This is a live 13 hour broadcast (10 A. M.-11 P. M.) of the [7th] Wall to Wall at Symphony Space, celebrating Aaron Copland's 80th birthday, with a mix of Copland's compositions and other works by American composers; WNYC radio host was unidentified. Special guest appearences: Ruth Ford, John Ashbery, [Margaret Jory] (ASCAP), Maureen Stapleton, [Edward Albee], and Pearl Lang.
Content types:
Sounds
Formats:
CD
Extent:
12 recordings
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
The collection consists of fifty one episodes from the 1946-1947 season. Most items are off-air recordings from WEAF or WNBC, New York. Episode titles are unknown unless specified.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
101 recordings
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Martin Bookspan interviews composer and teacher Allan Blank. The composer talks about his teaching experience at number of schools and universities, such as University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa; about his background, and about his career as a violinist with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, conductor, and composer. He discusses his Two studies for brass quintet, Rotation, and Thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird, based on poems by Wallace Stevens, excerpts of which are played during the interview.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Pianist and composer, Mary Lou Williams, was long regarded as the most important female musician in jazz, both as an instrumentalist and as a composer. In this interview she briefly describes some of the difficulties of being recognized as a musician in the male-dominated world of jazz. She also discusses her sacred works, which at the time of the interview were being performed at the St. Thomas church in Harlem.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Cassette contains review of New York Shakespeare Festival production Pirates of Penzance, on WBAI's radio show Anything goes, with Paul Lazarus. During the show, Lazarus played pre-recorded music selections: I am the very model of a modern Major-General / performed by Martin Green -- Willing (from Heart like a wheel) / performed by Linda Ronstadt -- Poor wandering one / performed by Jean Hindmarch.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Musical selection [Very soft shoes, from musical Once upon a mattress / lyrics by Marshall Barer ; music by Mary Rodgers] (2:40) -- Announcement (0:09) -- Musical selection [In my own lifetime, from musical The Rothschilds / lyrics by Sheldon Harnick ; music by Jerry Bock] (2:25) -- Announcement (0:48) -- Musical selection (3:04) -- Announcement (0: 34) -- Excerpts from the interview with Cy Coleman. He talks about his first experience composing music for the film Father Goose (1964) (3:50) -- Pass me by [from the film Father Goose / lyrics by Carolyn Leigh ; music by Cy Coleman] (2:00) -- Announcement (0:19) -- Musical selection, 1st song: Money isn't ev'rything, from musical Allegro / music by Richard Rogers ; lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein, II ; 2nd song: What I did for love, from musical Chorus line (first line of text: Kiss today goodbye) / music by Marvin Hamlisch ; lyric by Edward Kleban (Priscilla Lopez, singer)] (7:16) -- Announcement (1:08) -- I'd rather be a fairy than a troll (3:32) -- Announcement (0:26) -- I'll try your way, from musical Fortune (2:27) -- Announcement (0:34)
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Radio interview with American composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim. Excerpts from his music and songs composed for various films, such as I never do anything twice (from film Seven percent solution), and musicals, such as The frogs, Pacific overtures, Sweeney Todd, Merrily we roll along, are played during the interview.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
[Part 1]: Athaliah, Act 1 / H. Weisgall (48:56) -- Intermission interview with Hugo Weisgall on "Living Opera" (WNYC Radio, recorded 2/16/1964); Alan Wagner, interviewer and host) (12:30)
Content types:
Sounds
Formats:
Reel-to-reel and Streaming onsite
Extent:
2 recordings
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Edward Albano (Figaro) ; Anna Quartin (Rosina) ; Giuseppe Barsotti (Il Conte) ; Imerio Ferrari (Basilico) ; Eugenio Prosperoni (Bartolo) ; Miguel Sandoval, conductor.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
4 recordings
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
This is a live WNYC broadcast recording of Rosalyn Tureck's harpsichord and piano recital, which is the second concert of the Musica Sacra's Basically Bach Festival at Avery Fisher Hall (1979 was the first year of the festival). WNYC reporter and host Andrew Berger offers background information on each of the featured pieces, and talks about the upcoming events of the Basically Bach Festival. During intermission a pre-recorded interview of Rosalyn Tureck was played, and Berger read from Tureck's own program notes.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
3 recordings
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
This is a live WNYC broadcast recording of Rosalyn Tureck's harpsichord and piano recital, which is the second concert of the Musica Sacra's Basically Bach Festival at Avery Fisher Hall (1979 was the first year of the festival). WNYC reporter and host Andrew Berger offers background information on each of the featured pieces, and talks about the upcoming events of the Basically Bach Festival. During intermission a pre-recorded interview of Rosalyn Tureck was played, and Berger read from Tureck's own program notes.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
3 recordings
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Discs contain recording of unidentified radio broadcast of choral concert of unaccompanied Brahms songs. Includes a radio announcement (5 sec.) identifiying the pieces at the end of the recording; the announcer is unidentified.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
2 recordings
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Irmagard Seefried, soprano ; George London, bass-baritone ; Westminster Choir ; John Finley Williamson, choir director ; New York Philharmonic Orchestra ; Bruno Walter, conductor.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Seymour N. Siegel interviews Milton Helpern, Chief Medical Examiner of the City of New York at that time, about his duties, and the difference between a coroner and a medical examiner.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Martin Bookspan interviews American composer of contemporary classical music, musicologist, and flutist Claire Polin. Polin talks about the current status of women composers, and about sexism in music. She speaks about both of her careers: as a composer, and as a flutist. The composer also discusses in detail each of the following works, excerpts of which are then played during the interview: Summer settings (for harp), The journey of Owain Madoc, Consecutivo: study on a requiem (for flute/alto flute, clarinet/bass clarinet, violin, violoncello, piano) (1966), and Infinito: a requiem (for alto saxophone, soprano solo, narrator, and chorus).
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Maude Adams on Stevens College (1:13) -- Maude Adams recites prologue to Edmond Rostand's Chantecler (2:27) -- Rudy Vallee speaks with Hilaire Belloc (7:59) -- Virgil Thomson speaks about Four Saints in three acts (6:30) -- Gertrude Stein [from a 1934 radio broadcast?] (1:20) -- Fay Compton [from a 1969 television broadcast?] (3:33)
Content types:
Sounds
Formats:
Reel-to-reel and CD
Extent:
2 recordings
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
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
Contains radio broadcast recordings, studio acetates, and performance recordings collected by Paskman of his works. Included are transcription recordings of the radio program Paramount movie parade (1933-1934); two recordings of live performances of Robert Stolz' Two hearts in 3/4 time, for which Paskman wrote the lyrics; and a live recording of the premiere performance of Halloween, a musical work with narration by Paskman. Also included is an interview with Paskman conducted by Albert Brush under the auspices of the Beverly Hills Public Library, which was broadcast over radio station KPMC (Beverly Hills, CA), December 4, 1940.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
30 recordings
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Contains radio broadcast recordings, studio acetates, and performance recordings collected by Paskman of his works. Included are transcription recordings of the radio program Paramount movie parade (1933-1934); two recordings of live performances of Robert Stolz' Two hearts in 3/4 time, for which Paskman wrote the lyrics; and a live recording of the premiere performance of Halloween, a musical work with narration by Paskman. Also included is an interview with Paskman conducted by Albert Brush under the auspices of the Beverly Hills Public Library, which was broadcast over radio station KPMC (Beverly Hills, CA), December 4, 1940.
Content types:
Sounds
Formats:
Disc (Commercial, Homemade, Transcription)
Extent:
30 recordings
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
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
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
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
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
Sina Berlynn (formerly known as Berlinski), piano ; Annemarie Rissland, soprano ; David Weber, Milton Moskowitz, clarinet ; Raymond Sabinsky, viola ; Manfred Hecht, baritone.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
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.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Noble Sissle, vocals and host ; Eubie Blake, piano ; Leslie Barrett, host ; Les Davis, host ; The Harold Austin Trio ; Joan Shaw, Leontyne Watts, vocals ; Sir Charles Thompson, organ.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
2 recordings
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
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
Martin Bookspan interviews American contemporary classical music composer George Rochberg. Rochberg talks about his career as a composer and his artistic evolution; about his musical style called serialism; about neoclassicism; and about the role of composer in modern world. The composer also discusses each of the following works, excerpts of which are then played during the interview: String quartet no. 3 (third movement) (1972), and live studio performance of Carnival music: suite for piano (Fanfares & march, Blues, Largo doloroso, Sfumato, and Toccata-rag).
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
The collection consists of noncommercial sound recordings including performances by Jascha Heifetz and Larry Adler of popular chamber music; a performance of Aaron Avshalomoff's Symphony no. 2 by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra conducted by Thor Johnson; a speech by Mrs. Gilbert Chapman broadcast in 1943 promoting the American Women's Voluntary Services; and radio and television interviews with Gilbert W. Chapman and dancer Alexandra Danilova. The interviews with Chapman were recorded from 1956 to 1962 and concern literacy and education in the United States. Notable television and radio programs represented in the collection include the Tex and Jinx television program; a Monitor radio program; and a Lee Graham television interview. Also included is the opening address (given by Mr. Chapman) of the New York Public Library 50th anniversary convocation, and a radio program featuring a story about the WNYC book festival.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
17 recordings
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
The collection consists of noncommercial sound recordings including performances by Jascha Heifetz and Larry Adler of popular chamber music; a performance of Aaron Avshalomoff's Symphony no. 2 by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra conducted by Thor Johnson; a speech by Mrs. Gilbert Chapman broadcast in 1943 promoting the American Women's Voluntary Services; and radio and television interviews with Gilbert W. Chapman and dancer Alexandra Danilova. The interviews with Chapman were recorded from 1956 to 1962 and concern literacy and education in the United States. Notable television and radio programs represented in the collection include the Tex and Jinx television program; a Monitor radio program; and a Lee Graham television interview. Also included is the opening address (given by Mr. Chapman) of the New York Public Library 50th anniversary convocation, and a radio program featuring a story about the WNYC book festival.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
17 recordings
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center