Peter Lieberson

with Ingram Marshall

Brookline, Massachusetts

May 20, 1999

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Side a                                                                                                                         pp. 1-20

            Growing up in a musical household--Stravinsky--Lieberson’s mother and father--boarding school--NYU--writing poetry--jazz--Juilliard Extension--working at WNCN--Copland--Thomson--Babbitt--Xenakis--graduate study with Charles Wuorinen--The Concerto for Four Groups--Flute Variations--Twelve-tone technique--Babbitt, Boulez, Wuorinen--Don Martino--Concerto with Cello with Accompanying Trios--Group for Contemporary Music--Oliver Knussen--Charles Ives Award--Tanglewood--Gunther Schuller--piano piece for Ursula Oppens--Accordance--Buddhism--Rimpoche [sp]--Neuropa [sp] Institute--Mytree [sp]

Side b                                                                                                                                    pp. 21-40

            Buddhism (con’t)--impact on his composition--Tashi Quartet--influence from the East--Cello Concerto--Peter Serkin--Second Piano Concerto--directing Shambhala Training--Boston Symphony commission for piano concerto--Drala--Ph.D at Brandeis--Martino--Martin Boykan--Piano Concerto--dissertation--Lalita--Harvard--his students--university life--Shambhala Training--Ziji--Raising the Gaze--World’s Turning--Lucky Mosko--Feast Day for Tafelmusik--Henze--Walton.

Side c                                                                                                                         pp. 40-53

            Gesar Legend--running Shambhala Training--moving to Nova Scotia--Buddhism--Fantasy Pieces--Scherzo No. 1--World’s Turning--Wind Messengers--World’s Turning--String Quartet--King Gesar--Hans Werner Henze--Mila Reppa [sp]--Philip Glass--more on Gesar--premiere in Munich.

Side d                                                                                                                                    pp. 53-74

            Concerto for Viola--Copland--studying at Columbia--accessibility--twelve-tone music--World’s Turning--Garland--Piano Variations--Variations for Violin and Piano--String Quartet--Drala--Rumble--Fire--opera: Ashoka’s Dream--Stravinsky’s Persephone--Henze--Yung Lo [sp]--Shatoku Taishi [sp]--meeting Lorraine Hunt--role models as an opera composer--Free and Easy Wanderer--Sonnets to Orpheus--Horn Concerto--Piano Concerto: Red Guruta [sp]

Side e                                                                                                                         pp. 74-78

            What is American?--Ives--Copland--Stravinsky--Goddard Lieberson.