Membership Party
Non-commercial, VHS (NTSC), color (10 June 1989), 82:40.
Time | Description |
0:00 | Titles. Honorary lifetime memberships presented to Nicolas Slonimsky and Mel Powell. |
1:20 | Photos of Schoenberg in tennis gear, military uniform |
1:55 | Anne and Larry Schoenberg, Leonard Stein, Heidi Lesemann, other party guests in garden of Rockingham home |
3:40 | Photos of Schoenberg with Kolisch quartet, Schoenberg with students, set up around the yard |
5:25 | Judith Rosen begins the proceedings, asks the guests to take their seats. Rosen thanks the guests for coming and the Friends of the ASI for their continued support. |
8:50 | Larry Livingston, Dean of USC School of Music, addresses the guests. Rosen introduces Leonard Stein. |
11:30 | Stein addresses the guests. Rosen, outgoing President of the FASI, gives the microphone to Lucretia Claren, who reads the new slate of officers: Gerald Turbow, President; Andrew Schwarz, Vice-President/Fundraising; Dorothy Crawford, Vice-President/Academic Programs; Eviva Ellis Nemer, Recording Secretary; John Yoell, Corresponding Secretary; William Adler, Treasurer. |
18:00 | Gerald Turbow addresses the guests. He presents a certificate of appreciation to Rosen honoring her tenure as President of the Friends. |
21:55 | Vice-President Andrew Schwarz presents Rosen with a stick-pin with the ASI logo. |
23:30 | Rosen introduces David Raksin, who introduces Slonimsky. |
28:10 | Slonimsky takes the microphone and introduces Raksin in turn. |
34:20 | Rosen presents Slonimsky with a membership pin. She introduces Nicolas England, who introduces Mel Powell. |
42:46 | Powell addresses the guests. |
52:30 | Powell concludes his remarks. Rosen presents the honorees with certificates of lifetime membership, and Richard Fish presents them with one of his photos of Schoenberg. |
58:30 | Rosen concludes her remarks and the party continues. Video records conversations between Rosen and Nuria Schoenberg Nono, Ron Hunt and Larry Schoenberg, Rick Lesemann, Ralph Grierson, among other guests' comments. |
1:22:40 | End |