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Interview with Rebekah West Harkness, 1965

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Interview with Rebekah West Harkness, 1965

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Title
Interview with Rebekah West Harkness, 1965
Additional title: Invitation to dance (Radio program)
Names
Harkness, Rebekah West, -1982 (Interviewee)
Terry, Walter (Interviewer)
Collection

Dance Audio Archive

Dates / Origin
Date Created: 1965-11-02
Library locations
Jerome Robbins Dance Division
Shelf locator: *MGZTO 7-83
Topics
Harkness, Rebekah West, -1982 -- Interviews
Rebekah Harkness Foundation
Harkness Ballet
Macumba (Choreographic work : Ailey)
Genres
Interviews
Notes
Content: Interview with Rebekah West Harkness conducted by Walter Terry, as host; recorded on November 2, 1967, for broadcast by radio station WNYC, New York, on its series Invitation to dance.
Funding: 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.
Venue: Recorded by radio station WNYC, New York for its program Invitation to dance November 2, 1966 New York (N.Y.)
Content: [Sound of Walter Terry testing the microphone and ambient noise.]
Physical Description
Audiotape reel
Extent: 1 audiotape reel (approximately 26 minutes) : analog, 7.5 ips, polyester, half-track, 7 in.
The sound quality is fair. The volume of Rebekah Harkness' voice is low. However, her words are easily intelligible.
Description
Walter Terry introduces Rebekah Harkness, president of the Rebekah Harkness Foundation, noting her recent founding of a ballet company, the Harkness Ballet, and of a school, Harkness House for Ballet Arts (New York, N.Y.), as well as her background as a composer and a patron of the arts. Rebekah West Harkness speaks with Terry about her development as a composer and her musical studies; an anecdote about her dancing in public and her father; her varied activities in support of the art of ballet; her goals in founding the Harkness Ballet Company and Harkness House; the physical facilities, faculty, curriculum and trainee program at Harkness House; and her own composition, Macumba suite, to which Alvin Ailey is choreographing a ballet of the same title for the Harkness Ballet. [The recording ends with Terry's stating that he is about to air an excerpt from the music Macumba suite.]
Type of Resource
Sound recording
Languages
English
Identifiers
RLIN/OCLC: 36936993
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b12117222
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 60759b70-3471-0137-ed3b-0f5b2ffc4d6f
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MLA Format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "Interview with Rebekah West Harkness, 1965" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1965. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/a6666ae0-3ba6-0134-7bc8-60f81dd2b63c

Chicago/Turabian Format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "Interview with Rebekah West Harkness, 1965" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 4, 2024. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/a6666ae0-3ba6-0134-7bc8-60f81dd2b63c

APA Format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. (1965). Interview with Rebekah West Harkness, 1965 Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/a6666ae0-3ba6-0134-7bc8-60f81dd2b63c

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Interview with Rebekah West Harkness, 1965