Subseries:
3.1 Interviews, 1995-1996
17 folders (18 documents) + 19 audiocassettes
Box 2
Folder 8
Abels, Michael, July 9,
1995
Shelf No(s).
CASS 2364
Physical Description
1 audiocassette (33 min.,
9 sec.) + 1 transcript (10 pages) :
analog
Interview Location
Detroit (Mich.)
Content
In this interview with composer Michael Abels, Banfield and Abels
discuss the latter's musical background, education, compositional
style, and influences. They also discuss Abels' relationship with
Rev. James Cleveland and the L.A. Gospel Messengers, composing for
film, orchestration, and his identity as a Black composer.
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Folder 9
Adams, Leslie, July 23,
1996
Physical Description
1 transcript (7 pages) (2
copies) : 28 cm
Interview Location
Cleveland (Ohio)
Content
In this interview with composer Leslie Adams, Adams discusses his
musical background, education at Oberlin, and his appreciation of
Bach. Other topics include Adams' time in New York City,
compositional style, and philosphies regarding ethnicity.
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Folder 10
Anderson, T. J., July 25,
1996
Shelf No(s).
CASS 2365
Physical Description
1 audiocassette (53 min.,
30 sec.) + 1 transcript (15 pages) (2
copies) : analog
Content
In this interview with composer T. J. Anderson, Anderson discusses
his compositional style, writing for different ensembles, musical
background, education, and his musical influences. Other topics
include music's relationship to racial identity, political and
economic aspects of America, and the plurality of music and the
global market.
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Folder 11
Baiocchi, Regina Harris, July
17, 1996
Shelf No(s).
CASS 2366
Physical Description
1 audiocassette (52 min.,
22 sec.) + 1 transcript (12 pages) (2
copies) : analog
Content
In this interview with composer Regina Harris Baiocchi, Baiocchi
discusses gender discrimination in composition, her musical
background, education, and musical influences, as well as her jobs
in public relations and as a church musician. Other topics include
Black music, her identity as a Black woman composer, and
compositional style.
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Folder 12
Barnwell, Ysaye, April 10,
1996
Shelf No(s).
CASS 2367
Physical Description
1 audiocassette (49 min.,
1 sec.) + 1 transcript (12 pages) (2 copies)
: analog
Content
In this interview with composer Ysaye Barnwell, Barnwell discusses
his musical background, education, Black identity, and musical
influences. Other topics include his compositional process, musical
text settings, his relationship with Sweet Honey In The Rock, and
music's relationship to violence and society.
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Folder 13
Davis, Anthony, July 12,
1995
Shelf No(s).
CASS 2368
Physical Description
1 audiocassette (1 hr., 6
min.) + 1 transcript (22 pages) :
analog
Content
In this interview with composer Anthony Davis, Banfield and Davis
discuss the latter's musical background, education, musical
influences, and his compositional process and philosophies. They
also discuss Davis' possible future projects, the relationships
between music and race, the future of American concert music, and
jazz history.
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Folder 13
Davis, Anthony, December 19,
1993
Physical Description
1 transcript (6 pages) (2
copies) : 28 cm
Interview Location
New York (N.Y.)
Content
In this interview with composer Anthony Davis, Banfield and Davis
discuss the latter's musical aesthetics, influences, gender
disparity in composition, and Davis' goals as a composer.
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Folder 14
DaCosta, Noel, December 17,
1993
Shelf No(s).
CASS 2369
Physical Description
1 audiocassette (18 min.,
36 sec.) + 1 transcript (4 pages) (2 copies)
: analog
Interview Location
New York (N.Y.)
Content
In this interview with composer Noel DaCosta, Banfield and DaCosta
discuss the latter's musical aesthetics, cultural influences,
compositional process, and the musical canon.
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Folder 15
Fox, Donal, July 23,
1995
Shelf No(s).
CASS 2370
Physical Description
1 audiocassette (59 min.,
28 sec.) + 1 transcript (15 pages) (2
copies) : analog
Interview Location
Boston (Mass.)
Content
In this interview with composer Donal Fox, Banfield and Fox discuss
the latter's musical background, education, musical influences, and
his compositional process and philosophies. They also discuss Fox's
identity as a Black composer, the future of American concert music,
the influence of jazz, rap, and hip hop, and Fox's goals as a
composer.
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Folder 16
Kelley, Anthony M., June 18,
1996
Shelf No(s).
CASS 2371
Physical Description
1 audiocassette (37 min.,
33 sec.) + 1 transcript (5 pages) (2 copies)
: analog
Interview Location
Berkeley (Calif.)
Content
In this interview with composer Anthony Kelley, Kelley discusses his
musical background, education at Duke University with Robert Ward
and Thomas Oboe Lee, musical influences, and his compositional
philosophies.
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Folder 17
León, Tania, August 19,
1995
Shelf No(s).
CASS 2372
Physical Description
1 audiocassette (2
copies) (40 min., 24 sec.) + 1 transcript (20
pages) : analog
Interview Location
New York (N.Y.)
Content
In this interview with composer Tania León, Banfield and León discuss
the latter's Cuban background, musical education, her relationship
with the Dance Theater of Harlem, and her compositional process.
They also discuss race and ethnicity, the role of the artist in
society, popular music, and cultural influences.
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Folder 18
McFerrin, Bobby, September 29,
1996
Shelf No(s).
CASS 2373
Physical Description
1 audiocassette (35 min.,
11 sec.) + 1 transcript (8 pages) (2 copies)
: analog
Interview Location
Saint Paul (Minn.)
Content
In this interview with conductor, performer, and composer Bobby
McFerrin, McFerrin discusses his conducting philosophy,
compositional process, musical background, American public
education, and spirituality.
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Folder 19
Moore, Dorothy Rudd and Kermit, December 19, 1993
Shelf No(s).
CASS 2374
Physical Description
1 audiocassette (41 min.,
17 sec.) + 1 transcript (8 pages) (3 copies)
: analog
Interview Location
New York (N.Y.)
Content
In this interview with composers Dorothy Rudd Moore and Kermit Moore,
Banfield and the Moores discuss their compositional processes,
thoughts on rap music and popular musicians, and gender in music
composition.
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Folder 20
Mumford, Jeffrey, July 25,
1996
Shelf No(s).
CASS 2375
Physical Description
1 audiocassette (26 min.,
31 sec.) + 1 transcript (7 pages) (2 copies)
: analog
Content
In this interview with composer Jeffrey Mumford, Mumford discusses
his compositional process, musical background, his education and
studies with Peter Odegard and Elliott Carter, as well as the
artist's role in society and Mumford's identity as a Black
composer.
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Mumford, Jeffrey, and Abels, Michael, July 07, 1995
Shelf No(s).
CASS 2376
Physical Description
1 audiocassette (2
copies) (39 min., 28 sec.) :
analog
Interview Location
Detroit (Mich.)
Content
In this interview with composers Jeffrey Mumford and Michael Abels,
Banfield, Mumford, and Abels discuss their musical background,
education, influences, philosophies of music, art education in the
United States, their compositional process, the artist's role in
society, popular music, their identity as Black composers, and
compositional goals.
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Folder 21
Scott, Kevin, December 18,
1993
Shelf No(s).
CASS 2377
Physical Description
1 audiocassette (2
copies) (34 min., 46 sec.) + 1 transcript (9 pages) (2
copies) : analog
Interview Location
New York (N.Y.)
Content
In this interview with composer Kevin Scott, Banfield and Scott
discuss the latter's compositional style, musical and cultural
influences, Scott's identity as a Black composer, rap music, and
race and gender in classical music.
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Folder 22
Smith, Hale and Roberts, Howard, December 18, 1993
Shelf No(s).
CASS 2378
Physical Description
1 audiocassette (2
copies) (49 min., 30 sec.) + 1 transcript (9 pages) (2
copies) : analog
Interview Location
Freeport (N.Y.)
Content
In this interview with composers Hale Smith and Howard Roberts,
Banfield, Smith, and Roberts discuss Smith's compositional style,
his goals as a composer, the musical canon, the educational system,
rap music, and art in general.
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Taylor, Billy, July 26,
1995
Shelf No(s).
CASS 2379
Physical Description
1 audiocassette (50
min.) : analog
Interview Location
New York (N.Y.)
Content
In this interview with composer and performer Billy Taylor, Banfield
and Taylor discuss the latter's musical background, influences,
compositional process, relationships between classical music and
jazz, the artist's role and responsibility in society, his identity
as a Black artist, and the future of American concert and popular
musics.
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Tillis, Fred, July 24,
1995
Shelf No(s).
CASS 2380
Physical Description
1 audiocassette (2
copies) (47 min., 54 sec.) :
analog
Interview Location
Amherst (Mass.)
Content
In this interview with composer Fred Tillis, Banfield and Tillis
discuss the latter's musical background, education, influences,
philosophy of music, the American educational system, technology,
and Black History Month. Other topics include Tillis' comnpositional
process, his identity as a Black composer, the future of jazz,
popular, and classical musics, and his inspirations from society and
events.
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Folder 23
Williams, Julius, June 6,
1996
Shelf No(s).
CASS 2381
Physical Description
1 audiocassette (32 min.,
19 sec.) + 1 transcript (8 pages) (2 copies)
: analog
Interview Location
Boston (Mass.)
Content
In this interview with composer and conductor Julius Williams,
Williams discusses his musical background, education, influences,
aspects of Black music, racial stereotypes in classical music, and
Williams' work with the Bohuslav Martinu Philharmonic for
Symphonic Brotherhood.
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Folder 24
Woods, Michael, July 12,
1995
Shelf No(s).
CASS 2382
Physical Description
1 audiocassette (2
copies) (59 min., 3 sec.) + 1 transcript (17
pages) : analog
Interview Location
Bloomington (Ind.)
Content
In this interview with composer Michael Woods, Banfield and Woods
discuss the latter's musical background, education, influences, his
identity as a Black composer, and mixing musical traditions. Other
topics include Woods' compositional process, the future of concert
music, and music and society.
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