Reminiscences of Mary Ellis Peltz : oral history, 1977.

Biographical Note

Music critic; interviewee married John DeWitt Peltz.

Scope and Contents

Family background, childhood in New York City; music critic for EVENING SUN, 1920-24; lecturing for Metropolitan Opera Guild speakers' bureau; establishment of Metropolitan Opera archives; editing OPERA NEWS, 1936-57; opera translations; impressions of Metropolitan management.

Subjects

• Interviews.
• Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.)
• Morris, Berenice, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Music--History and criticism.
• Musical criticism.
• Music critics--Interviews.
• Opera--New York (State)
• Opera.
• Oral histories.
• Peltz, Mary Ellis, 1896-1981.

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