Autograph note signed ("John") to American musicologist and conductor, Paul Echols (1944-1994)
1 page. Octavo. In red ink. No date, but April 1986. With receipt handstamp in black "Received Apr 16 1986 Publications" to blank upper right corner.
Harbison thanks Echols for his note and encloses photocopies of his Six Tanglewood Talks (1,2,3); Six Tanglewood Talks (4,5,6); his 1-page Sessions Remembered; 1-page Sessions on Sessions; and 1-page John Harbison: Turning a Corner, a review of Previn conducting Harbison's Symphony No. 1.
Autograph note slightly worn and creased; rustmark from paperclip to upper margin; first set of Tanglewood Talks lacking 2 pp.
"Born into an intellectually and culturally vigorous environment, [Harbison's] earliest significant musical impressions were of jazz (he was the pianist in his own jazz band by the age of 11) and Bach. Together with Stravinsky they were to remain his chief musical influences. ... He studied with Piston at Harvard ... Later studies were with Blacher at the Berlin Musikhochschule (1961) and Sessions and Earl Kim at Princeton (MFA 1963). Very decisive for Harbison was a summer (1963) spent at the Santa Fe Opera Co. at the invitation of Sessions, where the complete operas of Stravinsky were being rehearsed and performed in the presence of the composer." David St George in Grove Music Online.
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