Interview with Robert Emmett Dolan, 1971-11-21
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Title
Interview with Robert Emmett Dolan, 1971-11-21
Collection
Interviews for the book "They're playing our song"
Names
Dolan, Robert Emmett, 1908-1972 (Interviewee)
Date / Origin
Date Created: 1971-11-21
Library Location
Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound
Shelf locator: *LDC 53152
Shelf locator: *LT-10 2162
Subjects
Dolan, Robert Emmett, 1908-1972
Conductors (Music) -- United States
Arrangers (Musicians) -- United States
Genres
Notes
Source Note: Title supplied by cataloger from information on the original container.
Content: Original interview conducted by Max Wilk, playwright, screenwriter and author of fiction and nonfiction books, for the book "They're playing our song" published in 1973.
Venue: Recorded in New York City 1971 November 21.
Additional Physical Form: Also available on CD (2 audio discs : digital, mono ; 4 3/4 in.) copied from archival original in *LDC 53152.
Physical Description
Extent: 1 audiotape reel (approximately 90 min.) : analog, 7 1/2 ips., 1/2 track mono ; 10 in.
Abstract
Robert Emmett Dolan, a Broadway conductor, composer and arranger with a long career, analyzes and compares musical culture and traditions in various European countries to art culture in America, and discusses the economic impact on the development and success of certain genres in music, the responsibility of composers to create new harmonic approaches, artists who lead to new tendencies, the difference between guitar and piano songs that stem from the very instrument they are written for, the harmonic richness of the 30s and 40s, the importance of imagination in art, realism in art and its justification, and topics related to songwriting and songwriters.
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Identifiers
RLIN/OCLC: 879646562
NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b20202501
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): ebf8a230-b3f8-0133-233a-3c07547a230f
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MLA format
Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound, The New York Public Library. "Interview with Robert Emmett Dolan, 1971-11-21" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1971. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/ebf8a230-b3f8-0133-233a-3c07547a230f
APA format
Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound, The New York Public Library. (1971). Interview with Robert Emmett Dolan, 1971-11-21 Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/ebf8a230-b3f8-0133-233a-3c07547a230f
Chicago/Turabian Format
Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound, The New York Public Library. "Interview with Robert Emmett Dolan, 1971-11-21" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed January 13, 2026. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/ebf8a230-b3f8-0133-233a-3c07547a230f
Wikipedia citation
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