Interview : conducted by Oliver Daniel, Sept. 10, 1976.

Format:

Other

Author/Creator:

List, Eugene, 1918-1985, interviewee.

Contributor:

Daniel, Oliver, interviewer.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Polk, Maria H. Dehon, approximately 1857-1941.

Polk, Maria H. Dehon.

Rachlin, Ezra.

Samaroff Stokowski, Olga, 1882-1948.

Samaroff Stokowski, Olga.

Thorbecke, Sonya Stokowski.

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.

14 leaves

Contained In:

Oliver Daniel Research Collection on Leopold Stokowski. Folder 698; Box 52, CD 031.

Place of Publication:

Sept. 10, 1976.

Summary:

Eugene List discusses his teacher, Olga Samaroff Stokowski, and the years he lived as a student with Maria H. Dehon Polk. He discusses Samaroff's other students Ezra Rachlin, Alexis Wissenberg, Raymond Lewenthal, and Rosalyn Tureck; Samaroff's teaching style, her relationship with Stokowski after their divorce, and their daughter Sonya. He describes playing the First Piano Concerto of Shostakovich at Stokowski's apartment in Philadelphia and in concert.

Notes:

Recorded on Sept. 10, 1976 in New York, N.Y. at the BMI office.

Original copy: cassette tape 28; preservation copy: one 10 1/2 in. reel to reel tape 31; service copy: one compact disk CD 031. Preservation and service copies recorded October and November 2000.