AMERICAN MUSIC SERIES                                                                              140 a-d

Dorrance Stalvey

with Vincent Plush

Los Angeles, California

May 3, 1983

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Side a                                                                                                             pp. 1-19

Family background -- early musical experience -- Georgetown, S.C. -- Depression legacy -- influence of black culture -- learning jazz from black musicians in Charleston -- feelings about segregation -- family religious affiliation -- isolationsit mentality of family -- touring with jazz bands in the summer -- studying clarinet at Cincinnati College/Conservatory -- composition lessons -- playing classical clarinet and jazz saxophone -- commission from Cincinnati Symphony -- teaching and arranging while serving in the Navy -- Bartók --compartmentalization of classical music and jazz -- return to South Carolina after stint in navy -- composing five pieces for piano -- Webern -- move to California.

Side b                                                                                                                        pp. 19-36

First jobs in L.A. -- String Trio -- meeting Lawrence Morton -- Monday Evening Concerts -- first reaction to California -- wife's job with Robert Craft -- socializing with Stravinsky -- Schoenberg and Stravinsky -- Boulez -- new York -- Points-Lines-Circles, a turning point -- PLC Extract -- PLC Abstract -- use of slides in PLC -- graphics -- composite compositions -- tape piece In Time and Not -- Whatever Happened To Me, mixed media multi-lecture show -- Tape Show.

Side c                                                                                                             pp. 36-55

Tape Show -- development of piece Celebrations -- importance of programming and its effect on his work -- Jazz Circa '53 for Leo Smit -- orchestral Sequent of Celebrations -- Agathlon for Erick Hawkins Dance Co. -- Appalachian Spring anecdote -- Trio for Four, reworking of String Trio -- Three Pairs and Seven -- history of Monday Evening Concerts -- becoming director of Monday Evening Concerts and change in its image -- L.A. vs. New York -- effect of L.A. on his music and attitude to writing music.

Side d                                                                                                            pp. 55-57

Effect of living in New York on one's career -- West coast attitude of less interest in continuing European art and culture.