Oral history interview with Victor Alessandro
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 1 sound tape reel. Reformatted in 2010 as 1 digital wav file. Duration is 46 minutes.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Alessandro, Victor
label: Interviewer
content: Loomis, Sylvia Glidden
label: Creator
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
label: Names
content: Federal Music Project (Okla.)
label: Names
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
label: Names
content: United States. Work Projects Administration
topic: label: Topic
content: Federal aid to the performing arts
label: Topic
content: Music -- Oklahoma
label: Topic
content: Federal aid to the arts
label: Topic
content: Conductors (Music) -- Oklahoma -- Interviews
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: This interview conducted as part of the Archives of American Art's New Deal and the Arts project, which includes over 400 interviews of artists, administrators, historians, and others involved with the federal government's art programs and the activities of the Farm Security Administration in the 1930s and early 1940s.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Alessandro, Victor
label: Interviewer
content: Loomis, Sylvia Glidden
label: Creator
content: New Deal and the Arts Oral History Project
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Victor Alessandro (1915-1976) was the Symphony conductor of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. and San Antonio, Texas. Worked under the Federal Music Project.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 20 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1965 May 12
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.alessa65
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Interviews
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Transcript: 35mm microfilm reel 3418 (frames 250-272) available at Archives of American Art offices and through interlibrary loan.
label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Transcript is available on the Archives of American Art's website.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Victor Alessandro conducted 1965 May 12, by Sylvia Loomis, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Alessandro describes his work as conductor of the Oklahoma City Symphony Orchestra under the Federal Music Project, and he discusses the value of Work Projects Administration art programs.