- Additional Authors
- Siegel, Doris Einstein
- Description
- 2 streaming audio files (approximately 44 minutes): digital
- Summary
- Streaming audio file 1 (approximately 31 minutes). Marion Scott speaks about her background including her studying with Martha Graham and her composition classes with Louis Horst; becoming a choreographer including her studies with Doris Humphrey, Franziska Boas, and Helen Tamiris; her dances for U.C.L.A. [University of California, Los Angeles]; her creative process including examples from a [then] work-in-progress titled Mysterium; Scott answers questions from the students; topics include Jungian themes in her work, hermaphroditism, the relationship she feels between creativity, beauty, and God; how she feels about dance critics including Clive Barnes, Walter Terry, and John Martin; her unsuccessful hip replacement [ends abruptly but continues on streaming audio file 2].
- Streaming audio file 2 (approximately 13 minutes). Question and answer period with Marion Scott continues: topics include her aesthetic sense and the sculptural quality of her choreography; her work Abyss; Enrico Cecchetti's seven categories of movement [reflected in her work Sevenfold]; more on her work Abyss; the music she commissioned from Paul Chihara for Mysterium; Doris Siegel speaks briefly about lighting Scott's work.
- Donor/Sponsor
- Gift of Marion Scott. Oral History Archive.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Sound recordings.
- Note
- Lecture given by Marion Scott at Doris (Einstein) Siegel's class, Introduction to dance theatre, at University of California, Los Angeles, on January 15, 1975. Doris Siegel who is also present, speaks briefly in the last part of streaming audio file 2; there is also a question and answer period with the students.
- Title supplied by cataloger.
- Sound quality is good with respect to the speaker Marion Scott. The recording is marred by occasional extraneous noise and "tape hiss." In addition, Doris Siegel's remarks and some of the students' questions are difficult to understand.
- 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.
- Source (note)
- Call Number
- *MGZTCO 3-394
- OCLC
- 79783107
- Author
Scott, Marion, speaker.
- Title
Lecture at U.C.L.A.:/ Marion Scott
- Production
1975
- Type of Content
spoken word
- Type of Medium
audio
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
audio file
- Event
Recorded at University of California, Los Angeles 1975, January 15 Los Angeles (Calif.)
- 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 44 minutes); quarter track; 1.875 ips; transferred to wav file and streaming file format in 2015: myd_mgztco3394_v01f01_sc and myd_mgztco3394_v01f02_sc.
- Local Note
Former class mark: *MGZTC 3-394
- Source
Gift of Marion Scott
- Connect to:
- Added Author
Siegel, Doris Einstein, speaker.
- Research Call Number
*MGZTCO 3-394