Carleton Sprague Smith

With Vivian Perlis

122 East 65th Street New York, New York

18 January 1973

Table of Contents

Tape A                                                                                                           pp. 1-14

Music librarians and musicologist--New York Public Library (NYPL) and New York University--university music libraries in New York City--MLA beginnings--music critic Herald Tribune--Alexander Wheelock Thayer--Oscar Sonneck--Carl Engel--George Dickenson and the MLA--Otto Kinkeldey--Oliver Strunk--music library cataloguing: MLA and Library of Congress--Beethoven Association and the collection now at the NYPL.

Tape B                                                                                                            pp. 15-27

Study in France in 1920's--Egon Wellesz--study in Vienna-Felix Galimir--decision to take doctoral program in Vienna--post at Columbia University--Spanish folklore and Kurt Schindler--became chief of Music Division at NYPL--Lincoln Center location for NYPL.

Tape C                                                                                                           pp. 27-42

Charles lves and his family--sacred and secular music in America--views of what "American music" and "Music in America" is--family history and interest in music--student at St. Paul's School, Concord, New Hampshire, and at Hackley School--flute student in Paris of Louis Fleury--Harvard--acquaintances with international musicologists--continued to perform.

Tape D                                                                                                           pp. 42-54

Wolfheim sale and Richard Aldrich--Richard Hill and Notes--posts during the War (WWII) in Brazil--Spanish lnstutite--American music and college curricula--anthology of American hymns compiled by Smith and published by Columbia.