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[Interview with Noel Pelly, former Administrator of the Australian Ballet] [sound recording] / [Interviewer: Michelle Potter]
Bib ID 1567217
Format AudioAudio
Author Pelly, Noel, 1926-2003
Access Conditions Access open for research, personal copies and public use. 
Description 1992. 
4 tape reels : 7 1/2 ips, stereo ; 10 in. 
Series Esso Performing Arts Collection 
Summary

Pelly speaks about his family background; his education; practising law; doing promotions for Sydney theatre productions; working for the Elizabethan Trust; establishment of the Australian Ballet; Peggy Van Praagh; management of the Australian Ballet; working as Director of Publicity for the Australian Ballet; becoming Deputy Administrator; events leading to the dancers strike in 1981; effects of the strike; buildings used by the Ballet; overseas tours; contribution of Maina Gielgud; working as Administrator; influence on Fonteyn and Nureyev; his retirement in December 1991.

Notes

Transcript available (typescript, 101 leaves)

Working duplicate and cassette copies made.

Part of a collection of oral history interviews produced by the Esso Performing Arts and Oral History Archive Project, funded by Esso Australia at the National Library of Australia.

Recorded at the National Library of Australia, Canberra on 5 and 6 March 1992.

Subjects Pelly, Noel, - 1926-2003 - Interviews.  |  Australian Ballet - History.  |  Australian Ballet - Administration.  |  Arts publicity - Australia.  |  Performing arts - Australia - Marketing.  |  Arts administrators - Australia - Interviews.
Other Authors Potter, Michelle, 1944-  |  National Library of Australia  |  Esso Australia  |  Esso Performing Arts and Oral History Archive Project
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