Donald Pippin
Subtitle: a pocketful of wry : an impresario's life in San Francisco and the history of the Pocket Opera, 1950s-2001
By: interviews conducted by Caroline C. Crawford ; with an introduction by Gwyn Sullivan.
Contributors: Crawford, Caroline; Sullivan, Gwyn.; Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.
Publisher: Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Berkeley, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
Subjects: Pippin, Donald.; Pocket Opera (San Francisco, Calif.); Pianists -- California -- San Francisco -- Interviews.; Impresarios -- California -- San Francisco -- Interviews.; Opera -- California -- San Francisco.; Opera producers and directors -- California -- San Francisco -- Interviews.; Music -- California -- San Francisco.; San Francisco (Calif.) -- Biography.
Genres: Interviews.; Biography.
Other titles: Pocketful of wry :
Notes: Includes index.

Transcribed by Amelia Archer; final typed by Shannon Page -- p. 202.
Table of contents: value: Introduction by Gwyn Sullivan; value: Interview history by Caroline Crawford; value: Childhood, family, education, early career : 1926-1944; value: Moving to California : 1951; value: Finding the Old Spaghetti Factory : 1954; value: Discovering opera : 1968; value: Pocket Opera is born : 1977; value: Perils and pitfalls; value: English version of Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin by Donald Pippen; value: Pocket Opera repertoire, 1977-2001.