I sang the unsingable: my life in twentieth-century music

Part one : Childhood (1925-50). Christmas 1925 ; The Great Depression ; East Lansing ; College years ; Lessons with J. Herbert Swanson ; Father ; New York, here I come

Part two : The Monod Era (1948-55). Juilliard ; The Monod era, 1949 ; Work with Jacques ; Farewell, Juilliard ; Paris and the Monod family ; Home again ; New music in New York City ; "All the right people" ; The duo : recital tours for the Association of American Colleges and Universities ; Fifty-nine new pieces of music ; 1955 and Pierrot Lunaire : a tumultuous year ; Camera concerts with Stanley Seeger

Part three : Godfrey (1956-62). A season of change : summer 1956 ; Godfrey Winham ; London ; New York Pro Musica : 1958 ; The Fromm Music Foundation ; Earl Kim and Russell Sherman ; Working with Martha Graham ; Threni and the Altenberg Lieder ; Princeton and Saskatoon ; The Russian delegation ; Recordings with Robert Craft ; To prove my love ; Baird and Christopher Winham : life in Princeton ; Das Buch der hängenden Gärten : opus 15 by Arnold Schoenberg

Part four : New music (1963-75). Vision and prayer, or, my first adventure with electronic music ; Camelot years : 1962 ; Le Marteau sans maître ; The sixties ; Philomel : 1964 ; A composer's singer ; Darmstadt : 1964 ; Aaron Copland, Imeneo, and Max : 1965 ; Belle Mead ; Godfrey and the computer ; Marlboro and Penderecki : 1967-68 ; Old friends and new pieces ; Erwartung ; How things wind down : 1973 ; Godfrey

Part five : Farewell and farewell. Remembering Milton ; Aftermath ; Singing again ; Lieder with Richard Goode : 1980-90 ; Pierrot records : new ventures ; Encore with Robert Helps ; Farewell and farewell

Appendix A : Discography

Appendix B : Premieres by Bethany Beardslee.