Research Catalog

Title

Interview with Jerome Robbins. May 19, 1990 [sound recording]

Author

Robbins, Jerome

Publication

1990.

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Details

Additional Authors

Mercer, Margaret.

Description

1 sound disc (ca. 24 min.) : digital; 4 3/4in.

Summary

[Begins abruptly.] Jerome Robbins discusses his selection process for the ballets included in his upcoming retrospective, a Festival of Jerome Robbins Ballets; his choreography and how it is perceived; the opening night of Fancy free (1944) and the ensuing public reaction to it. Robbins discusses the creation of several ballets featured in the festival, including Concerto in G (1975), later titled In G major; The cage (1951); Ives, songs (1988); Glass pieces (1983); Brahms/Handel (1984), choreographed with Twyla Tharp; Gershwin concerto (1982) and The Goldberg variations (1971). Robbins discusses the works with particular emphasis on his response to the music and his work with the various scores [ends abruptly].

Series Statement

Jerome Robbins Collection

Alternative Title

Dance Audio Archive.

Subjects

• Ives, songs (Choreographic work : Robbins)
• Cage (Choreographic work : Robbins)
• In G major (Choreographic work : Robbins)
• Brahms/Handel (Choreographic work : Robbins and Tharp)
• Audiotapes > Robbins, J
• Robbins, Jerome > Interviews
• Glass pieces (Choreographic work : Robbins)
• Goldberg variations (Choreographic work : Robbins)

Note

• Interview conducted by Margaret Mercer for radio station WQXR, New York, N.Y., on May 19, 1990.

Funding (note)

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

Source (note)

• WNET/13

Call Number

*MGZTL 4-3098 JRC

OCLC

NYPT03-R13

Author

Robbins, Jerome, interviewee.

Title

Interview with Jerome Robbins. May 19, 1990 [sound recording]

Imprint

1990.

Series

Jerome Robbins Collection

Funding

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

Local Note

For transcript see *MGZMT 3-3098 JRC. The transcript was created by WNET/13 in connection with the documentary: Jerome Robbins: Something to dance about.

Archival transcript: *MGZMTO 3-3098 JRC

Archive original: *MGZTCO 3-3098 JRC

Preservation master: *MGZTP 10-3098 JRC

Dubbing master: *MGZTD 4-3098 JRC

Source

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

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Local Subject

Audiotapes -- Robbins, J.

Added Author

Mercer, Margaret. Interviewer

Research Call Number

*MGZTL 4-3098 JRC