Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Snow, Leida
2. BBC News.
3. British Broadcasting Corporation.
4. WQXR (Radio station : New York, N.Y.)

Found in

1. Leida Snow collection of audio interviews and reports on theater, culture and arts.

Description

1. 1 streaming audio file (approximately 20 minutes) : digital, stereo.

Summary

1. Segment 1 (00-8:30 minutes). Unidentified BBC radio host interviews Leida Snow who talks about the upcoming 1994 New York premiere of the musical Sunset Boulevard (book and lyrics by Don Black and Christopher Hampton ; music by Andrew Lloyd Webber) with Glenn Close playing the role of Norma Desmond, and predicts success of both, the musical, and Close in the role of main female character, despite her vocal limitations.
2. Segment 2 (8:32-20:13 minutes). Recorded excerpts from WQXR, the classical music station of New York, hosted by Leida Snow who announces the upcoming classical music concerts in New York City, radio commercials, and weather forecast.

Alternative title

1. "Sunset-Blvd"
2. Leida Snow collection of audio interviews and reports on theater, culture and arts.

Subject

1. Sound recordings
2. Interviews
3. Radio commercials
4. Radio programs
5. Musicals
6. Radio personalities > Interviews
7. Close, Glenn, 1947-
8. Lloyd Webber, Andrew, 1948- > Sunset Boulevard
9. Snow, Leida > Interviews

Genre/Form

1. Radio programs.
2. Radio commercials.
3. Interviews.
4. Sound recordings.

Call number

1. *LTC-A 1801

Note

1. Title provided by cataloger.
2. Streaming file transferred from original audiocassette.

Access (note)

1. Access to original item restricted. Patrons can access streaming audio only on site at the NYPL Research Libraries.

Additional formats (note)

1. Archival original: (1 audiocassette : analog, stereo) in *LTC-A 1801.

Source (note)

1. Leida Snow

Linking entry (note)

1. Forms part of: Leida Snow collection of audio interviews and reports on theater, culture and arts, *L(Special) 09-02.

Author

1. Snow, Leida, speaker.

Title

1. Interview with Leida Snow / Leida Snow, speaker and interviewee.

Production

1. [1994].

Country of producing entity

1. United States.

Type of content

1. spoken word

Type of medium

1. audio
2. computer

Type of carrier

1. online resource

Performer

1. Leida Snow, commentator.

Event

1. Segment 1 Broadcast on BBC News 1994 November 17
2. Segment 2 Broadcast on WQXR radio station [1994 July]

Access

1. Access to original item restricted. Patrons can access streaming audio only on site at the NYPL Research Libraries.

Additional formats

1. Archival original: (1 audiocassette : analog, stereo) in *LTC-A 1801.

Linking entry

1. Forms part of: Leida Snow collection of audio interviews and reports on theater, culture and arts, *L(Special) 09-02.

Source

1. Gift; Leida Snow, 2009.

Connect to:

1. NYPL Digital Collections

Added author

1. Snow, Leida, interviewee.
2. BBC News.
3. British Broadcasting Corporation.
4. WQXR (Radio station : New York, N.Y.)
5. Snow, Leida, donor.

Added title

1. Leida Snow collection of audio interviews and reports on theater, culture and arts.

Found in:

1. Leida Snow collection of audio interviews and reports on theater, culture and arts.

Research call number

1. *LTC-A 1801