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301. Deems Taylor collection of broadcast recordings

Description:
The collection contains acetate and radio transcription disc recordings primarily of Taylor's spoken word radio programs dating from 1935 to 1954. Included are samples of his work on shows such as Information Please, Coronet, Swift's Studio Party, as well as special radio shows such as the ASCAP Cavalcade of Music, and memorial tributes to Stephen Vincent Benet and Jerome Kern.
Content types:
Sounds
Formats:
Disc (Commercial, Homemade, Transcription)
Extent:
90 recordings
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Online finding aid:
View on archives.nypl.org

302. Destination freedom : the sorrow songs.

Description:
A radio dramatization based on the story of the birth of the spirituals; script by Richard Durham. Spirituals sung by the Progressive Baptist Church Senior Choir.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Online finding aid:
View on catalog.nypl.org

303. Dimitri Mitropoulos conducts Choral symphony no. 9 : radio broadcast, 1955-04-17 / music by Beethoven ; text by Schiller.

Description:
Frances Yeend, soprano ; Martha Lipton, mezzo-soprano ; David Lloyd, tenor ; Mack Harrell, baritone ; Westminster Choir ; John Finley Williamson, choir conductor ; New York Phiharmonic Symphony Orchestra ; Dimitri Mitropoulos, conductor.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Online finding aid:
View on catalog.nypl.org

320. Dmitri Mitropoulos conducts Elijah : radio broadcast, 1952-04-13 / Mendelssohn.

Description:
Frances Greer, soprano ; Martha Lipton, mezzo-soprano ; Richard Tucker, tenor ; Desire Ligeti, bass-baritone ; Westminster Choir ; John Finley Williamson, choir director ; New York Philharmonic Orchestra ; Dmitri Mitropoulos, conductor.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
2 recordings
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Online finding aid:
View on catalog.nypl.org

326. Ed Wynn, as Gulliver the traveler. 1936-02-20

Description:
Ed Wynn (as Gulliver the traveller) ; John S. Young ; the King's Men ; Lennie Hayton and his orchestra.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
2 recordings
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Online finding aid:
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327. Ed Wynn, as Gulliver the traveler. 1936-04-09

Description:
Ed Wynn as Gulliver, John S. Young, the King's Men, Lennie Hayton and his orchestra, John MacIntyre, broadcast announcer.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Online finding aid:
View on catalog.nypl.org

329. Elias Tanenbaum

Description:
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.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Online finding aid:
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333. Excerpts from an Ira Gershwin tribute on the Jonathan Schwartz radio program

Description:
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.
Content types:
Sounds
Formats:
Audiocassette
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Online finding aid:
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339. Frederick Block radio broadcast, Aug. 29, 1946 [sound recording] : String quartet, op 23.

Description:
Announcement (1:06) -- String quartet: Allegro (6:54) ; Molto vivace (2:32) ; Allegretto (8:12) ; Andante moderato (6:23) -- Announcement (0:48) -- Unidentified music work (2:32) -- Announcement (0:14).
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Online finding aid:
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342. Frederick Block radio broadcast, Feb. 24, 1951

Description:
Lotte Landau, Bertha Pritikin (?), Clyde Ellzey piano ; Nathan Stutch, cello ; Christine Nazzi, flute.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Online finding aid:
View on catalog.nypl.org

343. Frederick Block radio broadcast, Jan. 10, 1946

Description:
1st work: Hermann Busch, cello ; Isadore Gorn, piano ; 2nd work: Doris Doree, soprano ; strings from WQXR Orchestra ; Yascha Zayde, conductor.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Online finding aid:
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348. Frederick Block radio broadcast, Oct. 8, 1950

Description:
Siegfried Landau, Sina Berlynn (formerly known as Berlinski), Jonathan Brice, piano ; Annemarie Rissland, soprano ; Kenneth Spencer, bass.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Online finding aid:
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350. George Perle

Description:
Martin Bookspan interviews composer and music theorist George Perle. Perle discusses his background, his career as a composer, and his influences.The composer talks about his article on Webern's 12-tone sketches, and explains the 12-tone system that he uses in his music in some detail. He talks about the influence of Berg and Stravinsky in his composition, but though he uses aspects of their methods in his own composing, he never adoptes them fully. He speaks about the meaning of avant-garde and new classical music in past and today, and compares it to "conservative music." He discusses the opera Lulu by Alban Berg. The composer introduces each of the following works, which are then played in their entierty: String quartert no. 5, Solo partita (for violin and viola), Serenade no. 1 (for solo viola and chamber orchestra).
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Online finding aid:
View on catalog.nypl.org

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