- Additional Authors
- Terry, Walter
- Description
- 1 streaming audio file (approximately 26 minutes) : digital
- Summary
- Streaming audio file (approximately 26 minutes). [Sound of Walter Terry testing the microphone and ambient noise.] Walter Terry introduces Rebekah Harkness, president of the Rebekah Harkness Foundation, noting her recent founding of a ballet company, the Harkness Ballet, and of a school, Harkness House for Ballet Arts (New York, N.Y.), as well as her background as a composer and a patron of the arts. Rebekah West Harkness speaks with Terry about her development as a composer and her musical studies; an anecdote about her dancing in public and her father; her varied activities in support of the art of ballet; her goals in founding the Harkness Ballet Company and Harkness House; the physical facilities, faculty, curriculum and trainee program at Harkness House; and her own composition, Macumba suite, to which Alvin Ailey is choreographing a ballet of the same title for the Harkness Ballet. [The recording ends with Terry's stating that he is about to air an excerpt from the music Macumba suite.]
- Donor/Sponsor
- National Initiative to Preserve American Dance.
- Gift of Walter Terry.
- Uniform Title
- Invitation to dance (Radio program)
- Alternative Title
- Interview with Rebekah West Harkness
- Dance Audio Archive
- Subjects
- Note
- Interview with Rebekah Harkness conducted by Walter Terry, as host; recorded on November 2, [1965?], for broadcast by radio station WNYC, New York, on its series Invitation to dance.
- The sound quality is fair. The volume of Rebekah Harkness' voice is low. However, her words are easily intelligible.
- The processing 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.
- Title supplied by cataloger.
- Access (note)
- Access only on site at the research libraries of The New York Public Library.
- Call Number
- *MGZTO 7-83
- OCLC
- 36936993
- Author
Harkness, Rebekah West, -1982, interviewee.
- Title
Interview with Rebekah Harkness, 1965.
- Imprint
1965.
- Type of Content
spoken word
- Type of Medium
audio
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
audio file
- Event
Recorded by radio station WNYC, New York for its program Invitation to dance November 2, [1965?] New York (N.Y.)
- Restricted Access
Access only on site at the research libraries of The New York Public Library.
- Original Version
Original format: one sound reel (approximately 26 minutes); polyester; half-track; 7.5 ips; 7 in.; transferred to wav file and streaming file format in 2015: myd_mgzto783_v01f01_sc.
- Local Note
Archive original, *MGZTO 7-83 was previously preserved in sound cassette format as *MGZTC 3-83 (user copy) and in 10 inch reel format as *MGZTD 10-83 (dubbing master), respectively, funded in part with funds from the National Initiative to Preserve American Dance.
- Local Note
Preservation funded by the National Initiative to Preserve American Dance,
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- Added Author
Terry, Walter, interviewer.
- Added Title
Invitation to dance (Radio program)
Interview with Rebekah West Harkness
- Research Call Number
*MGZTO 7-83