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Interview with Rebekah Harkness

Title
Interview with Rebekah Harkness [sound recording]
Author
Harkness, Rebekah West, -1982.
Publication
1978.

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AudioUse in library *MGZTC 3-713Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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Additional Authors
  • Gruen, John
  • Rachmaninoff, Sergei, 1873-1943.
Description
1 sound cassette (51 min.) : analog.
Donor/Sponsor
  • Oral History Archive. Gift of John Gruen.
  • National Initiative to Preserve American Dance.
Uniform Title
Sound of dance (Radio program)
Subject
  • Harkness School of Dance (New York, N.Y.)
  • Harkness Ballet
Note
  • Host: John Gruen. Broadcast on April 2, 1978 by radio station WNCN-FM, New York on its series The sound of dance.
Contents
SUMMARY: Rebekah Harkness announces the first Harkness Dance Awards. She discusses her early dance and music training; composing music; her directorship of the Harkness Ballet; her own musical compositions; the Harkness School of Dance; her aims for a new Harkness Ballet. A recording of Suite no. 1 (Fantasia) for two pianos, opus 5, by Rachmaninoff (transcribed for orchestra by Mrs. Harkness) is played in its entirety.
Call Number
*MGZTC 3-713
OCLC
NYPY857023142-R
Author
Harkness, Rebekah West, -1982. Interviewee
Title
Interview with Rebekah Harkness [sound recording]
Imprint
1978.
Local Note
Preservation funded by the National Initiative to Preserve American Dance (NIPAD)
Archival original: *MGZTO 10-713. 7 1/2 in. per sec.; 10 in. reel; polyester, full track.
Dubbing master: *MGZTD 10-713. 7 1/2 in. per sec.; 10 in reel; polyester, full track.
Local Subject
Audiotapes -- Harkness, R.
Added Author
Gruen, John. Interviewer
Rachmaninoff, Sergei, 1873-1943. Fantasia, pianos (2), op. 5; arranged.
Added Title
Sound of dance (Radio program)
Research Call Number
*MGZTC 3-713
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