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Title

  • Great conversations: the composers

Names

  • Perle, George (Interviewee)
  • Rorem, Ned (Interviewee)
  • Lieberman, Lowell (Interviewee)
  • Istomin, Eugene (Host)
  • Zwilich, Ellen Taaffe (Interviewee)
  • Rosen, Peter (Producer)
  • Babbitt, Milton (Interviewee)
  • Danielpour, Richard (Interviewee)

Created / Published

  • Peter Rosen Productions, Inc., New York, 2005

Headings

  • -  videorecording

Genre

  • videorecording

Notes

  • -  Composers Milton Babbit, Richard Danielpour, Lowell Liebermann, George Perle, Ned Rorem, and Ellen Taaffe Zwilich join Istomin at the American Academy of Arts and Letters in New York to discuss and argue about the strong feelings and controversies surrounding modern contemporary music and the challenges that programming their music presents. The composers talk about their lifelong struggles to achieve recognition, but express pride in their collective status as representatives of the avant-garde.
  • -  "Program two" in the series of Great conversations.
  • -  Additional credits: for the Music Division of the Library of Congress: Jon Newsom, Chief; Jan Lauridsen, Asst. Chief; Ruth Foss, Program Specialist.
  • -  In opening credits: "The Library of Congress, Washington, DC, presents."
  • -  In credits: "produced for the Library of Congress by Peter Rosen Productions, Inc."
  • -  Filmed at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York.
  • -  Copyright Library of Congress. This program was made possible through the courtesy of Eugene Istomin. Artists' appearances are courtesy of themselves: Milton Babbitt, Richard Danielpour, Lowell Lieberman, George Perle, Ned Rorem, and Ellen Taaffe Zwilich.

Medium

  • 1 digibeta videotape; duration: 56 min., 4 sec.

Source Collection

  • Great Conversations in Music

Repository

  • music division

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Online Format

  • video
  • pdf

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The programs for "Great Conversations in Music" were created and hosted by the late Eugene Istomin (1925-2003). The four-part series was commissioned by the Library of Congress in 2001 and produced and directed by Peter Rosen of Peter Rosen Productions, Inc. These programs are copyrighted by the Library of Congress. These programs were made possible through the courtesy of Eugene Istomin. His guests in these programs appear courtesy of themselves.

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Chicago citation style:

Perle, George, Ned Rorem, Lowell Lieberman, Eugene Istomin, Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, Peter Rosen, Milton Babbitt, and Richard Danielpour. Great Conversations: The Composers. Peter Rosen Productions, Inc., New York, 2005. Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/ihas.200031103/.

APA citation style:

Perle, G., Rorem, N., Lieberman, L., Istomin, E., Zwilich, E. T., Rosen, P. [...] Danielpour, R. (2005) Great Conversations: The Composers. Peter Rosen Productions, Inc., New York. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/ihas.200031103/.

MLA citation style:

Perle, George, et al. Great Conversations: The Composers. Peter Rosen Productions, Inc., New York, 2005. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/ihas.200031103/>.