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Interview with Pearl Lang.
- Title
- Interview with Pearl Lang. January 17, 1976.
- Author
- Lang, Pearl, 1921-2009
- Publication
- 1976
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Stern, Lee Edward
- Description
- 1 sound disc (approximately 26 minutes) : digital; 4 3/4 in.
- Summary
- Lee Edward Stern, host of the radio program Speaking of dance, introduces his guest Pearl Lang; Lang speaks about her new work The possessed [based on Solomon Ansky's play The dybbuk]; its evolution including its relationship to her earlier works The legend and Shirah, and to Hasidic folklore about the dybbuk; the relationship of Graham technique and Hasidic wordless songs to the dance idioms in The possessed; Eliot Feld and his work Tzaddik; Jerome Robbin's work Dybbuk; the many possible interpretations of the play [Ansky's The dybbuk]; Ruth St. Denis's statement that Martha Graham is her daughter and Pearl Lang her granddaughter; performing compared with choreographing; more on The possessed; her belief that the arts require audiences; the names of three guest artists who will be performing in The possessed.
- Uniform Title
- Speaking of dance (Radio program)
- Subjects
- Note
- Interview with Pearl Lang conducted by Lee Edward Stern at Lang's New York City studio for the series Speaking of dance on the radio station WNYC-FM, for broadcast on January 17, 1976.
- Sound quality is good.
- Title supplied by cataloger.
- Funding (note)
- The conservation and cataloging of this recording was made possible in part by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. The support of the National Endowment for the Arts is also gratefully acknowledged.
- Call Number
- *MGZTL 4-2974
- OCLC
- 879645584
- Author
- Lang, Pearl, 1921-2009, interviewee.
- Title
- Interview with Pearl Lang. January 17, 1976.
- Production
- 1976
- Type of Content
- spoken word
- Type of Medium
- audio
- Type of Carrier
- audio disc
- Event
- Recorded by Lee Edward Stern for WNYC-FM, New York broadcast on1976, January 17 New York (N.Y.)
- Funding
- The conservation and cataloging of this recording was made possible in part by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. The support of the National Endowment for the Arts is also gratefully acknowledged.
- Original Version
- Original format: one sound reel (approximately 26 minutes); 7 inches; 1.875 ips., mono; half-track originally recorded by Lee Edward Stern for the WNYC-FM radio station in New York City, for broadcast on January 17, 1976 transferred to wav file and compact disc formats in 2013.
- Local Note
- There is a handwritten note and a tape cue sheet regarding the recording included in the container holding the archival original.
- Added Author
- Stern, Lee Edward, host.
- Added Title
- Speaking of dance (Radio program)
- Research Call Number
- *MGZTL 4-2974