{"value"=>"<p>This series holds correspondence, photographs, concert programs, scrapbooks, diaries, datebooks, an address book, clippings, teaching material, writings, drawings, posters, official records, and information on Turner's family history.</p> <p>The correspondence is with Turner's friends, colleagues and family. It includes letters from the composers Samuel Barber, Noël Lee, Gian Carlo Menotti, Ned Rorem, John Corigliano, Stanley Hollingsworth, George Perle, Virgil Thomson, and David Diamond; the British historian Sir Steven Runciman; the musicologist Howard Pollack; the author William Styron; the poet W.H. Auden; and Turner's publisher G. Schirmer, Inc. Of these names, Barber, Lee, Menotti, Rorem and Runciman have the most content. The correspondence from Barber includes a 1981 letter from Barber's estate regarding the bequest he left to Turner, as well as letters to Barber from other parties. The letters from Turner consist primarily of correspondence to and from his parents.</p> <p>The photographs consist mostly of small black and white snapshots, though there are larger images as well (there is also a folder of black and white negatives). The larger images include portraits of Turner and Samuel Barber. The Barber folder holds pictures of Barber and Turner together in the 1950s. The general photos of Turner are mostly informal and date from his childhood to the 1960s, often showing him with friends and lovers. Later images are in color. The photos with unidentified subjects may feature Turner as well.</p> <p>The concert programs are thorough and date from throughout Turner's life, from his first public performances at age seven to a 1989 performance of Pastorale. The scrapbooks, containing clippings and photographs, document Turner's early career (1933 to 1943), and a trip to Italy in 1962. The loose clippings are more inclusive, dating from 1934 to 1969. The clippings file also contains Turner's resume, ca. 1978.</p> <p>Turner's teaching material holds his notes and exams on music history, cello and violin studies, and composition exercises. His writings contain autobiographical essays; a libretto by John Van Meter for an opera called Dracula (possibly intended for music by Turner); an essay about Turner's piece The Ballad of Barnaby; an essay on Turner's year in Italy as an exchange fellow in 1955; poetry; and the typescript of a chapter (author unknown) of a book about Samuel Barber discussing the opera Antony and Cleopatra. The typescript has Turner's notes and corrections. Turner's diaries are fragmentary do not document his life in great detail.</p> <p>The official records consist of school transcripts, Navy records, and Turner's passport.</p> <p>The drawings are presumably by Turner, but they also contain a published book of drawings by Rob Tobin, inscribed by the artist to Turner. The posters advertise Turner's performances of Barber's Violin Concerto, his appearances at the Spoleto Festival in Italy, and the New York City Ballet's performances of Pastorale.</p>"}