Interview : conducted by Martin Bookspan, 197-.

Format:

Other

Author/Creator:

Stokowski, Leopold, 1882-1977, interviewee.

Contributor:

Bookspan, Martin, interviewer.

WQXR (Radio station : New York, N.Y.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mahler, Gustav, 1860-1911. Symphonies--no. 8--E♭ major.

Mahler, Gustav.

New York Philharmonic.

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.

3 leaves

Contained In:

Oliver Daniel Research Collection on Leopold Stokowski. Folder 870; Box 53, CD 074.

Place of Publication:

197-.

Summary:

Martin Bookspan interviewed Stokowski in Nether Wallop England about his conducting the Mahler Symphony no. 8 for the first time in Philadelphia and New York with the Philadelphia Orchestra; and the April 1950 performance of the same symphony with the New York Philharmonic. They also discuss Stokowski's recordings in England of Sibelius's Symphony no. 1 and The Swan of Tuonela.

Notes:

Recorded on an unspecified date in 1976 or 1977; broadcast on WQXR radio during intermission of a broadcast of Mahler's Symphony No. 8 on January 23, 1977. First portion of interview is missing.

Original copy: cassette tape 60; preservation copy: one 10 1/2 in. reel to reel tape 74; service copy: one compact disk CD 074. Preservation and service copies recorded November 2000.