What is Vivian Perlis?
[[File:Vivian Perlis Publicity Photo.jpg|thumb|200px|Perlin in 2005]] '''Vivian L. Perlis''' (April 26, 1928 – July 4, 2019) was an [[Americans|American]] [[musicologist]]. She was the founder and director of [[Yale University]]'s [[Oral History of American Music]]. She founded the [[oral history]] project in 1969. She also notably wrote ''[[Charles Ives]] Remembered''. She first started working at Yale University as a reference [[librarian]] in 1959. She retired in 2010. Perlis was born in [[Brooklyn, New York]] and grew up in [[Long Island]]. She was married to Stanford James Perlis, and had three children. Perlis died in [[Weston, Connecticut]] on July 4, 2019 after an illness. She was 91.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://willowbrookcemetery.com/tribute/details/207/Vivian-Perlis/obituary.html|title=Obituary of Vivian L. Perlis|publisher=Willowbrook Cemetery|access-date=July 6, 2019}}</ref> ==References== {{Reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Perlis, Vivian}} [[Category:1928 births]] [[Category:2019 deaths]] [[Category:American historians]] [[Category:Disease-related deaths in Connecticut]] [[Category:Musicologists]] [[Category:Writers from Brooklyn]] [[Category:Librarians]] {{US-bio-stub}}