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Phillips, Harvey, 1929-. Harvey Phillips collection, 1967-1971.

Title: Harvey Phillips collection, 1967-1971.

The first series, correspondence, is divided into two categories - general correspondence and faculty correspondence. The general correspondence spans the years 1968-1971. The faculty file contains correspondence to/from/or about individual faculty members. This file is organized alphabetically according to the faculty member's last name. The department files series consists of four folders, three of which relate to NEC administrative departments and the fourth contains information regarding NEC's piano department. The general administrative department file contains information about miscellaneous topics such as the Annual Strauss Ball, employee retirement, and the rental policies for NEC concert halls. The Admissions file contains various enrollment statistics from the years 1968-1971. The Public Relations folder contains materials regarding changing strategies and approaches for the PR Department. There are two files that document the activities of the Community Services Department. The first contains information regarding the general operation, space, equipment, budget, curriculum, and fundraising methods. This folder also contains a very small amount of information involving the Preparatory School/Extension Division. The second folder documents NEC's collaboration with the Elma Lewis School for Fine Arts through the Community Services Department. This folder contains background on the collaboration; correspondence with the Ford Foundation, which provided funding for the program; a newspaper article; a program for a fundraiser; and materials evaluating and suggesting improvements after the first year of the program. The first folder in the gifts/scholarship series contains brief information regarding the Margaret Leland Estate, George Laurent's estate, the Ford Foundation, the Ratshesky Foundation, the Paul Lavalle Scholarship, and other gifts. The other folder in this series contains materials about the John Padovano Memorial Scholarship. Phillips' subject files cover a variety of topics. The first folder documents a special program in London for NEC students, directed by NEC faculty member Benjamin Zander. The Paintings/Historic Instruments folder contains a very small amount of information regarding NEC's collection of paintings, furnishings, and antique instruments and their appraisal. Another folder documents the state of NEC's collection of pianos-there is information regarding gift appraisal, piano tuning, and repair. Finally, the folder about piano manufacturers contains notes evaluating several piano manufacturing plants, compiled by NEC's piano technician, T.V. Potter. The last folder contains information regarding NEC recording projects happening during Phillips' tenure. There are only two external files in Phillips' collection. The first documents NEC's involvement with the Council of the Professional Schools of Music (CIPSOM). This file contains conference information, survey material, and correspondence. Lastly, the WBZ folder contains materials documenting the work of members of the NEC stage crew in assisting with a WBZ production..

ArchivalResource: .2 linear ft. (approximately one-fifth of a record carton).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/663098713 View

Robert Russell Bennett papers, 1911-1981

Title: Robert Russell Bennett papers 1911-1981

ArchivalResource: 40.00

http://findingaids.library.northwestern.edu/catalog/inu-ead-mus-archon-186 View

Indiana University President Emeritus John W. Ryan papers, 1944-2011, bulk 1988-2007

Title: Indiana University President Emeritus John W. Ryan papers, 1944-2011, bulk 1988-2007

John Ryan was Indiana University’s 14th president and served the institution for 30 years. Ryan was instrumental in the creation and inaugurals of eight I.U. charter campuses. This collection consists of Dr. Ryan’s president emeritus records, including his Oral Histories project, documents concerning his activities in international affairs, and speeches he gave between 1987-2011.

ArchivalResource: 22.2 cubic feet (23 boxes)

http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/findingaids/view?doc.view=entire_text&docId=InU-Ar-VAC2816 View

National Orchestral Association collection of rehearsal and concert recordings [sound recording], 1938-1968

Title: National Orchestral Association collection of rehearsal and concert recordings [sound recording] 1938-1968

The collection consists of recordings of concerts and rehearsals of the National Ochestral Association between the years 1938 and 1968. The collection also includes intermission features with various soloists.

ArchivalResource: 26 linear ft. sound discs; 322 sound tape reels

http://archives.nypl.org/rha/20444 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