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Teaching music at Stanford, 1949-1974, directing the Carmel Bach Festival and the Marin Symphony, 1956-1991 / oral history
transcript ; with an introduction by Robert P. Commanday. Interviews conducted by Caroline C. Crawford in 1994-1996. Regional
Oral History Office, the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, 1999.
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Teaching music at Stanford, 1949-1974, directing the Carmel Bach Festival and the Marin Symphony, 1956-1991 / oral history transcript ; with an introduction by Robert P. Commanday. Interviews conducted by Caroline C. Crawford in 1994-1996. Regional Oral History Office, the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, 1999Creator/Contributor:
Salgo, Sandor, creator, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Crawford, Caroline, interviewer.Creator/Contributor:
Commanday, Robert.Creator/Contributor:
Salgo, Priscilla Patterson, 1919-Creator/Contributor:
Bancroft Library, Regional Oral History Office.Abstract:
Family history, early music education, violin, in Hungary; studies with Carl Flesch and Fritz Busch in Berlin; playing at
Bayreuth with Toscanini and Furtwängler, 1930, and in the U.S. with the Roth Quartet, 1937; from 1939-1949 teaching, performing
at Westminster Choir College and Princeton University, studying with George Szell, marriage to Priscilla Patterson, Army service;
music faculty at Stanford University, 1949-1974; Music in the Vineyards and other conducting assignments; directing Marin,
San Jose and Modesto Symphony orchestras; Carmel Bach Festival, 1956-1991. Includes conversation with Priscilla Salgo on her
early life and career in church music on the San Francisco Peninsula, and the Carmel Bach Festival.
Program for 1991 Carmel Bach Festival, Sandor's final festival appearance.
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1999 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caConductors (Music) -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area -- Interviews
Chefs d'orchestre -- Californie -- San Francisco, Région de la baie de -- Entretiens
Conductors (Music)
California -- San Francisco Bay Area
Marin Symphony Orchestra.
San Jose Symphony.
Modesto Symphony Orchestra.
San Jose Symphony.
Carmel Bach Festival.
Carmel Bach Festival.
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Salgo Sándor :
AUDIO/VISUAL MATERIALS RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator. CU-BANC
Audio tape recording of the interviews also available. Shelved as Phonotape 3057 C:1-10.
Also available online.
Volume includes index.
Duplicate transcript: Dept. of Special Collections, University of California, Los Angeles Library.
This manuscript is made available for research purposes only. All publication rights are reserved to The Bancroft Library
of the University of California, Berkeley. Requests for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to the Regional
Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
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biographyInterviews.
Oral histories.
Physical Description:
print
1 volume (vii, 190 pages) : illustrations, portrait ; 29 cm
10 audiocassettes
1 volume (77 pages) : illustrations, portraits ; 28 cm
Language:
English
Origin:
CaliforniaCopyright Note:
AUDIO/VISUAL MATERIALS RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator. CU-BANC
This manuscript is made available for research purposes only. All publication rights are reserved to The Bancroft Library
of the University of California, Berkeley. Requests for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to the Regional
Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.