- Additional Authors
- Terry, Walter
- Description
- Two streaming audio files (approximately one hour and seven minutes): digital
- Summary
- Streaming audio file 1 (approximately 47 minutes). Frederic Franklin speaks with Walter Terry about his training in both dance and drama; his early career including Leonide Massine's confidence in his abilities; Franklin's innate sense of rhythm and his musicality; the rise of technical virtuosity and its influence on teaching; the rigors of touring; Franklin as a dancer, in particular his mature, virile affect; his theatricality including an anecdote about Frederick Ashton's advice to "just dance;" his approach to dramatic roles for example, the role of Stanley [in Valerie Bettis's Streetcar named desire] as compared to the role of the Hussar in Blue Danube; learning new ways of dancing in Massine's ballets [ends abruptly but continues on streaming audio file 2].
- Streaming audio file 2 (approximately 20 minutes). Frederic Franklin speaks with Walter Terry about how working with different choreographers prepared him to dance in various styles; working with Frederick Ashton; his partners including Alicia Markova and Alexandra Danilova; the importance of theatricality and intelligence in performance including an anecdote about Danilova and Sergei Pavlovich [Serge Diaghilev]; his own wide range of roles, including even a role with spoken lines, in Ruth Page's Billy Sunday.
- Donor/Sponsor
- Oral History Archive. Gift of Walter Terry.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Interviews.
- Sound recordings.
- Note
- Interview with Frederic Franklin conducted by Walter Terry in 1977 in New York (N.Y.). This interview is part of the research for Terry's book, Great male dancers of the ballet (Garden City, NY: Anchor Books, 1978).
- Sound quality is good overall. The recording is marred by extraneous noise including "tape hiss" and occasional short gaps as well as some distortion in the interviewee's voice. However, the speakers' voices are easily intelligible.
- 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.
- Source (note)
- Call Number
- *MGZTCO 3-813
- OCLC
- 78818369
- Author
Franklin, Frederic, 1914-2013, interviewee.
- Title
Interview with Frederic Franklin, 1977
- Production
1977
- 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 Walter Terry 1977 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: one sound cassette (approximately one hour and seven minutes); quarter-track; 1.875 ips; transferred to wav file and streaming file format in 2015: myd_mgztco3813_v01f01_sc and myd_mgztco3813_v01f02_sc.
- Local Note
Former class mark: *MGZTC 3-813
- Source
Gift Walter Terry
- Connect to:
- Local Subject
Male dancing.
- Added Author
Terry, Walter, interviewer.
- Research Call Number
*MGZTCO 3-813