Janet Seidel interviewed by Bill Stephens [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 4311996
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Seidel, Janet, 1955-2017, interviewee
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research, written permission is required for personal copies and public use for 10 years from the date of the interview.
- Description:
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- 2008
- 3 sound files (ca. 205 min.)
- Summary:
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Janet Seidel speaks about her family background; siblings; early childhood memories; schooling; early music training; early influences; early roles; singing lessons; school musicals; chamber music; the decision to train as a music teacher; forming a band with her brother and its early engagements; Barry Lake; her involvement in the "Footlights revue"; directing the musical "Annie get your gun"; studying for her Graduate Diploma of Teaching; her first piano bar solo engagement; Musician's Union; her involvement with various women's movements; promoting her career; Waikerie High School; The Gateway Hotel; the Janet Seidel Trio; Billy Ross; Adelaide Cabaret Festival; Blossom Dearie; maintaining her teaching career as well as her other musical activities; Adelaide Cabaret Festival; early engagements around Adelaide.
Seidel discusses her overseas trips, working in piano bars in London, and as a resident pianist in Stockholm; New York and further travels in America (1981); returning to life in Adelaide; the Don Burrows Supper Club; The Four Kinsmen; establishing her career in Sydney; her engagement at The Boulevarde; recording career; radio technique; the establishment of "La Brava"; John Pochee; Tom Baker; Ricky May; the Sydney Symphony Orchestra Benevolent Concert; Port Fairy Arts Festival; her move into cabaret; tours of Japan and the U.K.; International Arts Festivals; Chuck Morgan; conducting Master Classes; favourite composers; preparing a new CD; selecting repertoire and titles for albums; independent record labels.
- Notes:
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- Recorded on January 30, 2008 at Sydney, N.S.W.
- Digital master available National Library of Australia;
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary (14 p.) and corrected transcript (typescript, 114 leaves)
- Subject:
- Occupation:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Stephens, Bill, 1936-, interviewer
- Copyright:
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In Copyright
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Until 2078 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
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- Material type:
- Sound Recording
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 2008
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