Interview : conducted by Oliver Daniel, Sept. 19, 1979.

Format:

Other

Author/Creator:

Shear, Nancy, interviewee.

Contributor:

Daniel, Oliver, interviewer.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philadelphia Orchestra.

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

1 folder

Contained In:

Oliver Daniel Research Collection on Leopold Stokowski. Folder 392; Folder 807; Box 57, CD 185.

Place of Publication:

Sept. 19, 1979.

Biography/History:

Staff member of Philadelphia Orchestra library and assistant to Stokowski.

Summary:

Shear discusses how she met and got to know Stokowski in Philadelphia after 1960; how she worked for Stokowski in New York while working for the Philadelphia Orchestra; how Stokowski discarded correspondence from composers; and how she visited him in England and France at the end of his life. She mentions Eugene Ormandy, Stokowski's secretary Jean Leslie, and Philadelphia Orchestra librarian Jesse Tayton.

Daniel's research notes include photocopies of 2 items from Stokowski to Shear, 1965, 1970; articles and clippings, folder 392.

Notes:

Recorded on Sept. 19, 1979, Philadelphia, Pa.

Original copy: cassette tape 148; preservation copy: one 10 1/2 in. reel to reel tape 185; service copy: one compact disk CD 185. Preservation and service copies recorded December 2000.

Transcript in folder 807.