Reminiscences of Otto Luening, 1976.

Biographical Note

Composer

Scope and Contents

Family background; early life in Madison, Wisconsin; musical education in Munich, 1912-1917; composing, performing and acting in Europe during World War I; Chicago, 1920-1925; executive director, opera department, Eastman School of Music, 1925-1928; teaching at University of Arizona; Yaddo; organization of American Composers Alliance; Barnard College Music Department, 1944-1947; professor of music, Columbia University, 1949- ; electronic workshop at Columbia, development of electronic music; meetings of National Institute of Art and Letters; impressions of Aaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein, Randall Thompson, John Cage, and others. Session 8 of the interview was not transcribed and is only in the audio

Subjects

• Barnard College.
• Columbia University.
• Composers--Interviews.
• Eastman School of Music.
• Electronic music.
• Interviews.
• Luening, Otto, 1900-1996--Interviews.
• Morris, Berenice, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Music--20th century--History and criticism.
• Music--Instruction and study.
• National Institute of Arts and Letters (U.S.)
• Opera.
• Oral histories (literary works)