Columbia Center for Oral History Portal > Reminiscences of Hazel K. Johnson [electronic resource] : oral history, 1979.
Creator: | Johnson, Hazel K. | Project: | Bennington Summer School of the Dance project. (see all project interviews) | Phys. Desc. : | Transcript: 129 pages sound file : digital preservation master, WAV files (96 kHz, 24 bit) | Location: | Columbia Center for Oral History | Full CLIO record >> |
Biographical NoteComposer and music instructor.
Scope and ContentsMusic 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.
SubjectsAccess ConditionsCopyright by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1982.
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