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    William Remsen Strickland collection, 1926-1991 This collection is comprised of materials related to the career of American conductor and composer William Remsen Strickland (1914-1991). It includes correspondence, concert programs, publicity materials, newspaper and magazine clippings, music manuscripts by Strickland and other composers, articles, speeches and notes, photographs, scrapbooks, datebooks, journals, and recordings.
    • Contributor: Barber, Samuel - Berg, Alban - Schoenberg, Arnold - Strickland, William - Cowell, Henry
    • Date: 1926
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    Sidney Robertson Cowell collection, 1901-1992 Sidney Robertson Cowell (1903-1995) was a folksong and ethnic music collector and recordist, ethnographer, ethnomusicologist, teacher, writer, and wife of composer Henry Cowell. The collection consists of her personal papers which document all aspects of her life and work. The collection includes correspondence relating to personal and professional matters; fieldwork reports, fieldnotes, song lists and other materials from her field recording projects and trips;...
    • Contributor: Cowell, Henry - Cowell, Sidney Robertson
    • Date: 1901
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    Modern Music archives, 1909-1983 The League of Composers was founded in New York in 1923 to promote American composers and introduce audiences to the best in new music through high quality performances. Its quarterly journal, Modern Music, was published from 1924 to 1946, and edited by Minna Lederman Daniel. It is one of the most distinguished collections of criticism and scholarship concerning early twentieth-century musical arts. The archives...
    • Contributor: Smirnoff, Boris - Picasso, Pablo - Piston, Walter - Cowell, Henry - Cowell, Sidney Robertson - Heinsich, Richard - Rosenfeld, Paul - Breton, André - Berg, Alban - League of Composers (U.S.) ... Smirnoff, Boris - Picasso, Pablo - Piston, Walter - Cowell, Henry - Cowell, Sidney Robertson - Heinsich, Richard - Rosenfeld, Paul - Breton, André - Berg, Alban - League of Composers (U.S.) - Shapero, Harold - Thomson, Virgil - Kirstein, Lincoln - Denby, Edwin - Lederman, Minna - Caruso, Enrico - Copland, Aaron - Brecht, Bertolt
    • Date: 1909
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    Randolph S. Rothschild collection, 1942-1992 The Randolph S. Rothschild Collection consists primarily of music and accompanying correspondence, programs, and reviews. The majority of the music in the collection is facsimile scores of compositions commissioned by the Chamber Music Society of Baltimore and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra from American composers such as Milton Babbitt, Henry Cowell, Ross Lee Finney, Lukas Foss, Ernst Krenek, Roger Reynolds, Christopher Rouse, Gunther Schuller, and...
    • Contributor: Schuller, Gunther - Weisgall, Hugo - Foss, Lukas - Moss, Lawrence - Wuorinen, Charles - Babbitt, Milton - Lewis, Robert Hall - Cowell, Henry - Argento, Dominick - Shapey, Ralph ... Schuller, Gunther - Weisgall, Hugo - Foss, Lukas - Moss, Lawrence - Wuorinen, Charles - Babbitt, Milton - Lewis, Robert Hall - Cowell, Henry - Argento, Dominick - Shapey, Ralph - Kirchner, Leon - Reynolds, Roger - Rothschild, Randolph S. - Finney, Ross Lee - Druckman, Jacob - Rouse, Christopher - Krenek, Ernst
    • Date: 1942
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    Hall Johnson papers, 1913-1980 Hall Johnson was a choral conductor, composer, and arranger of spirituals. Through his arrangements, writings, and performances of the Hall Johnson Choir, he raised the profile of the African American spiritual as a significant art form. The collection contains holograph and manuscript scores for several of his compositions and arrangements, works by other composers, concert programs, scripts, and legal and financial papers related to...
    • Contributor: Johnson, Hall - Macgimsey, Robert - Harrison, Lou - Foster, Stephen Collins - Cowell, Henry
    • Date: 1913
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    American Music Loan Libraries Project records, 1941-1948 The American Music Loan Libraries Project, originally established as the Music Distribution Project, was one of many initiatives conceived by the United States Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs to promote inter-American cooperation and boost the United States image in the Americas beginning in the 1940s. The reports, correspondence, repertoire lists, and other files help document the project's work to supply depositories with...
    • Contributor: Cowell, Henry - American Music Loan Libraries Project - Chase, Gilbert - Spivacke, Harold
    • Date: 1941
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    Herman Langinger music publishing files, 1889-1972 Herman Langinger was a music engraver, printer, and editor for New Music Society of California and other influential music publishers. The collection contains pre-publication and published music materials, including annotated manuscript and holograph scores and proof copies, as well as correspondence with composers and publishing associates. It also includes a comprehensive run of published editions from New Music and various editions from other publishers...
    • Contributor: Varèse, Edgard - Chávez, Carlos - Schoenberg, Arnold - Ives, Charles - Cowell, Henry - Cage, John - Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Mario - Ruggles, Carl - Toch, Ernst - Langinger, Herman
    • Date: 1889