Opera Interviews By Bruce
Duffie
This page contains
links to many of the interviews
I have done with artists
in the Classical Music
field, specifically
those involved in opera.
Most of them were
originally for radio broadcasts on WNIB,
Classical 97, in Chicago.
Now, many of these interviews
have been transcribed, and
are presented as texts.
There are no audio
samples (yet).
This page was updated on October
17, 2024.
SINGERS, DIRECTORS, Etc.
Note: Many more singers and other operatic personnel
can be found in the listings for various publications
which are shown farther
down on this webpage.
Soprano Evelyn Lear
Soprano Phyllis Curtin
Soprano Phyllis Bryn-Julson
Soprano Kari Lövaas
Soprano Neva Pilgrim
Soprano Cristina Deutekom
Soprano Dame Margaret Price
Soprano Helen Donath
Soprano Dame Eva Turner
Soprano Martina Arroyo
Soprano Isobel Buchanan
Soprano Dame Felicity Lott
Soprano Bethany Beardslee
Soprano Marni Nixon
Soprano Ileana Cotrubaș
Soprano Roberta Peters
[Two Interviews]
Soprano Lorna Haywood
Soprano Norma Burrowes
Soprano Judith Blegen
Soprano Elly Ameling
Soprano Benita Valente
Soprano Eleanor Steber
Soprano Carol Vaness
Soprano Dame Gwyneth Jones
Soprano Elisabeth Söderström
Soprano Cecilia Gasdia
Soprano Eva Mei
Soprano Ghena Dimitrova
Soprano Arleen Augér
Soprano Karita Mattila
Soprano Mariella Devia
Soprano Renée Fleming
Soprano Nadine Secunde
Soprano Tina Kiberg
Soprano Susan Dunn
Soprano Judith Nelson
Soprano Marie McLaughlin
Soprano Brenda Roberts
Soprano Lucy Shelton
Soprano Anna Moffo
Soprano Barbara Ann Martin
Soprano Linda Zoghby
Soprano Lella Cuberli
Soprano Christine Brandes
Soprano Ellen Hargis
Soprano Edith Mathis
Soprano Reri Grist
Soprano Wilhelmenia Fernandez
Soprano Deborah Voigt
Soprano Mary Beth Peil
Soprano Sylvia McNair
Soprano Nancy Gustafson
Soprano Helen Boatwright
Soprano Angelina Réaux
Soprano Julianne Baird
Soprano Elizabeth Hynes
Soprano Emily Magee
Soprano Constance Hauman
Soprano Jane Eaglen
Soprano Daniela Dessì
Soprano/Mezzo-Soprano
Regina Resnik
Soprano/Mezzo-Soprano
Anja Silja
Soprano/Mezzo-Soprano
Felicity Palmer
Soprano/Composer
Joan La Barbara
Soprano/Conductor
Anne Marie Ketchum
Soprano/Director
Graziella Sciutti
Soprano and
Conductor Kiri Te
Kanawa and Sir John Pritchard
[Third
of three interviews with Pritchard; links to
the others are included]
Soprano and
Tenor Judith Raddue
and Carl Tanner
[Plus
fourth of four interviews with Lawrence Rapchak;
links to the others are included]
Mezzo-Soprano
Risë Stevens
Mezzo-Soprano
Dolora Zajick
Mezzo-Soprano
Brigitte Fassbaender
Mezzo-Soprano
Herta Glaz
Mezzo-Soprano
Anna Reynolds
Mezzo-Soprano
Tatiana Troyanos
Mezzo-Soprano
Patricia Kern
Mezzo-Soprano
Sonia Sharnova
Mezzo-Soprano
Giulietta Simionato
Mezzo-Soprano
Elena Zilio
Mezzo-Soprano
Florence Quivar
Mezzo-Soprano Vesselina Kasarova
Mezzo-Soprano
Ann Murray
Mezzo-Soprano
Sandra Warfield
Mezzo-Soprano
Janice Taylor
Mezzo-Soprano
Martha Lipton
Mezzo-Soprano
Jennifer Larmore
[Two Interviews]
Mezzo-Soprano
Nancy Maultsby
Mezzo-Soprano
Hilda Harris
Mezzo-Soprano
Denyce Graves
Mezzo-Soprano
Diane Curry
Mezzo-Soprano
Robynne Redmon
Mezzo-Soprano
Anita Berry
Mezzo-Soprano
Cynthia Munzer
Mezzo-Soprano
Constance Beavon
Mezzo-Soprano
Frederica von Stade
[Two Interviews]
Mezzo-Soprano
Sandra Walker
Mezzo-Soprano
Delores Ziegler
Mezzo-Soprano
Stefania Toczyska
Mezzo-Soprano/Soprano
Shirley Verrett
Mezzo-Soprano/Soprano
Kay Griffel
Mezzo-Soprano
and Bass-Baritone Mimi Lerner and Monte
Jaffe
Mezzo-Soprano
and Bass Fiorenza
Cossotto and Ivo Vinco
Mezzo-Soprano
and Conductor Melanie
Sonnenberg and Bradley Vieth
Contralto Bernadette Manca di
Nissa
Counter-tenor
Christopher Robson
Counter-tenor
Derek Lee Ragin
Tenor Carlo Bergonzi
Tenor Rockwell Blake
Tenor Wiesław Ochman
Tenor Graham Clark
Tenor Ryland Davies
Tenor Ragnar Ulfung
Tenor Anthony Rolfe
Johnson
Tenor Émile Belcourt
Tenor Gösta Winbergh
[Two Interviews]
Tenor Neil Shicoff
Tenor Peter Dvorský
Tenor Michael Schade
Tenor Paul Sperry
Tenor Ramón Vargas
Tenor Ernst Haefliger
Tenor Poul Elming
Tenor Kurt Streit
Tenor Vyacheslav Polozov
Tenor Vladimir Galouzine
Tenor Chris Merritt
[Two Interviews]
Tenor Bruce Ford
Tenor Thomas Young
Tenor Vinson Cole
Tenor Richard Leech
[Two Interviews]
Tenor Jonathan Welch
Tenor Gregory Kunde
Tenor Michael Ballam
Tenor Michael Sylvester
Comprimario
Tenor Piero De Palma
Tenor/Administrator
Frank Little
Tenor/Administrator
John Vorrasi
Tenor/Administrator
David Lloyd
Tenor/Conductor
Peter Schreier
Tenor/Director Laurence Dale
Baritone Hermann Prey
Baritone Nikolai Putilin
Baritone Richard Stilwell
Baritone Frank Guarrera
Baritone Sir Thomas Allen
Baritone Renato Capecchi
Baritone Thomas Hampson
Baritone and
Oboist John Shirley-Quirk
and Sara Watkins
Baritone Pablo Elvira
Baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky
Baritone/Author
Marko Rothmüller
Baritone Rolando Panerai
Baritone Donnie Ray Albert
Baritone Max van Egmond
Baritone David Pittman-Jennings
Baritone Robert Merrill
Baritone Brent Ellis
Baritone Robert Orth
Baritone William Stone
Baritone William Sharp
Baritone Brian Davis
Baritone Norman Mittelmann
Baritone Jubilant Sykes
Heldenbariton
Hartmut Welker
Baritone/Director/Administrator
Philip Kraus
Bass-Baritone
Walter Berry
Bass-Baritone
Norman Bailey
Bass-Baritone
Heinz Rehfuss
Bass-Baritone
José van Dam
Bass-Baritone
Arnold Voketaitis
[Two Interviews]
Bass-Baritone
Ruggero Raimondi
Bass-Baritone
William Powers
Bass Nicola Zaccaria
Bass Robert Lloyd
Bass Michael Langdon
Bass John Macurdy
Bass Martti Talvela
Bass Nicola Rossi-Lemeni
Bass Sir John Tomlinson
Bass Gwynne Howell
Bass Richard Van Allan
Bass Lorenzo Alvary
Bass Spiro Malas
Bass Samuel Ramey
Bass Jan-Hendrik Rootering
Bass/Director
Italo Tajo
Bass and Mezzo-Soprano
Stafford Dean and Anne
Howells
Chorus Master
Michael Lepore
[Lyric Opera of Chicago, 1954-74]
Actor/Narrator
Werner Klemperer
Actor/Director
Sam Wanamaker
Actor/Director
Frank Galati
Director Sir Peter Hall
Director John Copley
Director Harry Silverstein
Director Dominic Missimi
Director Arthur Masella
Director Robert Tannenbaum
Director Rhoda Levine
Director/Translator
Richard Pearlman
Director and
Soprano Patrick Bakman
and Gloria Capone
Director and
Conductor Marc Verzatt
and Lawrence Rapchak [Third of
four interviews with Rapchak; links to the others
are included]
Director and
Conductor Linda Brovsky
and Joseph De Rugeriis [Second
interview with De Rugeriis; link to the first is included]
Director and
Administrator
Mary Zimmerman and Carl Ratner
[Third of three interviews with Ratner; links to the
others are included]
Designer/Director
Pier Luigi Samaritani
Designer/Director
John Pascoe
Technical Director
(later Deputy General Director and COO) Drew Landmesser
[Lyric Opera of Chicago, 1987-2006,
2010 - ]
Costume Director
(Wardrobe Master) Hugh Pruett
[Lyric Opera of Chicago, 1959-2000]
Wigmaster and
Makeup Designer Stan Dufford
[San Francisco Opera, 1956-1968; Lyric Opera of
Chicago, 1972-2000]
Boy Soprano,
later Administrator, and General Director William Mason
[Lyric Opera of Chicago, 1954-2011]
Publicist Danny Newman
[Second of Two Interviews]
Concert Manager
Henry Fogel
[Chicago Symphony Orchestra]
WRITERS, TECHNICIANS,
PATRONS, Etc.
Critic/Professor
Thomas Willis
[Chicago Tribune]
Critic/Author
Robert C. Marsh
[Chicago Sun-Times]
Critic/Author
Bernard Jacobson
[Chicago Daily News]
Critic/Translator
Andrew Porter
[The New Yorker, and various
British publications]
Radio Host Karl Haas [Host
of Adventures in Good Music]
Musicologist
Stanley Sadie [Editor
of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians]
Publisher Hans Heinsheimer
[Universal Edition; Boosey & Hawkes;
G. Schirmer]
Lexicographer
Nicolas Slonimsky
[Editor of Baker's Biographical Dictionary
of Musicians]
Editor/Broadcaster/Soporano
Ruby Mercer
[Founder and Editor of Opera
Canada]
Radio Commentator/Author
George Jellinek
[Host of The Vocal Scene]
[Two Interviews]
Recording Producer
Wilma Cozart Fine
[Mercury Records]
Recording Producer
Edward (Ted) Perry
[Hyperion Records]
Recording Producer
James Ginsburg
[Cedille Records]
Recording Producer
Robert von Bahr
[BIS Records]
Replica Builder
J. Paul Barnett
[Cannons and mechanism used in the
1812 Overture]
Patron Paul Fromm
[Fromm Music Foundation]
These are my
interviews which were published in The Opera Journal,
the quarterly
magazine of the National Opera Association.
They appeared regularly between
September, 1985, and December, 2021.
Those posted here are as submitted,
except for a few as published* .
Most of them now include photographs.
Mezzo-Soprano
Teresa Berganza
[September, 1985]
Bass Terry Cook
[December, 1985]
Soprano Marilyn Zschau
[March, 1986]
Director Nathaniel Merrill
[June, 1986]*
Quizmaster Edward Downes
[September, 1986]
Mezzo-Soprano
Sharon Graham
[December, 1986]
Tenor Vasile Moldoveanu
[March, 1987]*
Conductor Max Rudolf
[June, 1987]*
Prompter Jane Klaviter
[December, 1987]*
Opera Manager/Author
The Earl of Harewood
[March, 1988]
Opera Producer
Boris Goldovsky
[June, 1988]
Soprano Ellen Shade
[September, 1988]
Opera Producer
Robert Gay
[December, 1988]
Baritone Lenus Carlson
[March, 1989]*
Opera Manager
Marc Belfort
[June, 1989]
Opera Manager
Ardis Krainik
[September, 1989]
Opera Manager
Glynn Ross
[December, 1989]
Bass William Warfield
[March, 1990]
Composer and
Librettist/Director Lee Goldstein and
Charles Kondek [June, 1990]
Chorus Master
David Stivender
[September, 1990]
Director Frank Corsaro
[December, 1990]
Opera Manager
Martin Feinstein
[March, 1991]
Conductor Emerson Buckley
[June, 1991]
Historian/Scholar
Philip Gossett
[September, 1991]
Director Robert Wilson
[December, 1991]
Mezzo-Soprano
Jean Kraft
[March, 1992]*
Director Peter Sellars
[June, 1992]*
Composer Marvin David Levy
[September, 1992]
Soprano Sheri Greenawald
[December, 1992]
Tenor Neil Rosenshein
[March, 1993]
Baritone Peter Glossop
[June, 1993]*
Soprano Alpha Floyd
[September, 1993]
Director Sandro Sequi
[December, 1993]
Conductor/Director
Sarah Caldwell
[March, 1994]
Librettist Harvey Hess
[June, 1994]*
Bass Jerome Hines
[September, 1994]
Captain of Supers
Ken Recu
[December, 1994]
Director Bodo Igesz
[March, 1995]
Soprano Gianna Rolandi
[June, 1995]
Countertenor
Jeffrey Gall
[September, 1995]
Soprano Kathryn Harries
[March, 1996]
Bass Eric Halfvarson
[September, 1996]
Tenor Paul Groves
[June/September, 1998]
Lighting Designer
Duane Schuler
[December, 1998]
Soprano Laura Aikin
[March, 1999]
Bass Mark S. Doss
[June, 1999]
Tenor Thomas Moser
[September, 2000]
Composer Robert Ward
[December, 2000] [Pulitzer
Prize, 1962]
(Note: This was my second interview with Robert Ward. The first
one, from 1985, can be seen here.)
Soprano Patricia Racette
[March, 2001]
Mezzo-Soprano
Susan Graham
[June, 2001]
Chorus Master
Donald Palumbo
[September, 2001]
Baritone Alexandru Agache
[December, 2001]
Tenor George Shirley
[March, 2002]
Conductor Yakov Kreizberg
[June, 2002]
Soprano Leontina Vaduva
[September, 2002]
Baritone Rodney Gilfry
[June, 2003]
Tenor David Cangelosi
[September/December, 2003]
Soprano Sheryl Woods
[March, 2004]
Mezzo-Soprano
Gillian Knight
[June, 2004]
Bass-Baritone
John Del Carlo
[December, 2005]
Tenor Robin Leggate
[June, 2006]
Ballet Master
Maria Tallchief
[September, 2006]
Soprano Andrea Gruber
[March, 2007]
Conductor Emmanuel Villaume
[June, 2007]
Designer John Conklin
[September, 2007]
Bass Franz Hawlata
[March, 2008]
Conductor Antonio Pappano
[June, 2008]
Director Harold Prince
[September, 2008]
Mezzo-Soprano
Michelle DeYoung
[December, 2008]
Due to delays in production, no issues of The Opera
Journal were dated 2009.
Soprano June Anderson
[2010 #1 & #2 (Double Issue)]
Tenor Donald Kaasch
[2010 #3 & #4 (Double Issue)]
Soprano Barbara Bonney
[2011 #1 & #2 (Double Issue)]
Soprano Régine Crespin
(Also in 2011 #1 & #2)
Basso Buffo
Paolo Montarsolo
(Also in 2011 #1 & #2)
Conductor Lorin Maazel
[2011 #3 & #4 (Double Issue)]
Baritone/Director
Tito Gobbi
[2012 #1]
Mezzo-Soprano/Soprano
Margaret Harshaw
[2012 #2]
Composer Hugo Weisgall
[2012 #3]
Soprano Leonie Rysanek
[2012 #4]
Baritone Theodor Uppman
[2013 #1]
Mezzo-Soprano/Soprano
Grace Bumbry
(Also Opera Scene March,
1983) [2013 #2]
Tenor James King
[2013 #3]
Tenor James McCracken
[2013 #4]
Mezzo-Soprano
Marilyn Horne
[2014 #1]
Soprano Licia Albanese
(Also Massenet Newsletter July, 1989) [2014
#2]
Soprano and
Tenor Pierrette
Alarie and Léopold Simoneau
[Two Interviews with both singers
together] [2014 #3 & #4 (Two parts)]
Actor/Director
Sir Peter Ustinov
[2015 #1]
Tenor John Aler
[2015 #2]
Bass-Baritone
Donald Gramm
(Also Massenet Newsletter July, 1985) [2015
#3]
Composer Jack Beeson
[2015 #4]
Conductor Stewart Robertson
[2016 #1]
Soprano Mattiwilda Dobbs
[2016 #2]
Director John Cox
[2016 #3]
Baritone Cornell MacNeil
[2016 #4]
Composer Libby Larsen
[2017 #1]
Tenor Ian Bostridge
[2017 #2]
Conductor Riccardo Chailly
[2017 #3]
Baritone Piero Cappuccilli
[2017 #4]
Beginning in 2018, The Opera Journal will be published
twice each year - in June and December.
Contralto Maureen Forrester
[2018 #1]
Vocal Coach
Janine Reiss
[2018 #2]
Actor/Director
Charles Nelson Reilly
[2019 #1]
Soprano Dawn Upshaw
[2019 #2]
Conductor/Composer
Esa-Pekka Salonen
[2020 #1]
Tenor William Brown
[2020 #2]
Property Master
Thomas Gilbert
[Lyric Opera of Chicago, 1973-2011]
[2021 #1]
Bass-Baritone/Director
Andrew Foldi
[2021 #2]
This concludes my series in The Opera Journal.
Note: In all cases
where I eventually did two interviews with a
guest, both are posted
in their entirety on this website, but only
the first one was
printed in the magazine on the date indicated.
Also, even when
they were published in magazines devoted to Wagner
or Massenet, my
interviews usually covered a wide range of musical
topics.
From 1980
until 1992, forty-five of my interviews (plus five
articles)
were published in Wagner
News, the newsletter of the
Wagner Society of America.
Here are most of those interviews.
Heldenbaiton Noel Tyl
[October, 1980]
Mezzo-Soprano
Ruža Baldani
[December, 1980]
Conductor Marek Janowski
[Two Interviews] [January
& March, 1981 (Two Parts)]
Mezzo-Soprano/Soprano
Janis Martin
[April, 1981] (Also
Opera Scene, October, 1982)
Bass Hans Sotin
[June, 1981] (Also Opera Scene,
October, 1982)
Mezzo-Contralto
Geraldine Decker
[Summer, 1981]
Tenor Hermann Winkler
[September, 1981]
Tenor William Johns
[November, 1981]
Conductor James Levine
[December, 1981] (Also Opera Scene,
July, 1982)
"The First Digital
Tristan; A Talk with the Maestro, the Hero
and the Boss" [February, 1982]
(Interviews
with Conductor Sir Reginald Goodall, Tenor
John Mitchinson,
and
Brian McMaster, General Administrator of the
Welsh National Opera)
Baritone Thomas Stewart
[Two Interviews] [March, 1982]
Mezzo-Soprano
Yvonne Minton
[Two Interviews] [May,
1982]
Tenor David Gordon
[May, 1982] (Also Opera Scene, November,
1982)
Soprano Johanna Meier
[Summer, 1982]
Bass-Baritone
Tom Krause
[December, 1982]
Conductor Ferdinand Leitner
[January, 1983]
Bass-Baritone
Simon Estes
[April, 1983]
Bass-Baritone
Siegmund Nimsgern
[July, 1983] (Also Opera
Scene, April, 1983)
Mezzo-Soprano
Blanche Thebom
[August, 1983]
Conductor Erich Leinsdorf
[Two Interviews]
[June, 1984]
Soprano Eva Marton [Two
Interviews] [November, 1984]
"Wagner in Chicago
Before Lyric -- The Resident Companies at Home and on Tour 1910-1946"
[March, 1985]
Soprano/Mezzo-Soprano
Helga Dernesch
[July, 1985]
Mezzo-Soprano
Nadine Denize
[October, 1985]
Bass Don Garrard
[March, 1986]
Soprano/Mezzo-Soprano
Rose Bampton
[April, 1986]
"Seattle and the
New Ring" [Summer, 1986]
(Interviews
with Conductor Armin Jordan, Director François
Rochaix, and Designer Robert Israel)
Tenor Jon Vickers
[October, 1986]
Conductor Sir John Pritchard
[February, 1987] [Second
of three interviews; links to the others are included]
Soprano/Mezzo-Soprano
Martha Mödl
[March, 1987]
Baritone Julian Patrick
[July, 1987]
Conductor Edwin McArthur
[September, 1987]
Soprano Anna Tomowa-Sintow
[December, 1987]
Conductor Maurice Abravanel
[January, 1988] (Also Massenet
Newsletter, July, 1986)
Bass Giorgio Tozzi
[March, 1988]
Bass Kurt Moll
[May, 1988]
Conductor Christopher Keene
[September, 1988]
Director August Everding
[October, 1988]
Baritone Roger Roloff
[February, 1989]
Soprano Birgit Nilsson
[Summer, 1989]
Bass William Wildermann
[December, 1989]
Bass-Baritone
Archie Drake
[April, 1990]
Administrator/Conductor
Kurt Herbert Adler
[September, 1990]
Conductor Hermann Michael
[May, 1991]
Tenor Jean Cox
[January, 1992]
From 1982
until 1993, thirty-two of my interviews (plus one
article)
were published in The Massenet Newsletter,
the
semi-annual journal of the
Massenet Society.
Here are those interviews.
Conductor Michel Plasson
[January, 1982]
Tenor Alfredo Kraus
[July, 1982] (Also Opera Scene, August,
1982)
Conductor Jean Fournet
[January, 1983]
Conductor Julius Rudel
[July, 1983]
Massenet, Mary
Garden, and the Chicago Opera 1910-1932
[January, 1984]
Tenor André Jobin
[June, 1984]
Soprano Valerie Masterson
[January, 1985]
Mezzo-Soprano
Alicia Nafé
[July, 1985]
Bass-Baritone
Donald Gramm
[July, 1985] (Also The Opera Journal,
2015, #3)
Soprano Bidú Sayão
[January, 1986]
Baritone Martial Singher
[January, 1986]
Mezzo-Soprano
Lucia Valentini
Terrani [January, 1986]
Soprano Helen Jepson
[July, 1986]
Conductor Maurice Abravanel
[July, 1986] (Also Wagner
News, January, 1988)
Conductor/Composer
Manuel Rosenthal
[January, 1987]
Mezzo-Soprano
Kathleen Kuhlmann
[January, 1987]
Soprano Dorothy Kirsten
[July, 1987]
Tenor Barry McCauley
[July, 1987]
Historian Anne Bessand-Massenet
[January, 1988]
Mezzo-Soprano
Susanne Mentzer
[Two Interviews] [January, 1988]
Tenor Jerry Hadley
[Two Interviews] [July, 1988]
Mezzo-Soprano
Wendy White
[January, 1989]
Baritone William Parker
[January, 1989]
Soprano Licia Albanese
[July 1989] (Also The Opera Journal,
2014, #2)
Baritone Sherrill Milnes
[Two Interviews] [January, 1990]
Soprano Sunny Joy Langton
[January, 1990]
Soprano and
Conductor Joan Sutherland
and Richard Bonynge [July,
1990]
Soprano Catherine Malfitano
[January, 1991]
Soprano Renata Scotto
[July, 1991]
Baritone Dale Duesing
[January, 1992]
Soprano Jarmila Novotná
[June, 1992]
Tenor Jacque Trussel
[January, 1993]
Soprano Faith Esham
[July, 1993]
From 1984 until 1987, nine of my interviews were published
in Nit & Wit, a bi-monthly literary arts
magazine.
Here are those interviews, as well as two that did not get
into print.
Soprano and
Bass Mirella Freni
and Nicolai Ghiaurov [Two Interviews]
[September, 1984]
Baritone J. Patrick Raftery
[November, 1984]
Baritone Benjamin Luxon [January,
1986]
Conductor/Pianist
Daniel Barenboim
[Two Interviews] [March,
1986]
Mezzo-Soprano
Mignon Dunn [May,
1986]
Composer Steve Reich [Two
Interviews] [July, 1986]
Tenor Francisco Araiza
[Two Interviews] [September,
1986]
Director/Manager
Lotfi Mansouri
[November, 1986]
Conductor Michael Tilson Thomas
[First of Two Interviews; link to the
second is included] [March, 1987]
Composer Donald Erb [Pulitzer Finalist, 1995] [1987,
but unpublished due to the demise of this magazine]
Director Sonja Frisell
[1987, but unpublished due to the demise of this magazine]
From May of 1982 until June
of 1983, a business
partner
and I published Opera Scene magazine.
The eleven
issues included twenty-one of my interviews
(plus six
articles). As noted above, a few had been
previously
published in Wagner News or the Massenet
Newsletter.
Here are
those interviews.
Soprano Ruth Welting
[May, 1982]
Conductor Bruno Bartoletti
[Three Interivews] [May,
1982]
Tenor William Eichorn
[July, 1982]**
Conductor James Levine
[July, 1982] (Also Wagner News,
December, 1981)
Bass Paul Plishka
[Two Interviews] [August, 1982]
Tenor Alfredo Kraus
[August, 1982] (Also Massenet Newsletter,
July, 1982)
Mezzo-Soprano/Soprano
Janis Martin
[October, 1982] (Also
Wagner News, April, 1981)
Bass Hans Sotin
[October, 1982] (Also Wagner News,
July, 1981)
Soprano Josephine Barstow
[November, 1982]
Tenor David Gordon
[November, 1982]** (Also Wagner News,
May, 1982)
Baritone Sesto Bruscantini
[December, 1982]
Comprimario
Tenor Florindo Andreolli
[December, 1982]
Soprano Elena Mauti-Nunziata
[January, 1983]
Tenor Giuliano Ciannella
[January, 1983]
Artistic Director
Alan Stone
[Founder of the Chicago Opera Theater]
[Four Interviews] [February, 1983]
Mezzo-Soprano/Soprano
Grace Bumbry
[March, 1983] (Also
The Opera Journal, 2013 #2)
Tenor Gualtiero Negrini
[March, 1983]**
Bass-Baritone
Siegmund Nimsgern
[April, 1983] (Also Wagner
News, July, 1983)
Conductor Joseph De Rugeriis
[April, 1983]** (First
of two interviews; link to the other is included)
Mezzo-Soprano
Claudine Carlson
[May, 1983]
Soprano Michelle Harman Gulick
[May, 1983]**
**Denotes my series on the Young Performer
These interviews have been published in
New Music Connoisseur
The hard-copy issues of the magazine (which
were snail-mailed to subscribers) contain a portion of each interview.
This website presents the complete interviews
with photographs.
Composer Joan Tower (Spring,
2001) [Pulitzer Finalist,
1993]
Composer/Pianist
Easley Blackwood
(Summer, 2001)
Composer Brian Fennelly
(Fall, 2001)
Composer Karel Husa (Winter,
2001) [Second of Two Interviews] [Pulitzer Prize, 1969]
Composer Robert Carl (Spring,
2002)
Composer/Critic
Virgil Thomson (Summer,
2002) [Pulitzer Prize,
1949]
Composer Elizabeth Austin
(Fall, 2002)
Pianist David Holzman
(Summer, 2003)
Composer Ruth Schonthal
(Fall/Winter, 2003)
Composer/Pianist
George Walker (Spring,
2004) [Pulitzer
Prize, 1996]
Composer Alan Hovhaness
(Spring/Summer, 2005)
Composer William Mayer
(Summer/Fall, 2006)
Soprano Elsa Charlston
(Fall/Winter, 2006)
Composer Leo Kraft (Spring/Summer,
2008)
Composer Elliott Carter
(Winter/Spring, 2008-09) [Pulitzer
Prize, 1960 & 1973] [Pulitzer Finalist, 1996 & 2005]
These interviews
have been posted on the
Classical
Connect Website.
That site has been given permission to publish selected interviews
in part or in full.
This website presents the complete interviews with photographs.
Composer George Flynn
Violinist Jennifer Koh
Composer Aaron Jay Kernis
[Pulitzer Prize, 1998]
[Pulitzer Finalist, 1994, 2013]
Pianist Jorge Federico Osorio
Composer Lowell Liebermann
Oboist Alex Klein
[Principal, Chicago Symphony Orchestra]
Conductor Carlos Kalmar
Pianist Ursula Oppens
Composer John Corigliano
[Two Interviews] [Pulitzer Prize, 2001]
In 1993,
The Instrumentalist Magazine requested my interviews
with
Sir Georg Solti, to be used as the cover
article in their October issue.
Conductor Sir Georg Solti [Two
Interviews] [October, 1993]
What follows is a group of interviews with
conductors.
Most of them have
led operas, and some are (or were)
Music Directors
of various opera companies.
Conductor James DePreist
Conductor Charles Dutoit
Conductor Antal Doráti
Conductor Giuseppe Sinopoli
Conductor Leonard Slatkin
[Two Interviews]
Conductor Raymond Leppard
Conductor Frederick Fennell
Conductor Jane Glover
Conductor Bernard Haitink
Conductor Jorge Mester
Conductor Capt. William J.
Phillips [Director of the Navy Band]
Conductor JoAnn Falletta
Conductor Robert Spano
Conductor John Nelson
Conductor Nicholas McGegan
Conductor Neeme Järvi
Conductor Margaret Hillis
[Founder of the Chicago Symphony Chorus]
Conductor Kurt Masur
Conductor Jesús López-Cobos
Conductor Maxim Shostakovich
Conductor Christian Thielemann
Conductor/Composer
Stanisław Skrowaczewski
[Pulitzer Finalist,
1997]
Conductor Zubin Mehta [Two
Interviews]
Conductor Herbert Blomstedt
Conductor Wolfgang Sawallisch
Conductor Vittorio Negri
Conductor Sir Charles Mackerras
Conductor Andrew Schenck
Conductor Kenneth Jennings
[Director of the St. Olaf Choir, 1968-1990]
Conductor Marin Alsop
Conductor Eduardo Mata
Conductor Donato Renzetti
Conductor Günter Wand
Conductor Leopold Hager
Conductor John Pritchard
[First of three interviews; links to
the others are included]
Conductor Fiora Contino
Conductor William Revelli
[Director of Bands, University of Michigan,
1935-1971]
Conductor Matthias Bamert
Conductor George Guest [Director,
Choir of St. John's College, Cambridge, 1951-1991]
Conductor/Harpsichordist
William Christie
[Founder of Les Arts Florissants]
Conductor Sir David Willcocks
[Director of Music, King's College, Cambridge,
1957-1974;
Director of the Royal College
of Music, London, 1974-1984]
Conductor/Trumpeter
Gerard Schwarz
Conductor Robert Shaw
Conductor Zdenek Macal
Conductor Paul Strauss
Conductor/Composer
Jack Stamp [Founder
of the Keystone Wind Ensemble]
Conductor Sergiu Comissiona
Conductor Gary Bertini
Conductor Helmuth Rilling
Conductor Sian Edwards
Conductor/Pianist
Dennis Russell Davies
[Two Interviews]
Conductor Claudio Abbado
Conductor Carlo Felice Cillario
Conductor Andrew Parrott
Conductor/Arranger
John P. Paynter
[Director of Bands, Northwestern University,
1951-1996]
Conductor/Pianist
Mario Bernardi
Conductor/Composer
Werner Janssen
Conductor/Composer/Pianist
André Previn
Conductor Robert Frisbie [Participant
during first interview with composer Lee Hoiby]
Conductor Richard Buckley
Conductor Miguel A. Gómez-Martínez
Conductor John Mauceri
Conductor Edmond de Stoutz
[Founder of the Zurich Chamber Orchestra]
Conductor Sir Mark Elder [Two
Interviews]
Conductor Markus Stenz
Conductor James Conlon
Conductor Donald Runnicles
Conductor David Atherton
Conductor Gary Garner [Director
of Bands, West Texas State University, 1963-2002]
Conductor Jeffrey Tate
Conductor Christoph von Dohnányi
Conductor/Composer
Michael Gielen
Conductor/Composer
José Serebrier
Conductor Geoffrey Simon
Conductor Martin Pearlman
Conductor Peter Maag
Conductor Steven Richman
Conductor Mariss Jansons
Conductor/Pianist
Andrew Litton
Conductor Sylvain Cambreling
Conductor Hugh Wolff
Conductor Yuri Temirkanov
Conductor Sir Andrew Davis
[Two Interviews]
Conductor Sir Roger Norrington
Conductor Henry Holt [Two
Interviews]
Conductor Paolo Olmi
Conductor Ádám
Fischer
Conductor/Organist/Harpsichordist
Ton Koopman
Conductor James Judd
Conductor Catherine Comet
Conductor Gordon Wright
Conductor Nicholas Cleobury
Conductor Laszlo Halasz
Conductor David Zinman
Conductor Yoel Levi
Conductor Semyon Bychkov
Conductor David Robertson
Conductor Kate Tamarkin
Conductor Steven Larsen
Conductor Michael Tilson Thomas
[Second of two interviews; link to the
first is included]
Conductor George Manahan
Conductor Paul Freeman
[Three Interviews]
Conductor/Composer
Harold Bauer
[Founder of the New Philharmonic, and the DuPage
Opera Theatre]
Conductor/Composer
David Epstein
Conductor Dieter Kober
[Founder of the Chicago Chamber Orchestra]
Conductor Michael Morgan
Conductor Kenneth Jean
Conductor/Organist
Thomas Wikman [Founder
of Music of the Baroque]
Conductor John Fiore
Conductor/Organist
James O'Donnell
[Master of the Choristers, Westminster
Cathedral]
Conductor Eve Queler
[Founder of the Opera Orchestra of New York]
Conductor Kay George Roberts
Conductor Lawrence Leighton Smith
Conductor/Pianist
William Eddins
Conductor Franz Welser-Möst
Conductor Alexander Platt
Conductor Carlo Rizzi
Conductor Pier Giorgio Calabria
Conductor Hal France
Conductor Gustav Kuhn
Conductor Robert Carter
Austin
Conductor Duain Wolfe
[Chicago Symphony Chorus]
Conductor John DeMain
Conductor Stuart Challender
Conductor James Paul
Conductor/Pianist
Joshua Rifkin
Conductor/Pianist
Richard Woitach
Conductor/Pianist/Composer
Rudolph Palmer
Conductor/Producer/Translator
Walter Ducloux
Conductor/Violinist/Composer
Frederic Balazs
Conductor and
Director Ted Taylor
and Carl Ratner [Second of three
interviews with Ratner; links to the others are included]
Conductor and
Director Mark Flint
and David Gately [Two Interviews
with Gately]
Conductor/Composer
and Director Lawrence
Rapchak and Carl Ratner
[First
two of four interviews with Rapchak, and first
of three interviews with Ratner; links to the others
are included]
Pianist/Conductor
Justus Frantz
Pianist/Conductor
Christoph Eschenbach
Pianist/Conductor
Philippe Entremont
Violinist/Conductor
Yehudi Menuhin
Violinist/Conductor
Jeanne Lamon
[Tafelmusik]
Violinist/Conductor
Lawrence Golan
Cellist/Conductor
Mstislav Rostropovich
[Includes letter to BD from Herbert
von Karajan]
Cellist/Conductor
Heinrich Schiff
Bassoonist/Conductor/Composer
Arthur Weisberg
Trombonist/Conductor
Jay Friedman [Principal,
Chicago Symphony Orchestra]
The following is a list of my interviews with American composers
which have been transcribed.
Many of them have written operas,
and/or vocal music,
including songs and large-scale works.
Composer Pozzi Escot
Composer/Author
Paul Bowles
Composer Arnold Rosner
Composer/Pianist
John La Montaine
[Pulitzer Prize,
1959]
Composer Eric Ewazen
Composer Lou Harrison
[Second of Two Interviews]
Composer/Conductor/Pianist/Administrator
Morton Gould
[Second of Two Interviews] [Pulitzer Prize, 1995]
Composer/Pianist
Robert Helps
Composer/Pianist/Technician
David Tudor
Composer Chou Wen-Chung
Composer/Conductor
Carlos Surinach
Composer Johan Franco
Composer Conlon Nancarrow
Composer Romeo Cascarino
Composer Hayden Wayne
Composer Gian Carlo Menotti
[Three Interviews] [Pulitzer Prize, 1950 & 1955]
Composer Elie Siegmeister
Composer David Raksin
Composer/Conductor
Alfred Reed
Composer/Pianist
Frederic Rzewski
Composer Irwin Bazelon
Composer Morten Lauridsen
Composer Marga Richter
Composer Otto Luening
Composer George Crumb [Pulitzer Prize, 1968]
Composer Andrew Imbrie [Pulitzer Finalist, 1995]
Composer Stephen Albert
[Pulitzer Prize, 1985] [Pulitzer Finalist, 1987]
Composer Miriam Gideon
Composer Richard Wernick
[Pulitzer Prize, 1977]
Composer Ursula Mamlok
Composer Vincent Persichetti
Composer Robert Starer
Composer Ulysses Kay
Composer/Administrator
Francis Thorne
Composer Leslie Bassett
[Pulitzer Prize, 1966]
Composer John Lessard
Composer Donald Martino
[Pulitzer Prize, 1974] [Pulitzer Finalist, 2000]
Composer Christopher Rouse
[Pulitzer Prize, 1993]
Composer Louise Talma
Composer Alexei Haieff
Composer/Percussionist
William Kraft
Composer Gardner Read
Composer Benjamin Lees
Microtonal Composer
Ezra Sims
Composer Roger Reynolds
[Pulitzer Prize, 1989]
Composer Gloria Coates
Composer James Cohn
Composer Steve Reich [Two
Interviews] [Pulitzer Prize,
2009] [Pulitzer Finalist,
2003, 2004, 2005]
Composer Wayne Barlow
Composer Maurice Wright
Composer/Conductor
Lalo Schifrin
[Two Interviews]
Composer John Harbison
[Pulitzer Prize, 1987]
Composer/Inventor
Cecil Effinger
[Inventor of the Musicwriter and the
Tempowatch]
Composer Robert Erickson
Composer/Conductor
Lukas Foss [Pulitzer Scholarship Award, 1942] [Pulitzer Finalist, 1980]
Composer/Pianist
David Del Tredici
[Pulitzer Prize, 1980]
Composer Norman Dello Joio
[Pulitzer Prize, 1957]
Composer/Conductor
Gunther Schuller
[Two Interviews] [Pulitzer Prize, 1994] [Pulitzer Finalist, 1988]
Composer/Pianist
Yehudi Wyner [Pulitzer Prize, 2006] [Pulitzer Finalist, 1998]
Composer Vaclav Nelhybel
Composer/Administrator
William Schuman
[*First Pulitzer Prize in Music*, 1943; Pulitzer
Special Citation, 1985]
Composer Vivian Fine [Pulitzer Finalist, 1983]
Composer/Conductor
David Van Vactor
Composer Daniel Pinkham
Composer Julia Smith
Composer Charles Wuorinen
[Pulitzer Prize, 1970]
[Pulitzer Finalist, 1994]
Composer Samuel Adler
Microtonal Composer
Ben Johnston
Composer Pauline Oliveros
Composer Ernst Krenek
Composer/Humorist
Peter Schickele
[P.D.Q. Bach]
Composer Ned Rorem [Pulitzer Prize, 1976]
Composer John Cage
Composer Ron Nelson
Composer Richard Wilson
Composer Normand Lockwood
Composer Paul Fetler
Composer Earl Kim
Composer David Diamond
[Second of Two Interviews]
Composer Olly Wilson
Composer Chen Yi [Pulitzer Finalist, 2006]
Composer Mel Powell [Pulitzer Prize, 1990]
Composer Monroe Couper
Composer Dika Newlin
Composer Bernard Rands [Pulitzer Prize, 1984]
Composer/Pianist
Sam Raphling
Composer/Pianist
Leo Smit [Includes
letter to BD from Dmitri Kabalevsky]
Composer Milton Babbitt
[Pulitzer Special Citation, 1982]
Composer Bernhard Heiden
Composer/Pianist
Robert Muczynski
Composer Carlisle Floyd
Composer Frank Wigglesworth
Composer Paul Pisk
Composer Ellen Taaffe Zwilich
[Pulitzer Prize, 1983]
Composer/Conductor
David Amram
Composer Jacob Druckman
[Pulitzer Prize, 1972]
Composer Mary Jeanne van Appledorn
Composer Harold Shapero
Composer/Bassist
Frank Proto
Composer/Critic
Lester Trimble
Composer Jennifer Higdon
[Pulitzer Prize, 2010]
Composer Alan Stout
Composer/Musicologist
George Perle [Pulitzer Prize, 1986]
Composer Kenneth Gaburo
Composer Leonardo Balada
Composer Miklós Rózsa
Composer Joseph Schwantner
[Pulitzer Prize,
1979]
Composer Kamran Ince
Composer C. Curtis-Smith
Composer/Flutist/Conductor
Harvey Sollberger
Composer William Bergsma
[Two Interviews]
Composer Earle Brown
Composer/Conductor
Ray Luke
Composer Juli Nunlist
Composer/Pianist
Richard Cumming
Composer/Educator
Hunter Johnson
Composer/Psychotherapist
Paul Ramsier
Composer/Clarinetist
William O. Smith
Composer Emma Lou Diemer
Composer Robert Moffat Palmer
Composer Jean Berger
Composer Burrill Phillips
Composer Leonard Kastle
Composer/Performer
Philip Glass [Two
Interviews]
Composer Jack Gallagher
Composer/Pianist
Joseph Fennimore
Composer/Pianist
Ernst Bacon [Pulitzer Scholarship Award, 1932]
Composer/Publisher
Ray Green
Composer/Author
George Heussenstamm
Composer/Author
Marilyn J. Ziffrin
Composer/Pianist
Leo Ornstein
Composer/Teacher
Ross Lee Finney
[Pulitzer Scholarship Award, 1937]
Composer Frank Campo
Composer George Rochberg
[Pulitzer Finalist,
1986]
Composer Robert Linn
Composer/Pianist
Lee Hoiby [Two
Interviews; the first also includes the participation
of conductor Robert Frisbie]
Composer John Downey
Composer/Pianist
Elinor Remick Warren
Composer Marcel Dick
Composer Nancy Laird Chance
Composer/Pianist
John Verrall
Composers Hale Smith and T.J.
Anderson
Composer/Pianist
Leon Kirchner
[Pulitzer Prize, 1967] [Pulitzer Finalist, 1993]
Composer Roger Goeb
Composer Joseph Goodman
Composer/Conductor
Edwin London
Composer/Educator
Donald Harris
Composer Rolv Yttrehus
'Tape Music' Composer
Vladimir Ussachevsky
Composer/Pianist
Robert Parris
Composer Harold Blumenfeld
Composer Melinda Wagner
[Two Interviews] [Pulitzer Prize, 1999]
Composer Robert Moevs
Composer/Conductor
Jacob Avshalomov
Composer/Author
Elliott Schwartz
Composer Jean Eichelberger Ivey
Composer Vittorio Rieti
Composer/Pianist
Josef Alexander
Microtonal Composer
John Eaton
Composer/Author
Kent Kennan
Composer Robert Hall Lewis
Composer Grant Fletcher
Composer/Critic
Arthur Berger
Composer Dominick Argento
[Pulitzer Prize, 1975]
Composer Donald Grantham
Composer and Mezzo-Soprano
William Bolcom and
Joan Morris [Two Interviews with
Bolcom] [Pulitzer Prize, 1988]
Composer Kirke Mechem
Composer/Pianist
Max Lifchitz
Composer Phillip Rhodes
Composer Dorothy Rudd Moore
Composer/Cellist
Seymour Barab
Composer Steven R. Gerber
Composer William Schmidt
Composer/Conductor
Anthony Iannaccone
Composer Juan Orrego-Salas
Composer Jerré Tanner
Composer/Teacher/Administrator
Stanley Wolfe
Composer Richard Moryl
Composer/Professor
Robert Stern
Composer/Conductor
Gerhard Samuel
Composer Paul Lansky
Composer Robert Beaser
Composer/Conductor
David Stock
Composer Ezra Laderman
Composer David Hollister
Composer Stephen Paulus
Composer Shulamit Ran
[Two Interviews] [Pulitzer Prize, 1991]
Composer Steven Stucky
[Pulitzer Finalist, 1989] [Pulitzer Prize, 2005]
Composer Judith Shatin
Computer Music
Composer James Dashow
Composer/Clarinetist
Meyer Kupferman
Composer Roger Nixon
Composer/Administrator
John Duffy
Composer/Organist
Rayner Brown
Composer Carter Pann [Pulitzer Finalist, 2016]
Composer Robert Kelly
Composer/Administrator
Leon Stein
Composer John Luther Adams
[Pulitzer Prize, 2014]
Composer/Pianist
Douglas Allanbrook
Composer Paul Cooper
Composer/Clarinetist
Evan Ziporyn
[Two Interviews]
Composer/Pianist/Quiz
Kid Lawson Lunde
Composer/Conductor
William Ferris
[Two Interviews]
Composer Charmian Tashjian
Composer Augusta Read Thomas
[Pulitzer Finalist,
2007]
Composer Jan Bach
Composer Aurelio de la Vega
[Two Interviews]
Composer/Organist
Frank Ferko
Composer Dan Tucker
Composer/Author
Ellis B. Kohs
Composer M. William Karlins
[Two Interviews; the second is recollections of his teacher,
Stefan Wolpe]
Composer Simon Sargon
Composer Gene Gutchë
Composer Robert Lombardo
Composer Lawrence Moss
Composer Howard Sandroff
Composer/Pianist
Gardner Jencks
Composer/Pianist
Marilyn Shrude
Composer Jeffrey Mumford
Composer William Neil
Composer/Conductor
Ralph Shapey [Pulitzer Finalist, 1990, 1992]
Composer/Flutist/Conductor
Stephen Dembski
Composer Mario Davidovsky
[Pulitzer Prize, 1971]
Composer Paul Moravec [Pulitzer Prize, 2004]
Composer/Conductor
Bright Sheng
[Two Interviews] [Pulitzer Finalist, 1989, 1991]
Composer/Pianist
Anthony Davis
[Pulitzer Prize, 2020]
Electronic Composer
Morton Subotnick
[Pulitzer Finalist, 1980]
Composer Peter Lieberson
[Pulitzer Finalist,
1984, 1996, 2002, 2004, 2006]
Composer/Conductor
John Adams
[Two Interviews] [Pulitzer Prize, 2003] [Pulitzer Finalist, 1998, 2014]
Composer/Conductor
Tania León
[Pulitzer Prize,
2021]
Composer Bruce Saylor
Composer Michael Torke [Pulitzer Finalist, 2020]
Composer/Theorist
Fred Lerdahl [Pulitzer Finalist, 2001, 2010, 2011]
Spatial Music Composer
Henry Brant [Pulitzer Prize, 2002]
Composer David Rakowski
[Pulitzer Finalist, 1999]
Composer Jon Polifrone
Composer Maurice Weddington
Composer Janice Misurell-Mitchell
Composer Stephen Syverud
Composer Frank Abbinanti
Composer/Conductor
Coleridge-Taylor
Perkinson
Composer Charles Dodge
Composer Frank E. Warren
Composer Amnon Wolman
Composer Katherine Hoover
Composer/Record
Producer Nancy Van
de Vate [Two Interviews]
Composer/Administrator
John Donald Robb
Composer/Pianist
Amy Williams
Composer Gordon Binkerd
Composer Richard Hervig
Composer Henri Lazarof
Composer Jay Alan Yim
Composer Walter Mourant
Composer David Baker
Composer Paul Chihara
Composer Tobias Picker
Composer Daron Aric Hagen
Composer Charles Jones
Composer Alva Henderson
Composer/Pianist
James Primosch
Composer/Conductor/Administrator
Michael Ching
Composer/Arranger
Ed Bland
Composer Ruth Shaw Wylie
Composer Lora Aborn
Composer Mark Adamo
Composer/Pianist
Lionel Nowak
Composer/Jazz Trumpeter
Hannibal Lokumbe
Composer Kenton Coe
Composer John Bavicchi
The following is a list of my transcribed
interviews with composers
from
countries other than
America.
Composer/Conductor/Master
of the Queen's Music Sir Peter Maxwell Davies
Composer Isang Yun
Composer/Radio
Producer Robert Simpson
Composer Henryk-Mikołaj Górecki
Composer Karlheinz Essl
Composer Krzysztof Penderecki
Composer/Master
of the Queen's Music Malcolm Williamson
Composer Arne Nordheim
Composer Rodion Shchedrin
Composer William Mathias
Composer Sir Malcolm Arnold
Composer Giya Kancheli
Composer Iain Hamilton
Composer/Conductor
Leif Segerstam
Composer Betsy Jolas
Composer Antanas Rekašius
Composer Iannis Xenakis
Composer Geoffrey Bush
Composer Peter Sculthorpe
Composer Alun Hoddinott
Composer Sofia Gubaidulina
Composer Luciano Berio
Composer Thea Musgrave
Composer Edison Denisov
Composer György Ránki
Composer Einojuhani Rautavaara
Composer Mauricio Kagel
Composer Tera de Marez Oyens
Composer George Lloyd
Composer Mikis Theodorakis
Composer/Trombonist
Vinko Globokar
Composer/Pianist
Sir Richard Rodney
Bennett
Composer Michael Colgrass
[Pulitzer Prize, 1978]
Composer Ruth Lomon
Composer Hans Werner Henze
Composer Joanna Bruzdowicz
Composer/Conductor
Pierre Boulez [Two
Interviews]
Composer Ulf Grahn
Composer/Pianist
John McCabe [Two
Interviews]
Composer/Conductor
Oliver Knussen
[Two Interviews]
Composer Nicholas Maw
Composer/Percussionist
Marta Ptaszyńska
[Two interviews]
Composer/Pianist
Aribert Reimann
Composer Anders Hillborg
Composer Harrison Birtwistle
Composer Gerhard Stäbler
Composer Carl Vine
Composer/Conductor
John Rutter
Composer/Conductor/Pianist
George Benjamin
Composer Roque Cordero
Composer Tōru Takemitsu
Composer Anthony Payne
Composer Wilfred Josephs
Composer Tzvi Avni
These articles have been linked to other websites
or given to various musical organizations
(All have interview material)
CSO Brass Buddies
Concert
(Linked
to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Website in March, 2001)
(Includes
brief portions of interview with Trombonist/Conductor Jay
Friedman; the complete interview is HERE)
COT Good Soldier Schweik
(Linked
to the Chicago Opera Theater Website in March, 2001)
(Includes
brief portions of interview with Director Harry Silverstein;
the complete interview is HERE)
Interview with Conductor
Nicholas Cleobury
(Linked
to the Chicago Opera Theater Website in June, 2001)
Woodstock Mozart Festival
(Given
to the Woodstock Festival in July, 2001)
(Includes
brief portions of interviews with Manager Anita Whalen and
Violinist/Conductor Mark Peskanov)
Interview with Violinist
Maxim Vengerov
(Given
to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in September, 2001)
Interview with Pianist
Alexander Toradze
(Given
to the Northbrook Symphony Orchestra in January, 2002)
Interview with Mezzo-Soprano
Vesselina Kasarova
(Given
to the Opera Orchestra of New York in October, 2006)
Interview with Tenor
Ramón Vargas
(Given
to the Opera Orchestra of New York in October, 2006)
Note: Many more interviews await transcription.
To see a full list
of my guests, including more singers
and other operatic artists,
as well as pianists and
various other instrumentalists,
click HERE.
To read my thoughts
about doing and transcribing these conversations,
(as well as a few other personal
observations on related topics), click HERE.
©
2023 Bruce Duffie [this webpage, and all the interviews]