Interview : conducted by Oliver Daniel, Jan. 2, 1978.

Format:

Other

Author/Creator:

Gould, Glenn, interviewee.

Contributor:

Daniel, Oliver, interviewer.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827. Concertos--piano, orchestra--no. 5, op. 73--E♭ major.

Beethoven, Ludwig van.

Genre:

Interviews.

Oral histories (literary works)

Sound recordings.

Transcripts.

Physical Description:

2 audiocassettes : 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.

27 leaves

Contained In:

Oliver Daniel Research Collection on Leopold Stokowski. Folder 603; Box 56, CD 159.

Place of Publication:

Jan. 2, 1978.

Biography/History:

Concert pianist and radio producer.

Summary:

Gould discusses his first meeting with Stokowski in the Frankfurt train station in 1957; the conversation he and Leonard Marcus had with Stokowski about the future of recording for High Fidelity; in great detail, his radio portrait of Stokowski and his music, which he created for the Canadian Broadcasting Company in 1970; and the experience of performing as a soloist under Stokowski, particularly in a recording of Beethoven's Emperor Concerto. He mentions Herbert von Karajan, Robert Chesterman, Leonard Bernstein, and Curtis Davis.

Notes:

Telephone interview recorded on Jan. 2, 1978, Toronto.

Original copy: cassette tapes 130 and 131; preservation copy: one 10 1/2 in. reel to reel tape 159; service copy: one compact disk CD 159. Preservation and service copies recorded December 2000.