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Title:
A violinist's journey from Vienna's Kolisch Quartet to the San Francisco Symphony and Opera orchestras : oral history transcript / 1996Creator/Contributor:
Khuner, Felix, 1906-1991, creator, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Heimberg, Tom.Creator/Contributor:
Crawford, Caroline, interviewer.Creator/Contributor:
Bancroft Library, Regional Oral History Office.Abstract:
Felix Khuner, a native of Vienna and member of the Vienna Opera Orchestra and Kolisch Quartet, remembers Alban Berg and Arnold
Schoenberg; after diiscussing Nazism, he turns to settling in the San Francisco Bay Area, teaching at the University of California,
Berkeley, and playing with the San Francisco Opera and Symphony orchestras, and the California String Quartet. His comment
include conductors and performances.
Date:
1996 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caViolinists -- California -- San Francisco -- Interviews
Jewish musicians -- Interviews
Violonistes -- Californie -- San Francisco -- Entretiens
Jewish musicians
Violinists
California -- San Francisco
Wiener Staatsoper. -- Orchester.
Kolisch Quartett.
San Francisco Opera. -- Orchestra.
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra.
California String Quartet.
California String Quartet.
Kolisch Quartett.
San Francisco Opera. -- Orchestra
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra.
Wiener Staatsoper. -- Orchester
Berg, Alban -- 1885-1935
Schoenberg, Arnold -- 1874-1951
Berg, Alban -- 1885-1935
Schoenberg, Arnold -- 1874-1951
Note:
Felix Khuner ; with an introduction by Tom Heimberg. Interviews conducted by Caroline Crawford in 1989-1990. Regional Oral
History Office, the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley,
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. Classified as Phonotape 2888 C.
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.
Type:
biographyInterviews.
Oral histories.
Physical Description:
print
1 volume (ix, 167 pages) : portrait ; 28 cm
9 audiocassettes
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.