Reminiscences of Otto Luening

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Family background; early life in Madison, Wisconsin; musical education in Munich, 1912-17; composing, performing and acting in Europe during World War I; Chicago, 1920-25; executive director, opera department, Eastman School of Music, 1925-28; teaching at University of Arizona; Yaddo; organization of American Composers Alliance; Barnard College Music Department, 1944-47; professor of music, Columbia University, 1949- ; electronic workshop at Columbia, development of electronic music; meetings of National Institute of Art and Letters; impressions of Aaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein, Randall Thompson, John Cage, and others.