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Additional authors

1. Nathanson, Lucile Brahms.

Description

1. 1 sound disc (ca. 30 min.): digital; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

1. Interview 2 (tracks 4-6, ca. 15 min.). Daniel Nagrin speaks with Lucile Brahms Nathanson about Helen Tamiris's disillusionment upon the break-up of the Federal Dance Project; her subsequent wok with Nagrin in Broadway theater and their personal relationship; his dislike of Broadway theater and moving towards solo performances; his fulfillment as a solo artist; unrealized artistic goals, including filming dance and working with musicians to transpose his ideas in dance into music; the circumstances of the establishing of the Nagrin Studio at SUNY [State University of New York] in Brockport, N.Y.; recent theatrical activities and his current lack of concrete projects.

Donor/Sponsor

1. Oral history archive.
2. New York State Council on the Arts, 2007-2008

Subject

1. Audiotapes > Nagrin, D
2. Tamiris, Helen, 1905-1966
3. Nagrin, Daniel

Call number

1. *MGZTL 4-1235

Note

1. Two interviews with Daniel Nagrin conducted one week apart by Lucile Brahms Nathanson for WHPC-FM, the radio station of Nassau Community College, on its series Making the dance scene, ca. 1970. The second interview is a continuation of the first.

Additional formats (note)

1. Interview 1 (tracks 1-4, ca. 15 min.). Daniel Nagrin speaks with Lucile Brahms Nathanson about how he first became interested in dance, beginning with his attempts to learn social dancing; his discovery of ethnic music; his first teachers, including Ray Moses; his scholarship to study with Martha Graham; working with Anna Sokolow; the Federal Dance Project; working with Helen Tamiris, including her influence on him.

Funding (note)

1. Preservation was funded in part with public funds from theNational Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts, 2007-2008.

Source (note)

1. Lucile Brahms Nathanson.

Author

1. Nagrin, Daniel. Interviewee

Title

1. Interview with Daniel Nagrin [sound recording].

Imprint

1. [ca. 1970].

Additional formats

1. Interview 1 (tracks 1-4, ca. 15 min.). Daniel Nagrin speaks with Lucile Brahms Nathanson about how he first became interested in dance, beginning with his attempts to learn social dancing; his discovery of ethnic music; his first teachers, including Ray Moses; his scholarship to study with Martha Graham; working with Anna Sokolow; the Federal Dance Project; working with Helen Tamiris, including her influence on him.

Funding

1. Preservation was funded in part with public funds from theNational Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts, 2007-2008.

Local note

1. Dubbing master: *MGZTD 4-1235
2. Archive original: *MGZTCO 3-1235

Source

1. Gift. Lucile Brahms Nathanson. NN-PD

Local subject

1. Audiotapes -- Nagrin, D.

Added author

1. Nathanson, Lucile Brahms. Interviewer
2. Nathanson, Lucile Brahms. Donor

Research call number

1. *MGZTL 4-1235 [sound disc]