Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Cohen, Selma Jeanne, 1920-2005.
2. National Endowment for the Arts, 2009-2010.
3. New York State Council on the Arts, 2009-2010.
4. Oral history archive.

Description

1. 1 sound disc (ca. 51 min.) : digital; (4 3/4 in.)

Summary

1. [Sound is very soft for the first ca. 10 sec.] Letitia Ide speaks with Jeanne Selma Cohen about Doris Humphrey, including performing in the musical comedy Lysistrata [choreographed by Humphrey and Charles Weidman]; the tension between dancing concert works with the Humphrey-Weidman Company and performing in more commercial works on Broadway; Humphrey's stoicism during her illness; the birth of Humphrey's son; Humphrey's ability to bring out a dancer's individuality; (briefly) Humphrey's works The shakers and Dionysiaques; her work Day on earth; (briefly) Humphrey's working methods; her work Lament for Ignacio Sánchez Mejías; touring in Europe with Humphrey, including the reasons Ide thinks it was not more successful; Humphrey's devotion to her work; performing in Mexico [short gap followed by a reiteration of the last few seconds of the recording prior to the gap]; more on the European tour.

Subject

1. Audiotapes > Ide, L
2. Day on earth (Choreographic work : Humphrey)
3. Ide, Letitia
4. Humphrey, Doris
5. Lament for Ignacio Sánchez Mejías (Choreographic work : Humphrey)

Call number

1. *MGZTL 4-949 no. 15

Note

1. Interview with Letitia Ide conducted by Jeanne Selma Cohen on April 18, 1971 in New York City. This interview was conducted as part of the research for Cohen's completion of Humphrey's autobiography: Doris Humphrey: an artist first (Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1972).
2. Sound quality is fair overall but poor at times. The speakers' voices are soft and often difficult to understand. There is also occasional extraneous noise, in particular in the last ca. 2 min. of the recording.

Funding (note)

1. Preservation was funded in part by the New York State Council on the Arts, 2009-2010.

System details (note)

1. Transferred from 1 sound cassette (ca. 51 min.; 1 7/8 in. per sec.; 2 channels; originally recorded on Apr. 18, 1971) to wav file and compact disc formats in 2010.

Source (note)

1. Selma Jeanne Cohen

Author

1. Ide, Letitia. Interviewee

Title

1. Interview with Letitia Ide [sound recording].

Imprint

1. 1971.

Funding

1. Preservation was funded in part by the New York State Council on the Arts, 2009-2010.

System details

1. Transferred from 1 sound cassette (ca. 51 min.; 1 7/8 in. per sec.; 2 channels; originally recorded on Apr. 18, 1971) to wav file and compact disc formats in 2010.

Local note

1. Former call number: *MGZTC 3-949 no. 15
2. Former archival original: *MGZTCO 3-949 no. 15

Added author

1. Cohen, Selma Jeanne, 1920-2005. Interviewer
2. Cohen, Selma Jeanne. Donor
3. National Endowment for the Arts, 2009-2010.
4. New York State Council on the Arts, 2009-2010.
5. Oral history archive.

Research call number

1. *MGZTL 4-949 no. 15