- Additional Authors
- Description
- Two streaming audio files (approximately one hour and 33 minutes): digital
- Summary
- Streaming audio file 1 (approximately 46 minutes). Valentina Kachouba speaks about Serge Diaghilev and some of the artists who collaborated with him; Vaslaw Nijinsky; Romola [de Pulszky] Nijinsky; the Ballets russes tour in the United States [in 1916]; Nijinsky, including her first impressions of him; Nijinsky as a person and as a dancer.
- Streaming audio file 2 (approximately 47 minutes). Valentina Kachouba speaks (again) about her impressions of Nijinsky, as a dancer and as a person including his spirituality; her impressions of Romala Nijinsky; Leonide Massine and the making of his ballet Tricorne [Three-cornered hat]; Nijinsky and the creation of his ballet Till Eulenspiegel; Nijinsky's mental illness; Serge Diaghilev and his gift for discovering and inspiring artists; his involvement in the details of production; Diaghilev's personality; Stanislas Idzikowski as a dancer; Massine as a choreographer, as a dancer, and as a person; Diaghilev's temperament [ends abruptly].
- Donor/Sponsor
- Oral History Archive. Gift of Frederick J. Maroth.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Interviews.
- Sound recordings.
- Note
- Interview with Valentina Kachouba conducted by Frederick J. Maroth and Elena Maroth on July 11 and 12, 1979 as background for a documentary on Serge Diaghilev by Frederick J. Maroth.
- Sound quality ranges from good to poor. The voices are sometimes low and difficult to understand. Also, there are occasional extraneous noises and interruptions.
- Title supplied by cataloger.
- Access (note)
- Patrons may access streaming audio only on site at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center.
- 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.
- Source (note)
- Call Number
- *MGZTCO 3-573
- OCLC
- 78601449
- Author
Kachouba, Valentina, interviewee.
- Title
Interview with Valentina Kachouba, 1979
- Production
1979
- Type of Content
spoken word
spoken word
- Type of Medium
audio
audio
- Type of Carrier
audiocassette
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
audio file
- Restricted Access
Patrons may access streaming audio only on site at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center.
- Event
Recorded by Frederick J. Maroth 1979
- 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 cassette (approximately one hour and 33 minutes); transferred to wav file and streaming file format (myd_mgztco3573_v01f01_sc and myd_mgztco3573_v01f02_sc) in 2015.
- Local Note
Former call number: *MGZTC 3-573
- Source
Gift Frederick J. Maroth
- Connect to:
- Added Author
Maroth, Frederick J., interviewer.
Maroth, Elena, interviewer.
- Research Call Number
*MGZTCO 3-573