In 1st work: Shirley Reisman, piano ; Harry Zarief, violin ; William Schoen, viola ; Maurice Bialkin, violoncello ; Homer Mensch ; double bass. In 3rd work: Reginald Kell, clarinet ; Anthony Penie [i.e. Pini], violoncello ; Louie Kentner, piano. David Randolph, host ; with unidentified radio announcer.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Tribute to 50-year career of Walter "Salty" Brine, who retired in 1992 after 50 years on WPRO-AM in Providence. Clips contained within date back to the 1940's, and include programs and show bits from the '40's through the '80's. Other RI Radio Hall of Fame broadcasters included in this compilation include Larry Kruger, Sherm Strickhouser, John Colletto, Bud Toevs
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
The collection consists of excerpts of twenty-five consecutive programs, broadcast weekly from April 28, 1946 to September 13, 1946. Thomas Scherman served as conductor for the entire series. Noteworthy singers include Natalie Bodanya, John Brownlee, Eugene Conley, Norman Cordon, Todd Duncan, Dorothy Kirsten, Charles Kullman, Brenda Lewis, Martha Lipton, Ann McKnight, Ray Middleton, Mona Paulee, Eleanor Steber, Lawrence Tibbett, Richard Tucker, and Claramae Turner.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
77 recordings
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Unknown number of magnetic tapes, presumably of concerts of the Syracuse Symphony Orchestra as broadcast on WCNY Classic-FM, Central New York’s classical music radio station.
WRUC - Union College; Producer: Navy Recruiting Service; Performances by Performances by Roberta Quinlan, Bill Hayes, Judy Lynn, Eugenie Baird, Edith Adams, Tony Bavaar, Judy Lynn
Radio recordings from 1929-1984 on 1/4 inch open reel tape. These are recordings of radio shows dating between 1929 and 1984. Series include: Arturo Toscanini conducting the NBC Symphony; Paul Whiteman Presents; Bell Telephone Hour; Desert In Las Vegas; NBC Bandstand; a BBC production called "Ragtime to Rock N Roll"; The Ben Bernie Show; Rudy Vallee Show with John Barrymore; Kraft Music Hall; Amos N' Andy; The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show; Jack Benny Show; Eddie Cantor Show; The Great Gildersleeve with Harold Peary; Suspense; The Lives of Harry Lime with Orson Welles; Fred Allen; Gene Autry's Melody Ranch; many miscellaneous recordings.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
300 recordings
Repository/Collector:
Walter J. Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection
1st work (approximately 21 minutes): Betty Allen, contralto. 2nd work (approximately 38 minutes): Arlene Saunders, soprano ; Enrico Di Giuseppe, tenor. Both works: Orchestra of America ; Richard Korn, conductor.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
2 recordings
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
In 1st work: Manuel Compinsky Quartet ; Janssen Symphony Orchestra of Los Angeles ; Werner Janssen, conductor. In 2nd work: Fernando Valenti, harpsichord. In 3rd work: Tina de Maria, piano ; Scarlatti Orchestra of Naples ; Franco Caracciolo, conductor.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
1945-1995 The collection consists of 50 years of radio, television and film productions, papers, and photographs documenting the founding and growth of Protestant Radio and Television Center in Atlanta, Georgia.
Content types:
Sounds and Other
Extent:
4300 recordings
Repository/Collector:
Walter J. Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection
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
Side A (ca. 50 min.). Charles Ward speaks with Kyra Lynn Kaptzan about his childhood in Los Angeles; his acting as a teenager in musical comedies such as Camelot and West Side story; beginning ballet training at a local Los Angeles school at age 16; training at Gene Marinaccio's school; attending his first ballet performance, of the Stuttgart Ballet, at age 17; joining and dancing with Houston Ballet; Houston Ballet dancers Judith Aaen and John Sellers [Anthony Sellers]; training with a scholarship at American Ballet Theatre School; joining American Ballet Theatre, including an anecdote about Lucia Chase; dancing soloist roles for American Ballet Theatre, including in [Harald Lander's] Etudes; dancing with Carla Fracci in Glen Tetley's Nocturne at the Spoleto Festival [Spoleto Festival U.S.A.] in Charleston, S. C.; being cast as a principal in Tetley's Gemini; reasons a tall male dancer has difficulty in obtaining soloist roles; his feelings about the presence at American Ballet Theatre of the foreign dancers, Natalia Makarova, Fracci, Marcia Haydée and Misha [Mikhail] Baryshnikov; reasons he likes to partner Gelsey Kirkland; partnering Cynthia Gregory; the flatness of almost all male roles in classical story ballets; his reasons for leaving American Ballet Theatre; auditioning for Bob Fosse's musical comedy Dancin'; Bob Fosse's extensive theatrical knowledge; working with him, including Fosse's use of Ward's ballet training; critical and popular response to Dancin', including Ward's and Kaptzan's extensive discussion of their differing opinions of the work [ends abruptly]. Side B (ca. 17 min.). Charles Ward continues speaking about performing in Dancin' ; compares manner of preparing for a performance in Dancin' with preparation for performing in a ballet; his relationship with Ann Reinking; his career aspirations after he has finished touring with Dancin'.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Renfroe, a sportscaster, broadcasting high school football and basketball games from Atlanta and Macon, GA; and college games from Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, and Tennessee; a few tapes of interviews on radio talk shows discussing sports
Content types:
Sounds and Other
Extent:
171 recordings
Repository/Collector:
Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History
Side A. [Music and announcements.] Christian Holder speaks with Kyra Lynn Kaptzan about his family's performing arts background; his early training in London in dance and theater; seeing Jerome Robbins' musical comedy West Side Story and Ballets: U.S.A. as an influence on his decision to dance; moving to New York City in l964; his scholarship to the Martha Graham School [Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance]; attending the New York City High School of the Performing Arts; joining the Joffrey Ballet in 1966; his theatrical experience as a child; his favorite role, Death, in Kurt Jooss's The green table; other roles he enjoys, including in [José Limón's] Moor's pavane, [Robert Joffrey's] Astarte, and the narrator in [Frederick Ashton's] Wedding bouquet; roles he and Gary Chryst perform; his preference for a diverse repertory [short gap]; working with Leonide Massine; dancing in Massine's work Parade; dancing in the Joffrey Ballet's program titled Homage to Diaghilev [Parade, Petruschka, Spectre de la rose, and Afternoon of a faun], including the difficulty of performing the same roles every night; working with Rudolf Nureyev; the Joffrey repertoire and how works are selected for performance; the attempted censorship of certain works when the Joffrey toured in the former Soviet Union; touring in the U.S., including audience reactions; Holder's choreographing, including his work Five dances; how working with Jerome Robbins and other choreographers has helped him as a choreographer; his experience with costume design. [Music and announcements.] Side B is blank.
Content types:
Sounds
Formats:
Audiocassette
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Side A. [Music and announcements.] Christian Holder speaks with Kyra Lynn Kaptzan about his family's performing arts background; his early training in London in dance and theater; seeing Jerome Robbins' musical comedy West Side Story and Ballets: U.S.A. as an influence on his decision to dance; moving to New York City in l964; his scholarship to the Martha Graham School [Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance]; attending the New York City High School of the Performing Arts; joining the Joffrey Ballet in 1966; his theatrical experience as a child; his favorite role, Death, in Kurt Jooss's The green table; other roles he enjoys, including in [José Limón's] Moor's pavane, [Robert Joffrey's] Astarte, and the narrator in [Frederick Ashton's] Wedding bouquet; roles he and Gary Chryst perform; his preference for a diverse repertory [short gap]; working with Leonide Massine; dancing in Massine's work Parade; dancing in the Joffrey Ballet's program titled Homage to Diaghilev [Parade, Petruschka, Spectre de la rose, and Afternoon of a faun], including the difficulty of performing the same roles every night; working with Rudolf Nureyev; the Joffrey repertoire and how works are selected for performance; the attempted censorship of certain works when the Joffrey toured in the former Soviet Union; touring in the U.S., including audience reactions; Holder's choreographing, including his work Five dances; how working with Jerome Robbins and other choreographers has helped him as a choreographer; his experience with costume design. [Music and announcements.] Side B is blank.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Gary Chryst speaks with Kyra Lynn Kaptzan about choreographers with whom he has worked, including Leonide Massine and John Butler; his preference for roles that involve acting and how he prepares a role; the influence of his family as a source of his love of music; studying dance at the [New York City] High School of Performing Arts; performing with Norman Walker; performing with the Joffrey Ballet and his respect for director Robert Joffrey; recent experiences as a guest artist and teacher; leisure activities such as his love of food and cooking, and the pleasure of friendships.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Air checks, sports, news, political coverage, local DJs, local music, station IDs/jingles, and local commercials from stations WKBW, WBEN, WINE, WHSO, WEBR, and WGR, from 1950s-1980
Content types:
Sounds and Other
Formats:
Disc (Commercial, Homemade, Transcription), Reel-to-reel, Audiocassette, CD, MiniDisc, External drive, Website, VHS (audio), Betacam SP, 1, 2, and 3/4 in videotape, DVC pro tapes, and DVD
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
The vast majority of the collection consists of audio recordings of more than 2000 radio broadcasts of nostalgia shows hosted by Clark including Rock, Roll Remember, Countdown America, US Music Survey, National Music Survey, Dick Clark’s Music Machine, and Dick Clark’s Solid Gold. The tapes were produced by Dick Clark Productions and broadcast from the mid-1980s to the early 2000s.
Martin Bookspan interviews musician, composer, and educator Michael Colagrass. Colagrass speaks about his studies at the University of Illinois; about his musical career in Chicago where his first professional experiences were as a jazz drummer; about his eleven years career as a free-lance percussionist in New York City; and about switching him career of jazz musician to career of classical music composer. He talks about both of his backgrounds, jazz and classical music, that influenced his works. The composer discusses in detail each of the following works, excerpts of which are then played during the interview: Light spirit (for flute, viola, guitar, and percussion, 2 players) (1963), Rhapsodic fantasy (for percussion soloist and orchestra) (1965), The earth's a baked apple (written for a teen-age chorus, words by the composer) (1968), New people (seven songs for mezzo soprano, viola and piano, words by the composer) (1969).
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 materials related to radio stations and television stations in the United States and Mexico, 1930-2005. Materials include program guides, radio playlists, station newsletters, promotional materials, newspaper and magazine articles, station-produced publications, correspondence, press releases, and about 56 press release photographs from KBBQ in Burbank, Calif. Some KBBQ photographs depict country music recording artists, including Lynn Anderson, Eddy Arnold, Glen Campbell, Jimmy Dean, Merle Haggard, Lee Hazlewood, Ferlin Husky, Waylon Jennings, Jerry Lee Lewis, George Lindsey, Roger Miller, Buck Owens, Ray Price, Jeannie C. Riley, Tex Ritter, Nancy Sinatra, Hank Thompson, Sheb Wooley, and Tammy Wynette; Hollywood tailor Nudie Cohn; and actor Andy Griffith. Station publications include about 150 issues of Stand By! from WLS in Chicago, Ill., from the 1930s and 1940s. There is also material relating to the Southern Baptists Radio-Television Commission.
Content types:
Sounds and Other
Formats:
Cylinder, Disc (Commercial, Homemade, Transcription), Reel-to-reel, 8-Track, Audiocassette, Film, Videotape, and Digital tape (DAT, DCC)
Extent:
There are 1900 items in the Radio and Television collection, but not all are recordings. There are also recordings housed outside the radio and television collection.
The 3608 Toscanini recordings include test pressings of Toscanini conducting the NBC Symphony Orchestra in concerts, as well as NBC broadcasts of operas, festival performances, sacred music and more, including rehearsals; for many of these, the location and date of the recording is given and in some cases additional information such as names of performers. Broadcasts took place in the 1930s and 40s.
Content types:
Sounds and Other
Formats:
Disc (Commercial, Homemade, Transcription) and Reel-to-reel
Extent:
3608 recordings (747 tapes, unknown number of lacquer discs)
These tapes of WAER broadcasts primarily hold topical broadcasts and live concert recordings. Few of the tapes are dated, but those that are cover a span from 1965 to 1979. Announcers or presenters are rarely identified. The news items include a mix of national and local productions, but there are relatively few in the collection compared to the concert recordings. Many concerts were given by popular artists such as Pink Floyd, Bonnie Raitt, Canned Heat, Niels Lofgren, and Commander Cody, taken from national broadcasts, mostly originating from New York City or Boston. The collection contains recordings of only a handful of concerts broadcast by Syracuse University student ensembles. 25 tapes are identified as having been recorded on-campus at the Jabberwocky Café; surviving performances from this intimate venue include those given by John Fahey, Taj Mahal, and David Bromberg.
Consisting of recordings dubbed from WSYR radio broadcasts between 1939 and 1957, the collection largely consists of news broadcasts and speeches. Many important events and public figures of the era are recorded on these broadcasts.
Content types:
Sounds
Formats:
Disc (Commercial, Homemade, Transcription) and Reel-to-reel
Extent:
10 linear feet of material, primarily 78 and 33 RPM instantaneous disc recordings, along with 176 reel to reel tapes.
Wide-ranging collection spanning 1928-70s and beyond. Holdings include local programming from stations throughout the country, including WBAI, WCBS, WNEW, WRCA, WMCA, WRVA, WNWK, WABC, WWL, WNEW, WOR, WHN, WQXR, WNYC, WBRC, WBRD, WBYN, WCAU, WCKY, WOL, WCOI, WEA, WFUN, WGAR, WIIN, WIFE, WINS, WJZ, WJVA, WKIX, WKLO, WLEA, WLOD, WLS, WXRK, WOKO, WONE, WPLI, WQAM, WQUA, WSAF, WTAN, WTYC, WTRY, KFOX, KMET, KABC, KPFK, KPHO, KRLA, KLSX, KROC, Pacifica. Content includes news coverage, interviews, classical and popular music, drama, sports, non-English language programming, etc. Personalities include later-nationally famous hosts and DJs and hosts such as Bob Fass, Dr. Demento, Casey Kasem, Alan Freed, Bob Crane, Arthur Godfrey, among others.
Content types:
Sounds
Formats:
Disc (Commercial, Homemade, Transcription), Reel-to-reel, Audiocassette, Videotape, Digital tape (DAT, DCC), and CD
Marc Steiner collection, Collection 110: The Marc Steiner Collection consists of recordings of the Marc Steiner show from its original air date of March 31, 1993 through 2008. The Marc Steiner show is a public interest radio show originating in Baltimore and covering subjects on the local, state, national, and international level. Topics have included arts and culture, education, homelessness and international politics. The show has aired on WJHU; WYPR; and its current home WEAA. Extent: Betatapes (100), Cassette tapes (95), VHS (5), DAT (2690), CD (640); all formats have been arranged chronologically, rehoused, and are in good condition. Other than a complete show listing (1993-2012), no associated papers accompany the recordings.
Content types:
Sounds and Other
Extent:
Betatapes (100), Cassette tapes (95), VHS (5), DAT (2690), CD (640)
Programs date from 1941-1982 and are on transcription disc or LP. The UCLA Film and Television Archive donated duplicates of 1,368 radio transcription discs and LPs from their radio collection to the Brown Media Archives at the University of Georgia Libraries.Al Clauser and His Oklahoma Outlaws The Ballet Bing Crosby Carnation Bouquet Carnation Contented Hour (extensive run) Carnation Family Party Casey, Crime Photographer Chuck Wagon Group Father Knows Best (extensive run) Flynn and Quinn Good News of 1939 Hallmark Playhouse Heartbeat Theatre (extensive run) I Can’t Leave Her Behind Labor Arbitration Lone Journey Louella Parsons Show Mystery Is My Hobby (extensive run) NBC Symphony National Farm and Home Hour Oklahoma Roundup President Truman Speech "Red" Carnation Gives a Weekend Party Rising Tide Scientific Dissertation Sons of the Pioneers Show (extensive run) Stars Over Hollywood Suspense This Is Your FBI (extensive run) Uncle Tom’s Cabin We’re Very Fussy On the Radio/How to Break Into Radio What’s Doin’ Ladies
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1368 recordings
Repository/Collector:
Walter J. Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection
Recordings produced by this UGA station from 1973-2003 on 1/4 inch open reel and cartridges (carts). This collection contains approximately 2000 1/4 inch open reels and cartridges (or carts) from the University of Georgia student run radio station WUOG. The recordings run from 1973 until approximately 2003 and contain original programs and recordings. The station began broadcasting on October 16, 1972 with a 3,200 watt signal and grew to 10,000 watts by 1977. As of 1994 the station has 26,000 watts making one of the strongest signals for a student run station in the country.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
2000 recordings
Repository/Collector:
Walter J. Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection
Yuri Rasovsky was an award-winning writer and producer working in the field of radio drama in the United States. He founded and operated The National Radio Theater of Chicago from 1973 to 1986 and later formed the Hollywood Theater of the Ear.
Content types:
Sounds and Other
Repository/Collector:
Walter J. Brown Media Archives & Peabody Awards Collection
Interviews conducted on WHRC, Haverford's college radio station. Includes appearances by William Buckley, George Kennan, J. Wood Krutch, Bruce Reeves, Edward Weeks, and Bishop Oxnam.
The records of WDCR contain approximately 377 tape recordings of lectures, interviews, press conferences and other programs broadcast over WDCR. The recordings document events at Dartmouth College and the discussion of campus issues, concerns and protests, as well as national and world news. Among the recordings are interviews with Malcolm X, Alger Hiss, Dartmouth presidents Dickey and Kemeny, and lectures by politicians, entertainers and scholars; battle lectures by history professor Lewis Stilwell; "Noon Hour" programs hosted by Cliff Ennico; and one tape of broadcasts from WDCR's predecessor WDBS.
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
In 2nd work: Paul Matthen, baritone ; Bertha Melnik, piano. In 4th work: Little Orchestra Society ; Thomas Scherman, conductor. In 5th and 9th work: Philadelphia Orchestra Pops ; Alexander Hilsberg, conductor. In 6th work: Paul Matthen, baritone ; Emilia Mitrani, piano. In 7th work: Tom Lehrer, performer. In 8th and 10th works: Winterthur Symphony Orchestra ; Henry Swoboda, conductor. In 11th work: Nuovo madrigaletto italiano, performers. In 12th work: Ruth Rubin, performer. In 14th work: Symphony Orchestra of Radio Berlin ; Artur Rother, conductor. In 15th work: Hazel Shermet, performer. David Randolph, host ; with unidentified radio announcer.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
In 1st work: Siegfried Borries, violin ; Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra ; Artur Rother, conductor. In 2nd and 4th works: Parrenin String Quartet. In 3rd work: Alfred Brendel, piano ; Vienna State Orchestra ; Jonathan Sternberg, conductor. In 5th work: Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra ; Rolf Kleinert, conductor. David Randolph, host ; with unidentified radio announcer.
Content types:
Sounds
Formats:
CD
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Sinfonia concertante in B♭ major, op. 84 / J. Haydn -- [Concerto for string quartet and orchestra (1931) / B. Martinů -- Closing movement of Double concerto in A major / G. B. Viotti.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Opening portion of Te Deum / J.-B. Lully -- Lęcons de Ténèbres (3rd lec̦on) / F. Couperin -- Portions of Sacred service / D. Milhaud -- Opening movement of the Mass of the poor / E. Satie.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Excerpt of unidentified 20th century work -- Gavotte of Suite no. 1 [BWV 1066 in C major] ; Et misericordia (from "Magnificat") / J. S. Bach -- Excerpt of slow movement of Symphony no. 4 / J. Brahms -- [Pavane (Orchestra version) / G. Fauré] -- [Excerpt of Scherzo: Pizzicato ostinato of Symphony no. 4 / P. Tchaikovsky] -- Scherzo [Allegretto pizzicato] of Quartet no. 4 / B. Bartók -- 2 excerpts and first movement from "Harp" quartet / L. van Beethoven -- 1st of Three pieces for string quartet / I. Stravinsky -- Slow movement of String quartet, no. 3 [i.e. no. 4], op. 22 / P. Hindemith. Note WNYC inventory no.: WNYC-CONN-1965-12-05; Catalog: 53627. 934th broadcast. Language Spoken in English; sung in Latin. Source Gift; WNYC (Radio station : New York, N. Y.) ; 2007. Subject Radio programs, Musical. Genre/Form Classical music radio programs. Subject Suites (Orchestra) -- Excerpts. Oratorios -- Excerpts. Symphonies -- Excerpts. String quartets -- Excerpts. Orchestral music, Arranged. Added Author Randolph, David, Host. Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750. Suites, orchestra, BWV 1066, C major. Gavotte, no. 1-2. Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750. Magnificat, BWV 243, D major. Et misericordia. Brahms, Johannes, 1833-1897. Symphonies, no. 4, op. 98, E minor. Andante moderato. Selections. Fauré, Gabriel, 1845-1924. Pavan, orchestra, op. 50, F♯ minor. Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich, 1840-1893. Symphonies, no. 4, op. 36, F minor. Scherzo. Selections. Bartók, Béla, 1881-1945. Quartets, strings, no. 4. Allegretto pizzicato. Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827. Quartets, strings, no. 10, op. 74, E♭ major. Poco adagio. Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971. Pièces, string quartet. No. 1. Hindemith, Paul, 1895-1963. Quartets, strings, no. 4, op. 22. Ruhige Viertel: Stets fliessend. Fine Arts Quartet, Performer. WNYC (Radio station : New York, N.Y.) WNYC (Radio station : New York, N. Y.) Donor. NN-RHA Added Title David Randolph concerts Instrumental usages Research Call Number *LDC 48617
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Two final movements of The little symphonies for small orchestra [No. 1, "Printemps"] / D. Milhaud -- Scherzo movement ["Jig"] of Sonata no. 1 for violin and piano / H. Cowell -- Concerto for viola and small orchestra based on old German folk tunes (aka Der Schwanendreher) / P. Hindemith -- Excerpt of Academic Festival overture / J. Brahms -- La vieille maison ("The old house"), a French folk song -- Chanson hébraïque, a setting of a Jewish folk song ["Mejerke, main suhn"] / M. Ravel -- Concluding portions [Saturday night waltz and Hoe-down sections] of the ballet suite Rodeo / A. Copland.
Content types:
Sounds
Formats:
CD
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
La mulita -- Korobeyniki (The peddler or The box) -- Schwefelhölze (Sulphur matches) -- Hanging Johnny -- Sample of Flamenco music -- A soulcake -- Panou sta alonia -- Gitare ; Sheltn, shelt ich dem tog -- Folksong from French Africa (excerpt) -- Xango, a Brazilian Negro cantata for soprano, chorus and orchestra / J. Siqueira -- Brief talk (from 2nd World Festival of Folksong and Folk dance, summer 1953) / R. Vaughan Williams ; [Jabadao] (Brittany, France) ; Chanson de fête (Basque, Spain) -- Agur izar eri (Basque) -- Why do you sit up until midnight? (Russian folk song)
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
In 1st work: David Saxon and Barnett Cardell [i.e. Gardel], violins ; Kellman Flizig [i.e. Calman Flesig], viola ; George Fayer, violoncello. In 2nd-4th work: William Warfield, baritone ; Otto Hertz [i.e. Herz], piano. In 5th work: Claude Debussy, piano. David Randolph ; with unidentified radio announcer.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
in 1st work: Arminas Santana (?), conductor ; with unidentified performers and Italian orchestra. In 2nd work: Nicolas Agroff, baritone ; Orchestre Radio-symphonique de Paris ; René Leibowitz, conductor. In 3rd work: Serge Lemeshev, tenor ; Bolshoi Opera and Chorus ; Vassily Nebolsin, conductor. In 4th work: Mattawilda Dobbs, soprano ; Hughes Cuénod and Joseph Peyron, tenors ; Bernard Demigny, baritone ; Orchestre philharmonique de Paris ; René Leibowitz, conductor. David Randolph, host ; with unidentified radio announcer.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
In this recording, "David Randolph directs his remarks in this broadcast to classical music lovers who do not like modern music ... He attempts, with examples, and a little psychology, to get the die-hard classical listener to be a little more open minded about modern music"
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
In 1st work: Kurt Appelbaum, piano. In 2nd-3rd works: The Randolph Singers ; David Randolph, conductor. In 4th work: Polymusic Chamber Orchestra ; Vladimir Cherniavsky, conductor. In 5th work: Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra ; Antal Dorati, conductor. In 6th work: [Erika Stiedry-Wagner, soprano] ; Arnold Schoenburg, conductor. In 7th work: Eileen Farrell, soprano ; Mack Harrell, baritone ; New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra ; Dmitri Mitropoulos, conductor. In 8th work: Henry Cowell, piano. David Randolph, host ; with unidentified radio announcer.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
In 1st work: Italian Chamber Orchestra ; Newell Jenkins, conductor. In 2nd work: Virtuosi di Roma ; [Renato Fasano, conductor]. In 3rd work: NBC Symphony Orchestra ; Arturo Toscanini, conductor. David Randolph, host ; with unidentified radio announcer.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
In 1st work: Vienna Symphony Orchestra ; Henry Swoboda, conductor. In 2nd work: Joseph Szigeti, violin ; [Mitchell Miller, oboe ; Robert McGinnis, clarinet ; Bert Gassman, English horn ; Sol Schoenbach, bassoon] ; Igor Stravinsky, conductor. In 3rd work: Jean Pougnet, violin ; Frederick Riddle, viola ; Anthony Pini, violoncello. In 4th work: [London Baroque Ensemble ; Karl Haas, conductor.] In 5th work: Philadelphia Orchestra ; Eugene Ormandy, conductor.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
In 1st work: Harry Zarief and David Mankovitz, violins ; William Schoen, viola ; Maurice Bialkin, violoncello. In 2nd-6th works: Joan Bishop, soprano ; Vernon Duke, piano. David Randolph, host ; with unidentifed radio announcer.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
In 1st-2nd, 4th-6th, 8th-9th, 12th, 14th, 16th-17th work: unidentified performers. In 3rd work: National Symphony Orchestra ; Walter Damrosch, conductor. In 7th work: Benny Goodman, clarinet ; New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra ; [John Barbirolli, conductor]. In 10th work: Arthur Whittemore and Jack Lowe, pianos ; RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra ; Dimitri Mitropoulos, conductor. In 11th work: Gaby and Robert Casadeus, pianos. In 13th work: The Randolph Singers ; [David Randolph, conductor]. In 15th work: Lionel Hampton, vibraphone ; Benny Goodman Sextet. David Randolph, host ; with unidentified radio announcer.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
In 1st work: unidentifed performers. In 2nd work: American Recording Society Orchestra ; Walter Hendl, conductor. In 3rd work: National Gallery Orchestra ; Richard Bales, conductor. David Randolph, host ; with unidentifed radio announcer.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
The Randolph Singers (Anna Louise Kautz and Harriet Hill, sopranos ; Mildred Greenberg, contralto ; Abram Sheer, tenor ; Bert Spero, bass) ; David Randolph, host and conductor ; with unidentified radio announcer.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
In 1st work (playing live in studio): Joseph Zwilich, violin ; Shirley Reisman, piano. In 2nd work: Unidentified performers. David Randolph, host ; with unidenified radio announcer.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
In 2nd work: Ralph Kirkpatrick, clavichord. In 3rd work: Helma Elsner, harpsichord ; Pro Musica Orchestra ; Rolf Reinhardt, conductor. In 4th work: Theodor Sack, harpsichord. In 5th work: Fernando Valenti, harpsichord ; Soulima Stravinsky, piano. In 6th work: Louis Kaufman, violin ; Marçal Cerrera, violoncello ; Artur Balsam, piano. In 7th work: Walter [sic] Schneiderhan and Gustav Swoboda, violins ; Senta Benesch, violoncello ; Franz Holetschek, harpsichord. In 8th work: Arnold Dolmetsch, piano. In 9th work: Leonid Hambro, piano. In 10th work: Maro Ajemian, piano. In 11th-15th works: Henry Cowell, piano and additional commentary. David Randolph, host ; with unidentified radio announcer.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
In 2nd work: Leon Temerson and Eva [Maskin](?), violins ; Harvey [Blumberg](?), viola ; Otto [Diereich](?), violoncello. In 3th work: Bach Cantata Guild, performers ; Peter Sozio, conductor. In 4th work: George Finckel, violoncello ; Claude Frank, piano. In 5th-6th works: William Warfield, baritone ; Vally Weigl, piano. In 7th work: Paul Doktor, viola ; Karl Weigl, piano. In 8th work: Alice Howland, soprano ; Beaux-Arts [String] Quartet. David Randolph, host ; with unidentified radio announcer.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Two excerpts [Moderato and Allegretto (1st movement)] from Symphonetta, op. 60 ; [Third movement of] Suite for strings ; Last movement of Taras Bulba, an orchestral rhapsody ; Two movements of Concertino for piano and instruments [Più mosso and Con moto] ; Symphonetta, op. 60 (full version) / L. Janáček.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
In 3rd work: Paul Loyonnet, piano. In 5th, 11th and 13th works: Lazare Lévy, piano. In 9th-10th works: Jeanne-Marie Darre, piano. David Randolph, host and additional commentary (7th work) ; with unidentified radio announcer.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
First movement of Concerto [op. 3, no. 10] in B minor for four violins and orchestra / A. Vivaldi -- First movement of Concerto [BWV 1065, in A minor] for four pianos and orchestra / J. S. Bach -- Second and third movements of Concerto [op. 3, no. 10] in B minor for four violins and orchestra / A. Vivaldi -- Second and third movements of Concerto [BWV 1065, in A minor] for four pianos / J. S. Bach -- Come again, sweet love (for solo voice and lute) ; Come again, sweet love (transcribed for 4 voices, arr. by composer) ; Come again, sweet love (transcribed for large unidentified chorus) / J. Dowland -- Slow movement of String quartet, op. 135 (string quartet) ; Slow movement of string quartet, op. 135 [no. 16 in F major] (transcribed for full string orchestra) / L. van Beethoven.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
In 1st work: Wilhelm Hübner, violin ; Richard Harand, violoncello ; Franz Holetschek, piano. In 2nd work: Marçal Cervera, violoncello ; Winterthur Symphony Orchestra ; Clemens Dahinden, conductor. In 3rd work: Oscar Levant, piano ; Columbia Symphony Orchestra ; Fritz Reiner, conductor. In 4th work: Peter Rybar, violin ; Winterthur Symphony Orchestra ; Henry Swoboda, conductor.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
In [1st ] and 5th work: Sigurd Rascher, saxophone ; David Tudor, piano. In 2nd work: Vienna Symphony Orchestra ; Hermann Scherchen, conductor. In 3rd work: Symphony Orchestra of Radio Berlin ; Artur Rother, conductor. In 4th work: Juilliard [String] Quartet. In 6th work: Ejnar Hansen, 18th century glass harmonica. In 7th work: Larry Adler, harmonica ; Lee Colin, piano. In 8th work: Rey de la Torre, guitar ; Stuyvesant String Quartet. In 9th work: Danny Daniels, tap dancer ; Rochester Pops Orchestra ; Morton Gould, conductor. In 10th work: Henry Cowell, piano. In 11th work: Maro Ajemian, piano. In 12th work: Juilliard Percussion Orchestra. David Randolph, host ; with unidentifed radio announcer.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
In 1st and 5th works: Hugo Steurer, piano. In 2nd work: Swabian Choral Singers ; Tonstudio Orchestra, Stuttgart ; Hans Grischkat, conductor. In 3rd work: Pascal String Quartet. In 4th work: Little Orchestra Society ; Thomas Scherman, conductor. In 6th work: Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra ; Antal Dorati, conductor. In 7th work: Randolph Singers with Gordon Myers, baritone. In 8th work: Vienna Chamber Orchestra ; Franz Litschauer, conductor. David Randolph, host ; with unidentified radio announcer.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Recordings from Corwin’s CBS radio series (One World Flight, This is Radio, Radio is Here to Stay, Columbia Presents Corwin, An American in England, etc.). Broadcast from the mid-1930s to the mid-1950s.
Content types:
Sounds and Other
Formats:
Disc (Commercial, Homemade, Transcription) and Reel-to-reel
Extent:
374 16-inch glass and aluminum based lacquer discs and a few reel tapes
Cynthia Harvey speaks with Kyra Lynn Kaptzan about the employee lock-out at American Ballet Theatre, including cancellation of the company's performances at the Kennedy Center [John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts]; dancing in Mikhail Baryshnikov's production of Don Quixote; dancing her first major role in Eliot Feld's At midnight; taking on roles at the last minute; dancing Glen Tetley's Contredances with Patrick Bissell; the function of the company's choreologist in teaching roles; working with different partners, including Anthony Dowell; working with Tetley on Contredances and Rite of spring; working with Antony Tudor on The leaves are fading; working with Baryshnikov on Don Quixote; his taking over the direction of American Ballet Theatre; Cynthia Gregory's and Gelsey Kirkland's resignations, including their effect on the company; working with Natalia Makarova on La bayadère; her favorite ballets, including Swan lake; attending performances of New York City Ballet and other companies; her dance training, including two summers at the School of American Ballet; attending the National Ballet of Canada School and joining the National Ballet of Canada briefly; moving to New York City; joining American Ballet Theatre in 1974; leisure activities; future goals; absence of overt competitiveness among the dancers at American Ballet Theatre [ends abruptly].
Content types:
Sounds
Formats:
Audiocassette
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Daniel Duell speaks with Kyra Lynn Kaptzan about his childhood dance training at the Schwarz School of Dance, in Dayton, Ohio, including his teacher David McClain; being chosen by Violette Verdy to study at the School of American Ballet; joining New York City Ballet as an apprentice; touring with City Ballet, including in the former Soviet Union; favorite roles, including the pas de trois in George Balanchine's work Agon; learning roles previously danced by Edward Villella; more on touring; male dancers who he finds inspiring, including Villella, Jacques D'Amboise, Peter Martins, and Misha [Mikhail] Baryshnikov; partnering his wife, Kyra Nichols; partnering Heather Watts; working with Jerome Robbins on a new ballet [a section of a ballet with the working title Arts of the gentleman] and other Robbins works, including Dybbuk; increased prominence of male dancers in ballet; Baryshnikov and his position in City Ballet; leisure activities; a typical work day.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center