Papers, 1965-1992, bulk 1973-1987.

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Papers, 1965-1992, bulk 1973-1987.

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Contains (in 8 folders) correspondence, meeting minutes, by-laws, brochures, manuscript notes, and other papers relating to the Lili Boulanger Memorial Fund, donated by A. Tillman Merritt, who served as President of the Fund's Board of Trustees from 1973 to 1984. Most of the correspondence with Merritt is from Nadia Boulanger (42 items), Winifred Johnstone (13 items), Annette Dieudonné (9 items), and Cécile Armagnac (7 items); but there are also single letters or notes from Aaron Copland, Alexei Haieff, Karel Husa, Olga Koussevitzky, Joyce Mekeel, Daniel Pinkham, and Walter Piston.

1 box 27 x 32 x 13 cm.

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Harvard University, Loeb Music Library

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Harvard University, Loeb Music Library

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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....

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...

Pinkham, Daniel, 1923-2006

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Daniel Rogers Pinkham, Jr. (June 5, 1923 – December 18, 2006) was an American composer, organist, and harpsichordist. Born in Lynn, Massachusetts, into a prominent family engaged in the manufacture of patent medicines (his great-grandmother was Lydia E. Pinkham), he studied organ performance and music theory at Phillips Academy, Andover, with Carl F. Pfatteicher. At Harvard, he studied with Walter Piston; Aaron Copland, Archibald T. Davison, and A. Tillman Merritt were also among his teachers...

Johnstone, Winifred.

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Boulanger, Lili

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Epithet: composer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000298.0x00031a ...

Merritt, A. Tillman (Arthur Tillman)

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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...

Husa, Karel, 1921-

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Originally composed for piano 4-hands as part of the Czech Duets, 1955. First performance of duets Ithaca, New York, at the Cornell University Contemporary Arts Festival; 1956, Bruce Archibald and Charles McClain pianists. This transcription 1958. First performance Ann Arbor, Michigan, August 1959, University of Michigan August 1959, University of Michigan Band, Henry Romersa conductor.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Divertimento for brass and percussion / Karel Hu...

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...

Haieff, Alexei, 1914-1994

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Composed 1949-50. First performance of revised version Boston, 31 October 1952, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Charles Munch conductor, Leo Smit soloist. Dedicated to Janice Newman for Leo Smit. Received the New York Music Critics Award for 1952.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Concerto for piano and orchestra / Alexei Haieff. [19--] (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 52137728 Alexei Haieff was born in Blagoveshchensk, Siberia, ...

Dieudonné, Annette

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Lili Boulanger Memorial Fund.

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Piston, Walter, 1894-1976

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Walter Hamor Piston (1894-1976) was a noted 20th-century American composer. He earned his Harvard AB 1924 and served as Walter W. Naumberg Professor of Music at Harvard from 1948-1960. From the description of Letters from Walter Piston to Carl Miller, 1954, 1968. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77063913 Composed 1957. First performance Boston, 7 March 1958, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Charles Munch conductor, Joseph de Pasquale soloist. Dedicated to Joseph de Pasqua...

Armagnac, Cécile.

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