• creator: Connors, Betty, 1917- ive Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office Rowland, Marilynn
  • contributor: Rowland, Marilynn. ivr Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office. University history series.
  • Keyword: University of California, Berkeley. Committee for Arts and Lectures History. Arts administrators California Interviews. Performing arts California San Francisco Bay Area. Oral histories. rbgenr
  • pages: 1 v. (vi, 265 p.) :
  • notes: Forms part of the University history series.
  • description: Early years and family in the Midwest, exposure to music, University of Iowa, and move to Berkeley; early years of the Committee for Arts and Lectures (CAL): first chairmen, committee members, performance locations; discusses William Popper, Baldwin Woods, Albert Elkus, Donald Coney, Travis Bogard; operas in the Greek Theater, Kurt Herbert Adler; choosing the artists, working with artists' managers, Western Alliance, Intercampus Cultural Exchange; new performance spaces, dedication concerts at Zellerbach Hall, Hertz Hall; reminiscences of the Joffrey Ballet, Juilliard Quarter, Lotte Lehman, Sol Hurok, Jacques Barzun, Griller Quartet, Myra Hess, Ernst Bloch, Ravi Shankar, Alvin Ailey, Beaux Arts Trio, Rostropovich, others; expanded committee, jazz performances, San Francisco Symphony; management issues: programs, ushers, qualities of arts managers, critics, performers' needs. Appended list of CAL members; songs, poems and letters by Travis Bogard and Betty Connors; awards and honors to Connors.
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