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 [log in to unmask] *********************************************** The CLASSICAL mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's HDMail High Deliverability Mailer for reliable, lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html