Earl Kim  

With Vincent Plush

Cambridge, Massachusetts

November 6, 1983  

TABLE OF CONTENTS  

Side a                                                                                                                         pp. 1-18

Childhood in Los Angeles--Korean background--traditional Korean music and Western opera--piano lessons--Depression--Los Angeles Junior College--interest in 20th-century music--service in World War II--anti-nuclear activities--Now and Then--Musicians Against Nuclear Arms gala.  

Side b                                                                                                                                    pp. 18-37

Study with Schoenberg at UCLA--reminiscences of Schoenberg--two years in Paris--Milhaud--dislike of attending concerts--serialism--violin sonata written in Paris--Grumieaux--Roger Sessions at Berkeley--Ernest Bloch--isolation of Korean émigré community--Letters Found Near A Suicide--McCarthyism--loyalty oath--conducting.  

Side c                                                                                                                         pp. 37-50

Move to Princeton--Milton Babbitt--electronic music--Samuel Beckett--Exercises en Route--meeting with Beckett--musical palindromes--Dialogues--filmmaking--Narratives--Earthlight--The Seagull--Footfalls--Peter Maxwell Davies--Stravinsky and Requiem Canticles--relationship with Craft.  

Side d                                                                                                                                    pp. 51-59

Donald Martino--Harvard faculty--philosophy of teaching--Violin Concerto--Itzhak Perlman--violin technique--Caprices--plans for orchestral work, brass quintet, piano trio--Translations from the French--question of "East meets West"--"reductionism."