Alaskan Symphony collection, 1945-1976.

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Alaskan Symphony collection, 1945-1976.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/57572470

The collection includes the original 1945 manuscript of the Symphony No. 1, the Alaskan Symphony. It also includes correspondence and memorabilia regarding the Symphony and its performance. Other memorabilia as well as a tape cassette and CD of the Alaskan Symphony are in the collection. A reel tape of Robert Keys Clark, Concerto for Violin and Strings with Tympani, op. 39, and an unidentified reel are included, probably because they were also composers considered for the 1975 simulcast. The simulcast notes state, "the Alaskan Symphony was performed in Dutchess County, New York at a concert honoring a former New Yorker, Lowell Thomas Jr., becoming Lt. Governor of Alaska. Violinist, Arthur Schuller, rediscovered the score at the composer's home in Pawling, New York. Interestingly, a score with orchestral parts was also found in the Whitney Blake Collection, Eastman School of Music at Rochester, New York."

1.25 linear ft. (1 box)

Alaska State Library

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 7763010

Alaska State Library

Related Entities

There are 5 Entities related to this resource.

Schuller, Gunther, 1925-2015

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6md9rgb (person)

The son of German immigrants, Gunther Schuller was born in New York on November 22, 1925. His professional music career began as a horn player, performing with the American Ballet Theater, as principal horn in the Cincinnati Symphony (1943-1945) and with the Metropolitan Opera from 1945-1959. Schuller's jazz career also began as a French horn player on Miles Davis's Birth of the Cool recording (1949-1950). As an educator, Schuller first taught at the Manhattan School of Music from 1950-1953. Fro...

Sawyer, Wilson.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6g73qgp (person)

Wilson Sawyer composed the Symphony no. 1, known as the Alaskan Symphony, at Gypsy Trail, Carmel NY in 1945. In December of that year the Symphony was first performed by the American Symphony Orchestra coast to coast and rebroadcast to the armed services overseas with the composer conducting. The Honorable Gov. Ernest Gruening was guest speaker during the program and later requested the original score to be placed in the Alaskan Museum of Natural History [Alaska Historical Library and Museum] in...

Thomas, Lowell, 1923-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w63219rd (person)

Schuller, Arthur,

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6bw15vj (person)

Second violinist, New York Philharmonic. From the description of Interview conducted by Oliver Daniel, Sept. 8, 1978 [sound recording]. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155862079 ...

Clark, Robert Keys

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6md2p3x (person)