A propos a Classical Voice article about Madi Bacon, music historian
Caroline Crawford is calling attention to the UC-Bancroft Library's
collection of oral histories, including one about Bacon.

http://www.sfcv.org/2008/06/03/an-anniversary-about-lives-changed/

Several of these, writes Crawford, including her oral histories of
Jean-Louis LeRoux, James Schwabacher, Joaquin Nin-Culmell, Kurt Herbert
Adler, Sandor Salgo, Ruth Felt, and Donald Pippin can be read online.

One of the major multi-interviewee projects is Artists and Staff of
the San Francisco Opera; it includes Leontyne Price (b. 1927); Birgit
Nilsson (b. 1918); Leonie Rysanek (b. 1926); Geraint Evans (1922-1992);
Ingvar Wixell (b. 1931); Jean-Pierre Ponnelle (1932-1988); Jess Thomas
(1927-1993); Carol Vaness (b. 1952); Gerald Freedman (b. 1927); Wolfram
Skalicki (b. 1925); Dorothy Kirsten (1917-1992); Luciano Pavarotti
(b. 1935); Matthew Farruggio (b. 1920); John Priest (b. 1931); Richard
Rodzinski (b. 1945); Ruth Felt (b. 1939); Richard Bradshaw (b. 1944);
Evelyn Crockett (b. 1909); George Pantages (1918-1991).  [The list has
not been updated with several recent deaths.]

"In process are histories of Ali Akbar Khan, the Kronos Quartet, and the
making of the opera Doctor Atomic," according to Crawford.

Janos Gereben
www.sfcv.org
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