Portrait of a contemporary composer
By: Andrew Imbrie ; with an introduction by Robert P. Commanday. Interviews conducted by Caroline C. Crawford in 1998 and 1999. Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley,
Contributors: Crawford, Caroline; Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.
Published: 2000
Subjects: University of California, Berkeley. Dept. of Music.; Composers -- United States -- 20th century -- Interviews.; Music -- Instruction and study -- California -- Berkeley.; Music -- United States -- 20th century.
Genres: Interviews.
Other titles: Composers of the twentieth century oral history series.
Description: Early years, studies with Ann Abajian, Leo Ornstein, Olga Samaroff, Rosalyn Tureck; Paris and Nadia Boulanger, 1937; Roger Sessions, 1939-1946; education at Princeton and UC Berkeley; Composer's Forum, 1946-1966: programming and commissions, critics, the California Quartet; fellow at American Academy in Rome, 1947-1949; comments on Elliott Carter, Robert Commanday, SF Symphony conductors; teaching at UC Berkeley, 1941-1991: Albert Elkus, Manfred Bukofzer, Joaquin Nin-Culmell, David Boyden, Griller Quartet, committee work, teaching theory; marriage to Barbara Cushing; the process of composing, Angle of Repose, Prometheus Bound; 1990s, teaching, Chicago, NYU, and festivals, Tanglewood, Sandpoint; thoughts on the contemporary music scene, awards, frustrations. Appendices include list of compositions, and "A Grain of Salt," "Is Experimentation Dead?" and other writings by Imbrie.