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Title: Martin Perlich Interviews,
Date (inclusive): 1965-
Collection number: 341
Creator: Perlich,
Martin
Extent:
12 boxes (6 linear ft.)
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library.
Performing Arts Special Collections
Los Angeles, California 90095-1490
Selected digitized interviews from this collection.
Abstract: The collection predominantly consists of Martin
Perlich's radio and video interviews with musicians, actors and comedians. Also
included in the collection are papers pertaining to Perlich's life and career as
a writer, producer and broadcaster.
Open for research. STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact UCLA Library
Special Collections for paging information.
Property rights to the physical object belong to the UCLA Library, Performing
Arts Special Collections. Literary rights, including copyright, are retained by
the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to
determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or his or her
heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the
copyright.
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Martin Perlich, purchase, 2010.
[Identification of item], Martin Perlich Interviews, 341, Performing Arts
Special Collections, University of California, Los Angeles.
Writer, Producer and distinguished broadcaster, Martin Perlich, has hosted
and produced the interview series, ARF!! (Arts & Roots Forum) which aired
daily on Los Angeles public radio and featured major cultural figures, from
Stacy Keach to Terry Riley to Sandra Tsing Loh to avant-garde playwright Murray
Mednic, as well as dozens of arts figures: writers, directors, choreographers
and musical figures from Jazz, World music and classical music.
From 2000-8 Perlich served as Program Director responsible for all
programming of the Los Angeles public radio station, KCSN. In addition, he
hosted an acclaimed daily classical and New Music show. His historic interview
show, "Martin Perlich Interviews" featuring Leonard Bernstein, Frank Zappa,
Pierre Boulz and hundreds more, was syndicated nationally by WCLV/Seaway
productions.
Perlich's early work was in musicology. After studying with American
composer, Douglas Moore at Columbia University, he was for seven years,
Intermission Host of the internationally syndicated Cleveland Orchestra radio
broadcasts.
His award-winning Martin Perlich Interviews was syndicated nationally and
aired locally on public radio station, KCSN, where he was Program Director of,
as well as classical Host and interviewer.
In the 1960s Perlich was a pioneer in "experimental radio" beginning in 1972
with KMET in Los Angeles. In 1975, Perlich became Creative Consultant of NBC
"The Midnight Special." In the 1980s he developed and produced dramatic and
musical programming at PBS's KCET in Los Angeles and WNET in New York, and a
feature film, "The Trial of Ramona Africa" with Whoopie Goldberg for American
Playhouse and Channel 4 in London.
The collection predominantly consists of Martin Perlich's radio interviews
with musicians, actors and comedians. Also included in the collection are papers
pertaining to Perlich's life and career as a writer, producer and
broadcaster.
The collection is in the midst of being processed and the finding aid will be
updated periodically.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Entertainers --Interviews.
Other Index Terms Related to this Collection
Perlich, Martin, interviewer.