WQXR 50th Anniversary Show [Album # 20]

The NYPR Archive Collections | Jan 1, 2000

Host Bob Sherman interviews Arnold Michaelis, a WQXR producer during the mid-1950s. Michaelis brings some of his own tapes to the interview, including a well known 1955 interview with Bruno Walter, a Mozart special from 1956, and a rare WQXR interview with Oscar Hammerstein.


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