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81. Interview of Lawrence Morton

Topic:
Music
Length:
17 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
Musician, orchestrator, and music critic. Director of the Monday Evening Concerts and artistic director of the Ojai Music Festival.

82. Interview of Louis Kaufman

Topic:
Music
Length:
9.25 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
Film score and concert violinist.

83. Interview of Alice Ehlers

Topic:
Music
Length:
13.5 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
University of Southern California professor of harpsicord.

84. Interview of Manuel Compinsky

Topic:
Music
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
Violinist, film composer, and conductor of the Los Angeles Pops Orchestra.

85. Interview of Philip Kaghan

Topic:
Music
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
Soloist and first chair violist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Film studio musician and orchestral manager.

86. Interview of John Vincent

Topic:
Music
Length:
6 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
Composer and UCLA professor of music.

87. Interview of Mehli Mehta

Topic:
UCLA and University of California History
UCLA Faculty
Music
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
Immigrant from India, conductor, and violinist.

88. Interview of Paul Tanner

Topic:
Music
Length:
4.65 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
Trombonist and member of the Glenn Miller Orchestra. Inventor of the electro-theremin and UCLA lecturer of music.

89. Interview of Dorothy Kirsten

Topic:
Music
Length:
5 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
Singer with the Metropolitan Opera.

90. Interview of Leon Levitch

Topic:
Music
Length:
10 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
Immigrant from Belgrade and World War II concentration camp survivor. Composer and pianist.

91. Interview of Alvin Mills

Topic:
Music
Length:
6.3 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
Violinist. Music director and conductor of the Brentwood-Westwood Symphony Orchestra.

93. Interview of Roger Wagner

Topic:
Music
Length:
7 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
Choral director and educator. Founder of the Roger Wagner Chorale.

94. Interview of Charles Seeger

Topic:
Music
Length:
17 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
Musicologist, composer, and folklorist. Research professor at the UCLA Institute of Ethnomusicology and founding member of the American Society for Comparative Musicology

95. Interview of Robert Hurwitz

Topic:
Music
Length:
8.5 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
President of Nonesuch Records.

96. Interview of Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje

Topic:
UCLA and University of California History
African American History
Music
UCLA Faculty
Length:
5 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
UCLA professor of ethnomusicology. Director of UCLA’s Ethnomusicology Archive.

97. Interview of Ernest Fleischmann (2009)

Topic:
Music
Length:
1.25 hrs
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
Executive director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and general director of the Hollywood Bowl.

98. Interview of Ernest Fleischmann (1999-2000)

Topic:
Music
Length:
26.75 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
Executive director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic and general director of the Hollywood Bowl.

99. Interview of Nazir Ali Jairazbhoy

Topic:
UCLA and University of California History
UCLA Faculty
Music
Length:
14 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
Founding chair of the UCLA Department of Ethnomusicology.

100. Interview of J. H. Kwabena Nketia

Topic:
Music
Length:
12.7 hrs.
Language:
English
Audio:
Biographical Note:
Ethnomusicologist and composer of Ghanaese music. UCLA professor of music. Director of the University of Ghana International Centre for African Music and Dance (ICAMD).