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Memorial Library of Music collection

Title: Memorial Library of Music collection

This library is a collection of musical manuscripts and of printed and engraved scores inscribed by great composers, and constitutes a unique addition to Stanford's educational and cultural resources.

ArchivalResource: ca. 27 linear ft.

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Downes, Olin, 1886-1955. Olin Downes scrapbooks and printed materials, 1929-1955.

Title: Olin Downes scrapbooks and printed materials, 1929-1955.

The series consists of scrapbooks and folios of printed materials of Olin Downes from 1929-1955. The scrapbooks and folios contain newspaper articles written by Olin Downes from 1929-1955 (with gaps) for the New York Times pertaining to musical performers and performances at Carnegie Hall, the New York Metropolitan Opera, and the Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra. Other scrapbooks and folios include newspaper clippings of the writings of music critics Virgil Thompson (1940-1954, with gaps) and Ernest Newman (1935-1954).

ArchivalResource: 6 linear ft.

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Yaddo records, 1870-1980

Title: Yaddo records 1870-1980

Yaddo is an artists' community located in Saratoga Springs, New York. The Yaddo Records contain the administrative records of The Corporation of Yaddo since its establishment in 1900, as well as the institutional records of Yaddo from 1926, the year Yaddo began accepting guests. Notable guests have included Newton Arvin, John Cheever, Aaron Copland, Malcom Cowley, Leonard Bernstein, Truman Capote, Carson McCullers, Langston Hughes, Sylvia Plath, Katherine Anne Porter, and Clyfford Still. The Yaddo Records also include the personal papers of Yaddo's principal founders, Spencer and Katrina Trask, and George Foster Peabody.

ArchivalResource: 190 linear feet; 550 boxes, 51 volumes

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/4795 View

Van Patten, Nathan, 1887-. Memorial Library of Music : files, 1947-1953.

Title: Memorial Library of Music : files, 1947-1953.

Correspondence, accounts, provenance information, etc.

ArchivalResource: 2 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122369477 View

Nathan Van Patten Memorial Library of Music : files, 1947-1953

Title: Nathan Van Patten Memorial Library of Music : files, 1947-1953

Director of Stanford University Libraries, 1927-1947, Professor of Bibliography, 1948-1952, Professor Emeritus, 1952-1956, and Curator, Memorial Library of Music, 1952-1955.The collection contains primarily correspondence, accounts, provenance information, etc.

ArchivalResource: 2 linear ft.

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