1 streaming audio file (approximately 29 minutes) : digital
Summary
Streaming audio file (approximately 29 minutes). [Music and introduction to program by unidentified speaker.] Walter Terry introduces Jean Rosenthal, lighting designer for dance companies, opera, and the commercial theater. Jean Rosenthal speaks about the first time she designed the lighting for a dance concert, for Martha Graham's Letter to the world; Martha Graham's skillful use of light; Rosenthal's ideas regarding the role of lighting in a dance production; the different kinds of lighting she uses for ballets and for modern dance works, in particular George Balanchine's Allegro brillante and Serenade as compared to Martha Graham's Appalachian spring and Alcestis; working with Martha Graham as compared with working with Balanchine on the lighting, for example as in the case of his work Orpheus; her work for the commercial theater including the musical comedies I do, I do and The apple tree; (very briefly) her work for opera; differences between lighting a ballerina and a modern dancer portraying a character; Martha Graham's and Ruth St. Denis' awareness of how to use lighting to their advantage; light tones that complements one's skin and hair colors. [Closing remarks by unidentified speaker and music.] lighting to complement one's coloring.
Interview with Jean Rosenthal, conducted by Walter Terry, as host; broadcast on January 29, 1967 by radio station WNYC, New York, on its series Invitation to dance.
The sound quality is very good.
The processing and cataloging of this recording was made possible in part by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature. The support of the National Endowment for the Arts is also gratefully acknowledged.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Access (note)
Access only on site at the research libraries of The New York Public Library.
Author
Rosenthal, Jean, 1912-1969, interviewee.
Title
Interview with Jean Rosenthal : lighting design for the dance, 1967.
Imprint
1967.
Type of content
spoken word
Type of medium
audio
Type of carrier
online resource
Digital file characteristics
audio file
Event
Recorded for and broadcast by radio station WNYC, New York for its program Invitation to dance Broadcast on January 29, 1967 New York (N.Y.)
Restricted access
Access only on site at the research libraries of The New York Public Library.
Original version
Original format: one sound reel (approximately 29 minutes); acetate; full-track; 7.5 ips; 7 in.; transferred to wav file and streaming file format in 2015: myd_mgzto793_v01f01_sc
Local note
Former call number: *MGZTC 3-93
Former call number: *MGZT 7-93
Local note
Archival original: *MGZTO 7-93; 7 1/2 in. per sec.; 7 in. reel; acetate. Restored and rehoused in 2015 following water damage.
Dubbing master: *MGZTD 10-93; 7 1/2 in. per sec.; 10 in. reel; polyester.
Preservation funded by the National Initiative to Preserve American Dance.