Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. 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. 31 min.). Frances Pierce speaks with Don McDonagh about Martha Graham, and her relation through Graham's father, who was her uncle; the Graham family relocating from Pennsylvania to southern Calif.; her family settling in Santa Barbara in the late 1800s; Graham as a child; the Graham family's maid, Lizzie, and the attachment Graham had to her; Graham's father; Geordie, and her immaturity; pairing off with Graham as children because they got along well; the Graham children being sheltered; Graham's house in Santa Barbara.
2. Part 1, disc 2 (ca. 31 min.). Frances Pierce speaks with Don McDonagh about the high schools in Santa Barbara, Calif.; when electricity and telephones came to Santa Barbara; the fact that Graham's father retired when the family moved to Santa Barbara; Graham dancing with the Denishawn dancers, and touring through Europe and Asia; Graham's early dancing; Graham's courage in the undertaking despite negative reviews; the fact that friends and family did not understand Graham's dances; Graham visiting Santa Barbara after the death of her mother [abrupt end].

Subject

1. Graham, Martha
2. Denishawn Dancers
3. Pierce, Frances > Interviews

Call number

1. *MGZTL 4-2562

Note

1. Interview with Frances Pierce conducted by Don McDonagh on Sep. 27, 1971.
2. 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. Pierce, Frances. Interviewee

Title

1. Interview with Frances Pierce [sound recording].

Imprint

1. 1971.

Funding

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

Local note

1. Archive orig. : *MGZTCO 3-2562
2. Dubbing master : *MGZTD 4-2562, nos. 1-2

Source

1. Gift; Don McDonagh; 2007

Added author

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

Research call number

1. *MGZTL 4-2562 sound disc