Heddy Baum papers

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unitid

{"value"=>"JPB 91-112", "type"=>"local_call"}

{"value"=>"20104", "type"=>"local_mss"}

unittitle

{"value"=>"Heddy Baum papers"}

unitdate

{"value"=>"ca. 1945-1990", "type"=>"inclusive", "certainty"=>"approximate", "normal"=>"1945/1990"}

physdesc

{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"1 linear foot", "unit"=>"linear feet"}], "supress_display"=>true}

date_inclusive_start

1945

date_inclusive_end

1990

origination

{"value"=>"Baum, Heddy", "type"=>"persname"}

bioghist

{"value"=>"<p>Heddy Baum's late husband Morton Baum (1905-1968) was a performing arts administrator involved with New York's City Center for Music and Drama from its beginnings in 1943 until his death. Her friend Hans Werner Henze (b. 1926) is a German composer.</p>", "supress_display"=>true}

scopecontent

{"value"=>"<p>The first installment consists of 2 distinct collections: papers concerning Morton Baum, and papers concerning Hans Werner Henze. The Morton Baum materials include a typescript history of City Center from 1945-1956, including inserted clippings and letters to Morton Baum from Leonard Bernstein, William Grant Still, Jose Ferrer, and others; clippings about City Center, 1965 and about Morton Baum's selection as board chairman for City Center, 1966; program and clippings about a memorial concert for Morton Baum, 1969; and a letter to Heddy Baum from Lincoln Kirstein, 1973. The Hans Werner Henze materials include 82 items of correspondence (chiefly ALS) from Henze to Heddy Baum, 1973-1990; 3 ALS from Henze to Gert and Hilde von Gontard, 1974-1975, with an enclosed copy of a letter from Henze to Mr. Oppenheimer, 1975; pencil holograph of Henze's Piano sonata; and a portfolio published by the Frankfurt Feste '86 containing 5 portraits of Henze by his friend Renzo Vespignani, an essay on Vespignani by Henze, and 5 facsimiles of sketches of Henze's compositions. These last 2 items have also been cataloged in the RLIN Scores file. A portrait by Fritz Wolff of Polish violinist Bronislaw Huberman has been separated from the collections and transferred to the Music Division's iconography collection: PhD 2546.</p>", "supress_display"=>true}

acqinfo

{"accession_number"=>"MUS"}

{"source"=>"Baum, Heddy", "method"=>"Gift", "value"=>"Gift, Baum, Heddy"}

langmaterial_code

eng

ger

keydate

1945

langmaterial

{"value"=>"Chiefly in English; Henze's essay on Vespignani and the letters from Henze to Gert and Hilde von Gontard are in German"}

prefercite

{"value"=>"Heddy Baum papers, Music Division, The New York Public Library"}

abstract

{"value"=>"Heddy Baum's late husband Morton Baum (1905-1968) was a performing arts administrator involved with New York's City Center for Music and Drama from its beginnings in 1943 until his death. Her friend Hans Werner Henze (b. 1926) is a German composer. The first installment consists of 2 distinct collections: papers concerning Morton Baum, and papers concerning Hans Werner Henze. The Morton Baum materials include a typescript history of City Center from 1945-1956, including inserted clippings and letters to Morton Baum from Leonard Bernstein, William Grant Still, Jose Ferrer, and others; clippings about City Center, 1965 and about Morton Baum's selection as board chairman for City Center, 1966; program and clippings about a memorial concert for Morton Baum, 1969; and a letter to Heddy Baum from Lincoln Kirstein, 1973. The Hans Werner Henze materials include 82 items of correspondence (chiefly ALS) from Henze to Heddy Baum, 1973-1990; 3 ALS from Henze to Gert and Hilde von Gontard, 1974-1975, with an enclosed copy of a letter from Henze to Mr. Oppenheimer, 1975; pencil holograph of Henze's Piano sonata; and a portfolio published by the Frankfurt Feste '86 containing 5 portraits of Henze by his friend Renzo Vespignani, an essay on Vespignani by Henze, and 5 facsimiles of sketches of Henze's compositions. These last 2 items have also been cataloged in the RLIN Scores file. A portrait by Fritz Wolff of Polish violinist Bronislaw Huberman has been separated from the collections and transferred to the Music Division's iconography collection: PhD 2546.", "generated"=>true}

extent_statement

1 linear foot

date_start

1945

date_end

1990

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