Themes and recollections of a life in music : an oral history : transcript, 2007 / Tom Heimberg ; interviewer: Basya Petnick ; senior editors: Jeff Friedman and Basya Petnick ; associate editors: Mary Commanday and Ruth C. Jacobs.

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Themes and recollections of a life in music : an oral history : transcript, 2007 / Tom Heimberg ; interviewer: Basya Petnick ; senior editors: Jeff Friedman and Basya Petnick ; associate editors: Mary Commanday and Ruth C. Jacobs.

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Tom Heimberg is a violist and orchestral musician. He has played in the Oakland and San Francisco Symphonies and the San Francisco Opera Orchestra. As an orchester manager at the San Francisco Opera Orchestra he worked closely with Kurt Herbert Adler, the general director of the San Francisco Opera. This volume contains introductions by San Francisco music critic Robert Commanday and world-renown musicians Arnold Steinhardt and Lincoln Mayorga who were childhood friends of Heimberg.

Transcript : 1 v. (xl, 193 p.) : ill. (some col.) ; 29 cm.Original interviews : 10 sound cassettes.

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San Francisco Performing Arts Library and Museum. Legacy Oral History Program.

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Petnick, Basya.

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Oakland Opera Orchestra.

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Adler, Kurt Herbert

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Biographical Information Kurt Herbert Adler was born to Ernst and Ida (Bauer) Adler on April 2, 1905 in Vienna, Austria. The son of a textile manufacturer, he attended preparatory schools in Vienna, and was educated at the Vienna Academy of Music (1922-1926), the Vienna Conservatory of Music, and the University of Vienna (1923-1927). Adler made his debut in 1925 as an orchestral conductor at the Vienna theaters managed by Max Reinhardt, noted...

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Heimberg, Tom, 1937-2006

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