{"value"=>"<p>This series contains the records of the League of Composers, dating mostly from 1923 to 1955. The papers primarily hold concert programs and correspondence, but also include clippings, Board reports and internal memos. One file documents a 1941 tour sponsored by the League.The programs are organized by concert season and document every season from 1923-1924 to 1954-1955.</p> <p>Most of the correspondence is with Claire Reis. Correspondents include George Antheil, Samuel Barber, Be´la Barto´k, Alban Berg, Marc Blitzstein, Ernst Bloch, John Cage, Alfredo Casella, Juan Jose Castro, Carlos Chavez, Aaron Copland, Henry Cowell, Manuel de Falla, Rudolph Ganz, Eugene Goossens, Louis Gruenberg, Roy Harris, Paul Hindemith, Charles Ives, Otto Klemperer, Serge Koussevitsky, G. Francesco Malipiero, Bohuslav Martinu°, Darius Milhaud, Eugene Ormandy, Walter Piston, Serge Prokofiev, Fritz Reiner, Wallingford Riegger, Artur Rodzinski, Erik Satie, Arnold Schoenberg, William Schuman, Roger Sessions, William Grant Still, Leopold Stokowski, Igor Stravinsky, Virgil Thomson, Bruno Walter, and Anton Webern. Some correspondence dates up to 1966, but the majority is from before the 1954 ISCM merger. League-related correspondence can also be found in Series I.</p>"}