Gilbert Chase

with Vivian Perlis

Tallahassee, Florida 

March 9, 1985

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Side A                                                                                                              pp.1-15

Early years -- Havana and New York -- music in the family -- Paris in the ‘20s -- "The Danish Connection” -- Kathleen, his wife -- early reviews written for The

Daily Mail -- Paris society -- Boulanger -- ”The Spanish Connection” -- Musical

America -- Thompson Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians -- Baker’s and Schirmer’s -- Library of Congress -- tour of Latin America -- The Music of Spain -- NBC radio

Side B                                                                                                               pp.16-31

NBC radio (cont.) -- RCA -- America’s Music -- University of North Carolina and Columbia -- U.S. Foreign Service Cultural Attaché -- America’s Music, 2nd Edition -- Tulane -- University of Oklahoma -- New Orleans -- parents -- former students

Side C                                                                                                               pp. 31-46

Inter-American Institute for Musical Research -- The American Composer Speaks -- farm in Chapel Hill -- Italy and “Chases Folly" -- Wiley Hitchcock -- Brooklyn College, Institute for Studies in American Music -- Visiting Professor, University of Buffalo -- New York City -- writing and relocating -- Guilford, Connecticut -- Yale -- Texas -- America’s Music, 3rd Edition -- copy editors -- founding the Sonneck Society -- honorary membership