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{"value"=>"JPB 02-5", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"20271", "type"=>"local_mss"}
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{"value"=>"1928-2001", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1928/2001"}
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1928
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2001
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1928
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{"value"=>"Jacob Avshalomov scores"}
- repository
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. <span class=\"subarea\">Music Division.</span></span> <div class=\"address\"><span class=\"addressline\">New York, New York</span></div>"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"Jacob Avshalomov, composer, was born in China in 1919, but immigrated to the U.S.A. in 1937. He studied in Los Angeles with Ernst Toch, at the Eastman School of Music with Bernard Rogers, and at Tanglewood with Aaron Copland. Avshalomov spent the majority of his career as the director of the Portland Youth Orchestra from 1954 to 1995. The Scores contains various drafts and sketches and scores composed by Jacob Avshalomov from 1928-1998. The bulk of the material dates from 1940-1998, and in addition to the scores, the collection contains correspondence, libretti and programs. The collection also includes compositions written by the composers father, Aaron Avshalomov."}
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{"value"=>"<p>Jacob Avshalomov Scores, JPB 02-5, Music Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.</p>"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Avshalomov, Jacob, 1919-", "type"=>"persname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>Jacob Avshalomov was born on March 28, 1919, in Tsingtao, China to a Russian composer father, Aaron Avshalomov, and an American mother. Jacobs first introduction to music was in 1937, in Shanghai, where he assisted his father in producing a Chinese ballet and in preparing score.</p> <p>In December 1937, Jacob immigrated to San Francisco with his mother. (His father moved to America in 1947.) In 1938, Avshalomov studied composition with Ernst Toch in Los Angeles. Avshalomov attended Reed College in Portland Oregon in 1939-1941. There, he studied conducting with Jacques Gershkovitch and played percussion and cello in the Junior Symphony. He received a masters degree in 1943, from the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY, where he studied composition with Bernard Rogers. On August 31, 1943, Avshalomov married Dorris Felde, with whom he had two children, both became professional musicians: David, a composer-conductor and Daniel, a violist and a member of the American String Quartet.</p> <p>In 1944, Avshalomov became a naturalized American citizen. While serving in the U.S. army, as an interpreter during World War II, he made his conducting debut with a performance of Bachs <span class=\"title\">Passion According to St. John</span> in 1944. Also while in the army, Avshalomov composed <span class=\"title\">Slow Dance</span>, his first work to receive a significant hearing. The piece was performed by the National Symphony under Richard Bales in Washington D.C. on August 13, 1945.</p> <p>In 1946, he received an Alice M. Ditson Fellowship from Columbia University. Avshalomov spent that summer at the Berkshire Music Center at Tanglewood, where he studied composition with Aaron Copland. Then, in the fall of 1946, Avshalomov joined the music faculty at Columbia University. During his eight-year tenure, he founded and conducted the university chorus and occasionally conducted the orchestra which presented the American premieres of Michael Tippetts<span class=\"title\"> A Child of Our Time,</span> Bruckners <span class=\"title\">Mass in D</span> and Handels <span class=\"title\">The Triumph of Time or Truth</span>. In 1957, Avshalomov completed, what he has identified as his most significant work, <span class=\"title\">Inscriptions at the City of the Brass</span>.</p> <p>Avshalomov received many honors during his career including the Ernest Bloch award for the cantata, <span class=\"title\">How Long O Lord</span> in 1948, and a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1951. His major choral work,<span class=\"title\"> Tom OBedlam</span>, which premiered on December 15, 1953, was awarded the New York Music Critics Circle Award. He received honorary doctorates in music and humane letters from the University of Portland (1966), Reed College (1974), and Linfield College in McMinville, Oregon (1976). In 1968, President Johnson appointed Avshalomov to the National Council on Humanities. He served until 1978</p> <p>In 1954, Avshalomov left Columbia University and moved to Portland, Oregon where he took over the 30-year old Portland Junior Symphony (its name was changed in 1978 to the Portland Youth Orchestra) During his 41-year tenure he led students on six international tours. On March 28, 1999, Avshalomovs 80th birthday was celebrated in Portland with a special concert with an orchestra made up of his alumni from the Portland Junior Symphony and the Youth Philharmonic.</p> <p> Sources: Ewen, David. <span class=\"title\">American Composers Today.</span> New York: H.W. Wilson, 1949.</p> <p>Stabler, David: Avshalomov, Jacob, <span class=\"title\">The New Grove Dictionary of Music Online.</span>ed. L. Macy (Accessed 12 November 2003), http://www.grovemusic.com.</p> <p>Slonimsky, Nicolas. Bakers <span class=\"title\">Biographical Dictionary of Musicans--centennial ed.,</span> vol. 1, 151. New York: Schirmer Books, 2001.</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>The majority of the collection consists of Jacob Avshalomov scores encompassing a fifty-year period of his work from 1928 to 1978. There are several drafts of many of the compositions in the collection. The collection also contains two scores written by the composers father, Aaron Avshalomov. Ephemera in the collection includes limited correspondence, clippings and programs. The majority of the material was dated, labeled and arranged in chronological order by Jacob Avshalomov. The collection also contains an unbound copy of Jacob Avshalomovs autobiography, <span class=\"title\">Winding Way: Composers out of China -- a chronicle.</span></p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Jacob Avshalomov scores are arranged in two series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mus/20271#c548374'>Series I: Scores, 1928-1998</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1928-1998</div>\n<div class='series-extent'>13 boxes; 4.86 linear feet</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>The Scores series is by far the largest series in the collection. The series includes sketches, drafts and, in some cases, libretti for Jacob Avshalomovs composition, as well as three folders of materials written by his father, Aaron Avshalomov. The majority of the material is written in the composers hand. The amount of material related to each piece varies greatly. The amount of material in each folder also varies dramatically; some folders may contain only one score, while others may contain a larger amount of material.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mus/20271#c548549'>Series II: Ephemera, 1943-2001</a></div>\n<div class='series-extent'>2 boxes</div>\n</li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
- arrangement
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{"value"=>"<ul> <li>Series I: Scores<ul> <li>Sub-series 1 - Works by Aaron Avshalomov</li> <li>Sub-series 2 - Works by Jacob Avshalomov</li></ul></li> <li>Series II: Ephemera</li></ul>", "supress_display"=>true}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Gift of Jacob Avshalomov in two parts, 1990 and 2003</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p>Compact discs can be found in the Avshalomov (Jacob) Collection within the Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound. For a list of titles, check in the Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives</p> <p>Audiovisual materials separated from archival collections are cataloged individually and can be found in the Library catalog. Search CATNYP, The New York Public Library catalog.</p>"}
- userestrict
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{"value"=>"<p>For permission to publish, contact the Curator, Music Division, The New York Library for the Performing Arts.</p>"}
- relatedmaterial
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{"value"=>"<p>The Music Division holdings include an archival collection and finding aid of Aaron Avshalomov Scores, 1922-1963. (Call no.: JPB 89-35)</p>"}
- processinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Processed by Amy Azzarito; Machine-readable finding aid created by Amy Azzarito.</p>"}
- extent_statement
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5.36 linear feet (15 boxes)
- date_start
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1928
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2001