This recording is an excerpted rehearsal of Act 1 of the Broadway play "The West Side waltz", starring Katharine Hepburn, Dorothy Loudon, David Margulies and Regina Baff. The play also features excerpts of music arranged for piano, piano/violin, and piano/violin/guitar.
[Part 1, Act 1, scenes 1-2] Music excerpts: [Unidentified violin music] (2 times) -- My mother's exercise/Scales (piano) -- Du und du: version 1 (piano) ; versions 2-4 (piano and violin) / Johann Strauss Jr. -- School for Velocity: op. 299, no. 31 / C. Czerny -- [Beginning] Flight of the bumblebee (2 times) (piano) / Rimsky-Korsakov -- Piano concerto (BWV 1052) (movement no. 1, lyrical section) (piano) / J. S. Bach -- Flight of the bumblebee (piano and violin) / Rimsky-Korsakov.
[Part 2, Act 1, scene 3] Music excerpts: [Unidentified violin music] -- Twinkle, twinkle, little star (Variations) (piano, guitar and violin) / W. A. Mozart [ends abruptly]
Call number
*LTC-A 1390
Note
Title from original audiocassette label.
"Act 1; West Side waltz'"--From original audiocassette label.
Access (note)
Access via streaming audio restricted to onsite at New York Public Library secure reading rooms.
Source (note)
Billy Rose Theatre Division, Katharine Hepburn papers, 1854-1997 (bulk 1928-1994);
Linking entry (note)
Forms part of: Katharine Hepburn audiovisual materials, *L(Special) 08-31.
Author
Thompson, Ernest, 1949-
Title
The West Side waltz : Act 1 rehearsal / play by Ernest Thompson.
Production
[1981]
Playing time
004213 001558
Type of content
spoken word
Type of medium
audio
computer
Type of carrier
online resource
Performer
Katharine Hepburn (Margaret Mary Elderdice) ; Dorothy Loudon (Cara Vamum) ; David Margulies (Serge Dabrinsky) ; Regina Baff (Robin Bird) ; with pre-recorded piano, violin and guitar music excerpted tracks.
Event
Recording Ethel Barrymore Theatre, New York, N. Y. [1981]
Access
Access via streaming audio restricted to onsite at New York Public Library secure reading rooms.
Original version
Archival original: (1 audiocassette : analog, stereo) in *LTC-A 1390.
Linking entry
Forms part of: Katharine Hepburn audiovisual materials, *L(Special) 08-31.
Local note
Preservation files: (2 audio files : digital, WAV file, 96 kHz, 24 bit), in long term storage, Digital Library Processing server [myh_ltca1390_v01f01_em (part 1) and myh_ltca1390_v01f02_em (part 2)]
Source
Separated from; Billy Rose Theatre Division, Katharine Hepburn papers, 1854-1997 (bulk 1928-1994); 2007.