Interview : conducted by Oliver Daniel, Feb. 4, 1978.

Format:

Other

Author/Creator:

Guest, Lily, interviewee.

Contributor:

Daniel, Oliver, interviewer.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Polk, Maria Dehon.

Samaroff Stokowski, Olga, 1882-1948.

Samaroff Stokowski, Olga.

Merrill, Evangeline Johnson.

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 620; Box 56, CD 165.

Place of Publication:

Feb. 4, 1978.

Biography/History:

Granddaughter of Mrs. Polk (Maria (Minnie) Dehon), who sponsored Stokowski's first concert in Paris.

Summary:

Guest describes how Stokowski only kept up his relationship with her grandmother at the insistence of his first two wives and then dropped it. She mentions David McKay Williams, Richard Hammond, Mary Binney Montgomery, and Thomas K. Finletter.

Notes:

Telephone interview recorded on Feb. 4, 1978, Washington D.C.

Date is from cassette tape; transcript is dated Dec. 4, 1977, but the other items on the cassette suggest that the later date is more likely.

Original copy: cassette tape 135; preservation copy: one 10 1/2 in. reel to reel tape 165; service copy: one compact disk CD 165. Preservation and service copies recorded December 2000.