Title:
Oral History Interview with JoAnn Falletta--Transcript
Creator:
Falletta, JoAnn
Contributor:
Major, Dr. Jean A., University Librarian Emerita
Date:
2008-01-17
Description:
JoAnn Falletta has been music director of the Virginia Symphony Orchestra from the 1991-1992 season to the present. During her tenure, the Symphony became a nationally recognized orchestra. The high point of her career with the orchestra was its April 1997 appearance in Carnegie Hall, a performance which was very well received by the New York critics and supported enthusiastically by local symphony supporters. Falletta was born in New York, New York on February 27, 1954. The interview was conducted with JoAnn Falletta in the offices of the Virginia Symphony Orchestra in Norfolk for a project on the history of the Virginia Symphony Orchestra. The interview discusses JoAnn Falletta's tenure as musical director of the Virginia Symphony Orchestra including: high points and strengths of the orchestra, the Virginia Symphony Foundation, board of directors, previous musical directors and labor relations.
Subject:
Falletta, JoAnn
Subject:
Virginia Symphony
Subject:
Conductors (Music)--Employment
Subject:
Women conductors (Music)
Subject:
Orchestral musicians--Employment
Subject:
Virginia Symphony--Concerts
Subject:
Musicians' contracts
Subject:
Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra
Subject:
Fundraising--Orchestras
Subject:
Orchestra--Mergers
Subject:
Orchestral musicians--Labor unions
Subject:
Virginia Symphony Foundation
Subject:
Virginia Symphony--Board of Directors
Subject:
Orchestral musicians--Salaries, etc.
Subject:
Virginia Symphony--Musical Directors
Coverage:
Norfolk, Virginia
Media Format:
Transcripts
Source:
MG 81
Collection:
Virginia Symphony Orchestra Oral History Collection
Publisher:
Old Dominion University Libraries
Rights Statement:
IN COPYRIGHT; http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Rightsholder:
Special Collections and University Archives, Old Dominion University Libraries
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Identifier:
vso-fallettaj-transcript
