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292. Kathy Novack interviews Joe Papp on WOR-Radio
- Description:
- Tapes contain a radio interview on Joe Papp (WOR radio), reported by Kathy Novack
- Content types:
- Sounds
- Formats:
- Reel-to-reel
- Extent:
- 2 recordings
- Repository/Collector:
- New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
- Online finding aid:
- View on catalog.nypl.org
293. John Lewis
- Description:
- Martin Bookspan interviews jazz composer and pianist John Lewis. Lewis talks about his background as a musician, about his motivation, career and life. He discusses the beginnig of the Modern Jazz Quartet, creator and musical director of which he has been since it became a permanent group in 1951, and was formally incorporated in 1952. He talks about his work with Dizzy Gillespie and other jazzmen. He also reminiscences about his years in Paris. He speaks about his music written for films such as Odds against tomorrow (1959). At the end of the interview he talks about his plans for the future. During the interview excerpts from his Three little feelings (Second movement), Vendôme, from the film Odds against tomorrow, In memoriam, and Midsömmer (1957) are played.
- 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
294. Leon Kirchner
- Description:
- Martin Bookspan interviews American contemporary classical music composer, pianist, conductor, and teacher Leon Kirchner. Kirchner talks about both of his careers: as a teacher and as a composer; about his students; about the performers he used to work with such as violinists Michael Spivakowsky and Isaac Stern; and about electronic tape music. The composer speaks about music by Arnold Schoenberg that influenced him, and he has composed a large quantity of music which is stylistically tied to the works of Schoenberg. He talks about his opera Lily (based on Saul Bellow's Henderson, the Rain King). The composer also discusses each of the following works, excerpts of which are then played during the interview: Music for orchestra (1970), Sonata concertante (for violin and piano, first movement) (1952), Quartet no. 3 (for strings and electronic tape).
- 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
295. Tre ricercari [sound recording] / [Martinů].
- Description:
- The Wallenstein Sinfonietta; Alfred Wallenstein, conductor.
- Content types:
- Sounds
- Extent:
- 2 recordings
- Repository/Collector:
- New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
- Online finding aid:
- View on catalog.nypl.org
296. William Mayer
- Description:
- Martin Bookspan interviews American contemporary composer William Mayer. Mayer talks about his studies at Yale University with Herbert Baumgartner; about his career as a composer; about his work with pianist William Masselos; and about his son pianist Stephen Mayer. Speaking about the variety of music he composed, Mayer says that he prefers to write show music. He speaks about his work as a treasurer for CRI (Composers Recordings, Inc.). The composer discusses in detail each of the following works, excerpts of which are then played during the interview: Octagon (for piano and orchestra, fifth and seventh movements) (1971), Piano sonata (first movement) (1959) that he composed in twelve-tone technique, Two news items: Hastily formed contemporary music ensemble reveals origins (for soprano and instrumental ensemble), Brass quintet (1965), Messages (for flute, string trio, and percussion) (1973), and Two pastels for 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
297. Peter Mennin
- Description:
- Martin Bookspan interviews American composer and teacher Peter Mennin. Mennin talks about his life; about both of his careers: as the president of Juilliard School and as a symphonic composer; about his work with Juilliard Orchestra; about the future of both types of young contemporary composers: avant-garde and classical music composers. The composer discusses in detail each of the following works, excerpts of which are then played during the interview: Piano concerto (first movement) (1958), Symphony no. 7: Variation-symphony (for full orchestra) (1963-1964).
- 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
298. Robert Moevs
- Description:
- Martin Bookspan interviews American composer of contemporary classical music Robert Moevs. Moevs talks about his teachers, Walter Piston and Nadia Boulanger; about both of his careers, as a teacher at Harvard University and Rutgers University, and as a composer; and about his students. He discusses each of the following works, excerpts of which are then played during the interview: Attis (text by G. Catullus Veronensis) (1958), A brief mass (for chorus, organ, vibraphone, guitar, and double bass) (1968), Phoenix (for solo piano )(1971), Et occidentem illustra (Dante) (for chorus and orchestra, based on Divina commedia by Dante Alighier) (1964).
- 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
299. Netty Simons
- Description:
- 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
- Online finding aid:
- View on catalog.nypl.org
300. Phillip Ramey
- Description:
- 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
- Online finding aid:
- View on catalog.nypl.org