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272. Lukas Foss
- Description:
- Martin Bookspan interviews composer, conductor, pianist, and teacher Lukas Foss. Foss talks about both of his careers: as a conductor and as a composer. Speaking about conducting career, he also discusses both of the posts that he held at the same time in 1970's: the conductor and musical director of the Brooklyn Philharmonia (renamed the Brooklyn Philharmonic) in New York, and the conductor of the Kol Yisrael (state radio) Orchestra in Jerusalem (now the Jerusalem Symphony). He discusses each of the following works, which are then played in their entirety: Ni bruit ni vitesse (for 2 pianos and 2 percussionists, playing on the piano strings) (1971), Non-Improvisation (for clarinet, cello, piano/harpsichord, electronic organ, percussion ad libitum (1967), and Paradigm (quintet for percussionist/conductor, electric guitar, and 3 other sustaining instruments) (1968).
- Content types:
- Sounds
- Extent:
- 1 recording
- Repository/Collector:
- New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
- Online finding aid:
- View on catalog.nypl.org
273. George Perle
- Description:
- 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
- Online finding aid:
- View on catalog.nypl.org
274. George Rochberg
- Description:
- 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
- Online finding aid:
- View on catalog.nypl.org
275. Miriam Gideon
- Description:
- Martin Bookspan interviews American composer and teacher Miriam Gideon. Gideon talks about her career as a composer. She discusses in detail each of the following works, excerpts of which are then played during the interview: Fantasy on a Javanese motive (for cello and piano) (1948), Rhymes from the hill (texts from the Galgenlieder by Christian Morgenstern, English translations by Max Knight, for mezzo-soprano, clarinet, marimba and cello), Piano suite no. 3 (1951), The seasons of time (for high voice, flute, cello, and piano, based on Tanka poetry of ancient Japan) (1969), Symphonia brevis (1953), The hound of heaven (words by Francis Thompson, for baritone, oboe, and string trio) (1945), and reads fragments from the poems by Christian Morgenstern.
- Content types:
- Sounds
- Extent:
- 1 recording
- Repository/Collector:
- New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
- Online finding aid:
- View on catalog.nypl.org
276. Interview with Martine Van Hamel
- Description:
- Martine Van Hamel speaks with Kyra Lynn Kaptzan about her early dance training; traveling with her parents and studying internationally; studying at the National Ballet School in Canada during her high school years; joining the National Ballet of Canada; winning the gold medal at the 1966 International Ballet Competition in Varna; moving to New York City in 1969; dancing briefly with the Joffrey Ballet; joining American Ballet Theatre; performing in Swan lake as her first breakthrough at American Ballet Theatre; performing works by George Balanchine, Antony Tudor, Twyla Tharp and Glen Tetley; roles she will be performing in the upcoming season at American Ballet Theatre; the upcoming season at Jacob's Pillow [Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival in Lee, Mass.]; performances of her ensemble, Martine Van Hamel and Friends; small, independent touring ensembles; her interest in painting.
- Content types:
- Sounds
- Extent:
- 1 recording
- Repository/Collector:
- New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
- Online finding aid:
- View on catalog.nypl.org
277. Iain Hamilton
- Description:
- Martin Bookspan interviews composer Iain Hamilton. Hamilton talks about his life and career on both sides of the Atlantic, in London and later in New York; about his studies and his seven years experience as an apprentice engineer; about study of music in his spare time; and about the decision to give up engineering and to devote himself to a musical career. The composer discusses each of the following works, excerpts of which are then played during the interview: Amphion (concerto no. 2 for violin and orchestra, first movement), Alastor (for orchestra, third section), Circus (for 2 trumpets and orchestra), Epitaph for this world and time (for three choruses and three organs, text selected from Revelation (King James version)) (1970), Voyage (for horn and chamber orchestra), Paraphrase of the music for organs in Epitaph for this world and time.
- Content types:
- Sounds
- Extent:
- 1 recording
- Repository/Collector:
- New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
- Online finding aid:
- View on catalog.nypl.org
278. Tribute to Yip Harburg on the Jonathan Schwartz radio program
- Description:
- Jonathan Schwartz talks about the life and career of American lyricist Yip Harburg, and plays recordings of various songs written by Yip Harburg as a tribute to him. Includes compilation of the excerpts from various intherviews with Harburg, and comments by Stephen Sondheim. Jonathan Schwartz and Stephen Sondheim read fragments from Harburg's lyrics.
- Content types:
- Sounds
- Formats:
- Audiocassette
- Extent:
- 1 recording
- Repository/Collector:
- New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
- Online finding aid:
- View on catalog.nypl.org
279. Herbert Haufrecht
- Description:
- Martin Bookspan interviews composer, pianist, folklorist and music editor Herbert Haufrecht. Haufrecht discusses his career as a composer. He talks about his interest in folk music that started when he was hired as a field representative in West Virginia for the Resettlement Administration of the Federal Department of Agriculture. There he collected folk songs and stories, and organized square dances. He discusses the collection of folk songs Folk songs in settings by master composers that he compiled in 1970. He also speaks about his interest in jazz. The composer discusses each of the following works, excerpts of which are then played during the interview: Symphony for brass and timpani (1967), Caprice (for clarinet and piano), Square set (for two pianos), Air on a ground bass (for oboe and guitar), A woodland serenade (for woodwind quintet).
- Content types:
- Sounds
- Formats:
- CD
- Extent:
- 1 recording
- Repository/Collector:
- New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
- Online finding aid:
- View on catalog.nypl.org
280. Lee Hoiby
- Description:
- Martin Bookspan interviews American classical composer and pianist Lee Hoiby. Hoiby talks about both of his careers: as a pianist and composer. Though at first he intended to pursue a career as a concert pianist, today he is more interested in composing, he says. The composer speaks about his early interest in composing, his background, his studies at Mills College, and then later at the Curtis Institute of Music with Gian Carlo Menotti, his life in New York City. He discusses various of his works such as two operas: Summer and smoke, and Natalia Petrovna; and the music he composed for two balets: After Eden (choreography by John Butler) and Suite for orchestra for Hearts, meadows, and flags (choreography by Richard Wagner). Excepts of two ballets 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
- Online finding aid:
- View on catalog.nypl.org