Leonide Massine's Three-Cornered Hat

The NYPR Archive Collections | Jan 1, 2000

Announcer Rex Benware makes introductory remarks. Irving Deakin discusses the opening (last night) of the Monte Carlo Ballet Russe at the Metropolitan Opera house its first American engagement. He talks about Leonide Massine, his biography to-date, how busy and trim he is and how he could have become another Fred Astaire, had he wanted. Deakin plays a musical excerpt from Massine's ballet Gay Parisienne.

Massine talks briefly about the Music and Ballet radio program, and his new ballets, St. Francis (Noblissima visione), Beethoven's Seventh Symphony, Bogatyri, and Gaîté parisienne. Massine says sleep makes him lazy, so he does not over indulge. in it.

Deakin talks about Massine's ballet The Three-Cornered Hat and plays excerpts from the ballet's music by Manuel de Falla.


Closing remarks and announcements.

(ca. 32 min.).

Audio courtesy of the NYPL Dance Division.


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