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Minnesota Orchestral Association Oral History Project (PA 12, Series 6.11), Performing Arts Archives, University of Minnesota Libraries, Minneapolis.
The materials in this collection were accessioned over the course of many years, beginning in 2005 and will continue as the Oral History Project continues.
The collection was processed and the finding aid written by Marisa Tam, 2010 and 2011.
New materials will continue to arrive as new interviews are conducted.
The collection is organized into three groups:
In order to augment the history captured within the Minnesota Orchestra Archives, Mary Ann Feldman of the Orchestra’s Public Affairs Department, began in the mid-1970s to record interviews with a variety of Minnesota Orchestra Music Directors and musicians. She also interviewed many individuals in leadership and governance roles, such as Orchestra Board members and Officers, and Association Presidents.
As the MOA approached its Centennial in 2003, the oral histories project took on added importance and became a formal activity of the Archives Committee (a standing committee of the Board of Directors). The Oral History Project, as it now officially named, includes over 80 interviews to date (June 2011) in various formats, ranging from mini-DV to VHS tapes and audio cassettes. For a brief period, arrangements were made with The Carlson Companies to use their AV services to acquire professional-quality digital video interviews. Since then, interviews have been done by various individuals. Dr. Feldman has been the interviewer for almost all of the oral histories.
The project is expected to continue on a reduced-activity basis, with a goal of approximately three interviews (with transcriptions) completed per year.
The collection contains AV materials that document interviews with Music Directors, musicians and others in leadership and governance roles within the Minnesota Orchestra Association; there are mini-DVs, audio cassettes and VHS tapes, among other media.
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the University of Minnesota Libraries. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.
The following section contains a detailed list of the materials in the collection.
MINI DV
MINI DV
MINI DV
MINI DV
MINI DV
MINI DV
MINI DV
MINI DV
MINI DV
MINI DV
11/14/2000
MINI DV
MINI DV
7/25/2003 (2 tapes)
MINI DV
7/25/2003
MINI DV
10/15/2000
MINI DV
MINI DV
10/15/2002 (2 tapes)
MINI DV
MINI DV
11/8/2000
MINI DV
11/9/2000 (2 tapes)
MINI DV
11/8/2000
MINI DV
11/9/2000
MINI DV
9/2000
MINI DV
MINI DV
(2 tapes)
MINI DV
Interviewed by Mary Ann Feldman, 1/12/2005, 90 minutes
DVCAM
Interviewed by Mary Ann Feldman, 1/12/2005, 90 minutes
VHS
Interviewed by Mary Ann Feldman, 1/20/2005, 30 minutes (2 tapes)
VHS
Interviewed by Mary Ann Feldman, 1/20/2005, 30 minutes (2 tapes)
DVCAM
MINI DV
Interviewed 3/27/2002 (2 tapes - close up and wide)
MINI DV
Interviewed 1/31/2002 in Holland
MINI DV
Interviewed by Mary Ann Feldman, 5/22/2003
MINI DV
Interviewed 1/9/2003
MINI DV
MINI DV
(2 tapes)
MINI DV
Talk, 100th Anniversary
MINI DV
Conducts the M.O., 9/12/1999
MINI DV
MINI DV
Interviewed by Mary Ann Feldman, 6/18/2009
audio cassette
MINI DV
12/11/2007 (2 tapes)
audio cassette
MINI DV
MINI DV
MINI DV
MINI DV
MINI DV
Interviewed 2/2/2002
MINI DV
MINI DV
MINI DV
Interviewed by Mary Ann Feldman, 7/15/2004
VHS
Interviewed by Mary Ann Feldman, 7/15/2004 (3 tapes - master, camera 1, camera 2)
DVCAM
Interviewed by Mary Ann Feldman, 11/29/2002 (2 tapes)
MINI DV
Interviewed by Karl Reichert, 11/17/2001
MINI DV
Interviewed 1/11/2002
MINI DV
"finale" - Interviewed by Karl Reichert, 5/31/2002
MINI DV
Interviewed 4/22/2004
MINI DV
Interviewed 3/24/2004
MINI DV
Interviewed 3/24/2004
MINI DV
Interviewed by Mary Ann Feldman, 12/15/2006, 61 minutes
DVD
Interviewed by Mary Ann Feldman, 12/15/2006
DVCAM
Interviewed 1/6/2002
MINI DV
Interviewed 6/10/2004 (2 tapes)
MINI DV
Interviewed 11/19/2002 (2 tapes)
MINI DV
Interviewed 1/24/2002
MINI DV
Interviewed by Mary Ann Feldman, 12/7/2006
DVCAM
Interviewed by Mary Ann Feldman, 12/7/2005, 90 minutes
DVD
MINI DV
Floppy disk
6/18/2009
audio CD
6/18/2009
DVD
Interviewed by Mary Ann Feldman, 6/18/2009
DVCAM
Past chair, MN Orchestra; 12/11/2007
DVCAM
12/11/2007
DVD
75 minutes
DVD
5/15/2007
DVCAM
5/15/2007 (2 tapes)
audio cassette
12/15/2006
audio cassette
Interviewed by Mary Ann Feldman, 12/15/2006, 61 minutes
DVD
Interviewed by Mary Ann Feldman, 12/7/2006
audio cassette
Interviewed by Mary Ann Feldman, "Excellent account of Viennese Sommerfest"
audio cassette
Interviewed by Mary Ann Feldman, 11/2002
VHS
Transcription of 6/18/2009 interview (2 copies)
12/11/2007
11/14/2007
Transcription of 10/10/2008 interview; interviewed by Bonnie Gainsley
Transcription of 2/13/1973 interview
12/15/2006
12/7/2006
July 1994; transcript missing page 2