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Portrait of a contemporary composer : oral history transcript / 2000.
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Portrait of a contemporary composer : oral history transcript / 2000American composers series of oral histories
Creator/Contributor:
Imbrie, Andrew, 1921-2007, creator, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Crawford, Caroline (Caroline Cooley), interviewer.Creator/Contributor:
Bancroft Library, Regional Oral History Office.Abstract:
Early years, studies with Ann Abajian, Leo Ornstein, Olga Samaroff, Rosalyn Tureck; Paris and Nadia Boulanger, 1937; Roger
Sessions, 1939-1946; education at Princeton and UC Berkeley; Composer's Forum, 1946-1966: programming and commissions, critics,
the California Quartet; fellow at American Academy in Rome, 1947-1949; comments on Elliott Carter, Robert Commanday, SF Symphony
conductors; teaching at UC Berkeley, 1941-1991: Albert Elkus, Manfred Bukofzer, Joaquin Nin-Culmell, David Boyden, Griller
Quartet, committee work, teaching theory; marriage to Barbara Cushing; the process of composing, Angle of Repose, Prometheus
Bound; 1990s, teaching, Chicago, NYU, and festivals, Tanglewood, Sandpoint; thoughts on the contemporary music scene, awards,
frustrations. Appendices include list of compositions, and "A Grain of Salt," "Is Experimentation Dead?" and other writings
by Imbrie.
Date:
2000 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caComposers -- United States -- 20th century -- Interviews
Music -- Instruction and study -- California -- Berkeley
Music -- United States -- 20th century
Compositeurs -- États-Unis -- 20e siècle -- Entretiens
Musique -- Étude et enseignement -- Californie -- Berkeley
Musique -- États-Unis -- 20e siècle
Composers
Music
Music -- Instruction and study
California -- Berkeley
United States
University of California, Berkeley. -- Department of Music.
University of California, Berkeley. -- Department of Music
Note:
Andrew Imbrie ; with an introduction by Robert P. Commanday. Interviews conducted by Caroline C. Crawford in 1998 and 1999.
Regional Oral History Office, the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley,
Forms part of the Composers of the twentieth century oral history series.
AUDIO/VISUAL MATERIALS RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator. CU-BANC
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 volumes (ix, 241 pages) : illustrations, portraits ; 29 cm
7 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.