Interview : conducted by Oliver Daniel, Mar. 20, 1979.

Format:

Other

Author/Creator:

Barber, Samuel, 1910-1981, interviewee.

Contributor:

Daniel, Oliver, interviewer.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Toscanini, Arturo, 1867-1957.

Toscanini, Arturo.

Menotti, Gian Carlo, 1911-2007.

Menotti, Gian Carlo.

Vanderbilt, Gloria, 1924-2019.

Vanderbilt, Gloria.

Chaplin, Charlie, 1889-1977.

Chaplin, Charlie.

Philadelphia Orchestra.

Curtis Institute of Music.

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.

15 leaves

Contained In:

Oliver Daniel Research Collection on Leopold Stokowski. Folder 4485; Box 57, CD 184.

Place of Publication:

Mar. 20, 1979.

Biography/History:

American composer.

Summary:

Barber discusses his memories of attending Stokowski concerts and lectures in Philadelphia as a high school student; performing an early piano concerto (which he later destroyed) in a reading rehearsal with the Philadelphia Orchestra; his contentious corresponsdence with Stokowski while a student at the Curtis Institute; his social interaction with Stokowski and Gloria Vanderbilt in Greenwich, Conn.; and a concert conducted by Stokowski in Washington DC and broadcast on the stage of the Academy.

He also discusses an evening in Greenwich at which Charlie Chaplin was present; and comments by Toscanini about Stokowski. He mentions Louis Mattson, Mary Louise Curtis Bok, Artur Rodzinski, Gian Carlo Menotti, Josef Hofmann, and James Agee.

Notes:

Recorded on Mar. 20, 1979, New York.

Original copy: cassette tape 149; preservation copy: one 10 1/2 in. reel to reel tape 184; service copy: one compact disk CD 184. Preservation and service copies recorded December 2000.