Reminiscences of Otto Luening, 1976
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- Name
- Luening, Otto, 1900-1996 (Interviewee)
- Morris, Berenice (Interviewer)
- Title
- Reminiscences of Otto Luening, 1976
- Abstract
- Family background; early life in Madison, Wisconsin; musical education in Munich, 1912-1917; composing, performing and acting in Europe during World War I; Chicago, 1920-1925; executive director, opera department, Eastman School of Music, 1925-1928; teaching at University of Arizona; Yaddo; organization of American Composers Alliance; Barnard College Music Department, 1944-1947; professor of music, Columbia University, 1949- ; electronic workshop at Columbia, development of electronic music; meetings of National Institute of Art and Letters; impressions of Aaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein, Randall Thompson, John Cage, and others. Session 8 of the interview was not transcribed and is only in the audio
- Collection Name
- Individual interviews oral history collection
- Subjects
- Composers; Music--Instruction and study; Electronic music; Music--History and criticism.--20th century; Opera; Luening, Otto, 1900-1996; Eastman School of Music; Barnard College; Columbia University; National Institute of Arts and Letters (U.S.)
- Format
- oral histories; sound recordings
- Genre
- Interviews
- Date
- 1976
- Note (Biographical)
- Composer
- Note
- Interviewed by Berenice Morris
- Language
- English
- Library Location
- Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
- Catalog Record
- 15645759
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/b9j6-1z07
- Related URLs
- Available digital content for this interview.