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[I'm old fashioned]
- Title
- [I'm old fashioned] [videorecording]
- Publication
- [1982]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Moving image | Use in library | *MGZHB 4-2727 JRC | Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Moving image | Use in library | *MGZIA 4-6582 JRC | Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance |
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- Description
- 1 videocassette (VHS, NTSC) (6 min.) : sd., col.; 1/2 in.
- 1 reel (6 min., 224 ft.) : sd., col. ;
- Summary
- Jerome Robbins is interviewed by DeWitt Sage about his work on the ballet Variations on I'm old fashioned. The interviewer speaks from off-camera. Robbins discusses the music for the ballet, and the differences between working with a pre-existing score and working with a score created specially for a ballet; how the project began and his interactions with Fred Astaire; Astaire's choreography; why he chose a career in dance. Some questions and answers are repeated.
- Series Statement
- Jerome Robbins Collection
- Alternative Title
- Interview with Jerome Robbins
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Video.
- Note
- No time/date code on frame.
- Credits (note)
- Filmed by DeWitt Sage.
- Event (note)
- Videotaped at Jerome Robbins' home in New York City, Sept. 24, 1982.
- Funding (note)
- Preservation made possible in part with public funds from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
- Biography (note)
- Variations on I'm old fashioned is a ballet tribute to Fred Astaire, with music by Morton Gould, based on Jerome Kern's song I'm old fashioned, from the motion picture You were never lovelier (Columbia, 1942). The ballet premiered on June 16, 1983.
- This tape is one of 36 made between Sept. and Nov. 1982 for a projected documentary on the making of I'm old fashioned. DeWitt Sage, Joel Gold and John Goberman were involved in the project, which was never produced.
- Call Number
- *MGZIA 4-6582 JRC
- OCLC
- NYPT04-F29
- Title
- [I'm old fashioned] [videorecording]
- Imprint
- [1982]
- Country of Producing Entity
- U.S.
- Series
- Jerome Robbins Collection
- Credits
- Filmed by DeWitt Sage.
- Performer
- Interviewee: Jerome Robbins. Interviewer: DeWitt Sage.
- Event
- Videotaped at Jerome Robbins' home in New York City, Sept. 24, 1982.
- Funding
- Preservation made possible in part with public funds from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
- Biography
- Variations on I'm old fashioned is a ballet tribute to Fred Astaire, with music by Morton Gould, based on Jerome Kern's song I'm old fashioned, from the motion picture You were never lovelier (Columbia, 1942). The ballet premiered on June 16, 1983.This tape is one of 36 made between Sept. and Nov. 1982 for a projected documentary on the making of I'm old fashioned. DeWitt Sage, Joel Gold and John Goberman were involved in the project, which was never produced.
- Added Author
- Robbins, Jerome, interviewee.Sage, DeWitt L. Interviewer
- Other Title
- Interview with Jerome Robbins
- Research Call Number
- *MGZIA 4-6582 JRC*MGZHB 4-2727 JRC