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Interview : conducted by Oliver Daniel, Nov. 21, 1977.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Manuscripts Ms. Coll. 382 Folder 722; Box 56, CD 141
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- Format:
- Other
- Author/Creator:
- Merrill, Evangeline Johnson, interviewee.
- 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.
- 19 leaves
- Contained In:
- Oliver Daniel Research Collection on Leopold Stokowski. Folder 722; Box 56, CD 141.
- Place of Publication:
- Nov. 21, 1977.
- Biography/History:
- Stokowski's second wife.
- Summary:
- Merrill discusses how she met and married Stokowski in 1926 and divorced him in 1937, Stokowski's experimentation with the capabilities of different instruments during his summer vacations, his involvement with the technical side of orchestra recordings, a trip to India to study music there, and their house in Santa Barbara. She mentions John Hays Hammond, Mabel Dodge Luhan, Henry Eichheim, Sadja, and Luba.
- Notes:
- Telephone interview recorded on November 21, 1977, Palm Beach, Fla.
- Original copy: cassette tape 119; preservation copy: one 10 1/2 in. reel to reel tape 141; service copy: one compact disk CD 141. Preservation and service copies recorded December 2000.
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