Interview : conducted by Robert Dumm, Apr. 6, 1959.

Format:

Other

Author/Creator:

Stokowski, Leopold, 1882-1977, interviewee.

Contributor:

Dumm, Robert, 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.

13 leaves

Contained In:

Oliver Daniel Research Collection on Leopold Stokowski. Folder 837; Box 53, CD 069.

Place of Publication:

Apr. 6, 1959.

Summary:

Stokowski discusses the Houston Symphony Orchestra; the dynamic of conducting; contemporary music; romanticism in music; New York City; electronic instruments; folk music; the evolution of music; new forms in music; Beethoven's music; performers and composers; and his anticipation of going back to Philadelphia to conduct the Philadelphia Orchestra.

Notes:

No information about recording; it appears that copies of the same interview may have been preserved on both cassettes 55 and 85.

Original copy: cassette tape 55 and 85; preservation copy: one 10 1/2 in. reel to reel tape 69; service copy: one compact disk CD 069. Preservation and service copies recorded November 2000.