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University of Michigan. University Musical Society. Correspondence with Eugene Ormandy, 1977-1984.

Title: Correspondence with Eugene Ormandy, 1977-1984.

Comprises items from Gail Rector, one addressed to Riccardo Muti, most are to Ormandy, with responses from Ormandy or his representative, regarding programs and performers for the Ann Arbor May Festival. Also includes 1 item from Allen Perdue Britton regarding Rector.

ArchivalResource: 125 items (161 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63644014 View

Lawrence Tibbett Collection, 1929-1945

Title: Lawrence Tibbett Collection 1929-1945

The collection contains primarily sound recordings of performances of Lawrence Tibbett from recording sessions that occurred between 1929 and 1945. Some of the recordings are 12" vinyl 33 1/3 rpm microgroove discs, but most are 78 rpm shellac discs and 12" instantaneous discs. A few 10" 78 rpm single-sided test pressings, and 1 7" tape reel are also included. Written materials in the collection consist of a set of of 13 index cards with handwritten listings of the contents of tape reels in Tibbett's personal collection (tape reels not included in this collection), photocopies of published articles by Tibbett, and typed inventories of the collection which were prepared by the donor.

ArchivalResource: 2.8 linear feet,; 3 audio disc storage boxes for 12" sound discs; 1 small box with tape reel; 1 document storage box for miscellaneous documents

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Ruby Mercer Collection. Miscellaneous interviews and reminiscences concerning Edward Johnson.

Title: Miscellaneous interviews and reminiscences concerning Edward Johnson. 1959- 1970.

ArchivalResource: 1 file.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/627550091 View

Nicolas Slonimsky Collection, 1873-1997, (bulk 1920-1990)

Title: Nicolas Slonimsky Collection 1873-1997 (bulk 1920-1990)

Collection contains materials collected by Slonimsky throughout his lifetime that document his life and work as musicologist, composer, conductor, lecturer and author. Included are personal biographical materials; Slonimsky's writings (drafts, typescripts, reprints, etc.) of newspaper, periodical, journal, and magazine articles, record liner notes, radio broadcasts, and talks, published and unpublished; music composed by Slonimsky, manuscript and printed; concert programs; correspondence, among many others, with Henry Cowell, Alexandre Gretchaninoff, Roy Harris, Charles Ives, and Edgar Varèse; biographical materials on composers and performers mosly generated when Slonimsky was editing Baker's and The international cyclopedia; music collected by Slonimsky, manuscript and printed and multi-composer collections; among the manuscripts are many short holographic works and fragments; scrapbooks; and iconographical material, such as family photographs an those of composers and musicians from the former Soviet Union, as well as little known musicians from the United States and elsewhere.

ArchivalResource: circa 118,600 items; 354 boxes; 500 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu002011 View