DOI: 10.25549/lipton-c108-48
title: 477-480. Cultural arts conference, 1963-04-05/1963-04-07; Parkinson poetry reading, 1962-02-08; Pope John XXIII tribute (tv), 1963-06; West interview, 1963-06-04; Growing edge, [s.d.]

description: Tape 477-480) The cultural arts (California and the challenge of growth. Conference 2), Royce Hall Auditorium, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA, 1963 April 5-7 [published proceedings included here]. SESSION 1 "Culture in America": ❧ Tape 477, side 1, part A) (0:02) Franklyn D. Murphy. ❧ Tape 477, side 1, part B) (8:01) August Heckscher (arts consultant) (1963 April 5, 8:30 p.m.), Murphy comments (57:12). ❧ Tape 447, side 1, part C) Murphy introductions (0:07), Roy Harris (composer) (5:05), Murphy introduction (14:02). ❧ Tape 477, side 1, part D1) Kenneth Rexroth (poet, painter) (14:27) (beginning). ❧ Tape 477, side 2, part D2) Rexroth (0:02) (end), Murphy introduction (5:47). ❧ 477, side 2, part D3) Stanley Kramer (motion picture producer) (5:55), Murphy introduction (16:48) ❧ Tape 477, side 2, part E) Lawrence Lipton (poet, author) (16:53), Murphy introduction (33:42). ❧ Tape 477, side 2, part F) Heckscher (33:59). ❧ Tape 477, side 2, part G) Murphy comments (42:43). ❧ Tape 477, side 2, part H) SESSION 4 "The cultural arts in California" (1963 April 6): Abbott Kaplan comments and introduction (54:58), William Melnitz (fine arts dean) (1:04:48). ❧ Tape 477, side 2, part I) Carey McWilliams "The cultural climate in California" (1:08:41) (beginning). ❧ Tape 478, side 1, part A) Carey McWilliams (0:02) (end). ❧ Tape 478, side 1, part B) Melnitz introduction (2:07), Thomas W. Leavitt "The visual arts in California" (3:25). ❧ Tape 478, side 1, part C) Melnitz introduction (15:22), Raymond Kendall "Music" (17:44). ❧ Tape 478, side 1, part D) Melnitz introduction (28:01), James D. Hart "California fiction today" (30:05). ❧ Tape 478, side 1, part E) Melnitz introduction (0:02), Thomas H. Creighton "The changing influences on architecture" (2:54). ❧ Tape 478, side 1, part F) Melnitz introduction (13:03), Eugene Loring "Dance" (15:03). ❧ Tape 478, side 1, part G1) Melnitz introduction (37:42), Herbert Blau "Theater in California: what price salvation?" (40:39) (beginning). ❧ Tape 478, side 2, part G2) Blau (0:02) (end). ❧ Tape 478, side 2, part H) Melnitz introduction (8:05), John Houseman "Motion pictures and television" (9:38), Melnitz comments (24:28). ❧ Tape 478, side 2, part I) SESSION 7 "Problems of the creative artist" (1963 April 7): Kaplan introduction (0:02), Charles Eames "Design: its freedoms and its restraints" (1:16). ❧ Tape 478, side 2, part J) Kaplan introduction (23:58), Bella Lewitzky "Dance" (25:09). ❧ Tape 478, side 2, part K) Kaplan comments (36:39), discussion (beginning): Guy Endore (novelist and screenwriter) (39:59), Eames (43:52), Jack Hooper (painter and teacher) (46:08), Eames (47:25), Boyer May (editor and writer) (51:37), Eames (53:57), Warren Wood (Stanford University student) (56:10), Eames (57:02), Walter Starkie (59:06), Lewitzky (1:01:33), Eames (1:02:46), Robert Alexander (architect) (1:04:25), Lewitzky (1:05:05), Eames (1:06:37), Eric Wolley[?] (architect and writer) (1:07:40). ❧ Tape 479, side 1, part A) Discussion (end): Wolley[?] (0:02), Kaplan (0:33), John Carr (California State colleges trustee) (1:46), Keith Boyle (painter) (3:59), Lewitzky, (4:55), Merton Love (University Extension) (5:58), Martin Dibner (novelist) (7:30), Eames (8:54), Melnitz (9:03). ❧ Tape 479, side 1, part B) SESSION 8 "Discussion, conclusions, and recommendations": Kaplan (11:21), Alan Napier (19:25), Ted Norman (musician and composer) (20:15), Roy Harris (composer and professor) (22:10), Waldemar Johansen (college professor) (30:09), Keith Boyle (painter) (30:50), Lawrence Lipton (poet, author) (32:16), Mary Longstreth (theater) (33:59), Charles Rogers (artist) (34:52), Lyle Dye (theater) (38:49), Carrow[?] (40:35), Edward Weismiller (writer and professor) (42:01), Everett Moore (UCLA librarian) (44:26), Sister Mary Magdalen (47:49), Edgardo Contini (engineer) (50:07). ❧ Tape 479, side 1, part B) SESSION 2 "The role of criticism" (1963 April 7, 2:00 p.m.): Kaplan comments introduces speakers (0:02). ❧ Tape 479, side 1, part C) Howard Taubman (New York Times drama critic) (9:44). ❧ Tape 479, side 1, part D) Jack Lemmon (actor) (19:37). ❧ Tape 479, side 1, part E) Howard Warshaw (painter) (40:46), Kaplan (48:57), Taubman (50:12), Lemmon (56:52), Warshaw (59:42), audience member (1:02:05), Taubman (1:02:23), Kaplan comments (1:04:07). ❧ Tape 479, side 2, part C) SESSION 3: "Literature and science" (1963 April 7, 2:30 p.m.): Kaplan introduction (0:02), Aldous Huxley (author) (2:23). ❧ Tape 479, side 2, part D) Abbott Kaplan comments (1:00:20). ❧ Tape 479, side 2, part E) Albert R. Hibbs (scientist) (1:02:43). ❧ Tape 479, side 2, part F) Ray Bradbury (author) (1:11:21) (beginning). ❧ Tape 480, side 1, part A) Bradbury (0:02) (end). ❧ Tape 480, side 1, part B) Discussion: Kaplan introduction (14:04), Huxley (14:17), Hibbs (17:38), Kaplan closing (20:20) [last audio from The cultural arts conference]. ❧ Tape 480, side 1, part C) Tom Parkinson reading his poems (22:32) (beginning), KPFK, 1962? February 8 [typed as "2-8 & 8952W"], from his book Men, Women, Vines: "The American succession" (22:46), "Two vineyards" (26:02), "Knobcone Ridge" (29:34), "The September elegy" (30:48); reading his love poems: "Variations on a theme by Desnos" (40:34), "To start and end a journey" (42:13), "New years day" (45:50), "Love poem" (50:19), "To take a walk" (50:43), "Farewell" (51:31). ❧ Tape 480, side 1, part D) Tom Parkinson reading his poems (0:02) (continued), from his Homage to Monte Berico: "The terrace" (0:41), "Easter memory" (1:48), "Spring" (2:20), "Anniversary" (2:56), "Goodbye to Baudelaure, to remorse, to fluff" (3:54), "Casa del pellegrino" (5:39); from his Thanatos: "1. Death as natural process" (9:47), "2. Death as choice" (10:45), "3. Death as experience" (12:06), "4. Death as inheritance" (13:12), "5. Death as birthdays" (14:08), "6. Death as war, the unknown" (15:18), "7. Death as solitude" (16:53), "8. Death as farewell" (18:56), "9. Death as denials" (20:27), "10. Soliloquys for the dead" (21:49), "11. Garden by the sea" (27:03). ❧ Tape 480, side 1, part E1) CBS News special report, "Tribute to the late Pope John XXIII" (television program) (29:57), CBS Television Network [1963 June], Winston Burdett, announcer. Commercial: May Company 40th anniversary sale (29:32). ❧ Tape 480, side 2, part E2) News broadcast on the death of Pope John XXIII (0:02), NBC TV, [1963 June 3], and other news. ❧ Hugh interview of Morris West (author of Shoes of the Fisherman) (3:08, 12:18) on the pope, [broadcast 1963 June 4]. Commercial: Frank on Jaymar Middlekauff slacks (11:01). ❧ Tape 480, side 2, part F) Lawrence Lipton notes for his book The Growing edge (17:52) on film as a new medium for art, Mondo Cane (Cineriz, 1962) and The Savage Eye (Trans-Lux, 1960), Saul Bass (designer), Nettie Lipton speaks in the background, television news on the life and death of Pope John III, NBC broadcast on the Kremlin, burial of American presidents, similarity of all western societies' ceremonies and accoutrements, George Bernard Shaw (playwright), Sigmund Freud (psychoanalyst), fame vs. wisdom of leaders, war, the expense of the Vatican and news coverage, [s.d.]. -- TIMES indicate where sections begin.