Holly Salisbury and Leila Salisbury
Recorded
March 20, 2017
Archived
March 20, 2017
39:59 minutes
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Id:
mby016033
Description
Holly Salisbury (72) tells her daughter Leila Salisbury (46) about her early life and her career as the Director for the Singletary Center for the Arts at the University of Kentucky.Subject Log / Time Code
Holly Salisbury (H) tells about moving to Washington DC as a young girl and being "lonesome for Kentucky."
H talks about studying art abroad in Florence, Italy, and seeing Madame Butterfly at La Scala.
H talks about when her family came back to Kentucky in 1974.
H tells about getting her job in Arts Administration for the University of Kentucky and being the director of the Singletary Center.
H talks about the acoustics of their arts center and redesigning parts of it.
H recalls Yo-Yo Ma playing at the Center.
H talks about being starstruck by Rosemary Clooney.
H remarks on returning to the Singletary Center now and seeing her granddaughter perform in a choir there.
H on her life now.
Participants
- Holly Salisbury
- Leila Salisbury