Glen Tetley

Desert Island Discs

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🗓️ 7 July 1979

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Roy Plomley's castaway is choreographer Glen Tetley.

Favourite track: Laudamus Te by Claudio Monteverdi Book: Earthly Paradise by Colette Luxury: South American hammock

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0:00.0	Hello, I'm Kirstie Young, and this is a podcast from the Desert Island Discs archive.
0:06.3	For Wright's reasons, we've had to shorten the music.
0:09.3	The program was originally broadcast in 1979, and the presenter was Roy Plumlee. On our desert island this week is the choreographer Glenn Tetley.
0:35.0	Mr. Tetley, are you a musician?
0:37.0	Do you read music? Have you studied music?
0:40.0	When I was very young, I studied music. I was trained when I was very young I studied music I was trained in violin and I think by age 8 was playing with a small student orchestra even playing the solo role.
0:53.0	Do you still play for your own?
0:55.0	No, no, I don't.
0:57.0	Did you find it difficult to choose just eight records to last you for a long time.
1:03.4	Very, very difficult.
1:05.2	What's the first one you have there?
1:06.8	The first one is L'Anfri Lissertels, Maurice Ravel, which is one of the first records I fell in love with when I came to New York
1:19.6	as a very young man. man. SOT Senna Gee,
1:46.2	Gee,
1:47.2	Gents and central in the moor. And then. You're going to move.
1:54.0	You're tell.
1:57.0	Come you grow,
1:59.0	You're proud.
2:00.0	You're going to do you. Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
2:05.0	Pah, the Pah by Ernest Bourne. Now Now you work in so many countries, you are of course a citizen of the United States. Which state?
2:31.0	New York City.
2:32.0	Were you born in New York City? New York City.
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