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Additional authors

1. Gruen, John
2. Dlugoszewski, Lucia, 1931-2000.

Description

1. 1 sound cassette (54 min.) : analog, mono.

Summary

1. Summary: Erick Hawkins discusses his new work, Parson Weems and the cherry tree; his dance training; studying and working with George Balanchine; dancing in the Martha Graham Company; his own choreography; the development of his particular dance aesthetic. Recordings are played of selections from Lords of Persia by Lucia Dlugoszewski, the score for Mr. Hawkins' dance of the same name, and of the second movement of Virgil Thomson's Symphony no. 2, used for Hawkins' dance Hurrah!

Donor/Sponsor

1. Oral History Archive. Gift of John Gruen.
2. National Initiative to Preserve American Dance.

Uniform title

1. Sound of dance (Radio program)

Subject

1. Audiotapes > Hawkins, E
2. Lords of Persia (Choreographic work : Hawkins)
3. Hurrah! (Choreographic work : Hawkins)
4. Parson Weems and the cherry tree (Choreographic work : Hawkins)

Call number

1. *MGZTC 3-714

Note

1. Host: John Gruen. Broadcast April 9, 1978 by radio station WNCN-FM, New York on its series The sound of dance.

Author

1. Hawkins, Erick. Interviewee

Title

1. Interview with Erick Hawkins [sound recording]

Imprint

1. 1978.

Local note

1. Archival original: *MGZTO 10-714; 7 1/ in. per. sec.; 10 in. reel; polyester, full-track.
2. Dubbing master: *MGZTD 10-714; 7 1/2 in, per. sec.; 10 in. reel; polyester, full-track
3. Preservation funded by the National Initiative to Preserve American Dance.

Local subject

1. Audiotapes -- Hawkins, E.

Added author

1. Gruen, John. Interviewer
2. Dlugoszewski, Lucia, 1931-2000. Lords of Persia. Selections.

Added title

1. Sound of dance (Radio program)

Research call number

1. *MGZTC 3-714