Interview with Carlo Merlo [sound recording]
- Title
- Interview with Carlo Merlo [sound recording]
- Author
- Published by
- 1984.
- Format
- Spoken word recording
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| Status | Vol/date | Access | Call number | Item location |
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| Status Not available - Please contact a librarian for assistance. | Vol/datereel 4 | AccessRestricted use | Call number*MGZTC 3-708 [sound cassette] reel 4 | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Dance |
| Status Not available - Please contact a librarian for assistance. | Vol/datereel 3 | AccessRestricted use | Call number*MGZTC 3-708 [sound cassette] reel 3 | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Dance |
| Status Not available - Please contact a librarian for assistance. | Vol/datereel 2 | AccessRestricted use | Call number*MGZTC 3-708 [sound cassette] reel 2 | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Dance |
| Status Not available - Please contact a librarian for assistance. | Vol/datereel 1 | AccessRestricted use | Call number*MGZTC 3-708 [sound cassette] reel 1 | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Dance |
Details
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- Description
- 4 sound cassettes (5 hours)
- Donor/Sponsor
- Gift of Marlene Harding. Oral History Archive.
- Subject
- Contents
- SUMMARY: Reel 1. Mr. Merlo discusses his age and the passage of time; his injury; Symphony in C; Stars and stripes; Tchaikovsky suite no. 3; early dance training; daily schedule during New York City Ballet's season; Serenade; Afshin Mofid in L'Après-midi d'un faune; Jean-Pierre Frohlich in Apollo; Sonatine; Allegro brillante; his roles in various ballets; Agon; Peter Martins; management of New York City Ballet; Ib Andersen; Leonid and Valentina Kozlov; partnering; Balanchine choreography. Reel 2. Mr. Merlo discusses Twyla Tharp's choreography; his first meeting with Mr. Balanchine; the Prix de Lausanne; guesting with other companies; studying at the School of American Ballet with Kramarevsky; joining New York City Ballet; friendship with Princess Grace; childhood in Italy and early training. Reel 3. Mr. Merlo discusses his own choreography; moving to New York; life in the company; Rosemary Dunleavy; working with Jerome Robbins; working methods of Twyla Tharp; Lincoln Kirstein. Reel 4. Mr. Merlo discusses ballet, generally.
- Call number
- *MGZTC 3-708
- Language
- English
- Note
- Interviewed by Marlene Burns Harding June 4, 1984 in New York City.
- Author
- Merlo, Carlo. Interviewee
- Local subject
- Audiotapes -- Merlo, C.
- Added author
- Harding, Marlene Burns. Interviewer