Arthur Bell interviews Charlotte Curtis

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Title
Arthur Bell interviews Charlotte Curtis
Names
Bell, Arthur (Arthur Irving) (Donor)
Curtis, Charlotte, 1928-1987 (Interviewee)
Carlos, Wendy (Interviewee)
Javits, Marion (Interviewee)
Bell, Arthur (Arthur Irving) (Interviewer)
Collection

Arthur Bell Collection of Recorded Interviews, 1970-1980

Dates / Origin
Date Created: 1980 (Questionable)
Library locations
Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound
Shelf locator: *LDC 52809
Shelf locator: *LTC 4514
Topics
Parnis, Mollie
Curtis, Charlotte, 1928-1987
Carlos, Wendy
Women journalists -- United States
Women composers -- United States
Journalists -- United States
Electronic music
Composers -- United States
Transsexuals -- United States
Sex change
Genres
Interviews
Notes
Biographical/historical: Interview by Arthur Bell, most probably conducted for his popular column "Bell tells" in the Village Voice.
Content: Title supplied by cataloger from information on original cassette.
Venue: Recorded [1980?] [New York, N.Y.]
Additional physical form: Service compact discs (2 audio discs : digital, stereo ; 4 3/4 in.) copied from archival original, available in *LDC 52809.
Acquisition: Gift; Bell Estate; 1990 NN-RHA.
Content: Forms part of Arthur Bell collection of recorded interviews, 1970-1980, *L (Special) 90-32.
Physical Description
Audiocassette
Extent: 1 audio cassette (approximately 87 min.) : analog, stereo
Description
CD 1, tracks 1-5. Phone calls from unidentified persons that were recorded on Arthur Bell's answering machine. CD 1, track 6. Excerpt from the interview with Charlotte Curtis, a journalist, columnist and editor at the New York Times. She talks about Mollie Parnis, the fashion designer. CD 1, and CD 2, tracks 1-3, 5-10. American composer and electronic musician Wendy Carlos (born Walter Carlos; November 14, 1939) discusses her life and career as a composer, and shares her experience writing music for various film productions such as the "A clockwork orange" (1971) and "The shining" (1980), produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick. She talks about her long-term collaboration with another performing artist Rachel Elkind. She also recounts the details of her transsexual process, her reassignment surgery (May 1972), after surgery hormonal treatments and sexual life. CD 2, track 4. Brief phone conversation with unidentified woman, probably [Marion Javits].
Type of Resource
Sound recording
Languages
English
Identifiers
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b19992271
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): f4723ae0-8a97-0131-140f-58d385a7bbd0
Rights Statement
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Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound, The New York Public Library. "Arthur Bell interviews Charlotte Curtis" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1980. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/f4723ae0-8a97-0131-140f-58d385a7bbd0

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Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound, The New York Public Library. "Arthur Bell interviews Charlotte Curtis" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed March 19, 2024. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/f4723ae0-8a97-0131-140f-58d385a7bbd0

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Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound, The New York Public Library. (1980). Arthur Bell interviews Charlotte Curtis Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/f4723ae0-8a97-0131-140f-58d385a7bbd0

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Arthur Bell interviews Charlotte Curtis