Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Terry, Walter

Description

1. 2 sound discs (approximately 38 minutes.): digital; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

1. Disc 1, approximately 31 minutes. [Walter Terry, the interviewer, announces the time and place of the interview.] Mary Watkins Cushing speaks with Terry about how she became a dance critic; her book The rainbow bridge (1954) about Olive [Anna Olivia] Fremstadt; brief discussion of Martha Graham, Helen Tamiris, and Doris Humphrey including each as a dancer; Charles [Weidman]; Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn, including Terry's book, entitled Miss Ruth; Isadora Duncan including Cushing's impressions of Duncan's dancing La Marseillaise; very briefly Mary Wigman; how being female influenced her dance criticism, in particular in the early days of her career; discussion of matters unrelated to dance.
2. Disc 2, approximately 7 minutes. [Begins abruptly.] Mary Watkins Cushing and Walter Terry speak about John [Martin?]; very briefly Ruth Page; some of her ideas for books; briefly, Olive Fremstadt including the poor quality of her recordings; Geraldine Ferrar.

Subject

1. Terry, Walter
2. Audiotapes > Cushing, M
3. Dance critics
4. Cushing, Mary Watkins

Call number

1. *MGZTL 4-816

Note

1. Interview with Mary Watkins Cushing conducted by Walter Terry on August 20, 1974 in New Canaan, Connecticut. Although the conversation is structured as an interview, Terry frequently speaks of his own experiences with respect to the topics discussed as well as about his own writing.
2. Sound quality is fair overall. There is significant ambient noise, but the speakers' voices are easily audible. Disc 2 is also marred by a continuous extraneous hiss probably due to deterioration of the original recording.

Funding (note)

1. 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.

Author

1. Cushing, Mary Watkins, interviewee.

Title

1. Interview with Mary Watkins Cushing. August 20, 1974.

Production

1. 1974

Type of content

1. spoken word

Type of medium

1. audio

Type of carrier

1. audio disc

Event

1. Recorded by Walter Terry 1974, August 20 New Canaan, Connecticut

Funding

1. 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.

Original version

1. Original format: one sound cassette (approximately 38 minutes); 1 7/8 ips. originally recorded on August 20, 1974; transferred to wav file and compact disc formats in 2013.

Local note

1. Former classmark: *MGZTC 3-816

Added author

1. Terry, Walter, interviewer.

Research call number

1. *MGZTL 4-816