WRUC - Union College; Producer: Radio Division, Department of Theater Arts, University of California at Los Angeles and Audio-Visual Aids Section of the Los Angeles City Schools
Martin Bookspan interviews American composer and pianist Netty Simons. Simons talks about her studies at New York University with Percy Grainger, and later privately with Stefan Wolpe. She speaks about both of her teachers, and compares their personalities and their influences on her works. She discusses avant-garde music, and her career as a composer. The composer also talks about each of the following works, excerpts of which are then played during the interview: Trialogue no. 1: the tombstone told when she died and Trialogue no. 2: myselves grieve (for mezzo-soprano, baritone and viola; text by Dylan Thomas), Silver thaw (for 1 to 8 players) (1969), Five sprays of the snow fountain (for two pianos) (1970); and reads fragments from two poems by D. Thomas.
Content types:
Sounds
Extent:
1 recording
Repository/Collector:
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
A phonograph record and transcript of the May 28, 1952 student raid on WVBR and the broadcasting of music and a false news report concerning Russian bombings of London and Marseilles.
A dozen reels of NBC programs, 1927, 1929, that were "recorded" onto an experimental sound-on-film format that led to the development of the RCA Photophone system. The programs include Walter Damrosch conducting the GE Symphony Orchestra.
Prose manuscripts, related correspondence, notes, printed material, and audio tapes of Thomson. Included are notes and drafts of many of Thomson's early articles, and numerous manuscripts of columns published in the HERALD TRIBUNE in the 1940s. Thomson's special interests reflected in these writings are modern music, American hymns, and the performance of music in Europe. Also, 125 reels of tapes of Thomson's program on radio station WNCN (New York), 1969-1970.
Formats:
Open reel tape (unknown material)
Extent:
17 boxes, 1 oversize folder, 125 audio tape reels
Repository/Collector:
Rare Book and Manuscript Collections, Butler Library
The collection consists of 5 folders of mimeographs of Ralph W. Sockman's addresses from the National Broadcasting Company's (NBC) radio program the National radio pulpit.
Extent:
0.25 linear feet
Repository/Collector:
Rare Book and Manuscript Collections, Butler Library