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Interview with Vitale Fokine

Title
  1. Interview with Vitale Fokine [sound recording].
Published by
  1. 1965.
Author
  1. Fokine, Vitale.

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FormatSpoken word recordingAccessSupervised useCall number*MGZTL 4-2047Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Dance

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Additional authors
  1. Horosko, Marian.
  2. Oral history archive.
  3. Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, 2009-2010
Description
  1. 1 sound disc (ca. 30 min.) : digital; 4 3/4 in.
Summary
  1. Vitale Fokine speaks with Marian Horosko, host of the radio series Profiles on WNYC, New York, about his father Michel Fokine, including his skill as a painter and as a mandolinist; his teaching at the Imperial Ballet School in St. Petersburg; his dissatisfaction with ballet at the time; his experiments in choreography for the graduating students; choreographing the The dying swan for Anna Pavlova; his Chopiniania (Les sylphides), including Diaghilev's role in renaming it Les sylphides; the resistance to Fokine's innovative style among certain ballerinas in St. Petersburg; his Prince Igor including an anecdote about the Tatars and the Polovetsian dances; his working method; the very favorable reception of Prince Igor at its premiere in Paris; Vitale's staging of Prince Igor [Horosko broadcasts the swan section (le cygne) of Camille Saint-Saëns' Carnival of the animals (Carnaval des animaux)]; his current activities; Michel Fokine's thoughts on modern dance, including his great admiration for Isadora Duncan, La Argentina and La Argentinita, and others; Michel's belief that even a modern dance choreographer should have substantial training in ballet.
Donor/Sponsor
  1. National Initiative to Preserve American Dance.
Uniform title
  1. Profiles (Radio program)
Subject
  1. Dying swan (Choreographic work : Fokine)
  2. Audiotapes > Fokine, V
  3. Fokine, Michel, 1880-1942
  4. Sylphides (Choreographic work : Fokin)
  5. Prince Igor (Choreographic work : Fokine)
  6. Fokine, Vitale
Call number
  1. *MGZTL 4-2047
Note
  1. Interview with Vitale Fokine conducted by Marian Horosko, as host, for the series Profiles on radio station WNYC, New York, in 1965.
  2. Sound quality is fair. The speakers' voice are clearly audible but at times the voice of the oral author is distorted due to distortion in the recording.
Funding (note)
  1. Preservation funded by the National Initiative to Preserve American Dance and the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, 2009-2010.
System details (note)
  1. Transferred from 1 sound tape reel (ca. 30 min.; 3 3/4 in. per sec.; 5 in.; polyester base, half track; originally recorded in 1965) to wav file and compact disc formats in 2010.
Author
  1. Fokine, Vitale. Interviewee
Title
  1. Interview with Vitale Fokine [sound recording].
Imprint
  1. 1965.
Funding
  1. Preservation funded by the National Initiative to Preserve American Dance and the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, 2009-2010.
System details
  1. Transferred from 1 sound tape reel (ca. 30 min.; 3 3/4 in. per sec.; 5 in.; polyester base, half track; originally recorded in 1965) to wav file and compact disc formats in 2010.
Local note
  1. Former call number: *MGZTC 3-2047
  2. Former call number: *MGZT 5-26
  3. Archival original: *MGZTO 5-26
Added author
  1. Horosko, Marian. Interviewer
  2. Oral history archive.
  3. Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, 2009-2010
Added title
  1. Profiles (Radio program)
Research call number
  1. *MGZTL 4-2047
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