Vincent Persichetti
With Janice Fournier
Philadelphia, PA
May 10, 1984
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Side a pp. 1-23
Family background‑‑growing up in Philadelphia‑‑first musical experiences‑‑desire to study music at an early age‑‑Combs Conservatory‑‑studying piano with Warren E. Stangert‑‑Gilbert Reynolds Combs‑‑Russell King Miller‑‑studying theory at age 8‑-Angelucci family‑‑studying tuba‑‑studying organ at age 11‑-first jobs‑‑Matinee Musical Orchestra‑‑choir director and organist at St. Mark's Reformed Church‑‑playing contemporary music‑‑The Creation‑‑Flower Songs‑‑composing at age 6‑‑attending art school‑‑interest in Haydn and Schumann‑‑early prizes‑-entering Combs Conservatory after high school‑‑graduation from Combs‑‑teaching‑‑approach to composing‑‑band music‑‑commissions
Side b pp.23- 42
Studying at Philadelphia Conservatory with Olga Samaroff‑-playing bass in the All Philadelphia High School Orchestra‑-wife Dorothea‑‑Roy Harris‑‑Fritz Reiner‑‑graduating from Curtis in conducting‑‑Nordoff‑‑writing reviews for Modern Music‑-Aaron Copland‑‑Madame Longy‑‑Twentieth Century Music Group‑-Ardolines‑‑France‑‑Nadia Boulanger‑‑recitals of improvisations at Arch St. Church‑‑William Schuman‑‑"Literature and Materials"‑‑New Romanticism‑‑programing new music‑‑Riccardo Muti‑‑Richard Wernick‑‑American music‑‑Leonard Bernstein‑‑Music for Percussion, Celesta and Strings‑‑Harold McDonald‑‑Bartok‑‑composing an opera
Side c pp. 42-55
Daughter studying piano‑‑form of the symphonies‑‑harpsichord music‑‑Parables‑‑collection of short harpsichord pieces‑‑Hymns and Responses for the Church Year‑‑difficulty composing for piano‑-composing for oboe‑‑feelings toward criticism of new works