Title Page | Collection Summary | History of the Collection | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Biographical Note
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| 1897 March 11 | Born, Menlo Park, California |
| 1914 March 5 | First public performance in a concert by the San Francisco Musical Club |
| 1914-1916 | Studied at University of California, Berkeley, under Charles Seeger and Wallace Arthur Sabin |
| 1916 | Studied at the Institute of Musical Art and met Leo Ornstein and Carl Ruggles Composed Dynamic Motion, his first work to experiment with tone clusters Composed String Quartet No. 1 |
| 1917 | Composed "Tides of Manaunaun" as the prelude for The Building of Bamba |
| 1918-1919 | Member of the U.S. Army Ambulance Corps in Pennsylvania |
| 1924 February 4 | Formal New York debut at Carnegie Hall |
| 1925 | Founded New Music Society of California |
| 1927 | Founded New Music Quarterly |
| 1931-1932 | Studied comparative musicology with Erich von Hornbostel during Guggenheim Fellowship |
| 1933 | Wrote "Towards Neo-Primitivism" article |
| 1936 May | Arrested in Menlo Park |
| 1936 July 8-1940 June | Imprisoned at San Quentin, where he taught music and was assistant conductor of the prison band |
| 1939 | Composed Les mariés de la Tour Eiffel |
| 1940 | Worked as Percy Grainger's assistant |
| 1941-1963 | Taught at the New School for Social Research |
| 1941 September | Married Sidney Hawkins Robertson |
| 1942 | Received pardon from California governor Culbert Olson |
| 1949-1965 | Taught at Columbia University |
| 1951-1955 | President of the American Composers Alliance |
| 1951-1956 | Taught at the Peabody Conservatory |
| 1962 | Awarded Henry Hadley Medal by the National Association of American Composers |
| 1963 | Composed 26 Simultaneous Mosaics |
| 1965 December 10 | Died, Shady, New York |