{"value"=>"<p>Shulman’s arrangements are in three divisions: for the Sweet Rhythm String Quartet (31 arrangements), for Sylvan Shulman and his Orchestra (four), and general (around 75).</p> <p>The Sweet Rhythm String Quartet arrangements are for show tunes or other popular songs from the 1930s and 1940s. They are mostly undated but probably date from the late 1930s to early 1940s. Notes with each arrangement give song authors, if known. All have manuscript scores and parts. None have published scores. There is a single folder of sketches, enclosed with a school notebook dated 1930.</p> <p>The arrangements for Sylvan Shulman’s group are for reeds, strings, trombone, guitar drums and piano. One, This Is Romance, includes a vocalist. All have manuscript scores and parts.</p> <p>The general category includes arrangements of many classical works for string quartet, cello quartets, cello choirs, or string orchestra. These include pieces by Bizet, Bach, Wagner, Schumann, Johann Strauss, Stravinsky, Ravel, Debussy, Grieg, Sibelius, Rachmaninoff and Rimsky-Korsakov. Other arrangements are of popular songs set for string quartet, either alone or with bass, guitar and harp. These were likely arranged for the New Friends of Rhythm, but are not labeled as such, unlike the arrangements for the Sweet Rhythm String Quartet.</p> <p>Also included in the general division are six arrangements written for and probably recorded by Maxine Sullivan. All are for voice, string quartet, bass, guitar and harp. Filed under Sullivan’s name in a single folder, the titles are I Must Have That Man, I Can’t Get Started, Loch Lomond, Jackie Boy, If I Had A Ribbon Bow, and Mad About The Boy. Several arrangements that Shulman wrote for the singer/songwriter Cris Williamson are filed under Williamson’s name.</p> <p>Other instrumentations among the arrangements are string quartet, piano and celeste (Smoke Gets In Your Eyes and Sweet Madness); full jazz band with strings (World War I Medley); and clarinet, strings, bass, guitar and harp (Bach’s Aria from Organ Pastorale in F, and Southern Comfort).</p> <p>Finally, the general category includes a book of string quartet arrangements consisting of parts only, and organized in books for each instrument. These may duplicate arrangements within this sub-series, but also contain some original Shulman compositions. They are filed under String Quartet Arrangement Books.</p>"}