Found 23 collections related to Contracts

David Amram (born 1930) is an American composer, conductor, and multi-instrumentalist active in classical, jazz, and folk music. The David Amram papers, dating from 1937 to 2011, most strongly represent his career path from the 1950s through the early 2000s, documenting his compositions, performances, conducting, writings, and business matters. They also evidence Amram's relationships with musicians and writers, including Jack Kerouac and other "Beat generation" figures. less

Stanley Applebaum (1922-2019) was an arranger and composer who was highly active in the New York City popular and commercial music industry from the 1940s to the early 2000s. Among his clients were Skitch Henderson, the New York Pops, Ben E. King, Neil Sedaka, and the Broadway musical Raggedy Ann. Applebaum papers, which date from 1940 to 2007, are comprised primarily of scores for his arrangements, orchestrations, compositions, and commercial advertising; and sound recordings of his music for radio and television advertising. Business letters and contracts are also present. less

The Richard Maltby Sr. papers hold scores, correspondence, business papers, photographs, clippings, and scrapbooks. The vast majority of the collection consists of scores and parts for arrangements and compositions by Maltby as well as by his staff arrangers (primarily Al Muller and Red Bone), most of which are for jazz big band. less

"Jabbo" Smith, born Cladys Smith in 1908 in Pembroke, Georgia, was an African-American jazz trumpeter, trombonist and singer. He died in St. Louis in 1991. The collection consists of autobiographical material; correspondence with Lorraine Gordon and others (1957-1991); financial receipts; medical records; contracts and agreements; passports and other official documents; performance files, news articles, press releases and programs (1930-1991), including information on One Mo' Time, Chicago Kool Jazz Festival, and Jazz Fest Berlin; scrapbooks and photographs of Smith, Wynton Marsalis, Louis Armstrong, and others (1982-1991); and an account book (1969-1973) with aphorisms. less

Henry Hadley was an American composer and conductor, founder of the National Association for American Composers and Conductors. Correspondence, contracts and royalty statements, libretti and programs, clippings (reviews), scrapbooks, financial records (receipts, checks, loan papers), diaries, motion picture films, and photographs relating to Hadley's life and career; musical scores by various composers (chiefly reproductions of manuscripts); and records of the National Association for American Composers and Conductors. less

The League of Composers / International Society for Contemporary Music records contain the papers of the League's co-founder and first Executive Director, Claire Raphael Reis; the records of both the League of Composers and the United States section of the ISCM before their 1954 merger; and the post-1954 records of the combined League/ISCM. less

The Leon Kirchner papers document the career of the composer, conductor and pianist from the 1950s to the early 2000s. They include scores and sketches, correspondence with important musical figures, writings, programs, clippings, photographs and posters. less

John Mundy (1886-1971) was a cellist and orchestra manager at The Metropolitan Opera, as well as a composer. The John Mundy Papers contain professional documentation of his career, with an emphasis on his compositions, especially The Liar, a musical comedy for which he composed the score. less

John Holler (1904-1977) was an organist and choir director from New York City. He performed in churches for most of his career, occasionally participating in secular concerts, as well. Holler also composed and arranged music for the organ. The John Holler Papers include scores, programs, clippings, photographs and other professional materials. less

Katrina Castles (Mrs. Michael Schwab), formerly Kathleen Castles, and also known as Katherine Castles, was an Australian mezzo-soprano Lieder singer, a protege of Mme. Lotte Lehmann, and the childhood friend of Australian-American composer Peggy Glanville-Hicks. Her career was cut short by two bouts of cancer. Contains Miss Castles' correspondence, programs, clippings, photographs, and business papers. Includes letters and portraits from Lotte Lehmann as well as notes from Elisabeth Schumann, Kirsten Flagstad, and Colin McPhee. Also includes scores, photographs, and programs of Peggy Glanville-Hicks; an insurance policy showing Castles as the beneficiary of Glanville-Hicks; a photograph of Fritz Hart; and scores by Bax and Vaughan Williams. less

An American violinist, Yehudi Menuhin was engaged in 1947 by Two Continent Pictures to appear and play in a projected moving picture named Delirium and an associated short movie; and later for a series of short films. He suggested changes in the script and performed the Mendelssohn Concerto for Delirium, but the picture apparently was not completed, nor were the short films although 22 reels were recorded and photographed. 4 letters from Yehudi Menuhin, including 2 TLS and 1 ALS, to representatives of Two Continent Pictures, chiefly Paul Gordon; 3 letters to Menuhin, including 2 TLS from Gordon; copy sent to Gordon of TL from Menuhin to his uncle and lawyer, Sidney Ehrman; TLS from Ehrman's associate Louis Heilbron to Paul Gordon; contract; 2 drafts of business agreements, and 2 itineraries. The 13-leaf TLS from Menuhin to Gordon with suggestions for changes in the script of Delirium contains many handwritten emendations, and a 13-leaf typed fair copy of the script suggestions is also included. less

The Cantata Singers was one of the first groups in the United States to attempt authentic performances of Baroque music and set a standard for basing performances on expert direction supported by methodical research. The Cantata Singers Records consists of those records which the non-profit organization retained over the course of some 37 years in operation including materials related to their concerts as well as correspondence, administrative files, minutes of the organization’s meetings, financial records, and documentation of their incorporation. less

The records of the Composers' Forum document the history of the organization from 1935 to 2002. They hold correspondence, concert programs, press releases, clippings, grant applications and other development files, board meeting minutes and correspondence, photographs, membership files, concert production files, concert discussion transcripts, historical essays and scrapbooks. less

Tom Scott was a folk-singer and arranger, and a composer of symphonic and chamber works, as well as music for live television and film. His papers contain scores, correspondence, photographs, biographical and publicity files, a scrapbook, and project and subject files. less

Thomas Philip Brown was a saxophonist with his own orchestra in the late 1930s and early 1940s. He became a music copyist for Broadway musicals, copied music on order for the Samuel French Company, and produced a series of translated opera records under the label Opera of the Month . The collection contains piano conductor scores and parts of musicals, orchestral pieces, sheet music, financial materials, and some correspondence. less

Alexander Lang Steinert (1900-1982) was a composer, conductor, and pianist who worked in television, film, and radio, as well as concert settings. The Alexander Steinert Papers consists primarily of the composer’s collection of published scores, the majority of these arranged for piano and four hands. The collection also contains scrapbooks as well as contracts and correspondence that detail some of the highlights of Steinert’s professional career. less

The Dessoff Choirs is a Manhattan-based amateur choral group founded by Margarete Dessoff. The choirs encompass both a symphonic choir and a chamber choir, and perform a broad repertory of classical music from Renaissance to contemporary compositions. This collection documents the choirs' administrative activities and performance history through administrative files, correspondence, financial records, programs, and scrapbooks. less

Dorle Jarmel Soria (1900-2002) was a publicist, record company impresario, and journalist in the classical music world of the mid-twentieth century, best known for her founding of the Angel Records label with her husband, Dario Soria. Her papers include business records, publicity materials, photographs, and correspondence with some of the most notable figures in twentieth-century classical music. less

A violinist and conductor, Max Pollikoff was born in Newark, N.J., in 1904, and died in New York City in 1984. He organized Music in Our Time, a concert series which ran from 1954 to 1974 at the 92nd St. YMHA, New York. Published and unpublished music by various composers with markings by Pollikoff, scrapbook, programs, clippings, photographs, poster, receipts, checks, contracts, brochures, pamphlets, periodicals, address books, appointment books, memorabilia, and correspondence including letters relating to Music In Our Time. less