Kendall Crilly, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Music Librarian, holds degrees in music history, organ, and library science from Yale University, Drake University, and Southern Connecticut University. He has published articles and reviews on a number of musical and bibliographical topics and has presented papers in the United States and Europe. A member of the Board of Governors of the American Organ Archive and the Board of Directors of the Charles Ives Society, he recently served as consultant to the Library of Congress for their Leonard Bernstein Digital Archive. His current research focuses on incidental music composed for the American Shakespeare Festival Theatre.


Eugene Kimball has served as recording engineer at the Yale School of Music since 1972. He regularly records Yale's concerts for broadcast on National Public Radio, and has engineered over seventy commerical recordings. His recording of the Yale Cellos, Aldo Parisot, conductor, was nominated for a Grammy award in 1988.


Vivian Perlis, a historian in American music, specializes in the music of the twentieth-century American composers. She is founding director of Oral History, American Music, a project devoted to collecting and preserving tape-recorded interviews of major figures in American music. She is known for her writings and productions, among them books on Charles Ives and Aaron Copland, and film biographies of Copland, Eubie Blake, and John Cage.