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Interview with Seymour Red Press

Title
Interview with Seymour Red Press [videorecording] / [Video prod. company] Character Generators, Inc. ; [video producer] Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, Patrick Hoffman, director.
Publication
New York, c2005.

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Additional Authors
  • Press, Seymour Red
  • Suskin, Steven
  • Hoffman, Patrick
  • Character Generators/Video
  • New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Billy Rose Theatre Division. Theatre on Film and Tape Archive
Description
1 videodisc (DVD) (60 min.) : sd., col. SP; 4 3/4 in.
Summary
Broadway musical contractor Seymour Red Press discusses his career with author Steven Suskin, starting with his early days as a big band musician and tracing his professional path through work as a studio session player and the switch to working in theater in the 1950s. Press discusses his early days as a Broadway pit musician, then describes the work of a music contractor, i.e. the person responsible for assembling and maintaining orchestras for stage musicals. He examines the impact of various technological changes on his job, such as the miking of performers and the instruments themselves, and examines other issues that affect a pit orchestra during the run of a show.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Interviews.
Access (note)
  • Restricted to qualified researchers.
Event (note)
  • Videotaped by The New York Public Library's Theatre on Film and Tape Archive in the Bruno Walter Auditorium, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, New York, N.Y., April 15, 2005.
Call Number
NCOW 282
OCLC
NYPG05-F11067
Title
Interview with Seymour Red Press [videorecording] / [Video prod. company] Character Generators, Inc. ; [video producer] Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, Patrick Hoffman, director.
Imprint
New York, c2005.
Access
Restricted to qualified researchers.
Performer
Interviewer: Steven Suskin.
Event
Videotaped by The New York Public Library's Theatre on Film and Tape Archive in the Bruno Walter Auditorium, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, New York, N.Y., April 15, 2005.
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Added Author
Press, Seymour Red, interviewee.
Suskin, Steven, interviewer.
Hoffman, Patrick.
Character Generators/Video.
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Billy Rose Theatre Division. Theatre on Film and Tape Archive.
Research Call Number
NCOW 282
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