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| Varying Form of Title: | History Makers video oral history with Olly Wilson
Olly Wilson
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| Other authors / contributors: | Wilson, Olly, 1937-2018, interviewee.
Henry, Loretta (Interviewer), interviewer.
Stearns, Scott, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
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| Sound characteristics: | digital
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| Digital file characteristics: | video file
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| Notes: | Videographer, Scott Stearns.
Loretta Henry, interviewer.
Recorded Berkeley, California 2005 October 14.
Vendor-supplied metadata.
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| Summary: | Composer and professor Olly Woodrow Wilson, Jr. was born on September 7, 1937 in St. Louis, Missouri. Wilson learned to play the piano at the age of seven. He graduated from Sumner High School in 1955, and from Washington University in St. Louis in 1959, where he earned his B.M. degree in music. He went on to earn his M.M. degree in music composition in 1960 from the University of Illinois and his Ph.D. from the University of Iowa in 1964. Wilson taught at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music between 1965 and 1970 and then at the University of California - Berkeley in 1970. In 1971, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship to study African language and music in West Africa. In 1972, he returned to the University of California - Berkeley and between 1993 and 1997, served as chairman of the music department. Wilson retired as professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley in 2002.
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