Interview : conducted by Oliver Daniel, Dec. 11, 1977.

Format:

Other

Author/Creator:

Boatwright, Helen, interviewee.

Contributor:

Daniel, Oliver, interviewer.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827. Symphonies--no. 9, op. 125--D minor.

Beethoven, Ludwig van.

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.

9 leaves

Contained In:

Oliver Daniel Research Collection on Leopold Stokowski. Folder 516; Box 56, CD 158.

Place of Publication:

Dec. 11, 1977.

Biography/History:

Soprano.

Summary:

Boatwright describes performing as the soprano soloist in Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 under Stokowski on the occasion of Stokowski's ninetieth birthday and auditioning in his apartment for that part. She mentions Betty Allen, David Zinman, Fred Popper, Boris Goldovsky, and the Dessoffs.

Notes:

Telephone interview recorded on Dec. 11, 1977.

This interview was set up in a brief telephone conversation between Daniel and Helen Boatwright's husband Howard, probably Dec. 6, 1977, which is on cassette tape 124, reel to reel tape and CD 148.

Original copy: cassette tape 130; preservation copy: one 10 1/2 in. reel to reel tape 158; service copy: one compact disk CD 158. Preservation and service copies recorded December 2000.