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Interview with Jerome Robbins

Title
Interview with Jerome Robbins [sound recording].
Author
Robbins, Jerome
Publication
1995.

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Additional Authors
  • Sorrin, Ellen.
  • National Endowment for the Arts, 2007-2008.
  • New York State Council on the Arts, 2007-2008.
Description
1 sound disc (ca. 32 min.): digital; 4 3/4 in. +
Summary
Jerome Robbins speaks with Ellen Sorrin about meeting and auditioning for Senia Gluck-Sandor, including an anecdote; studying dance and theater with him; performing in the Brothers Ashkenazi; beginning his study of ballet at Gluck-Sandor's suggestion; Gluck-Sandor's varied background; his dance Seagull; an anecdote about Robbins' first ballet performance, as an assistant eunuch in Scheherezade; his impressions of Felicia Sorel; performing in Gluck-Sandor's El amor brujo; Gluck-Sandor as the rabbi in the musical comedy Fiddler on the roof; Gluck-Sandor's painting; possible reasons Gluck-Sandor is not well-known today [short gap]; his possible influence on Robbins.
Donor/Sponsor
National Initiative to Preserve American Dance.
Alternative Title
  • Dance Oral History Project
  • Dance Audio Archive
Subject
  • Robbins, Jerome
  • Gluck-Sandor, Senia
  • Sorel, Felicia
  • Amor brujo (Choreographic work : Gluck-Sandor)
Note
  • Interview with Jerome Robbins conducted by Ellen Sorrin at the New York State Theater, Lincoln Center, New York City, on Nov. 28, 1995, for the New York Public Library Dance Collection Oral History Project.
  • For transcript see: *MGZMT 3-1863.
Access (note)
  • Transcripts may not be photographed or reproduced without permission.
Funding (note)
  • Interview funded by the National Initiative to Preserve American Dance (NIPAD).
  • Preservation was funded in part by the New York State Council on the Arts, 2007-2008 and the New York State Council on the Arts, 2007-2008.
Call Number
*MGZMT 3-1863
OCLC
35729065
Author
Robbins, Jerome, interviewee.
Title
Interview with Jerome Robbins [sound recording].
Imprint
1995.
Funding
Interview funded by the National Initiative to Preserve American Dance (NIPAD).
Preservation was funded in part by the New York State Council on the Arts, 2007-2008 and the New York State Council on the Arts, 2007-2008.
Local Note
Former call number: *MGZTC 3-1863.
Dubbing master: *MGZTD 4-1863
Archival original: *MGZTCO 3-1873
Archival transcript: *MGZMTO 3-1863
Additional copy of archival transcript: *MGZMTO 3-1863, copy 2.
Pres. master: 1 sound file (ca. 32 min.): digital, WAV file, 48 kHz, 16 bit; copied from Archive orig. onto Western Digital My Book 320 GB hard drive by Safe Sound Archive, 9/2008; located in the Jerome Robbins Dance Division as of Aug. 11, 2009.
Pres. master: 1 LTO-3 tape: digital, stereo, 4 in.; copied by Safe Sound Archive, 9/2008; in the Rose Building workroom. When space becomes available in Princeton ReCAP or an alternative off-site storage area, the LTO master tapes are to be moved to such location.
Restricted Access
Transcripts may not be photographed or reproduced without permission.
Added Author
Sorrin, Ellen. Interviewer
National Endowment for the Arts, 2007-2008.
New York State Council on the Arts, 2007-2008.
Research Call Number
*MGZTL 4-1863
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