2 streaming audio files (approximately 41 minutes): digital
Summary
Streaming audio file 1 (approximately 27 minutes). James Lyons introduces his guests Anne Hutchinson and Myrna Shedlin; Hutchinson and Shedlin speak with James Lyons about notating the dances in the musical comedies, Camelot, Kiss me Kate, and My fair lady; what dance notation is; Labanotation; notating George Balanchine's ballets, in particular Theme and variations; the reasons more ballets are not notated; the use of dance notation for copyright protection and royalties; Balanchine's ballet Serenade; the activities and goals of the Dance Notation Bureau; works by Balanchine and others that have been notated in whole or in part [ends abruptly but continues on streaming audio file 2].
Streaming audio file 2 (approximately 14 minutes). Anne Hutchinson and Myrna Shedlin speak with James Lyons about notating Martha Graham's works; the challenge of persuading choreographers of the value of notation; notation and musical comedies; more on the Dance Notation Bureau including membership; teaching Labanotation to the young; the use of movement notation in fields other than dance [James Lyons' closing remarks].
Interview with Ann Hutchinson and Myrna Shedlin conducted by James Lyon as host for radio station WNYC for its series, Today in ballet; recorded and broadcast on December 9, 1960. Ann Hutchinson was president of the Dance Notation Bureau, New York; Myrna Shedlin was chairman of the board of the Dance Notation Bureau.
The sound quality is excellent.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Access (note)
Access only on site at the research libraries of The New York Public Library.
Funding (note)
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.
Author
Guest, Ann Hutchinson, interviewee.
Title
Interview with Ann Hutchinson and Myrna Shedlin, 1960.
Imprint
1960.
Type of content
spoken word
Type of medium
audio
Type of carrier
online resource
Digital file characteristics
audio file
Event
recorded by WNYC for its series, Today in ballet recorded and broadcast on December 9, 1960 New York (N.Y.)
Funding
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.
Restricted access
Access only on site at the research libraries of The New York Public Library.
Original version
Original format: two sound reels (approximately 41 minutes); acetate; full-track, 7.5 ips; 7 in.; transferred to wav file and streaming file format in 2015: myd_mgzto717_v01f01_sc and myd_mgzto717_v02f01_sc.
Local note
Former call number: *MGZTC 3-17
Local note
*MGZT 7-17 (Former classmark)
Archival original: *MGZTO 7-17; 7 1/2 in per sec.; 2 reels (7 in.); acetate, full track. Restored and rehoused in 2015 following water damage.
Dubbing master: *MGZTD 10-17; 7 1/2 in per sec.; 10 in. reel; polyester.
Preservation funded by the National Initiative to Preserve American Dance.