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[Interview with Boris Kochno, in French]

Title
[Interview with Boris Kochno, in French] [sound recording]
Author
Kochno, Boris.
Publication
1981.

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Additional Authors
Radio-France.
Description
3 sound discs (ca. 146 min.) : digital; 4 3/4 in.
Summary
  • Disc 1 (ca. 57 min.). Introduction of Boris Kochno; Kochno speaks about his childhood in Moscow, including his first experiences with ballet, writing poetry, and modern painting; meeting Vladimir Mayakovsky; traveling, via the Crimea and Istanbul, with his mother to Paris in 1919-1920.
  • Disc 2 (ca. 60 min.). Kochno speaks about working as a secretary and librettist for Serge Diaghilev's Ballets russes; meeting Igor Stravinsky; meeting Pablo Picasso and their subsequent friendship; Diaghilev's relationship with Picasso and other artists who designed sets for him, including Georges Rouault and Léon Bakst; Bronislava Nijinska as a choreographer; Leonide Massine as a choreographer; Kochno's first ballet libretto, Les fâcheux; more on Picasso; more on Nijinska and Massine; George Balanchine, including his contribution to Massine's piece Le chant du rossignol; other librettists who worked for Diaghilev, including Jean Cocteau; financial aspects of the Ballets russes, including the anonymous support of Coco Chanel; Diaghilev's death.
  • Disc 3 (ca. 29 min.). Kochno speaks about the dissolution of the Ballets russes; working with Balanchine and Christian Bérard in Paris on a revue [J.B. Cochrane's 1931 Revue?]; working for the new company formed by Colonel W. de Basil and René Blum [Monte Carlo ballet russe]; forming a new company [Les ballets] with Balanchine; working again for de Basil; touring in the U.S. with de Basil's company [Original ballet russe?]; working again for Blum; producing the ballet La songe d'une nuit d'été for a private performance during the German occupation of Paris; founding the Ballets des Champs-Elyseés.
Donor/Sponsor
  • Gift of Hubert Goldschmidt.
  • National Endowment for the Arts, 2001-2002.
Subjects
Note
  • Interview (in French) with Boris Kochno conducted by unidentified female interviewer on Radio France in May, 1981.
  • Music is played at times during the recording.
Funding (note)
  • Preservation was made possible in part with public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, 2001-2002.
Call Number
*MGZTL 4-1282
OCLC
NYPY03-R48
Author
Kochno, Boris. Interviewee
Title
[Interview with Boris Kochno, in French] [sound recording]
Imprint
1981.
Funding
Preservation was made possible in part with public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, 2001-2002.
Local Note
Arch. orig.: *MGZTCO 3-1282 nos. 1-3
Preservation master: *MGZTP 4-1282 nos. 1-3
Dubbing master: *MGZTD 4-1282 nos. 1-3
Local Subject
Ballets russes (Diaghilev)
Audiotapes -- Kochno, B.
Added Author
Radio-France.
Research Call Number
*MGZTL 4-1282
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