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ASCAP radio interview with Samuel Barber

Title
  1. ASCAP radio interview with Samuel Barber [sound recording].
Published by
  1. [196-?]
Author
  1. Barber, Samuel, 1910-1981

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Details

Additional authors
  1. Bookspan, Martin
  2. American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers
Found in
  1. ASCAP sponsored radio interviews with musicians and composers.
Description
  1. 1 streaming audio file (30 min.) : digital, stereo.
Summary
  1. Martin Bookspan interviews American composer Samuel Barber during an undated broadcast. Speaking about his career as a composer, Barber talks about his orchestral, opera, choral, and piano music; and his work with such famous artists as Vladimir Horowitz and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, and conductors such as Arturo Toscanini and Serge Koussevitsky. The composer discusses various performances of his Adagio for Strings (1937), his operas Vanessa (1958) and Antony and Cleopatra (1966), and his Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (1963). He also speaks about his hobbies, and his professional plans for the future.
Alternative title
  1. ASCAP sponsored radio interviews with musicians and composers.
Subject
  1. Barber, Samuel, 1910-1981 -- Interviews
  2. Composers -- United States -- Interviews
  3. Radio programs
Genre/Form
  1. Radio programs.
  2. Radio interviews.
Call number
  1. *LT-7-A 2830
Additional formats (note)
  1. Service compact disc (1 sound disc : digital, stereo. ; 4 3/4 in.) available in *LDC 50234, tracks 5-10.
Linking entry (note)
  1. Forms part of the ASCAP sponsored radio interviews with musicians and composers collection, *L(Special) 07-11.
Local note
  1. Archival original: (1 sound tape reel (30 min.) : analog, stereo. ; 7 in.) in *LT-7-A 2830.
Author
  1. Barber, Samuel, 1910-1981. Interviewee
Title
  1. ASCAP radio interview with Samuel Barber [sound recording].
Imprint
  1. [196-?]
Performer
  1. Introduction by Stanley Adams.
Additional formats
  1. Service compact disc (1 sound disc : digital, stereo. ; 4 3/4 in.) available in *LDC 50234, tracks 5-10.
Linking entry
  1. Forms part of the ASCAP sponsored radio interviews with musicians and composers collection, *L(Special) 07-11.
Connect to:
  1. NYPL Digital Collections
Added author
  1. Bookspan, Martin. Interviewer
  2. American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers.
  3. Rhodes, Roger. Donor
Added title
  1. ASCAP sponsored radio interviews with musicians and composers.
Found in:
  1. ASCAP sponsored radio interviews with musicians and composers.
Research call number
  1. *LT-7-A 2830
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