This collection consists of transcripts of seventeen interviews with Esther Hoffman Wexler (1918-2014), conducted by her cousin, Lawrence Freund, between 2012 and 2014. Hoffman, a Canadian-born concert pianist and a longtime piano teacher at the Mannes College of Music (which became a division of The New School in 1989), discusses her life experiences and her career as a musician and as a teacher in New York City and Toronto.

Between 1988 and 1990, The New School hosted an interview series, "Musicians on Music," organized and moderated by music critic Joan Thomson Kretschmer. The collection consists of analog audio and video tapes documenting Kretschmer and her guests at the university, including classical music conductors, singers, and performers.