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Conversation with Mary Wigman

Title
Conversation with Mary Wigman [sound recording].
Author
Lert, Ruth.
Publication
[between 1971 and 1973]

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Additional Authors
  • Wigman, Mary, 1886-1973.
  • National Endowment for the Arts, 2009-2010.
  • New York State Council on the Arts, 2009-2010.
  • Oral history archive.
Description
1 sound disc (ca. 12 min.) : digital; 4 3/4 in.
Summary
Ruth Lert reads her brief remarks, addressed to Margaret Gage, about the conversation she had with Mary Wigman, in Wigman's apartment in Berlin on Nov. 7, 1971 (ca. 1 min.); Lert's remarks are followed by her re-recording of an excerpt from her conversation with Wigman (ca. 11 min.). Lert's remarks are in English; the conversation with Wigman is in German. The voice heard toward the end of the recording is that of Ann Hess (Hesschen) Wigman's companion.
Subjects
Note
  • Sound quality of the introductory remarks is good, but that of the conversation with Mary Wigman is poor.
Funding (note)
  • Preservation was funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, 2009-2010 and the New York State Council on the Arts, 2009-2010.
System Details (note)
  • Transferred from 1 sound cassette (ca. 12 min.; 1 7/8 in. per sec.; two channels, most of the recording is a re-recording of a recording originally made on Nov. 7, 1971) to wav file and compact disc formats in 2010.
Source (note)
  • Betty White.
Call Number
*MGZTL 4-692
OCLC
82616942
Author
Lert, Ruth.
Title
Conversation with Mary Wigman [sound recording].
Imprint
[between 1971 and 1973]
Funding
Preservation was funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, 2009-2010 and the New York State Council on the Arts, 2009-2010.
System Details
Transferred from 1 sound cassette (ca. 12 min.; 1 7/8 in. per sec.; two channels, most of the recording is a re-recording of a recording originally made on Nov. 7, 1971) to wav file and compact disc formats in 2010.
Local Note
Archival original: *MGZTCO 3-692
Added Author
Wigman, Mary, 1886-1973. Speaker
Betty White. Donor
National Endowment for the Arts, 2009-2010.
New York State Council on the Arts, 2009-2010.
Oral history archive.
Research Call Number
*MGZTL 4-692
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