Oral history interview with Elie and Hannah Siegmeister, 1975
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- Name
- Siegmeister, Elie, 1909-1991 (Interviewee)
- Morris, Berenice (Interviewer)
- Siegmeister, Hannah (Interviewee)
- Title
- Oral history interview with Elie and Hannah Siegmeister, 1975
- Other Titles
- Reminiscences of Elie and Hannah Siegmeister, 1975
- Abstract
- Family background, New York, N.Y., education; study with Nadia Boulanger, 1927-1931; American Ballad Singers, 1939-1946; jazz, folk, classical influences; symphonic and theater productions; Rally of Hope, 1943; organization of Soviet-American Music Society; elitist, nationalist and populist influences in American music; composition orchestration; American Composers' Alliance; effects of McCarthyism on United States artists and art; writing opera, film scores, since 1950's; elements of musical style; conducting, teaching; Composers and Lyricists Guild of America; 1968 Composers for Peace Concert; importance of fashion, planned obsolescence in modern culture; Council of Creative Artists, Libraries and Museums; development of Second American School of Music. Elie's wife Hannah Siegmeister joins as an interviewee in final session
- Collection Name
- Individual interviews oral history collection
- Subjects
- Composers; Composition (Music); Music--Instruction and study; Music theory; Music--Social aspects; United States Social life and customs; Siegmeister, Elie, 1909-1991; Siegmeister, Hannah
- Format
- oral histories; sound recordings
- Genre
- Interviews
- Date
- 1975
- Physical Description
- sound file : digital preservation master, WAV files (96 kHz, 24 bit)
- Note (Biographical)
- Composer
- Note (Funding)
- Digital reproduction funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
- Note
- Digitized by Safe Sound Archive, Philadelphia, 2010
- Interviewed by Berenice Morris
- Language
- English
- Library Location
- Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
Browse Location’s Digital Content - Catalog Record
- 7144896
- Also In
- Oral History Archives at Columbia
- Time-Based Media
- Time-Based Media
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/b2xh-p126
- Related URLs
- Available digital content for this interview.