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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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Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	disc 3	Audio	Use in library	*MGZTL 4-1282 disc 3	Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance
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Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	disc 1	Audio	Use in library	*MGZTL 4-1282 disc 1	Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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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.

Subject

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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