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Heim, Emmy - Interview

Item number (ISN):

267665

Series title:

Experience of Life

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1955-03-26

Item number (ISN):

267665

Type of material:

Sound recordings

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Fonds/collection:

CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION, RADIO: MAIN CATALOGUE

Accession:

1983-0014

Media:

Sound

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1955-03-26

Production company:

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Production credit:

interviewer, Ronald Hambleton

Description:

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This recording is one of a series of interviews with famous Canadians recorded especially for CBC Radio Archives for which special archival fees were paid. Robert Weaver of the CBC commissioned the interviews. In this, the tenth in a series of recorded interviews, Emmy Heim talks about her basic tenet in music: what she can hand down to her pupils is the outcome of her own education. She learned from composers, writers and painters. About painters she says "my good fortune enabled me to live among them and visualize the style of their times". She touches on her association with Berg, Kandinsky, Klee, Mann, Rilke and Shoenberg. She recalls singing at a "souper d'adieu" for Shoenberg. Her artist friends, she says, taught her to develop her senses so as to use them in her singing. She says that the spirit of Shoenberg must enter into the singer's mind and be transmitted to the audience. She teaches the interdependence of the senses. She says that we need six senses, to sing the "perfume of this song" and to convey all emotion through the voice. She says: "As I find myself in this condition [bedridden], I realize there is more -- I teach my students hwo to dig for more wealth in their own souls." <15mn>

Language:

English

Notes:

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1. Emmy Heim moved to Toronto with her second husband, architect Franz Singer, in 1947.

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Vault ISN:

302579

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

1983-0014/081

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

R/R

Technical description:

POLY

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

ORIG
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Conditions of access:

Open

GENCAT identity number:

GAD 0FD547

Restrictions on consultation:

~To be Determined / À déterminer

Reproduction access:

With written permission of Copyright Owner / Avec la permission écrite du détenteur des droits d'auteur

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