Research Catalog

Title

Echoes [sound recording] : memoirs of Andre Kostelanetz / Andre Kostelanetz, [interviewee], in collaboration with Gloria Hammond, [interviewer].

Author

Kostelanetz, Andre, 1901-1980.

Publication

1979-1980.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Hammond, Gloria.
• Estate of Andre Kostelanetz. dnr

Found In

Estate of Andre Kostelanetz collection of sound recordings collection.

Description

78 sound discs : digital, stereo; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

Gloria Hammond interviews Andre Kostelanetz, popular orchestral music conductor and arranger, one of the pioneers of easy listening music, who was a major figure in U.S. popular music and on radio for half a century. The interviews were recorded for the book with the same title that was published in 1981 by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Publishers. Kostelanetz discusses his life and career as a conductor and arranger in Russia in the early 1920's and later in the USA that ended up conducting 400 concerts, including tour programs around the world, New York City summer parks concerts, and his innovative Promenade concerts. He also talks about his childhood and studies in Petrograd, Russia, his family background and the beginning of his musical career as an assistant conductor at the Petrograd Opera before he reached the age of 20. He also speaks in detail about his successful long-time career as a conductor and arranger in the USA, where he worked for the CBS radio network and conducted the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. He also talks about popularization of classical music and arrangements of light music, that he made, using heavily concentrated instrumental sonorities, and about his orchestrations that had a direct influence on film music of the time. He also analyzes works that he commissioned.

Alternative Title

• Interview with Andre Kostelanetz
• Estate of Andre Kostelanetz collection of sound recordings.

Subjects

• Arrangers (Musicians) > United States > Interviews
• Conductors (Music) > Biography
• Kostelanetz, Andre, 1901-1980 > Friends and associates
• Kostelanetz, Andre, 1901-1980 > Interviews
• Conductors (Music) > United States > Interviews
• Conductors (Music) > Soviet Union > Interviews
• Popular music > United States
• Interviews (Sound recordings)

Genre/Form

• Interviews.
• Sound recordings.

Note

• "Donated by the Estate of Andre Kostelanetz" -- Container.

Event (note)

• Originally recorded, June 5, 1979-Feb. 11, 1980; interviews from broadcast discs recorded, Oct. 26, 1956-Nov. 2, 1975.

Source (note)

• Estate of Andre Kostelanetz ;

Linking Entry (note)

• Forms part of the Estate of Andre Kostelanetz collection of sound recordings , *L(Special) 07-50.

Contents

1a. World War II, 1942 -- 1b. Childhood, pt. 1 -- 2 (2a on the label). Atomic bomb, Nevada, 1955, Dr. Nicholas ; Childhood, pt. 2 -- 3a. Youth, to Kislovodsk, typhus ; Coaching at opera -- 3b. Youth, Leningrad ; Grand Opera -- 4a. Leningrad, youth (contd.) ; Decision to leave Russia for good -- 4b. Minsk, to Vilna, to Warsaw, to NYC, 1922 ; Composers, misc., interests of childhood -- 5a. Richard Rodgers ; View on music today (especially musicals) ; Musical portraits (Virgil Thompson) [i.e. Thomson] -- 5b. Jimmy Tompson [i.e. Thompson] -- 6 (6a on the label). Misc. (Earl Mountbatten, etc.) -- 7 (7a on the label). Interview with Maria Frank ; Modern music (see news clip) ; Radio -- 8a. Radio -- 8b. Lily Pons -- 9a. Lily Pons (contd.) -- 9b. Andre Kostelanetz -- 10a. Lily Pons (contd.) ; The Beret story -- 10b. Supplementary, early years in the USA -- 11a. Jokes -- 11b. Sara Gene ; Beginning of Ogden Nash -- 12a. Sara Gene -- 12b. Radio ; Sandburg -- 13a. "Mixed" Somerset Maugham in Istanbul recording -- 13b. "Mixed" (contd.) ; Leopold Stokowski ; William Walton -- 14a. William Walton ; World's fair ; P. Casals ; Reiner -- 14b. Monteux, dogs, "Peace and victory" ; Indonesia fans -- 15 (15a on the label). Learning to fly ; What music means (to others) ; At Wolftrap -- 16a. Commissioning music ; Lincoln portrait etc. -- 16b. Commissioning music ; Lincoln portrait etc. (contd.) -- 17a. Commissioned works (contd.) -- 17b. Commissioned works (contd.) ; Travel -- 18a. Travel -- 18b. Travel -- 19a. Musicians ; Criticism ; Beecham ; Travel -- 19b. Travel ; Michener ; Recording technique ; "Kostelanetz" meaning -- 20a. Guest conducting ; Tempo ; Sandburg -- 20b. Early days, Miscellaneous ; Composers, esp. Stokowski ; Misc. -- 21a. Casals (rep.) ; Cologne ; Glen Miller -- 21b. Phillipines ; Arthur Judson ; Musicians ; Stokowski and Roerich -- 22a. Phillipines [i.e. Philippines], Stokowski, Toscanini, Koussevitsky, Kern ; Misc., Food, Cleveland, Marriage -- 22b. Misc. ; White House, May '78 -- 23a. Pictures and comments (Callas etc.) ; Tribute to Andre Kostelanetz as #1 air passenger -- 23b. Pictures and comments (Callas etc.) ; Tribute to Andre Kostelanetz as #1 air passenger (contd.) -- 24a. Conversations: gold, money, misc. ; JPM arrives (Julian Muller) ; Amusing stories (some new) -- 24b. JPM (Julian Muller), A.K. and Gloria Hammond, three way conversation continues, "Rainmaker" (Denver), Boris, winds -- 25a. Miscellaneous, Wonderful session ; Faith Healing ; Appreciation -- 25b. Churchill, Isaiah Berlin story, misc. ; The Koto, China stories -- 26a. India, China stories (contd.) -- 26b. Cole Porter ; Subject of sharing -- 27a. Gloria Hammond's impression of 8/8/79 Park concert, Andre Kostelanetz on concert -- 27b. Concert, Toscanini, Rubinstein, Food -- 28a. Faure, New Orleans -- 28b. Haue [i.e. Haute] cuisine ; Light vs. classical music -- 29a. Light and classical music -- 29b. Rubinstein (taped from ch. 13) ; Misc. ; Opininions of Malcolm Sargent ; Tom Dooley -- 30a. Cambodia (Harriman, 1961, etc.) ; Bill Stevenson, Sonar -- 30b. Sonar (frequency meter story) ; Politics ; Acoustics -- 31a. Acoustics, AK's playing machine idea -- 31b. Misc. thoughts ; White House ; Pope visit ; Rewiewers ; Answers to some tape questions, etc. -- 32 (32a on the label). About writing autobiography, viz a viz conversation re Picasso's former wife (My life with Picasso) ; Cuban revolution ; Incidental conversation (not noted) ; Bill Stevenson -- 33a. Bill Stevenson -- 33b. Bill Stevenson (contd.) ; Andre Kostelanetz -- 34 (34a on the label). Rubiyat [i.e. Rubaiyat], misc. ; Questions answered ; Hebrew story -- 35a. Reviews (contd.) ; School memories ; Efrem Kurtz --35b. Misc. "Wealth" ; Misc. items ; Esp. re Shostakovitch ; Autobiography -- 36a. "You have the hands of Anton Rubinstein" ; First coaching experience ; Misc. ; plagiarism ; Kurtz ; Petersburg Conservatory ; Promenades ; First recording -- 36b. Misc. ; Prince Bernard ; Music ; How book should begin ; First non-subscription concert and Philharmonic encores -- 37a. Some repetitions ; Answers to one or two gaps ; More on beginning of book ; Washington visit for unclear purpose ; Alexander Dymshitz, cousin, who became a Communist ; D.N.V. -- 37b. The courtroom putdown story ; Childhood, learning languages ; Smirnoffs ; Schooldays (rep.) ; Practical joke on German teacher -- 38 (38a on the label). Interview with George Jellinek ; Answers to gaps ; Conductors' egos ; Beecham coke on plane story -- 39 (39a on the label). Interview with Francis Robinson ; Answers to questions -- 40a. Interview with Horace Sutton -- 40b. Interview with Marian Frank (sister) -- 41a. Interview with Lou Robbins -- 41b. Interview with Lou Robbins (contd.) -- 42a. Interview with Karl Haas and Andre Kostelanetz ; Interview with Efrem Kurtz -- 42b. Interview with Efrem Kurtz (contd.) -- 43a. Interviews with A. Konstelanetz, taped from broadcast discs: with Wesley Pearson ; Jim Fassett, N.Y. Philharmonic ; John Daly, WQXR ; Edward Downs, N.Y. Philharmonic program -- 43b. Interviews with: Lloyd Moss, WQXR ; Martin Bookspan ; Hugh Thompson.

Call Number

*LDC 51203

OCLC

686774002

Author

Kostelanetz, Andre, 1901-1980. Interviewee

Title

Echoes [sound recording] : memoirs of Andre Kostelanetz / Andre Kostelanetz, [interviewee], in collaboration with Gloria Hammond, [interviewer].

Imprint

1979-1980.

Event

Originally recorded, June 5, 1979-Feb. 11, 1980; interviews from broadcast discs recorded, Oct. 26, 1956-Nov. 2, 1975.

Linking Entry

Forms part of the Estate of Andre Kostelanetz collection of sound recordings , *L(Special) 07-50.

Source

Gift; Estate of Andre Kostelanetz ; 2007.

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Added Author

Hammond, Gloria. Interviewer

Estate of Andre Kostelanetz. Donor

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Estate of Andre Kostelanetz collection of sound recordings.

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Estate of Andre Kostelanetz collection of sound recordings collection.

Research Call Number

*LDC 51203