Research Catalog

Robert Bowman collection of music recordings from radio broadcasts

Title: Robert Bowman collection of music recordings from radio broadcasts [sound recording], 1952-1963.
Author: Bowman, Robert, 1925-

Items in the Library & Off-site

Filter by

1 Result Found

Item details
Status	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Audio	Use in library	*L (Special) 90-25 [Finding aid]	Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

Details

Additional Authors

Description

195 sound tape reels : analog, mono.; 10 in.
analog, mono.;

Uniform Title

Voice of Firestone (Radio program)

Subjects

Genre/Form

Sound recordings.

Note

Some items have been transferred to preservation and service copies. Original items which have not been transferred may require advance notification for use. Refer to item descriptions in finding aid for more information.

Access (note)

Collection is open to the public. Users never directly handle sound recordings. Listening selections are transmitted through a playback system.

Terms of Use (note)

No copying of private, non-commercial material is allowed without the written permission of the proprietary rights holder. For further information contact the Curator, The Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound.

Indexes/Finding Aids (note)

Finding aid available in repository. In: *L(Special) 90-25.

Call Number

*L (Special) 90-25

Author

Bowman, Robert, 1925-

Title

Robert Bowman collection of music recordings from radio broadcasts [sound recording], 1952-1963.

Summary

The collection consists of noncommercial recordings of radio broadcasts of primarily classical music. The largest portion of the collection consists of broadcast of The New York Philharmonic, with selected concerts from 1952-1963. Conductors of the New York Philharmonic concerts on these recordings include Franco Autori, Leonard Bernstein, Guido Cantelli, Dmitri Mitropoulos, Paul Paray, George Szell, and Bruno Walter. Guest soloists include Claudio Arrau, Robert Casadesus, Van Cliburn, Clifford Curzon, Rudolf Firkušný, Zino Francescatti, Jascha Heifetz, Myra Hess, Byron Janis, Martha Lipton, Artur Rubinstein, Irmgard Seefried, Rudolf Serkin, and Richard Tucker.

Orchestras with a smaller representation of recordings in the collection include the Boston Symphony Orchestra in concerts conducted by Pierre Monteux and Charles Munch, the NBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Guido Cantelli and Pierre Monteux, and the Concertgebouw Orchestra conducted by Eduard van Beinum, Josef Krips, and Rafael Kubelík.

Opera recordings include selected Salzburg Festival broadcasts from 1952-1958, with the Vienna Philharmonic conducted by Rudolf Baumgartner, Karl Böhm, Joseph Keilberth, and Herbert von Karajan. Böhm also conducts for the 1956 reopening of the Vienna State Opera House. Bayreuth Festival productions from 1953 and 1954 are conducted by Joseph Keilberth, Hans Knappertsbusch, and Clemens Krauss. Bayreuth vocalists include Hans Braun, Gré Brouwenstijn, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Josef Greindl, Hans Hotter, Martha Mödl, and Eleanor Steber.

Recordings of selected Firestone Hour (later the Voice of Firestone) programs from 1952 to 1956 contain opera, operetta, and orchestral selections as well as popular songs. Featured vocalists include Eugene Conley, Nadine Conner, Jerome Hines, Roberta Peters, Risë Stevens, and Ferruccio Tagliavini.

Access

Collection is open to the public. Users never directly handle sound recordings. Listening selections are transmitted through a playback system.

Terms Of Use

No copying of private, non-commercial material is allowed without the written permission of the proprietary rights holder. For further information contact the Curator, The Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound.

Indexes

Finding aid available in repository. In: *L(Special) 90-25.

Added Author

Arrau, Claudio, 1903-1991. Performer

Autori, Franco, 1903- Conductor

Baumgartner, Rudolf, 1917-2002. Conductor

Beinum, Eduard van. Conductor

Bernstein, Leonard, 1918-1990. Conductor

Böhm, Karl, 1894-1981. Conductor

Braun, Hans, 1917- voc

Brouwenstijn, Gré. voc

Cantelli, Guido. Conductor

Casadesus, Robert, 1899-1972. Performer

Cliburn, Van, 1934-2013. Performer

Conley, Eugene, 1908-1981. voc

Conner, Nadine. voc

Curzon, Clifford, 1907-1982, performer.

Fischer-Dieskau, Dietrich, 1925-2012. voc

Firkušný, Rudolf, 1912-1994. Performer

Francescatti, Zino, 1902-1991. Performer

Greindl, Josef. voc

Heifetz, Jascha, 1901-1987. Performer

Hess, Myra, Dame, 1890-1965. Performer

Hines, Jerome, 1921- voc

Hotter, Hans. voc

Janis, Byron. Performer

Karajan, Herbert von. Conductor

Keilberth, Joseph. Conductor

Knappertsbusch, Hans, 1888-1965. Conductor

Krauss, Clemens, 1893-1954. Conductor

Krips, Josef. Conductor

Kubelík, Rafael, 1914-1996. Conductor

Lipton, Martha. Performer

Mitropoulos, Dimitri, 1896-1960. Conductor

Mödl, Martha. voc

Monteux, Pierre, 1875-1964. Conductor

Munch, Charles, 1891-1968. Conductor

Paray, Paul, 1886-1979. Conductor

Peters, Roberta, 1930-2017. voc

Rubinstein, Artur, 1887-1982. Performer

Seefried, Irmgard. Performer

Serkin, Rudolf, 1903-1991. Performer

Steber, Eleanor. voc

Stevens, Risë, 1913-2013. Singer

Szell, George, 1897-1970. Conductor

Tagliavini, Ferruccio, 1913-1995. voc

Tucker, Richard, 1913-1975. Performer

Walter, Bruno, 1876-1962. Conductor

Boston Symphony Orchestra.

Concertgebouworkest.

NBC Symphony Orchestra.

New York Philharmonic.

Wiener Philharmoniker.

Wiener Staatsoper.

Bayreuther Festspiele.

Salzburger Festspiele.

Added Title

Voice of Firestone (Radio program)

Research Call Number

*L (Special) 90-25

View in Legacy Catalog