Oral history conducted by Vivian Perlis, March 31, 1997.

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Oral history conducted by Vivian Perlis, March 31, 1997.

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Rorem discusses his earliest impressions of Eugene Ormandy as a conductor, how it happened that Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra performed his music, the nature of his relationship with Ormandy, interpretations of his music by other conductors, including Leonard Bernstein, William Steinberg, Leopold Stokowski, and Jerry Hadley, the rehearsal process with Ormandy, the extramusical meanings of compositions, alterations that Ormandy made to the score of Rorem's Sunday Morning, and explications of his compositions, Sunday Morning and Eagles.

Tape 1 sound cassette : analog, stereo., Dolby processed.Transcript 22 leaves.

University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Van Pelt Library

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Rorem, Ned, 1923-

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Composer and author. From the description of Oral history conducted by Vivian Perlis, March 31, 1997. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155905487 Commissioned by Nikolai Sokoloff and the Musical Arts Society of La Jolla, California. Composed 1956. First performance La Jolla, California, 5 August 1956, Nikolai Sokoloff conductor. Dedicated to Nikolai Sokoloff and the Musical Arts Society of La Jolla, California.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. Fr...