Randall Davidson

with Vivian Perlis

Minneapolis, Minnesota

May 22, 1993

                                                TABLE OF CONTENTS

Side a                                                                                                             pp. 1-20

family history--musical background--childhood in Columbia, Missouri--early cello studies--game inventing and interest in composing--years at Cornell College (Mt. Vernon, Iowa)--music theory at Cornell--experience as program director and general manager of student-run radio station at Cornell--composition experience at Cornell-- ‘eye-opening’ semester in England and contact with the new music scene there--Alexander Goehr and Messiaen influences--arts administration experience in Minneapolis/St. Paul with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra--Dennis Russell Davies and the SPCO--association with the Minnesota Composers Forum--first commissioned work (1979)-- eclectic ‘approach’ to composition--diversity of his compositions--thoughts on teaching while also being a composer

Side b                                                                                                                        pp. 20-22

lack of art culture in America and his commitment to helping create one--

the importance of artists being activists