Research Catalog

Title

Kermit and Dorothy Rudd Moore [sound recording] / Tim Page, interviewer.

Publication

Mar. 27, 1985.

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Additional Authors

• Page, Tim, 1954-
• Moore, Kermit
• Moore, Kermit
• Moore, Dorothy Rudd, 1940-2022
• Moore, Dorothy Rudd, 1940-2022.
• WNYC (Radio station : New York, N.Y.)
• WNYC (Radio station : New York, N.Y.), donor

Description

1 sound disc (59 min) : digital; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

Music critic Tim Page interviews performer, composer and conductor Kermit Moore, and composer, singer and poet Dorothy Rudd Moore. Kermit Moore talks about his three careers: as a cellist, composer and conductor. He says that although he began his career as a cellist, the same time he liked conducting and composing. He wrote his first serious composition at age 12 for the cello. He comments on various prejudices held about African-American composers, and that althoug he is a classical African-American composer, he never felt pressure to write jazz compositions. He introduces his Music for cello and piano, excerpts of which are played. At the end of the interview he gives advice to young composers. Dorothy Moore talks about two of her careers: as a poet and a composer. She says she always wanted to be a composer, but never wrote music on her own words. She introduces her opera Frederick Douglass, based on the life of African-American statesman and reformer Frederick Douglass. Excerpts of the opera are played. At the end of the interview she gives advice to young composers.

Uniform Title

Meet the composer (Radio program)

Subject

• Moore, Kermit > Interviews
• Moore, Dorothy Rudd, 1940-2022 > Interviews
• Composers > United States > Interviews
• Radio programs, Musical
• African American conductors (Music) > Interviews
• Music by African American composers
• African American composers > Interviews
• African American women composers > Interviews
• Music by African American women composers
• Operas > Excerpts
• Cello and piano music

Genre/Form

• Classical music radio programs.
• Radio interviews.

Note

• WNYC no. 8901.

Event (note)

• Broadcast on radio station WNYC, New York, N.Y., Mar. 27, 1985.

Source (note)

• WNYC;

Call Number

*LDC 43587

OCLC

426052268

Title

Kermit and Dorothy Rudd Moore [sound recording] / Tim Page, interviewer.

Imprint

Mar. 27, 1985.

Event

Broadcast on radio station WNYC, New York, N.Y., Mar. 27, 1985.

Source

Gift; WNYC; NN-RHA

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Added Author

Page, Tim, 1954- interviewee.

Moore, Kermit, interviewee.

Moore, Kermit. Music for cello and piano.

Moore, Dorothy Rudd, 1940-2022, interviewee.

Moore, Dorothy Rudd, 1940-2022. Frederick Douglass.

WNYC (Radio station : New York, N.Y.)

WNYC (Radio station : New York, N.Y.), donor.

Research Call Number

*LDC 43587