Willis Page (BSO bassist, 1940-1954) oral history interview: Page, Willis, interviewee, 1994-09-10T00:00:00+00:00, 2023-08-01T00:00:00+00:00

Cassette 60-2: Oral history conducted by Robert Ripley on September 10, 1994; See also VHS 1 for video recording of this interview.

PARTIAL TRANSCRIPT

Tape 60-2, Side A

0:11 RECORDING BEGINS: WILLIS PAGE CONT'D

0:11-3:00 Trout Quintet group gathered; played with Leon FLEISHER and Tossy SPIVAKOVSKY, Milton FORSTAT, coached by Pierre MONTEUX; FLEISCHER had an "excellent pianissimo"; compliments from MONTEUX on his playing

3:00-4:30 reflections on Harry DICKSON becoming conductor of the Pops; Rite of Spring under MONTEUX as guest conductor during MUNCH's years 39 years after it debuted in France

4:30-9:55 married and divorced twice; has two children, one who is a doctor and another is married to a musician; grandson plays bass and sings too; lives by the ocean; would like to conduct for the BSO once; Jacksonville was his last orchestra, made "St John's River City Band," a virtuoso brass band

12:06 INTERVIEW CONCLUDES

Tape 60-2, Side B

Side B is BLANK.