Andrea OlmsteadAndrea Olmstead is the author of seven books and five book chapters including four books about the modernist American composer Roger Sessions. She is the author of Juilliard: A History; her Who was F. Scott Fitzgerald's Daisy?is available as an eBook. Andrea’s most recent book, Vincent Persichetti; Grazioso, Grit, and Gold won the ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award for Outstanding Musical Biography. The recipient of three national Endowment for the Humanities Awards, she has been a Visiting Scholar at the American Academy in Rome ten times and a writing Fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts on six occasions. Olmstead was the Christopher Hogwood Research Fellow for the Handel & Hadyn Society Orchestra and Chorus, giving pre-concert lectures for the Handel & Haydn Society, as well as for the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, among others. Also a CD producer, she wrote the libretto for and produced the opera Holy Ghosts, music by Larry Bell based on the play by Romulus Linney (www.HolyGhoststheopera.com). She taught Music History at The Juilliard School, the Boston Conservatory, and at the New England Conservatory of Music. Read More Read Less