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Audio Recording Interview with Rudy Wacek, player and builder of electronically amplified zithers, Chicago, Illinois, part 2

Interview with Rudy Wacek, player and builder of electronically amplified zithers, Chicago, Illinois, part 2

About this Item

Title

  • Interview with Rudy Wacek, player and builder of electronically amplified zithers, Chicago, Illinois, part 2

Names

  • Hellenberg, Antony, 1938-2000 (Collector)
  • Wacek, Rudy (Interviewee)

Created / Published

  • Fontana, Illinois, April 29, 1977

Headings

  • -  German Americans
  • -  Ethnography
  • -  Interviews
  • -  Illinois -- Fontana

Genre

  • Ethnography
  • Interviews

Notes

  • -  Rudy Wacek, part 2
  • -  Part 2 of a 3-part interview-demonstration with Rudy Wacek, builder of electronically amplified zithers, recorded with his wife present, in his home workshop, 3133 N. Nottingham, Chicago; a fragment of the interview is transcribed in the additional related object cited in this record; topics include performing at a Fontana, Illinois, restaurant and club; about Wacek’s manner of performing; about cutting records for public sale, with the presentation of a copy of on his recordings to the American Folklife Center; about passing on of zither-playing skills to his children; on composers of zither music and the current popularity of the zither in Europe; Mrs. Wacek on family history and data; background regarding classical forms of zithers, the elegiac zither (may be a bass zither); where zithers are most common in Europe, two schools (styles) of European zither music associated with Vienna and Munich; on the manner of playing the zither; about advertising of Third Man Theme and on playing with Anton Karas, zither player from Vienna; on playing under conductor Fritz Reiner with the Chicago Symphony at Orchestra Hall.

Medium

  • audiocassette, C-60

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Call number: AFC 1981/004: AFS 20557a
  • MBRS Shelflist: RYA 0625
  • Field Project Identifier: CH77-T034-C

Source Collection

  • Chicago Ethnic Arts Project collection (AFC 1981/004)

Repository

  • American Folklife Center

Digital Id

Online Format

  • audio

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Credit line: Chicago Ethnic Arts Project collection (AFC 1981/004), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

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Chicago citation style:

Hellenberg, Antony, and Rudy Wacek. Interview with Rudy Wacek, player and builder of electronically amplified zithers, Chicago, Illinois, part 2. Fontana, Illinois, 1977. Audio. https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1981004_afs20557a/.

APA citation style:

Hellenberg, A. & Wacek, R. (1977) Interview with Rudy Wacek, player and builder of electronically amplified zithers, Chicago, Illinois, part 2. Fontana, Illinois. [Audio] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1981004_afs20557a/.

MLA citation style:

Hellenberg, Antony, and Rudy Wacek. Interview with Rudy Wacek, player and builder of electronically amplified zithers, Chicago, Illinois, part 2. Fontana, Illinois, 1977. Audio. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/afc1981004_afs20557a/>.