Interview conducted by Oliver Daniel, Aug. 17, 1976.

Format:

Other

Author/Creator:

Allen, Reginald, interviewee.

Contributor:

Daniel, Oliver, interviewer.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Yarnall, Charlton, 1864-1959?.

Yarnall, Charlton.

Welsh, Francis Ralston, 1861?-1938.

Welsh, Francis Ralston.

Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.).

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.

5 leaves

Contained In:

Oliver Daniel Research Collection on Leopold Stokowski. Folder 471; Box 51, CD 025.

Place of Publication:

Aug. 17, 1976.

Summary:

Allen discusses the 1966 gala for the closing of the old Metropolitan Opera house in New York and Stokowski's speech about saving the Met; also Stokowski's performance of works in Philadelphia in the 1930s which upset the board of the Philadelphia Orchestra, mentioning Charlton Yarnall and Francis Ralston Welsh.

Notes:

Recorded on Aug. 17, 1976 in New York, N.Y.

Original copy: cassette tape 24; preservation copy: one 10 1/2 in. reel to reel tape 25; service copy: one compact disk CD 025. Preservation and service copies recorded October and November 2000.