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- unitid
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{"value"=>"JPB 03-2", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"20305", "type"=>"local_mss"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1938-1999", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1938/1999"}
{"value"=>"1950-1998", "type"=>"bulk", "normal"=>"1950/1998"}
- date_inclusive_start
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1938
- date_inclusive_end
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1999
- keydate
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1938
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Marco Rizo papers"}
- repository
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.</span> <span class=\"subarea\">Music Division.</span> <div class=\"address\"><span class=\"addressline\">New York, New York</span></div>"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"The Marco Rizo Papers document Rizo’s career, from his early piano performances in Cuba, to orchestrating the Desi Arnaz Band, and on through introducing Latin music to public school children."}
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"<p> Marco Rizo Papers, JPB 03-2. Music Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.</p>"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Rizo, Marco", "type"=>"persname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p> Marco Rizo was born in Santiago, Cuba, in 1920. His father Sebastian, the principal flutist with the Santiago Symphony, provided Rizo with his early music education. In addition to playing with his father’s jazzband, Rizo studied classical music, and became an important classical pianist by the age of 16. In 1938 he moved to Havana where he joined the city’s Philharmonic as the official pianist. He then immigrated to the United States in 1940, and studied at Juilliard until 1942, when he joined the war effort as a performer in the 2d Army Military Band.</p> <p>After World War II, his childhood friend, Desi Arnaz, invited Rizo to join his band on tour. This engagement evolved into Rizo’s work on <span class=\"title\">I Love Lucy</span> as the musical director, a position he held for the entire run of the television series (1951-1957). During these years he continued his musical training at UCLA, working under Igor Stravinsky and Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco. Rizo’s career also centered on the arrangement of music, and he arranged songs for a great number of personalities, as well as motion picture studios.</p> <p>In the early 1970s, one of Rizo’s jobs was as the musical director, and sometimes performer, for the Royal Viking Sea cruise ship. During the 1980s Rizo established the South American Music Project, Inc., through which his band visited public schools in New York City (as well as other locales) to teach children about Latin music. His programs enabled each student to learn how to play a Latin percussion instrument, and learn how to play as a group. Recitals were often held to showcase the children’s love of this music.</p> <p>Rizo’s prolific career as a composer and arranger generated 30 albums, and he was an active performer into his later years. His last album, titled <span class=\"title\">Habaneras</span>, consisted of Cuban classical music, and it was released shortly before his death on September 8, 1998.</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p> The Marco Rizo Papers contain scores and other professional materials. Rizo’s career span is documented through concert programs, newspaper clippings, and photographs. Some of this material is written in Spanish. There is little evidence of Rizo’s personal life, but anecdotes may be found in the manuscript drafts he compiled on Desi Arnaz’s life, which includes Rizo’s own experiences.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Marco Rizo papers are arranged in eight series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mus/20305#c559908'>Series I: Correspondence,</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1948 - 1998</div>\n<div class='series-extent'>0.28 linear feet (9 folders</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>The correspondence in this series provides a record of Rizo’s work in public schools, as well as letters from arts organizations concerning his performances in cultural programs. Other important contents include letters to and from Lucie Arnaz on behalf of her father.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mus/20305#c559919'>Series II: Personal and professional papers,</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1945 - 1999</div>\n<div class='series-extent'>0.08 linear feet (4 folders</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>These papers are primarily business-oriented, and include items such as budgets, program proposals, stock certificates, and incorporation information. Rizo’s personal papers consist of his resume, an honorable discharge from the Army, two awards, and a page of recording session notes. One folder contains catalogs of his arrangements, compositions, and discography, which were compiled after his death.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mus/20305#c559924'>Series III: Concert programs and promotional material,</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1938 - 1999</div>\n<div class='series-extent'>0.28 linear feet (9 folders</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>This series documents Rizo’s performing career, including some of his earliest performances in Havana and New York City. There are also advertisements from nightclubs in California and Las Vegas where Rizo had long-standing engagements in the 1950s.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mus/20305#c559935'>Series IV: Scrapbooks, clippings, and publications,</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1938 - 1998</div>\n<div class='series-extent'>0.42 linear feet (1 box</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>The clippings and related items in this series complement the other memorabilia in the collection. Four folders contain photocopied pages from scrapbooks, with the original order maintained where possible. Many of the clippings found in the scrapbook folders are undated, but are within a specified date range.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mus/20305#c559952'>Series V: Writings,</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1985 - 1998</div>\n<div class='series-extent'>0.75 linear feet (1.8 boxes</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>One of Rizo’s major efforts in the 1990s was to publish a biography about Desi Arnaz that would portray the man Rizo knew, rather than the man depicted by the media. Although the book was not published, this series contains many drafts of the work. Rizo also wrote essays on Latin music topics, such as Cuban classical music, the composer Ernesto Lecuona, and a history of music in Latin American countries. Also found here is one folder of song lyrics, and writings on Rizo by other authors.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mus/20305#c559980'>Series VI: Photographs and caricatures,</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1938 - 1998</div>\n<div class='series-extent'>0.42 linear feet (1 box</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>The photographs series round out the materials that cover Rizo’s performance career. However, many of the photographs lack identifying details, such as location, date, or names of individuals. The series arrangement groups the photographs into general categories based on content. For example, one folder is for Rizo’s solo piano performances, while another is for pictures of him playing with a band. There is also a folder containing photographs of Rizo with Desi Arnaz. Among the early photographs, a notable one is of Rizo dressed as a woman, which was part of an <span class=\"title\">I Love Lucy</span> episode featuring the band members dressed in drag.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mus/20305#c560002'>Series VII: Scores,</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1938 - 1986</div>\n<div class='series-extent'>10 linear feet (21 boxes</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>This series documents the extent of Rizo’s musical career as a composer and arranger. The scores are divided accordingly into two groups, one for compositions, and the second for arrangements. All of the scores and parts are handwritten, unless otherwise noted. Both sets of scores include works written for combos, small ensembles, jazz bands, and orchestras; this information was noted on the original folders, with the term “Big Band” frequently used for jazz band. Many scores are also available on microfilm, of which there are eight reels; these scores contain a note with the reel and folder number (the microfilm numbering system does not match the collection’s box list). While a majority of the scores are undated, the catalogs of Rizo’s work (box 1, folder 13) include possible dates as well as other information about each piece. See the Oversized Materials series for more scores.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mus/20305#c560458'>Series VIII: Oversized Materials</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>undated</div>\n<div class='series-extent'>1.67 linear feet (1 box</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>In addition to scores, oversized materials include several enlarged photographs, and mock-ups of a book cover for one of Rizo’s attempted books about Desi Arnaz. Two of the photographs were taken on the set of <span class=\"title\">I Love Lucy</span> and feature Lucille Ball.</p></div></li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
- arrangement
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{"value"=>"<p>The collection is organized into eight series, as follows:</p> <p> <ul> <li>Series I: Correspondence, 1948-1998, undated</li> <li>Series II: Personal and professional papers, 1945-1999, undated</li> <li>Series III: Concert programs and promotional material, 1938-1999, undated</li> <li>Series IV: Clippings, c.1938-1998, undated</li> <li>Series V: Writings, 1985-1995, undated</li> <li>Series VI: Photographs and caricatures, c.1938-1998, undated</li> <li>Series VII: Scores, 1938-1986, undated</li> <li>Series VIII: Oversized Materials, undated</li></ul></p>", "supress_display"=>true}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p> Vilma Rizo donated the Marco Rizo Papers.</p>"}
- separatedmaterial
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{"value"=>"<ul> <li>Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound<ul> <li>Video:<ul> <li>1. \"1984 Good Take\"</li> <li>2. Channel 2 11:00pm news, 1989 April 29 (tribute to Lucille Ball at Cathedral of St. John the Divine)</li> <li>3. NJN Images, 1989 (Afro-Cuban music)</li> <li>4. NJN Images, 1996 Apr. 10 (host: Miguel Perez)</li> <li>5. NJN Images, 1996 Aug. 16 (Hispanic Youth Showcase)</li> <li>6. NJN, 1989 (Afro-Cuban Jazz) (2 tapes)</li> <li>7. NJN “The Desi Arnaz Story,” by Rizo, 1994 Feb. 15 (2 copies?)</li> <li>8. Latin Percussion Workshop and Jam Session at P.S. 237 Intermediate School, 1985 May 13</li> <li>9. Lecuona’s Musical Tribute, undated</li> <li>10. Rizo career hi-lites; “Lucy Memoriam;” school; Malagueña, undated (marked \"incomplete\")</li> <li>11. Rizo’s Lecuona Concert at St. Peter’s Church, 1986 Nov. 16</li> <li>12. Rizo at Lincoln Center, 1992</li> <li>13. Rizo at Museum of National History, undated</li> <li>14. Saturday Night Live, undated (Desi Arnaz)</li> <li>15. “Those Were the Beats,” 1998 Apr. 27</li> <li>16. Tribute to Lucille Ball at Cathedral of St. John the Divine, 1989 Apr. 29</li> <li>17. Tropicana, undated</li> <li>18. Unidentified, undated (3 tapes)</li></ul></li></ul> <ul> <li>Audio:<ul> <li>4 cassette tapes labeled “Marco Rizo,” in 3 parts, undated (2 copies of part III?)</li></ul></li></ul></li></ul>"}
- userestrict
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{"value"=>"<p>For permission to publish, contact the Chief, Music Division.</p>"}
- altformavail
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{"value"=>"<p> Select scores available on microfilm.</p>"}
- physloc
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{"value"=>"*ZB-4377 [Microfilm]", "type"=>"local_call", "supress_display"=>true}
- langmaterial_code
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spa
eng
- langmaterial
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{"value"=>"Some materials in the Concert programs and promotional material series and the Clippings series are in Spanish"}
- processinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Processed by Anastasia Karel; Machine-readable finding aid created by Anastasia Karel.</p>"}
- extent_statement
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13.43 linear feet (28 boxes)
- date_start
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1938
- date_end
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1999
- date_bulk_start
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1950
- date_bulk_end
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1998