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Minna Lederman Daniel Collection, 1896-1993, (bulk 1960-1990)

Title: Minna Lederman Daniel Collection 1896-1993 (bulk 1960-1990)

Minna Lederman Daniel was an American writer and editor who specialized in music and dance. A major influence on 20th century music, she was a founding member of the League of Composers, a group of musicians and proponents of modern music. She helped launch the League’s magazine, (later called ), which was the first American journal to manifest an interest in contemporary composers. The collection contains her correspondence, financial and legal papers, writings, clippings, and photographs. The League of Composers’ Review Modern Music

ArchivalResource: around 21,000 items; 24 containers; 12.5 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu009006 View

Stravinsky-Diaghilev Foundation research files, 1920-1989.

Title: Stravinsky-Diaghilev Foundation research files, 1920-1989.

Projects notes, newsletters, auction and exhibition catalogs, offprints ofarticles and clippings, programs and invitations to exhibitions and receptions, and othermaterial assembled by the Stravinsky-Diaghilev Foundation for reference.

ArchivalResource: 26 boxes (18 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01894/catalog View

Mag City. Mag City records, 1977-1985.

Title: Mag City records, 1977-1985.

Records consist of manuscripts and typescripts of published and unpublished poems, original cover artwork and negatives, mock-ups and final copies of each issue of the magazine, correspondence from readers and contributors, invoices, grant proposals, and business receipts.

ArchivalResource: 2 linear feet (5 boxes).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122465304 View

Kirstein, Lincoln, 1907-1996. Papers, ca. 1914-1991.

Title: Papers, ca. 1914-1991.

Chiefly professional and personal correspondence with dancers, artists, sculptors, musicians, family and friends.

ArchivalResource: 10.5 linear ft. (445 folders)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86164324 View

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

Walter Terry papers, 1913-1982

Title: Walter Terry papers 1913-1982

Walter Terry was a dance critic for the , the , and the . He also contributed a number of articles to other publications and he wrote several books on the subject of dance. Not only a writer, Terry was a juror for many dance competitions and he was speaker at many universities and public functions. The collection contains correspondence, artwork, personal and professional written material, photographs, ephemera, and oversized material. New York Herald Tribune New York World Journal Saturday Review

ArchivalResource: 80 linear feet; 133 boxes

http://archives.nypl.org/dan/19832 View

Modern Music Archives, 1909-1983, (bulk 1924-1983)

Title: Modern Music Archives 1909-1983 (bulk 1924-1983)

The League of Composers was founded in New York in 1923 to promote American composers and introduce audiences to the best in new music through high quality performances. Its quarterly journal, , was published from 1924 to 1946, and edited by Minna Lederman Daniel. It is one of the most distinguished collections of criticism and scholarship concerning early twentieth-century musical arts. The archives contains materials documenting the cessation of the journal, correspondence, financial and budget documents, fundraising materials, clippings, committee meeting minutes, photographs and artwork, stage and costume designs, contemporary concert and festival programs, scrapbooks containing promotional materials, publications of the League, and writings by Lederman Daniel. Modern Music

ArchivalResource: around 810 items; 8 containers; 5.75 linear feet; Microfilm (93/20012 [MUS]--scrapbooks only)

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu012004 View

Copland, Aaron, 1900-1990. Aaron Copland oral history.

Title: Aaron Copland oral history.

The Aaron Copland Oral History consists of extensive, in-depth interviews with Aaron Copland conducted by Vivian Perlis in 1975 and 1976, as well as secondary source material. The interviews form the basis of the two-volume autobiography co-authored by Copland and Perlis: Copland: 1900 through 1942 (New York: St. Martin's/Marek, 1984), and Copland Since 1943 (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1989). Secondary source material consists of 65 brief interviews with other composers, conductors, choreographers, family members, and business associates.

ArchivalResource: .75 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702165276 View

Trial Transcripts, 1926-1928

Title: Trial Transcripts, 1926-1928

The Sinclair Trial Transcripts record several of Harry Sinclair's trials relating to the Teapot Dome scandal of 1921-1928. Sinclair was tried before the District of Columbia's Supreme Court for contempt of the U.S. Senate, contempt of court, and for conspiracy to defraud the government.

ArchivalResource: 7 Paige boxes

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/law00159/catalog View

League of Composers (U.S.). Modern music archives, 1910-1984 (bulk 1924-1983).

Title: Modern music archives, 1910-1984 (bulk 1924-1983).

The contents of the archives consist of materials documenting the closing of the magazine; photographs; artwork (originals and reproductions); stage and costume designs; concert and festival programs; supplemental writings and essays by Minna Lederman Daniel; scrapbooks (also on microfilm); and press clippings. Correspondence includes originals of letters sent to Modern music by George Antheil, Alban Berg, Theodore Chanler, Aaron Copland, Henry and Sidney Cowell, David Ewen, Frederick Jacobi, Walter Piston, Paul Rosenfeld, Lazare Saminsky, Arnold Schönberg, Harold Shapero, and Virgil Thomson. Among the roster of contributors represented in this collection are Alban Berg, Bertolt Brecht, André Breton, Aaron Copland, Henry and Sidney Cowell, Edwin Denby, Lincoln Kirstein, Pablo Picasso, Walter Piston, Paul Rosenfeld, Harold Shapero, and Virgil Thomson. Noteworthy original works of art in this collection include self-portraits by Darius Milhaud and Arnold Schönberg, sketches of George Antheil by Boris Smirnoff and Louis Gruenberg by Enrico Caruso, and a lithograph portrait of Paul Hindemith by Richard Heinsich.

ArchivalResource: 4 linear ft. (7 boxes, ca. 810 items)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/71129980 View

Alumni Association (University of Michigan), Individual Photographs, ca. 1880-ca. 1960s

Title: Alumni Association (University of Michigan),Individual Photographs ca. 1880-ca. 1960s

Photos of University of Michigan alumni, faculty and staff collected by the University Alumni Association.

ArchivalResource: 8 linear ft.

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/b/bhlead/umich-bhl-8730p?rgn=main;view=text View

Denby, Edwin, 1903-1983. Correspondence.

Title: Correspondence.

ArchivalResource:

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86153568 View

Gerard Malanga Papers, 1944-1971

Title: Gerard Malanga Papers 1944-1971

Correspondence from the 1960s; essays, poems, playscripts, and transcripts of interviews by Malanga; 35 notebooks containing journal entries, draft poems, and ideas for various projects; worksheets for poems; manuscripts by contributors to Intransit; and memorabilia, including an address book and publicity for poetry readings.

ArchivalResource: 10 linear ft.

http://library.syr.edu/digital/guides/m/malanga_g.htm View

Lederman, Minna. Minna Lederman Daniel collection, 1896-1993 (bulk 1960-1990).

Title: Minna Lederman Daniel collection, 1896-1993 (bulk 1960-1990).

The collection consists of Minna Lederman Daniel's papers, including correspondence, financial and legal papers, writings, clippings, programs, periodicals, and photographs. Included in this collection is correspondence with major figures in the fields of music, dance, and poetry, including John Cage, Elliott Carter, Aaron Copland, Merce Cunningham, Edwin Denby, H. Wiley Hitchcock, Vivian Perlis, Igor Stravinsky, Tazewell Thompson, and Virgil Thomson. Several of these composers, choreographers, and poets were contributors to the magazine Modern music.

ArchivalResource: around 20,000 items (22 boxes, 11 linear feet)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/503652905 View

Aaron Copland Collection, 1841-1991, (bulk 1911-1990)

Title: Aaron Copland Collection 1841-1991 (bulk 1911-1990)

The Aaron Copland Collection consists of published and unpublished music by Copland and other composers, correspondence, writings, biographical material, datebooks, journals, professional papers including legal and financial material, photographs, awards, art work, and books. Of particular interest is the correspondence with Nadia Boulanger, which extent over 50 years, and with his long-time friend, Harold Clurman. Other significant correspondents are Leonard Bernstein, Paul Bowles, Benjamin Britten, Carlos Chávez, David Diamond, Roy Harris, Charles Ives, Claire Reis, Arnold Schoenberg, Roger Sessions, and Virgil Thomsom. The photographic collection of Copland's friend and confidant Victor Kraft, a professional photographer, forms part of the collection.

ArchivalResource: around 400,000 items; 564 boxes; 306 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu002006 View

The Virgil Thomson Papers, 1804-1990 (inclusive)

Title: The Virgil Thomson Papers 1804-1990 (inclusive)

Music, correspondence and other papers, photographs, and additional materials by and about the American composer and critic Virgil Thomson (1896-1989)

ArchivalResource: 394 boxes (183 linear ft.)

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/music.mss.0029 View

Denby, Edwin, 1903-1983. Musical comedies. Pepper mill. [Programs]

Title: Musical comedies. Pepper mill. [Programs] 1937.

ArchivalResource: various pieces.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83065082 View

Larry Fagin Papers., n.d., 1958-1977.

Title: Larry Fagin Papers

Born in 1937, Larry Fagin is a poet affiliated with the New York School.

ArchivalResource: 4.75 Linear Feet

https://archivessearch.lib.uconn.edu/repositories/2/resources/365 View

Thomson, Virgil, 1896-1989,. Interview with Virgil Thomson.

Title: Interview with Virgil Thomson. 1975.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (90 leaves) ; 28 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/144657569 View

American Ballet Theatre records, 1936-ca. 1967

Title: American Ballet Theatre records 1936-ca. 1967

American Ballet Theatre was founded in 1939 with the intention of creating an American company of international stature, a museum of the dance, “which would preserve the best of the classic tradition of Europe and at the same time lay the foundation for a new tradition, American in concept and spirit.” Its guiding principle was to encourage collaboration between artists with no single choreographer taking precedence. The records of the company attest to the pursuit of these goals.

ArchivalResource: 220 lin. ft.

http://archives.nypl.org/dan/19700 View

Denby, Edwin, 1903-1983. [Dance scrapbook].

Title: [Dance scrapbook]. 1944-

ArchivalResource: ill., ports. ; 34 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/82409623 View

Anne Waldman Papers (1945-2012, bulk 1965-2000)

Title: Anne Waldman Papers (1945-2012, bulk 1965-2000)

American poet; co-founder of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University. Papers include correspondence, poems, essays, photographs, art, biographical material, and audiovisual materials.

ArchivalResource: 119.5 Linear feet

https://quod.lib.umich.edu/s/sclead/umich-scl-waldman?view=text View

Lincoln Kirstein papers, ca. 1914-1991

Title: Lincoln Kirstein papers ca. 1914-1991

The papers of , b.1907, cover the period from c. 1914 to 1991, and pertain both to his career and to his private and family life. Lincoln Edward Kirstein

ArchivalResource: 445 folders in 25 document size boxes

http://archives.nypl.org/dan/19755 View

Mag City records, 1977-1985

Title: Mag City records 1977-1985

Poetry magazine edited and published by Greg Masters, Michael Scholnick and Gary Lenhart in the East Village neighborhood of New York City. Fourteen issues appeared between 1977-1985; a fifteenth was begun, but was never completed. Prominent contributors included Amiri Baraka, Ted Berrigan, Edwin Denby, Larry Fagin, Allen Ginsberg, and Anne Waldman. Records consist of manuscripts and typescripts of published and unpublished poems, original cover artwork and negatives, mock-ups and final copies of each issue of the magazine, correspondence from readers and contributors, invoices, grant proposals, and business receipts.

ArchivalResource: 2 linear feet (5 boxes)

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/1834 View