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Additional authors

1. McDonagh, Don.
2. Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

Description

1. 2 sound discs (ca. 80 min.) : digital, stereo; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

1. Part one (ca. 47 min.). Ray Green speaks with Don McDonagh about composing music for the Martha Graham Company; how he came about scoring music for Graham's dances as an acquaintance of Louis Horst's; Graham's search for a composer and his work with Graham; scoring music for various other events; working with Louis Horst more than with Graham directly; rehearsing with Graham and Erick Hawkins at Bennington, and his impressions of Bennington; his opinion on Graham's interactions with Hawkins, and the nature of their relationship.
2. Part two (ca. 32 min.). Ray Green speaks with Don McDonagh about a much later performance in which he was asked by Ron Protas to work on the music for a re-enactment of American document; seeing the interpretation of the dance and deciding to pull out of the project; his opinions of Ron Protas; his interactions with Martha Graham in later years; his relationship with Graham; May O'Donnell's later work, including Suspension, and O'Donnell's principal dancers; ends the interview by giving his opinions of working with Graham [abrupt end].

Subject

1. Green, Ray, 1908-1997 > Interviews
2. Graham, Martha > Influence
3. O'Donnell, May, 1906-2004
4. Protas, Ron
5. Horst, Louis
6. Hawkins, Erick
7. Graham, Martha
8. Martha Graham Dance Company
9. Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance
10. Bennington School of the Dance
11. Suspension (Choreographic work : O'Donnell)

Call number

1. *MGZTL 4-2525

Note

1. Interview with Ray Green conducted by Don McDonagh on July 14, 1993.
2. Recording quality is poor with the presence of humming noise; each disc ends abruptly.
3. Open as of August 22, 2012.

Funding (note)

1. Recording was preserved through a grant from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

Source (note)

1. Don McDonagh ;

Author

1. Green, Ray, 1908-1997. Interviewee

Title

1. Interview with Ray Green [sound recording].

Imprint

1. 1993.

Funding

1. Recording was preserved through a grant from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

Local note

1. Archive orig. : *MGZTCO 3-2525, nos. 1-2
2. Dubbing master : *MGZTD 4-2525, nos. 1-2

Source

1. Gift; Don McDonagh ; 2007

Added author

1. McDonagh, Don. Interviewer
2. McDonagh, Don. Donor
3. Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

Research call number

1. *MGZTL 4-2525 sound disc