Interview : conducted by Oliver Daniel, May 14, 1979.

Format:

Other

Author/Creator:

Di Bonaventura, Mario, 1924-2017, interviewee.

Contributor:

Daniel, Oliver, interviewer.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971. Vesna svi︠a︡shchennai︠a︡.

Stravinsky, Igor.

Fantasia (Motion picture).

Genre:

Oral histories (literary works)

Sound recordings.

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.

Contained In:

Oliver Daniel Research Collection on Leopold Stokowski. Box , CD 191.

Place of Publication:

May 14, 1979.

Biography/History:

American conductor.

Summary:

Di Bonaventura reads a letter that Stravinsky wrote to the Saturday Review concerning Disney's use of Le Sacre du Printemps in Fantasia and criticizing the performance of the music in the film; and a later letter in February 1960, also to the Saturday Review, responding to a letter referring to Disney and Stravinsky. Both letters are from a book concerning Stravinsky.

Notes:

No date, but probably follows Daniel's interview of Ned Rorem on May 14, 1979; summary from cassette tape contents; no transcript.

Original copy: cassette tape 162; preservation copy: one 10 1/2 in. reel to reel tape 191; service copy: one compact disk CD 191. Preservation and service copies recorded December 2000.