1 streaming audio file (approximately 30 minutes) : digital
Summary
Streaming audio file (approximately 30 minutes). Marian Horosko introduces Bertram Ross; Bertram Ross speaks with Horosko about the 18th American Dance Festival at Connecticut College: some of the works to be presented including his work Untitled; the dance faculty and the teaching of choreography at the Connecticut College School of Dance; the relationship between modern dance training and the choreographic impulse; film as a means to record dance; more on the 18th American Dance Festival at Connecticut College including the performance venue and artists and works to be presented; Paul Draper; more on Untitled including his collaboration with the composer Walter Caldon [an excerpt of the music for Untitled is played]; more on upcoming programs at the Festival; more on the faculty and students of this summer's Festival; some of the roles he has performed in Martha Graham's works; the increased opportunities for male dancers in modern dance today; his thoughts on Martha Graham technique; closing remarks.
Interview with Bertram Ross conducted by Marian Horosko, as host. Recorded at the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance in 1965 and broadcast by station WNYC, New York, on its series, World of dance.
The sound quality is good overall. The recording is marred by occasional extraneous noise.
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 supplied by cataloger.
Author
Ross, Bertram, 1920-2003, interviewee.
Title
Interview with Bertram Ross, 1965.
Imprint
1965.
Type of content
spoken word
Type of medium
audio
Type of carrier
online resource
Digital file characteristics
audio file
Event
Recorded at the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance for broadcast by radio station WNCY, New York on its series, World of Dance 1965 New York (N.Y.)
Original version
Original format: (archival original: *MGZTO 5-65): one sound reel (approximately 30 minutes); polyester; half-track; 3.75 ips; 5 in.; transferred to wav file and streaming file format in 2015: myd_mgzto565_v01f01_sc.
Original format: (additional archival original: *MGZT 7-65): one sound reel (approximately 30 minutes); acetate; half-track; 7.5 ips; 7 in.; transferred to wav file and streaming file format in 2015: myd_mgzt784_v01f01_sc.
Local note
Dubbing master: *MGZTD 10-2068; 7 1/2 in. per sec.; 10 in. reel; polyester.
Preservation funded by the National Initiative to Preserve American Dance.