![]() Piano "vaguely." Typically, with most well-brought-up children of the day music was a cultural necessity, a social ingredient Grandma Carrie was a composer father sang mother danced and played the In ancestry one usually finds musical tradition. Plans of all who seek music as a livelihood.Īs in most musical biographies, Schwabacher's family (worthy, esteemed in a growing San Francisco) was his greatest strength. ![]() ![]() The best of lives in the best of cities at the best of times the events of his musical experience read like the best-laid If ever a great creative writer, steeped in fancy, should seek to invent the life of an ideal musician, a proper life, anĮducated, privileged life rich in opportunity and accomplishment, a true bildungsroman for young artists, he should look no further for a model than the real life of James Schwabacher. History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. Interviewed in 1999 by Caroline Crawford for the University of California, Source of Community Leaders series, Regional Oral Introduction by Marvin Tartak, professor of music and pianist. San Francisco Performances, San Francisco Conservatory of Music, the Schwabacher Debut Recitals. Oratorio and opera teaching young singers thoughts on vocal interpretation, the role of Bach's Evangelist, master classes īay Area music organizations: San Francisco Opera, Merola Opera Program and Spring Opera Theater San Francisco Symphony, Jan Popper and the Stanford University Department of Music, 1945 Schwabacher-Frey Printers and Stationers, 1905-1959 performing 2001, viii, 197 pp.Įarly years in San Francisco the Fleishhacker, Dinkelspiel and Schwabacher families UC Berkeley Department of Music, 1937-1941 Renaissance Man of Bay Area Music: Tenor, Teacher, Administrator, Impresario. University of California, Class of 1931 Endowment Fund.Sidney Lawrence III, in memory of Polly Ghirardelli Lawrence.Whose contributions made possible this oral history of James H. The Regional Oral History Office, on behalf of future researchers, wishes to thank the following persons and organizations Schwabacher, Jr., "Renaissance Man of Bay Area Music: Tenor, Teacher, Administrator, Impresario," an oral historyĬonducted in 1999 by Caroline Crawford, Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, It is recommended that this oral history be cited as follows: Jr., requires that he be notified of the request and allowed thirty days in which to respond. To be quoted, anticipated use of the passages, and identification of the user. Mail Code 6000, University of California, Berkeley 94720-6000, and should include identification of the specific passages Requests for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to the Regional Oral History Office, 486 Bancroft Library, Of the University of California, Berkeley. No part of the manuscript may be quoted for publication without the written permission of the Director of The Bancroft Library In the manuscript, including the right to publish, are reserved to The Bancroft Library of the University of California, Berkeley. The manuscript is thereby made available for research purposes. It is a spoken account, offered by the interviewee in response to questioning,Īnd as such it is reflective, partisan, deeply involved, and irreplaceable.Īll uses of this manuscript are covered by a legal agreement between The Regents of the University of California and James The final, verified, or complete narrative of events. Because it is primary material, oral history is not intended to present The corrected manuscript is indexed,īound with photographs and illustrative materials, and placed in The Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley,Īnd in other research collections for scholarly use. Is transcribed, lightly edited for continuity and clarity, and reviewed by the interviewee. Information through tape-recorded interviews between a narrator with firsthand knowledge of historically significant eventsĪnd a well-informed interviewer, with the goal of preserving substantive additions to the historical record. Oral history is a method of collecting historical Since 1954 the Regional Oral History Office has been interviewing leading participants in or well-placed witnesses to majorĮvents in the development of northern California, the West, and the nation. In 1999 Copyright © 2001 by The Regents of the University of California Source of Community Leaders Series Renaissance Man of Bay Area Music: Tenor, Teacher, Administrator, Impresario James H.
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