Collections by Subject: Music
A Selected List of Holdings Related to the Field of Music in Special Collections in Performing Arts at the University of Maryland Libraries
For more information about how to access materials in this guide, please visit the Special Collections in Performing Arts web page or fill out an information request.
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The 20th/21st Century Consort Collection, 1901-2005. 42.00 Linear Feet.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
The 20th Century Consort (now the 21st Century Consort) was founded in 1975 by Christopher Kendall and is made up of professional musicians from the Washington area, including members of the National Symphony Orchestra. Since 1978 the ensemble has been the resident contemporary music group at the Smithsonian Institution's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, where they present an annual concert series, often coordinating programming to compliment the museum's exhibitions. The collection consists of financial records, grant applications, programs, tour itineraries and records, correspondence, reviews, recordings, and over seven hundred scores related to the Consort's residency, and its emphasis on music by living composers and 20th century classics. Scores are searchable through the University of Maryland catalog using the search term "Twentieth Century Consort." Five hundred of the 700+ scores have been cataloged. For information on uncataloged scores please contact the curator.
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Stephen Albert Collection, 1888-2008. 40.0 linear feet.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
Stephen Albert (1941-1992) was an American composer and teacher. Graduating from the Philadelphia Musical Academy with a BM in 1962, he received commissions from notable American Orchestras including the Philadelphia Orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, and the Seattle Symphony. He worked as a teacher, one of his most notable positions being at the Juilliard School. James Joyce inspired much of Alberts later music, yet two of his most well known compositions are his Cello Concerto (1990), for which he received a Grammy Award, and his symphony RiverRun (1992-93), which won the Pulitzer Prize. Included in the collection are Alberts published and unpublished scores, manuscripts, correspondence, personal files, photographs, books, and musical instruments.
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American Bandmasters Association Archives, 1929-present. 24.00 Linear Feet.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
Formed in 1929 "for the purpose of furthering the interests of outstanding American Band Masters, and of interesting composers, arrangers, and music publishers in Wind Band music," the American Bandmasters Association (ABA) continues to champion the causes of American bands and bandmasters today. Its members' accomplishments include the election of John Philip Sousa to the Hall of Fame of Great Americans, the publication of the Journal of Band Research, and the establishment of several awards and prizes, including the Ostwald Band Composition Contest and the Edwin Franko Goldman Memorial Citation. The collection consists of publications, including the Journal of Band Research and the ABA Newsletter; correspondence; conference materials and programs; meeting minutes; committee reports; financial and administrative records; oral histories; directories and membership lists; photographs, memorabilia, and recordings. Specific documentation can be found on the ABA Research Center, the ABA Ostwald Award, the Board of Directors, officers, committees and annual conferences.
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American Handel Society Archives, 1981-2006. 4.5 linear feet.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
The American Handel Society seeks to foster study of the life, works, and times of George Frideric Handel, and to encourage and support the performance of his music. The Society was founded in 1986 by University of Maryland music professors Howard Serwer and Paul Traver, with Princeton music professor J. Merrill Knapp. The American Handel Society Archives span the years of 1981-2006, with the bulk of the material dating from 1985-1994. The collection includes member information, financial reports, Board of Directors meeting minutes, newsletters, correspondence, grant applications, and information relating to the Maryland Handel Festival. Also included are the notes and files for the Bibliographic Database and Discography projects, including printouts of both databases.
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American Musical Instrument Society Archives, 1971-2012. 10.50 linear feet.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
The American Musical Instrument Society (AMIS) is an international organization founded in 1971 to promote better understanding of all aspects of the history, design, construction, restoration, and usage of musical instruments in all cultures and from all periods. The Society's international membership includes collectors, curators, historians, performers, instrument makers, conservators, restorers, dealers, teachers, and students. The American Musical Instrument Society (AMIS) archives covers the period of 1971-2012 and consists of officers papers, Board of Governors minutes, committee reports, correspondence, AMIS publications, annual meeting correspondence, and photographs documenting the activities of AMIS.
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Gillian Anderson Papers, 1965-1989 and undated. null.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
Gillian Anderson (born 1943) is an American conductor, musicologist, and music librarian for the Library of Congress. She served as President of the Sonneck Society for American Music, has been published in many scholarly journals, and helped co-found the journal Music and the Moving Image. The Gillian Anderson Papers contain boks, published journals, newsletters, published scores, lyrics and poems, and miscellaneous materials. This collection is unprocessed; an inventory is available upon request.
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Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC) Archives, 1962-2012. 73.00 linear feet.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
Founded in 1966, the Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC), Inc. is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the preservation and study of sound recordings; in all genres of music and speech, in all formats, and from all periods. ARSC membership is comprised of both private individuals and institutional collectors. The Association for Recorded Sound Collections archive contains materials relating to this organization from 1962 through the present, with the bulk of material coming from 1966-2003. The collection consists of personal and professional papers, including published and unpublished writings, correspondence, reports, as well as materials relating to membership, the annual conference, publications, the societys structure, and initiatives with affiliated organizations. The collection represents the involvement of the officers and committees, as well as various regional ARSC chapters. The collection includes recordings of annual conferences, related lectures and programs, and board meetings.
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Victor Babin Collection, 1914-1978. 6.00 linear feet.
Location: International Piano Archives at Maryland
Victor Babin (1908-1972), pianist and composer, was part of a two-pianist performing duo with his wife, Vitya Vronsky. He was also active as a teacher and administrator. This collection consists of scores of pieces he performed written both by him and other composers, recordings of his works and his performances on reel-to-reel tapes, and two miscellaneous publications.
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The Harold Bachman Collection, 1940-1971. 0.75 linear feet.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
Harold Bachman (1892-1972) was a prominent music educator and military bandleader. He received his academic training at the North Dakota Agricultural College in Fargo where he graduated in 1916. While still a student, Bachman toured with several professional bands as cornetist, including Al G. Barnes's Circus Band and Bohumir Kryl's Concert Band. During World War I, Bachman served as Bandleader of the 116th Engineer Band, and after the war he organized and conducted a professional concert band known as Bachman's Million Dollar Band. From 1935 until entering the Army in World War II, Bachman was director of the University of Chicago band, where he became widely known as an advisor on school music issues to the Educational Music Bureau of Chicago and as Associate Editor of the Educational Music Magazine. During World War II, Bachman was commissioned as a Captain and made Supervisor of Music in the 6th Service Command. In October of 1943 he was ordered overseas to become supervisor of music with the Special Services Section in the South Pacific. Bachman resigned from active service as a Lieutenant Colonel in 1948 to accept a position as Director of Bands at the University of Florida. He served as President of the American Bandmaster's Association (ABA) in 1950-1951 and he received an Honorary Doctorate of Literature from the University of Idaho in 1963.
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Katherine Bacon Collection, 1860s-2006. 4.00 linear feet.
Location: International Piano Archives at Maryland
A pianist and music teacher, Katherine Bacon (1896-1982) performed many solo recitals, chamber ensemble concerts, and concerts with major orchestras around the world, including the New York Philharmonic, Toronto Symphony, and Baltimore Symphony Orchestras. Bacon also taught piano at the Chatauqua School of Music in Chatauqua, NY and Mannes College of Music in New York, and she was on the faculty at the Juilliard School. Her husband, Arthur Newstead, gave performances around the world and taught piano at both the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, MD and at the Juilliard School. The collection consists of 4.00 linear feet of programs, reviews, promotional flyers, correspondence, photographs, articles, legal documents, scores, and manuscripts related to Bacons career, the ensembles she was involved in, and her relationships with her close colleagues, including her student, Saul Braverman, her husband, Arthur Newstead, and her daughter, Joan Newstead.
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Elizabeth V. Beach Papers, 1928-1951. 0.25 linear feet and 22 items.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
Elizabeth V. Beach (1882-1951) was a pioneer member of the Eastern Conference of the Music Educators National Conference. In 1921, she came to Syracuse, New York, and became Assistant Supervisor of Music in the Syracuse Public Schools. In 1934, she was promoted to Supervisor, a position she held until her retirement in 1945. During her time in Syracuse, Beach founded the annual Christmas Carol Festival and was a member of many local organizations. In the summers, she worked as a tour guide in Europe. The collection contains letters, writings, Christmas Carol Festival materials, administrative materials, photographs, clippings, instructional materials, travel guides, publications, realia, and sound recordings related to Beach's work as a music educator and as a tour guide, and as a member of the Music Educators National Conference.
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Frank Bencriscutto Collection, 1972-1997. 0.50 Linear Feet.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
Dr. Frank Peter Anthony Bencriscutto was known as a conductor, educator, and composer. A longtime Director of Bands at the University of Minnesota, Dr. Bencriscutto and the band toured the USSR for seven weeks in 1969, with a final performance at the White House. An avid jazz musician, performing on saxophone and clarinet, he is also credited with introducing jazz into the music curriculum at the University of Minnesota. After retiring in 1993, Dr. Bencriscutto soon joined the faculty at the Musashino Academia Musicae in Tokyo, Japan as a visiting professor and conductor of the wind ensemble until 1996. He was posthumously awarded the 1997 Medal of Honor by the Midwest International Band and Orchestra Clinic. The collection consists of programs, articles, compositions, and recordings related to Bencriscutto's career.
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Ralph Berkowitz Collection, 1918-1991. 2.00 linear feet.
Location: International Piano Archives at Maryland
Ralph Berkowitz (1910-2011) was a music educator and pianist. He performed many solo recitals throughout the world and was an accompanist for cellist Gregor Piatigorsky. Berkowitz was also a staff member at the Curtis Institute of Philadelphia, the executive assistant at the Tanglewood Institute, and the business manager of the Albuquerque Symphony Orchestra. This collection contains 2.00 linear feet of scrapbooks and an unpublished biography that contain photographs, correspondence, articles, brochures, programs, artwork, and memorabilia related to Berkowitzs career, the ensembles he was involved in, and his relationships with his close colleagues, including pianist Aaron Copland, cellist Gregor Piatigorsky, and Tanglewood Institute director Serge Koussevizky.
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Joseph Bloch Collection, 1925-1997. 15.50 linear feet.
Location: International Piano Archives at Maryland
Joseph Bloch (1917-2009) was a pianist, music teacher, and music writer. He gave many solo recitals and performances with orchestras such as the Denver Symphony Orchestra, the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, and the Illinois Symphony Orchestra, as well as various tours throughout the world in places such as China, Japan, Singapore, Taiwan, and Korea. Bloch also taught music at the University of Denver and at The Juilliard School, served as a faculty member at various piano festivals, and wrote articles about composers and music pieces in various music magazines. The collection contains 15.50 linear feet of programs, reviews, recordings, writings, notes, correspondence, awards, photographs, posters, articles, clippings, flyers, and brochures, related to Blochs career, the ensembles he was involved in, and his relationships with his close colleagues, including Benjamin Lees, William Mayer, and Robert Moevs.
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Kenneth G. Bloomquist Collection, 1962-2012. 5.50 Linear Feet and 68 items.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
A conductor and trumpet player, Kenneth G. Bloomquist (born 1931) was involved with numerous bands throughout his career. The bulk of his career was spent with the Michigan State University Band and Music program, of which he served as Director of Bands from 1978 until his retirement in 1993. During this time he also served as Director of the School of Music from 1978 to 1988. Bloomquist also served as an educator and clinician, working with many school music programs, summer camps, and community orchestras, including serving as Director of the Lansing Community Concert Band from 1978 to 1986. In addition, Kenneth Bloomquist also served as President of both The American Bandmasters Association and the National Band Association, and maintains active membership in both organizations. The collection consists of correspondence, programs, printed materials and tour itineraries, published and unpublished journal articles and speech transcripts, photographs, recordings and other memorabilia related to Bloomquists career, the ensembles with which he was involved, and the colleagues with whom he had close relationships.
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Jorge Bolet Collection, 1880-1996. 34.00 linear feet.
Location: International Piano Archives at Maryland
Jorge Bolet (1914-1990) was an active piano performer and teacher. He performed solo recitals and concerts with various orchestras, including the Philadelphia Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and he also toured many countries, including Canada, Australia, Germany, and China. In addition, Bolet taught at The Curtis Institute in Philadelphia and at Indiana University in Bloomington. This collection consists of 34.00 linear feet of writings, correspondence, programs, press releases, scores, recordings, photographs, datebooks, awards, scrapbooks, posters, books, clippings, articles, and other memorabilia related to Bolets career, his hobbies, and his relationships with his close colleagues, including Audrey Michaels, Mac Finley, and his older brother, conductor Alberto Bolet.
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Daniel Bonade Papers, 1813-1979. 6.00 Linear Feet.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
Daniel Bonade, Swiss-born American clarinetist, teacher and writer, was born in 1896 in Geneva, Switzerland and began playing the clarinet at the age of eight. He studied at the Paris Conservatoire and in 1913 won the prestigious Premier Prix. In 1917 while touring the United States, Bonade was offered the principal clarinet position of the Philadelphia Orchestra. In 1930 he left the Philadelphia Orchestra and continued his orchestral career with positions in the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra, the Columbia Broadcasting Symphony Orchestra, and the NBC Orchestra. As a faculty member of the Curtis Institute of Music, the Cleveland Institute of Music, and the Juilliard School of Music Bonade trained many successful clarinetists in the United States from 1920 to 1960. This collection consists of written, photographic, recorded materials, reeds and reed cases, and personal items created or collected by Bonade; brochures, programs and photographs of his wife, Maud Bonade La Charme; and programs, photographs and memorabilia of his parents, Louis and Esther Bonade.
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Frederic W. Boots Papers, 1948-2006. 2.75 linear feet.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
Throughout his military career, Frederic Wallace Boots (1922-2006) served in Asia, Europe, and the United States. He directed the United States Military Academy's Cadet Glee Club in West Point, NY and eventually became Associate Band Master of the United States Army Band at Fort Myer, VA. He was a life member of the Virginia and National Federations of Music Clubs, a life member of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Music Fraternity, and a member of the American Bandmasters Association. The collection consists of correspondence, administrative records, programs and tour itineraries, military documents, articles, newspaper clippings, scores: published and manuscript, photographs, scrapbooks, and other memorabilia related to Boots' career; the ensembles with which he was involved; and materials he collected on musical figures of personal interest, including: John P. Sousa, John J. Pershing, Raymond Dvorak, and Frederick P. Williams.
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Mario Braggiotti Collection, 1902-2001. 8.00 linear feet.
Location: International Piano Archives at Maryland
Mario Braggiotti (1905-1996) was a pianist, composer, lecturer, and linguist. He performed various solo piano recitals and duo-piano concerts, including at NYCs Town Hall, with the Community Concerts Association, at various Womens clubs, and in France, Italy, and Spain. Braggiotti also founded the Braggiotti Music School in Italy and transcribed many pieces, including classical pieces, popular songs, and musicals. This collection consists of scores, manuscripts, programs, articles, correspondence, flyers, scrapbooks, recordings, photographs, and memorabilia related to Braggiottis performances, his original transcriptions, and the colleagues that he had close relationships with, including pianists Jacqués Fray, Walter Shaw, and Jack Chaikin, as well as his wife, Susan Braggiotti.
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Arthur Brandenburg Papers, 1888-1983. 22.5 Linear Feet.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
Arthur H. Brandenburg (February 21, 1899 - August 23, 1986) was an American music educator and bandleader in Elizabeth, New Jersey. He was a member of the American School Band Director's Association (ASBDA) and the American Bandmasters Association (ABA), serving as the first director of the ABA Research Center. The collection consists of professional papers including correspondence, programs, administrative documents, curriculum materials, pedagogical/instruction materials, photographs, and newspaper clippings from Brandenburg's tenure with Elizabeth Public Schools and Recreation Concert Band, and correspondence and administrative materials relating to the ABA Research Center. There are also assorted personal materials related to Brandenburg's service with the Kiwanis as well as his personal and family life.
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Allen Purdue Britton Papers, 1943-2000. 132.00 linear feet.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
Allen Purdue Britton (1914-2003) was an American music educator. He received a B.Sc. in Instrumental Music, an M.A. in Music Education from the University of Illinois in 1939, and a PhD in Musicology from the University of Michigan in 1949. Britton served as a professor of Music at the University of Michigan, eventually serving as Dean of the School of Music. Britton was the foudnign editor of the Journal of Research in Music Education and American Music, and served on the Board of Directors and Trustees of numerous musical societies, and President of the MENC and Sonneck Society for American Music. The collection consists of both personal and professional correspondence, copies of Britton's writings and speeches, documents relating to his involvement with MENC and Sonneck Society, professional and service activities, and documents relating to his career as a music educator.
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Harold Brown Collection, 1935-1952. 2.00 linear feet.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
Harold Brown was a composer and violist/violinist born in New York in 1909. He attended Columbia College where he studied Composition and Conducting under many notable pedagogues including Aaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein, Bernard Wagenaar, and Leon Barzin. He also studied with Nadia Boulanger at Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris as part of the Mosenthal Fellowship. Brown became a well-loved teacher at both the high school and college level. He taught many things including Composition, Orchestration, Music Theory, and Chorus as well as working as a freelance string player. This collection contains a selection of his compositions for Choir, Orchestra, String Orchestra, Chamber Ensembles, and Piano.
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Clifford V. Buttelman Papers, 1897-1980. null.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
Clifford V. Buttelman (1886-1970) served as MENC's first executive secretary from 1930 until 1955, and as managing editor and director of publications of Music Educators Journal from 1930 until 1962. His collection consists of professional papers related to his positions with MENC and MEJ, professional and personal correspondence, writings, photographs, and books. This collection is unprocessed; an inventory is available upon request.
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Henry L. Cady Papers, 1962-1978. 7.00 linear feet.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
Henry L. Cady, professor emeritus in music education and former chair of music department at the University of Delaware, Newark, with research partner and fellow Ohio State University colleague, Erwin H. Schneider, headed the Schneider-Cady USOE Project E-016, Evaluation and Synthesis of Research Studies Relating to Music Education, funded by the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare. The project is a compilation of a majority of the theses, dissertations, and articles written between 1930 and 1962 on studies relating to music education. The collection includes an extensive bibliographic card file collection organized by categories such as "The Teacher," "The Student," The Teaching-Learning Process," "Higher Education," and subcategories such as "music education," "music therapy," "theory" and "musicology," in addition to correspondence with other music education scholars related to the Music Education Research Council (MERC), formed in the mid 1960s, of which Cady was project coordinator. MERC was formed in conjunction with Cady's second Department of Education project, USOE Project 6-13488, A Conference of Research in Music Education, for which the E-016 bibliography was expanded. The collection also includes copies of the final publications, Evaluation and Synthesis of Research Studies Relating to Music Education (1965), and Final Report: A Conference of Research in Music Education (1967).
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The Michel-Dmitri Calvocoressi Manuscripts, 1877-1940. 0.5 linear feet.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
Michel-Dmitri Calvocoressi (1877-1944) was a music critic and musicologist in Paris and London during the first part of the twentieth century. He spent much of his career championing Russian music. He was involved with Sergey Diaghilev (1872-1929) and the early years of the Ballets Russes and fostered a particular interest in the music of Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881). The Michel-Dmitri Calvocoressi Manuscripts covers the period from 1877 to 1940, and includes undated materials; the bulk of the materials date from 1902 to 1940. The manuscripts consist of 163 pieces of correspondence and one music manuscript. Much of the correspondence is related to his involvement with Russian music, with people asking his advice about various Russian composers, their works, and how to obtain them. There are also letters from performers of Russian music, telling him of their activities. Notable correspondents include Igor Stravinsky, Léon Bakst, Alexandre Benoir, Nadia Boulanger, Gerald Finzi, Constant Lambert, Philip Heseltine, and Leo Ornstein.
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Robert Casadesus Collection, 1921-2002. 13.00 linear feet.
Location: International Piano Archives at Maryland
A pianist, composer, and pedagogue, Robert Casadesus (1899-1972) was an active performer throughout his career. He gave many solo recitals throughout the United States and Europe, and he was a soloist with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra for over three decades, where several of his works were premiered. Casadesus also performed with other orchestras, including the Cleveland, Chicago, and Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestras. In addition, Casadesus was an assistant to Isidor Philipp at the American Conservatory at Fontainebleau, where he later became the director. Casadesus often performed piano duets with his wife, Gaby Casadesus. The collection consists of 13.00 Linear Feet of concert programs, reviews, correspondence, photographs, advertisements, obituaries, articles, scores, biographical information, and other miscellaneous documents related to Casadesuss career; the ensembles with which he was involved; and the colleagues with whom he had close relationships including Maurice Ravel, Zino Francescatti, Gaby Casadesus, and his son, Jean Casadesus. Materials date from 1921 to 2002, with the bulk dating from 1940 to 1971.
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Abram Chasins Collection, Circa 1904-1990. 28.00 linear feet.
Location: International Piano Archives at Maryland
A pianist, composer, pedagogue, musical director, and music writer, Abram Chasins was an active performer throughout his career. He gave many solo recitals, concerts with leading orchestras, and piano duets with his wife, Constance Keene, throughout the United States. Chasins also was a lecturer at the Curtis Institute of Music, Musician-in-Residence at the University of Southern California, and an active adjudicator. In addition, Chasins composed many pieces, including two piano concertos and numerous piano transcriptions. Chasins also was a musical director for radio stations NBC and WQXR and wrote numerous books, including one on "Speaking of Pianists". The collection consists of 28.00 Linear Feet of concert programs, reviews, correspondence, photographs, advertisements, articles, published and unpublished scores, recordings, scrapbooks, photographs, artwork, and other miscellaneous documents related to Chasins career as a performer, author, musical director, composer, and lecturer, and his relationships with his close colleagues, including Josef Hofmann, Hendrick Wilhelm Van Loon, and his wife, Constance Keene.
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Frances Elliott Clark Papers, 1890-1963. 7.25 Linear Feet.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
Frances Elliott Clark (1860-1958), born near Angola, Indiana, taught in the public schools of Illinois and Iowa until 1903, when she became the supervisor of the Milwaukee public schools. In 1911, she became the director of the Education Department of the Victor Talking Machine Company, where she promoted the use of the phonograph in music education. A founding member of the Music Educators National Conference, she presided over the annual Founder's Breakfasts, served on the executive committee, and chaired at various times the archives, necrology, and the Lowell Mason Sesquicentennial Committees. She was an officer of the NEA music section and was active in the Music Teachers National Association and the National Federation of Music Clubs. The collection consists of both personal and professional papers including published and unpublished writings, correspondence, addresses, programs, reports, memorabilia, clippings, and articles related to Clark's work as a music educator.
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College Band Directors National Association Archives, 1941-present. 15.00 Linear Feet.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
The College Band Directors National Association (CBDNA) began its existence as a committee of the Music Educators National Conference (MENC). The Committee on College and University Music was so dominated by band directors in the mid-1930s that it soon became known as the Committee on College and University Bands. In the fall of 1938 that committee, under the leadership of William Revelli, met independently in Chicago. The group met again in December 1941 and formed the University and College Band Conductors Conference. The name of the organization was changed to the College Band Directors National Association in 1947. The archives contain administrative records, correspondence and information bulletins, membership listings, financial records, committee reports, surveys, questionnaires, publications, articles, conference programs and proceedings, photographs, and oral histories related to the CBDNA's mission of the teaching, performance, study and cultivation of music, with particular focus on the wind band milieu. More details about the organization of this collection can be found here.
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Concert Society at Maryland Archives, 1976-2004. 129.00 linear feet.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
The Concert Society at Maryland, originally founded in 1976 as the University Community Concerts, was a chamber music concert series focusing on bringing professional concerts to the Maryland suburbs. Changing its name in 1991, the organization played a vital role in the community with its concerts, seminars, and community outreach programs. The collection consists of correspondence, budget materials, ticket sales, patron/donor information, marketing/publicity materials, recordings, seasonal publications, and programs related to performances produced by the CSM featuring artists such as Yo-Yo Ma, Emanuel Ax, Isaac Stern, The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Airmen of Note, and the Cleveland Quartet among many others.
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Contemporary Music Project Archives, 1957-1973. 25.00 Linear Feet.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
The Contemporary Music Project (CMP) spanned a fourteen-year period from 1959 to 1973. Originally named the The Young Composers Project (YCP), the CMP consisted of three programs: Professionals-in-Residence to Communities, the Teaching of Comprehensive Musicianship, and Complementary Activities. The CMP Archives consists of approximately twenty-five linear feet of documents; scores donated by the young composers, taped performances of CMP compositions, video tapes of the Eastman workshops; the recording "Comprehensive Musicianship Training" and the film "What is Music"; microfilm used by University Microfilms to produce the CMP Library, and the CMP Library itself. The Archives have been housed in the MENC Historical Center at the University of Maryland since the conclusion of the project in June 1973. A browsable listing of scores in the collection can be found at the Contemporary Music Project Archives: Score Library. The processing of this collection supported by the Rose Marie Grentzer Fund.
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Patrick Conway Collection, 1906-1980. 2.00 Linear Feet.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
Patrick ("Patsy") Conway was a prominent band leader in the early 20th Century. While a music teacher at Cornell University, he organized and directed the Ithaca Band, which later became known as Patrick Conway and His Band around 1908. During the summer season Conway's band toured the mid-western and western United States performing at state fairs and expositions, including the Panama-Pacific Exposition in 1915, and had regular engagements at Willow Grove Park, Philadelphia, and Young's Pier, Atlantic City. After serving in the First World War, Conway returned to Ithaca and founded the Military Band School as an affiliate of the Ithaca Conservatory of Music. He taught at the school from 1922 until his death in 1929. The Conway Collection consists of scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, programs of his concerts from 1919-1928, photographs, advertisements, correspondence and other materials related to his career.
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Jacob M. Coopersmith Collection, 1709-1967. 7.50 linear feet and 285 items.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
Jacob M. Coopersmith (1903-1968) was an American musicologist, Handel scholar, performer, conductor, teacher, and music librarian. In 1932, Coopersmith completed his dissertation, "An Investigation of George Friedrich Händel's Orchestral Style," the first thematic catalogue of Handel's works, at Harvard. He published a critical edition of Handel's Messiah in 1947, incorporating all known variants of text and music. The Jacob M. Coopersmith Collection covers the period from 1709 to 1967, with the bulk of the materials dating from 1930 to 1967. The collection consists of books, scores, manuscripts and facsimiles, catalogues, libretti, and articles collected by Coopersmith during his career.
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Yarbrough and Cowan Collection, 1900-2007. 20.00 linear feet.
Location: International Piano Archives at Maryland
Joan Yarbrough (--) and Robert Cowan (--) were a husband-and-wife piano duo involved in numerous performances throughout their career. They were duo-pianists in residence at the University of Montevallo in Alabama and artist-faculty members at the Brevard Music Center in North Carolina. They also gave performances throughout the world, including in the Far East, Russia, and Austria. The collection consists of correspondence, programs, articles, recordings, flyers, photographs, music journals, and scores related to Yarbroughs and Cowans careers, the music organizations they were involved in, and the colleagues that they had close relationships with, including Robert Shaw, Paul Creston, Frederich Koch, and Eugene Hemmer.
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Louis Crowder Collection, 1899-2000. 4.75 linear feet.
Location: International Piano Archives at Maryland
Louis Crowder (1907-1998) was a pianist, music teacher, and music writer. He wrote many published and unpublished books and articles, including books on Anatomy of the Hand, Bones, Muscles, and Keyboards, and articles for Clavier magazine. Crowder also performed a variety of concerts in Europe and taught both piano pedagogy conferences and music at various schools, including Northwestern University, Iowa State Teachers College, and the University of Connecticut. The collection consists of published and unpublished writings, correspondence, programs, articles, scores, publicity materials, reports, resumes, photographs, and questionnaires related to Crowders teaching, writing, and performing careers, and his relationships with his friends and colleagues, including Mary Louise Boehm, Kees Kooper, his teacher, Robert Casadesus, and his wives, Naomi West Crowder (a.k.a. Nan), and Carol Odeneal.
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John Curwen Manuscripts, 1860-2005. 1.75 Linear Feet.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
John Curwen (1816-1880) was an English congregational minister who, later in life, devoted himself to developing and promulgating the Tonic Sol-fa pedagogical method. This method is based on the relationships between pitch-classes in a diatonic key, and replaces traditional notation with solfege syllables; the syllable "do" is assigned to a piece's tonic, thus the term "moveable do." The John Curwen Manuscripts, part of the Music Educators National Convention (MENC) Historical Center, contains six volumes written by Curwen that date from 1863 to 1868. These manuscripts frequently include pasted-in materials and feature Curwen's preparatory work for future harmony textbooks and exercises completed by students. Supporting materials are also part of the collection, giving biographical information, examples of tonic sol-fa, and a brief history of how the materials were acquired.
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Cleon E. Dalby Papers, 1911-1993. 3.00 linear feet.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
Cleon E. Dalby organized and conducted high school bands in the Western Slope region of Colorado from 1914 to 1965. After leaving the public schools system, he continued to direct and teach privately for 28 years. Dalby was member of the American Bandmasters Association and was honored as a "Trendsetter in Music Education" by the Colorado Music Educators Association in 1989.
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Emil Danenberg Collection, 1895-1994. 8.00 linear feet.
Location: International Piano Archives at Maryland
A performer and music professor, Emil Danenberg (1917-1982) was extensively involved in chamber music, including performances with the New Hungarian Quartet, with violinists Matthew Raimondi and Andor Toth, and with cellist Pierre Fournier. Danenberg also gave numerous solo recitals and taught at both UNC Chapel Hill and Oberlin Conservatory. In addition, Danenberg was the president of Oberlin College and taught many master classes there. The collection contains concert programs, scrapbooks, recordings, photographs, correspondence, autographs, and other miscellaneous documents related to Danenbergs career, the ensembles he was involved in, and his relationships with his colleagues and friends, especially his wife, Mary Ann Danenberg, and his theory teacher, Arnold Schoenberg.
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Nora Davenport Collection on Drum Set Methods, 1919-2000. 2.50 linear feet.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
Nora Davenport was a composer, percussionist, and percussion teacher in the Washington, D.C. metro area. She performed with the Washington Chamber Symphony, the Washington Opera and the Washington Ballet at the John F. Kennedy Center. Davenport taught percussion at the Rockville Jewish Community Center for twenty years. This collection contains drum set method books.
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Thomas DeLio Collection, null. null.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
Thomas DeLio (born 1951) is an American composer who joined the Music Department at the University of Maryland in 1980. His collection contains books, scores, film/slides, LPs, Reel-to-Reels, CDs, VHS/DVDs, and informational files including published and unpublished writings, educational materials related to his work at the University of Maryland, and contracts. This collection is unprocessed; an inventory is available upon request.
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Becky Dukes Collection, 1972-2010. linear feet.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
Becky Dukes is an American composer and singer, and has composed over a hundred pieces of music, both for the piano and with lyrics. Her collection consists of press materials, CDs, and 36 photocopied scores. This collection is unprocessed; an inventory is available upon request.
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Raymond F. Dvorak Papers, 1876-1987. 4.50 linear feet.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
Raymond F. Dvorak (1900-1982) was an American band director and music educator who spent much of his career as director of the University of Wisconsin bands. The Dvorak Papers covers the period from 1876 to 1987, with the bulk of the materials dating from 1960 to 1980. The collection consists of both personal and professional papers, including published and collected articles, correspondence, programs, memorabilia, and photographs related to Dvorak's work as a band director, particularly those documenting his efforts in memorializing John Philip Sousa.
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Will Earhart Papers, 1895-1960. 3.00 linear feet.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
Will Earhart (1871-1960) was born in Franklin, Ohio. He began teaching in Ohio, and by 1888 he was music supervisor in the public schools of Greenville, Ohio. By 1898 he was Director of the Richmond (Indiana) High School Orchestra and helped establish the Richmond Civic Orchestra. In 1912, Earhart was Director of Music in the Pittsburgh Public Schools. A year later, Earhart founded and administered the University of Pittsburgh's Department of Public School Music. Earhart held several offices in the Music Educators National Conference, including vice president (1910) and president (1915-1916). This collection contains published and unpublished typescripts, articles, books, pamphlets, reviews, and music by or about Will Earhart. It also includes personal and professional letters and correspondence, addresses, and photographs.
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The Charles H. Eisenhardt Jr. Collection, 1865-1964. 5.25 Linear Feet.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
The Charles H. Eisenhardt Jr. (1902-1917), a Baltimore native and avid patron of the arts, attended numerous concerts and theater productions in Baltimore and was particularly interested in musical theater. An employee of American Steel and Wire Company, in 1942 he moved with his wife Ethel and daughter Jane to Cleveland, Ohio, were they where frequent attendees at the Hanna Theater and The Cleveland Playhouse. Eisenhardt transferred to New York City in 1956 to work for US Steel Corporation and remained in the New York City metro area until his death. The collection covers the period from 1865 to 1964 with the bulk of the material from 1910 to 1945. The collection consists of programs, newspaper and magazine clippings, books, scores, and memorabilia collected by Mr. Eisenhardt. Theater programs have been integrated into the SCPA Theater Program Collection
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Merle Evans Papers, 1880-1989. 39.5 linear feet.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
Merle Evans (1891-1987) was an American bandmaster and cornetist. He is best known for his work leading the Ringling Bros. Barnum and Bailey Circus Band. He was also the bandmaster for Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. The collection consists of both personal and professional papers including correspondence, photographs, band scores, and band uniforms related to Evans's work as a bandmaster and as a cornetist.
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James Felton Papers, 1916-1971. 6.75 linear feet.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
James B. Felton (October 9, 1927-October 12, 1999), Philadelphia music critic, gathered the material in this collection in anticipation of a biography of Leopold Stokowski, which he never completed. Felton was also a composer of music.
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Charles B. Fowler Papers, 1940-1995. 128.00 Linear Feet.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
The professional and personal papers of Charles B.[Bruner] Fowler (1931-1995), eminent American arts advocate, educator, editor, writer and philosopher, fill 236 boxes. The collection consists of published and unpublished articles, including related research and correspondence; published reports, pamphlets and educational materials; chapters written in books; authored and edited books, including personal copies of each; unpublished keynote addresses and speeches; reports of studies and projects, presentations at conferences, seminars and symposia; unpublished scripts; recorded interviews and speeches; slides and photographs; and memorabilia related to Dr. Charles Fowler's work.
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Carl Friedberg Collection, 1890-1957. 4.00 linear feet.
Location: International Piano Archives at Maryland
A pianist and teacher, Carl Friedberg (1872-1955) was an active performer throughout his career. He gave many solo recitals, concerts with leading orchestras, and chamber music concerts with a variety of ensembles throughout the United States and Europe. Friedberg also was a teacher at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt, Germany and at the Institute for Musical Arts, which later became the Juilliard School. The collection consists of 4.00 Linear Feet of concert programs, reviews, correspondence, photographs, publicity materials, articles, recordings, scrapbooks, photographs, and other miscellaneous documents related to Friedbergs career, the ensembles and societies he was involved with, and his relationships with his close colleagues, including his teacher, Clara Schumann, his sister, Annie Friedberg, and his pupil, Leonard (Bruce) Hungerford.
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Charles L. Gary Papers, null. 4.50 linear feet.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
Charles L. Gary (1917- 2004) served as the chief executive secretary of MENC from 1968 to 1975, as well as the director of publications of Music Educators Journal. In addition, he authored more than a dozen music education books and served as assistant director of the Tanglewood Symposium. His collection consists of published and unpublished writings and speeches and documents related to his positions with MENC and MEJ. This collection is unprocessed.
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Loren Geiger Papers, 1898-2003. 11.00 linear feet.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
Loren D. Geiger (January 23, 1946 - February 19, 2009) was a music teacher, band director, and historian known for his publication of the newsletter, the Boombah Herald. The Loren Geiger Papers covers the period from 1898 to 2003, with the bulk of the materials dating from 1973-2003. The collection consists of correspondence, clippings, programs, photographs and negatives, scores, and ledgers related to the Boombah Herald and Geiger's research into the history of band music.
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Reginald Gerig Collection, 1593-2003. 16.75 linear feet.
Location: International Piano Archives at Maryland
Reginald R. Gerig (1919- ) is Professor of Piano Emeritus at Wheaton College and a music researcher, perhaps best known for writing Famous Pianists and Their Techniques. Gerig also taught piano at both Wheaton College and Eastman School of Music and gave many lectures on piano technique at places such as Brigham Young University Summer Piano Festival, Peabody Conservatory, and the National Conference on Piano Pedagogy. The collection contains manuscripts, research notebooks, articles, lectures, correspondence, and other miscellaneous materials related to Gerigs career as a music researcher and professor, his involvement in the American Liszt Society and the Illinois State Music Teachers Association, and his relationships with various publishers, authors, and pianists, including Otto Ortmann, Carola Grindea, and Irwin Freundlich.
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Robert Gerle Papers, 1873-1992. 6 linear feet.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
Robert Gerle (1924-2005) was a concert violinist, conductor, and teacher. Born in Abbazia, Italy (now Opatija, Croatia), Gerle graduated from the Franz Liszt Academy of Music and studied at the National Conservatory of Music. After World War II he began a concert career in the U.S. Teaching positions at Peabody Institute in Baltimore and the Mannes College of Music in New York followed. In 1972 Gerle began the orchestra program at the University of Maryland-Baltimore County (UMBC). For the next two decades, Gerle taught at UMBC and The Catholic University of America, conducted the Friday Morning Music Club, and served as musical director of the Washington Sinfonia.
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Patrick Gilmore Collection, 1864-1893. 2.00 linear feet (42 items).
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
Patrick S. Gilmore (1829-1892) was an American bandleader before the time of John Philip Sousa. His career highlights include leading the regimental band for the 24th Massachusetts Infantry during the Civil War, founding Gilbert and Wright: a musical instrument manufacturer, and organizing concerts of an enormous scale consisting of thousands of instrumentalists and singers for the National Peace Jubilee and World Peace Jubilee. In 1876, Gilmore's new band, the 22nd New York Regiment Band, became the first ensemble to travel across the country giving concerts from New York to San Francisco. This collection, part of the ABA Research Center, consists primarily of memorabilia related to his career including medals, photographs, holograph signatures, programs, and other items.
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Ephraim Goldberg Collection on Benny Goodman, 1927-2000. 18 linear feet, 838 items.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
This collection is comprised of sound recordings and other materials related to American jazz and swing clarinetist Benny Goodman (1909-1986), collected by Ephraim Goldberg. Benny Goodman had a notable career lasting from the 1920s into the 1980s. The collection contains over 800 LP Records, as well as cassettes, CDs, open reel tapes, and VHS videotapes. There are also several books, posters, discographies, recording catalogues, and assorted Benny Goodman memorabilia.
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Edwin Franko Goldman Collection, 1895-c.1977. 18.50 Linear Feet.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
Edwin Franko Goldman (1878-1956), a founder of the American Bandmasters Association and its first president, was a composer, scholar, and prominent conductor. In 1911 he formed his own band which began a summer concert series, later know as the Guggenhiem Memorial Concert Series, in New York City in 1918; this tradition continued under other directors including Goldman's son, Richard Franko Goldman, who led the band from 1956-1979. Goldman championed the performance of neglected band music and gave the American premieres of a number of important works, including commissioned pieces from many contemporary composers including Ottorino Respighi, Percy Grainger, Morton Gould, and Virgil Thomson. The collection contains press-books of clippings, programs, press releases, correspondence, memorabilia, and photographs related to the Goldman Band's annual summer concerts in New York, NY; and correspondence, articles, administrative records, conference programs, committee reports, and memorabilia related to Goldman's tenure as president of the American Bandmasters Association.
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Mabel Rosenthal Collection on Edwin Franko Goldman, 1930-1955. 1.25 linear feet.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
Edwin Franko Goldman (1878-1956) was a bandmaster, author, composer, and founding member and first president of the American Bandmasters Association. He received his musical training at the National Conservatory in New York, and from 1899-1909 he held the position of solo cornet with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. In 1911, he formed the Goldman Band, and by 1918, the band was performing a free summer concert series, which later became known as the Guggenheim Concert Series. Goldman conducted this series until his death in 1956. This collection was compiled by Mabel Rosenthal, a family friend of Goldman's, and consists of newspaper clippings, programs, correspondence, photographs, medals, and scores related to Goldman's career as a conductor and composer.
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Philip Gordon Papers, 1924-1988. 41.00 linear feet.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
Philip Gordon (1894-1983) was a composer, arranger, conductor, and music educator who lived and worked in New Jersey and was active in both state and national music education organizations. The Philip Gordon Papers covers the period from 1924-1988; the bulk of the material dates from 1951-1985. The collection consists of published scores of band, orchestra, instrumental ensemble, choral arrangements and recordings of Gordon's compositions, unpublished scores, financial documents, and personal correspondence.
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The Rose Marie Grentzer Papers, 1867-1985. 46 Linear Feet.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
Rose Marie Grentzer (1914-1985) was a music educator who helped raise awareness about and fostered scholarship on audio-visual aids, international music education, and American music. After leading and enhancing music education programs at Juilliard, the University of Michigan, and Oberlin, she developed the graduate program in music education at the University of Maryland. Professor Grentzer taught and gave speeches throughout the world; was active in the Music Educators National Conference (MENC), Sigma Alpha Iota International Music Fraternity, and numerous other organizations; and cultivated the University of Maryland Madrigal Singers into an international touring choral group. This collection contains papers from her professional activities, organizational affiliations, and personal relationships, as well as photographs, correspondence, recordings, sheet music, subject files, embossers, posters, a scrapbook, certificates, and yearbooks.
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Mark Hambourg Collection, 1890-1970. 2.00 linear feet.
Location: International Piano Archives at Maryland
Mark Hambourg (1879-1960) was a piano performer who gave numerous recitals and recorded many of his performances on gramophone records for the Gramophone Company (HMV). Hambourg also performed with several orchestras, including the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, and gave many concert tours. In addition, Hambourg was an author, writing various books and magazine articles about composers and about how to play the piano. This collection includes concert programs, correspondence, scrapbooks, books and magazine articles, and miscellaneous items related to Hambourgs career as a writer and performer, and related to his relationships with his friends and colleagues, including Theodore Leschetizky, Anton Rubenstein, and his wife, violinist Dorothea Muir Hambourg.
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Judith Lynne Hanna Collection, 1893-2012. 37.5 linear feet.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
The Judith Hanna Collection details the academic pursuits, cultural interests and numerous projects of the prolific American anthropological scholar. Her specialized expertise in the fields of anthropology, education, dance, and political science informs her cross-disciplinary interests in such diverse topics as education policy, societal perceptions of dance, gender, sexuality, first-amendment rights, dance as communication, and dance therapy. The collection also includes the numerous books, articles, reviews, critiques, and pedagogical manuals she has written.
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Robert Hawkins Collection, 1912-1990. 27.50 linear feet.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
Dr. Robert Hawkins was director of bands and professor of music for Western State University of Colorado and Morehead State University. He was director of music camps in both locations. He was elected to the American Bandmasters Association in 1955. The Robert Hawkins Collection contains band arrangements, audio and video tapes, marching band drill charts, published concert music, programs, newsletters and mailings related to his career as a bandmaster.
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Herbert Hazelman Collection, 1931-2001. 5.00 Linear Feet.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
Herbert Hazelman (1913-2007) was an American band director, composer, and music educator. Hazelman is best known for his 40-year tenure as director of the Greensboro (Grimsley) North Carolina Senior High School Bands. He was responsible for numerous premiere performances of band music and made more than 150 recordings with school ensembles. He was elected to the American Bandmasters Association in 1951. The collection consists of recorded performances, concert programs, correspondence, clippings, writings, educational materials including evaluations and contracts, publications, conference materials, travel itineraries, and photographs.
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The Hupert P. Henderson Collection, 1932-1966. 2.50 linear feet.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
Hubert P. Henderson directed the band program at the University of Maryland, College Park from 1955-1965. Under his leadership the program underwent a series of significant changes, including a closer association with the School of Music and the formation of the Symphonic Band. Henderson was elected to the American Bandmasters' Association (ABA) in 1961 and resigned from the association in 1968. During his membership, he was integral to the establishment of the ABA Journal, a scholarly peer-reviewed publication, and served as the first director of the ABA Research Center. He made arrangements for the 1965 ABA Conference, held in College Park. The collection contains material related to his ABA work - especially the establishment of the Journal - during his tenure at the University of Maryland.
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John Heney Collection, 1885-1978. 6.00 Linear Feet.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
A percussionist, music educator, and historian, John Joseph Heney, Sr. (1903-1978) played with numerous bands throughout his career; most notably the Sousa Band during its final six years. In addition to playing professionally, Heney taught at numerous schools in the Florida area, including Ketterlinus High School, Stetson University, and DeLand High School, where he stayed for thirty-two years. A member of the Sousa Band Fraternal Society, Heney was elected as archivist in November of 1969. During his time as archivist, Heney attempted to collect memorabilia from Sousa's life in order to preserve the history of the Sousa Band and its members. This collection contains correspondence, publications, clippings, articles, scores, programs, contracts, diaries, scrapbooks, yearbooks, photographs, sound recordings, and memorabilia related to his career as a music educator, his involvement with the John Philip Sousa Band, and his interest in preserving Sousa's memory after the band leader's death.
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Mark Hindsley Collection, 1932-1993. 6 linear feet.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
Mark Hindsley (1905-1999) was a band director, music instructor, author, and composer of band transcriptions. He spent much of his career at the University of Illinois where he directed the Marching Illini and was Professor of Music. In 1948, he became the Director of Bands at Illinois; he served in that position until his retirement in 1970. During his long and fruitful career, Hindsley wrote seven books and more than forty magazine articles about instrumental music. In order to make classical music compositions more widely available to band student, he created over seventy transcriptions.
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Robert Hoe Collection, 1970-1980. 3.00 linear feet.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
The Robert Hoe Collection contains 189 LP recordings (plus duplicates) of American and European band marches, including the Heritage of the March series and a set of Sousas works recorded by the United States Marine Band. The collection also contains 18 of Robert Hoes newsletters.
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Mary E. Hoffman Papers, 1977-1982. 4.00 Linear Feet.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
Mary E. Hoffman was an active teacher, composer, arranger, and guest conductor. She taught music at several public schools as well as at Columbia Teachers College and Temple University. In 1979, Hoffman was appointed professor of music education at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign where she remained until her death in 1997. During her lifetime, Hoffman was an active member of the Music Educators National Conference (MENC, though now known as National Association for Music Education). From 1980-1982, Hoffman served as MENC President and helped plan the 75th Anniversary Convention in San Antonio, Texas. The collection contains Hoffman's professional papers from her term as MENC President. It includes meeting minutes, agendas, and correspondence with MENC related organizations, councils, committees, publications, and divisions.
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Robert L. Hoffman Papers, 1905-1995. 1.50 linear feet.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
Robert L. Hoffman was an accomplished clarinetist who played under Arturo Toscanini, Leopold Stokowski, Leonard Bernstein and Edwin Franko Goldman. Hoffman studied at the Ernest Williams School of Music, New York University, and Columbia University. He taught at NYU and Queens College. Hoffman also conducted the Princeton University Band, the Westbury Fire Department Band, and the Roslyn Recreation Band. The Robert L. Hoffman Papers consists of correspondence, programs, clippings, memorabilia, scores, manuscripts and an audiotape documenting his performing and teaching career. The materials date from 1905 to 1995, with the bulk of the materials dating from 1931 to 1981.
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Colonel George S. Howard Papers, 1920-1994. 5.50 linear feet.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
Colonel George Sallade Howard (1902-1995) was known for his significant contributions to the Air Force Band Program. Director of the USAF Band program from 1944-1963, Colonel Howard took the USAF Band and Orchestra on ten international tours, promoting music as an international language. He founded several military music groups, including the Singing Sergeants, the Airmen of Note, the USAF Drum and Bugle Corp, the USAF Bagpipe Band, the WAF Band, and the Strolling Strings. In addition to Howards military accomplishments, he was a successful music educator, earning multiple degrees in music performance and education. Howard also served as a clinician and spokesperson for bands and band music throughout his life. A past president of the National Bandmasters Association and Chair of the John Phillip Sousa Memorial, Howard worked alongside and was closely acquainted with other prominent band directors and composers of the era, such as Patrick Conway, Ernest Williams, Percy Grainger, and Edwin and Richard Franko Goldman. The Colonel George S. Howard Papers covers the period from 1920 to 1994; the bulk of the materials date from 1935 to 1965. The collection consists of both personal and professional papers including published and unpublished writings, correspondence, addresses, programs, reports, memorabilia, clippings, and articles- related to Howards work as a band director of the United States Air Force Band, including his work with Ernest Williams and the Williams School of Music and Summer Camp, with Pat Conway as a student and member of Conways professional band, a teacher at Mansfield State Teachers College, Penn State, and the Mooseheart School (IL), and as a leading clinician for bands throughout his career.
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The Howe Collection of Musical Instrument Literature, 1854-1992. 192.50 Linear Feet.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
The Howe Collection of Musical Instrument Literature brings together historical artifacts and documents from the music industry in the United States. It contains material about the manufacture of pianos, organs, and mechanical musical instruments. The collection is divided into five separate series: Piano, Organ, Mechanical Musical Instruments, Phonographic, and General Music. It was created, and given to the University of Maryland, by Richard J. Howe.
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International Clarinet Association Research Center, 1813-present. 197.00 Linear Feet.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
The International Clarinet Association (ICA) was founded to "support projects that will benefit clarinet performance; provide opportunities for the exchange of ideas, materials, and information among its members; foster the composition, publication, recording, and distribution of music for the clarinet; and encourages and promotes the performance and teaching of a wide variety of repertoire for the clarinet." To help foster this mission, ICA formed The International Clarinet Association Research Center which contains approximately 1,700 clarinet recordings, the Jerry Pierce and Daniel Bonade Papers, the Ierardi Collection, and a score collection of over 6000 titles. Borrowing of the scores is restricted to members of the ICA and students, faculty, and staff of the University of Maryland.
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International Society for Music Education Archives, 1944-2005. 26 linear feet.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
The Archives of the International Society for Music Education (ISME) was established at the University of Maryland, College Park, in 1985. Materials have been received from Robert Werner, Ronald Smith, Henning Bro Rasmussen, the estate of Vanett Lawler (through Dorothy Regardie), Yasuharu Takahagi, and Rodolfo Zubrisky. Materials span the period 1944-1992. In addition to the official records such as correspondence, financial/membership records, and planning papers for meetings, conferences, seminars, and projects, the Archives has brochures, programs, publications, photographs, and research reports.
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International Tuba Euphonium Association (ITEA) Archive, 1934-2012. 18.75 linear feet.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
The International Tuba Euphonium Association (ITEA), formerly the Tubists Universal Brotherhood Association (TUBA), was founded in 1973. ITEA is a non-profit organization comprised of performers, educators, students, and amateurs who promote the advancement of the tuba and euphonium. The ITEA Archives covers the period from 1936-2012, with the bulk of the materials from 1973-2000. The collection consists of Executive Committee documents, Treasurers documents, oral historical interviews, correspondence, official publications, programs, memorabilia, clippings, articles, sheet music, and photographs relating to ITEA, as well as unaffiliated tuba/euphonium programs.
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J.E. Roach Banda Mexicana Music Collection, 1881-1906. 15.50 Linear Feet.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
This collection consists of the extant portions of the J. E. Roach Banda Mexicana library of scores and parts, and includes sections 3, 4, and 5 of the original library. These materials total 208 volumes of music written for 73-instrument band and conductor, published between 1881 and 1906. J. E. Roach's Banda Mexicana was a touring concert band active between circa 1908 and 1911. American conductor, Captain J.E. Roach (dates unknown) recruited over 50 soloists from army and police bands across Mexico to form his touring group. The band also included male and female vocalists and dancers. Its repertoire consisted of standard band arrangements of the day, as well as traditional Mexican music.
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Eldon A. Janzen Papers, 1941-2008. 0.50 linear feet.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
Eldon A. Janzen (1928-) is known as a conductor and educator. A longtime Director of Bands at the University of Arkansas, Mr. Janzen received his Bachelor of Music Education degree from Oklahoma State University and his Master of Music Education degree from North Texas State University. Mr. Janzen's professional affiliations include American Bandmasters Association, Music Educators National Conference, College Band Directors National Association, Kappa Kappa Psi, Tau Beta Sigma, and Lions International. He has served as President of Texas Bandmasters Association, President of Southwest Division of CBDNA, President of Arkansas Bandmasters Association, and President of Phi Beta Mu International. He has been recognized for his contribution to music education by membership in the Arkansas Phi Beta Mu Hall of Fame, received the Phi Beta Mu International award for outstanding contribution to music, was recently named Life President of Arkansas Bandmasters Association, and is a recipient of the "Distinguished Service" citation by Kappa Kappa Psi. Mr. Janzen was inducted into the Phi Beta Mu International Bandmasters Hall of Fame in Chicago on December 8, 2008. The collection consists of programs, articles, correspondence, facsimile photographs, video (DVD), and recordings related to Janzen's career.
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William Kapell Collection, 1908-1989. 28.00 linear feet.
Location: International Piano Archives at Maryland
An American pianist, William Kapell (1922-1953) was an active performer throughout his career. He gave many solo recitals and performances with orchestras in New York and on tours, including in North America, Europe, South America, and Australia. Kapell also recorded many of his performances with RCA Victor and composed many pieces, including piano pieces, popular songs for piano and voice, pieces for violin and piano, and transcriptions of pieces written by others. In addition, Kapell wrote commentary and poetry. The collection consists of 28.00 Linear Feet of concert programs, reviews, correspondence, photographs, advertisements, articles, published and unpublished scores, recordings, photographs, and other miscellaneous documents related to Kapells career as a performer and composer, his academic work, and his relationships with his close colleagues, including Heitor Villa-Lobos, Eugene Ormandy, his teacher, Olga Samaroff, and his wife, Anna Lou Kapell.
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The Keesing Collection on Popular Music and Culture, 1950-1990. 160 linear feet.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
The Keesing Collection on Popular Music and Culture consists of books, serials, recordings, sheet music, clippings, memorabilia, and teaching and research materials related to twentieth-century American popular music, and to rock and roll music in particular. The materials were collected by Hugo Keesing, a popular culture scholar and former professor of American Studies at the University of Maryland, and by Dr. Keesing's brother, Wouter Keesing. The bulk of the collection covers the period from the 1950s to the 1990s. Serials in the collection include Rolling Stone, Pulse, Discoveries, Goldmine, and many other national and regional music serials. Research and teaching materials include Dr. Keesing's University of Maryland syllabi and class notes, writings, auction lists, catalogues, and price guides. In addition to the books housed with the archival collection, there are an additional 3,000 books that are can be found through the University of Maryland catalog. The collection is broad in its coverage of twentieth-century popular music; however, the collection originally contained a significant number of books, magazines, clippings, and memorabilia related to Elvis Presley, The Beatles, Roy Orbison, and Fats Domino, respectively. These materials have been organized into four separate collections; each collection has its own finding aid. Please note: While the majority of this collection has been processed, select series may not yet have complete inventories. Please contact the curator for more information.
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The Hugo Keesing Collection on Elvis Presley, 1974-1997. 2.00 linear feet.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
The Hugo Keesing Collection of Popular Music and Culture consists of books, serials, recordings, sheet music, clippings, and memorabilia related to 20th century American popular music, in particular rock 'n' roll. Collected by Hugo A. Keesing, a professor at the University of Maryland and a popular culture scholar, with his brother Wouter Keesing, the bulk of the collection covers the period from the 1950s through the 1990s. The Collection has been separated into five record groups. This record group includes magazines, books, newspaper clippings, realia, and ephemera relating to Elvis Presley.
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The Hugo Keesing Collection on Roy Orbison, 1961-1995, undated. 4.00 lienar feet.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
The Hugo Keesing Collection of Popular Music and Culture consists of books, serials, recordings, sheet music, clippings, and memorabilia related to 20th century American popular music, in particular rock 'n' roll. Collected by Hugo A. Keesing, a professor at the University of Maryland and a popular culture scholar, with his brother Wouter Keesing, the bulk of the collection covers the period from the 1950s through the 1990s. The Collection has been separated into five record groups. The collection consists of clippings and magazines, ephemera, recordings and miscellaneous documents. These materials span the length of Orbison's career.
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The Hugo Keesing Collection on The Beatles, 1963-2000, undated. 2.00 linear feet.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
The Hugo Keesing Collection of Popular Music and Culture consists of books, serials, recordings, sheet music, clippings, and memorabilia related to 20th century American popular music, in particular rock 'n' roll. Collected by Hugo A. Keesing, a professor at the University of Maryland and a popular culture scholar, with his brother Wouter Keesing, the bulk of the collection covers the period from the 1950s through the 1990s. The Collection has been separated into five record groups. This record group includes realia, ephemera, recordings, magazines, books, newspaper clippings, and person/tour material on The Beatles.
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The Wouter Keesing Collection on Fats Domino, 1952-2000. 9.00 linear feet.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
The Hugo Keesing Collection of Popular Music and Culture consists of books, serials, recordings, sheet music, clippings, and memorabilia related to 20th century American popular music, in particular rock 'n' roll. Collected by Hugo A. Keesing, a professor at the University of Maryland and a popular culture scholar, with his brother Wouter Keesing, the bulk of the collection covers the period from the 1950s through the 1990s. The Collection has been separated into five record groups. This record group includes magazines, books, newspaper clippings, realia, and ephemera relating to Fats Domino, as well as research materials of Wouter Keesing.
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Robert Klotman Papers, 1947-1988. 8.00 linear feet.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
Robert Klotman, born in 1918, was an active musician, educator, and leader in the field of music education. He served as President of the Music Educators National Conference from 1976 to 1978 and President of the North Central Division of MENC from 1972 to 1974. This collection consists of Klotmans professional papers including correspondence, speeches, articles, publications, and programs related to large initiatives undertaken by MENC such as the Teachers Education Commission, Contemporary Music Project, and work with the United States government to secure funds for music education.
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Vanett Lawler ISME Papers, 1945-1974 and undated. 3 linear feet.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
Vanett Lawler (1902-1972) was an administrator in the field of music education both in the United States and abroad. Her work for the Music Educators National Conference (MENC), the Pan American Union, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), and the International Society for Music Education (ISME) helped create new legislation favorable to the arts, encourage and publish research pertaining to music education, and promote international music education and cooperation. This collection contains her professional papers pertaining to her work with the International Society for Music Education, as Secretary General from 1953-1955 and as Treasurer from 1956 until her death in 1972. There are also materials from the founding of ISME pre-dating her official role as Secretary General. Materials include correspondence, periodicals, photographs, articles, meeting information and agendas, program proposals and outlines, speeches, and various other professional papers.
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Vanett Lawler MENC Papers, 1927-1975 and undated. 19.5 linear feet.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
Vanett Lawler (1902-1972) was an administrator in the field of music education both in the United States and abroad. Her work for the Music Educators National Conference, Pan American Union, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and International Society for Music Education helped create new legislation favorable to the arts, encourage and publish research pertaining to music education, and promote international music education and cooperation. This collection contains her professional papers pertaining to her work for the Music Educators National Conference as Assistant Executive Secretary, Associate Executive Secretary, and Executive Secretary, from 1930 until her retirement in 1968. The collection also includes Lawler's papers pertaining to her work with the Pan American Union while on loan from MENC, as well as her work with the National Education Association, of which MENC is an affiliated organization (and, beginning in 1956, was housed in the NEA building in Washington, D.C). Materials include correspondence, periodicals, photographs, articles, meeting information and agendas, program proposals and outlines, speeches, and various other documents pertaining to MENC, other arts organizations, legislation, and general music education and music information.
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Vanett Lawler UNESCO Papers, 1885-1988. 9.5 linear feet.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
Vanett Lawler (1902-1972) was an administrator in the field of music education both in the United States and abroad. Her work for the Music Educators National Conference, Pan American Union, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization and International Society for Music Education helped create new legislation favorable to the arts, encourage and publish research pertaining to music education, and promote international music education and cooperation. This collection contains personal and professional materials pertaining to her work with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
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Paul Lehman Papers, 1942-2000. 25.50 linear feet.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
Paul R. Lehman, Professor of Music Education, has taught in the public schools of Ohio and at the University of Colorado, the University of Kentucky and the Eastman School of Music. He has also held an appointment as music specialist with the United States Department of Education in Washington. He has served the Music Educators National Conference as chair of the National Commission on Instruction and the Music Education Research Council; as a member of the editorial committee and as book review editor of the Journal of Research in Music Education; and as national president (1984-86). Active as a consultant and lecturer, he is the author of several books and more than 50 articles on curriculums and teacher education. He has coordinated the recent effort to develop national standards for music instruction in the nation's elementary and secondary schools. Included in the colleciton are Correspondence, papers related to Lehman's work with ISMA, CMS, NCI and MENC, Lehman's publications and miscellaneous items.
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Lester Cowan and Ann Ronell "Trial of Billie Holiday" Collection, 1957-1988. 0.50 Linear Feet.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
The Lester Cowan and Ann Ronell "Trial of Billie Holiday" Collection consists of correspondence, scores, lyric sheets, contracts, film proposals, screenplays, clippings, and photographs related to the proposed film, "The Trial of Billie Holiday," developed in collaboration by Lester Cowan and Ann Ronell.
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Theodore Lettvin Collection, 1934-2003. 7.75 linear feet.
Location: International Piano Archives at Maryland
A performer and music teacher, Theodore Lettvin (1926-2003) performed in many concerts, including orchestra concerts, solo recitals, and accompanist performances at the National Gallery of Art, the New York Town Hall, the Phillips Gallery, and various concerts in Germany. Lettvin also was the head of the music department at Cleveland School of Music Settlement, as well as a professor of piano at University of Michigan, New England Conservatory of Music, and Rutgers. In addition, Lettvin wrote general essays on music technique and articles for pianists concerning music performance careers. This collection contains concert programs, reviews, awards, articles, interviews, photographs, correspondence, recordings, advertisements, biographical sketches, itineraries, and directories related to Lettvins career, his involvement with various organizations, including Palm Beach Public, and his relationships with various friends and colleagues, including Robert Shaw, his wife, Joan Lettvin, and Ben Javits.
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Irving Lowens Papers, 1885-1995. 128.25 linear feet.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
Irving Lowens (1916-1983) was a music critic, musicologist, librarian, and educator based in the Washington, D.C. area. Among his many roles, he was the Chief Music Critic of the Washington Star newspaper (1960-1978), Assistant Head of the Music Division at the Library of Congress (1961-1966), and Dean of the Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University (1978-1981). As a scholar, he specialized in early American music, particularly hymnals, and he authored bibliographies, books, and scholarly articles on the subject. The Irving Lowens Papers consists of both personal and professional papers covers. The collection covers the period from 1885 to 1995; the bulk of the materials date from 1952 to 1983. Documents include correspondence and subject files; published music criticism, writings, and compositions; collected articles and newspaper clippings; employment and professional service materials; performance programs; music festival and travel materials; and research materials.
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Jerome Lowenthal Collection, 1954-1988. 4.00 linear feet.
Location: International Piano Archives at Maryland
Jerome Lowenthal (1932--) is a pianist and music educator. He has performed with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra and many major orchestras in the United States and is a faculty member at the Juilliard School in New York. Lowenthal was also a lecturer at the Jerusalem Academy in Israel. The collection consists of 4.00 linear feet of articles, programs, recordings, clippings, and publicity flyers related to Lowenthals career, the ensembles he was involved in, and the people he played with, including violinist Christiaan Boor and cellist Jeffery Solow.
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Lee Luvisi Collection, 1904-2007. 11.00 linear feet.
Location: International Piano Archives at Maryland
Lee Luvisi (1937--) was an American pianist. He has performed both solo works and chamber music pieces, and he has been both Artist in Residence at the University of Louisville School of Music in Kentucky and an Artist Member of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. This collection contains concert programs, reviews, articles, CDs, VHS tapes, correspondence, contracts, repertoire, photographs, and memorabilia related to Luvisis career, the ensembles he was involved in, and his relationships with his colleagues, including violinist Alexander Schneider, his teachers, Rudolf Serkin and Mieczyslaw Horszowski, and their wives, Irene Serkin and Bice Horszowski.
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Richard V. Madden Collection, 1882-1980. 1.00 linear feet.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
Richard Vickrey Madden was the band director for the Evanston Township and Haven High School Bands from 1937 to 1942. In 1942, he left Evanston and Haven to direct the Syracuse University Band and teach woodwinds. He also taught at Northwestern and Ohio State Universities at this time, directing summer session clinics at Northwestern and teaching woodwinds at Ohio. The Richard V. Madden Collection contains materials related to Madden's career as a performer, band director, and administrator.
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The Records of the Madrigal Singers, 1958-1983. 21.00 Linear Feet.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
The Madrigal Singers were organized at the University of Maryland in 1958 by Professor Rose Marie Grentzer to perform vocal and instrumental music dating from the pre-Renaissance period to twentieth-century America. The group's records include photographs, programs, newspaper clippings, correspondence, music, reels, and administrative records documenting the operation and performances of the Madrigal Singers.
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Solveig Lunde Madsen Collection, 1923-2004. 8.00 linear feet.
Location: International Piano Archives at Maryland
A performer and music educator, Solveig Lunde Madsen (1920-2011; originally known as Dorothy Lunde) performed in many recitals and orchestra concerts, including a concert tour of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden with the Scandinavian Symphony Orchestra of Detroit. Madsen also taught music at Brigham Young University and the University of Utah and was an active member of the American Liszt Society. This collection includes press books, publicity files, articles, clippings, concert programs and reviews, correspondence, itineraries, repertoire lists, photographs, recordings, scrapbooks, and other memorabilia related to Madsens career, the organizations she was involved with, and her relationships with her family and her colleagues, including her classmate William Kapell and her teacher, Olga Samaroff-Stotowski.
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Frank Mancini Papers, c.1926-1970. 0.50 Linear Feet.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
Frank Mancini (1886-1964) was an influential music educator in the Modesto, California. This collection focuses on his teaching and conducting career there and includes music programs of many of Mancini's ensembles and guest conducting appearances; correspondence with important musicians of the time including William Revelli, Edwin Franko Goldman, and others; instructional materials from Mancini's years as an educator; awards earned by Mancini and his bands; audio recordings of an interview with Mancini and a performance of the Modesto High School band; and materials focusing on Mancini's legacy.
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Michael Mark Papers, 1894-2008. 14.75 linear feet.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
Michael Mark (b. 1936) is an American music educator and author. He received his degrees in music from Catholic University (BM 1958 and DMA 1969), George Washington University (MA 1960), and the University of Michigan (MM 1962). During his career, Mark was employed by public school systems and universities in Maryland, Washington, D.C., and New York. As an author he has published numerous books and articles on music education, frequently on the history of that topic. This collection consists of educational materials, correspondence, writings, newspaper clippings, photographs, books, recordings, and scores related to his career as an educator and author.
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Lowell Mason Collection, 1808-1992. 10.00 Linear Feet.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
Lowell Mason (1792-1872) is known as the founder of American school music education and co-founder of the Boston Academy of Music. In addition to establishing curricular music in American public schools and teacher training in music, he is also known for the success of his compositions and arrangements of hymn tunes and tune books, including The Boston Handel and Haydn Society Collection of Church Music. Some of his other publications, mostly written for churches or schools, include The Juvenile Psalmist, The Juvenile Lyre, and The Manual of the Boston Academy of Music. This collection, part of the MENC Historical Center, consists of songs, hymns, and anthems; correspondence; books; articles; addresses; musical programs and advertisements; tributes; pamphlets; an unpublished manuscript; and memorabilia related to Lowell Mason's work, and materials related to members of Mason's family including the correspondence of his son Henry Lowell (H.L.) Mason.
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William Masselos Collection, 1912-1996. 10.00 linear feet.
Location: International Piano Archives at Maryland
A performer and music educator, William Masselos (1920-1992) had a very active concert career, including solo recitals, performances with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, and numerous other orchestra and chamber music concerts. Masselos also taught music at various universities, including Juilliard and the Catholic University of America, and was a faculty member at many music festivals, including the Aspen Music Festival, the Berkshire Music Festival, and the International Society for Contemporary Music Festival. This collection contains 6.00 linear feet of correspondence, programs, photographs, recordings, scores, articles, and memorabilia related to Masseloss career, the professional organizations and ensembles he was involved with, and his relationships with his close colleagues, including Betty Burnham, Herbert Barrett, and Joseph Lippman.
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Tobias Matthay Collection, 1885-2009. 2.00 linear feet.
Location: International Piano Archives at Maryland
Tobias Matthay (1858-1945) was a pianist, composer, and music writer. He wrote chamber music, piano, and vocal pieces, as well as books on music technique. Matthay also taught various music students at the Royal Academy of Music and occasionally performed. The collection consists of scores, books, lists, concert programs, and biographical materials related to Matthays career and his relationships with his pupils, including Denise Lassimonne.
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Frank McGrann Collection, 1899-1948. 8.00 linear feet.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
The Frank McGrann Collection primarily contains historic 78 rpm recordings, mostly of concert bands. Ensembles led by Arthur Pryor and John Philip Sousa are represented well, as well as discs by Conways Band. Orchestras and music for soloists are also included, particularly performances by Arthur Pryor and Herbert Clarke. The collection also contains some photographs, documents, band hats (believed to have been worn by John Philip Sousa), and printer's plates. The collection spans the years 1899-1948, and extends over 8 linear feet.
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Helen McGraw Collection, 1883-2002. 13.75 linear feet.
Location: International Piano Archives at Maryland
Helen McGraw (a.k.a. Helen McGraw Chambers) (1905-1999) was a piano performer, music educator and composer. She performed solo piano pieces and ensemble works at a variety of places, including at Peabody Conservatory of Music, the National Gallery of Art, and the Phillips Gallery, she was known for performing unfamiliar pieces. McGraw also taught piano lessons at the Eastman School of Music and American University in Washington, DC, among other places, composed various piano works, vocal pieces, and pieces for chamber ensembles, and was active in many musical organizations, including the Friday Morning Music Club and the Baltimore Music Club. The collection contains journal entries, artwork, programs, reviews, articles, correspondence, photographs, scores, publicity flyers, recordings, books, and biographical materials related to McGraws career, her involvement in organizations, and her close relationships, including her relationships with her husband, Robert Chambers, her mom, her performing colleague, Kay Rickett, and her friends, Mary Howe and Esther Ballou.
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Teddy McRae Papers, 1940-1981. 0.50 Linear Feet.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
Theodore "Teddy" McRae (1908-1999), nicknamed Mr. Bear, was a tenor saxophone player, arranger and composer. He worked with numerous bandleaders througout his career, including Chick Webb, Charlie Johnson, Elmer Snowden, Stuff Smith, and Lil Armstrong, Benny Morton, Artie Shaw, and Louis Armstrong. In addition he composed two successful tunes, "Back Bay Shuffle" in 1938 and "Traffic Jam" in 1939. In the late1950s, McRae formed Enrica Records and the production company Rae-Cox Records with Eddie Wilcox. This collection contains professional documents from Teddy McRae's personal papers during his time as an independent musician as well as professional documents from his work with the recording companies Enrica and Rae-Cox Records.
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The Stanley F. Michalski Jr. Collection, 1934-2012. 37.5 linear feet.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
Stanley F. Michalski, Jr. is a twenty and twenty-first century American music professor, scholar and conductor of collegiate bands. The majority of his career was spent in tenure at Clarion University of Pennsylvania as a professor, conductor, administrative assistant, coordinator, committee member, chairman, and advisor from 1961 to 1992. Dr. Michalski became a member of the American Bandmasters Association in 1974, and was elected president in 1998. The Stanley F. Michalski Jr. Collection covers the period from 1934 to 2012; the bulk of the materials date from 1956 to 1992. The collection consists of both personal and professional correspondence, photos, clippings, publications, scrapbooks, concert programs, reports, administrative documents, realia, and recordings related to Dr. Michalskis work as a band director, clinician, adjudicator, and music educator.
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Archives of The Midwest Clinic, An International Band and Orchestra Conference, 1947-2011. 84.75 Linear Feet.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
Begun in December 1946, The Midwest Clinic, An International Band and Orchestra Conference (MWIBOC), is a multi-day band and orchestra conference held annually in Chicago, IL. The conference not only includes performances of featured ensembles, but also focuses "on bringing music directors into contact with not only the best published music, but also with new and established teaching techniques, and the latest products and services for the music educator." The Midwest Clinic Archives serves as a repository for print and recorded materials associated with the annual conference. The archives include audio and visual recordings in a variety of formats, photographs and scrapbooks, programs and publications, and administrative documents of the organization. Materials from the earliest years of the clinic's history comprise a very small portion of the collection, though the collection does include programs dating to the 1st Annual Clinic in 1947. The earliest recordings are from 1956, and extensive administrative documents begin in the late 1970s. More details about the organization of this collection can be found here.
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Gilbert H. Mitchell Collection, 1943-1998. 1.5 linear feet.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
As a cornettist, conductor and educator, Gilbert H. Mitchell, Jr. (b. 1925) has been involved with numerous ensembles. His career began in 1943, at the age of 18, when he substituted with the Radio City Music Hall Symphony Orchestra and began to work with Leopold Stokowski and the New York City Symphony. Drafted into the Army in 1946, he began an illustrious career as a cornettist and conductor with the United States Army Band "Pershing's Own." He co-founded the Army Herald Trumpets and coordinated music for the state funeral of President John F. Kennedy. The collection consists of letters of commendation and awards related to Mitchell's career with the Army Band, photographs from throughout his career, and Mitchell's self-published memoir.
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James E. Moore Papers, 1924-1970. 3.00 linear feet.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
James E. Moore (1929-) is professor emeritus at Northwestern University in music education and was former Director of Admissions for the School of Music. He is most well known for his dissertation research (Ph.D. University of Michigan, 1968) on the National Band Contests from 1926 to 1931, organized by the National Association of Music, which is a significant contribution to music education research. Moore's research material encompass his collection, including a hardcopy and microfilm version of his dissertation, correspondence, notecards, programs, brochures, periodical clippings, contest yearbooks, and issues of The School Musician from 1929 to 1933.
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Hazel N. Morgan Papers, 1896-1998. 6.75 linear feet.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
Hazel N. Morgan (1894-1985) was an American music educator. She received degrees from the University of Nebraska, Nebraska State Teachers College, Claremont College, the University of Minnesota, and the MacPhail School of Music. She authored numerous texts on music education and was inducted into MENCs Music Educators Hall of Fame in 1998. The Hazel N. Morgan Papers covers the period from 1896 to 1998; the bulk of the materials date from 1920 to 1980. The collection consists of both personal and professional papers including published and unpublished writings, speeches, correspondence, programs, photographs, clippings, and articles related to Hazel N. Morgans careers as a music educator, her involvement with MENC, and her personal projects.
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Russell V. Morgan Papers, 1896-1998. 1.75 linear feet.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
Russell V. Morgan (1893-1952) was an American music educator, former President of MENC (1930-32) and MENC Hall of Fame inductee (1996). Morgan studied music education at Northwestern University where he received a BM (1915), MM (1921), and was awarded an honorary doctorate (1936). During his career, Morgan served as an army bandmaster during World War I, a church organist, a supervisor of music in public schools, and author of articles, books and school texts on music and music education. The Russell V. Morgan Papers covers the period from 1896-1998; the bulk of the materials date from 1920-1952. The collection consists of both personal and professional papers including published and unpublished writings, speeches, correspondence, programs, photographs, clippings, and articles related to the Morgans career as a music educator, his involvement with MENC, and music education and reference materials.
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Music Educators National Conference Historical Center, 1810-present. 1087.00 Linear Feet.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
As the premiere music education association in the United States, the Music Educators National Conference (MENC) is devoted to assessing and improving the state of music education in schools on all levels. The MENC Historical Center collection includes administrative records, MENC publications, and papers of past presidents and other eminent music educators. Other related historical records and special collections include the Contemporary Music Project Archives, the John Curwen Manuscripts, National Association for Advancement of Music Archives, the Pillsbury Foundation School Archives, a Lowell Mason Collection, a Luther Whiting Mason Collection, and the records of several publishing companies. Special research resources include a textbook collection, curriculum guide collection, research papers, instructional recordings, oral histories, photographs, reference books, biography file, and an extensive serials collection. More details about the collection can be found on the Libraries' guide to the Music Educators National Conference Historical Center. The processing of this collection supported by the Rose Marie Grentzer Fund.
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Music Library Association Archives, 1931-present. 333.00 Linear Feet.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
The Music Library Association (MLA) was established for music librarians and scholars alike to promote the establishment, growth and use of music libraries; to encourage the collection of music and musical literature; and to search for ways to improve music libraries. The MLA archives consist of administrative and financial records, oral histories, publications, some regional chapter records and newsletters, committee reports, publications, conference documents and programs, photographs, and regalia.
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National Association of College Wind and Percussion Instructors Research Center Score Collection, 1827-present. 61.00 Linear Feet.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
The National Association of College Wind and Percussion Instructors (NACWPI) addresses the needs and concerns of instrumental instructors on college and university campuses and plays a key role in the education of today's young wind and percussion musicians. The Research Center score collection contains over 4,400 scores. This collection of solo and ensemble music for wind and percussion instruments consists of gifts from Dr. Geary Larrick, David Hite, various publishing companies, and NACWPI itself in the form of composition contest scores.
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National Assocation of Teachers of Singing (NATS) Archives, 1943-2013. 28.00 linear feet.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
The National Association of Teachers of Singing was established in 1944 as an educational and collaborative resource for the profession. Through workshops, conferences, events, and publications such as the Journal of Singing, NATS supports the teaching of singing worldwide. The NATS Archives contains documents, publications, recordings and memorabilia representing the history of the Association since the idea for the organization came into being in 1943.
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Jerry Pierce Papers, 1898-1994. 3.00 Linear Feet and 412 Recordings.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
Jerry Pierce (1937-1994), an American clarinetist, saxophonist, teacher, writer, and avid collector, was born in 1937 in Muncie, Indiana. He played clarinet with the Virginia Symphony, Birmingham Symphony, and Anderson Symphony, and saxophone with Doug Mulligan and Russ Carlyle. From 1967 until the 1980s, he taught clarinet at Anderson University and Marion College. In 1980 he became the President of the International Clarinet Association and served until 1986. The collection is comprised of Pierce's professional and personal papers, photographs, manuscripts, and recordings. The collection consists of correspondence, writings, published programs, newspaper articles, photographs, autographs, manuscripts, non-clarinet scores, and recordings.
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Lilla Belle Pitts Papers, 1928-1961. 9.00 Linear Feet.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
Lilla Belle Pitts (1884-1970) was a prominent music educator known for her advocacy of "child-centered" music education, the promotion of diverse cultural experiences through music, the use of folk and popular music for children, and the integration of music into the wider public school curriculum. The collection consists of manuscript, mimeographed and published music used in workshops by Pitts, manuscripts and typescripts of scholarly articles by Pitts, teaching materials related to her tenure at Columbia University, numerous press clippings arranged (by Pitts) by subject, personal and professional correspondence, and papers of a personal nature.
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Donald Pond Collection, circa 1910-1987. 16.50 Linear Feet.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
Donald Pond (1906-1983) was a music educator, composer, and performer. Born in England, Pond immigrated to New York City at the age of twenty-seven and began working at the Dalton School, the Children's Theatre Arts Workshop, and as a guest lecturer at Teachers College, Columbia University. In 1937, Pond became the Music Director of the Pillsubury Foundation School, which was established with assistance from Leopold Stokowski for the study of young children's spontaneous music-making. After leaving the school in 1945, Pond stayed in the Santa Barbara, CA area and worked as a pianist, a teacher for the Music Academy of the West, and was the host of "Pleasure in Pictures," a music themed radio program. The collection consists of letters, writings, scores, books, articles, photographs, clippings, publications, radio scripts, observation notes, and sound recordings related to Pond's life and work.
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Edward L. Rainbow Papers, 1965-2003. .50 linear feet.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
Edward L. Rainbow (1929-2002), a professional musician, was involved in a variety of ensembles throughout his career. For many years he performed with groups such as the U.S. Army Band, and the Fort Worth and Sacramento Symphonies. During this time he became an assistant dean at the University of the Pacific, and later a professor of double bass at the University of North Texas. Throughout his life Rainbow was also an avid member of MENCs Music Educators Research Council. This collection consists of correspondence, biographical information, programs for university ensembles, memorandums, meeting agendas and notes, research papers, proposals, bibliographies, handbooks, budget outlines, dissertation reviews, and personal notes, as well as other materials pertaining to Rainbows career as a professor at the University of North Texas; his work as an assistant dean at the University of the Pacific; his work as a member of MENCs Music Educators Research Council; and his extensive research in music education.
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Alfred Reed Collection, 1953-1966. 2.00 Linear Feet.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
Alfred Reed (1921-2005) was a composer, arranger, and conductor in the U.S. His birth name was Alfred Friedman but by the time he was ten, he was playing trumpet professionally under the name Alfred Reed. From 1938 to 1942, he was a staff composer, arranger, and assistant conductor for the Radio Workshop in New York. His next positions were as associate conductor of the 529th U.S. Air Force Band, and as staff composer and arranger for NBC and ABC. In 1953 he became conductor of the Baylor University Symphony Orchestra, where he also earned Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Music. From 1955 until 1966 he was executive editor at Hansen Publications. After that he taught at the University of Miami, where he began a program in music business, the first of its kind. He retired in 1993. Reed wrote over 250 works, mostly for wind band. He also appeared as a guest conductor with wind ensembles throughout the world. This collection consists of 11 sketches, 7 condensed manuscript scores, and 19 full manuscript scores for several of Reed's original compositions and arrangements. All documents are in Reed's hand.
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Bennett Reimer Papers, 1956-2013. null.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
Bennet Reimer (born 1932), a wind player, music educator and noted author, held the John W. Beattie Endowed Chair in Music position at Northwestern University where he was Chair of Music Education Department, Director of the PhD Program in Music Education, and founder and Director of the Center for the Study of Education and the Musical Experience.The collection consists of published books and accompanying materials, unpublished works, journal articles, guest lecture materials and drafts of speeches given by Reimer, and materials related to books Reimer published for Silver-Burdett Music. This collection is unprocessed; an inventory is available upon request.
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Ada Richter Collection, 1908-1990. 8.00 linear feet.
Location: International Piano Archives at Maryland
A composer and lecturer, Ada Richter (a.k.a. Hugo Arnold, Wilma Moore, and Eileen Gail) composed many pieces throughout her career, including musical dramas, piano solos, piano and voice pieces, and arrangements of pieces by other composers. Richter also lectured both alone and with her husband, Alfred Richter throughout the world on piano instruction. Her husband was also a composer of piano pieces and writer on piano methods and is included in the collection. The collection consists of 8.00 linear feet of concert programs, reviews, correspondence, photographs, advertisements, articles, published and unpublished scores, scrapbooks, legal documents, sketches, awards, and brochures related to Richters career as a composer and lecturer, her involvement in the National Maier Musical Association, and her relationships with her close colleagues, including Florence Boutwell, Guy Maier, and her husband, Alfred Richter.
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Walter Robert Collection, 1836-1993. 10.00 linear feet.
Location: International Piano Archives at Maryland
A piano performer, music educator, and writer, Walter Robert (1908-1999) performed many solo and accompaniment recitals, including concerts in New York, Vienna, Italy, Austria, and Taiwan. In addition, Robert taught music at North Texas University and Indiana University and was a professor for brief periods of time at many places worldwide. Robert also wrote articles on various composers and music styles and was a lifelong scholar in classical languages. The collection contains scrapbooks, concert programs, articles, publicity flyers, biographical sketches, correspondence, books, photographs, recordings, and memorabilia related to Roberts career, his post-retirement graduate work, and the colleagues that he was close to, including Charles Webb, Maurice Hinson, and his wife, Dorothy Robert.
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Clara Rockmore Collection, 1898-1996. 6.50 Linear Feet.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
Clara Rockmore (1911-1998) was trained as a violinist and later became a premiere thereminist. She was born Klara Reisenberg in Vilna, Lithuania. By the age of four, she had enrolled in the St. Petersburg Conservatory to study with Leopold Auer. Later, after immigrating to the U.S. in the mid-1920s she met Leon Theremin and became an expert on the Theremin. She married the producer Robert Rockmore in 1933. Her sister was the pianist Nadia Reisenberg and her nephew the broadcaster Robert Sherman. (The Nadia Reisenberg Papers are held in IPAM and the Robert Sherman Papers are held in SCPA.) Much of the Rockmore collection documents her career as a thereminist during the 1930s and 1940s, although there are also items from her early childhood and late adult years. It includes reviews, articles, correspondence, writings, photographs, scrapbooks, books, and scores.
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Polly H. Carder Collection on George F. Root, 1852-1907. 1 linear foot; 48 songbooks; 207 scores; 3 items.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
George Frederick Root (1820-1895) was an American songwriter and music educator. He is perhaps best known for his song "The Battle Cry of Freedom," which was written and rose to popularity during the U.S. Civil War. The Polly H. Carder Collection on George F. Root contains original published scores and songbooks from the period 1852-1907 and photocopied scores collected by Polly H. Carder, author of the book George F. Root, Civil War Songwriter: A Biography. The collection also contains a short article, "The Last Days of George F. Root," written by Root's daughter, Clara Louise Burnham.
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Lynn L. Sams Papers, 1930-1990. 33.00 Linear Feet.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
A founding member of the American Bandmasters Association, Lynn L. Sams (1896-1990) was also a businessman and leader in the music industry. For many years, he served as editor of the ABA newsletter and as the ABA historian--both in official and unofficial capacities. Over his lifetime, Sams collected biographical and photographic materials documenting the history of the band in America and the prominent people in the band world. The collection consists of correspondence, notes, photographs, sound recordings, and publications related to Sams' research on the 20th century band movement and development of the American Bandmasters Association, and for his unfinished manuscript "History of School Bands." Correspondents include Harold B. Bachman, Jaroslav "Jerry" Cimera, Herbert L. Clarke, Merle Evans, William P. Foster, Karl L. King, Caesar LaMonaca, Frank Mancini, Williams Santelmann, Al Wright, and Paul Yoder.
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Clarence E. Sawhill Papers, 1933-1981. 6.00 linear feet.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
Clarence E. Sawhill (1906-1982) was a conductor, music educator, and clinician. He was Director of Bands at the University of California at Los Angeles from 1952-1972. Prior to this, he was Director of Bands at the University of Southern California, Assistant Director of Bands at the University of Illinois, and a high school band director in Urbana, Illinois and Lawrence, Kansas. Sawhill was elected to the American Bandmasters Association in 1948. The Clarence E. Sawhill Papers consists of personal and professional papers including correspondence, publications, programs, memorabilia, clippings, and articles related to Sawhill's extensive teaching career.
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Howard Serwer Papers, null. linear feet.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
Howard Serwer (1928-2000) joined the University of Maryland in 1968, and was a member of the Board of Directors and Vice President of the Georg-Friedrich-Handel-Gesellschaft from 1968 to 1995. Serwer, along with Paul Traver, was one of the driving forces behind the 1975 Handel Festival held in Washington, DC. His collection consists of chronological files of composers, files, tapes and microfilm related to Handel, books, scores and anthologies, and journal articles. This collection is unprocessesd; an inventory is available upon request.
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Robert Sherman Collection, 1950-2010. 27.5 Linear Feet, 4,036 Recordings, 10 Videos.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
Son of pianist Nadia Reisenberg, and nephew of thereminist Clara Rockmore, Robert Sherman (b. 1932) is a renowned radio broadcaster, author, and educator whose noteworthy career spans from the 1950s to today. At radio station WQXR in New York, Sherman worked as the Music Director and Program Manager, and he is best known for hosting numerous programs, including "Woody's Children" and the nationally broadcast "The Listening Room." As an author, Sherman has written columns for The New York Times as well as several books about music, including those co-authored with Victor Borge. The Robert Sherman Collection covers the period from 1950 to 2010; the bulk of the materials date from 1960 to 2008. The collection consists of both personal and professional papers including scripts, recordings, writings, correspondence, event programs, clippings, photographs, and awards related to Sherman's work as a broadcaster, author, and educator. Among the most significant holdings include recordings of his programs "Woody's Children," "The Listening Room," and "Young Artists Showcase," and correspondence with numerous renowned artists such as Clara Rockmore, Pete Seeger, Aaron Copland, Henry Cowell, and Leopold Stokowski.
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Madeleine Bartfeld Sigel Collection of Autographs and Performing Arts Memorabilia, 1899-2003. 9.00 Linear Feet.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
Madeleine Bartfeld Sigel (b. 1924), who grew up in Austria and later emigrated to the United States, and her father Albert Bartfeld, a theatre manager and owner of a cabaret in Vienna in the 1930's, were both avid collectors of performing arts autographs and programs. This collection includes programs from various performances attended by Sigel thoughout the United States and internationally, the bulk of which are from the Washington, DC metro area; materials related to the Comedian Harmonists, a popular male vocal ensemble who performed throughout Europe in the mid-to-late 1930's; and scrapbooks, photographs and autographs of various performers from the early 1900's through the 1930's collected by Sigel and her father.
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Alexander Siloti Collection, 1859-1983. 12.00 linear feet.
Location: International Piano Archives at Maryland
Alexander Siloti (a.k.a. Ziloti) (1863-1945) was a piano performer, conductor, and music teacher. He performed in Europe and the United States, as well as conducting orchestras in Moscow and St. Petersburg. In addition, Siloti taught piano lessons at the Moscow Conservatory, was a member of the faculty at the Juilliard School, and was known for his transcriptions, arrangements, and editions of various pieces. This collection contains 12.00 linear feet of scores, programs, publicity brochures, correspondence, clippings, books, and notebooks related to Silotis career, the orchestras he played with, and his relationships with his close colleagues, including Sergei Rachmaninoff, Franz Liszt, and his daughter, Kyriena Siloti.
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Kenneth Slater Collection, 1859-2006. 17.00 Linear Feet.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
A conductor and cornetist, Kenneth Slater (1917-2005) was involved with numerous bands throughout his career. He performed with the "The President's Own" United States Marine Band and the United States Army Field Band, where he was the cornet soloist for nearly a decade. Later he became the director of the Almas Temple Band (Washington, DC) and Hagerstown Municipal Band (Maryland). In addition, Slater was also a charter member of the Shrine Bandmasters, a Past President of the Pennsylvania Bandmasters Association, and an active member of the American Bandmasters Association. The collection consists of correspondence, administrative records, programs and tour itineraries, military documents, books, newsletters, articles, newspaper clippings, scores: published and manuscript, photographs, regalia, and other memorabilia related to Slater's career; the ensembles with which he was involved; and the colleagues with whom he had close relationships including Merle Evans, Joseph Losh, Leonard Smith, and his father, George H. Slater.
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Earl Slocum Collection, 1875-1990. 5.00 Linear Feet.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
Dr. Earl A. Slocum was born near Concord, Michigan and became the first male student to graduate from Albion College with a public school music certificate. After receiving his Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Michigan, Slocum took a position as director of bands at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and conductor of the University Symphony Orchestra. He remained at the University until his retirement in 1967. Dr. Slocum was elected to the American Bandmasters Association in 1941, and was elected President in 1962. He is also known for his transcriptions for concert band. This collection consists of photographs, scores, memorabilia, and scrapbooks collected by Dr. Slocum.
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Claude T. Smith Collection, 1964-1987. 31.00 Linear Feet.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
Claude Thomas Smith was an American educator, conductor, and composer born in Missouri in 1932. A prolific composer, Smith completed over 110 compositions for band, twelve orchestral works, and fifteen choral pieces. His compositions include the works Emperata Overture which was featured at the 1964 Mid-West Band and Orchestra Clinic; Eternal Father Strong to Save which was commissioned in 1975 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the U.S. Navy Band and premiered at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C; and Flight which was adopted as the "official march" of the Smithsonian Institute's National Air and Space Museum. Smith worked as an instrumental music educator in Nebraska and Missouri until 1976, developing during that time a pedagogical system that was later codified in his band method books, and from 1976-1978 was a professor at Southwest Missouri State University. Upon leaving the University in 1978, Smith's focus became primarily on composing, which he continued until his death in 1987. The collection, part of the ABA Research Center, contains manuscript condensed and full scores, editing/correction scores, and published scores written throughout Smith's career. All scores are arranged alphabetically by composition title. The bulk of these manuscripts are editing/correction scores that document the final stages of Smith's creative process.
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Society for Ethnomusicology Archives, 1953-present. 54.00 Linear Feet.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
The Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM) was founded in 1955 by David McAllester, Alan Merriam, Willard Rhodes, and Charles Seeger to promote the research, study, and performance of music in all historical periods and cultural contexts. Through its publications and its national and regional meetings, the Society provides a forum for discussion of current scholarly research and fosters the promotion and development of a variety of traditional art forms. The SEM archives consists of administrative records; presidential and other executive committee member papers; minutes; reports; membership rosters; financial reports and audits; committee records; chapter records; conference materials; associated organization materials; and publications including the SEM Journal, Newsletter, and audio-visual and monograph series. Some files in this collection are restricted. Please contact the curator for more information.
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Society for Music Theory Archives, 1966-1999. 16.50 linear feet.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
The Society for Music Theory (SMT) promotes music theory as both a scholarly and a pedagogical discipline. SMT has a membership of over 1200 music theorists worldwide. SMT was founded in 1977 out of the American Musicological Society by Richmond Browne, Allen Forte, and others who believed that Music Theory was not adequately respected as a subject and should be taught by theorists instead of musicologists, performers, or composers. The first SMT meeting was held in Evanston in 1977. The Society has held an Annual Meeting hosted by a different University every year at which members present analytical and pedagogical research. The SMT publishes a twice-annual journal, The Music Theory Spectrum, and a Newsletter. This collection contains personal papers from past Presidents, Secretaries and Treasurers, papers from the Executive Board meetings, By-laws and business office papers, membership materials, Newsletters and Music Theory Spectrum along with Editors Papers, Committee correspondence and reports, correspondence with other related organizations, and papers and ephemera from Annual Meetings.
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William J. Stannard Papers, 1904-1950. 1.5 linear feet.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
William J. Stannard (1893-1950) was the first person appointed to the position of Leader of the U.S. Army Band. Stannard's entire career was spent as an Army musician, from his first enlistment with the Tenth Band of the Coast Artillery Corps in 1901, through his retirement from the U.S. Army Band in 1935, and his leaving the Army Officers Reserve Corps in 1942. This collection consists of both personal and professional papers including correspondence, scrapbooks and press clippings, programs, press releases, and radio scripts, letters of commendation and service papers, a musical composition, and photographs related to Stannard's career with the U.S. Army band as a musician and a conductor.
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Lynn Steele Collection, 1957-2003. 36.25 Linear Feet.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
Catherine Lynn Steele was an active translator, instrumentalist, singer, and composer. She began composing at the age of nine and had her first composition, Conglomera, premiered by her Junior High School Orchestra in Hingham, MA in 1964. She received a degree in Spanish from Smith College in 1973, and later studied to be a translator at the Monterey Institute. In 1982, Steele received her Master's degree from American University, where she composed a full length opera, Dominique, and went on to receive a Doctorate from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music in 1993. An active member of the American Women Composers of Massachusetts, she served as the organization's vice-president in 1993 and then as president from 1993 to 1996. After receiveing her doctorate, Steele's interests turned more towards singing than composing although her works were still performed, both by herself and by others. One of her main interests was in Scandinavian composers and art song, which she traveled to Sweden to study in the summer of 1999. She had been diagnosed with cancer, yet remained a vibrant and active personality, giving concerts and remaining active as a musician until her death on December 10, 2002. The collection consists of clippings, correspondence, biographical materials, scores and sketches, recordings, writings, programs, and photographs related to Steele's career.
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Leopold Stokowski Papers, 1908-1982. 1.75 linear feet.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
Leopold Stokowski (1882-1977) was an American conductor, who led the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, American Youth Orchestra, New York City Symphony, Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra, NBC Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Houston Symphony Orchestra, and American Symphony Orchestra. His career began with studies at the Royal College of Music in 1896 when Stokowski was just 13. He performed as an organist and choral director for several years in England, Europe and the U.S. before becoming director of the Cincinnati Orchestra in 1909. During his career, Stokowski promoted Modern and late Romantic music aggressively, combining an avant-garde approach with a traditional glamour that drew audiences of all sorts to his performances. Today he is perhaps most well known for his collaboration with Walt Disney on the movie Fantasia.
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George Tremblay Collection, 1923-2008. 13.75 linear feet.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
George Amede Tremblay (1911-1982) was a Canadian born composer and teacher who relocated to the United States in 1920, settling in Los Angeles by 1925. He is known primarily for his work as a pedagogue of the serial technique of composition. In 1965 he discovered the definitive cycle, a serial technique that he explored in his own compositions as well as in his book The Definitive Cycle of the Twelve Tone Row (NY: Criterion Music Corp., 1974). The George Tremblay Collection consists of both personal and professional papers including scores, performance reviews, correspondence, musings, recordings, and notes on the definitive cycle related to Tremblays work as a composer and teacher in the Los Angeles area, and his involvement with the American Composers Alliance, Broadcast Music Inc., and the Fleischer Collection at the Free Library of Philadelphia.
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Balint Vaszonyi Collection, 1853-2003. 24.00 linear feet.
Location: International Piano Archives at Maryland
Balint Vazsonyi (March 7, 1936-January 2003) was a Hungarian-American pianist, perhaps best known for playing all thirty-two chronological cycles of Beethovens sonatas. Vazsonyi also was an author who wrote extensively on political science in the Washington Times and other media sources. The collection consists of concert programs, reviews, correspondence, newspaper and magazine articles, recordings, lectures, scrapbooks, brochures, manuscripts, books, and videos related to Vazsonyis performing and teaching careers, the ensembles he was involved in, events in his life, his political involvement, and his relationships with several people and organizations, especially his teacher, Ernst von Dohnanyi, and his management, Kazuko Hillyer International, Inc.
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Viola da Gamba Society of America (VdGSA) Archives, 1950-2012. 19.5 linear feet.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
The Viola da Gamba Society of America, founded in 1962, is a national organization dedicated to the support of activities relating to the viola da gamba or viol in the United States and abroad. It is a society of players, builders, publishers, distributors, restorers, and others sharing a serious interest in music for viols and other early bowed string instruments. The Viola da Gamba Society Archives covers the period of 1950-2012 and contains organizational records, publications, conclave materials, historical information about the society and the viol, and scores and recordings of music for the viol.
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Jack Wainwright Collection, 1923-1926. 1.00 linear foot.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
The Jack Wainwright Collection contains five scrapbooks of materials, mostly relating to school band contests in which Wainwright was involved between 1923 and 1926.
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Don Wilcox Collection, 1934-2009. 4.00 linear feet.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
Don Gene Wilcox (b. 1934) is a twentieth and twenty-first century American collegiate band director and clinician. He was director of bands at West Virginia University for over thirty years. He is a member and past president of the American Bandmasters Association. The Don Wilcox collection contains material from 1958 to 2005 with the bulk of the materials from between 1969 and 2001. This collection contains personal and professional correspondence, programs, newsletters, clippings, photos, and realia.
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Earl Wild Collection, 1924-2010. 12.75 linear feet.
Location: International Piano Archives at Maryland
A pianist and composer, Earl Wild (1915-2010) performed and transcribed numerous pieces throughout the years. He was best-known for his all-Chopin and all-Liszt concerts and his piano transcriptions of Rachmaninoff and Gershwin pieces. Wild also was active as a teacher and adjudicator. The collection consists of correspondence, programs, reviews, articles, flyers, recordings, photographs, compositions, and souvenirs related to Wilds career, the events he attended, the people and ensembles he performed with, and his relationships with his colleagues.
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Arthur L. Williams Collection, 1914-1972. 2.75 linear feet.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
Arthur L. Williams was an active researcher and musician. He was appointed to the faculty of the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music in 1928 and founded the Ohio Intercollegiate Band Festival and the Ohio School Orchestra Contests in 1929. In 1950, Williams was elected to the American Bandmaster's Association (ABA) and served as chairman of ABA Research Sub-Committee on Band Research Study Topics. The collection contains Williams' correspondence with ABA members regarding band research. Included are also programs from ABA conventions, music pamphlets, and his personal research on Percy Grainger.
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Ernest S. Williams Collection, 1917-2002. 8.00 Linear Feet.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
Ernest S. Williams (1881-1947) was associated with many ensembles during his career as a cornetist, educator, and bandmaster. As a cornetist, he performed with the Sousa and Goldman bands and the Philadelphia Symphony under the baton of Leopold Stokowski. He founded the Ernest Williams School of Music in Brooklyn, New York in the 1920s and a summer music camp in Saugerties, New York in 1930. The Ernest S. Williams Collection consists of professional papers including photographs; published and unpublished scores; newspaper clippings; programs; correspondence; memorabilia; and sound recordings related to the Ernest Williams School of Music, the Ernest Williams Band and Orchestra Camp, and other ensembles that Williams worked with in his career as a music educator and performer. Also included in the collection are files associated with the Ernest Williams Alumni Association.
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George C. Wilson Collection, 1936-1982. 0.50 Linear Feet.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
Dr. George C. Wilson was known as a music educator and conductor, holding positions at the at Kansas State Teachers College, University of Arizona and University of Missouri. He was elected president of the American Bandmaster Association in 1965 and was later named as an honorary life member in 1998. During his tenure he helped organize the 1966 conference of the International Society for Music Education, the first to be held in the United States, at Interlochen, Michigan. Dr. Wilson dedicated much of his life to the National Music Camp, later to become Interlochen Arts Camp, serving as a faculty member, vice-president, and also interim president in 1970-1971 for the Interlochen Center for the Arts. In 1973 he assisted Imelda Marcos with the development and planning of the Philippine Center of the Arts. This collection contains programs, posters, other documents, and some correspondence collected by Dr. Wilson.
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Arthur Wise Papers, 1861-1972. 9.00 linear feet.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
Arthur Wise (1906-1973) was a music educator, involved as both a public school band director and a community ensemble conductor. He served the public school system for over 35 year, as band director at Lisbon H.S. in Lisbon, Ohio, and Lincoln High School in Philadelphia. In addition to his professional responsibilities, Wise was an avid Civil War scholar, and, with the collaboration of Francis A. Lord, he published two books on the topic, Bands and Drummer Boys of the Civil War and Uniforms of the Civil War. Wise also completed research for and drafts of a text on the Willow Grove Park Concerts by the likes of Arthur Pryor, Patrick Conway, John Philip Sousa, and the Banda Rossa, as well as the orchestras of Wassili Leps, Theodore Thomas, Nahan Franko, Walter Damrosch, and Victor Herbert. The work remains unpublished. The collection consists of both personal and professional papers including correspondence, photographs, musical scores, research materials, programs, newsletters, articles, newspaper clippings, book drafts, and other memorabilia related to Wise's career.
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Al Wright Papers, 1905-1990. 6.50 linear feet.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
The Al G. Wright (1916-) collection contains correspondence, programs, articles, notes, scores, and photographs documenting Wright's career as Director of Bands at Purdue University between 1954 and 1981, and his involvement in a variety of wind band organizations.
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Ivan Wyschnegradsky Collection, 1937-1991. 3.75 linear feet.
Location: International Piano Archives at Maryland
An experimental composer, Ivan Wyschnegradsky (1893-1979) wrote many pieces on quarter tones and other microtones. The collection consists of 3.75 Linear Feet of concert programs, correspondence, articles, journals, books, recordings, and scores related to Wyschnegradskys career, performances of his work after his death, and his relationships with his close friends and colleagues, including John Dierks, Mildred Couper, and his wife, Lucille Gayden.
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Paul V. Yoder Collection, 1959-1981. 1.00 Linear Foot.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
Paul Van Buskirk Yoder (1908-1990) was an internationally known conductor, clinician, and adjudicator. He was elected president of the American Bandmasters Association (ABA) in 1963, and served on their board of directors as well as the board for the Midwest International Band and Orchestra Clinic. Dr. Yoder was instrumental in establishing the ABA Research Center at the University of Maryland and the Journal of Band Research, published by the ABA. He co-wrote a series of music theory and method books, a six volume guide to band arranging, and composed over 1,500 solo and ensemble works for young musicians. This collection consists of programs, brochures, newspaper and magazine clippings, and correspondence collected by Dr. Yoder. Dr. Yoder died in 1990.
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Papers of Victor Zajec, 1962-2012. 5.50 Linear Feet and 68 items.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
Victor Zajec (1923-2005) has written two books on the history of the American Bandmasters Association: "The Edwin Franko Goldman Memorial Citation: A History," 1998 and Past Presidents of the American Bandmasters Association, 2000. Both books provide biographical sketches of the office holders and honorees. The Zajec Collection contains correspondence and information files on these individuals. The Zajec Papers also include research materials for Victor's book The First Fifty Years: Mid-West International Band and Orchestra Clinic (Homewood, IL: Midwest Clinic, 1996). The Victor Zajec Papers are found in two locations: the American Bandmasters Association Archives and the Midwest Clinic Archives.
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Asher G. Zlotnik Papers, ca. 1945-1997. 30.50 linear feet.
Location: Special Collections in Performing Arts
Dr. Asher G. Zlotnik (1915-1997) was a music scholar and teacher who spent most of his career teaching music theory and sight singing to practicing musicians, including members of the Glen Miller and Tommy Dorsey bands, and members of the radio network orchestras at ABS, CBS, NBC and the WOR radio orchestra. His academic teaching positions included the Hartford School of Music, Manhattan School of Music, and Boston University. He also engaged in research and private teaching in Baltimore until his retirement in 1995. The collection consists of correspondence, scores, writings, articles, clippings, research and notes, student papers and dissertations, educational materials, notebooks, audio recordings, periodicals, and publications related to Zlotnik's work as a music educator and researcher, particularly his research on Robert Schumann and the re-orchestration of Schumann's symphonies.