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Interview with Jerome Robbins.

Title: Interview with Jerome Robbins. Nov. 29, 1988 [sound recording]
Author: Robbins, Jerome
Publication: 1988.

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Additional Authors

Duffy, Martha.

Description

2 sound discs (ca. 1 hr., 14 min.) : digital; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

Disc 1 (ca. 48 min.) Jerome Robbins speaks briefly about his upcoming retrospective, Jerome Robbins' Broadway (1989). [Interview begins after a short pause.] Robbins discusses his early influences, including the dance classes of Senia Gluck-Sandor and Felicia Sorel; Gluck-Sandor's ideas and teaching; his first experiences with ballet; auditioning for George Balanchine and working with him on Broadway, and then for American Ballet Theatre; more on his work with Balanchine [break]. Robbins discusses the influence of the Works Progress Administration in developing his interest in American culture; his admiration for the dancing of Tanaquil Le Clercq and Maria Tallchief in Symphony in C (Ballet Society, 1948); Le Clercq's importance to his choreography; working with Balanchine and the New York City Ballet during the 1950s; his social life during the period; his friendship with Le Clercq and Balanchine; working with Ethel Merman in Gypsy (1959); the unifying creative approach taken by Robbins and his collaborators for West Side story (1957); the difficulty in getting the show produced; its innovative aspects in score, scenery and the use of dancers; his direction and choreography of Fiddler on the roof (1964); the choreography of the numbers included in Jerome Robbins Broadway in relation to the original works.
Disc 2 (ca. 26 min.) Robbins discusses his interpretation of Glass' music for Glass pieces (1983); his future plans; the places he likes to spend time, including Spoleto, Italy, and New York City; his various circles of friends; his attendance of performances and cultural events, and his reading interests [disc ends abruptly].

Series Statement

Jerome Robbins Collection

Alternative Title

Dance Audio Archive.

Subjects

Note

Interview conducted by journalist Martha Duffy on Nov. 29, 1988.

Access (note)

Permission required.

Funding (note)

Preservation made possible in part with public funds from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Source (note)

WNET/13

Call Number

*MGZTL 4-3097 JRC

OCLC

NYPT03-R0

Author

Robbins, Jerome, interviewee.

Title

Interview with Jerome Robbins. Nov. 29, 1988 [sound recording]

Imprint

1988.

Series

Jerome Robbins Collection

Access

Permission required.

Funding

Preservation made possible in part with public funds from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Local Note

For transcript see *MGZMT 3-3097 JRC. The transcript was created by WNET/13 in connection with the documentary: Jerome Robbins: Something to dance about.

Archival transcript: *MGZMTO 3-3097 JRC

Archive original: *MGZTCO 3-3097 JRC

Preservation master: *MGZTP 10-3097 JRC

Dubbing master: *MGZTD 4-3097 JRC

Source

Transcript Gift; WNET/13, 2008. NN-PD

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Local Subject

Audiotapes -- Robbins, J.

Musical comedies. Jerome Robbins' Broadway.

Added Author

Duffy, Martha. Interviewer

Research Call Number

*MGZTL 4-3097 JRC

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