Committee for Arts and Lectures, 1945-1980
Subtitle: the Connors years
By: Betty Connors ; with an introduction by Ruth Felt. Interviews conducted by Marilynn Rowland in 1998. Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley,
Contributors: Rowland, Marilynn.; Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.
Published: 2000
Subjects: University of California, Berkeley. Committee for Arts and Lectures -- History.; Arts administrators -- California -- Interviews.; Performing arts -- California -- San Francisco Bay Area.
Genres: Interviews.
Other titles: University history series.
Description: Early years and family in the Midwest, exposure to music, University of Iowa, and move to Berkeley; early years of the Committee for Arts and Lectures (CAL): first chairmen, committee members, performance locations; discusses William Popper, Baldwin Woods, Albert Elkus, Donald Coney, Travis Bogard; operas in the Greek Theater, Kurt Herbert Adler; choosing the artists, working with artists' managers, Western Alliance, Intercampus Cultural Exchange; new performance spaces, dedication concerts at Zellerbach Hall, Hertz Hall; reminiscences of the Joffrey Ballet, Juilliard Quarter, Lotte Lehman, Sol Hurok, Jacques Barzun, Griller Quartet, Myra Hess, Ernst Bloch, Ravi Shankar, Alvin Ailey, Beaux Arts Trio, Rostropovich, others; expanded committee, jazz performances, San Francisco Symphony; management issues: programs, ushers, qualities of arts managers, critics, performers' needs. Appended list of CAL members; songs, poems and letters by Travis Bogard and Betty Connors; awards and honors to Connors.