- Description
- Two streaming audio files (approximately 57 minutes): digital
- Summary
- Streaming audio file 1 (approximately 31 minutes). Walter Terry speaks about recent performances he saw by the Martha Graham Dance Company, including Graham's works Appalachian spring, Embattled garden, Clytemnestra, Chronique (a reworking of Mendicants of evening), and Holy jungle; performances by the National Ballet (Washington, D.C.), including Valerie Bettis' Streetcar named Desire; his evaluation of the company; his evaluation of the Pennsylvania Ballet and its repertoire; the Boston Ballet and its repertoire; the Hartford Ballet; the National Ballet of Canada including his admiration for Karen Kain; Rudolf Nureyev's performances with the company including in John Neumaier's Don Juan and in Giselle; the Royal Ballet's performance of [Kenneth MacMillan's] Manon [ends abruptly but continues on streaming audio file 2].
- Streaming audio file 2 (approximately 26 minutes). Walter Terry speaks about [the Royal Ballet's performances of] La fille mal gardée and La bayadère; New York City Ballet's performance of Jerome Robbins' ballet The dybbuk; Rudolf Nureyev in [George Balanchine's] Apollo; [the Royal Ballet's] performances at the Metropolitan Opera of Kenneth MacMillan's Pavane; Frederick Ashton's Walk to the paradise garden; very briefly, John Clifford's Bartok no. 3; Eliot Feld's new company, Eliot Feld Ballet [Feld Ballet]; the company's repertoire including Feld's Sephardic song, Tzaddik, Gods amused, and Intermezzo; his evaluation of Feld as a choreographer and as a dancer.
- Donor/Sponsor
- Oral History Archive. Gift of Walter Terry.
- Subjects
- Note
- Notes recorded by Walter Terry in 1974 in New York City regarding performances he saw by the following companies: Martha Graham Dance Company; National Ballet (Washington, D.C.); Pennsylvania Ballet; Boston Ballet; Hartford Ballet; National Ballet of Canada; the Royal Ballet; and the Feld Ballet including his comments on dancers he saw, in particular Rudolf Nureyev and Karen Kain.
- Sound quality is good. There are occasional short gaps.
- 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 3-844
- OCLC
- 80654429
- Author
Terry, Walter.
- Title
Review notes. 1974 Walter Terry
- Production
1974
- Type of Content
spoken word
- Type of Medium
audio
- Type of Carrier
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 Walter Terry 1974 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 cassette (approximately 57 minutes); transferred to wav file and streaming file format in 2015: myd_mgztco3844_v01f01_sc and myd_mgztco3844_v01f02_sc.
- Local Note
Former class mark: *MGZTC 3-844
- Source
Gift Walter Terry
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- Research Call Number
*MGZTCO 3-844