AMERICAN MUSIC SERIES                               393a                                        OHV

Ted Hearne

With Jack Vees

New Haven, CT

November 19, 2008

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Side a                                                                                      pp. 1-32

His feelings about theatrical music—music that was forbidden in music schools and departments—music as political artifact—minimalists and opera—his early experiences with music—his parents and music—singing in choir—studying piano—his church job—listening to his father’s collection of Bob Dylan—hip-hop—“institutional” music—Romanticism—his mother’s love of Baroque music—his own feelings about Baroque music—his interest in Andrew Lloyd Webber and musicals—his first rock concert: Liz Phair—acting in theater groups—West Side Story of Bernstein—more on his view of musicals—“A Boy Like That” from West Side Story—beginning to compose—getting the choir to sing his music--his teacher Dennis Northway—Martin Bresnick—his interest in the arts when in high school—his desire then to be a writer or film director—his high school: Whitney Young High School—writing for choir in high school—recitals—songs of his that his mother sang—going to Manhattan School of Music as an undegrad—Nils Vigeland—rift between the marketable and the experimental in American music—people he gravitated towards at the Manhattan School of Music.