- Additional Authors
- Kaptzan, Kyra Lynn
- Description
- Two streaming audio files (approximately 47 minutes): digital
- Summary
- Streaming audio file 1 (approximately 30 minutes). Francesca Corkle speaks with Kyra Lynn Kaptzan about her retirement from the Joffrey Ballet; changes in the company between 1968 and 1978; working with Leonide Massine; the Joffrey repertoire; working with Gerald Arpino; diversity of roles for Joffrey company members; the company's tour to Russia [former Soviet Union]; performing Arpino's ballet, L'air d'esprit; Olga Spessivtzeva; meeting Robert Joffrey for the first time; favorite roles; Antony Tudor's ballet Offenbach in the underworld.
- Streaming audio file 2 (approximately 17 minutes). Francesca Corkle speaks with Kyra Lynn Kaptzan about her childhood; the first time she saw a performance by the Joffrey Ballet; her mother's dance career; early dance studies and performances; leaving Seattle at age 15 for New York City; scholarship with American Ballet Center; joining the Joffrey Company; teaching ballet; plans for the future.
- Donor/Sponsor
- Gift of Kyra Lynn Kaptzan.
- Oral History Archive.
- Uniform Title
- Ballet Beat (Radio program)
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Radio interviews.
- Note
- Sound quality is good.
- Interview with Francesca Corkle conducted by Kyra Lynn Kaptzan on October 8, 1978, and broadcast on October 17, 1978, for the radio program Ballet Beat on WNYU-FM.
- Title supplied by cataloger.
- Access (note)
- Patrons may access streaming audio only on site at The New York Public Library research libraries.
- 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
- *MGZTC 3-1973 (sound cassette)
- OCLC
- 40492029
- Author
Corkle, Francesca, interviewee.
- Title
Interview with Francesca Corkle, 1978
- Production
1978
- 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 research libraries.
- Event
Recorded for the program Ballet Beat on WNYU-FM 1978, October 10 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 (47 minutes); quarter-track; 1.875 ips.; transferred to wav file and streaming file format (myd_mgztco31973_v01f01_sc and myd_mgztco31973_v01f02_sc) in 2015.
- Local Note
Former call number: *MGZTC 3-1973
- Source
Gift Kyra Lynn Kaptzan
- Connect to:
- Added Author
Kaptzan, Kyra Lynn, interviewer.
- Added Title
Ballet Beat (Radio program)
- Research Call Number
*MGZTC 3-1973 (sound cassette)