pocketful of wry
Subtitle: an impresario's life in San Francisco and the history of the Pocket Opera, 1950s-2001
By: Donald Pippin ; with an introduction by Gwyn Sullivan. Interviews conducted by Caroline C. Crawford in 1996 and 1997. Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley,
Contributors: Crawford, Caroline; Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.
Published: 2001
Subjects: Pocket Opera (San Francisco, Calif.); Pianists -- California -- San Francisco -- Interviews.; Impresarios -- California -- Interviews.; Opera -- California -- San Francisco.; Music -- California -- San Francisco.
Genres: Interviews.
Description: Early years in North Carolina and Virginia; piano studies; studies at Harvard, 1942-1944; working with Vilzak-Schollar Ballet School and Balanchine's School of American Ballet; moving to California to work with composers Ben Johnston and Harry Partch, 1951; performing at the hungry i, Opus One, and The Old Spaghetti Factory in San Francisco's North Beach in the 1950s, 60s, 70s; founding and directing Pocket Opera, 1977-present; reflections on piano studies and performance, opera repertoire, staging, translation, administration, reviewing press.