Interview conducted by Oliver Daniel, Aug. 4, 1976.

Format:

Other

Author/Creator:

Bitter, John, 1909- interviewee.

Contributor:

Daniel, Oliver, interviewer.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

All-American Youth Orchestra.

University of Miami. Symphony Orchestra.

University of Miami.

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 510; Box 51, CD 023.

Place of Publication:

Aug. 4, 1976.

Summary:

John Bitter discusses meeting Stokowski when Bitter was a student at the Curtis Institute of Music. He mentions Artur Rodzinski, Aubrey Williams, Margaret Valiant, Walter Abel, Greta Garbo, Saul Caston, the plans and auditions for the All-American Youth Orchestra, traveling with the Orchestra in South America, meeting Villa-Lobos on the pier, rehearsing and making transcriptions. He remembers Stokowski conducting the University of Miami Symphony Orchestra in 1955 and discusses a visit with Evangeline Johnson and a picnic with his family in the Everglades.

Notes:

Recorded on Aug. 4, 1976 in New York, N.Y. in Oliver Daniel's office.

Original copy: cassette tape 21; preservation copy: one 10 1/2 in. reel to reel tape 23; service copy: one compact disk CD 023. Preservation and service copies recorded October and November 2000.