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    Letter from Aaron Copland to Leonard Bernstein, 1941 Location: Box/Folder 16. Excerpt: "In rearranging Billy you can't squelch the Prologue -- Epilogue idea without lowering the tone. Piano reductions of ballets are generally made complete..." From: Leonard Bernstein Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress. Correspondence Series. For information about this resource, refer to finding aid available at https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu998001 Record created through migration from the Performing Arts Encyclopedia Database.
    • Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
    • Date: 1941
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    Letter from Aaron Copland to Leonard Bernstein, 1942 Location: Box/Folder 16. Excerpt: "I'm writing a ballet -- very frothy one -- for the Monte Carlo people." From: Leonard Bernstein Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress. Correspondence Series. For information about this resource, refer to finding aid available at https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu998001 Record created through migration from the Performing Arts Encyclopedia Database.
    • Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
    • Date: 1942
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    Young People's Concerts Scripts: Aaron Copland Birthday Party [typescript with emendations in pencil; "Music Cues" & "Revised Program"] Location: Box/Folder 107/01. From: Leonard Bernstein Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress. Young People's Concerts Television Scripts Series. For information about this resource, refer to finding aid available at https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu998001 Record created through migration from the Performing Arts Encyclopedia Database.
    • Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
    • Date: 1961

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    Aaron Copland to Leonard Bernstein, July 17, 1955" Location: Box/Folder 60C/3. Excerpt: "Aren't you both smart! Take a big double bow. Hope Felicia and the Knabe are doing fine How is the old girl? (Tanglewood). Has anyone noticed anything missing?" For information about this resource, refer to finding aid available at https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu998001 Record created through migration from the Performing Arts Encyclopedia Database.
    • Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
    • Date: 1955
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    Letter from Aaron Copland to Leonard Bernstein, n.d. Location: Box/Folder 16. Excerpt: "No word from Koussie, so I strongly suspect it's all off--" From: Leonard Bernstein Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress. Correspondence Series. For information about this resource, refer to finding aid available at https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu998001 Record created through migration from the Performing Arts Encyclopedia Database.
    • Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
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    Letter from Aaron Copland to Leonard Bernstein, September 24, 1947 Location: Box/Folder 16. Excerpt: "Couldn't find a single Amer. work mentioned in any of your preliminary announcements. It's a mistake." From: Leonard Bernstein Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress. Correspondence Series. For information about this resource, refer to finding aid available at https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu998001 Record created through migration from the Performing Arts Encyclopedia Database.
    • Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
    • Date: 1947

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    Letter from Aaron Copland to Morris Hastings & Elie Siegmister, April 11, 1945 Location: Box/Folder 16. Excerpt: "At the last meeting of the Music Committee of the National Council of American-Soviet Friendship...it was decided to form a Concert Music Section." From: Leonard Bernstein Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress. Correspondence Series. For information about this resource, refer to finding aid available at https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu998001 Record created through migration from the Performing Arts Encyclopedia Database.
    • Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
    • Date: 1945
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    Aaron Copland to Leonard Bernstein, n.d." Location: Box/Folder 60C/3. Excerpt: "We sent pictures yesterday. Theres one here of you alone that I like and will bring along. Very soulful looking. The other one has your mug looking like putty I'll give that one to Jean." For information about this resource, refer to finding aid available at https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu998001 Record created through migration from the Performing Arts Encyclopedia Database.
    • Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
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    Letter from Aaron Copland to Leonard Bernstein, November 29, 1970 Location: Box/Folder 16. Excerpt: "This gives me the chance to give you a big hug for the part you took in the party festivities." From: Leonard Bernstein Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress. Correspondence Series. For information about this resource, refer to finding aid available at https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu998001 Record created through migration from the Performing Arts Encyclopedia Database.
    • Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
    • Date: 1970
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    Aaron Copland to Leonard Bernstein, July 16, 1943" Location: Box/Folder 60C/3. Excerpt: "I saw the announcements of the Boston concert--it all looks quite impressive, and naturally you're right to be staying and conducting .I was surprised you had a ""final session"" with the Frau." For information about this resource, refer to finding aid available at https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu998001 Record created through migration from the Performing Arts Encyclopedia Database.
    • Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
    • Date: 1943
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    Letter from Aaron Copland to Leonard Bernstein, 1941 Location: Box/Folder 16. Excerpt: "Heinshimer says Koss is doing Quiet City this week...If true, please tell him that there is a terrible mistake in the printed score at No. 7..." From: Leonard Bernstein Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress. Correspondence Series. For information about this resource, refer to finding aid available at https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu998001 Record created through migration from the Performing Arts Encyclopedia Database.
    • Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
    • Date: 1941
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    [speech for Aaron Copland's 70th birthday, Boosey & Hawkes dinner], 1970 Nov. 12 Location: Box/Folder 85/4. For information about this resource, refer to finding aid available at https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu998001 Record created through migration from the Performing Arts Encyclopedia Database.
    • Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
    • Date: 1970

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    Marian MacDowell papers, 1876-1969 Correspondence, manuscripts of writings, clippings and other printed material, memorabilia, and other papers relating primarily to Marian MacDowell's activities with the MacDowell Colony, the artist colony in Peterborough, N.H., established to honor her husband, Edward MacDowell.
    • Contributor: Macdowell, Marian
    • Date: 1876
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    Letter from Aaron Copland to Leonard Bernstein, July 25, 1975 Location: Box/Folder 16. Excerpt: "thinking of you with love and affection as ever" From: Leonard Bernstein Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress. Correspondence Series. For information about this resource, refer to finding aid available at https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu998001 Record created through migration from the Performing Arts Encyclopedia Database.
    • Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
    • Date: 1975
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    Thursday Evening Previews Scripts: Copland in the Twenties [typescript with emendations in red, blue & black pencil] Location: Box/Folder 76/06. From: Leonard Bernstein Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress. General Writings Chronology Series. For information about this resource, refer to finding aid available at https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu998001 Record created through migration from the Performing Arts Encyclopedia Database.
    • Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
    • Date: 1958

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    Serge Koussevitzky archive, 1880-1978 Serge Koussevitzky was a Russian-born conductor, composer, and double bassist. The archive includes correspondence, personal and business papers, photographs, writings, clippings, scrapbooks, programs, and other materials which serve as a record of Koussevitzky's life and career, and document some of the most significant aspects of twentieth-century music. Through his work as a conductor and publisher, and his efforts to commission new musical works, Koussevitzky...
    • Contributor: Koussevitzky, Olga - Koussevitzky, Serge
    • Date: 1880
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    Young People's Concerts Scripts: The Latin American Spirit [black, red & blue pencil on yellow legal pad paper; [outline/notes]] Location: Box/Folder 108/07. From: Leonard Bernstein Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress. Young People's Concerts Television Scripts Series. For information about this resource, refer to finding aid available at https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu998001 Record created through migration from the Performing Arts Encyclopedia Database.
    • Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
    • Date: 1963

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    Letter from Aaron Copland to Leonard Bernstein, n.d. Location: Box/Folder 16. Excerpt: "About Paris: still looks seriously as if we'll be there together." From: Leonard Bernstein Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress. Correspondence Series. For information about this resource, refer to finding aid available at https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu998001 Record created through migration from the Performing Arts Encyclopedia Database.
    • Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard

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    Letter from Aaron Copland to Leonard Bernstein, July 1, 1975 Location: Box/Folder 16. Excerpt: "I've just read your piece for the fourth time! I'm delighted - moved - touched - overwhelmed--" From: Leonard Bernstein Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress. Correspondence Series. For information about this resource, refer to finding aid available at https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu998001 Record created through migration from the Performing Arts Encyclopedia Database.
    • Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
    • Date: 1975
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    Aaron Copland to Leonard Bernstein, May 26, 1942" Location: Box/Folder 60C/3. Excerpt: "I'm still talking about you and the Hurricane. Kouss was here--and we spent all Sunday afternoon together raving about one Leonard." For information about this resource, refer to finding aid available at https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu998001 Record created through migration from the Performing Arts Encyclopedia Database.
    • Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
    • Date: 1942

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    [interview by Robert Sherman of Virgil Thompson, A. Copland and John Corigliano, Sr., re Bernstein and his conducting], 1971 March 15 Location: Box/Folder 89/2. For information about this resource, refer to finding aid available at https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu998001 Record created through migration from the Performing Arts Encyclopedia Database.
    • Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
    • Date: 1971

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    Aaron Copland to Leonard Bernstein, October 9, 1944" Location: Box/Folder 60C/3. Excerpt: "Martha Graham is supposedly doing a ballet of mine that week-end! No one has seen any public announcement of the event I go by on faith." For information about this resource, refer to finding aid available at https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu998001 Record created through migration from the Performing Arts Encyclopedia Database.
    • Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
    • Date: 1944
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    Irving Fine collection, 1930-1993 Irving Fine was an American conductor, teacher, and composer whose works assimilated neoclassical, romantic, and serial elements. The bulk of the materials in the collection are musical scores and sketches which represent nearly his entire musical output. In addition, there are photographs, clippings, programs, and scrapbooks, as well as correspondence from twentieth-century musicians such as Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, Lukas Foss, Alberto Ginastera, Ned...
    • Contributor: Fine, Irving
    • Date: 1930
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    Letter from Aaron Copland to Leonard Bernstein, October 1938 Location: Box/Folder 16. Excerpt: "I'll try to reach Blitzstein before I call you to get the dope from him. But what makes you think he controls the fee?" From: Leonard Bernstein Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress. Correspondence Series. For information about this resource, refer to finding aid available at https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu998001 Record created through migration from the Performing Arts Encyclopedia Database.
    • Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
    • Date: 1938
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    Young People's Concerts Scripts: The Latin American Spirit [pencil on yellow legal pad paper] Location: Box/Folder 108/08. From: Leonard Bernstein Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress. Young People's Concerts Television Scripts Series. For information about this resource, refer to finding aid available at https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu998001 Record created through migration from the Performing Arts Encyclopedia Database.
    • Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
    • Date: 1963

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