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
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
Contains miscellaneous biographical information, correspondence with Fred Allen, J.J. Shubert and RKO Corporation, scripts for The Fred Allen Show, Texaco Star Theater, Dr. Rockwell's Brain Trust, and Jack Oakie's College plus scrapbooks, photographs, clippings and other materials.
Contains typescripts of jokes used by various comedians on radio shows, 1947, a 3x5 card file of jokes, manuscripts of articles and short stories, humor newsletters and other papers.
Includes scripts, sales contracts, newsletters, memos, photos, sound recordings and brochures. Snell was an announcer and script writer for KDYL, Salt Lake City, 1938-1944, a producer for KPO, San Francisco, 1945-1947, and the owner of a chain of radio stations in California and the co-developer of the all-country music radio format.
Repository/Collector:
J. Willard Marriott Library, Special Collections, University of Utah
Mainly correspondence and manuscripts of his novels and short stories and some financial papers. Includes some unidentified radio scripts. Albee also worked for an advertising agency and wrote commercials for Cavalcade of America.
Repository/Collector:
Bancroft Library, University of California at Berkeley
Consists of manuscripts jointly written by Hollywood actors George and Olive Kirby Larkin, mostly mystery scripts for radio, stage and film. Personal material includes a book, clippings, other printed material, photographs, postcards and prints. Includes an undated script, "Bulldog Courage," and some unidentified radio audition material.
Repository/Collector:
Department of Special Collections, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
Consists of correspondence, minutes, newspaper clippings, reports, newsletters and miscellany pertaining to the Service Bureau for Intercultural Education, including materials related to Americans All, Immigrants All.
Repository/Collector:
Immigration History Research Center, University of Minnesota
Clippings in the collection pertain to Quilici's anti-fascist radio work and to the movemenet to erase General Italio Balbo's name from Chicago streets and parks.
Repository/Collector:
Immigration History Research Center, University of Minnesota
Consists of Beard's manuscripts of published and unpublished books, correspondence, 16 boxes of tape recordings of his lectures, lecture notes, articles and other papers. Includes transcripts of lectures aired over CBS and CBS-KNXT, 1956-1957.
Repository/Collector:
Department of Special Collections, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
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
Contains papers associated with Kingsbury's career as a journalist, including his broadcast career with WLW, Cincinnati, OH and later as a vice president for WLW's parent company, Crosley Broadcasting. Includes scripts for Personalities in Government, a program that profiled important Kentuckians and national figures.
Repository/Collector:
Special Collections and Archives, University of Kentucky
Contains published and unpublished manuscripts, including an unpublished biography of Tallulah Bankhead, correspondence, reviews, poetry, literary contracts and photographs relating to Maxwell's activities as an author, editor and educator. Correspondence discusses Maxwell's writings, publication and readings of his works, his production of radio programs and his involvement with the Federal Writers' and Federal Theatre Projects.
Repository/Collector:
Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Georgia
Consists of correspondence, manuscripts, typescripts, notes, photographs and printed materials relating to his research, writing and teaching. Also includes correspondence concerning his syndicated radio talks.
Repository/Collector:
Rare Book and Manuscript Collections, Butler Library
Contains correspondence and published items, newspaper clippings on fascism, socialism and World War I, photographs, pamphlets, cartoons and caricatures by Fort Velona and materials pertaining to Arturo Giovannitti and New York politicians. Valenti also worked for the Italian American station WHAY in Connecticut. Check with repository to determine if papers cover his radio career.
Repository/Collector:
Immigration History Research Center, University of Minnesota
Includes correspondence, scripts (also synopses and story outlines), photographs, music, clippings, legal and financial records and audio recordings which document Swanson's radio appearances, 1927-1981. The types of programs include interviews, radio plays, serials, patriotic appeals during World War II, commercials and talk shows. Includes material on The Gloria Swanson Show, 1950-1951 the Lux Radio Theatre version of "Sunset Boulevard," 1951 and other programs. See detailed list in finding aid. Note: The papers are divided into separate collections, each with its own finding aid.
Repository/Collector:
Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin
Papers of a Washington, DC, correspondent for NBC and public relations director for the Gulf Oil Corporation. News scripts, 1961-1975, comprise the majority of the collection. Contents include scripts for News on the Hour, Monitor, Today in Washington, and World News Roundup plus scripts for Voice of America and television.
Scrapbooks document the engagements of the orchestra with clippings providing a chronology of the orchestra's performances. Also includes photographs, programs and other materials. The orchestra was heard on various radio stations, including KPO and KFWB and other stations affiliated with NBC and CBS.
Swedish Broadcast Corp programs titled: 'Stockholmer's Diary', 'Sweden Today', 'Swedish Spectrum'. Recording sent to subscribers. Mailing address was Burlington, Vermont in 1962, subsequent return address is NYC. 7" reels, not digitized.
Content types:
Performed music, Sounds (Other than music & language), and Spoken word
Contains correspondence, two 78rpm records of a KMBC broadcast, Midland Broadcasting Company, Kansas City, MO, n.d., a 78rpm record of an episode of Police Headquarters, n.d., and other material relating to film production.
A writer for radio and television and an advertising executive, the papers include scripts for I Remember Mama, The Firefighters and Reflections. Also includes materials relating to his other work.
Repository/Collector:
Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan
Contains story scripts for most of the 15 minute programs which were for children plus sample opening and closing scripts for each of the 52 programs, buttons and blank certificates of membership and possibly some unprocessed 16" transcription discs.
Contains 135 transcripts of broadcasts made by the Governor, 1939-1941, most of which were regular weekly Sunday morning half hour programs and some special events. Weekly programs were usually religion based and family oriented although he also discussed legislative and social issues. Also includes some papers relating to the broadcasts.
Contains correspondence, advertisements and public relations materials, lyrics, sheet music, comedy material, programs and scripts, music catalogs, biographical material, autograph books, clippings and other papers relating to Jackson's career as a musician and entertainer who appeared on WERD.
Correspondence, legal proceedings, printed transcripts of radio and television broadcasts, scripts, memoranda, production inventories, office and business papers and newspaper clippings, chiefly 1941-1967. The radio papers relate primarily to American Forum of the Air, Youth Wants To Know, and All America Wants To Know.
Contains scripts, production logs and information about Van Patten's career as a director, writer and on-air host at WRGB, 1951-1970s. In the 1960s Van Patten created documentaries about the harmful effects of gambling and teenage drinking.
Miscellaneous papers, consisting primarily of programs and articles written by and concerning Still, an African American composer. Includes a copy of Still's own manuscript of the song "Mississippi" composed for the Sound Off program and first presented on that program over the ABC network, July 26, 1948.
Consists of internal corporate and production files and radio scripts of the electronic transcriptions that Grayson Rosser Productions produced. The radio plays were written by King Hamilton Grayson and Winifred Rosser and were first copyrighted to Radio Programs, Limited and later to King Hamilton Grayson and Winifred Rosser and Associates. The subjects of the plays include mysteries, comedies, dramas and one murder mystery set in Oakland, CA. The scripts and catalogs contain annotations regarding actors and sounds.
Repository/Collector:
Bancroft Library, University of California at Berkeley
Contains radio plays of the Pulitzer prize winning playwright. Collection includes a detailed list of the titles and dates but no indication as to the radio program/s that broadcast the plays.
Repository/Collector:
Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Papers of a journalist, radio commentator and producer of Yiddish radio programs in Philadelphia and Miami, 1952-1958. The collection includes scripts of his radio talks, commentaries and other appearances, clippings from Yiddish newspapers about the radio programs, correspondence and sound recordings of Jewish folk music, theater music and cantorial music.
Repository/Collector:
Max and Frieda Weinstein Archive of YIVO Sound Recordings, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
Collection consists of materials by and relating to cartoonist and writer Gross. Includes scripts, legal papers and correspondence, 1950-1952, for That's My Pop plus scrapbooks containing clippings of his cartoons and newspaper columns, original drawings, manuscripts, photographs, correspondence, including fan letters, and ephemera.
Repository/Collector:
Department of Special Collections, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA)
Transcripts and interviews with pioneers of public radio broadcasting in the United States conducted by Burt Harrison, former manager of KWSU, 1977-1978, under a contract from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Repository/Collector:
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University
Includes radio and television scripts for Theatre Guild on the Air (a.k.a. U.S. Steel Hour), plus correspondence and other papers. Also includes non radio related Theatre Guild papers. Scripts are stored in 125 boxes, arranged alphabetically by title. Correspondence is arranged alphabetically. Note: Sound recordings of the programs are in the Music Library.
Repository/Collector:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University
Contains extensive correspondence, musical scores, newsclippings, advertisements, legal and financial material, photographs, scrap-books, scripts and phonograph records for Seth Parker, Seth Parker's Old Fashioned Singing School and Sunday Evenings at Seth Parker's.
Includes scrapbooks, advertisements and other materials relating to WSAM, one of a network of Michigan stations owned by MacDonald, and other papers detailing MacDonald's involvement with the National Association of Broadcasters.
Repository/Collector:
Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan
Scripts for radio dramas written, directed or produced by a cantor at Temple Beth-El in Cedarhurst, NY together with collected files on other religious broadcasts sponsored by various Jewish organizations such as the Jewish Theological Seminary and the American Zionist Council. Most extensively documented is The Eternal Light on which Segal was frequently featured as cantor.
Sound recording of the Housewives Protective League program broadcast on July 11, 1956 on WCCO featuring Juergen Nash and Tom Swain, Executive Director of the Minnesota Statehood Centennial Commission, discussing the goals and plans for the centennial celebration, including the roles of women in the celebration.
Papers documenting Hass's broadcasting career beginning in 1935 when he bought an almost defunct radio station, KPCB, and renamed it KIRO. Haas was also president of the Queen City Broadcasting Company and chairman of the board until KIRO was sold in 1964. Papers also cover later years and non radio related aspects of his life.
Repository/Collector:
University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections, University of Washington
Contains correspondence, poems, radio presentations, teaching aids, illustrations, theater programs, yearbooks, songbooks, scrapbooks, certificates of merit, clippings, postcards and photos relating to her activities with the Polish theater and radio in Detroit.
Contains sermon outlines, correspondence and other papers and audio tapes of the America for God broadcasts. The program originated at WCFL and was carried by other midwest stations. All of the extant numbered programs (1-436) have been retained in the collection.
Papers of a writer, producer and director of numerous television comedies. Catalog listing notes that the collection includes "scripts for radio programs" but only identifies the Beulah Show. Other papers may only deal with television. Check with repository for more information.
Contains correspondence, photographs, clippings, legal documents, sheet music and recorded music documenting Kemp's career as a band leader. Also includes sheet music, records and audio cassettes although none of the cassettes appears to be of radio programs. Check online finding aid to determine if any of the print materials relate to Kemp's performances on the Penzoil Parade and Chesterfield programs.
Repository/Collector:
Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Scripts used in First Nighter and Talkie Picture Time programs. Written under Hale's maiden name, Margaret Halliwell, in collaboration with Dorothy de Jagers, Beatrice M. Gottlieb, Hilda Gottlieb, Jeanette I. Helm, Hal Field Leslie and Marion Waldman.
Light's Golden Jubilee; Midsummer Night's Dream; Jpage Morris Refrigerator Program; Eastern States Basketball Championship; General Electric Radio Hour; Mobil Radio Hour; Lucky Strike Hour; GE Concert Orchestra; An Evening in Paris; GE Concert Orchestra; Kane Krooners
Papers of an early radio performer who was most famous for his composition "It Ain't Gonna Rain No Mo." The collection consists of biographical material and microfilmed scrapbooks, fan mail, miscellaneous printed matter and recordings, including one with Milton Berle.
Consists of photographs commemorating activities and events involving Pittman and the NAACP Regional Office, 1951-1970. May not contain information about Pittman's radio program Negroes in the News.
Repository/Collector:
Bancroft Library, University of California at Berkeley
Series I consists mainly of radio scripts written by Hall as an information specialist for the Cleveland Office of Civilian Defense during World War II. Recordings of the program are in the Audio Visual collection.
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
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
6) New Hampshire War Finance Committee interview with Eleanor Roosevelt [sound recording]. 5) War bond salute to labor [sound recording] : from Berlin, N.H. for WKNE. 4) The essence of May [videorecording DVD] / May Gruber ; interviewed by Laura Knoy, New Hampshire Public Radio. 3) New Hampshire pledges for victory [sound recording] : foreign speech program. 1) A Tribute to New Hampshire : General Motors presents "The parade of the states" : Monday, August 29, 1932, 8:30 to 9:00 P.M., E.S.T. : WEAF and NBC coast to coast Red network. 2) New Hampshire War Finance Committee [sound recording]. [Interview with] Eleanor Roosevelt; program from WKNE.
Recordings of NHPR programs produced for broadcast and podcast distribution. Including The Exchange, Word of Mouth, Outside/In, Civics 101, Something Wild, New Hampshire News, election coverage, 10 Minute Writers Workshop, The Bookshelf, The Front Porch, Perspectives, and The Folk Show. Date range mainly mid 80s-present.
Content types:
Spoken word, Still image, and Text
Formats:
Analog audiocassette, Digital Audio Tape (DAT), External drive, Optical disc (Including CD, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD, DVD-R, DVD-RW, VCD), Digital audio file, MiniDisc, and Open reel tape
Papers of the "Dean of American Radio Commentators" who introduced editorial analysis to radio news broadcasting. The bulk of the collection is made up of correspondence, scripts and recordings but there are also business and professional papers, book and article manuscripts, notes and scrapbooks. Radio scripts comprise a virtually complete record of his prepared broadcasts for Kaltenborn Edits the News and for a number of other series and specials. Supplementing the papers are more than 500 sound recordings of his regularly scheduled news broadcasts, chiefly 1940-1948, and other programs in which he was a participant. Correspondence includes Kaltenborn's involvement with the Association of Radio Television News Analysts, the Broadcast Pioneers, the Overseas Press Club, the Radio-Television Committee of the American Civil Liberties Union and the Kaltenborn Foundation.
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
Includes scripts for Orchids to You written by Harkins, a Jackson florist. Each script contains biographical information on a citizen of Jackson or the surrounding territory.
Papers, primarily comprised of musical scores and parts, of a composer, arranger and conductor for radio and television and vice-president in charge of music for ABC. Also includes non radio sound recordings.
Correspondence, scripts, program listings and other material concerning Harshaw's programs Battle of Books, Carnival of Books and The Hobby Horse Presents.
"I have numerous air checks of old stations . . . these would be anywhere from 30 seconds to several minutes long but they usually capture important programming elements such as cell letters, jingles, newscasts, countdowns, bulletins, etc."
Consists of Levin's professional and research papers, professional correspondence and background material for the courses he taught. The research papers include talks, presentations and lectures on issues as they related to, or impacted on, media broadcast regulations.
Repository/Collector:
West Campus Library, University Archives, Hofstra University
Consists of correspondence, writings and ephemera relating to Manning's work as a writer of conservation publications and wilderness guides and his employment in Seattle with KXA and KISW, 1954-1957.
Repository/Collector:
University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections, University of Washington
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
Contains 402 reel-toreel tapes (226 original reels and 176 duplicates) of music tracks and original programming broadcast by Huddleston and the Hayden Huddleston Advertising Agency, 1924-1981, on over 350 stations across the United States and Canada. Programs represented on the tapes include Lazy Bill Huggin, Breakfast at the Ponce, Let's Go to Church, What's the Answer, The Hayden Huddleston Show, Claim to Fame, Klub Kwiz, Kiddie Kollege and Klassroom Kuiz. Also includes approximately 500 index cards containing questions used on the quiz shows, 1962-1981.
Papers of a Washington, DC, cultural impresario consisting chiefly of scripts for People and Events in the World of Music, a cultural affairs program aired by WGMS. Also includes correspondence and other papers.