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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialLetter from Leonard Bernstein to Helen Coates, January 6, 1951 Correspondence. Typed letter, signed | 5 pages. | excerpt: "It is possible...that [Felicia] may be with child...[re Brandeis Festival:] As for the opera, I am going to make one last desperate attempt to get mine [Trouble in Tahiti] into shape...we would do very well not to limit the creative scope to Jewish artists." From: Correspondence Series Typed Letter, Signed (Form).
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialLetter from Helen Coates to Leonard & Felicia Bernstein, October 16, 1951 Correspondence. Typed letter | 2 pages. | excerpt: "About Brandeis:...I wrote to Martha Graham...[Morty Baum] thinks there is a very good chance that Boosey & Hawkes will give them the performance rights to 'The Rake's Progress'..." From: Correspondence Series Typed Letter (Form).
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialLetter from Leonard Bernstein to Helen Coates, October 22, 1951 Correspondence. Typed letter | 2 pages. | excerpt: "PETER PAN has not done well financially in either Baltimore or Pittsburgh...in regard to Dr. Sacher and the City Center...the Brandeis people were terribly against you doing another Festival in the Spring..." From: Correspondence Series Typed Letter (Form).
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialLetter from Helen Coates to Leonard & Felicia Bernstein, November 20, 1951 Correspondence. Typed letter | 3 pages. | excerpt: [Brandeis festival] From: Correspondence Series Typed Letter (Form).
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialLetter from Helen Coates to Leonard & Felicia Bernstein, December 13, 1951 Correspondence. Typed letter | 3 pages. | excerpt: "...about Brandeis, I finally saw Merce Cunningham yesterday...I received a call from Peter Adler at NBC the other day. He would like to know whether you would consider letting them produce your opera on their television..." From: Correspondence Series Typed Letter (Form).
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialLetter from Leonard Bernstein to Helen Coates, December 15, 1951 Correspondence. Typed letter, signed | 1 page. | excerpt: "...we are almost paralyzed on the Brandeis thing without [a choreographer]." From: Correspondence Series Typed Letter, Signed (Form).
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialLetter from Helen Coates to Leonard & Felicia Bernstein, December 24, 1951 Correspondence. Typed letter | 5 pages. | excerpt: "I am amazed that you had not heard from the Brandeis faculty...Interested to know that you have been officially invited back to Tanglewood to head the conducting dep't and conduct in the Festival." From: Correspondence Series Typed Letter (Form).
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialLetter from Helen Coates to Leonard & Felicia Bernstein, January 5, 1952 Correspondence. Typed letter | 3 pages. | excerpt: "[Brandeis is] very eager, as you see, to have the world premiere of your opera..." From: Correspondence Series Typed Letter (Form).
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialLetter from Helen Coates to Leonard & Felicia Bernstein, January 8, 1952 Correspondence. Typed letter | 1 page. | excerpt: "Merce [Cuningham] has called me to tell me about his visit to Brandeis last Friday." From: Correspondence Series Typed Letter (Form).
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialLetter from Leonard Bernstein to Helen Coates, January 8, 1952 Correspondence. Typed letter, signed/Autograph letter, signed | 6 pages. | excerpt: "Notes on the General Plan...of the Creative Arts Festival [at Brandeis]" From: Correspondence Series Typed Letter, Signed/Autograph Letter, Signed (Form).
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialLetter from Leonard Bernstein to Helen Coates, January 18, 1952 Correspondence. Typed letter, signed | 1 page. | excerpt: "I am sure that we can get a of Brandeisiana settled while I am there..." From: Correspondence Series Typed Letter, Signed (Form).
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialLetter from Leonard Bernstein to Helen Coates, January 21, 1952 Correspondence. Typed letter, signed | 2 pages. | excerpt: "About my opera: I have abandoned it, decisively. It will not come, and therefore I will not force it...how about [Blitzstein's] new version of the Threepenny opera? The more I think of this the better I like it for Brandeis, because it is an ideal way of showing the merging of popular music with the...
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialLetter from Helen Coates to Leonard & Felicia Bernstein, January 21, 1952 Correspondence. Typed letter | 4 pages. | excerpt: "[John Mehegan] says that bop is not representative of the whole field of jazz...Olga is apprehensive about the Berkshire Music Center...I got your letter of agreement (your contract) with Brandeis this morning..." From: Correspondence Series Typed Letter (Form).
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Manuscript/Mixed MaterialLetter from Helen Coates to Leonard & Felicia Bernstein, n.d. Correspondence. Typed letter | 3 pages. | excerpt: "[Irving] thinks it would be wonderful to have either Marc's or the Threepenny Opera, although he feels that Brandeis would not want it if it were running on Broadway at the same time." From: Correspondence Series Typed Letter (Form).
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Photo, Print, DrawingCommencement at Brandeis, June 7, 1959. Bernstein received an honorary degree. photograph | 2 digital images. | Photograph (Form).
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Photo, Print, DrawingBrandeis dinner in honor of Bernstein receiving an honorary degree. At Pierre Hotel. October 23, 1969 photograph | 2 digital images. | Photograph (Form).
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Book/Printed Material[statement re Brandeis Creative Arts Festival, printed in program], 1952 April 23 None |
- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
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Book/Printed MaterialThe language of music [lecture, Brandeis University], 1952 May 6 None |
- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
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Book/Printed MaterialYou, the public [lecture outlines, Brandeis University (and elsewhere at a later date)], 1952 May 13 None |
- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
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Book/Printed MaterialThe composer and the performer [lecture outline, Brandeis University], 1952 May 20 None |
- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
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Book/Printed Material[speech at the opening symposium of the Brandeis Creative Arts Festival], 1952 June 12 None |
- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
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Book/Printed Material[notes and correspondence re Brandeis Creative Arts Festival], 1953 Feb.-June None |
- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
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Book/Printed Material[letter to Abram Sachar re proposed Brandeis musical theater seminar involving Candide], 1954 Aug. 8 None |
- Contributor: Bernstein, Leonard
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