2 streaming audio files (approximately 1 hour and 5 minutes): digital
Summary
Streaming audio file 1 (approximately 33 minutes). Music [during which Amanda McKerrow and Robert Hill perform the pas de deux from Antony Tudor's The leaves are fading]; Mikhail Baryshnikov speaks about Tudor including the last time he saw him; Donald Saddler speaks about Tudor and reads letters from Alicia Markova, Alicia Alonso, and Natalia Makarova; Clive Barnes speaks about Tudor's work; Mercedes Ellington speaks about Tudor during his time at the Juilliard School; Sallie Wilson speaks about Tudor as a teacher; a letter from Martha Graham is read.
Streaming audio file 2 (approximately 32 minutes). Nancy Zeckendorf, after reading a letter from a former director of American Ballet Theatre, speaks about Antony Tudor; Leo Lerman? speaks about Tudor (is unable to finish apparently due to his grief); Herbert Ross reads from Nora Kaye's writings about some of her experiences working with Tudor; Mary Farkas of the First Zen Institute of America, speaks about Tudor and Zen Buddhism; Jerome Robbins speaks about Tudor including as a teacher and a mentor; Agnes de Mille speaks about Tudor and the special qualities of his choreography.
Memorial service for Antony Tudor held on June 9, 1987 at the Juilliard School Theater, in New York (N.Y.). A video recording of the service held by the Library for the Performing Arts is cataloged under the call number: *MGZIA 4-1679.
Sound quality is good overall.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Access (note)
Access only on site at the research libraries of The New York Public Library.
Funding (note)
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
Antony Tudor memorial.
Imprint
1987.
Type of content
spoken word
Type of medium
audio
audio
Type of carrier
online resource
Digital file characteristics
audio file
Event
Recorded at the Juilliard School Theater June 9, 1987 New York (N.Y.)
Funding
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.
Restricted access
Access only on site at the research libraries of The New York Public Library.
Original version
Original format: two sound reels (approximately 1 hour and 5 minutes); full-track; 7.5 ips; 7 in.; transferred to wav file and streaming file format in 2015: myd_mgzto71023_v01f01_sc and myd_mgzto71023_v02f01_sc