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Additional authors

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

Description

1. 2 sound discs (ca. 62 min.) : digital, stereo; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

1. Part 1, disc 1 (ca. 32 min.). Sol Hurok speaks with Don McDonagh about representing Martha Graham's company on tour; admiration of Graham as both a person and a dancer; losing money touring Graham's company due to limited audience turn out; general misunderstanding of Graham's work; anecdotes of scraping paint from a stage in order to please Graham; his desire to have modern dance companies succeed; losing money in the two seasons while representing Graham and company; touring Katherine Dunham and the success of African American dance companies; touring Graham's company first class, and the company's appreciation; Erick Hawkins and his role with the Graham company, and Graham's relationship with him; Katharine Cornell and her relationship with Graham; anecdotes of his relationship with Graham; Graham's charm and personality; Graham's dedication to dance, and her lack of concern for financial rewards; Graham's relationship with Bethsabee de Rothschild, and Graham's dedication in creating the dance company in Israel; ticket prices for ballet in New York in the 1970s; difference between classical and modern dance companies.
2. Part 1, disc 2 (ca. 32 min.). Sol Hurok speaks with Don McDonagh about Martha Graham as the high priestess of modern dance, citing Graham's dance as a religious experience; inability to continue his representation of Graham due to funding limitations; Graham's ability to tour twenty years after the first tours, and the success of those subsequent tours; Graham's problems with alcohol abuse; Graham's students in Israel; costs of touring the Royal Ballet in NY in the 1970s; costs associated with, and touring National Ballet of Canada in the U.S.

Subject

1. Impresarios
2. Hurok, Sol, 1888-1974 > Interviews
3. Royal Ballet
4. National Ballet of Canada
5. Hawkins, Erick
6. Graham, Martha

Call number

1. *MGZTL 4-2548

Note

1. Interview with Sol Huork conducted by Don McDonagh on May 5, 1972.
2. Recording conducted in a restaurant, making words difficult to decifer in certain sections; 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. Hurok, Sol, 1888-1974. Interviewee

Title

1. Interview with Sol Hurok [sound recording].

Imprint

1. 1972.

Funding

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

Local note

1. Archive orig. : *MGZTCO 3-2548, nos. 1-2
2. Dubbing master : *MGZTD 4-2548, 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 4-2548 sound disc