Irving Fine Collection 1930-1993 (bulk 1950-1962)

Koussevitzky, Olga, 1901-1978

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Olga Naumoff Koussevitzky was the widow of conductor Serge Koussevitzky. The pair married in 1947. Olga immigrated to America in 1929 to be secretary for the conductor and his wife, Natalie, who was her aunt. Seven years after the death of the aunt, the conductor married the niece....

Koussevitzky, Serge, 1874-1951

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Serge Koussevitzky was a Russian-born conductor, composer and double-bassist, known for his long tenure as music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra from 1924 to 1949. Koussevitzky's appointment as conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO) was the beginning of a golden era for the ensemble that would continue until 1949. Over that 25-year period, he built the ensemble's reputation into that of a leading American orchestra. ...

Boulanger, Nadia, 1887-1979

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French composer and music teacher. From the description of [Letter] 1977 October 27 [to] Dear Mr. Wilson 1977. (Bowling Green State University). WorldCat record id: 755584222 Nadia Boulanger (1887-1979) was a Parisian composer, music teacher and conductor. From the description of Nadia Boulanger American music scores, 1925-1937 and undated. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612769739 French composer and composition teacher. From the d...

Ginastera, Alberto, 1916-1983

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Argentine composer. From the description of "Los peones de hacienda, del ballet Estancia.", 1947 May. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270919811 First performance by the Orquesta del Servicio Oficial de Difusión Radio Eléctrica (SODRE), Montevideo, Uruguay, July 18, 1941, Lamberto Baldi conducting, Hugo Balzo (to whom the work is dedicated) at the piano.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Concierto argentino : para piano y orquesta / Alberto E. Gin...

Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971

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Russian born composer and conductor. From the description of Audio materials [sound recording]. 1931-1965. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 40723194 Igor Stravinsky was a Russian composer. From the description of Sketchbook, [1917?]. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122465769 Stravinsky's opera The Rake's Progress, set to the libretto by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman, was inspired by William Hogarth's series of paintings. Stravinsky had wan...

Schuman, William

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An American composer and educator, William Schuman was instructor at Sarah Lawrence College (1935-45), president of the Juilliard School of Music (1945-1962), director of publications for G. Schirmer (1945-1952), and president of Lincoln Center (1962-1968). In the 1970's he was chairman of the Norlin Foundation and of the MacDowell Colony. He was a founding director of the Charles Ives Society and a member of the board of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, the Naumburg and K...

Wernick, Richard

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Rochberg, George

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Composed in 1949; revised in 1957.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Capriccio / George Rochberg. [1957?] (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 236485838 Originally part of Symphony no. 1. Composed as a separate work, 1949. First performance New York, 23 April 1953, New York Philharmonic, Dimitri Mitropoulos conductor. Winner of the 8th annual George Gershwin Memorial Award, 1952.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of ...

Rorem, Ned, 1923-

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Composer and author. From the description of Oral history conducted by Vivian Perlis, March 31, 1997. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155905487 Commissioned by Nikolai Sokoloff and the Musical Arts Society of La Jolla, California. Composed 1956. First performance La Jolla, California, 5 August 1956, Nikolai Sokoloff conductor. Dedicated to Nikolai Sokoloff and the Musical Arts Society of La Jolla, California.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. Fr...

Foss, Lukas

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Lukas Foss (b. Aug. 15, 1922, in Berlin; d. Feb. 1, 2009, in New York City) was an American composer, conductor, pianist, and educator. From the description of Lukas Foss papers, circa 1926-2000 (bulk 1936-1995). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71130018 Composed 1955-58. First performance Pittsburgh, 24 October 1958, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, William Steinberg conductor.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Symphony of chorales : for orchestra : ...

Bernstein, Leonard, 1918-1990

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Leonard Bernstein (August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990) was among the most important conductors of the second half of the 20th Century and also the first American conductor to receive international acclaim. His best-known work is the Broadway musical West Side Story; other works include three symphonies, Chichester Psalms, Serenade after Plato's "Symposium", the original score for the film On the Waterfront, and theater works including On the Town, Wonderful Town, Candide, and his MASS. Bernstei...

Milhaud, Darius, 1892-1974

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Milhaud was born in Aix-en-Provence on September 4, 1892. As a child he improvised melodies at the piano and soon took up the violin. He entered the Paris Conservatoire in 1909, studying the violin with Berthelier, ensemble with Lefèvre, harmony with Leroux, counterpoint with André Gédalge, composition and fugue with Charles-Marie Widor, and conducting with Vincent d'Indy. He received first "accessit" in violin and counterpoint, and second in fugue, winning the Prix Lepaulle for composition. Mil...

Brandeis University

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Private research university with liberal arts focus; located in Waltham, Mass. From the description of Brandeis University correspondence, 1987. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 733080419 From the description of Brandeis University records, 1969. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 733069438 Collection materials date from 1923-2009, with the bulk of the collection being published during the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939. These rich resources detail the politics, economics, ...

Davis, Sylvia, [1962]

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Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1961

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Prenctice-Hall published The Most Likely to Succeed, by John Dos Passos. From the description of Correspondence to Van Wyck Brooks, 1954. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 183400781 ...

Schaeffer, Pierre

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Haieff, Sheila

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Haieff, Alexei, 1946, 1987

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Briggs, Mary (Mary J.)

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R. D. Row Music Company

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Persichetti, Vincent, 1960

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Fromm, Paul, 1906-1987

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Paul Fromm (September 28, 1906 – July 4, 1987) was a Jewish Chicago wine merchant and performing arts patron through the Fromm Music Foundation. The Organum for Paul Fromm was composed by John Harbison in his honor. Born in Kitzingen, Germany to a prominent family of vintners, Fromm was an early supporter of contemporary classical music in that country after he was exposed to Stravinsky's Rite of Spring in the early 1920s. He attended concerts at the Donaueschingen Festival further deepening hi...

Boosey & Hawkes, 1961

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Leeds Music Corporation, 1951

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Kohn, Karl

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Mercury Music Corp.

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Smit, Leo, 1947-1991

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Fine, Claudia

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Kitto, H. D. F., 1964

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Piston, Walter

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Michigan, University of

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Rudnick, Florence, 1941

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French, Richard, 1962

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Shapero, Harold

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Shapero, Harold, 1948-1989

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Thomson, Virgil, 1959, 1968

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The Nation

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GC

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Berger, Arthur

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Pizer, Stephen M.

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Sapp, Allen

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Harvard Crimson

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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 ...

Pan American Union, 1959-1960

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Kraft, Victor, 1971

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Cazden, Norman, 1914-1980

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American composer. From the description of Papers, [ca. 1923-1980]. (Ohio State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 26710813 Norman Cazden, composer, performer, teacher, theorist, folklorist, and prolific writer, was born in 1914 and died in 1980. Raised in New York City he studied at several colleges, Julliard School of Music, New York City College, and Harvard University. He taught at several universities namely Julliard School of Music, Vassar College, Peabody Cons...

Rice, Philip M., 1962

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Gottlieb, Jack

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Katz, Leonard William, 1944

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Salas, Juan Orrego

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Fine, Verna

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Viereck, Peter, 1947

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Effron, Jesse, 1962

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Ballantine, Edward

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Character actor and director and an original member of the Provincetown Players, an experimental group of actors and playwrights founded in 1916 by Susan Glaspell, George Cram Cook, Ida Rank, and Eugene O'Neill. From the description of Collection 1911-1951. (University of California, Davis). WorldCat record id: 32913425 ...

Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc., 1966

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Orgad, Ben-Zion

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Lopatnikoff, Nikolai, 1961-1962

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John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1959

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Cummington School of the Arts, 1962

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Lukewitz, Joseph

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Fine, Emily

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Pollack, Howard

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Kubik, Gail

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Denny, William, 1962

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Slonimsky, Nicolas, 1961

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Breuer, Robert, 1962

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Heinsheimer, H. W.

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Edward B. Marks Music Corporation.

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Copland, Aaron, 1900-1990

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Aaron Copland (1900-1990) was an American composer. During the years 1964 and 1965 Copland wrote, conducted, narrated, and hosted a series of twelve television programs entitled Music in the 20s = Music in the Twenties. The transcripts described in this collection were transcribed from filmed interviews recorded live at the WGBH studios in Boston, Mass. between 1964 Nov. 11 and 1965 Jan. 26. These unedited, preliminary tape recordings later formed the basis of the series...

Mennin, Peter, 1948

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Ginastera, Mercedes

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Spies, Claudio

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Friedman, Sidney, 1951-1952

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Read, Gardner

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Shapero, Esther

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Fine, George

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Arrow Music Press.

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Schonberg, Harold C., 1963

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Talma, Louise

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Louise Talma (b. Oct. 31, 1906, in Arcachon, France; d. Aug. 13, 1996 at Yaddo Artist Colony, Saratoga Springs, N.Y.) was an American composer, pianist, and educator. From the description of Louise Talma papers, 1875-1996 (bulk 1928-1994). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71128298 Biographical Note 1906, Oct. 31 Born, Arcachon, France ...

Norman, Gertrude.

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Marcia Van Dresser (1880-1937) was an American opera and concert singer. She sang soprano roles with U.S. and European opera companies and appeared in concert. Gertrude Norman (d. 1961) was for many years Van Dresser's secretary and companion. From the description of Van Dresser-Norman papers, 1895-1956. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122378781 ...

Fromm, Herbert

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Arthur P. Schmidt Co.

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Talma, Louise, 1963

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Haieff, Alexei

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Fine, Joanna

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Nicholas, E. Stanley

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Barbara [Elaine] Fine

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Diamond, David H.

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Jones, Collier

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Piston, Walter, 1963

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Burns, John Horne

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Fine, Irving

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Irving Fine, American composer, teacher, and conductor, was born in Boston, Mass., on Dec. 3, 1914. He studied composition with Walter Piston at Harvard University and with Nadia Boulanger in Cambridge, Mass., and in Paris, 1France, and choral conducting with A.T. Davison, and orchestral conducting with Serge Koussevitzky. From 1939 until 1950, when he was appointed professor at Brandeis University, he also taught at Harvard. Fine was chairman of the Brandeis School of Creative Arts and served o...

McCord, David, 1958-1959

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