Brad Posted July 13, 2019 Report Posted July 13, 2019 Vivian Perlis, a musicologist who founded Yale University’s Oral History of American Music, an invaluable archive of audio and video interviews that she directed for more than 40 years, died on July 4 at her home in Weston, Conn. She was 91. The oral history project includes some 3,000 recordings of interviews with composers and other major musical figures, from Aaron Copland to Elliott Carter, from Duke Ellington to John Adams. The eminent musicologist H. Wiley Hitchcock described it as an “incomparable resource.” Vivian Perlis, Oral Historian of American Music, Dies at 91 Quote
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