Daniel Pinkham

with Elizabeth Crouch Fitts

Cambridge, Mass.

November 17, 2001

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Side a:                                                                                                            pp.1-17

Family and musical background--training at Philips Academy--Trapp Family Choir--study at Harvard--E. Power Biggs--Jean Claude Chiason--Walter Piston--A.T. Merritt--Archibald Davison--Sonata for Organ and Strings--Piston's Chromatic Study on B.A.C.H.--Tanglewood--choral and orchestral conducting--composition with Arthur Honnegger--Arthur Schnabel--Samuel Barber--studying with Boulanger and Copland--Loiuse Voss Gerchian [sp?]--Stravinsky--studying harpsichord with Aldrich and Landowska--studying organ with Biggs--Soler Concerto in G Major--Barbara Owen--CBS Network Broadcast.

Side b:                                                                                                           pp.17-26

Small Requiem--Piston's Third Symphony--Harold Shapero--Robert Brink--Violin Concerto--associations with New England Conservatory and King's Chapel--Gunther Schuller--setting up an early music department--courses taught--restructuring the choir at King's chapel--Fisk tracker organ--midnight concert series at King's chapel--more on King's Chapel position.

Side c:                                                                                                                        pp.26-42

Composition: preference for choral work--wind pieces--chamber music--techniques of composition--writing idiomatically--Concerto for Celesta and Harpsichord--Six Preludes--Quarries--Weather Reports--Shards--Sonata No. 3--Second Organ Concerto--Toccata Festiva of Samuel Barber--use of harmony--Stravinsky--writing canons--setting a text--An Emily Dickinson Mosaic--poets: Norma Faber, Robert Hillyer, Howard Holtzman--writing on commission--ballet--Christmas Cantata--Small Requiem--Harpsichord Partita--illness--Symphony No. 2--Signs of the Zodiac--David McCord--pieces incorporating electronic tape--The Beginning of Creation.

Side d:                                                                                                           pp.42-49

Voices of the Trumpet--Evergreen--Blessings--Proverbs--Epiphanies--Saints' Day--Miracles--composition for flute--Third and Fourth Symphonies--Garden Party--Cask of Amontillado--Michael Tippett.