Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Wilk, Max

Found in

1. Interviews for the book "They're playing our song".

Description

1. 1 streaming audio file (approximately 41 min.) : digital, mono.

Summary

1. Irving Caesar, an American lyricist and theater composer who wrote lyrics for numerous songs, analyzes the difference between a lyricist, a versifier and a poet, talks about Cole Porter and their collaboration, and about songwriters whom he considers great or very good (Berlin, Cole, Hammerstein, Kern, Youmans), discredits composers of songs as serious composers in comparison to composers of opera, and recounts his encounter with Leonard Bernstein and getting him his first job in New York. In this interview, Caesar makes some unflattering remarks about Bernstein and Kern that are not fit for print.

Alternative title

1. They're playing our song.
2. Interviews for the book "They're playing our song".

Subject

1. Sound recordings
2. Interviews
3. Composers > United States > Interviews
4. Lyricists > United States > Interviews
5. Caesar, Irving, 1895-1996 > Interviews

Genre/Form

1. Interviews.
2. Sound recordings.

Call number

1. *LDC 53147

Note

1. Title supplied by cataloger from information on the original container.
2. Original interview conducted by Max Wilk, playwright, screenwriter and author of fiction and nonfiction books, for the book "They're playing our song" published in 1973.

Access (note)

1. Access to original item restricted.

Additional formats (note)

1. Also available on CD (1 audio disc : digital, mono ; 4 3/4 in.) copied from archival original in *LDC 53147.

Linking entry (note)

1. Forms part of: Interviews for the book "They're playing our song."

Author

1. Caesar, Irving, 1895-1996, interviewee.

Title

1. Interview with Irving Caesar, 1971-11-16.

Playing time

1. 004050

Type of content

1. spoken word

Type of medium

1. audio
2. computer

Type of carrier

1. audio disc
2. online resource

Performer

1. Irving Caesar, interviewee ; Max Wilk, interviewer.

Event

1. Recorded in New York 1971 November 16.

Access

1. Access to original item restricted.

Additional formats

1. Also available on CD (1 audio disc : digital, mono ; 4 3/4 in.) copied from archival original in *LDC 53147.

Linking entry

1. Forms part of: Interviews for the book "They're playing our song."

Local note

1. Archival original: (1 audiotape reel : analog, 7 1/2 ips., 1/2 track mono ; 10 in.) in *LT-10 2158.

Connect to:

1. Request Access to Music Division Audio and Moving Image material
2. NYPL Digital Collections

Added author

1. Wilk, Max, interviewer.

Added title

1. They're playing our song.
2. Interviews for the book "They're playing our song".

Found in:

1. Interviews for the book "They're playing our song".

Research call number

1. *LDC 53147
2. *LT-10 2158