Interview : conducted by Oliver Daniel, July 29, 1977.

Format:

Other

Author/Creator:

Bennett, Robert Russell, 1894-1981, interviewee.

Contributor:

Daniel, Oliver, interviewer.

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.

11 leaves

Contained In:

Oliver Daniel Research Collection on Leopold Stokowski. Folder 508; Box 53, CD 066.

Place of Publication:

July 29, 1977.

Summary:

Bennett discusses his compositions Sights and Sounds, Abraham Lincoln, and Overture to an Imaginary Drama; Stokowski's premiere of Abraham Lincoln with the Philadelphia Orchestra on a program with Mossolov's Soviet Iron Foundry and Von Webern's Symphony no. 3; he also mentions Nadia Boulanger, Arthur Judson, Walter Damrosch, Miles Krueger, Fritz Mahler, Jacques Singer, Andor Foldes, and tells several anecdotes about Stokowski.

Notes:

Recorded on July 29, 1977 in New York, N.Y. at the Warwick.

Original copy: cassette tape 53; preservation copy: one 10 1/2 in. reel to reel tape 66; service copy: one compact disk CD 066. Preservation and service copies recorded November 2000.