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Manuscript/Mixed Material Letter from Aaron Copland to Andre Kostelanetz, September 3, 1942

About this Item

Title

  • Letter from Aaron Copland to Andre Kostelanetz, September 3, 1942

Names

  • Copland, Aaron

Notes

  • -  Online scan courtesy of Aaron Copland Fund for Music
  • -  Letter from Copland recommending the talents of a then-unknown Leonard Bernstein.
  • -  For information about this resource, refer to finding aid available at https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu016011
  • -  Record created through migration from the Performing Arts Encyclopedia Database.

Medium

  • 1 letter

Call Number/Physical Location

  • ML31 .K65

Source Collection

  • Andre Kostelanetz collection, 1922-1984 Box/Folder 1130/19

Repository

  • c-Music Andre Kostelanetz Collection Box/Folder 1130/19 Refer to finding aid

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2023870526

Online Format

  • image

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Rights & Access

The Library of Congress is providing access to The Andre Kostelanetz Collection  for educational and research purposes. The Library has obtained permission for the use of many materials in the Collection, and presents additional materials for educational and research purposes in accordance with fair use under United States copyright law. Researchers should watch for modern documents that may be copyrighted (for example, published in the United States more than 95 years ago, or unpublished and the author died less than 70 years ago) .

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The following items are included in The Andre Kostelanetz Collection with permission as noted:

General Credit for Andre Kostelanetz Materials

Correspondence by and performances of Andre Kostelanetz used by permission of the Royalty Pool of Andre Kostelanetz.

Address: Bob Frank and Lucy Kostelanetz, administrators of Royalty Pool, 924 West End Ave, #122, New York, NY 10025.

Articles

"How I Prepare a Radio Program: An Interview with the Celebrated Conductor Andre Kostelanetz" by Doron K.  Antrim originally appeared in The Etude 59:1(January 1941), pp. 11, 64. It is reprinted with permission of Theodore Presser Company.

"Color in the Popular Orchestra: An Interview with Andre Kostelanetz" by Rose Heylbut originally appeared in The Etude. 62: 12 (December 1944) pp. 683-684. It is reprinted with permission of Theodore Presser Company.

"Kostelanetz: An Overview," by Dick O'Connor originally appeared in James H. North, Andre Kostelanetz on Records and on the Air: A Discography and Radio Log. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2011. pp. ix-xvi. It is reprinted with permission  of Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group.

Sound Recordings

Music from the following Columbia recordings is used with permission from Sony Music Entertainment.

  • Andre Kostelanetz Conducts the Music of Alan Hovhaness, 1977
  • Hudson River Suite, 1955
  • Last Tango in Paris / Oh, Babe, What Would You Say, 1973
  • Lure of the Tropics, 1953
  • Music of George Gershwin, 1955
  • Music of Irving Berlin, 1950
  • Music of Jerome Kern, 1955
  • The Kostelanetz Sound of Today, 1967
  • You Light Up My Life, 1977

Excerpts from the following CBS Radio programs are used Courtesy of Entercom.

  • Chesterfield Presents
  • Concert for the Canadian War Effort
  • Ford Sunday Evening Hour
  • Kostelanetz Live from the Front
  • Music Millions Love
  • Music of the Two Americas
  • Pause that Refreshes on the Air
  • So You Want to Be. . . A Conductor
  • Tune-up Time

Suggested credit line: Library of Congress, Music Division.

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Chicago citation style:

Copland, Aaron. Letter from Aaron Copland to Andre Kostelanetz, September 3. 1942. Manuscript/Mixed Material. https://www.loc.gov/item/2023870526/.

APA citation style:

Copland, A. (1942) Letter from Aaron Copland to Andre Kostelanetz, September 3. [Manuscript/Mixed Material] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2023870526/.

MLA citation style:

Copland, Aaron. Letter from Aaron Copland to Andre Kostelanetz, September 3. 1942. Manuscript/Mixed Material. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2023870526/>.