Penn Library

Eugene Ormandy
A Centennial Celebration

Curated by Marjorie Hassen
Otto E. Albrecht Music Library
University of Pennsylvania

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Selections from Interviews with or about Eugene Ormandy


1940s
 		Interview with Eugene Ormandy conducted by Morris Henken, ca. 1973
Ormandy discusses an early experience with Sergei Rachmaninoff--a 1930s performance of the Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini with the Minneapolis Symphony.


Interview with Eugene Ormandy conducted by John Conte on "Town Talk," originally broadcast on KMIR TV, Palm Springs, Calif., 4 March 1980

Ormandy discusses his "prodigious memory."


Interview with William Smith, recorded for the Eugene Ormandy Memorial Oral History, 18 July 1991

Smith, keyboard player and Associate Conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra from 1952 to 1992, discusses Ormandy's conducting style.

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