Vivian Perlis, a musicologist, historian, and author best known as the founder and former director of Yale’s Oral History of American Music, died on July 4 at her home in Weston, Connecticut. She was 91 years old.
Vivian Perlis, musicologist and Oral History of American Music founder
Perlis, who founded Yale’s Oral History of American Music in 1969 and served as its director until 2010, died at the age of 91 on July 4.
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Vivian Perlis with the composer Aaron Copland. (Image courtesy of the Yale School of Music)
