| Title: |
Reminiscences of Harry Sosnik
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| RLIN number: |
NXCP90-A4
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| Document type: |
Oral history
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| Accessibility: |
Free Only
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| Repository: |
Columbia University. Oral History Research Office
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| Collection: |
Individual Interview List Oral History Project
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| Description: |
Growing up in Chicago; experience in amateur radio; big bands, hotel and radio in the 1920s and 1930s; early partners and acts; work as part of traveling orchestra; transition from musician to conductor; directing orchestras from Chicago radio programs (1931-1935) and in Hollywood and New York (1936-1949); the record industry in the 1930s; the music business in wartime Los Angeles; composing, arranging, and conducting for early television in New York (1947-1967); numerous anecdotes about music personalities and Hollywood stars.
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| Extent: |
Transcript: 209 leaves, Tape: 7 cassettes
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| Restrictions: |
Access: Open. Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1985. Permission required to cite, quote, and reproduce. Contact repository for information.
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| Original Language: |
English
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| Time span: |
Not indicated ... to 1985 (Year of interview)
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| Speaker: |
Sosnik, Harry, 1906-
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| Speaker gender: |
Male
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| Speaker date of birth: |
1906
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| Speaker occupation: |
Composer
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| Age at speaking: |
79
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| Document date: |
1985
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| Interviewer: |
Hogenson, Barbara
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| Topics discussed - ASP terms: |
Composers; Composition (Music)
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| Topics discussed - Other terms: |
Motion picture music; Phonograph records--Industry and trade; Popular music; Radio music; Sosnik, Harry, 1906-; Television music
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| ASP release: |
2005-06
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| Document code: |
OHI0021169-16608
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