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Interview with Peter Martins

Title: Interview with Peter Martins [sound recording]
Author: Martins, Peter, 1946-
Publication: 1982.

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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Audio	Use in library	*MGZTL 4-1572	Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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Description

1 sound disc (ca. 47 min.) : digital; 4 3/4 in.

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of David Sears.
Oral History Archive.
National Endowment for the Arts, 2001-2002.

Subjects

Note

Interview with Peter Martins conducted on Aug. 26, 1982, by David Sears, primarily about Martins' book Far from Denmark, written with Robert Cornfield. Cornfield is also present and participates in the interview.
Recording is marred by extraneous noise.

Funding (note)

Preservation was made possible in part with public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, 2001-2002.

Call Number

*MGZTL 4-1572

Author

Martins, Peter, 1946- interviewee.

Title

Interview with Peter Martins [sound recording]

Imprint

1982.

Summary

Peter Martins and Robert Cornfield speak about Martins' book, Far from Denmark [written with Cornfield]; Martins speaks about George Balanchine's ballet Apollo; Martins and Cornfield speak further about Martins' book; Martins speaks about performing Auguste Bournonville's ballets in the U.S. and in Denmark; academic standards at the Royal Danish Ballet School (Copenhagen); his relationship with Balanchine; categories of dancers as described in his book; choreographing for the New York City Ballet, including his works Eight easy pieces, Suite from histoire du soldat, and The magic flute; distinguishing acting from mime; his first experience producing a complete program [at Brooklyn College]; his work Calcium light night; his work Tricolore [with Jerome Robbins and Jean-Pierre Bonnefoux].

Funding

Preservation was made possible in part with public funds from the National Endowment for the Arts, 2001-2002.

Local Note

Arch. orig.: *MGZTCO 3-1572

Preservation master: *MGZTP 4-1572

Dubbbing master: *MGZTD 4-1572

Local Subject

Audiotapes -- Martins, P.

Added Author

Cornfield, Robert, interviewee.

Sears, David, 1948-1992, interviewer.

Added Title

Gift of David Sears.

Oral History Archive.

National Endowment for the Arts, 2001-2002.

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