Interview : conducted by Oliver Daniel, June 3, 1978.

Format:

Other

Author/Creator:

Wyton, Alec, interviewee.

Contributor:

Daniel, Oliver, interviewer.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Panufnik, Andrzej, 1914-1991. Universal prayer.

Panufnik, Andrzej.

Cathedral of St. John the Divine (New York, N.Y.).

American Guild of Organists.

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.

14 leaves

Contained In:

Oliver Daniel Research Collection on Leopold Stokowski. Folder 925; Box 56, CD 164.

Place of Publication:

June 3, 1978.

Biography/History:

Organist; president of the American Guild of Organists; founder of AGO magazine.

Summary:

Wyton discusses his own background, including how he came to be committed to contemporary church music and how he ended up as organist at St. John the Divine; the concert of Panufnik's Universal Prayer that he and Stokowski did at St. John the Divine, initiated by Stokowski; his consultation with Stokowski about the Carnegie Hall organ; his interview of Stokowski, as a former organist, for AGO Magazine; his opinion of Stokowski's choral compositions and Bach transcriptions; and his impressions on seeing Fantasia again soon before the interview. He mentions Richard Felciano, Virgil Fox, and Arthur Fiedler.

Notes:

Recorded on June 3, 1978, Ardsley, N.Y.

Original copy: cassette tape 134; preservation copy: one 10 1/2 in. reel to reel tape 164; service copy: one compact disk CD 164. Preservation and service copies recorded December 2000.