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
In 1st work: Reginald Kell, clarinet ; [Zimbler Sinfonietta]. In 3rd and 5th works: Vienna Philharmonic Wind Group ; Roland Raupenstrauch, piano. In 6th work: Winifred Cecil, soprano ; Luigi Amodio, clarinet ; Alfredo Simonetto, piano. In 7th work: Reginald Kell, clarinet ; Louis Kentner, piano ; Anthony Pini, violoncello. In 8th work: Benny Goodman, clarinet ; New York Philharmonic ; John Barbirolli, conductor. David Randolph, host.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
In this 300th broadcast, David Randolph does away with his usual objective approach and "lets the listener hear what he likes and dislikes".--Container.
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 (version 1): [Orchestra of the] National Theatre ; Yuri Fayer, conductor. In 2nd work (1st work, version 2): Vienna State Opera [Orchestra] ; Herman Schercgen [i.e. Scherchen], conductor. In 3rd work (version 1): Vienna State Opera [Orchestra] ; Argeo Quadri, conductor. In 4th work (3rd work, version 2): Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra ; Antal Dorati, conductor. In 5th work (version 1): Pierre Bernac, baritone ; Robert Casadesus, piano. In 6th work (5th work, version 2): Walter [sic] Ludwig, baritone ; Michael Roheisen [i.e. Raucheisen], piano. In 7th work (version 1): Antonio Janigro, violoncello ; Carlo Zecchi, piano. In 8th work (7th work, version 2): Janos Starker, violoncello ; Abba Bogen [i.e. Bogin], 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
Consists mostly of post-1950 materials related to Williams's personal life and career as a writer, editor and journalist although there are some earlier papers, including correspondence, photographs and some material from 1959 dealing with WOY.
In 1st work: Robert Casadesus, piano. In 2nd-3rd, 8th works: The Randolph Singers ; David Randolph, conductor. In 4th work: Rey de la Torre, guitar. In 5th work: Akademie Chor ; [Orchestra of the] Vienna State Opera ; Hermann Scherchen, conductor. In 6th work: Rolf Persinger, viola ; Stradivari [Records] Chamber Music Ensemble. In 7th work: Pro Musica Antiqua ; Safford Cape, 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
Consists primarily of reports and supporting research materials collected for a study on the proposed merger of several performers' unions affiliated with the Associated Actors and Artists of America. The unions were: Actors' Equity Association (AEA), American Guild of Radio Artists (AGRA), American Federation of Variety Artists (AGVA), Television Authority (TVA), American Guild of Musical Artists (AGMA) and Chorus Equity Association (CEA).
Adam Lüders speaks with Kyra Lynn Kaptzan about his early dance training at the Royal Danish Ballet School; Stanley Williams and other teachers; his apprenticeship at the Royal Danish Ballet, including performing in works such as Flemming Flindt's Swan lake and John Cranko's The lady and the fool; performing in George Balanchine's Don Quixote; leaving the Royal Danish Ballet to join the London Festival Ballet; the repertoire of the London Festival Ballet; coming to New York City at the suggestion of Peter Martins and Peter Schaufuss; joining New York City Ballet in 1975; his roles at City Ballet, including in Balanchine's Brahms-Schoenberg quartet, Agon, and Kammermusik no. 2; working with Jerome Robbins, including in Robbins' work Goldberg variations and Dances at a gathering; his favorite ballets, including Balanchine's Four temperaments, Agon, and Theme and variations; his coming performances with the Royal Danish Ballet, in New York City; leisure activities.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Includes correspondence, subject files, articles, transcripts of broadcasts, photographs and other materials dating from the end of the 1950s to 1996. Series III contains publications, writings and transcripts of broadcasts Tyler hosted on WEVD, New York.
Mimeographed daily broadcast content reports of the U.S. Information Agency, Broadcast Service, Munich Radio Center, the "Voice of America." The reports are from the end of November 1954 through May 1956.
Extent:
19 boxes
Repository/Collector:
Rare Book and Manuscript Collections, Butler Library
In this recording, David Randolph discusses the book "The agony of modern music" by Henry Pleasants. During his discussion, D. Randolph plays two musical pieces: 1. Prokofiev's Violin concerto no. 2 (slow movement) (9:43) and 2. L. van Beethoven's Große fugue from his String quartet, no. 13 (3:55, fades out) to counteract Pleasants' thesis that "Serious music is a dead art."
Content types:
Sounds
Formats:
CD
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Martin Bookspan interviews American composer Stephen Albert. Albert discusses his life and career as a composer, and his passion to write music for the human voice. He also speaks about his work with the conductor of the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra, Carlo Maria Giulini. The composer discusses each of the following works, excerpts of which are then played during the interview: Supernatural songs (for soprano, piano, and chamber orchestra, words from W.B. Yeats' Supernatural songs) (1963), Leaves from the golden notebook (first movement), Winter songs (for tenor and orchestra), Wolf time (for soprano and orchestra with amplification, text from the Völuspá, the tenth century Icelandic edda) (1969), Bacchae (text extracted from Euripides ; translated by William Arrowsmith) (1968).
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Correspondence, speeches, memoranda, minutes, and publications, including radio talks and platform addresses given at the Society for Ethical Culture, the papers of several housing committees on which Black served, and autobiographical subject files compiled by Black and documenting his participation in many organizations and social causes.
Extent:
12 linear ft (ca. 14,035 items in 27 boxes)
Repository/Collector:
Rare Book and Manuscript Collections, Butler Library
Tapes contain live performance of the Primavera String Quartet in Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center. The concert was broadcast on NPR, on WNYC-FM. Reporter Andrew Berger provided commentary for each piece, using the composers' biographies and additional information about the pieces. During intermission on Reel 1, Berger conducts a taped interview of the members of the string quartet, who share their personal experiences of performing with Primavera, and talk about Tchaikovsky's Third string quartet, a memorial dedicated to his friendship of Ferdinand Laub. The interview resumed on Reel 2, followed by the rest of the concert. Five songs for string quartet are arranged from these George Gershwin songs: 1. "He loves, [and] she loves," 2. "Fascinating rhythm," 3. "Do it again," "Clap yo' hands," and 5. "Sweet and low down." A surprise encore of an unidentified Kurt Weill arrangement is also performed.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
2 recordings
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Alicia Alonso speaks with Kyra Lynn Kaptzan about her early dance training in Spain and Cuba; dance companies she saw in Cuba; the circumstances of her leaving Cuba for the U.S.; her dance training and early career in New York City, including her joining Ballet Theatre; her problems with her eye sight; reasons she concentrates on technique; founding Ballet Nacional de Cuba; touring with Ballet Alicia Alonso; dances choreographed on her; her approach to Giselle; her curtain call bows; leaving the U.S. to live in Cuba and focus on the Ballet Nacional de Cuba; the recruiting of dancers; her staging of ballets for other companies; her own choreographing; the company's choreographers, including Alberto Alonso; family members who work in her company; cultural exchanges with the U.S.
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 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
In 1st work: Siegfried Borries, violin ; Radio Berlin Symphony Orchestra ; Otto Rota [i.e. Artur Rother], conductor. In 2nd-3rd works: Alice Howland, soprano ; David Weber, clarinet ; Leopold Mitman [sic], piano. In 4th work: Stradivari Records Chamber Music Ensemble. In 5th work: Saxon State Orchestra ; Karl Böhm, 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: Nikolai Graudan, violoncello ; Joanna Graudan, piano. In 2nd work: Budapest [String] Quartet. In 4th work: I. Stravinsky, composer and conductor. David Randolph, host.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Consists of governance and financial documents, reports, correspondence, memoranda and notes pertaining to radio programs, courses and programs to promote workers' education, adult and vocational schools and educational programs, 1921-1951.
Contains transcripts of radio and television scripts, 1939-1958, including those of Francis C. Stifler, texts of radio broadcasts, 1921-1943, relating to the church's missionary work and public relations material including samples of radio broadcasts, 1923-1924.
The collection consists of original manuscripts, correspondence, and related documents for "The American Story," the prize-winning, continuing script series prepared and distributed to radio stations as a public service by Broadcast Music, Inc., in association with the Society of American Historians. Designed to bring authoritative American history before wide audiences, "The American Story" was inaugurated in July 1954. Contributors to this series of 212 papers have been such outstanding historians as George Dangerfield, Marquis James, Frank Luther Mott, Allan Nevins, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Bruce Catton, Richard B. Morris, Howard Mumford Jones--115 altogether, faculty members of 48 colleges and universities as well as private individuals.
Extent:
2.5 linear ft (ca.750 items in 5 boxes)
Repository/Collector:
Rare Book and Manuscript Collections, Butler Library
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
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
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
Wilhelm Kempff, piano (3rd work) ; Egon Petri, piano (4th work) ; Vienna State Opera with Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra (6th work) ; Budapest Quartet (7th work) ; New Music Quartet (8th work) ; David Randolph, host ; with unidentified radio announcer and various performers.
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: Hughes Cuénod, tenor (Narrator) ; Derrik Olsen, baritone (Tancredi) ; Dora Abel, soprano (Clorinda) ; Radio Zurich Symphony Orchestra ; Walter Goehr, conductor. In 2nd work: Eleanor Houston, soprano (Dido) ; Henry Cummings, baritone (Aeneas) ; with unidentified soloists ; Stuart Chamber Orchestra and Chorus ; Jackson Gregory, 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-5th works: Hugues Cuénod, tenor ; Hermann Leeb, lute. In 6th work (aka 5th work, version 2): Paul Matthen, bass ; Emilia Mitrani, piano. In 7th work: Lorna Sydney, second-soprano ; Wilhelm Loibner, piano. In 8th-16th works: Anna Louise Kautz and Harriet Hill, sopranos ; Mildred Greenberg, contralto ; Abram Sheer, tenor ; Bert Spero, baritone. 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
Cassettes contain both the full performance and two radio commercial spots of the NYSF musical On the lock-in. The radio spots were broadcast on WBLS FM.
Content types:
Sounds
Formats:
Audiocassette
Extent:
2 recordings
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
"In Stomp, the members of the Combine used music, scenes and film to talk about their lives and times. The group was predominately comprised of dropouts from various programs at the University of Texas, and the show explains in part their journey from college kids to hippies"
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Address to American Legion, Chicago, Oct. 2, 1933. - FDR in Miami, Feb. 15, 1933: Makes an impromptu speech while driving in open car; Attempted assassination by Zangara [noise of shots, shouts of crowd; from a radio broadcast long after event, or from an aural biography?]; Mrs. F. W. Cross describes assissination attempt and how she deflected the aim of the gunman.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
Contains manuscripts, correspondence, including letters from Guglielmo Marconi, Lee De Forest and Vladimir Zworykin, and memorabilia dealing with the early history of radio and wireless telegraphy.
Contains memoranda concerning National Policy Committee dinners and reports of meetings at which were discussed political and economic issues confronting the postwar world, including the press and radio in wartime.
Includes print material and sound recordings of radio interviews of Weill and Lenya as well as programs about their works and plans for a series of radio operas.
The Bob Fass Recordings and Papers contains materials created by Bob Fass, host of the late-night program Radio Unnameable on New York City’s WBAI radio station. The collection primarily consists of audio recordings of Radio Unnameable and other radio programs hosted by Bob Fass between 1963 and 2011. A small number of video recordings, photographs, correspondence, printed ephemera, and motion picture films are also included in the collection.
Extent:
190 linear ft. (157 record cartons, 5 document boxes, 80 audiocassette boxes, and 18 flat boxes)
Repository/Collector:
Rare Book and Manuscript Collections, Butler Library
A privately held audio collection of approximately 85,000 hours of programs representing all genres. Also contains an extensive collection of print broadcast history materials, including books, scripts, program logs, magazines, ephemera and looseleaf binders containing mostly clippings from old radio magazines that are organized by program and/or performer.
Contains internal records, manuscripts, radio scripts, books and periodicals of the publishing company. Includes scripts for The Avenger, 1941 and n.d., Doc Savage, 1943, Chick Carter-Boy Detective, 1943-1945, Nick Carter, Master Detective, 1943-1955, and The Shadow (including Australian scripts and South American scripts in Portuguese), 1937-1954. See online list at https://library.syr.edu/digital/guides/s/street_smith.htm
Consists chiefly of correspondence and production files relating to the creation, production and performance of their works for stage, screen, radio and television.
Repository/Collector:
Rare Book and Manuscript Collections, Butler Library
An assorted collection of sound recordings of programs dealing with Jewish culture and history, including entertainment, news, religious programs and public affairs. Recordings can be listened to in the Museum.
Contains correspondence, memoranda, reports, minutes and other items concerning Cornell University Religious Work (CURW) and its predecessor, the Cornell University Christian Association (CUCA), including radio scripts.
The Andrew Sarris Papers are comprised of correspondence, drafts and manuscripts, clippings, printed ephemera, periodicals, monographs, photographs, and audio recordings related to the career and personal life of renowned film critic Andrew Sarris.
Extent:
20 linear feet
Repository/Collector:
Rare Book and Manuscript Collections, Butler Library
Consists of theater, film, book and radio reviews clipped from newspapers and magazines, correspondence, theater and ballet programs and radio and film scripts.
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
The Bureau of Applied Social Research, headed by sociologist Paul Lazarsfeld, was established in 1944 and helped make Columbia a pioneering institution in the social sciences. Through empirical research, ideas regarding the functioning of individuals and groups were developed and tested. Many ground-breaking studies were conducted by Lazarsfeld and his colleagues, among the most important of which was the impact of radio and television on the American public. Through such work, the Bureau become the "birthplace" of mass communication research. Many survey techniques were developed at the Bureau, such as the focused interview and panel interviewing methods. The Bureau was eventually succeeded by the Center for the Social Sciences in 1976.
Extent:
103 boxes
Repository/Collector:
Rare Book and Manuscript Collections, Butler Library
Consists of documentation of cases arbitrated by Feinberg, including CBS vs. Radio Writers Guild and Directors' Guild of America, 1953, 1974, on issues of contract interpretation, position classification, overtime and plant rules.
We have a fair number of audio recordings of public programs and lectures at The New School going back to the late 1950s--certain of them bear evidence of having been recorded by Pacifica Radio at The New School (I'd have to call them in from offsite storage to check if the station name bears the names of both WBAI and Pacifica), and indicates air dates. These are on 1/4" reel to reel tape. We have a small amount of documentation between TNS and the station(s) and surmise that The New School had a relationship with WBAI or Pacifica to record and broadcast lectures/programs featuring well-known participants. The Pacifica Radio Archive lists at least some of these recordings in its online catalog.
Content types:
Sounds and Other
Formats:
Reel-to-reel
Repository/Collector:
The New School Libraries and Archives, Archives & Special Collections
Includes recordings of news broadcasts, 1933 to present. Some tapes have been donated to the National Archives and to the Milo Ryan History in Sound: KIRO-CBS Collection, formerly at the University of Washington, Seattle, WA and now at the National Archives. Access to tapes is available on a "for sale" basis. Archives may also contain some recordings of general programs but no listing is available and access may not be possible due to legal issues.
See searchable online database for complete information on all performers, operas and ballets at the Met since 1883. The database also includes photos, designs, reviews, statistics, and chapters on great events in Met history. Contact organization regarding access to print archives.
Clippings, papers and 2,000 recordings, including air-checks and transcription discs of the Orchestra's appearance on many programs, including the Eveready Hour. Collection is privately held.
Professional and personal files including Armstrong's correspondence with professional associations, other engineers, and friends, his research notes, circuit diagrams, lectures, articles, legal papers, and other related materials. Of his many inventions and developments, the most important are: 1) the regenerative or feedback circuit, 1912, the first amplified radio reception, 2) the superheterodyne circuit, 1918, the basis of modern radio and radar, 3) superregeneration, 1922, a very simple, high-power receiver now used in emergency mobile service, and 4) frequency modulation - FM, 1933, static-free radio reception of high fidelity
Extent:
295.7 linear ft ( 573 boxes, 30 flat folders, 10 phono discs, & 5 tape reels).
Repository/Collector:
Rare Book and Manuscript Collections, Butler Library
Arnold discusses his early advertising experiences, first contacts with radio, broadcasting and advertising, his role as Director of Development for NBC, pre-recorded programs and early radio advertisers.
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
Edward Albano (Tonio) ; Lola Monte [sic] Gorsey (Nedda) ; Edward Ransome (Canio) ; Alfred Chigi (Silvio) ; Paolo Calvini (Beppe) ; Miguel Sandoval, conductor ; unidentified chorus.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
4 recordings
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center