. . . . . "Powell discusses his childhood and early music education in New York City and continues through his years playing jazz piano with the Benny Goodman orchestra and his career as a composer and music professor at Yale University and founding dean of the School of Music and provost at CalArts. Major topics discussed include jazz music during the forties, music in academia, the founding of CalArts, the language of nontonal music, the evolution of an American compositional style, and the future of modern composed music."@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Exile at home Mel Powell"@en . . . . . "Oral histories"@en . . . . . . "Interviews"@en . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .