Teaching music at Stanford, 1949-1974, directing the Carmel Bach Festival and the Marin Symphony, 1956-1991
By: Salgo Sándor :
Contributors: Crawford, Caroline; Commanday, Robert.; Salgo, Priscilla Patterson, 1919-; Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.
Published: 1999
Subjects: Marin Symphony Orchestra.; San Jose Symphony.; Modesto Symphony Orchestra; Conductors (Music) -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area -- Interviews.
Genres: Interviews.
Description: Family history, early music education, violin, in Hungary; studies with Carl Flesch and Fritz Busch in Berlin; playing at Bayreuth with Toscanini and Furtwängler, 1930, and in the U.S. with the Roth Quartet, 1937; from 1939-1949 teaching, performing at Westminster Choir College and Princeton University, studying with George Szell, marriage to Priscilla Patterson, Army service; music faculty at Stanford University, 1949-1974; Music in the Vineyards and other conducting assignments; directing Marin, San Jose and Modesto Symphony orchestras; Carmel Bach Festival, 1956-1991. Includes conversation with Priscilla Salgo on her early life and career in church music on the San Francisco Peninsula, and the Carmel Bach Festival.

Program for 1991 Carmel Bach Festival, Sandor's final festival appearance.