Conductor with a contemporary music mission : oral history transcript / Jean-Louis LeRoux ; with an introduction by Charles Boone. An interview conducted by Caroline Crawford in 2002 and 2003. Regional Oral History Office, the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, 2004.

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Conductor with a contemporary music mission : oral history transcript / Jean-Louis LeRoux ; with an introduction by Charles Boone. An interview conducted by Caroline Crawford in 2002 and 2003. Regional Oral History Office, the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, 2004.

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Growing up in France, 1927-1949; the beginnings of a career in South America, 1950-1959; settling in San Francisco, 1960; the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, 1971-1988, and conducting assignments in San Francisco in the 1970s and 1980s. Includes reminiscences on working with the San Francisco Symphony, Enrique Jordá, Josef Krips, Darius Milhaud, Frank Zappa, Chamber Symphony of San Francisco, San Francisco Ballet Orchestra, Helgi Tomassen and Michael Smuin.

Transcript: 1 v. (iv, 82 p.) : ports. ; 29 cm.Original interviews: 7 sound cassettes.

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