Transcripts and other material related to the series of 17 radio discussion programs sponsored by the War Information Center of the University of Rochester in the fall of 1942 and broadcast over WHAM.
Martin Bookspan interviews American composer, pianist, and writer on music Phillip Ramey. Ramey comments on his studies composition at DePaul University in Chicago; on his teacher, composer Alexander Tcherepnin; and about musical traditions in Chicago. He talks about his career as a pianist and composer. He discusses each of the following works, which are then played in their entirety: Piano sonata no. 1, Night music (for percussion), Commentaries (for flute and piano), Leningrad rag (freely based on Scott Joplin's Gladiolus rag), 5 Epigrams for piano, 3 Epigrams for violin and piano, and Piano fantasy.
Content types:
Sounds
Formats:
CD
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Principal collection consists of over 200 recordings of Yiddish music, comedy, soap operas, news, commercials, poetry and drama spanning the years 1936-1955. The majority represent programming from New York based stations, including WEVD, WBBS, WHN and WMCA (all cataloged). Represented in these recordings are the Barry Sisters, Jan Bart, Moishe Oysher, Nahum Stutchkoff and Dave Tarras. Collection also includes recordings of radio material up to the present day, including programs featuring Molly Picon, and a collection of over 900 WEVD programs spanning the 1970s-1980s.
Repository/Collector:
Max and Frieda Weinstein Archive of YIVO Sound Recordings, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research