Research Catalog

Title

Interview with Leon Van Dyke [and] Interview with Hershey Kay, 1965.

Author

Van Dyke, Leon

Publication

1965

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Details

Additional Authors

• Kay, Hershy
• Horosko, Marian

Description

1 sound disc (approximately 24 minutes) : digital; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

• Tracks 1-3 (approximately 13 minutes). Marian Horosko, host, on the radio program Profiles, introduces her guest Leon Van Dyke, the business manager of American Ballet Theatre; Van Dyke names some of the most significant ballets, ballet dancers, and choreographers who have worked with American Ballet Theatre; new productions for the current season including two new ballets by Agnes de Mille and Jerome Robbins' production of Les noces; reason the company's name was changed from "Ballet Theatre" to "American Ballet Theatre"; the company's classical tradition; other new productions; [Auguste Bournonville's] La sylphide and its staging by Harald Lander; the Bournonville style and American Ballet Theatre's principle of performing ballets of a particular style in that style; some of the dancers who will be performing with the company this season; the new, special programs for children; Horosko's closing remarks.
• Tracks 4-6 (approximately 11 minutes). Marian Horosko, host on the radio program Profiles, introduces her guest Hershey Kay; Kay speaks about differences between an arranger, an orchestrator and a composer; working with choreographers including George Balanchine; his ability to work with various kinds of dance and music; his working methods; his reconstruction of Grande tarantelle, a work for piano and orchestra by [Louis Moureau] Gottschalk; his work for Bentley Stone's new work L'Inconnue; Horosko's closing remarks.

Uniform Title

Profiles (Radio program)

Subjects

• Van Dyke, Leon > Interviews
• Audiotapes > Van Dyke, Leon
• Audiotapes > Hershey, K
• Arrangers (Musicians)
• Kay, Hershy > Interviews
• Music and dance

Note

• Interview with Leon Van Dyke, business manager of American Ballet Theatre (approximately 13 minutes), on March 7, 1965; and interview with Hershey Kay (approximately 11 minutes), probably also on March 7, 1965, each conducted by Marian Horosko as host, in New York City, on the series, World of Dance, on radio station WNCN-FM, New York.
• Sound quality is excellent in the first part, the interview with Leon Van Dyke. Sound quality is fair in the second part, the interview with Hershey Kay, as the recording is marred by extraneous noise. However, the speaker's voices are easily intelligible.
• Title supplied by cataloger.

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.

Call Number

*MGZTL 4-2942

OCLC

882481736

Author

Van Dyke, Leon, interviewee.

Title

Interview with Leon Van Dyke [and] Interview with Hershey Kay, 1965.

Production

1965

Type of Content

spoken word

Type of Medium

audio

Type of Carrier

audio disc

Event

Recorded by WNCN-FM, New York 1965 New York (N.Y.)

Original Version

Original format: one sound reel (approximately 24 minutes); 7 inches; 7.5 ips., mono; half-track originally recorded by WNCN-FM radio station in New York City, in 1965; transferred to wav file and compact disc formats in 2013.

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.

Added Author

Kay, Hershy, interviewee.

Horosko, Marian, host.

Added Title

Profiles (Radio program)

Research Call Number

*MGZTL 4-2942