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Letters to colleagues and associates.

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Status	Vol/Date	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
Request Appointment Not available - Please for assistance.	disc 2	Audio	Permit needed	*MGZTL 4-3315 JRC Permission required disc 2	Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance
Request Appointment Not available - Please for assistance.	disc 1	Audio	Permit needed	*MGZTL 4-3315 JRC Permission required disc 1	Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

Description

2 sound discs (ca. 52 min.) : digital; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

Disc 1 (ca. 27 min.). [Piano and orchestral music is played during the first ca. 18 min. before a live audience.] Jerome Robbins dictates letters and the content of telephone calls to his assistant regarding the disposition of various matters, including the staging of a dance from [the 1956 musical comedy] Bells are ringing, the upcoming international tour by Ballets: U.S.A., conditions for the photographing of a show [Gypsy] he is choreographing, a request for references from Gene Kelly regarding Ken Carlisle (?) [ends abruptly].
Disc 2 (ca. 25 min.). [Begins abruptly.] Robbins continues to dictate letters to his assistant regarding various matters, including the upcoming international tour, the conceptual basis of his new, silent ballet [Moves], his enjoyment of nature in Long Island, the reaction of Betty [Cage?] to his silent ballet, his interest in choreographing a ballet to [Johannes] Brahms' Liebeslieder waltzes, the U.S. Dept. of State's use of him for publicity, his working title, Of movements, for his silent ballet, the providing of quotable statements for use in an upcoming book of photography [ends abruptly].

Donor/Sponsor

Oral History Archive.

Series Statement

Jerome Robbins Collection

Subject

Note

The recording consists of a ca. 18 min. segment of piano and orchestral music performed before a live audience followed by Jerome Robbins' dictating letters and the content of telephone calls, probably sometime in the first half of 1959.

Access (note)

Funding (note)

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

Call Number

*MGZTL 4-3315 JRC

OCLC

NYPY04-R57

Author

Robbins, Jerome.

Title

Letters to colleagues and associates. 1959? [sound recording]

Imprint

[1959?]

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

Archival original: *MGZTO 7-3315 JRC

Preservation master: *MGZTP 10-3315 JRC nos. 1-2

Dubbing master: *MGZTD 4-3315 JRC nos. 1-2

Research Call Number

*MGZTL 4-3315 JRC