Research Catalog
Interview with pianist Andre Watts
- Title
- Interview with pianist Andre Watts, 1986-01-22.
- Publication
- 1986.
Available Online
Details
- Additional Authors
- Found In
- Margaret Carson audio-visual materials.
- Description
- 2 streaming audio files (approximately 55 min.) : digital, stereo.
- Summary
- Studs Terkel, a host and broadcaster on Chicago radio WFMT, introduces Andre Watts, a celebrated pianist, in town with 3 concerts scheduled at Orchestra Hall, who discusses and performs (music broadcast from his earlier recordings) Brahms and his intermezzi; Gershwin and his music; Liszt, the composer and pianist; modern recording technology; and famous pianists Vladimir Horowitz and Arthur Rubinstein. He also remembers his family, childhood, first interest in learning to play the piano, and his great teacher, Leon Fleisher, a pianist and conductor. Music works from recordings include; Intermezzo in E minor, op. 119, no. 2 by Brahms, song Liza by Gershwin, Oiseaux tristes (sad birds) by Ravel, and Campanella after Paganini by Liszt. Radio advertisements are omitted.
- Alternative Title
- Margaret Carson audio-visual materials.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Interviews.
- Sound recordings.
- Note
- Title created from original cassette label; date presumed from audition.
- Streaming files transferred from original audiocassettes.
- Access (note)
- Access to original items restricted. Patrons can access streaming audio only on site at the NYPL Research Libraries.
- Source (note)
- Margaret Carson
- Linking Entry (note)
- Forms part of: Margaret Carson audio-visual materials, *L(Special) 92-23.
- Call Number
- *LTC-A 1539
- OCLC
- 914281891
- Title
- Interview with pianist Andre Watts, 1986-01-22.
- Production
- 1986.
- Country of Producing Entity
- United States.
- Playing Time
- 003110 002410
- Type of Content
- spoken wordperformed music
- Type of Medium
- audiocomputer
- Type of Carrier
- online resource
- Performer
- Andre Watts, interviewee ; Studs Terkel, interviewer and host.
- Event
- Broadcast on WFMT radio in Chicago 1986 January 22.
- Access
- Access to original items restricted. Patrons can access streaming audio only on site at the NYPL Research Libraries.
- Linking Entry
- Forms part of: Margaret Carson audio-visual materials, *L(Special) 92-23.
- Source
- Gift; Margaret Carson, 1992.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Watts, Andre, interviewee.Terkel, Studs, 1912-2008, interviewer.Terkel, Studs, 1912-2008, host.Container of (work): Brahms, Johannes, 1833-1897. Stücke, piano, op. 119. Intermezzo, E minor.Container of (expression): Gershwin, George, 1898-1937. Show girl. Liza; arranged.Container of (work): Ravel, Maurice, 1875-1937. Miroirs. Oiseaux tristes.Container of (work): Liszt, Franz, 1811-1886. Grandes études de Paganini. No 3, Campanella.WFMT (Radio station : Chicago, Ill.)Carson, Margaret, 1911-2007, donor.
- Added Title
- Margaret Carson audio-visual materials.
- Found In:
- Margaret Carson audio-visual materials.
- Research Call Number
- *LTC-A 1539