Interviews by Bruce Duffie
To read an interview, just click the icon at the left of line.
NOTE: All of the interviews presented on this website have been transcribed,
and are only posted in text form. There are NO audio files (yet).
Most photos included have been found on various sites;
if any should not be displayed on these webpages,
let me know and they will be removed immediately.
If any need credits, tell me and they will be added.
These interviews have been published in
New Music Connoisseur
[You are invited to visit the NMC website]
Composer Joan Tower (Spring, 2001) [Pulitzer Finalist, 1993]
Composer Easley Blackwood (Summer, 2001)
Composer Brian Fennelly (Fall, 2001)
Composer Karel Husa (Winter, 2001) [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 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 exclusively on this website
Composer/Conductor Sir Peter Maxwell Davies
Composer Isang Yun
Composer/Radio Producer Robert Simpson
Composer Henryk-Mikolaj Górecki
Soprano June Anderson
Tenor Rockwell Blake
Trumpeter Crispian Steele-Perkins
Composer Karlheinz Essl
Composer Pozzi Escot
Guitarist Angel Romero
Composer/Author Paul Bowles
Conductor James DePreist
Composer Arnold Rosner
Conductor Charles Dutoit
Composer Krzystof Penderecki
Composer/Pianist John La Montaine [Pulitzer Prize, 1959]
Pianist Maurizio Pollini
Composer Eric Ewazen
Violist/Conductor Yuri Bashmet
Flutist Samuel Baron
Composer Lou Harrison
Composer/Conductor/Pianist/Administrator Morton Gould [Pulitzer Prize, 1995]
Trumpeter Timofei Dokshizer
Composer/Pianist Robert Helps
Composer/Pianist/Technician David Tudor
Composer Chou Wen-Chung
Conductor Antal Doráti
Conductor Giuseppe Sinopoli
Composer/Conductor Carlos Surinach
Pianist John Browning
Composer Johan Franco
Oboist Ingo Goritzki
Bassoonist Milan Turkovic
Recorder Player Michala Petri
Composer Conlon Nancarrow
Lutenist Paul O'Dette
Composer Romeo Cascarino
Composer Hayden Wayne
Composer Gian Carlo Menotti [Pulitzer Prize, 1950 & 1955]
Composer Malcolm Williamson
Clarinetist Richard Stoltzman
Pianist/Composer Noël Lee
Composer Arne Nordheim
Recording Producer Wilma Cozart Fine
Composer Elie Siegmeister
Conductor Leonard Slatkin
Contrabassoonist Susan Nigro
Composer/Pianist Frederic Rzewski
Accordionist Robert Davine
Trombonist Christian Lindberg
Composer David Raksin
Composer/Conductor Alfred Reed
Harpist Yolanda Kondonassis
Composer Rodion Shchedrin
Composer Irwin Bazelon
Percussionist Evelyn Glennie
Composer William Mathias
Conductor Raymond Leppard
Contrabassist Bertram Turetzky
Composer Morten Lauridsen
Conductor Christopher Keene
Conductor Riccardo Chailly
Pianist/Conductor Mikhail Pletnev
Conductor Frederick Fennell
Pianist Alfred Brendel
Conductor Jane Glover
Composer Marga Richter
Composer Sir Malcolm Arnold
Composer Otto Luening
Conductor Bernard Haitink
Composer George Crumb [Pulitzer Prize, 1968]
Composer Andrew Imbrie [Pulitzer Finalist, 1995]
Pianist Rudolf Firkušný
Conductor Jorge Mester
Violinist/Conductor Yehudi Menuhin
Composer Giya Kancheli
Composer Stephen Albert [Pulitzer Prize, 1985] [Pulitzer Finalist, 1987]
Composer Miriam Gideon
Replica Builder J. Paul Barnett [Cannons and mechanism used in the 1812 Overture]
Composer Iain Hamilton
Composer Richard Wernick [Pulitzer Prize, 1977]
Composer/Conductor Leif Segerstam
Critic/Professor Thomas Willis
Composer Ursula Mamlok
Tubist Harvey Phillips
Composer Vincent Persichetti
Violinists Irvine Arditti and David Alberman [Arditti Quartet]
Composer Libby Larsen
Patron Paul Fromm
Cellist Janos Starker
Composer Robert Starer
Organist Peter Hurford
Soprano Pierrette Alarie and Tenor Léopold Simoneau
Composer Ulysses Kay
Composer/Administrator Francis Thorne
Conductor Erich Leinsdorf
These articles have been linked to other websites
(All have interview material)
CSO Brass Buddies Concert
(Linked to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Website in March, 2001)
COT Good Soldier Schweik
(Linked to the Chicago Opera Theater Website in March, 2001)
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)
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)
These are some of the interviews which
have been published in The Opera Journal,
the quarterly magazine of the
National Opera Association.
My interviews have appeared regularly since September, 1985. (LIST)
Those posted here are as submitted, except for a few as published* .
Most of these now include photographs 
Mezzo-Soprano Teresa Berganza [September, 1985]
Soprano Marilyn Zschau [March, 1986]
Quizmaster Edward Downes [September, 1986]
Conductor Max Rudolf [June, 1987]*
Prompter Jane Klaviter [December, 1987]*
The Earl of Harewood [March, 1988]
Producer Boris Goldovsky [June, 1988]
Manager Marc Belfort [June, 1989]
Manager Ardis Krainik [September, 1989]
Bass William Warfield [March, 1990]
Manager Martin Feinstein [March, 1991]
Conductor Emerson Buckley ]June, 1991]
Conductor/Director Sarah Caldwell [March, 1994]
Librettist Harvey Hess [June, 1994]*
Bass Jerome Hines [September, 1994]
Captain of Supers Ken Recu [December, 1994]
Soprano Gianna Rolandi [June, 1995]
Counter-Tenor Jeffrey Gall [September, 1995]
Bass Eric Halfvorson [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]
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
Conductor Emmanuel Villaume
Designer John Conklin
Soprano Margaret Harshaw
Bass Franz Hawlata
These articles have been published in CityTalk Magazine.
The originals, as submitted to the editor, are posted here.
(Most have interview material)
All Mozart, All the Time (January 26, 2001)
The Heifetz Centennial (February 2, 2001)
The Trojans at Orchestra Hall (February 9, 2001)
Love & Music (February 16, 2001)
(Considered by the editor, but not used)
Schubert Celebration on WFMT (February 23, 2001)
(Requested by the editor, but not used)
Presenting Lawrence Rapchak (March 2, 2001)
(Considered by the editor, but not used)
The Death of WNIB (March 9, 2001)
Alfred Brendel at Orchestra Hall (April 13, 2001)
(Scheduled to run, but dropped for space)
Verdi Requiem at Orchestra Hall (April 20, 2001)
Boulez and Uchida at Orchestra Hall (April 27, 2001)
Bach Week in Evanston (May 4, 2001)
Nothing further of mine will be given to this publication
From 1980 until 1992, 45 of my interviews (plus five articles)
were published in Wagner News, the newsletter of the
Wagner Society of America. (LIST) Eventually, more will be posted
on this website, but for now, here are the most-requested ones . . .
Conductor Erich Leinsdorf [June, 1984]
Tenor Jon Vickers [October, 1986]
Soprano Anna Tomowa-Sintow [December, 1987]
Conductor Christopher Keene [September, 1988]
Director August Everding [October, 1988]
Soprano Birgit Nilsson [Summer, 1989]
Bass-Baritone Archie Drake [April, 1990]
From 1982 until 1993, 32 of my interviews (plus one article)
were published in The Massenet Newsletter, the semi-annual journal
of The Massenet Society. (LIST) Eventually, more will be posted
on this website, but for now, here are a few from that series . . .
Conductor/Composer Manuel Rosenthal [January, 1987]
Soprano Joan Sutherland and Conductor Richard Bonynge [July, 1990]
Soprano Renata Scotto [July, 1991]
Soprano Jarmila Novotna [June, 1992]
Soprano Faith Esham [July, 1993]
From 1984 until 1987, 9 of my interviews were published
in Nit & Wit, a bi-monthly literary arts magazine.
(LIST) Eventually, more will be posted on this website,
but for now, here is one from that series . . .
Baritone Benjamin Luxon [January, 1986]
In June of 1990, I was asked by Northwestern University
to deliver the Address to the Graduates at the
School of Music Commencement Convocation.
To read that address and see pictures of the event,
click HERE
To see the full list of my interview guests
click HERE
[This list is being kept up to date]
To see the list of my published interviews
click HERE
