Interview : conducted by Oliver Daniel, June 12, 1979.

Format:

Other

Author/Creator:

Bok, Nellie Lee, interviewee.

Contributor:

Daniel, Oliver, interviewer.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Samaroff Stokowski, Olga, 1882-1948.

Samaroff Stokowski, Olga.

Thorbecke, Sonya Stokowski.

Bok, Curtis, 1897-1962.

Bok, Curtis.

Zimbalist, Mary Louise Curtis Bok, 1876-1970.

Zimbalist, Mary Louise Curtis Bok.

Bok, Edward William, 1863-1930.

Bok, Edward William.

Hofmann, Josef, 1880-1957.

Hofmann, Josef.

Judson, Arthur Leon, 1881-1975.

Judson, Arthur Leon.

Settlement Music School (Philadelphia, Pa.).

Curtis Institute of Music.

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.

25 leaves

Contained In:

Oliver Daniel Research Collection on Leopold Stokowski. Folder 518; Box 58, CD 205.

Place of Publication:

June 12, 1979.

Biography/History:

Wife of Curtis Bok, daughter-in-law of the founders of the Curtis Institute.

Summary:

Bok discusses the friendship of her husband's parents with Josef Hofmann; the articles by Hofmann which her father-in-law, Edward Bok, published in Ladies' Home Journal, the Boks' summers at Seal Harbor with the Stokowskis and Hofmanns, her own first meeting with Stokowski, her friendship with Olga Samaroff Stokowski and her daughter Sonya, and her husband's work as president of the Philadelphia Orchestra Association.

She also discusses her mother-in-law's establishment of the Settlement Music School and the Curtis Institute, Stokowski's position in charge of the orchestra at the new Curtis Institute, the conflict between Arthur Judson and Curtis Bok, Olga Samaroff Stokowski's life after her divorce and her death, Stokowski's openness to experimentation, and the orchestra's difficulty with having their seats shifted to different positions. She mentions Frank Lloyd Wright, Paul Nordoff, Mrs. Samuel Fels, Isadore Cohen, Sol Schoenberg, John de Lancie, Eugene Ormandy, Michael Press, Tabuteau, Gabrilowitsch, Sylvan Levin, Mary Binney Montgomery, Alexander Hilsberg,

Notes:

Recorded on June 12, 1979, Philadelphia, Pa.

Original copy: cassette tape 0.1; preservation copy: one 10 1/2 in. reel to reel tape 205; service copy: one compact disk CD 205. Preservation and service copies recorded December 2000.