Vivian Fine Collection
Span: 1929-1994
English
collection
12 ft.
4 boxes
Vivian Fine was a piano prodigy, and at the age of five became the youngest student to be awarded a scholarship at the Chicago Musical College. At 11 she became a student of Djane Lavoie-Herz, a former student of Scriabin, and at 13 studied with Ruth Crawford, later with Roger Sessions and George Szell. She was a member of the Young Composer's Group and participated in the first Yaddo Festival of Contemporary American Music. Her chamber music, operas, and large-scale symphonic and choral works are represented in the collection.
Principally holographs, with work sheets, concert notices, programs and reviews. Sound Recordings: reels and cassette tapes
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Vivian Fine Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress
Fine, Vivian
Chamber music, operas, and other works by the former piano prodigy.
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Chamber Music
Choral Music
Dance
Opera
Orchestral Music
Women in the Performing Arts
Women Composers
Fine, Vivian
Crawford, Ruth
Cowell, Henry
Graham, Martha
Bennington School of Dance [Bennington College]
Performing Arts Encyclopedia
scdb
Music Division, Library of Congress
IHAS
120830
loc.natlib.scdb.200033727