Interview conducted by Oliver Daniel, Nov. 29, 1976.

Format:

Other

Author/Creator:

Hart, Philip, 1914-2000, interviewee.

Contributor:

Daniel, Oliver, interviewer.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Judson, Arthur Leon, 1881-1975.

Judson, Arthur Leon.

Reiner, Fritz, 1888-1963.

Reiner, Fritz.

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.

11 leaves

Contained In:

Oliver Daniel Research Collection on Leopold Stokowski. Folder 363; Box 51, CD 019.

Place of Publication:

Nov. 29, 1976.

Summary:

Hart discusses Stokowski's reluctance to be the subject of a chapter in Hart's book Orpheus in the New World and Stokowski's years with Arthur Judson and the Philadelphia Orchestra, citing information Hart obtained from Judson. Hart tells an anecdote about Stokowski running into Fritz and Carla Reiner on their honeymoon in Europe and discusses Stokowski's last years in Philadelphia, and the possibility that Reiner might succeed Stokowski. He also mentions Eugene Ormandy, Pierre Monteux, Mary Louise Curtis Bok, the Curtis Institute, Samuel Rosenbaum, and others.

Notes:

Recorded Nov. 29, 1976 at Daniel's office in New York, N.Y.

Original copy: Cassette tape 18; preservation copy: one 10 1/2 in. reel to reel tape 19; service copy: one compact disk CD 019. Preservation and service copies recorded October and November 2000.