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Additional authors

1. Alejandro, Reynaldo G.

Description

1. 1 sound disc (ca. 38 min.) : digital; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

1. [Begins abruptly.] Robert Scevers speaks about first meeting Rebekah Harkness; working with Harkness, at Watch Hill (R.I.) and in France; performing at the White House with the Harkness Ballet; the Harkness Youth Company, including Patricia Neary's relationship with the Company; leaving the Company and moving to Chicago; working with Neary in Berlin and Geneva; working with Nikita Talin at SMU [Southern Methodist University] and as artistic director of the Beaumont Civic Ballet; Talin's and Scever's returning to work with Harkness to reinvigorate the Harkness Ballet School; Scever's work with Raymond [Wilson?] for Harkness to create a body of music for ballet classes, including music composed by Harkness; reasons for Harkness's difficulties with artists she employed and with the press in New York; David Howard and his relationship with Harkness; Donald Saddler's ballet Cindy [discussion of speakers' location, which seems to be outside of Harkness's house at Sneden's Landing, in New York State; ends abruptly].

Donor/Sponsor

1. Oral History Archive.
2. New York State Council on the Arts, 2000-2001.

Subject

1. Harkness Ballet
2. Scevers, Robert
3. Ballet music
4. Harkness, Rebekah West, -1982
5. Audiotapes > Scevers, R
6. Harkness Ballet School

Call number

1. *MGZTL 4-2316

Note

1. Interview with Robert Scevers conducted on Jan. 3, 1979 by Reynaldo G. Alejandro. A second man, addressed as Raymond [Raymond Wilson?], who appears to be a composer and pianist associated with the Harkness Ballet, also participates in the interview. The interview seems to have been conducted in a moving car, en route from New York City to Rebekah Harkness's house in New York State.
2. The sound quality is severely marred by extraneous noise, but for the most part, the speakers are easily audible.

Funding (note)

1. Preservation was funded in part with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, 2000-2001.

Author

1. Scevers, Robert. Interviewee

Title

1. Interview with Robert Scevers [sound recording].

Imprint

1. 1979.

Funding

1. Preservation was funded in part with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, 2000-2001.

Local note

1. Archive original: *MGZTCO 2-2316 (microcassette)
2. Preservation master: *MGZTP 4-2316
3. Dubbing master: *MGZTD 4-2316

Local subject

1. Audiotapes -- Scevers, R.
2. Ballet music.

Added author

1. Alejandro, Reynaldo G. Interviewer

Research call number

1. *MGZTL 4-2316 [sound disc]