In Memoriam
Vivian Perlis, musicologist and Oral History of American Music founder
Vivian Perlis with the composer Aaron Copland. (Image courtesy of the Yale School of Music)
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.
