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Interview with Robert Russell Bennett
- Title
- Interview with Robert Russell Bennett, 1971-11-12.
- Author
- Bennett, Robert Russell, 1894-1981
- Publication
- 1971.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Audio | Use in library | *LDC 53144 | Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound |
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- Additional Authors
- Wilk, Max
- Found In
- Interviews for the book "They're playing our song".
- Description
- 2 streaming audio files (approximately 83 min.) : digital, mono.
- Summary
- Bennett, an American composer and arranger, best known for his orchestration of many well-known Broadway and Hollywood musicals by composers such as Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Jerome Kern, Cole Porter, and Richard Rodgers, shares his memories of these people and others. The interview is sprinkled with anecdotes from the lives of Gershwin ("bad student, but natural talent"), Berlin ("best songwriter" with "unique inner ear"), Vincent Youmans ("who could not play music just like Berlin"), Kern, Ira Gershwin, Oscar Hammerstein ("talented lyricist and reserved person"), Porter, and Harry Ruby. Other topics include analysis of songs as a genre, stress from writing music for movies, and more.
- Alternative Title
- They're playing our song.
- Interviews for the book "They're playing our song".
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Interviews.
- Sound recordings.
- Note
- Title supplied by cataloger from information on the original container.
- 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)
- Access to original item restricted.
- Additional Formats (note)
- Also available on CD (2 audio discs : digital, mono ; 4 3/4 in.) copied from archival original in *LDC 53144.
- Linking Entry (note)
- Forms part of: Interviews for the book "They're playing our song."
- Call Number
- *LDC 53144
- OCLC
- 879647128
- Author
- Bennett, Robert Russell, 1894-1981, interviewee.
- Title
- Interview with Robert Russell Bennett, 1971-11-12.
- Production
- 1971.
- Playing Time
- 005632 002556
- Type of Content
- spoken word
- Type of Medium
- audiocomputer
- Type of Carrier
- audio disconline resource
- Performer
- Robert Russell Bennett, interviewee ; Max Wilk, interviewer.
- Event
- Recorded in New York City 1971 November 12.
- Access
- Access to original item restricted.
- Additional Formats
- Also available on CD (2 audio discs : digital, mono ; 4 3/4 in.) copied from archival original in *LDC 53144.
- Linking Entry
- Forms part of: Interviews for the book "They're playing our song."
- Local Note
- Archival original: (1 audiotape reel : analog, 7 1/2 ips., 1/2 track mono ; 10 in.) in *LT-10 2156.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Wilk, Max, interviewer.
- Added Title
- They're playing our song.Interviews for the book "They're playing our song".
- Found In:
- Interviews for the book "They're playing our song".
- Research Call Number
- *LDC 53144*LT-10 2156