In Oral History Project, Composers Speak For Themselves

Aaron “Copland’s voice, with its Brooklyn tinge, can reveal different perspectives than notes or words crafted for the page. That’s the point of some 2,000 interviews that make up Yale’s still-growing Oral History of American Music,” which “was founded 40 years ago by librarian Vivian Perlis, and [is] still the only project of its kind.”