Interview conducted by Oliver Daniel, Mar. 11, 1976.

Format:

Other

Author/Creator:

Cohn, Arthur, 1910-1998, interviewee.

Contributor:

Daniel, Oliver, interviewer.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Berg, Alban, 1885-1935. Wozzeck.

Berg, Alban.

Genre:

Interviews.

Oral histories (literary works)

Sound recordings.

Transcripts.

Physical Description:

1 audiocassette : analog

1 sound tape reel : analog, 7 1/2 ips, 2 tracks, NAB standard ; 10 1/2 in., 1/4 in. tape

digital ; 4 3/4 in.

17 leaves

3 7/8 x 2 1/2 in.

Contained In:

Oliver Daniel Research Collection on Leopold Stokowski. Folder 543; Box 51, CD 007.

Place of Publication:

Mar. 11, 1976.

System Details:

analog

magnetic

3 3/4 ips

full (1) track

Biography/History:

Composer.

Summary:

Cohn discusses Stokowski's tenure with the Philadelphia Orchestra including his introduction of youth concerts there; Stokowski's Bach transcriptions and Lucien Cailliet's contribution to them; Stokowski's love of chamber music including his request for a private performance of the Shostakovich Piano Quintet; his programming of contemporary music by Shostakovich, Cowell, Berg, Webern, Varèse, Josten, Riegger, and others; Stokowski's rehearsals of the orchestra; the rehearsals for Berg's opera Wozzeck and Mary Louise Curtis Bok's funding of the opera; and the Band of Gold, a brass orchestra formed by Stokowski, who transcribed the music for the group.

Cohn also discusses his own career in Philadelphia as curator for the Fleischer Collection at the Free Library of Philadelphia, as director of Settlement Music School, and as a performer. He mentions his work Kaddish for orchestra which he composed in response to a request from Stokowski for a short orchestral work.

Notes:

Recorded March 11, 1976 in New York City.

Original copy: Cassette tape 4; preservation copy: one 10 1/2 in. reel to reel tape 7; service copy: one compact disk CD 007. Preservation and service copies recorded October and November 2000.