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Site Credits

Production by
Rolling Orange

Content Development
Lisa Halasz
Deanna Hull
Susan Key

Special Thanks
Library of Congress
Library of Congress American Memory

For Beethoven’s Eroica
The Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies at San Jose State University
William R. Meredith, Director
Patricia Stroh, Curator

Gwendolyn K. Mok, Coordinator of Keyboard Studies, School of Music and Dance, SJSU
Paul M. Ellison, Assistant Editor, The Beethoven Journal
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Hope for Hearing Foundation

For Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring
Stephen Walsh
Kenneth Archer
Millicent Hodson
Nicholas Roerich Museum
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
Valentine Gross images ©2006 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris

 
The Rite of Spring still images (above) and performance footage courtesy of The Joffrey Ballet, Robert Joffrey, Co-Founder and Gerald Arpino, Co-Founder and Artistic Director

Reproduction, including downloading of the works of Pablo Picasso is prohibited by copyright laws and international conventions without the express written permission of Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

For Copland and the American Sound
Vivian Perlis
Copland Fund for Music
Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance
American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress

Audio interviews with MTT courtesy of The MTT Files, a radio production of Keeping Score, co-produced in association with American Public Media.

The producers gratefully acknowledge the groundbreaking and inspirational work of Vivian Perlis through both her definitive two-volume Copland biography, and her oral history compendium co-authored with Libby Van Cleve Composers’ Voices: From Ellington to Ives. For more information please visit the Oral History of American Music project web site.

Music Credits
All music courtesy of the San Francisco Symphony, except as noted:

    For Stravinsky’s Rite Of Spring
  • “Bunny with Short Legs” and “Trumpet” by the Pokrovsky Ensemble from Les Noces (Nonesuch 79335).
    Courtesy of Nonesuch Records.

    For Copland And The American Sound
  • “Bonaparte’s Retreat” by W.H. Stepp from A Treasury of Library of Congress Field Recordings (ROUN1500).
  • Courtesy of Rounder Records.
  • “Goodbye, Old Paint” by Jess Morris from A Treasury of Library of Congress Field Recordings (ROUN1500).
    Courtesy of Rounder Records.
  • “Simple Gifts” by the Plymouth Church Choir from “the Story of ‘Simple Gifts’” courtesy of Pine Tree Music.
    American Music Preservation

The San Francisco Symphony

Executive Director
Brent Assink
General Manager
John Kieser
Director of Artistic Planning
Gregg Gleasner
Media Production Manager
Joyce Cron Wessling
Electronic Media Manager
Edie Cheng