Interview : conducted by Oliver Daniel, Nov. 9, 1976.

Format:

Other

Author/Creator:

Smith, William, 1924-1993, interviewee.

Contributor:

Daniel, Oliver, interviewer.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philadelphia Orchestra.

Fantasia (Motion picture).

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.

10 leaves

Contained In:

Oliver Daniel Research Collection on Leopold Stokowski. Folder 816; Box 54, CD 100.

Place of Publication:

Nov. 9, 1976.

Biography/History:

Assistant conductor and keyboard player, Philadelphia Orchestra.

Summary:

Smith discusses the establishment of the Stokowski competition for young conductors, in which he was a judge; the Philadelphia Orchestra concerts he attended while growing up; seeing Fantasia as a child; Stokowski's return to conduct in Philadelphia after 19 years; and Stokowski's conducting of a concert while the orchestra was on strike. He mentions Esther Klein, Ward Marston, Carl Torello, Leonard Mogill, Ormandy, Toscanini, and Koussevitzky.

Notes:

Recorded on Nov. 9, 1978, Academy of Music, Philadelphia.

Although the title of this recording on the CD case notes that the beginning of the interview is on the CD, the whole interview is in fact on CD 100.

Original copy: cassette tapes 76 and 115; preservation copy: one 10 1/2 in. reel to reel tape 100; service copy: one compact disk CD 100. Preservation and service copies recorded December 2000.