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Interview with Paul Sutherland

Title: Interview with Paul Sutherland, 1979
Author: Sutherland, Paul, 1935-
Publication: 1979

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Details

Additional Authors

Hunt-Nishi, Marilyn

Description

24 streaming audio files (approximately 18 hours): digital

Summary

Streaming audio file 1 (approximately 48 minutes) and streaming audio file 2 (approximately 44 minutes), January 24, 1979. [Begins abruptly.] Paul Sutherland speaks with Marilyn Hunt about his job as ballet master with the Joffrey Ballet; training with William Dollar; Rebekah Harkness; the first Joffrey ballet company; American Ballet Theatre; Lucia Chase; his own philosophy of life.
Streaming audio file 3 (approximately 48 minutes) and streaming audio file 4 (approximately 48 minutes), January 25, 1979. Paul Sutherland discusses Antony Tudor as a teacher and choreographer; Interplay (Robbins); La fille mal gardée (Nault); Reflections (Arpino); Maximilian Zomosa; and Eliot Feld.
Streaming audio file 5 (approximately 47 minutes) and streaming audio file 6 (approximately 47 minutes), January 25 and 26, 1979. Paul Sutherland continues to speak about Eliot Feld; As time goes by (Tharp); Leonide Massine; Petrouchka (Fokine); and Erik Bruhn.
Streaming audio file 7 (approximately 48 minutes) and streaming audio file 8 (approximately 48 minutes), January 26 and April 9, 1979. Paul Sutherland speaks about the difficult transition dancers face when they stop dancing; his family's attitude towards his career; joining American Ballet Theatre; Lucia Chase; Miss Julie (Cullberg).
Streaming audio file 9 ( 48 minutes) and streaming audio file 10 (38 minutes), April 9, 1979. Paul Sutherland speaks further about Miss Julie; Fancy free (Robbins); dancers' response to criticism; Petrouchka; more about the job of ballet master.
Streaming audio file 11 (approximately 48 minutes) and streaming audio file 12 (approximately 40 minutes), April 11, 1979. Paul Sutherland speaks about the early years of the Joffrey Ballet; American Ballet Theatre's 1960 Russian tour; other Russian tours; taking class with Aleksandr Pushkin.
Streaming audio file 13 (approximately 47 minutes) and streaming audio file 14 (approximately 47 minutes), April 12, 1979. Paul Sutherland speaks about Aleksandr Pushkin's class; the Soviet technique and system of training; Robert Joffrey; Stanley Williams.
Streaming audio file 15 (approximately 46 minutes) and streaming audio file 16 (approximately 46 minutes), April 12 and 16, 1979. Paul Sutherland speaks about the Harkness Ballet; Gerald Arpino; Konservatoriet (Bournonville); various roles with American Ballet Theatre.
Streaming audio file 17 (approximately 48 minutes) and streaming audio file 18 (approximately 48 minutes), April 16 and 24, 1979. Paul Sutherland speaks about La sylphide; American Ballet Theatre's 1966 Russian tour; the Harkness Ballet; Lawrence Rhodes; Benjamin Harkavy; partnering; the break-up of the Harkness Ballet.
Streaming audio file 19 (approximately 47 minutes) and streaming audio file 20 (approximately 45 minutes), April 24, 1979. Paul Sutherland speaks about his role as ballet master; Pineapple poll (Cranko); Robert Joffrey; the attitudes of today's dancers.
Streaming audio file 21 (approximately 47 minutes) and streaming audio file 22 (approximately 47 minutes), April 26, 1979. Paul Sutherland speaks about setting a ballet on a company; Frederick Ashton's ballets; Anthony Dowell; conducting rehearsals; the Joffrey Ballet's 1971 tour of England and 1974 Russian tour
Streaming audio file 23 (approximately 48 minutes) and streaming audio file 24 (approximately 8 minutes), April 26, 1979. Paul Sutherland speaks about the problems of touring in politically volatile countries.

Alternative Title

Dance Oral History Project.

Subject

Genre/Form

Interviews.
Sound recordings.

Note

For transcript of interviews, see *MGZMT 3-706.
Interview with Paul Sutherland conducted by Marilyn Hunt on January 24, 25, and 26, and on April 9, 11, 12, 16, 24, and 26, 1979, for the Oral History Project of the Jerome Robbins Dance Division of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center, in New York (N.Y.).
Title supplied by cataloger.

Access (note)

Patrons may access streaming audio only on site at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center.

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 3-706

OCLC

82341750

Author

Sutherland, Paul, 1935- interviewee.

Title

Interview with Paul Sutherland, 1979

Production

1979

Type of Content

spoken word

Type of Medium

audio

Type of Carrier

online resource

Digital File Characteristics

audio file

Restricted Access

Patrons may access streaming audio only on site at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center.

Event

Recorded by Marilyn Hunt 1979, January 24 - April 26 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: twelve sound cassettes (approximately 18 hours); quarter-track; 1.875 ips; transferred to wav file and streaming file format in 2015: myd_mgztco3706_v01f01_sc, myd_mgztco3706_v01f02_sc, myd_mgztco3706_v02f01_sc, myd_mgztco3706_v02f02_sc, myd_mgztco3706_v03f01_sc, myd_mgztco3706_v03f02_sc, myd_mgztco3706_v04f01_sc, myd_mgztco3706_v04f02_sc, myd_mgztco3706_v05f01_sc, myd_mgztco3706_v05f02_sc, myd_mgztco3706_v06f01_sc, myd_mgztco3706_v06f02_sc, myd_mgztco3706_v07f01_sc, myd_mgztco3706_v07f02_sc, myd_mgztco3706_v08f01_sc, myd_mgztco3706_v08f02_sc, myd_mgztco3706_v09f01_sc, myd_mgztco3706_v09f02_sc, myd_mgztco3706_v10f01_sc, myd_mgztco3706_v10f02_sc, myd_mgztco3706_v11f01_sc, myd_mgztco3706_v11f02_sc, myd_mgztco3706_v12f01_sc, and myd_mgztco3706_v12f02_sc.

Local Note

Former call number: *MGZTC 3-706

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Added Author

Hunt-Nishi, Marilyn, interviewer.

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