Interview conducted by Martin Bookspan, [1960].

Format:

Other

Author/Creator:

Stokowski, Leopold, 1882-1977, interviewee.

Contributor:

Bookspan, Martin, interviewer.

WXQR (Radio station: New York, N.Y.)

Language:

English

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.

15 leaves

Contained In:

Oliver Daniel Research Collection on Leopold Stokowski. Folder 839; Box 51, CD 012.

Place of Publication:

[1960].

Summary:

Stokowski was interviewed by Martin Bookspan for WQXR radio. Stokowski discusses the circumstances which caused him to leave the Philadelphia Orchestra, his excitement at returning to conduct and record with the Philadelphia Orchestra in 1959; his plan to conduct Schoenberg's Gurreleider in Philadelphia the following season. Stokowski reminisces about Kreisler, Rachmaninoff, Prokofiev, Paderewski, and Richard Strauss; discusses twentieth-century music and Pablo Casals opinion of it; the Houston Symphony Orchestra and chorus; the Symphony of the Air and Stokowski's introduction of Shostakovich's 11th symphony in New York; and his performance and recording of Respighi's The Pines of Rome. Stokowski discusses his first U.S. performances of Orff's Carmina Burana, Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex, and Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov in the original orchestration; and talks about Texas humor.

Notes:

Recorded in Stokowski's apartment in New York, N.Y. on an unspecified date in 1960; broadcast on WQXR April 22, 1960.

Includes excerpts from some Stokowski recordings mentioned in the interview.

Original copy: Cassette tape 10; preservation copy: one 10 1/2 in. reel to reel tape 12; service copy: one compact disk CD 012. Preservation and service copies recorded October and November 2000.