Peter Sculthorpe interviewed by Belinda Webster in the Esso Performing Arts collection [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 1159351
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Sculthorpe, Peter, 1929-2014, interviewee
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
- Description:
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- 1989 June 15 - June 16
- 6 tape reels (ca. 155 min) : analog, 7 1/2 ips, full track, mono ; 7 in.
- Series:
- Esso Performing Arts collection.
- Summary:
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Sculthorpe speaks of his family background; childhood in Tasmania; education; early musical interests and composing; experiences studying music at Melbourne University and later Oxford University, England; techniques ideas and approaches to composition; influences in his work; people he has worked with; changes in his style; pieces such as Sun Musics, Rites of Passage and the soundtrack to the film Burke and Wills; borrowing and repetition in music; Australian and Asia and the influence of Asia in his music; Aboriginal themes and influences in his compositions; writing for different mediums such as film and concert; composers that have influenced him; feelings about his own music and directions in the future.
- Notes:
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- Part of a collection of oral history interviews produced by the Esso Performing Arts and Oral History Archive Project, funded by Esso Australia at the National Library of Australia. Project co-ordinated by Michelle Potter Esso Research Fellow in the Performing Arts at the National Library of Australia.
- Recorded at Woollahra, New South Wales on June 15 and 16, 1989.
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-216778842
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary and transcript available (typescript, 103 leaves).
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- Until 2059 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
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- Sound Recording
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1989
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