Transcripts for Music in the 20s, 1964-1965.

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Transcripts for Music in the 20s, 1964-1965.

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Typescript mimeograph copies of transcripts of twelve informal, unedited, script conference interviews with Aaron Copland, held at the WGBH TV studios in Boston, Massachusetts. These transcripts include what is called "Copland's text," as well as pre- and post-session conversations. The topics of the transcripts concern all variety of issues and personalities in the field of western music in the decade of the 1920s. Prominent persons discussed are: Igor Stravinsky, Arnold Schoenberg, Arthur Honegger, George Gershwin, and many others. Included in this discussion is the role of jazz.

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Honegger, Arthur

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Epithet: Swiss-French composer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000758.0x0003b9 Swiss composer. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : [Paris] June 18 1923, to M.H. Kling at [J. & W.] Chester, 1923 June 18. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270666421 From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : Calvados, [ca. 26 July 1938], to [Jacques Larmanjat], 1938 July 26....

Schoenberg, Arnold, 1874-1951

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Arnold Franz Walter Schoenberg was born on Sept. 13, 1874 in Vienna; began composing before he was nine years old; composed the string sextet Verklärte Nacht (1899), which he later scored for string orchestra, and became one of his most popular works; Austrian composers Alban Berg and Anton Webern began studying with him in 1904; his cantata Gurrelieder (begun in 1900) was received enthusiastically at its premiere in 1913; by 1909 he began creating atonal compositions, and in his Opus 25 Piano S...

Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971

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Russian born composer and conductor. From the description of Audio materials [sound recording]. 1931-1965. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 40723194 Igor Stravinsky was a Russian composer. From the description of Sketchbook, [1917?]. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122465769 Stravinsky's opera The Rake's Progress, set to the libretto by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman, was inspired by William Hogarth's series of paintings. Stravinsky had wan...

Copland, Aaron, 1900-1990

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Aaron Copland (1900-1990) was an American composer. During the years 1964 and 1965 Copland wrote, conducted, narrated, and hosted a series of twelve television programs entitled Music in the 20s = Music in the Twenties. The transcripts described in this collection were transcribed from filmed interviews recorded live at the WGBH studios in Boston, Mass. between 1964 Nov. 11 and 1965 Jan. 26. These unedited, preliminary tape recordings later formed the basis of the series...

WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.)

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WGBH was a public broadcasting station in Boston, Massachusetts. From the description of The medium is the medium [videorecording] / produced by WGBH-TV. [1969] (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 745920282 ...

National Education Television and Radio Center.

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