The Mel Powell Papers 1942-1991, inclusive

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The Mel Powell Papers, 1942-1991, inclusive

Title

The Mel Powell Papers 1942-1991, inclusive

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http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/music.mss.0070

Abstract

Musical scores, correspondence and other papers, photographs, and sound recordings by and about Mel Powell (1923-1998), the composer, jazz pianist, and educator.

Extent

13 boxes (14 linear ft.)

Languages

eng,

Holding Repository

Irving S. Gilmore Music Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6352785

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Babbitt, Milton, 1916-2011

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Composer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Princeton, N.J., to Mr. [James] Fuld, [1983 Dec. 30?]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270911546 American composer. From the description of Autogrpaph letters signed (6), dated Princeton, N.J., [ca. 1977, 1987, and n.d.], to Joan Peyser, [ca. 1977, 1987, and n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270991916 ...

American International Music Fund

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Winks, Robin W.

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Robin W. Winks, a professor of history at Yale University during the major part of his research for "The Blacks in Canada: A History" (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1971), received his doctorate from Johns Hopkins University in 1957. His career had been spent for the most part at Yale University, beginning as an instructor in 1957 through his appointment in 1977 as Master of Berkeley College at Yale. Additionally, Winks was a visiting professor at the University of Malaya (1962-1963), and th...

Previn, André

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Carl Fischer, Inc., 1939-1978

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Publisher and importer of music and music books, importer and manufacturer of musical instruments and general musical merchandise. From the description of Typewritten letter on letterhead, with stamped signature : New York, to Clark Music Co., Syracuse, N.Y., 1914 May 19. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270935540 ...

Sigma Alpha Iota

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Bettelheim, Wilhelm

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Nagel, Robert

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Feinberg, Alan; Taub, Robert

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Oberlin College. Festival of Contemporary Music

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Cariaga, Daniel Philip

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Commonwealth Fund. Harkness Fellowships

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Zaferes, Peter

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Music Educators' National Conference

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Princeton University. Music Association

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National Music Council

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Yale University. Music Library

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United States. Dept. of State. Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs

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Williams, Joe &Jillean

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Feldman, Morton; La Barbara, Joan

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Martino, Donald, 1931-2005

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Ford foundation

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Philanthropic organization established in 1936 by Henry and Edsel Ford from profits of the Ford Motor Company. From the description of Grant files, [ca. 1936-1986]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155532303 ...

Powell, Mary

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Epithet: widow of Gabriel Powell British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000614.0x0000dc Epithet: widow of John Powell British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000614.0x0000dd Epithet: wife of Sir Edward Powell 1st Baronet British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000498.0x0003...

Gish, Lillian, 1896-

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Indiana University. Latin-American Music Center

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North Texas State University. School of Music

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Hare, Montgomery

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Montgomery Hare, 1911-1998, was a playwright, theater producer, and poet. Born in New York City, Hare graduated from Groton School in 1929 and from Yale University in 1933 with honors in literature. He wrote and directed plays for the Barter Theatre in Abingdon, Virginia in the late 1940s, and was also active with the Parsons Theatre and the Penobscot Charitable Trust. His published books of poetry include Three Eagles (1954), To Beat the Air: Poems and Drawings (1964), and Say This of Me (1981)...

Curran, Alvin S., 1938-....

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G. Schirmer, Inc.

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Eastman school of music

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G. Ricordi

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Powell, Katie; unidentified

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New York String Trio

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Yale University. Class of 1884

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Columbia University. President

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Babbitt, Milton, 1916-2011

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Bote &Bock

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Gilbert, N. Scott.

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Takahashi, Aki, 1944-

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McLellan, Joseph

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Carter, Elliott; Subotnick, Morton

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Alberti, Rafael, 1902-1999

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Boretz, Benjamin

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Beardslee, Bethany; Lee, Peggy

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Toch, Ernst

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A native of Vienna, Toch emigrated to Great Britain in 1933 and shortly later to the U.S. After the war he stayed in Europe for a time and then returned to the U.S. in 1952. Lilly Toch (née Zwack) was Ernst's wife; they married in 1916. Ernst and Lilly appear to have been good friends of Alma Mahler. From the description of Correspondence to Alma Mahler, 1948-1963. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155864622 Austrian composer, pianist, and teacher, n...

Craft, Robert

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Epithet: conductor and writer on music British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000265.0x0001e6 ...

GISH, LILLIAN

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Karol Rathaus Memorial Association

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Sigma Alpha Iota. Inter-American Music Awards

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Bailey, Pearl

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Silver Hill Foundation

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Sperry, Paul

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Howard, Dean C., 1918-

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CRI

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Balliett, Whitney

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Subotnick, Morton

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Morton Subotnick's incidental music for Berthold Brecht's play Caucasian chalk circle was written for the Repertory Theatre of Lincoln Center production at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre which premièred on March 24, 1966 and ran for 100 performances. The production was directed by Herbert Blau and Jules Irving. Stacy Keach, Brock Peters and Priscilla Pointer were members of the cast. From the description of [Music for the Caucasian chalk circle / Morton Subotnick]. [1966] (New York Pub...

St. Louis Symphony Society. Women's Association. Junior Division

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Eastman school of music

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Pittsburgh symphony orchestra

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Musical America

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Allanbrook, Douglas

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Adler, Samuel

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Lemmon, Jack

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Actor. From the description of Reminiscences of Jack Lemmon :koral history, 1959. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 86131655 ...

Henderson, Harold Gould

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Author and professor of Japanese art and culture. Born 1889; died 1974. From the description of Papers of Harold Gould Henderson, 1918-1955 (bulk 1937-1946). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83309910 Harold Gould Henderson (1889-1974) was an American author, teacher, translator, and anthologist of Japanese poetry. He taught the history of Japanese art at Columbia University, was president of the Society of Japanese Studies and the Japan Society from 1948 to 1952. In 1945 he se...

ASCAP. Committee of Awards

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Boston University. Division of General Education

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Orchestre national de Belgique

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Feldman, Morton, 1926-

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Goode, Richard

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Nye, Louis

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Williams, Jillean; Williams, Joe

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Feather, Leonard; Williams, Jillean

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IGNM

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Goodman, Benny; Griffin, Merv; unidentified

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Clark, Frances

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Turetzky, Bertram, 1933-

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Wykes, Robert

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Composed 1951. First performance Austin, Texas, 23 March 1953, Southwestern Symposium of Contemporary Music, Clifton Williams conductor.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Concert overture / Robert Wykes. 1951. (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 57559337 ...

Composers' Showcase

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Vermeulen, Ernst

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Reisenberg, Nadia

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Pianist, chamber musician and teacher. Ms. Reisenberg studied with Leonid Nikolayev, Alexander Lambert and Josef Hofmann. She concertized extensively and is known for her legendary performances of all twenty-seven Mozart concertos played in consecutive weekly broadcasts with Alfred Wallenstein and the WOR Mutual Radio Symphony Orchestra. She gave the New York premiere of the Rimsky-Korsakov piano concerto and the first performance of Vincent d'Indy's Symphony on a French...

Glass, Christopher

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Maine architect. From the description of Proposed footbridge over Megunticook Falls, 1980 Oct. 13. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 732317586 ...

Mekeel, Joyce

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Joyce Mekeel. (b. New Haven, CT, 6 July 1931; d. Watertown (?) MA, 29 December 1997). American composer, harpsichordist, anthropologist, assistant professor. She studied at the Longy School of Music in Cambridge, MA (1952-1955); with Nadia Boulanger at the Conservatoire National de Musique in Paris (1955-57); at Yale University, receiving a B. M. in 1959 and a M.M. in theory and composition in 1960; and at Boston University, receiving a Ph.D. in 1983. Her other teachers included Earl Kim (compos...

Dahl, Ingolf, 1912-1970

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Adler, Samuel, 1928-...

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American composer, conductor, and teacher. From the description of Typewritten letter signed, dated : Rochester, N.Y., 11 December 1969, to Joseph Chouinard, 1969 Dec. 11. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270905934 ...

Freedman, Guy

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Epithet: of Templeton Publishing Co British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001186.0x000217 ...

Perry, Jeffrey

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Festival Orchestra Society, Inc.

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Thimmig, Les, 1943-

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Collins, Patricia

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In 1997 Patricia Collins from Middlesex, United Kingdom set out to investigate women's involvement in mail art networking. She sent out a circular letter which asked why men seem to be more involved in project documentation than women, why the 'leading lights' were male and why she only knew of three British males writing their doctoral thesis on mail art and no females. From the guide to the Mail Art, 1997, (The Women's Art Library (MAKE)) ...

Fischer, William S.

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Basie, Count; Ellington, Duke; Scott, Hazel; Wilson, Teddy

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McFadden, Robert D.

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Goodman, Benny; Griffin, Merv

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Monteverdi, Claudio

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Transcribed 1929; first performance Prague, 5 Sept. 1930.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Madrigali : interpretazioni sinfoniche : dal concerto : settimo libro dei Madrigali / di Claudio Monteverdi ; G. Francesco Malipiero. [19--] (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 52973541 Epithet: composer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000295.0x000370 ...

Freeman, Betty; Miller, David Alan

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Peter Pauper Press

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Cousins, Norman

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Biography Cousins was born on June 24, 1915 in Union Hill, New Jersey; attended Teachers College, Columbia University; began working at New York post as the education editor, 1934-35; worked at Current history as book reviewer, literary editor, and managing editor, 1935-40; married Eleanor (Ellen) Kopf in 1939; executive editor (1940-42), and editor-in-chief (1942-71) of Saturday Review Of Literature, later known as Saturday Review; editor of...

Treadway, Candee A.

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Feldman, Morton, 1926-1987

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Composer Morton Feldman (1926-1987) was best known for his association with the New York School of experimentalist musicians, including composers John Cage, Christian Wolff, and Earle Brown, and pianist David Tudor. In addition to composing approximately 150 works, Feldman also wrote more than three dozen articles about various aspects of music and art. Feldman was a member of the music department faculty at the State University of New York at Buffalo from 1972-1987. During those years he served...

Ch'ien, Armstrong

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Hodkinson, Sydney

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Henderson, Harold G.

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Beardslee, Bethany

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Meyer, Leonard B.

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Leonard B. Meyer was a prolific composer, author, and philosopher. Meyer studied at Columbia University, graduating with a B.A. in Philosophy and an M.A. in Music in 1948. He continued at the University of Chicago, where he was awarded a Ph.D. in the History of Culture in 1954, and served as a professor from 1946 until 1975. A composer, he studied under Stefan Wolpe, Otto Luening, and Aaron Copland. In 1975 was appointed professor of music and the humanities at the University of Pen...

Modern Brass Ensemble

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Wilson College. Public Information Office

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ISCM

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Dello Joio, Norman

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Cotton, W. Philip

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Toch, Ernst

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Natwick, Mildred; unidentified

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Wilder, Thornton, 1897-1975

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Gaburo, Kenneth

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American composer and teacher. From the description of Typewritten letter signed, dated : La Jolla, Ca., 29 January 1979, to Joseph Chouinard, 1979 Jan. 29. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270913846 Jean V. Cutler (1927 -2010) choreographer, director, and Professor of Theater was born in Hampton, Virginia, in 1927. Performing at an early age, Cutler developed an enduring interest in film and experimental theater, including poetic theater, surrealism and futurism....

Pennsylvania State University. College of Arts and Architecture

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The artists series was inaugurated in September 1957 to provide access to ideas, art forms, programs, and performances for students and to offer the finest in the arts to a community in a geographically isolated area. From the description of Artists series records, 1957-1985. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 36347963 ...

Yale University. Office of the President

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Junker, Howard

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Lee, Peggy

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Gottlieb, Marc

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Washington University. Department of Music.

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Stein, Leonard, 1935-

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Biography Leonard Stein was born in Los Angeles, California, on December 1, 1916. He attended the University of California, Los Angeles where he received his bachelor's degree in 1939 and his master of music in 1941. He was Arnold Schoenberg's teaching assistant while at UCLA. Stein later received his D.M.A. from the University of Southern California in 1965. He taught at Occidental College (1946-1948), Los Angeles City College (1...

Ouellette, Fernand

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Composer in Performance, Inc.

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Pallett, Marshall

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Latham, W., Mrs.

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Taub, Robert

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Princeton university press

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Founded in 1905 with a gift from Charles Scribner (Princeton Class of 1875), the Press was incorporated in 1910 as a non-profit corporation "to establish, maintain, and operate a printing and publishing plant, for the promotion of education and scholarship, and to serve the University by manufacturing and distributing its publications." The Press has published almost 3,000 titles since its first book, John Witherspoon's LECTURES IN MORAL PHILOSOPHY, appeared in 1912. Among its long-term projects...

Fine Arts Foundation of Connecticut

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Evanson, Jacob A. (Jacob Arthur), 1899-1994

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Moreland, Margaret

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Perlis, Vivian.

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Aaron Copland (1900-1990) ranks among the most widely respected of all American composers. Born in Brooklyn to a Russian Jewish family, Copland studied with Rubin Goldmark in New York and Nadia Boulanger in France. His music, which drew upon sources as disparate as jazz, neoclassicism, folk music, and serialism, helped establish an American musical vocabulary, and his most popular works, such as Appalachian Spring and Fanfare for the Common Man, have reached audiences far beyond the...