Martin Bookspan interviews American contemporary music composer Elias Tanenbaum. Tanenbaum talks about his career as a composer, and the wide variety of musical styles that he writes; about his special interest in electronic and serial music composition; and about non-western and Western European influences on his works. The composer discusses in detail each of the following works, excerpts of which are then played during the interview: Patterns and improvisations (for brass quintet and tape) (1969); and electronic music created on the Arp synthesizer with soprano voice (Arp art: Blue fantasy, Movements, Contrasts, For the "Bird") (1973). For the "Bird" includes recorded excerpts played by alto saxophonist Charlie "Bird" Parker.
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Sounds
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1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Contains excerpts from a radio program in which Jonathan Schwartz plays recordings of various songs written by Ira Gershwin as a tribute to the lyricist, and comments on them. Program is incomplete.
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Sounds
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Audiocassette
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1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Sina Berlynn (formerly known as Berlinski), piano ; Annemarie Rissland, soprano ; David Weber, Milton Moskowitz, clarinet ; Raymond Sabinsky, viola ; Manfred Hecht, baritone.
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Sounds
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1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Sina Berlinski (later known as Berlynn), pianot ; June Natelson, soprano ; Milton Moskowitz, clarinet ; Kenneth Spencer, bass ; Jonathan Brice, Walter Taussig, piano.
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Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center