Soprano Evelyn Lear
Soprano Phyllis Curtin
Soprano Phyllis Bryn-Julson
Soprano Kari Lövaas
Soprano Neva Pilgrim
Soprano Cristina Deutekom
Soprano Dame Margaret
Price
Soprano Helen Donath
Soprano Dame Eva Turner
Soprano Martina Arroyo
Soprano Isobel Buchanan
Soprano Dame Felicity Lott
Soprano Bethany Beardslee
Soprano Marni Nixon
Soprano Ileana Cotrubaș
Soprano Roberta Peters
[Two Interviews]
Soprano Lorna Haywood
Soprano Norma Burrowes
Soprano Judith Blegen
Soprano Elly Ameling
Soprano Benita Valente
Soprano Eleanor Steber
Soprano Carol Vaness
Soprano Dame Gwyneth
Jones
Soprano Elisabeth Söderström
Soprano Cecilia Gasdia
Soprano Eva Mei
Soprano Ghena Dimitrova
Soprano Arleen Augér
Soprano Karita Mattila
Soprano Mariella Devia
Soprano Renée
Fleming
Soprano Nadine Secunde
Soprano Tina Kiberg
Soprano Susan Dunn
Soprano Judith Nelson
Soprano Marie McLaughlin
Soprano Brenda Roberts
Soprano Lucy Shelton
Soprano Anna Moffo
Soprano Barbara Ann
Martin
Soprano Linda Zoghby
Soprano Lella Cuberli
Soprano Christine Brandes
Soprano Ellen Hargis
Soprano Edith Mathis
Soprano Reri Grist
Soprano Wilhelmenia
Fernandez
Soprano Deborah Voigt
Soprano Mary Beth Peil
Soprano Sylvia McNair
Soprano Nancy Gustafson
Soprano Helen Boatwright
Soprano Angelina Réaux
Soprano Julianne Baird
Soprano Elizabeth Hynes
Soprano Emily Magee
Soprano Constance Hauman
Soprano Jane Eaglen
Soprano Daniela Dessì
Soprano Ashley Putnam
Soprano Luciana Serra
Soprano Carol Neblett
Soprano Barbara Daniels
Soprano Carole Farley
Soprano Sharon Sweet
Soprano/Mezzo-Soprano
Regina Resnik
Soprano/Mezzo-Soprano
Anja Silja
Soprano/Mezzo-Soprano
Felicity
Palmer
Soprano/Composer
Joan La Barbara
Soprano/Conductor
Anne Marie Ketchum
Soprano/Conductor Susan Davenny Wyner
Soprano/Director
Graziella Sciutti
Soprano and Conductor
Kiri Te Kanawa
and Sir John Pritchard
Soprano and Tenor
Judith Raddue
and Carl Tanner
Mezzo-Soprano Risë Stevens
Mezzo-Soprano Dolora Zajick
Mezzo-Soprano Brigitte Fassbaender
Mezzo-Soprano Herta Glaz
Mezzo-Soprano Anna Reynolds
Mezzo-Soprano Tatiana Troyanos
Mezzo-Soprano Patricia Kern
Mezzo-Soprano Sonia Sharnova
Mezzo-Soprano Giulietta Simionato
Mezzo-Soprano Elena Zilio
Mezzo-Soprano Florence Quivar
Mezzo-Soprano Vesselina Kasarova
Mezzo-Soprano
Ann Murray
Mezzo-Soprano Sandra Warfield
Mezzo-Soprano Janice Taylor
Mezzo-Soprano Martha Lipton
Mezzo-Soprano Jennifer Larmore
[Two Interviews]
Mezzo-Soprano Nancy Maultsby
Mezzo-Soprano Hilda Harris
Mezzo-Soprano Denyce Graves
Mezzo-Soprano Diane Curry
Mezzo-Soprano Robynne Redmon
Mezzo-Soprano Anita Berry
Mezzo-Soprano Cynthia Munzer
Mezzo-Soprano Constance Beavon
Mezzo-Soprano Frederica von Stade
[Two Interviews]
Mezzo-Soprano Sandra Walker
Mezzo-Soprano Delores Ziegler
Mezzo-Soprano Stefania Toczyska
Mezzo-Soprano Carol Madalin
Mezzo-Soprano Janice Felty
Mezzo-Soprano/Soprano
Shirley Verrett
Mezzo-Soprano/Soprano
Kay Griffel
Mezzo-Soprano and
Bass-Baritone Mimi Lerner and
Monte Jaffe
Mezzo-Soprano and
Bass Fiorenza
Cossotto and Ivo
Vinco
Mezzo-Soprano and
Conductor Melanie
Sonnenberg and Bradley
Vieth
Contralto Bernadette Manca
di Nissa
Counter-tenor Christopher Robson
Counter-tenor Derek Lee Ragin
Tenor Carlo Bergonzi
Tenor Rockwell Blake
Tenor Wiesław Ochman
Tenor Graham Clark
Tenor Ryland Davies
Tenor Ragnar Ulfung
Tenor Anthony Rolfe
Johnson
Tenor Émile
Belcourt
Tenor Gösta
Winbergh [Two Interviews]
Tenor Neil Shicoff
Tenor Peter Dvorský
Tenor Michael Schade
Tenor Paul Sperry
Tenor Ramón Vargas
Tenor Ernst Haefliger
Tenor Poul Elming
Tenor Kurt Streit
Tenor Vyacheslav Polozov
Tenor Vladimir Galouzine
Tenor Chris Merritt
[Two Interviews]
Tenor Bruce Ford
Tenor Thomas Young
Tenor Vinson Cole
Tenor Richard Leech
[Two Interviews]
Tenor Jonathan Welch
Tenor Gregory Kunde
Tenor Michael Ballam
Tenor Michael Sylvester
Tenor Kenneth Riegel
Tenor Frank Lopardo
Comprimario Tenor
Piero De Palma
Tenor/Administrator
Frank Little
Tenor/Administrator
John Vorrasi
Tenor/Administrator
David Lloyd
Tenor/Conductor Peter Schreier
Tenor/Director Laurence Dale
Baritone Hermann Prey
Baritone Nikolai Putilin
Baritone Richard Stilwell
Baritone Frank Guarrera
Baritone Sir Thomas Allen
Baritone Renato Capecchi
Baritone Thomas Hampson
Baritone and Oboist
John Shirley-Quirk
and Sara Watkins
Baritone Pablo Elvira
Baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky
Baritone/Author Marko Rothmüller
Baritone Rolando Panerai
Baritone Donnie Ray Albert
Baritone Max van Egmond
Baritone David Pittman-Jennings
Baritone Robert Merrill
Baritone Brent Ellis
Baritone Robert Orth
Baritone William Stone
Baritone William Sharp
Baritone Brian Davis
Baritone Norman Mittelmann
Baritone Jubilant Sykes
Baritone Claudio Desderi
Baritone Wolfgang Schöne
Baritone Alessandro Corbelli
Baritone Timothy Nolen
Baritone Ingvar Wixell
Baritone Roberto Scaltriti
Baritone Lucio Gallo
Baritone Alan
Titus
Baritone Jean-Philippe
Lafont
Heldenbariton
Hartmut Welker
Baritone/Director/Administrator
Philip
Kraus
Bass-Baritone Walter Berry
Bass-Baritone Norman Bailey
Bass-Baritone Heinz Rehfuss
Bass-Baritone José van
Dam
Bass-Baritone Arnold Voketaitis
[Two
Interviews]
Bass-Baritone Ruggero Raimondi
Bass-Baritone William Powers
Bass-Baritone James Morris
Bass Nicola Zaccaria
Bass Robert Lloyd
Bass Michael Langdon
Bass John Macurdy
Bass Martti Talvela
Bass Nicola Rossi-Lemeni
Bass Sir John Tomlinson
Bass Gwynne Howell
Bass Richard Van
Allan
Bass Lorenzo Alvary
Bass Spiro Malas
Bass Samuel Ramey
Bass Jan-Hendrik Rootering
Bass Nicola Ghiuselev
Bass Ferruccio Furlanetto
Bass Bonaldo Giaiotti
Bass Andrea Silvestrelli
Bass Roberto Scandiuzzi
Bass Carlo Colombara
Bass/Director Italo Tajo
Bass and Mezzo-Soprano
Stafford Dean
and Anne Howells
Chorus Master Michael Lepore
[Lyric Opera of Chicago,
1954-74]
Actor/Narrator Werner Klemperer
Actor/Director Sam Wanamaker
Actor/Director Frank Galati
Director Sir Peter Hall
Director John Copley
Director Harry Silverstein
Director Dominic Missimi
Director Arthur Masella
Director Robert Tannenbaum
Director Rhoda Levine
Director Giulio Chazalettes
Director Elijah Moshinsky
Director/Translator
Richard
Pearlman
Director and Soprano
Patrick Bakman
and Gloria Capone
Director and Conductor
Marc Verzatt
and Lawrence Rapchak
[Third of four interviews with
Rapchak; links to the others are included]
Director and Conductor
Linda Brovsky
and Joseph De Rugeriis
[Second interview with De Rugeriis;
link to the first is included]
Director and Administrator
Mary Zimmerman
and Carl Ratner [Third
of three interviews with Ratner;
links to the others are included]
Designer/Director
Pier Luigi Samaritani
Designer/Director
John Pascoe
Technical Director
(later Deputy General Director and COO)
Drew Landmesser
[Lyric Opera
of Chicago, 1987-2006, 2010-2024]
Costume Director
(Wardrobe Master) Hugh Pruett
[Lyric Opera of
Chicago, 1959-2000]
Wigmaster and Makeup
Designer Stan
Dufford
[San Francisco Opera, 1956-1968; Lyric Opera
of Chicago, 1972-2000]
Stage Managers Caroline Moores and
John Coleman [Lyric Opera
of Chicago, 1994-2015 (Moores);
Production Administrator and Artistic Services
Coordinator Marina Vecci and
Josie Campbell
Boy Soprano, later
Administrator, and General Director William Mason
[Lyric Opera of Chicago, 1954-2011]
Publicist Danny Newman
[Second
of Two Interviews]
Concert Manager Henry Fogel
[Chicago Symphony Orchestra]
Critic/Professor
Thomas Willis
[Chicago Tribune]
Critic/Author Robert C. Marsh
[Chicago
Sun-Times]
Critic/Author Bernard Jacobson
[Chicago
Daily News]
Critic/Translator
Andrew Porter
[The New Yorker, and various
British publications]
Radio Host Karl Haas [Host
of Adventures in Good Music]
Musicologist Stanley Sadie
[Editor of The New Grove Dictionary
of Music and Musicians]
Publisher Hans Heinsheimer
[Universal
Edition; Boosey & Hawkes; G. Schirmer]
Lexicographer Nicolas Slonimsky
[Editor
of Baker's Biographical Dictionary
of Musicians]
Editor/Broadcaster/Soporano
Ruby Mercer
[Founder
and Editor of Opera Canada]
Radio Commentator/Author
George Jellinek
[Host of The Vocal Scene]
[Two Interviews]
Recording Producer
Wilma Cozart
Fine
[Mercury Records]
Recording Producer
Edward (Ted)
Perry
[Hyperion Records]
Recording Producer
James Ginsburg
[Cedille Records]
Recording Producer
Robert von Bahr
[BIS Records]
Replica Builder J. Paul Barnett
[Cannons
and mechanism used in the 1812 Overture]
Patron Paul Fromm
[Fromm Music Foundation]
Mezzo-Soprano Teresa Berganza
[September,
1985]
Bass Terry Cook
[December, 1985]
Soprano Marilyn Zschau
[March, 1986]
Director Nathaniel Merrill
[June, 1986]*
Quizmaster Edward Downes
[September,
1986]
Mezzo-Soprano Sharon Graham
[December,
1986]
Tenor Vasile Moldoveanu
[March, 1987]*
Conductor Max Rudolf
[June, 1987]*
Prompter Jane Klaviter
[December, 1987]*
Opera Manager/Author
The Earl of Harewood
[March,
1988]
Opera Producer Boris Goldovsky
[June, 1988]
Soprano Ellen Shade
[September, 1988]
Opera Producer Robert Gay
[December, 1988]
Baritone Lenus Carlson
[March,
1989]*
Opera Manager Marc Belfort
[June, 1989]
Opera Manager Ardis Krainik
[September, 1989]
Opera Manager Glynn Ross
[December, 1989]
Bass William Warfield
[March, 1990]
Composer and Librettist/Director
Lee
Goldstein and Charles Kondek
[June, 1990]
Chorus Master David Stivender
[September,
1990]
Director Frank Corsaro
[December, 1990]
Opera Manager Martin Feinstein
[March, 1991]
Conductor Emerson Buckley
[June, 1991]
Historian/Scholar
Philip Gossett
[September, 1991]
Director Robert Wilson
[December, 1991]
Mezzo-Soprano Jean Kraft
[March, 1992]*
Director Peter Sellars
[June, 1992]*
Composer Marvin David Levy
[September,
1992]
Soprano Sheri Greenawald
[December,
1992]
Tenor Neil Rosenshein
[March,
1993]
Baritone Peter Glossop
[June, 1993]*
Soprano Alpha Floyd
[September, 1993]
Director Sandro Sequi
[December, 1993]
Conductor/Director
Sarah Caldwell
[March, 1994]
Librettist Harvey Hess
[June, 1994]*
Bass Jerome Hines
[September, 1994]
Captain of Supers
Ken Recu
[December, 1994]
Director Bodo Igesz
[March, 1995]
Soprano Gianna Rolandi
[June, 1995]
Countertenor Jeffrey Gall
[September, 1995]
Soprano Kathryn Harries
[March, 1996]
Bass Eric Halfvarson
[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
[March, 2007]
Conductor Emmanuel Villaume
[June, 2007]
Designer John Conklin
[September, 2007]
Bass Franz Hawlata
[March, 2008]
Conductor Antonio Pappano
[June, 2008]
Director Harold Prince
[September, 2008]
Mezzo-Soprano Michelle DeYoung
[December,
2008]
Soprano June Anderson
[2010 #1 & #2 (Double Issue)]
Tenor Donald Kaasch
[2010 #3 & #4 (Double Issue)]
Soprano Barbara Bonney
[2011 #1 & #2 (Double Issue)]
Soprano Régine
Crespin (Also in 2011 #1 &
#2)
Basso Buffo Paolo Montarsolo
(Also in 2011
#1 & #2)
Conductor Lorin Maazel
[2011 #3 & #4 (Double Issue)]
Baritone/Director
Tito Gobbi
[2012 #1]
Mezzo-Soprano/Soprano
Margaret Harshaw
[2012 #2]
Composer Hugo Weisgall
[2012 #3]
Soprano Leonie Rysanek
[2012 #4]
Baritone Theodor Uppman
[2013 #1]
Mezzo-Soprano/Soprano
Grace Bumbry
(Also
Opera Scene March, 1983)
[2013 #2]
Tenor James King
[2013 #3]
Tenor James McCracken
[2013 #4]
Mezzo-Soprano Marilyn Horne
[2014 #1]
Soprano Licia Albanese
(Also Massenet Newsletter July,
1989) [2014 #2]
Soprano and Tenor
Pierrette Alarie
and Léopold Simoneau
Actor/Director Sir Peter Ustinov
[2015
#1]
Tenor John Aler
[2015 #2]
Bass-Baritone Donald Gramm
(Also Massenet Newsletter
July, 1985) [2015 #3]
Composer Jack Beeson
[2015 #4]
Conductor Stewart Robertson
[2016 #1]
Soprano Mattiwilda Dobbs
[2016 #2]
Director John Cox
[2016 #3]
Baritone Cornell MacNeil
[2016 #4]
Composer Libby Larsen
[2017 #1]
Tenor Ian Bostridge
[2017 #2]
Conductor Riccardo Chailly
[2017 #3]
Baritone Piero Cappuccilli
[2017 #4]
Contralto Maureen Forrester
[2018 #1]
Vocal Coach Janine Reiss
[2018 #2]
Actor/Director Charles Nelson Reilly
[2019 #1]
Soprano Dawn Upshaw
[2019 #2]
Conductor/Composer
Esa-Pekka Salonen
[2020 #1]
Tenor William Brown
[2020 #2]
Property Master Thomas Gilbert
[Lyric Opera of Chicago, 1973-2011]
[2021 #1]
Bass-Baritone/Director
Andrew Foldi
[2021 #2]
Heldenbaiton
Noel Tyl
[October, 1980]
Mezzo-Soprano Ruža Baldani
[December, 1980]
Conductor Marek Janowski
[Two
Interviews] [January &
March, 1981 (Two Parts)]
Mezzo-Soprano/Soprano
Janis Martin
[April,
1981] (Also Opera Scene,
October, 1982)
Bass Hans Sotin
[June, 1981] (Also
Opera Scene, October, 1982)
Mezzo-Contralto Geraldine Decker
[Summer, 1981]
Tenor Hermann Winkler
[September, 1981]
Tenor William Johns
[November, 1981]
Conductor James Levine
[December, 1981]
(Also Opera Scene, July, 1982)
"The First Digital
Tristan; A Talk with
the Maestro, the Hero and the Boss"
[February, 1982]
Baritone Thomas Stewart
[Two Interviews] [March,
1982]
Mezzo-Soprano Yvonne Minton
[Two Interviews] [May,
1982]
Tenor David Gordon
[May, 1982] (Also Opera Scene,
November, 1982)
Soprano Johanna Meier
[Summer, 1982]
Bass-Baritone Tom Krause
[December, 1982]
Conductor Ferdinand Leitner
[January, 1983]
Bass-Baritone Simon Estes
[April, 1983]
Bass-Baritone Siegmund Nimsgern
[July,
1983] (Also Opera Scene,
April, 1983)
Mezzo-Soprano Blanche Thebom
[August, 1983]
Conductor Erich Leinsdorf
[Two
Interviews] [June, 1984]
Soprano Eva Marton
[Two Interviews]
[November, 1984]
"Wagner in Chicago
Before Lyric -- The Resident Companies at Home
and on Tour 1910-1946" [March,
1985]
Soprano/Mezzo-Soprano
Helga Dernesch
[July, 1985]
Mezzo-Soprano Nadine Denize
[October, 1985]
Bass Don Garrard
[March, 1986]
Soprano/Mezzo-Soprano
Rose Bampton
[April,
1986]
"Seattle and
the New Ring" [Summer, 1986]
Tenor Jon Vickers
[October, 1986]
Conductor Sir John Pritchard
[February,
1987] [Second of three interviews;
links to the others are included]
Soprano/Mezzo-Soprano
Martha Mödl
[March, 1987]
Baritone Julian Patrick
[July, 1987]
Conductor Edwin McArthur
[September, 1987]
Soprano Anna Tomowa-Sintow
[December, 1987]
Conductor Maurice Abravanel
[January,
1988] (Also Massenet Newsletter,
July, 1986)
Bass Giorgio Tozzi
[March, 1988]
Bass Kurt Moll
[May, 1988]
Conductor Christopher Keene
[September, 1988]
Director August Everding
[October, 1988]
Baritone Roger Roloff
[February, 1989]
Soprano Birgit Nilsson
[Summer, 1989]
Bass William Wildermann
[December,
1989]
Bass-Baritone Archie Drake
[April, 1990]
Administrator/Conductor
Kurt Herbert
Adler
[September, 1990]
Conductor Hermann Michael
[May, 1991]
Tenor Jean Cox
[January, 1992]
Conductor Michel Plasson
[January, 1982]
Tenor Alfredo Kraus
[July, 1982] (Also Opera
Scene, August, 1982)
Conductor Jean Fournet
[January, 1983]
Conductor Julius Rudel
[July, 1983]
Massenet,
Mary Garden, and the Chicago Opera 1910-1932
[January, 1984]
Tenor André
Jobin [June, 1984]
Soprano Valerie Masterson
[January,
1985]
Mezzo-Soprano Alicia Nafé
[July, 1985]
Bass-Baritone Donald Gramm
[July, 1985] (Also The
Opera Journal, 2015, #3)
Soprano Bidú Sayão
[January,
1986]
Baritone Martial Singher
[January, 1986]
Mezzo-Soprano Lucia Valentini
Terrani [January, 1986]
Soprano Helen Jepson
[July, 1986]
Conductor Maurice Abravanel
[July, 1986]
(Also Wagner News, January,
1988)
Conductor/Composer
Manuel Rosenthal
[January, 1987]
Mezzo-Soprano Kathleen Kuhlmann
[January,
1987]
Soprano Dorothy Kirsten
[July, 1987]
Tenor Barry McCauley
[July, 1987]
Historian Anne Bessand-Massenet
[January,
1988]
Mezzo-Soprano Susanne Mentzer
[Two Interviews] [January,
1988]
Tenor Jerry Hadley
[Two Interviews] [July,
1988]
Mezzo-Soprano Wendy White
[January, 1989]
Baritone William Parker
[January, 1989]
Soprano Licia Albanese
[July 1989] (Also The
Opera Journal, 2014, #2)
Baritone Sherrill Milnes
[Two Interviews]
[January, 1990]
Soprano Sunny Joy Langton
[January, 1990]
Soprano and Conductor
Joan Sutherland
and Richard Bonynge
[July, 1990]
Soprano Catherine Malfitano
[January, 1991]
Soprano Renata Scotto
[July, 1991]
Baritone Dale Duesing
[January, 1992]
Soprano Jarmila Novotná
[June, 1992]
Tenor Jacque Trussel
[January, 1993]
Soprano Faith Esham
[July, 1993]
Soprano and Bass
Mirella Freni and
Nicolai Ghiaurov [Two
Interviews with both singers together] [September,
1984]
Baritone J. Patrick Raftery
[November, 1984]
Baritone Benjamin Luxon
[January, 1986]
Conductor/Pianist
Daniel Barenboim
[Two Interviews] [March,
1986]
Mezzo-Soprano Mignon Dunn [May,
1986]
Composer Steve Reich
[Two Interviews] [July,
1986]
Tenor Francisco Araiza
[Two Interviews]
[September, 1986]
Director/Manager
Lotfi Mansouri
[November, 1986]
Conductor Michael Tilson
Thomas [First of Two Interviews;
link to the second is included] [March,
1987]
Composer Donald Erb [Pulitzer Finalist, 1995] [1987,
but unpublished due to the demise of this magazine]
Director Sonja Frisell
[1987, but unpublished due to the demise
of this magazine]
Soprano Ruth Welting
[May, 1982]
Conductor Bruno Bartoletti
[Three Interivews]
[May, 1982]
Tenor William Eichorn
[July, 1982]**
Conductor James Levine
[July, 1982] (Also
Wagner News, December, 1981)
Bass Paul Plishka
[Two Interviews] [August, 1982]
Tenor Alfredo Kraus
[August, 1982] (Also Massenet
Newsletter, July, 1982)
Mezzo-Soprano/Soprano
Janis Martin
[October,
1982] (Also Wagner News,
April, 1981)
Bass Hans Sotin
[October, 1982]
(Also Wagner News, July, 1981)
Soprano Josephine Barstow
[November, 1982]
Tenor David Gordon
[November, 1982]** (Also Wagner
News, May, 1982)
Baritone Sesto Bruscantini
[December,
1982]
Comprimario Tenor
Florindo Andreolli
[December,
1982]
Soprano Elena Mauti-Nunziata
[January,
1983]
Tenor Giuliano Ciannella
[January, 1983]
Artistic Director
Alan Stone
[Founder
of the Chicago Opera Theater] [Four Interviews]
[February, 1983]
Mezzo-Soprano/Soprano
Grace Bumbry
[March,
1983] (Also The Opera Journal,
2013 #2)
Tenor Gualtiero Negrini
[March, 1983]**
Bass-Baritone Siegmund Nimsgern
[April,
1983] (Also Wagner News,
July, 1983)
Conductor Joseph De Rugeriis
[April,
1983]** (First of two interviews;
link to the other is included)
Mezzo-Soprano Claudine Carlson
[May, 1983]
Soprano Michelle Harman
Gulick [May, 1983]**
Composer Joan Tower
(Spring, 2001) [Pulitzer Finalist, 1993]
Composer/Pianist Easley Blackwood
(Summer,
2001)
Composer Brian Fennelly
(Fall, 2001)
Composer Karel Husa
(Winter, 2001) [Second
of Two Interviews] [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/Pianist 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]
Composer George Flynn
Violinist Jennifer Koh
Composer Aaron Jay Kernis
[Pulitzer Prize, 1998] [Pulitzer Finalist, 1994, 2013]
Pianist Jorge Federico
Osorio
Composer Lowell Liebermann
Oboist Alex Klein
[Principal, Chicago Symphony Orchestra]
Conductor Carlos Kalmar
Pianist Ursula Oppens
Composer John Corigliano
[Two Interviews]
[Pulitzer Prize, 2001]
Conductor Sir Georg Solti [Two
Interviews] [October,
1993]
Conductor James DePreist
Conductor Charles Dutoit
Conductor Antal Doráti
Conductor Giuseppe Sinopoli
Conductor Leonard Slatkin
[Two Interviews]
Conductor Raymond Leppard
Conductor Frederick Fennell
Conductor Jane Glover
Conductor Bernard Haitink
Conductor Jorge Mester
Conductor Capt. William
J. Phillips [Director of
the Navy Band]
Conductor JoAnn Falletta
Conductor Robert Spano
Conductor John Nelson
Conductor Nicholas McGegan
Conductor Neeme Järvi
Conductor Margaret Hillis
[Founder of the
Chicago Symphony Chorus]
Conductor Kurt Masur
Conductor Jesús López-Cobos
Conductor Maxim Shostakovich
Conductor Christian Thielemann
Conductor/Composer
Stanisław Skrowaczewski
[Pulitzer Finalist, 1997]
Conductor Zubin Mehta
[Two Interviews]
Conductor Herbert Blomstedt
Conductor Wolfgang Sawallisch
Conductor Vittorio Negri
Conductor Sir Charles Mackerras
Conductor Andrew Schenck
Conductor Kenneth Jennings
[Director
of the St. Olaf Choir, 1968-1990]
Conductor Marin Alsop
Conductor Eduardo Mata
Conductor Donato Renzetti
Conductor Günter Wand
Conductor Leopold Hager
Conductor John Pritchard
[First of
three interviews; links to the others
are included]
Conductor Fiora Contino
Conductor William Revelli
[Director of
Bands, University of Michigan, 1935-1971]
Conductor Matthias Bamert
Conductor George Guest
[Director, Choir of St. John's College,
Cambridge, 1951-1991]
Conductor/Harpsichordist
William Christie
[Founder of Les Arts
Florissants]
Conductor Sir David Willcocks
[Director
of Music, King's College, Cambridge, 1957-1974;
Conductor/Trumpeter
Gerard Schwarz
Conductor Robert Shaw
Conductor Zdenek Macal
Conductor Paul Strauss
Conductor/Composer
Jack Stamp [Founder
of the Keystone Wind
Ensemble]
Conductor Sergiu Comissiona
Conductor Gary Bertini
Conductor Helmuth Rilling
Conductor Sian Edwards
Conductor/Pianist
Dennis Russell
Davies [Two
Interviews]
Conductor Claudio Abbado
Conductor Carlo Felice Cillario
Conductor Andrew Parrott
Conductor/Arranger
John P. Paynter
[Director of Bands, Northwestern
University, 1951-1996]
Conductor/Pianist
Mario Bernardi
Conductor/Composer
Werner Janssen
Conductor/Composer/Pianist
André
Previn
Conductor Robert Frisbie
[Participant during first interview with
composer Lee Hoiby]
Conductor Richard Buckley
Conductor Miguel A. Gómez-Martínez
Conductor John Mauceri
Conductor Edmond de Stoutz
[Founder of
the Zurich Chamber Orchestra]
Conductor Sir Mark Elder
[Two Interviews]
Conductor Markus Stenz
Conductor James Conlon
Conductor Donald Runnicles
Conductor David Atherton
Conductor Gary Garner
[Director of Bands, West Texas State
University, 1963-2002]
Conductor Jeffrey Tate
Conductor Christoph von Dohnányi
Conductor/Composer
Michael Gielen
Conductor/Composer
José Serebrier
Conductor Geoffrey Simon
Conductor Martin Pearlman
Conductor Peter Maag
Conductor Steven Richman
Conductor Mariss Jansons
Conductor/Pianist
Andrew Litton
Conductor Sylvain Cambreling
Conductor Hugh Wolff
Conductor Yuri Temirkanov
Conductor Sir Andrew Davis
[Two Interviews]
Conductor Sir Roger Norrington
Conductor Henry Holt
[Two Interviews]
Conductor Paolo Olmi
Conductor Ádám
Fischer
Conductor/Organist/Harpsichordist
Ton
Koopman
Conductor James Judd
Conductor Catherine Comet
Conductor Gordon Wright
Conductor Nicholas Cleobury
Conductor Laszlo Halasz
Conductor David Zinman
Conductor Yoel Levi
Conductor Semyon Bychkov
Conductor David Robertson
Conductor Kate Tamarkin
Conductor Steven Larsen
Conductor Michael Tilson
Thomas [Second of two interviews;
link to the first is included]
Conductor George Manahan
Conductor Paul Freeman
[Three Interviews]
Conductor/Composer
Harold Bauer
[Founder of
the New Philharmonic, and the DuPage Opera Theatre]
Conductor/Composer
David Epstein
Conductor Dieter Kober
[Founder of the Chicago Chamber
Orchestra]
Conductor Michael Morgan
Conductor Kenneth Jean
Conductor/Organist
Thomas Wikman
[Founder of Music of the Baroque]
Conductor John Fiore
Conductor/Organist
James O'Donnell
[Master of the Choristers, Westminster
Cathedral]
Conductor Eve Queler
[Founder of the Opera Orchestra
of New York]
Conductor Kay George Roberts
Conductor Lawrence Leighton
Smith
Conductor/Pianist
William Eddins
Conductor Franz Welser-Möst
Conductor Alexander Platt
Conductor Carlo Rizzi
Conductor Pier Giorgio Calabria
Conductor Hal France
Conductor Gustav Kuhn
Conductor Robert Carter
Austin
Conductor Duain Wolfe
[Chicago Symphony Chorus]
Conductor John DeMain
Conductor Stuart Challender
Conductor James Paul
Conductor
Christof Perick
Conductor Lawrence Foster
Conductor David Stahl
Conductor James Sedares
Conductor Edo de
Waart
Conductor/Pianist
Joshua Rifkin
Conductor/Pianist
Richard Woitach
Conductor/Pianist/Composer
Rudolph
Palmer
Conductor/Producer/Translator
Walter Ducloux
Conductor/Violinist/Composer
Frederic
Balazs
Conductor and Director
Ted Taylor and
Carl Ratner
[Second of three interviews with Ratner; links
to the others are included]
Conductor and Director
Mark Flint and
David Gately
[Two Interviews with Gately]
Conductor/Composer
and Director Lawrence Rapchak
and Carl Ratner
Pianist/Conductor Justus Frantz
Pianist/Conductor Christoph Eschenbach
Pianist/Conductor Philippe Entremont
Violinist/Conductor
Yehudi Menuhin
Violinist/Conductor
Jeanne Lamon
[Tafelmusik]
Violinist/Conductor
Lawrence Golan
Cellist/Conductor Mstislav Rostropovich
[Includes
letter to BD from Herbert von Karajan]
Cellist/Conductor Heinrich Schiff
Bassoonist/Conductor/Composer
Arthur
Weisberg
Trombonist/Conductor
Jay Friedman
[Principal, Chicago
Symphony Orchestra]
Composer Pozzi Escot
Composer/Author Paul Bowles
Composer Arnold Rosner
Composer/Pianist John La Montaine
[Pulitzer Prize, 1959]
Composer Eric Ewazen
Composer Lou Harrison
[Second of Two Interviews]
Composer/Conductor/Pianist/Administrator
Morton Gould
[Second of Two Interviews]
[Pulitzer Prize, 1995]
Composer/Pianist Robert Helps
Composer/Pianist/Technician
David Tudor
Composer Chou Wen-Chung
Composer/Conductor
Carlos Surinach
Composer Johan Franco
Composer Conlon Nancarrow
Composer Romeo Cascarino
Composer Hayden Wayne
Composer Gian Carlo Menotti
[Three Interviews]
[Pulitzer Prize, 1950 &
1955]
Composer Elie Siegmeister
Composer David Raksin
Composer/Conductor
Alfred Reed
Composer/Pianist Frederic Rzewski
Composer Irwin Bazelon
Composer Morten Lauridsen
Composer Marga Richter
Composer Otto Luening
Composer George Crumb
[Pulitzer Prize, 1968]
Composer Andrew Imbrie
[Pulitzer Finalist, 1995]
Composer Stephen Albert
[Pulitzer Prize, 1985]
[Pulitzer Finalist, 1987]
Composer Miriam Gideon
Composer Richard Wernick
[Pulitzer Prize, 1977]
Composer Ursula Mamlok
Composer Vincent Persichetti
Composer Robert Starer
Composer Ulysses Kay
Composer/Administrator
Francis Thorne
Composer Leslie Bassett
[Pulitzer Prize, 1966]
Composer John Lessard
Composer Donald Martino
[Pulitzer Prize, 1974]
[Pulitzer Finalist, 2000]
Composer Christopher Rouse
[Pulitzer Prize, 1993]
Composer Louise Talma
Composer Alexei Haieff
Composer/Percussionist
William Kraft
Composer Gardner Read
Composer Benjamin Lees
Microtonal Composer
Ezra Sims
Composer Roger Reynolds
[Pulitzer Prize, 1989]
Composer Gloria Coates
Composer James Cohn
Composer Steve Reich
[Two Interviews] [Pulitzer Prize, 2009] [Pulitzer Finalist, 2003, 2004, 2005]
Composer Wayne Barlow
Composer Maurice Wright
Composer/Conductor
Lalo Schifrin
[Two Interviews]
Composer John Harbison
[Pulitzer Prize, 1987]
Composer/Inventor Cecil Effinger
[Inventor of the Musicwriter and
the Tempowatch]
Composer Robert Erickson
Composer/Conductor
Lukas Foss [Pulitzer Scholarship Award, 1942] [Pulitzer Finalist, 1980]
Composer/Pianist David Del Tredici
[Pulitzer Prize, 1980]
Composer Norman Dello
Joio [Pulitzer
Prize, 1957]
Composer/Conductor
Gunther Schuller
[Two Interviews] [Pulitzer Prize, 1994] [Pulitzer Finalist, 1988]
Composer/Pianist Yehudi Wyner [Pulitzer Prize, 2006] [Pulitzer Finalist, 1998]
Composer Vaclav Nelhybel
Composer/Administrator
William Schuman
[*First Pulitzer Prize in Music*,
1943; Pulitzer Special Citation,
1985]
Composer Vivian Fine
[Pulitzer Finalist, 1983]
Composer/Conductor
David Van Vactor
Composer Daniel Pinkham
Composer Julia Smith
Composer Charles Wuorinen
[Pulitzer Prize, 1970]
[Pulitzer Finalist, 1994]
Composer Samuel Adler
Microtonal Composer
Ben Johnston
Composer Pauline Oliveros
Composer Ernst Krenek
Composer/Humorist Peter Schickele
[P.D.Q. Bach]
Composer Ned Rorem
[Pulitzer Prize, 1976]
Composer John Cage
Composer Ron Nelson
Composer Richard Wilson
Composer Normand Lockwood
Composer Paul Fetler
Composer Earl Kim
Composer David Diamond
[Second of Two Interviews]
Composer Olly Wilson
Composer Chen Yi [Pulitzer Finalist, 2006]
Composer Mel Powell
[Pulitzer Prize, 1990]
Composer Monroe Couper
Composer Dika Newlin
Composer Bernard Rands
[Pulitzer Prize, 1984]
Composer/Pianist Sam Raphling
Composer/Pianist Leo Smit [Includes
letter to BD from Dmitri
Kabalevsky]
Composer Milton Babbitt
[Pulitzer Special Citation,
1982]
Composer Bernhard Heiden
Composer/Pianist Robert Muczynski
Composer Carlisle Floyd
Composer Frank Wigglesworth
Composer Paul Pisk
Composer Ellen Taaffe
Zwilich [Pulitzer
Prize, 1983]
Composer/Conductor
David Amram
Composer Jacob Druckman
[Pulitzer Prize, 1972]
Composer Mary Jeanne van
Appledorn
Composer Harold Shapero
Composer/Bassist Frank Proto
Composer/Critic Lester Trimble
Composer Jennifer Higdon
[Pulitzer Prize, 2010]
Composer Alan Stout
Composer/Musicologist
George Perle
[Pulitzer Prize, 1986]
Composer Kenneth Gaburo
Composer Leonardo Balada
Composer Miklós
Rózsa
Composer Joseph Schwantner
[Pulitzer Prize, 1979]
Composer Kamran Ince
Composer C. Curtis-Smith
Composer/Flutist/Conductor
Harvey
Sollberger
Composer William Bergsma
[Two Interviews]
Composer Earle Brown
Composer/Conductor
Ray Luke
Composer Juli Nunlist
Composer/Pianist Richard Cumming
Composer/Educator Hunter Johnson
Composer/Psychotherapist
Paul Ramsier
Composer/Clarinetist
William O.
Smith
Composer Emma Lou Diemer
Composer Robert Moffat Palmer
Composer Jean Berger
Composer Burrill Phillips
Composer Leonard Kastle
Composer/Performer
Philip Glass
[Two Interviews]
Composer Jack Gallagher
Composer/Pianist Joseph Fennimore
Composer/Pianist Ernst Bacon [Pulitzer Scholarship Award, 1932]
Composer/Publisher
Ray Green
Composer/Author George Heussenstamm
Composer/Author Marilyn J. Ziffrin
Composer/Pianist Leo Ornstein
Composer/Teacher Ross Lee Finney
[Pulitzer Scholarship Award, 1937]
Composer Frank Campo
Composer George Rochberg
[Pulitzer Finalist, 1986]
Composer Robert Linn
Composer/Pianist Lee Hoiby [Two
Interviews; the first
also includes the participation of conductor
Robert Frisbie]
Composer John Downey
Composer/Pianist Elinor Remick Warren
Composer Marcel Dick
Composer Nancy Laird Chance
Composer/Pianist John Verrall
Composers Hale Smith and
T.J. Anderson
Composer/Pianist Leon Kirchner
[Pulitzer Prize, 1967] [Pulitzer Finalist, 1993]
Composer Roger Goeb
Composer Joseph Goodman
Composer/Conductor
Edwin London
Composer/Educator Donald Harris
Composer Rolv Yttrehus
'Tape Music' Composer
Vladimir Ussachevsky
Composer/Pianist Robert Parris
Composer Harold Blumenfeld
Composer Melinda Wagner
[Two Interviews]
[Pulitzer Prize, 1999]
Composer Robert Moevs
Composer/Conductor
Jacob Avshalomov
Composer/Author Elliott Schwartz
Composer Jean Eichelberger
Ivey
Composer Vittorio Rieti
Composer/Pianist Josef Alexander
Microtonal Composer
John Eaton
Composer/Author Kent Kennan
Composer Robert Hall Lewis
Composer Grant Fletcher
Composer/Critic Arthur Berger
Composer Dominick Argento
[Pulitzer Prize, 1975]
Composer Donald Grantham
Composer and Mezzo-Soprano
William Bolcom
and Joan Morris
[Two Interviews with Bolcom] [Pulitzer Prize, 1988]
Composer Kirke Mechem
Composer/Pianist Max Lifchitz
Composer Phillip Rhodes
Composer Dorothy Rudd Moore
Composer/Cellist Seymour Barab
Composer Steven R. Gerber
Composer William Schmidt
Composer/Conductor
Anthony Iannaccone
Composer Juan Orrego-Salas
Composer Jerré Tanner
Composer/Teacher/Administrator
Stanley Wolfe
Composer Richard Moryl
Composer/Professor
Robert Stern
Composer/Conductor
Gerhard Samuel
Composer Paul Lansky
Composer Robert Beaser
Composer/Conductor
David Stock
Composer Ezra Laderman
Composer David Hollister
Composer Stephen Paulus
Composer Shulamit Ran
[Two Interviews]
[Pulitzer
Prize, 1991]
Composer Steven Stucky
[Pulitzer Finalist,
1989] [Pulitzer Prize,
2005]
Composer Judith Shatin
Computer Music Composer
James Dashow
Composer/Clarinetist
Meyer Kupferman
Composer Roger Nixon
Composer/Administrator
John Duffy
Composer/Organist Rayner Brown
Composer Carter Pann
[Pulitzer Finalist, 2016]
Composer Robert Kelly
Composer/Administrator
Leon Stein
Composer John Luther Adams
[Pulitzer Prize, 2014]
Composer/Pianist Douglas Allanbrook
Composer Paul Cooper
Composer/Clarinetist
Evan Ziporyn
[Two Interviews]
Composer/Pianist/Quiz
Kid Lawson Lunde
Composer/Conductor
William Ferris
[Two Interviews]
Composer Charmian Tashjian
Composer Augusta Read Thomas
[Pulitzer Finalist,
2007]
Composer Jan Bach
Composer Aurelio de la Vega
[Two Interviews]
Composer/Organist Frank Ferko
Composer Dan Tucker
Composer/Author Ellis B. Kohs
Composer M. William Karlins
[Two Interviews;
the second is recollections of
his teacher, Stefan Wolpe]
Composer Simon Sargon
Composer Gene Gutchë
Composer Robert Lombardo
Composer Lawrence Moss
Composer Howard Sandroff
Composer/Pianist Gardner Jencks
Composer/Pianist Marilyn Shrude
Composer Jeffrey Mumford
Composer William Neil
Composer/Conductor
Ralph Shapey
[Pulitzer Finalist, 1990, 1992]
Composer/Flutist/Conductor
Stephen Dembski
Composer Mario Davidovsky
[Pulitzer Prize, 1971]
Composer Paul Moravec
[Pulitzer Prize, 2004]
Composer/Conductor
Bright Sheng
[Two Interviews] [Pulitzer Finalist, 1989, 1991]
Composer/Pianist Anthony Davis
[Pulitzer Prize, 2020]
Electronic Composer
Morton Subotnick
[Pulitzer Finalist,
1980]
Composer Peter Lieberson
[Pulitzer Finalist, 1984, 1996,
2002, 2004, 2006]
Composer/Conductor
John Adams
[Two Interviews] [Pulitzer Prize, 2003] [Pulitzer Finalist, 1998, 2014]
Composer/Conductor
Tania León
[Pulitzer Prize, 2021]
Composer Bruce Saylor
Composer Michael Torke
[Pulitzer Finalist,
2020]
Composer/Theorist Fred Lerdahl [Pulitzer Finalist, 2001, 2010, 2011]
Spatial Music Composer
Henry Brant
[Pulitzer Prize, 2002]
Composer David Rakowski
[Pulitzer Finalist,
1999]
Composer Jon Polifrone
Composer Maurice Weddington
Composer Janice Misurell-Mitchell
Composer Stephen Syverud
Composer Frank Abbinanti
Composer/Conductor
Coleridge-Taylor
Perkinson
Composer Charles Dodge
Composer Frank E. Warren
Composer Amnon Wolman
Composer Katherine Hoover
Composer/Record Producer
Nancy Van
de Vate [Two Interviews]
Composer/Administrator
John Donald Robb
Composer/Pianist Amy Williams
Composer Gordon Binkerd
Composer Richard Hervig
Composer Henri Lazarof
Composer Jay Alan Yim
Composer Walter Mourant
Composer David Baker
Composer Paul Chihara
Composer Tobias Picker
Composer Daron Aric Hagen
Composer Charles Jones
Composer Alva Henderson
Composer/Pianist James Primosch
Composer/Conductor/Administrator
Michael
Ching
Composer/Arranger Ed Bland
Composer Ruth Shaw Wylie
Composer Lora Aborn
Composer Mark Adamo
Composer/Pianist Lionel Nowak
Composer/Jazz Trumpeter
Hannibal Lokumbe
Composer Kenton Coe
Composer John Bavicchi
Composer James "Kimo" Williams
Composer Ivana Themmen
Composer
David Ward-Steinman
Composer
David DeBoor Canfield
Composer Robert Kritz
Composer Barney Childs
Composer Robert Xavier Rodríguez
Composer Philip Hagemann
Composer Martin Bresnick
Composer Daniel Asia
Composer Irwin Swack
Composer Forrest Goodenough
Composer Homer Keller
Composer Albert
Tepper
Composer/Administrator Allen Sapp
Composer/Author Bruce Adolphe
Composer for the "Bowed Piano" Stephen Scott
Composer/Piano Technician Leon Levitch
Composer/Conductor/Master
of the Queen's Music Sir Peter Maxwell
Davies
Composer Isang Yun
Composer/Radio Producer
Robert Simpson
Composer Henryk-Mikołaj
Górecki
Composer Karlheinz Essl
Composer Krzysztof Penderecki
Composer/Master of
the Queen's Music Malcolm Williamson
Composer Arne Nordheim
Composer Rodion Shchedrin
Composer William Mathias
Composer Sir Malcolm Arnold
Composer Giya Kancheli
Composer Iain Hamilton
Composer/Conductor
Leif Segerstam
Composer Betsy Jolas
Composer Antanas Rekašius
Composer Iannis Xenakis
Composer Geoffrey Bush
Composer Peter Sculthorpe
Composer Alun Hoddinott
Composer Sofia Gubaidulina
Composer Luciano Berio
Composer Thea Musgrave
Composer Edison Denisov
Composer György Ránki
Composer Einojuhani Rautavaara
Composer Mauricio Kagel
Composer Tera de Marez
Oyens
Composer George Lloyd
Composer Mikis Theodorakis
Composer/Trombonist
Vinko Globokar
Composer/Pianist Sir Richard Rodney
Bennett
Composer Michael Colgrass
[Pulitzer Prize, 1978]
Composer Ruth Lomon
Composer Hans Werner Henze
Composer Joanna Bruzdowicz
Composer/Conductor
Pierre Boulez
[Two Interviews]
Composer Ulf Grahn
Composer/Pianist John McCabe [Two
Interviews]
Composer/Conductor
Oliver Knussen
[Two Interviews]
Composer Nicholas Maw
Composer/Percussionist
Marta Ptaszyńska
[Two interviews]
Composer/Pianist Aribert Reimann
Composer Anders Hillborg
Composer Harrison Birtwistle
Composer Gerhard Stäbler
Composer Carl Vine
Composer/Conductor
John Rutter
Composer/Conductor/Pianist
George Benjamin
Composer Roque Cordero
Composer Tōru Takemitsu
Composer Anthony Payne
Composer Wilfred Josephs
Composer Tzvi Avni
Composer/Record Producer Colin Matthews
CSO Brass Buddies Concert
COT
Good Soldier Schweik
Interview
with Conductor Nicholas Cleobury
Woodstock
Mozart Festival
Interview with
Violinist Maxim Vengerov
Interview with Pianist Alexander
Toradze
Interview with
Mezzo-Soprano Vesselina Kasarova
Interview with Tenor Ramón
Vargas