- Additional Authors
- Chazin-Bennahum, Judith
- Description
- 5 compact discs (approximately 4 hours and 25 minutes) : digital; 4 3/4 in.
- Summary
- Disc 1 (approximately one hour). Fernau Hall speaks with Judith Chazin-Bennahum about the current state of ballet in Russia [the former Soviet Union] including Vladimir Vasiliev's ballet Anyuta; Hall's background including his education in British Columbia; his parents; learning about art from his great-uncle in Antwerp; moving to London in 1933; Antony Tudor and Massine's ballets [gap]; the Ballet Club [at the Mercury Club] including its finances; Mim [Marie Rambert] as a company director; Tudor's break with Rambert; Peggy van Praagh as a dancer; Rambert's inability to understand Tudor's work; Tudor's recognition that Aggie [Agnes de Mille] was right for his work; Tudor's and Hugh Laing's efforts to raise money [for a new company]; the gallery at Covent Garden; the start of Tudor's and Hall's friendship; an anecdote about Tudor's reaction to a review by Hall of Tudor's dancing; Hall's perspective as to why Ninette de Valois did not use Tudor's work; his work Cross-gartered and what made it different from the ballets being made at that time [ends abruptly].
- Disc 2 (approximately one hour). Fernau Hall continues to speak with Judith Chazin-Bennahum about Antony Tudor including how much Tudor learned from Mim [Marie Rambert]; briefly, his ballet Lysistrata; briefly, his ballet Atalanta of the East; modern dance in England in the 1930s; Kurt Jooss including his talent as a lighting designer; possible sources of influence on Tudor; the challenges of writing about Tudor; Tudor's work Divine horsemen; Peggy van Praagh as a company director; Hall's experiences during World War II including his wartime service in connection with radar engineering [gap]; brief discussion of Frederick Ashton; Merle Park; Ninette de Valois; Ashton's Symphonic variations; Hall's thoughts on Jerome Robbins; Tudor's visit to London in connection with his creation of Shadowplay for the Royal Ballet [ends abruptly].
- Disc 3 (approximately 57 minutes). Fernau Hall continues to speak with Judith Chazin-Bennahum about the Royal Ballet including his perspective on Kenneth Macmillan as its director and choreographer; Antony Tudor's lack of fame in England; the existing notation score for Tudor's ballet Shadowplay [from 1:30 - 4:40 on track 2 interview is interrupted while Hall speaks on the telephone]; Tudor's The leaves are fading; his works Atalanta of the East and The planets including Hugh Laing as Mars and Kyra Nijinsky as Neptune in the latter; Tudor's work The descent of Hebe; more on The planets; Tudor and abstract ballets; more on The descent of Hebe, in particular the final section; Tudor's work and television; his work Le jardin aux lilas including the story on which it was based; possible reasons Alicia Alonso never staged his work in Cuba; Hall's comments on his [Hall's] short career as a dancer; Tudor as a character dancer.
- Disc 4 (approximately 57 minutes). Fernau Hall continues to speak with Judith Chazin-Bennahum about Antony Tudor including his work Dark elegies and the filming of it for television; briefly, his work Gala performance and Mim's [Marie Rambert's] declining to produce it; Ninette de Valois, including Hall's opinion that she was lacking in musicality; her work Checkmate; briefly, the Swedish production of Dark elegies; Tudor's financial arrangements with Ballet Theatre [later American Ballet Theatre]; Tudor's critical success with Pillar of fire including an anecdote about Tudor and Arnold Haskell; Tudor's work Undertow including its critical reception and Nora Kaye's performance; Alicia Alonso's comments on Undertow; Tudor's work Shadow of the wind; briefly, Dale Wasserman; more on Shadow of the wind, in particular the poems in the libretto and John Martin's review [ends abruptly].
- Disc 5 (approximately 31 minutes). Fernau Hall speaks with Judith Chazin-Bennahum about Lucia Chase; Dianne Richards and Antony Tudor [an unidentified person who appears to be Hall's guest, briefly joins the conversation]; the passing over of Tudor for Mikhail Baryshnikov as artistic director of American Ballet Theatre; Hall's illness [ends abruptly].
- Alternative Title
- Judith Chazin-Bennahum collection of Antony Tudor audio material.
- Subjects
- Note
- Interview with Fernau Hall conducted by Judith Chazin-Bennahum in London, England, at Hall's home, on April 13, 1988. This interview was conducted as part of Chazin-Bennahum's research for her book The ballets of Antony Tudor: studies in psyche and satire (1994).
- Sound quality ranges from good to poor. At times Fernau Hall's voice is soft and difficult to understand. There are occasional short gaps and extraneous noise.
- Title supplied by cataloger based on handwritten note on original container.
- Source (note)
- Call Number
- *MGZTL 4-2930
- OCLC
- 829855626
- Author
Hall, Fernau, interviewee.
- Title
Interview with Fernau Hall. April 13, 1988, 1988.
- Production
1988.
- Type of Content
spoken word
- Type of Medium
audio
- Type of Carrier
audio disc
- Event
Recorded by Judith Chazin-Bennahum 1998 April 13 at the home of Fernau Hall in London, England.
- Original Version
Original format : 3 microcassettes (approximately 4 hours and 25 minutes; 0.46875 in. per sec. ; half-track). Originally recorded in 1988.
- Local Note
Archival original: *MGZTCO 2-2930
- Added Author
Chazin-Bennahum, Judith, interviewer.
Judith Chazin-Bennahum, donor
- Added Title
Judith Chazin-Bennahum collection of Antony Tudor audio material.
- Research Call Number
*MGZTL 4-2930