- Additional Authors
- Horosko, Marian
- Description
- 1 streaming audio file (approximately 21 minutes) : digital
- Summary
- Streaming audio file (approximately 21 minutes). Marian Horosko speaks about Vera Volkova and notes that the interview (recorded at Watch Hill, Rhode Island) was broadcast in August; [piano music]; Horosoko introduces Vera Volkova who speaks with Horosko about her own training; her work with the Royal Ballet and with the Royal Danish Ballet [Kongelige Danske ballet]; male dancing; her teaching methods and typical class exercises including at the barre, center work, jumps, and pointe work [piano music].
- Donor/Sponsor
- National Initiative to Preserve American Dance.
- Gift of Marian Horosko.
- Uniform Title
- Profiles (Radio program)
- Alternative Title
- Dance Audio Archive
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Sound recordings.
- Note
- Interview with Vera Volkova conducted by Marian Horosko, as host. Recorded in the summer of 1964 at Watch Hill, Rhode Island, summer quarters of the Harkness Ballet. Broadcast in August, 1964 by radio station WNCN, New York, on its series, Profiles. Vera Volkova, staff member and artistic adviser to the Royal Danish Ballet, was teaching members of the Harkness Ballet in the summer of 1964.
- The sound quality is good.
- 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.
- Call Number
- *MGZTO 7-2067
- OCLC
- 54041896
- Author
Volkova, Vera, interviewee.
- Title
Interview with Vera Volkova, 1964.
- Imprint
1964.
- Type of Content
spoken word
- Type of Medium
audio
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
audio file
- Event
Recorded for and broadcast by radio station WNCN, New York on its series, Profiles Recorded at Watch Hill, Rhode Island, in the summer of 1964 Watch Hill (R.I.)
- Original Version
Original format: (archival original *MGZTO 7-2067, reel 1 of 2; former call number: *MGZT 7-84, reel 1) one sound reel (approximately 21 minutes); acetate; half-track; 7.5 ips; 7 in.; transferred to wav file and streaming file format in 2015: myd_mgzt784_v01f01_sc.
Original format: (additional archival original *MGZTO 7-2067, reel 2 (former call number: *MGZT 7-84, reel 2; one sound reel (approximately 21 minutes); acetate; half-track; 7.5 ips; 7 in.; transferred to wav file and streaming file format in 2015: myd_mgzt784_v02f01_sc.
Original format: (additional archival original *MGZTO 5-2067; former call number: *MGZTO 5-84) one sound reel (approximately 21 minutes); polyester; half-track; 3.75 ips; 5 in. transferred to wav file and streaming file format in 2015: myd_mgzto584_v01f01_sc.
Original format: (additional archival original *MGZTO 7-2067 one sound reel (approximately 21 minutes; polyester; half-track; 7.5 ips; 7 in. transferred to wav file and streaming file format in 2015: myd_mgzto72067_v01f01_sc.
- Local Note
Preservation funded by the National Initiative to Preserve American Dance.
*MGZTC 3-2067 (Former classmark)
- Connect to:
- Added Author
Horosko, Marian, interviewer.
- Added Title
Profiles (Radio program)
- Research Call Number
*MGZTO 7-2067