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{"format"=>"structured", "physdesc_components"=>[{"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"8.5 linear feet", "unit"=>"linear feet"}, {"name"=>"extent", "value"=>"12 boxes", "unit"=>"containers"}], "supress_display"=>true}
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{"value"=>"JPB 06-58", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"20392", "type"=>"local_mss"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1945-1979", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1945/1979"}
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1945
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1979
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1945
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Thomas Scherman 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 Thomas Scherman Papers contain various scores composed by Thomas Scherman (1917-1979) and by the other composers. The bulk of this material dates from 1960s-1970s. Addition to the scores, the collection contains scripts, correspondence, citations and notes."}
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"<p> Thomas Scherman Papers, JPB 06-58. Music Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.</p>"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Scherman, Thomas", "type"=>"persname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>Thomas Kielty Scherman, American conductor, was born on February 12, 1917. He was a son of Harry Scherman, founder and president of the Book-of-the-Month Club. He attended Columbia University and then studied piano with Isabelle Vengerova and conducting with Carl Bamberger and Otto Klemperer, whose assistant he became in conducting a chamber orchestra composed of European refuges at the New School for Social Research in New York (1939-1941). He subsequently served in the U.S. Army (1939-1941), reaching the rank of captain. In 1947 he became assistant conductor of the National Opera in Mexico City; the same year, he organized in New York the Little Orchestra Society for the purposes of presenting new works, some of them specially commissioned, and reviving forgotten music of the past. Young People's Concerts were added in 1948 and public rehearsals of the Town Hall concerts at low prices in 1951, when the Society made its first tour. In 1950 Scherman made his first European appearance, conducting in Vienna and Switzerland. He also gave performances of operas in concert versions. He terminated the seasons of the Little Orchestra Society in 1975, but organized the New Little Orchestra Society to present children's concerts, which he led until his death. Thomas K. Scherman died on May 14, 1979 in New York</p>"}
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{"value"=>"<p> Most of the collection consists of scores and parts Thomas Scherman arranged and sometimes composed for his Little Orchestra Society. There is a series of works by other composers that Scherman either hand copied exactly or that he revised. The collection includes a number of scripts and librettos including <span class=\"title\">Red Pony</span> by Aaron Copland, <span class=\"title\">Athaliah</span> by Richard Franko Goldman, <span class=\"title\">Naughty Marietta</span> by Victor Herbert and others. The collection also contains a small amount of correspondence, biographical material and photographs.</p>"}
{"value"=>"<p class='list-head'>The Thomas Scherman papers are arranged in four series:</p>\n<ul class='arrangement series-descriptions'>\n<li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mus/20392#c605135'>Series I: Scores</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1945-1978, undated</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>This Series is the bulk of the collection, and consists of Scherman's compositions and scores by composers such as <span class=\"title\">Comus</span> by Thomas Arne, <span class=\"title\">Curlew River</span> by Benjamin Britten, <span class=\"title\">The Red Pony</span> by Aaron Copland, <span class=\"title\">Comic Strip</span> by Freda Miller, <span class=\"title\">Things Kids Do</span> by Carl Seale, <span class=\"title\">Brand New Shoes</span> by Toby Tate and others.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mus/20392#c605170'>Series II: Scripts</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1954-1979, undated</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>This Series includes scripts and librettos of Benjamin Britten’s <span class=\"title\">Curlew River</span>, Aaron Copland’s <span class=\"title\">Red Pony</span>, Giovanni Draghi’s <span class=\"title\">The Master of Music</span>, Richard Goldman’s <span class=\"title\">Athaliah</span>, Manos Hadjakis’s <span class=\"title\">Opera for Five</span>, Russell Porter’s <span class=\"title\">Early Dawn</span> and others.</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mus/20392#c605218'>Series III: Professional Papers</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1959-1979, undated</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>This Series includes citations, publicity, notes, rehearsal schedules, correspondence and an article about <span class=\"title\">Curlew River</span> by Mitchell Donald</p></div></li><li><div class='series-title'><a href='/mus/20392#c605234'>Series IV: Oversized Material</a></div>\n<div class='series-date'>1957-1978, undated</div>\n<div class='series-description'><p>Series IV includes one libretto and several citations</p></div></li></ul>\n", "type"=>"arrangement"}
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- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p> The Thomas Scherman Papers were donated to the library as a bequest prior to 1979.</p>"}
- separatedmaterial
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{"value"=>"<p> <ul> <li>1 - Commemorative plaque from the Associated Musicians Greater New York, Local 802, citing Scherman for “25 years of service to our musical community with The Little Orchestra Society” (1972?).</li> <li>2 - Commemorative plaque from the members of The Little Orchestra, “commemorating ten years of music making... 1945-1947”.</li> <li>3 - Commemorative plate from the members of The Little Orchestra Society, “on the occasion of [Scherman’s] 25th anniversary season”, 1972.</li> <li>4 - Picture frame (20 ½ x 15 ½), encasing two medallions with embossed images of Berlioz and Smetana, and a medal with the embossed image of Handel, 1972.</li> <li>5 - Picture frame (20 ½ x 15 ½), encasing three medals with embossed images of a Roman soldier, an ancient Greek woman, and George Foster Peaboy (undated).</li></ul></p>"}
- userestrict
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{"value"=>"<p>For permission to publish, contact the Chief, Music Division.</p>"}
- processinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Processed by Liavon Yurevich; Machine-readable finding aid created by Liavon Yurevich.</p>"}
- extent_statement
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8.5 linear feet (12 boxes)
- date_start
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1945
- date_end
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1979