AMERICAN MUSIC SERIES                                                                                               229a,b

Morris Stoloff

with Irene Kahn Atkins

March 17, l978

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Side A                                                                                                                        pp. 1-14

Stoloff’s move to Los Angeles--his interest in music [Ben Jim Stoloff, Edwin H. Clark]--recitals in women’s club--Stoloff on W. A. Clark (The Lesson)--Stoloff as the concertmaster at Paramount--Stoloff studying with Leopold Auer [Theodore Spiering, Lake George, Efrem Zimbalist, Jascha Heifetz, Godowsky, Mischa Elman]--Stoloff’s ambitions--Stoloff and the Los Angeles Philharmonic [Adolf Tandler, Henry Rothwell]--Stoloff and his quartet--Stoloff’s time at Paramount [Bakaleinikov, Bing Crosby

Side b                                                                                                                                    pp. 14-28

Difficulties of playing in a studio orchestra--Stoloff’s move to Columbia [Grace Moore, Harry Cohen]--Stoloff on Harry Cohen--financial aspect of being a concertmaster--Stoloff on becoming conductor at Paramount--technical aspect of conducting in a studio--Stoloff’s credits in ‘36 and ‘37 [The Lost Horizon, Dmitri Tiomkin, Theodore Goes Wild, Grace Moore, Harry Cohen, Girls School, Gregory Stone, You Can’t Take It With You, Frank Capra--the production of Golden Boy--Stoloff on Ernst Toch--Ladies in Retirement--Leonard Bernstein--working with movie stars [Fred Astaire, You’ll Never Get Rich, Rita Hayworth--Stoloff and the nomination for The Talk of the Town