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Collection Photo, Print, Drawing Irving Fine Collection, ca. 1914-1962

About this Item

Title

  • Irving Fine Collection, ca. 1914-1962

Summary

  • The bulk of the materials in the collection are musical scores and sketches. In addition, there are photographs, clippings, programs, scrapbooks, as well as correspondence from 20th century musicians such as Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, Lukas Foss, Alberto Ginastera, Ned Rorem, and William Schuman.
  • The Music series primarily consists of holograph scores and sketches that represent virtually Fine's entire musical output. Among these materials are manuscripts for "Alice in Wonderland" (1942); "The Hour Glass" (1949), a song cycle for unaccompanied chorus set to texts by Ben Jonson; "Mutability," a song cycle for contralto and piano originally commissioned by the Creative Concerts Guild in 1952; "Serious Song" (1955), for string orchestra; and "Symphony" (1962), which was performed by the Boston Symphony Orchestra shortly before Fine's death in 1962.

Names

  • Fine, Irving, 1914-1962

Headings

  • -  Fine, Irving,--1914-1962
  • -  Fine, Irving,--1914-1962--Correspondence
  • -  Fine, Irving,--1914-1962--Autographs
  • -  Bernstein, Leonard,--1918-1990--Correspondence
  • -  Copland, Aaron,--1900-1990--Correspondence
  • -  Foss, Lukas,--1922-2009--Correspondence
  • -  Ginastera, Alberto,--1916-1983--Correspondence
  • -  Rorem, Ned,--1923-2022--Correspondence
  • -  Schuman, William,--1910-1992--Correspondence
  • -  Composers--United States--Correspondence
  • -  Musicians--Portraits
  • -  Orchestral music--Scores
  • -  Chamber music--Scores
  • -  Vocal music
  • -  Instrumental music

Genre

  • Scores
  • Art music
  • Chamber music
  • Incidental music
  • Musical sketches
  • Songs
  • Symphonies
  • Albums (Books)
  • Business correspondence
  • Concert programs
  • Personal correspondence
  • Photographs
  • Autographs (Manuscripts)
  • Clippings (Information artifacts)

Notes

  • -  Organized in following series: I. Music (1930s-1960s), subdivided: Original Compositions (1930s-1960s), Sketchbooks, undated, Music by Others (1943-1963), II. Writings (1940s-1963), subdivided: Writings by Irving Fine (1940s-1957), Writings by Others, III. Correspondence (1941-1992), subdivided: General Correspondence (1934-1992), Business Correspondence (1962-1989), IV. Photographs (1937-1974), V. Programs (1930-1992), VI. Clippings (1940-1993), VII. Scrapbooks (1936-1962), VIII. Printed Matter (1949-1987).
  • -  Irving Fine, American composer, teacher, and conductor, was born in Boston, Mass., on Dec. 3, 1914. He started learning music from studying piano. Fine went to Harvard University, attending the composition and theory classes of Edward Burlingame Hill and Walter Piston; he received his BA in 1937 and his MA a year later; at Harvard he also studied choral conducting with Archibald T. Davidson and, at Tanglewood, orchestral conducting with Serge Koussevitzky. In 1938-1939 he attended Nadia Boulanger's composition classes at Fontainebleau, outside Paris, and at Radcliffe College, Cambridge (Mass.). Fine's connection with Harvard continued in 1939, when he became a member of the Music Department. He was appointed Assistant Professor in 1945 and stayed there until 1950. From 1939-1945 he was also Assistant Conductor of the Harvard Glee Club. At Harvard Fine became closely associated with Aaron Copland, Igor Stravinsky, Serge Koussevitzky, and Leonard Bernstein. From 1950, he taught at Brandeis University, where he was Walter S. Naumburg Professor of Music and founded the School of Creative Arts. Between 1946 and 1957, he also taught composition at the Tanglewood Music Festival in the Berkshires. He received two Guggenheim Fellowships, a Fulbright Research Fellowship for France, and many other awards. In addition to his composing, Fine wrote articles and reviews. Irving Fine died in Boston on Aug. 23, 1962.
  • -  Collection material in English.
  • -  Gifts; Verna Fine; 1964-1991.
  • -  Sound recordings Irving Fine Collection ((MAVIS collection number 3291); Also located at; Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division; 19053 Mt. Pony Rd., Culpeper, VA 22701 USA; An inventory of forty unpublished tapes transferred to MBRS is available in the Music Division's collection file.
  • -  Some musical scores and sketches have been cataloged individually at ML96.F47, ML96.5.F47, ML30.3C.F55, and ML29c.F527, and can be requested in the Performing Arts Reading Room.
  • -  Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Performing Arts Reading Room and at https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu001001
  • -  Irving Fine Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress.

Medium

  • approximately 4,350 items (21 boxes, 7 linear feet)

Call Number/Physical Location

  • ML31 .F5

Repository

  • Library of Congress Music Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA dcu https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/perform.home

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2003561019

Rights Advisory

  • Certain restrictions to use or copying of materials may apply.

Access Advisory

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Finding Aid

Rights & Access

The Library of Congress is providing access to The Irving Fine Collection for educational and research purposes. The written permission of the copyright owners and/or holders of other rights (such as publicity and/or privacy rights) is required for distribution, reproduction, or other use of protected items beyond that allowed by fair use or other statutory exemptions. Note that there may be U.S. copyright protection (see Title 17, U.S.C.) or other restrictions in the materials in The Irving Fine Collection, and there may be content protected by copyright or neighboring-rights laws of other nations. See our Legal Notices and Privacy and Publicity Rights for additional information.

Materials created by persons outside the Fine family may in some cases be subject to copyright. Where the Library of Congress Music Division was able to identify a copyright owner and did obtain permission, such information is provided with those particular items. In other cases, the Library was unable to identify a possible rights holder and has elected to place some of those items online as an exercise of fair use for strictly non-commercial educational uses. Users should contact the Library of Congress Music Division with any information they may have particularly with regard to any items indicated as unidentified.

Responsibility for making an independent legal assessment of an item and securing any necessary permissions ultimately rests with persons desiring to use the item.

Credit Line: Library of Congress, Music Division

For information on how to order reproductions, see the Library of Congress Reference Correspondence Policy.

General Credit for Fine Materials

Used by permission of The Estate of Verna and Irving Fine and daughters.

For further use of these materials please write the following:

Claudia Fine
300 West 108th Street
New York, NY 10025

Emily Fine
1 Anderson Ave
Milford CT 06460

Joanna Fine
40 East 88th Street
Suite 1-E
New York, NY 10128

Rights for Individual Photographs

All rights to use individual photographs are controlled by the respective owners of the copyrights in those photographs.

The rights holders for photographs by individual photographers are listed below. For those listed as unidentified, users are invited to contact the Library of Congress Music Division with any information they may have with regard to those items.

Photo 3: Irving Fine at Tanglewood, 1948
Used by permission of The Ruth Orkin Archives, 65 Central Park West, New York, NY 10023

Photo 4: Irving Fine, Aaron Copland, Nadia Boulanger, Walter Piston at the Old France Restaurant, Boston, 1945
Used by permission of Mrs. Victor Kraft, 90 Edgewood Avenue, Cranston, RI, 02905-1344

Photo 5: Irving Fine, Aaron Copland, Nadia Boulanger, Walter Piston at the Old France Restaurant, Boston, 1945
Used by permission of Mrs. Victor Kraft, 90 Edgewood Avenue, Cranston, RI, 02905-1344

Photo 6: Irving Fine, Aaron Copland, Nadia Boulanger, Walter Piston at the Old France Restaurant, Boston, 1945
Used by permission of Mrs. Victor Kraft, 90 Edgewood Avenue, Cranston, RI, 02905-1344

Photo 9: Irving Fine, Verna Fine, Lukas Foss, Harold Shapero, Tanglewood, 1946
Used by permission of The Ruth Orkin Archives, 65 Central Park West, New York, NY 10023

Photo 10: Robert Shaw, Juan Orrego-Salas, Aaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein, Irving Fine, Tanglewood, 1946
Used by permission of The Ruth Orkin Archives, 65 Central Park West, New York, NY 10023

Photo 12: Claudio Spies, Lukas Foss, Harold Shapere, Irving Fine, Leonard Bernstein, others, Tanglewood, 1946
Used by permission of The Ruth Orkin Archives, 65 Central Park West, New York, NY 10023

Photo 16: Leonard Bernstein, Irving Fine (back of head), K. Wolff, Serge Koussevitzky, Lukas Foss, Verna Fine, Carnegie Hall, 1947
Used by permission of The Ruth Orkin Archives, 65 Central Park West, New York, NY 10023

Photo 17: Verna Fine and Aaron Copland, Tanglewood, 1947
Used by permission of Mrs. Victor Kraft, 90 Edgewood Avenue, Cranston, RI, 02905-1344

Photo 21: Irving Fine conducting, Leonard Bernstein on piano, Tanglewood, 1947
Used by permission of The Ruth Orkin Archives, 65 Central Park West, New York, NY 10023

Photo 22: Irving Fine conducting, Leonard Bernstein on piano, Tanglewood, 1947
Used by permission of The Ruth Orkin Archives, 65 Central Park West, New York, NY 10023

Photo 23: Irving Fine, Aaron Copland, Alexei Haieff, Richmond, Massachussetts, 1947
Used by permission of Mrs. Victor Kraft, 90 Edgewood Avenue, Cranston, RI, 02905-1344

Photo 24: Lukas Foss, Irving Fine, Harold Shapero, Tanglewood, 1946
Used by permission of The Ruth Orkin Archives, 65 Central Park West, New York, NY 10023

Photo 25: Darius Milhaud, Irving Fine, Lukas Foss, others, Tanglewood, 1948
Used by permission of Mrs. Victor Kraft, 90 Edgewood Avenue, Cranston, RI, 02905-1344

Photo 34: Verna Fine, 1947
Used by permission of Mrs. Victor Kraft, 90 Edgewood Avenue, Cranston, RI, 02905-1344

Photo 40: Irving Fine with his father, George Fine, Tanglewood, 1962
Used by permission of Kay Khan, 18 St. Mary Street, Newton Lower Falls, MA 02462

Article

The following article is included in this collection with permission as indicated:

"Irving Fine" by Phillip Ramey. © 2001 Phillip Ramey. Used by permission.

Recording

Recording of the Juilliard String Quartet used by permission of Colbert Artists Management, 111 West 57th Street, New York, NY 10019.

Cite This Item

Citations are generated automatically from bibliographic data as a convenience, and may not be complete or accurate.

Chicago citation style:

Fine, Irving. Irving Fine Collection, Ca. 1914 to 1962. United States, 1930. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/collections/irving-fine/about-this-collection/.

APA citation style:

Fine, I. (1930) Irving Fine Collection, Ca. 1914 to 1962. United States, 1930. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/collections/irving-fine/about-this-collection/.

MLA citation style:

Fine, Irving. Irving Fine Collection, Ca. 1914 to 1962. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/collections/irving-fine/about-this-collection/>.