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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newspaper, periodical, journal, and magazine articles, record liner notes, radio broadcasts, and talks, published and unpublished; music composed by Slonimsky, manuscript and printed; concert programs; correspondence, among many others, with Henry Cowell, Alexandre Gretchaninoff, Roy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

Bacon, Ernst, 1898-1990. Ernst Bacon papers, 1926-1990.

Title: Ernst Bacon papers, 1926-1990.

Primarily incoming correspondence, with only 4 retained carbons of Bacon's outgoing letters including one to Charles Ives. There is a high concentration of letters from the 1930s-1940s.

ArchivalResource: .75 linear foot.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122510601 View

Burkat, Leonard. Typewritten letter signed, dated [Stamford, Conn.], 8 January 1987, to Joan Peyser, 1987 Jan. 8.

Title: Typewritten letter signed, dated [Stamford, Conn.], 8 January 1987, to Joan Peyser, 1987 Jan. 8.

Saying that "it's time for someone to restudy [Serge] Koussevitzky, whose memory is insulted in the new American Grove," mentioning "the other LB [i.e. Leonard Bernstein," adding that Henry Simon once wanted Burkat to write a book on the orchestra like that by Arthur Loesser on the piano, etc.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p., with envelope) ; 28 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270992206 View

Kirkpatrick, Ralph. The Ralph Kirkpatrick papers, 1911-1977 (inclusive).

Title: The Ralph Kirkpatrick papers, 1911-1977 (inclusive).

The Ralph Kirkpatrick Papers currently consist of Kirkpatrick's collection of 20th-century harpsichord music, much of it written expressly for him, and materials concerning his book on the life and music of Domenico Scarlatti. Unprocessed additions to the Papers include correspondence, photographs, programs, and newspaper and magazine clippings.

ArchivalResource: 22 linear ft. (35 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702162167 View

Loesser, Arthur, 1894-1969. Papers, 1850-1969.

Title: Arthur Loesser Collection

Contains publicity articles, flyers, programs, reviews and catalogs related to Mr. Loesser's career; correspondence; writings, both published and unpublished; portraits, publicity and candid photographs; clippings; and tape recordings of rehearsals, performances and lectures as they relate to Mr. Loesser's activities.

ArchivalResource: 25.00 linear feet

https://www.lib.umd.edu/ipam/collections/arthur-loesser View

Loesser, Arthur, 1894-1969. Bagatelle : after Philipp Scharwenka : for violin with piano accompaniment / by Arthur Loesser.

Title: Bagatelle : after Philipp Scharwenka : for violin with piano accompaniment / by Arthur Loesser. [19--]

ArchivalResource: 1 ms. score ([7] p.) + 1 ms. part ([3] p.) ; 35 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/23022626 View

Bacon, Ernst. Papers, 1926-1990

Title: Bacon, Ernst. Papers, 1926-1990

Primarily incoming correspondence, with only 4 retained carbons of Bacon's outgoing letters including one to Charles Ives. There is a high concentration of letters from the 1930s-1940s.

ArchivalResource: .75 linear ft.

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