Fifty Years of Training String Teachers on the UT Austin Campus: An Interview with Phyllis Young

Abstract

To commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the University of Texas String Project, Anne Witt spoke with Phyllis Young, who served as the String Project director from 1958 to 1993. Phyllis Young teaches cello and string pedagogy at the University of Texas at Austin, where she holds the Parker C. Fielder Regents Professorship in Music. She was the first female president of ASTA, from 1978 through 1980, and is the author of The String Play, published by the University of Texas Press, and Playing the String Game, published by Shar Publications.

The following comments are those of Phyllis Young, recorded during her interview with Anne Witt in the spring of 1998.