Celebrating Vivian Fine

Celebrating Vivian Fine

Today, Sept. 28, 2023, is the 110th birthday of Vivian Fine.  This blog was originally published on March 20, 2011, titled Remembering Vivian Fine. Sunday, March 20th (2011), marked the 11th anniversary of the death of Vivian Fine (1913-2000) and the loss of a truly...
Monday Link Round Up: March 4, 2019

Monday Link Round Up: March 4, 2019

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Happy Birthday Vivian Fine

This past Sunday (September 28) would have been Vivian Fine’s 101st birthday.  Born in Chicago in 1913, Fine was a piano prodigy who went on to study with Ruth Crawford Seeger and achieve acclaim for her compositions at a young age.  She composed continuously...

Vivian Fine

American-born Vivian Fine (1913-2000) was a child prodigy on piano and began composing at age thirteen.  She worked consistently as  composer for almost seventy years and was a student of Ruth Crawford Seeger, who saw her as a protegée. She was only sixteen when she...