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Aaron Copland Oral History
Collection
Call Number: OHVI
Scope and Contents:
The Aaron Copland Oral History comprises approximately 75 interviews with colleagues, friends, and family of Aaron Copland (note: for interviews with Copland himself, see the Major Figures in American Music collection). Oral History of American Music (OHAM) founder Vivian Perlis first became friends with Copland while working on the Charles Ives Oral History. Copland later wrote the preface for her book, Charles Ives Remembered. As the Ives project finished, Perlis focused on Copland as her...
Dates:
1948-1989, bulk 1980-1989
Found in:
Oral History of American Music
Charles Ives Oral History
Collection
Call Number: OHII
Scope and Contents:
The Charles Ives Oral History was the first documentary oral history of an American composer. Interviews with sixty people who knew and worked with Charles Ives were conducted between 1968 and 1971, and this project was the impetus for the founding of Oral History of American Music (OHAM). Family, friends, neighbors, business associates, and musicians reminisce about one of the most significant artistic figures of the century. The project formed the basis of the award-winning book by Vivian...
Dates:
1968-1974
Found in:
Oral History of American Music
Major Figures in American Music
Collection
Call Number: OHV
Scope and Contents:
Major Figures in American Music is the core unit of Oral History of American Music. It consists of over 1000 interviews with composers, performers, and other significant musicians. The first subjects were those most fragile in terms of age and health, such as Eubie Blake, Nadia Boulanger, Aaron Copland, Harry Partch, Charles Seeger, Claire Reis, and Virgil Thomson. Among other senior composers interviewed during the OHAM's first decade were John Cage, Lou Harrison, Ernst Krenek, Leo...
Dates:
1930-2023, bulk 1970-2023
Found in:
Oral History of American Music
Paul Hindemith Oral History
Collection
Call Number: OHI
Scope and Contents:
The Paul Hindemith Oral History consists of seventy-nine interviews with students, performers, colleagues, and friends of the celebrated German composer. The Hindemith oral history complements and gives added dimension to the Paul Hindemith Collection of personal papers and manuscripts in the Irving S. Gilmore Music Library at Yale University.
Dates:
1951-2007, bulk 1972-1977
Found in:
Oral History of American Music