- Additional Authors
- Farlow, Lesley.
- Description
- 5 cassettes (5 hours, 40 min.)
- Donor/Sponsor
- Oral History Archive.
- Subject
- Argentina, 1888-1936
- Escudero, Vicente
- Eglevsky, André
- Decroux, Etienne, 1898-1991
- Dolin, Anton, 1904-1983
- Danilova, Alexandra, 1907-1997
- Fokine, Michel, 1880-1942
- Graham, Martha
- Horst, Louis
- Irving, Robert, 1913-1991
- Jooss, Kurt, 1901-1979
- Kirstein, Lincoln, 1907-1996
- Massine, Leonide, 1896-1979
- Markova, Alicia, Dame, 1910-2004
- Lifar, Serge, 1905-1986
- Preobrajenska, Olga, 1870-1962
- Vladimiroff, Pierre, 1893-1970
- Bolender, Todd
- Astaire, Fred
- Balanchine, George
- New York City Ballet
- Ballet Society (New York, N.Y.)
- Everyman
- Job (Choreographic work : De Valois)
- Petrouchka (Choreographic work : Fokin)
- Note
- Interviewed by Lesley Farlow Dec. 11, 17 and 23, 1991 at the Dance Collection of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Lincoln Center, New York.
- Contents
- SUMMARY: Cassette 1. Baird Hastings relates his impressions, accumulated over many years as a dance writer, of various performers, choreographers and specific dance works. He outlines his point of view as a critic and discusses Fred Astaire; La Argentina and Vicente Escudero; George Balanchine; Apollo (Balanchine); André Eglevsky; Maurice Chevalier; Jean Cocteau; classicism and romanticism; Étienne Decroux; Anton Dolin; Alexandra Danilova; Reinhardt's Everyman; Eglevsky. -- Cassette 2. Balanchine and ballet tempi; Danilova; Michel Fokin; Martha Graham; Martha Hill; various ballerinas in Giselle; Louis Horst; Robert Irving and conducting for ballet; Kurt Jooss and The green table; Ninette de Valois' Job; Lincoln Kirstein. -- Cassette 3. Lincoln Kirstein; Michael Larionov; Pablo Picasso; Leonide Massine; New York City Ballet; Todd Bolender. -- Cassette 4. Ballet Society and New York City Ballet; Alicia Markova; opera ballet; Paris Opera Ballet and Serge Lifar; Olga Preobrajenska; Royal Danish Ballet. -- Cassette 5. Max Reinhardt's production of Everyman; Helen Thimig; Dame Marie Rambert; Petrouchka; Wagner's Der Meistersinger; Pierre Vladimiroff; Marian Hannah Winter and Lillian Moore.
- Call Number
- *MGZTC 3-1509
- OCLC
- NYPY926005112-R
- Author
Hastings, Baird. Interviewee
- Title
Interview with Baird Hastings [sound recording]
- Imprint
1991.
- Local Subject
Incidental dances. Everyman.
Opera ballet.
Audiotapes -- Hastings, B.
- Added Author
Farlow, Lesley. Interviewer
- Research Call Number
*MGZTC 3-1509