- unitid
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{"value"=>"18558", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"JPB 13-14", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"b19840606", "type"=>"local_b"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"1977-2005", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1977/2005"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Michael Gibson scores"}
- physdesc
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- repository
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{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">Music Division</span>"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"Michael Gibson (1944-2005) was an orchestrator and arranger for Broadway and Off-Broadway musicals, films, and concert productions by Broadway artists. His scores include orchestrations for several musicals by John Kander and Fred Ebb, as well as for other Broadway and Off-Broadway productions. They also hold orchestrations for Broadway performers such as Barbara Cook, Patti LuPone, Kristin Chenoweth, and Chita Rivera."}
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{"value"=>"English"}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Gibson, Michael, 1944-2005", "type"=>"persname"}
- bioghist
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{"value"=>"<p>Michael Gibson (1944-2005) was an orchestrator and arranger for Broadway and Off-Broadway musicals, films, and concert performances by Broadway artists. He attended Harvard University before transferring to Berklee College of Music, where he studied composition and theory.</p> <p>Gibson orchestrated many Broadway and Off-Broadway productions, and he had a long working relationship with the composer John Kander. He also orchestrated and arranged music for concert appearances or recordings by performers such as Barbara Cook, Patti LuPone, Kristin Chenoweth, and Chita Rivera.</p>"}
- scopecontent
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{"value"=>"<p>The Michael Gibson scores, dating from 1977 to 2005, primarily consist of orchestrations for Broadway and Off-Broadway musicals. They also hold arrangements and orchestrations for concert appearances or recordings by noted Broadway performers, as well as for film and production companies. Folder contents can include full scores, piano-vocal scores, conductor scores, parts, scripts, and orchestration notes.</p> <p>Most of the orchestrations are for full orchestras, or for various configurations of pit orchestras. The concert/recording arrangements for performers are for jazz big band or big band with strings, or in some cases for full orchestra. In all cases, Gibson is the orchestrator. Notes in the container list with each project specify if Gibson was the arranger or composer as well, and list composers, lyricists, and other arrangers, if known.</p> <p>Many of the musicals documented in the collection are by composer John Kander and lyricist Fred Ebb, including <span class=\"title\">Kiss of the Spider Woman</span>, <span class=\"title\">Over and Over</span> (also known as <span class=\"title\">The Skin of Our Teeth</span>), <span class=\"title\">The Rink</span>, <span class=\"title\">Steel Pier</span>, <span class=\"title\">The Visit</span>, <span class=\"title\">Woman of the Year</span>, the 1998 revival of <span class=\"title\">Cabaret</span>, and <span class=\"title\">Curtains</span> (a musical completed after Ebb's death). Scores for other John Kander projects are also present, such as the film <span class=\"title\">Billy Bathgate</span>, the television films <span class=\"title\">Breathing Lessons</span> and <span class=\"title\">The Boys Next Door</span>, and Kander's setting of <span class=\"title\">A Letter From Sullivan Ballou</span>.</p> <p>Other Broadway orchestrations in the collection are the 1999 revival of <span class=\"title\">You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown</span>; <span class=\"title\">Elmer Gantry</span>; <span class=\"title\">Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde</span>; <span class=\"title\">The Boy From Oz</span>; <span class=\"title\">Houdini</span>; <span class=\"title\">Anything Goes</span>; <span class=\"title\">My One and Only</span>; <span class=\"title\">Meet Me in St. Louis</span>; and <span class=\"title\">All Shook Up</span>. Gibson's Off-Broadway or independent musical work is represented by <span class=\"title\">3hree</span>, <span class=\"title\">The Fix</span>, <span class=\"title\">The Gig</span>, <span class=\"title\">A Little Princess</span>, <span class=\"title\">Love Comics</span>, <span class=\"title\">Splendora</span>, <span class=\"title\">Urban Myths</span>, <span class=\"title\">The Wild Party</span>, and <span class=\"title\">Zombie Prom</span>.</p> <p>The theatrical productions most heavily represented in the collection are <span class=\"title\">Kiss of the Spider Woman</span> (which has two separate orchestrations), and <span class=\"title\">Elmer Gantry</span>.</p> <p>Gibson's orchestrations and arrangements for concert performances or recordings by Broadway artists include scores for Barbara Cook, Patti Lupone, Chita Rivera, Joel Grey, Kristin Chenoweth, Tovah Feldshuh, Susan Anton, Lesley Gore, Tommy Tune, and Debbie Reynolds. Orchestrations for the vocalists Kathleen Battle and Vanessa Williams are also present.</p> <p>Gibson also did work for organizations such as the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Radio City Music Hall, Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus, and commercial advertising clients such as Ebay and State Farm. Scores for these projects are in the collection as well, as is Gibson's own score for the Merchant-Ivory film <span class=\"title\">Roseland</span>.</p> <p>Three projects in the collection contain electronic versions of scores written in Finale (software used for the creation, editing, printing, and sound realization of music scores and parts). These scores are most likely in the collection in printed form as well.</p> <p>The collection holds seven audio recordings containing Finale realizations of music Gibson orchestrated for Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus, dating from 2002 and 2003.</p>"}
- arrangement
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{"value"=>"<p>The collection is arranged alphabetically by project name. The names are often show titles, but can also be performers, organizations, or events.</p>"}
- acqinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Donated by Ellen Gibson in 2006.</p>"}
- processinfo
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{"value"=>"<p>Processed by <span class=\"name\">Matthew Snyder</span> in <span class=\"date\">2013</span>.</p>"}
- accessrestrict
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{"value"=>"<p>Inquiries regarding audio and video materials in the collection may be directed to the Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound (recordedsound@nypl.org). Audio and video materials will be subject to preservation evaluation and migration prior to access.</p>"}
- revisiondesc
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{"value"=>"Seven audio recordings processed and finding aid revised by Amy Lau in", "date"=>"2025."}
- date_start
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1977
- keydate
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1977
- date_end
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2005
- date_inclusive_start
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1977
- date_inclusive_end
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2005
- extent_statement
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28.17 linear feet (92 boxes). 96.0 megabytes (1,289 computer files). 7 audio recordings
- prefercite
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{"value"=>"Michael Gibson scores, JPB 13-14. Music Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts"}