting him; Massine's decision to leave Russia and join the Ballets Russes including his audition with Michel Fokine in St. Petersburg; meeting [Konstantin] Stanislavsky; his collaboration with Paul Hindemith [resulting in Nobilissima visione]; his book [ Massine on choreography; theory and exercises in composition, c1976]; briefly, Labonotation compared to Benesh notation.

Alternative Title

• Dance Oral History
• Dance Audio Archive

Subject

• Massine, Leonide, 1896-1979
• Parade (Choreographic work : Massine)
• Three-cornered hat (Choreographic work : Massine)
• Nobilissima visione (Choreographic work : Massine)
• Audiotapes > Massine, L

Note

• Interview with Leonide Massine conducted by Marilyn Hunt in San Rafael, Calif. on Nov. 23, 1977, for the New York Public Library Dance Collection Oral History Project.
• Sound quality is fair to poor. The speakers' voices are very soft and even muffled at times, and there are occasional gaps.

Funding (note)

• Preservation was funded in part with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, 2007-2008 and the National Endowment for the Arts, 2007-2008.

System Details (note)

• Transferred from 1 sound reel (ca. 112 min.; 1 7/8 in. per sec. ; 5 in..; polyester; originally recorded on Nov. 23, 1977) to wav file and compact disc formats in 2008. The sound reel had been copied from two sound cassettes, which were given to the oral author.

Call Number

*MGZTL 4-389

OCLC

144657573

Author

Massine, Leonide, 1896-1979. Interviewee

Title

Interview with Leonide Massine [sound recording].

Imprint

1977.

Funding

Preservation was funded in part with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, 2007-2008 and the National Endowment for the Arts, 2007-2008.

System Details

Transferred from 1 sound reel (ca. 112 min.; 1 7/8 in. per sec. ; 5 in..; polyester; originally recorded on Nov. 23, 1977) to wav file and compact disc formats in 2008. The sound reel had been copied from two sound cassettes, which were given to the oral author.

Local Note

For transcript of interview, see *MGZMT 5-389

Dubbing master: *MGZTD 4-389 nos. 1-2

Archive original: *MGZTO 5-389

Former call number: *MGZT 5-389.

Added Author

Hunt, Marilyn, 1937- Interviewer

National Endowment for the Arts, 2007-2008.

New York State Council on the Arts, 2007-2008.

Research Call Number

*MGZTL 4-389