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Interview with Maurice Béjart, 1977

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Interview with Maurice Béjart

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Title
Interview with Maurice Béjart, 1977
Additional title: Sound of dance (Radio program)
Names
Béjart, Maurice (Interviewee)
Gruen, John (Interviewer)
Collection

Dance Audio Archive

Dates / Origin
Date Created: 1977-03-20
Library locations
Jerome Robbins Dance Division
Shelf locator: *MGZTC 3-369 Side B
Topics
Farrell, Suzanne, 1945-
Béjart, Maurice
Notre Faust (Choreographic work : Béjart)
Isadora (Choreographic work : Béjart)
Bolero (Choreographic work : Béjart)
Genres
Radio programs
Interviews
Notes
Content: Title supplied by cataloger.
Venue: Recorded for broadcast by WNCN-FM, New York 1977, March 20 New York (N.Y.)
Funding: The conservation 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.
Physical Description
Audiocassette
Extent: 1 audiocassette (approximately 1 hr., 2 min.)
Sound quality is good overall. The recording is marred by occasional distortion, but the speakers' voices are almost always easily intelligible.
Description
Interview with Maurice Béjart conducted by John Gruen, as host, for broadcast on March 20, 1977 by radio station WNCN-FM, New York on its series The sound of dance. Streaming audio file (approximately one hour and two minutes). [Begins abruptly.] John Gruen, as host, introduces Maurice Béjart; Gruen and Maurice Béjart speak about the upcoming New York performances of his company [Ballet du XXe Siecle]; his new work Notre Faust including the roles he performs; his interest in joining dance with theater; his thoughts on music; the relative status of male and female dancers in different types of dance [a recording of Maurice Ravel's Bolero, used in Béjart's ballet Bolero is played]; [commercial announcement]; Gruen and Béjart speak about his ballet Bolero; Isadora Duncan and his work Isadora; Suzanne Farrell as a person and as a dancer; how he started dancing [a recording of the last of the four songs from Gustav Mahler's Songs of a wayfarer (Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen) is played]; Gruen's closing remarks; [news and music].
Type of Resource
Sound recording
Languages
English
Identifiers
RLIN/OCLC: 78574938
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b12118141
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 41e0ec40-c259-0135-cea0-33eac2965850
Rights Statement
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  • 1977: Created
  • 2018: Digitized
  • 2025: Found by you!
  • 2026

MLA Format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "Interview with Maurice Béjart" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1977. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/ed2424d0-c323-0133-9767-60f81dd2b63c

Chicago/Turabian Format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "Interview with Maurice Béjart" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed March 19, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/ed2424d0-c323-0133-9767-60f81dd2b63c

APA Format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. (1977). Interview with Maurice Béjart Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/ed2424d0-c323-0133-9767-60f81dd2b63c

Wikipedia Citation

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Interview with Maurice Béjart