Martin Bookspan interviews American composer of contemporary classical music Robert Moevs. Moevs talks about his teachers, Walter Piston and Nadia Boulanger; about both of his careers, as a teacher at Harvard University and Rutgers University, and as a composer; and about his students. He discusses each of the following works, excerpts of which are then played during the interview: Attis (text by G. Catullus Veronensis) (1958), A brief mass (for chorus, organ, vibraphone, guitar, and double bass) (1968), Phoenix (for solo piano )(1971), Et occidentem illustra (Dante) (for chorus and orchestra, based on Divina commedia by Dante Alighier) (1964).
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Repository/Collector Type:
Municipal
City:
New York
State:
New York
Country:
United States
Extent:
1 recording
Content types:
Sounds
Historical relevance:
Broadcast on radio station WNYC, New York, N.Y., Jan. 22, 1973.