Compiled information on the Alfred Newman concert at Brigham Young University, [1987].

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Compiled information on the Alfred Newman concert at Brigham Young University, [1987].

Concert sponsored by the BYU College of Fine Arts and Communications in memory of Alfred Newman and Ken Darby, film composer and film music arranger, respectively. Includes program; advertisement; article from "The Cue Sheet"; and twenty-eight photographs of Ken Darby, performers, guests, and recording equipment. Compiled in 1997 by James V. D'Arc, curator of Arts and Communication Archives at BYU.

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D'Arc, James V.

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