Reminiscences of Hazel K. Johnson [electronic resource] : oral history, 1979.

Biographical Note

Composer and music instructor.

Scope and Contents

Music and dance training at Western Women's College, Oxford, Ohio, 1937-41; meeting with Norman Lloyd and Martha Hill, Hood College, 1940; Bennington Summer School of the Arts, 1940-42: intense creative atmosphere, Louis Horst's music-for-dance course and his influence on her teaching, leisure time, composing for Nona Schurman; teaching: Cornell 1941-2, Bennington 1943-8; contrast between summer and winter schools at Bennington; summer school at Connecticut College; Bennington network of contacts; recollections of Martha Graham, Doris Humphrey, Martha Hill, Louis Horst.

Subjects

• Bennington College.
• Bowers, Theresa, interviewer.
• Composers--Interviews.
• Composition (Music)
• Dance music.
• Dance teachers.
• Goldner, Nancy, interviewer.
• Interviews.
• Johnson, Hazel K.--Interviews.
• Modern dance.
• Musicians--Interviews.
• Oral histories.

Access Conditions

Copyright by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1982.