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Additional authors

1. Horosko, Marian.
2. Carey, Benita.

Description

1. 1 sound disc (ca. 45 min.): digital; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

1. Vera Nemchinova speaks with Marian Horosko about her [second] husband Anatole Oboukhoff including how she first met him when he joined her company in Paris; (briefly) her training with [Ekaterina Ivanovna] Nedidova and [Elizabeth] Anderson; seeing Oboukhoff dance when she was a girl; (briefly) their partnership including the period spent in Kaunas; more on her training; her family background; joining the Ballets russes after being seen by Serge Grigoriev; dancing in the Ballets russes including on tour in New York City; a performance anecdote about Boutique fantasque; leaving the Ballets russes in 1926 to perform in [Leonide] Massine's Cochoran's revue; briefly, her first husband, Nicolas Zverev [Zvereff]; her short tenure in [Mikhail] Mordkin's company; forming her own company; touring with the Ballets russes de Monte Carlo; coming to the U.S. with her husband Oboukhoff who became a teacher [at the School of American Ballet]; her own teaching. [Interview concludes at ca. 1:00 into track 8; the remaining ca. 5 min. consists of a conversation between Horosko and Benita Carey about the interview including with respect to an anecdote about Nemchinova, Diaghilev, and her costume for Les biches.]

Subject

1. Oboukhoff, Anatole
2. Audiotapes > Nemchinova, V
3. Ballets russes
4. Audiotapes > Carey, B
5. Nemchinova, Vera

Call number

1. *MGZTL 4-482

Note

1. Interview with Vera Nemchinova [sometimes also transliterated as Nemtchinova] conducted by Marian Horosko as research for a series of articles entitled "In the shadow of Russian tradition" which appeared in Dance magazine beginning in 1971; the article on Vera Nemchinova was published in the Feb. 1972 issue. The final ca. 5 min. of the recording consists of a conversation between Horosko and Benita Carey about the interview.
2. Sound quality is good overall except for tracks 8-9, which is fair. Following a short gap at the end of track 2, there is some distortion but overall the speakers' voices are intelligible. There are also several short gaps.

Source (note)

1. Marian Horosko.

Author

1. Nemchinova, Vera. Interviewee

Title

1. Interview with Vera Nemchinova [sound recording].

Imprint

1. [1971 or 1972?]

Original version

1. Original format: one sound reel, side 1 (ca. 45 min.; 1.875 in. per sec.; polyester; 5"; half-track; originally recorded around but not later than 1972). transferred to wav file and compact disc formats in 2012. The tape was re-spooled onto a 7 in. reel.

Local note

1. Former classmark: *MGZT 5-482

Source

1. Gift; Marian Horosko.

Added author

1. Horosko, Marian. Interviewer
2. Carey, Benita.
3. Horosko, Marian. Donor

Research call number

1. *MGZTL 4-482