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Music and ballet: Catherine Littlefield's ballet: Ladies' better dresses

Title
Music and ballet: Catherine Littlefield's ballet: Ladies' better dresses [sound recording].
Publication
1938.

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AudioSupervised use *MGZTL 4-1, no. 124Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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Additional Authors
  • Littlefield, Catherine.
  • Kingsley, Herbert.
  • Herzer, Clifford.
  • Deakin, Irving.
Found In
Music and ballet (Radio program) [sound recording]: commentary and music, no. 124.
Summary
Catherine Littlefield's Ladies' better dresses (ca. 44 min.). [Music]. An announcer identified only as Mr. Rex Benwehr [spelling uncertain] introduces the program, the radio premiere of Catherine Littlefield's ballet Ladies' better dresses. Irving Deakin speaks about Littlefield and the Philadelphia Ballet Company; the composer Herbert Kingsley, who wrote the music for Ladies' better dresses; Littlefield describes the opening scenario of the ballet; music from the ballet (arranged for two pianos by Kingsley) is played by Kingsley and Clifford Herzer accompanied by Littlefield's commentary; closing remarks by Deakin regarding Littlefield and her ballet. Kingsley performs his musical settings of Langston Hughes' poems Lament over love and [Ballad of] the gypsy. Closing remarks and announcements.
Alternative Title
  • Catherine Littlefield's ballet: Ladies' better dresses
  • Dance Audio Archive.
Subject
  • Kingsley, Herbert
  • Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967 > Musical settings
  • Littlefield, Catherine
  • Ladies' better dresses (Choreographic work : Littlefield, C)
  • Music and dance
  • Audiotapes > Deakin, I
  • Audiotapes > Littlefield, C
Note
  • Catherine Littlefield's Ladies' better dresses, the 124th program in the radio series Music and ballet, with Irving Deakin as host, broadcast on June 22, 1939, by radio station WQXR, New York. Catherine Littlefield participates as a speaker. Herbert Kingsley and Clifford Herzer participate as pianists.
  • Sound quality is very good although the recording is marred by occasional extraneous noise.
Call Number
*MGZTL 4-1, no. 124
OCLC
497829215
Title
Music and ballet: Catherine Littlefield's ballet: Ladies' better dresses [sound recording].
Imprint
1938.
Local Note
Request *MGZTL 4-1, no. 124.
Added Author
Littlefield, Catherine. Speaker
Kingsley, Herbert. Performer
Herzer, Clifford. Instrumentalist
Deakin, Irving. Host
Added Title
Catherine Littlefield's ballet: Ladies' better dresses
Found In:
Music and ballet (Radio program) [sound recording]: commentary and music, no. 124.
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