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Interviewee Role

Faculty/Staff

Interviewee Title

Professor Emeritus of Music and Integrated Arts

Years Active

1954 - Present

Academic Program

Music

Interviewer

Raissa St. Pierre ‘87; Carl Hoyt ‘85

Keywords

Ben Boretz, Raissa St. Pierre ‘87, Carl Hoyt ‘85, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, Music Program Zero, Perspectives in New Music, Annandale House, Chapel of the Holy Innocents, Brooklyn College, Brook House, Janet Wheeler, Roswell Rudd, Bard Hall, Elie Yarden, Nona Yarden, Leon Botstein, Joan Tower, Zeena Parkins ‘79, Donna Pentaleri ‘79, Princeton University, Michael Rosenthal, Carl Selinger, Barrytown, Fluxus, Dick Higgins, Columbia University, Jacob Grossberg, Open Space publications, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Brandeis University, Mark Rosenberg, NYU, Jim Randle, Godfrey Windham, Languages of Music (1978), Annys Wilson ‘48, Wednesday Group, Annandale House Natural Beautification Project, Ed Sanders, The Fugs, Woodstock, Bard College of Columbia University, Wadada Leo Smith, Jeff Presslaff, Julia Haines, Chuck Stein, Richard Teitelbaum, Daron Hagen, Bard Music Festival, Electronic Music Studio, Brooks Parsons, John Storm Roberts, New York City, Adam Yauch ‘86, Beastie Boys, Woods Studio, China Joran ‘86, “Bard in the Eighties, ” Facebook, Margot Day ‘85, Caribbean, Grammy Awards, Guy Yarden, Brooklyn, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Alexander Glazunov, Russia, Ukraine, Odessa, Yiddish, 1905 Russian Revolution, Bolshevik Revolution, Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita, White Guard, Kiev, First World War, United States, Europe, France, U.S. Army, Congressional Medal of Honor, Communism, Soviet Union, Kishinev, Moldova, Flatbush, Third Street Music School, Manhattan, Greenwich Village, Hudson Street, Western Union, Second World War, Robert La Follette, Wisconsin, Zionism, Israel, Aaron Goodelman, Jefferson School of Social Science, Sixth Avenue, 16th Street, New York Public Library, Bryant Park, 42nd Street, Fifth Avenue, Socialist Workers Party, Wobblies (Industrial Workers of the World), New Masses, Masses & Mainstream, American Youth for Democracy, C-SPAN, Herbert Romerstein, FBI, The Daily News, Brooklyn Botanical Garden, New York Philharmonic, Victrola, Jupiter Symphony, Thomas Mann, German, The Magic Mountain, Albee Hall, Tewksbury Hall, Bard College Buildings & Grounds, Johann Sebastian Bach, California, Liz Parkins, Reamer Kline, Ivy League, William Sleeper, Pennsylvania, Something Else Press, Alison Knowles, MFA, Dalhousie University, Washington, D.C., Jacob Grossberg, Cafe Rienzi, MacDougal Street, Arthur Berger, Center of Literature and Music, University of California Press, Los Angeles, Vienna, Marjorie Kitchener, Felicity “Lissa” Shelness, Washington Square, New York University, James Randall, Sisters with Transistors (2020), Pauline Oliveros, San Francisco Tape Music Center, Robert Warren Erickson, Annys Wilson, The New Yorker Magazine, Annandale House Natural Beautification Project, Italy, David Henderson, Doug Henderson ‘82, Chris Cochrane ’82, Summerhill School, Little Red Schoolhouse, John Dewey, St. Stephen's Seminary, Forest Park, Linden Acres, co-education, St. Louis Symphony, St. Louis, Chicago, University of Chicago, Episcopal Church, electronic music, electronic music composition, Sarah Rothenberg, Marilyn Crispell, Whole Earth Catalog, David Byrne, Boston, Apartheid, Kline Commons, Olin Humanities Building, Sound Consciousness, Bruce Huber, India, The Original Music School, Daniel Yetnikoff, Progressive Education Division of Columbia, Lost Cause (band), 1973-1997.

Location

Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y.

Interview Date

3-24-2023

Interview Duration

2:02:10

Ben Bortez (BardCorps)

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