Found 6 collections related to Drafts (preliminary versions)

In advance of Perspectives of New Music's forum on problems and discrepancies in conventional notation practice, American violinist and composer Paul Zukofsky sent a questionnaire using the organization's letterhead to 70 composers. He received 25 replies, but based his presentation on only 8 of them. The collection consists of the blank questionnaire; responses from the 8 composers used in the presentation: Martin Boykan, Elliott Carter, George Crumb, David Lewin, Seymour Shifrin, Claudio Spies, Kurt Stone, and Richard G. Swift ; handwritten and typescript drafts of Zukofsky's compilation and presentation; and additional responses from: Harvey [Sollberger?], Vincent Persichetti, Otto Luening, Josef Marx, Don Martino, Turetsky [Bertram Turetzky?], [Lejaren?] Hiller, Harold Farberman, Robert Moevs, Michael Colgrass, Eric [?] Berglund [?], J. Glick, and Ross Lee Finney. Zukofsky's article apparently did not appear in a Perspectives of New Music publication. less

Ernst Bacon, 1898-1990, was an American composer, pianist, conductor, and teacher. 1 ALS, 1962, and 30 ALS, 1972-1976, to John Edmunds discussing the Bacon-Edmunds collaboration on a radio skit, Watergate (performed 11-2-72 on Station KPFA, Berkeley) and other works including the ballets Jehovah and the Ark and A Parliament of Fowls (also entitled Court of Rooks), and Bacon's collaborations with Cornel Lengyel; and a collection of manuscript material relating to Watergate and its other versions as musical comedy variously entitled Nixie's Party, Nixie's Circus, Nixie, Watergates, and Waterbuggers, sometimes with subtitle A Political Burlesque, and sometimes pseudonymously attributed to N.O. Cable and J. Heron. This material includes a notebook with script and lyrics (in ink and pencil), 2 versions of script, lyrics, words and music (photocopies with emendations in ink and pencil); first-draft notes, early versions and musical sketches, (typescript, ink, some photocopies); and 1 TL (photocopy) from Bacon and Edmunds to Sargent Shriver suggesting the broadcast. 1 ALS is written on the program of the premiere of A Parliament of Fowls, May 6, 1975. less

An American pianist, George Copeland introduced the works of Debussy to the United States and also specialized in the works of Spanish composers. His many friends and associates included John Singer Sargent, Mary Garden, Isadora Duncan, Mrs. Fiske, Sarah Bernhardt, Melba, Calvé, Lina Cavaliere, Maggie Teyte, Mrs. Jack Gardner, Debussy, De Falla, Laurette Taylor, and Marie Dressler. Shortly after World War I, Copeland stayed in Kronberg with the family of Margarethe of Hesse, Princess of Prussia, sister of Kaiser Wilhelm. Biographical and autobiographical writings, letters, photoprints and drawings, 3 musical scores, and other items relating to the career of George Copeland. The collection includes drafts of a biographical essay about Copeland by Frederic Bradlee; drafts of Copeland's autobiography; Copeland's essay "Debussy, the Man I Knew" from The Atlantic Monthly, Jan. 1955; 14 letters from Margarethe of Hesse, Princess of Prussia (signed "Margaret") and 7 letters from other members of her family, 1922-30, 1952-54; 2 letters from Mary Garden; 1 letter from Manuel de Falla; 41 photographs and 3 other portraits of Copeland, 26 photographs of Copeland with others of whom 15 are unidentified; 6 photographs of Copeland's mother; 17 photographs of Copeland's friends and colleagues of whom 9 are unidentified; a reproduction of a pencil drawing of Debussy by B. Solofareff; and a manuscript score of the song A Doctor's Advice by Copeland. less

George Rochberg is an American composer. Materials for and drafts of articles on Iconography of the mind, Music and the human situation, The harmonic tendency of the hexachord, and Schoenberg's American period, and for a UCLA lecture (1968); student notes and exercises in harmony and counterpoint (1936); analytical notes on various composers; musical examples for Hexachord and its relation to composition with 12 tones; correspondence and other material concerning the International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers World Congress of Authors and Composers (1974-1976); letter from Marcella Decray about Rochberg's composition Ukiyo-E. less

Correspondence; memoranda; reports; minutes of meetings; press releases; drafts and final copies of articles, speeches, and statements; awards and certificates; diaries; photographs; magazines; clippings; pamphlets and papers; programs; posters; and scrapbooks. Correspondents include: Samuel Barber, Jacques Barzun, William Bergsma, Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, Agnes DeMille, David Diamond, Antal Dorati, Morton Gould, Martha Graham, Frank Loesser, Otto Luening, Peter Mennin, Eugene Ormandy, Vincent Persichetti, Frederik Prausnitz, Andre Previn, Josef Raieff, Claire Reis, Richard Rodgers, Isaac Stern, Risë Stevens, Anthony Strilko, Roman Totenberg, Edgard Varèse, and Hugo Weisgall; representatives of organizations with which he has been associated and of other orchestras, foundations, educational institutions, and publishers. less