[Yulcat-l] FW: Today: OHAM at 40

[Rhodes, Anne]

Greetings, catalogers!

Just wanted to encourage you to attend today's OHAM lecture at 4pm in the lecture hall. It should be fascinating and fun, especially for those of you with an interest in music.

Hope to see you there!

-a

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Anne Rhodes
Research Archivist
Oral History of American Music
Yale University
310 Prospect St.
New Haven, CT 06511
p(203)432-1988
f(203)432-1989
www.yale.edu/oham

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Subject: [Yulibl] Today: OHAM at 40

Oral History of American Music at 40
Vivian Perlis and Libby Van Cleve
Tuesday, November 3, 4:00 p.m.
Sterling Memorial Library Lecture Hall, 128 Wall St
Free and open to the public

Oral History of American Music (OHAM) at Yale is the only ongoing project in the field of music dedicated to the collection and preservation of oral and video memoirs in the voices of musicians. It is a special kind of history, one that captures sights and sounds and recreates the spontaneity of a moment in time. The sound of a voice is an immediate link to the past--gestures, speech patterns, laughter
--these are vivid reminders of the unique qualities of a personality, and they reflect the atmosphere of his or her time and place in history.  Artists in the OHAM collections include Virgil Thomson, Eubie Blake, Aaron Copland, Ned Rorem, and Ellen Taaffe Zwilich.

Founded in 1969, OHAM is celebrating its 40th anniversary.  This lecture by Founder and Director Vivian Perlis and Associate Director Libby Van Cleve will include a history of the project as well as recordings from the collection.  Other anniversary events include a concert in Sprague Hall on April 6, and a special concert in Carnegie Hall on April 8, part of the 'Yale in New York' series.

Vivian Perlis is a historian of American music, specializing in twentieth century composers. She is widely known for her publications, lectures, recordings, and film productions. On the faculty of the Yale School of Music, Perlis is founding-director of Oral History of American Music.  With Libby Van Cleve, she is the author of the award-winning volume Composers' Voices from Ives to Ellington, published in 2005 by Yale University Press.


Libby Van Cleve is Associate Director of Oral History of American Music.  In addition to her work at OHAM, Van Cleve is recognized as one of the foremost interpreters of contemporary music for the oboe.  She is an adjunct faculty member at Wesleyan University and Connecticut College.

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