About Digital Collections
Browse
Search only public domain materials
Search Browse About
Search only public domain materials
Items Collections Divisions
Digital Collections Using Images Using Data
Items Interview with Andre Watts, 1986-04-24

Interview with Andre Watts, 1986-04-24

More Details Cite This Item

Library division & collection with this item:

LIBRARY DIVISION
Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound

  • Lincoln Center 25th anniversary
  • Piney woods money mama
  • Polish music history
  • Kamernyĭ Orkestr Akademicheskogo Teatra opery i baleta goroda Kazani
  • On the picket line
  • Signature
  • Wynton Marsalis
  • Leonard Bernstein in Salzau, 1987
  • Lewis Archibald interviews Ingrid Bergman, 1973
  • M'loch
  • Me and Juliet
  • Edison white wax "Perfected" era cylinders
  • The Mapleson Cylinders
  • Leida Snow reports on New York City Salutes Theater Week
  • Arthur Bell interviews Rosalind Russell, 1974-09-23
Previous Next

COLLECTION
Margaret Carson audio-visual materials

This Item

Interview with Andre Watts, 1986-04-24

View this item elsewhere:

Title
Interview with Andre Watts, 1986-04-24
Names
Watts, Andre (Interviewee)
Dumont, Michelle (Interviewer)
Collection

Margaret Carson audio-visual materials

Dates / Origin
Date Created: 1986-04-24
Library locations
Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound
Shelf locator: *LVB 473
Topics
Watts, Andre -- Interviews
Pianists -- United States
Genres
Television programs
Interviews
Notes
Content: Title created by cataloger from audition and label on the original container.
Venue: Filmed by NBC TV at Newark Symphony Hall in Newark, New Jersey 1986 April 24.
Acquisition: Gift; Margaret Carson, 1992.
Physical Description
Videocassette
Extent: 1 videocassette (Betacam) (25 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Description
A 25 minute interview to be edited down to 5 minutes for July 4th spot. Andre Watts, born in Germany, the son of a Hungarian mother, a pianist, and a black American father, an Army officer, speaks about his childhood, coming to America, his mother's influence on his career as a pianist, his love for and pride in America, the large number of possibilities and opportunities in this country as compared to others, flexibility and freedom of the American Society, his views on various issues, his feelings about being of mixed race and mixed nationality, his taste in music, and more.
Type of Resource
Moving image
Languages
English
Identifiers
RLIN/OCLC: 904715574
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b20550109
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 8d9d9050-4a99-0133-c099-60f81dd2b63c
Rights Statement
The copyright and related rights status of this item has been reviewed by The New York Public Library, but we were unable to make a conclusive determination as to the copyright status of the item. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use.

Item timeline of events

  • 1986: Created
  • 2024: Found by you!
  • 2025

MLA Format

Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound, The New York Public Library. "Interview with Andre Watts, 1986-04-24" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1986. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/8efde740-4a99-0133-2a7e-60f81dd2b63c

Chicago/Turabian Format

Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound, The New York Public Library. "Interview with Andre Watts, 1986-04-24" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 26, 2024. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/8efde740-4a99-0133-2a7e-60f81dd2b63c

APA Format

Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound, The New York Public Library. (1986). Interview with Andre Watts, 1986-04-24 Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/8efde740-4a99-0133-2a7e-60f81dd2b63c

Wikipedia Citation

<ref name=NYPL>{{cite web | url=https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/8efde740-4a99-0133-2a7e-60f81dd2b63c | title= (moving image) Interview with Andre Watts, 1986-04-24, (1986)|author=Digital Collections, The New York Public Library |accessdate=April 26, 2024 |publisher=The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations}}</ref>

Interview with Andre Watts, 1986-04-24