Marcel Grilli oral history interview

1981-05-25

Grilli, Marcel; Mayo, Marlene J.

Oral history interview with Marcel Grilli conducted by Marlene Mayo on May 25, 1981. Marcel Grilli (1907 - 1990) was born in Italy and lived in both the U.S. and Italy until he settled in the U.S. to go to college at Columbia University. During the occupation he worked with the Public Affairs section of the occupied government. Grilli’s work in Japan involved music, education, and broadcasting. His music helped public relations between the U.S. and Japan after the war. After the Occupation, he stayed in Japan to work with The Japan Times newspaper as a music critic among other positions in Tokyo to help with the promotion of music and art. He passed away in 1990 in Tokyo.

University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)

Oral histories

Japan--History--Allied occupation, 1945-1952

Japan; Tokyo

Postwar Japan

Special Collections and University Archives

English

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Recording: 02:20:00 (audiocassette; mp3); Transcript: 61 pages (PDF)

This oral history interview is part of the Marlene J. Mayo oral histories. A guide to the full collection of Marlene J. Mayo oral histories is available in our archival collections: http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/42478.
Accession 2009-209-GWP
An interview transcript is available.

Filename: prange-087549