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ASCAP radio interview with Samuel Barber

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

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Details

Additional Authors
  • Bookspan, Martin.
  • American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers.
Found In
ASCAP sponsored radio interviews with musicians and composers.
Description
1 streaming audio file (30 min.) : digital, stereo.
Summary
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
ASCAP sponsored radio interviews with musicians and composers.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Radio programs.
  • Radio interviews.
Additional Formats (note)
  • Service compact disc (1 sound disc : digital, stereo. ; 4 3/4 in.) available in *LDC 50234, tracks 5-10.
Linking Entry (note)
  • Forms part of the ASCAP sponsored radio interviews with musicians and composers collection, *L(Special) 07-11.
Call Number
*LT-7-A 2830
OCLC
463007106
Author
Barber, Samuel, 1910-1981. Interviewee
Title
ASCAP radio interview with Samuel Barber [sound recording].
Imprint
[196-?]
Performer
Introduction by Stanley Adams.
Additional Formats
Service compact disc (1 sound disc : digital, stereo. ; 4 3/4 in.) available in *LDC 50234, tracks 5-10.
Linking Entry
Forms part of the ASCAP sponsored radio interviews with musicians and composers collection, *L(Special) 07-11.
Local Note
Archival original: (1 sound tape reel (30 min.) : analog, stereo. ; 7 in.) in *LT-7-A 2830.
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Added Author
Bookspan, Martin. Interviewer
American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers.
Rhodes, Roger. Donor
Added Title
ASCAP sponsored radio interviews with musicians and composers.
Found In:
ASCAP sponsored radio interviews with musicians and composers.
Research Call Number
*LT-7-A 2830
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