- Additional Authors
- Description
- 2 streaming audio files (approximately one hour and 5 minutes): digital
- Summary
- Streaming audio file 1 (approximately 46 minutes). [Begins abruptly.] Klaus and Karen Neiiendam speak with Walter Terry about Antoine Bournonville's social and political beliefs including his interest in democratic principles; August Bournonville's visit to Russia and its influence on his art; the discipline August demanded of his dancers; his tendency to make ordinary people the main characters of his ballets; the status of performers in Denmark at the time including Johanne Luise Heiberg and Betty Hennings; Andrea Kraetzmar; Lucile Grahn including her exile in Germany; the old Court Theatre [now housing the Theatre Museum] including its use as a school and for rehearsals [ends abruptly but continues on streaming file 2].
- Streaming audio file 2 (approximately 19 minutes). Klaus and Karen Neiiendam speak with Walter Terry about August Bournonville and his concept of pantomime; anecdotes about the Bournonville family and other notable figures in the Danish ballet world. [In this last section of the recording, at times Klaus speaks to Karen in the Danish language.]
- Donor/Sponsor
- Oral History Archive. Gift of Walter Terry.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Interviews.
- Sound recordings.
- Note
- Interview with Klaus and Karen Neiiendam, curators and archivists of the Theatre Museum, conducted by Walter Terry at the old Court Theatre [now housing the Theatre Museum] in Copenhagen, Denmark, circa 1979, as part of the research for Walter Terry's book, The King's ballet master: a biography of Denmark's August Bournonville (New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1979). In the latter part of streaming audio file 2, at times Klaus Neiiendam speaks to Karen Neiiendam in the Danish language.
- Sound quality is good overall. The recording is marred by occasional extraneous noise and "tape hiss".
- 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 3-871
- OCLC
- 82403212
- Author
Neiiendam, Klaus, interviewee.
- Title
Interview with Klaus and Karen Neiiendam
- Imprint
[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 Walter Terry 1979 Copenhagen (Denmark)
- 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 5 minutes); transferred to wav file and streaming file format in 2015 : myd_mgztco3871_v01f01_sc and myd_mgztco3871_v01f02_sc.
- Local Note
Former class mark: *MGZTC 3-871
- Source
Gift Walter Terry
- Connect to:
- Local Subject
Audiotapes -- Neiiendam, C.
Audiotapes -- Neiiendam, K.
- Added Author
Neiiendam, Karen, interviewee.
Interview with Karen Neiiendam.
Interview with Klaus Neiiendam.
Terry, Walter, interviewer.
- Research Call Number
*MGZTCO 3-871