{"value"=>"<p>This series thoroughly documents the many aspects of Otto Luening's life and career through subject files; correspondence; diaries; teaching files; interview transcripts; publicity materials; writings; datebooks; posters; a scrapbook; and school exercise books. It also holds files and correspondence of Catherine Brunson Luening dating from after her husband's death.</p> <p>Folder titles denote either a correspondent or a subject, with the exceptions of format-based titles such as Publicity or Promotional Correspondence. Subject files can contain correspondence with or papers regarding the subject, and, in some cases, photographs of the subject. Certain subjects, especially the Electronic Music and Teaching Files, are voluminous and sub-divided into their own subject/correspondent listings.</p> <p>Files with significant content in the series include Publicity, Electronic Music, Teaching, Foundations, Writings, the Alice M. Ditson Fund for New Music at Columbia University, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the American Composers Alliance, the American Music Center, Ernst Bacon, Ferrucio Busoni, Broadcast Music Inc. (BMI), Columbia University, Composers' Forum, Composers' Recordings Inc. (CRI), Henry Cowell, Luening's opera <span class=\"title\">Evangeline</span>, Luening's teacher Philipp Jarnach, Meet The Composer, the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Federation of Music Clubs, Severine Neff, the New York Philharmonic, the Social Science Research Council, Vladimir Ussachevsky, Edgard Varèse, Frank Wigglesworth, and the Works Progress Administration.</p> <p>The Publicity files contain clippings, concert programs and posters. They cover Luening's career from 1918 to 1996, and are filed chronologically.</p> <p>The Electronic Music files document the early work Luening did with Vladimir Ussachevsky, the establishment of the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, and several other projects. They hold correspondence, article manuscripts, and grant correspondence with the Rockefeller Foundation, as well as discussion of the Bauer-Mengelberg Project, an early effort to develop a computerized method for printing notated music.</p> <p>The Teaching files cover Luening's time at the University of Arizona, Bennington College, Columbia University and Barnard College, with smaller files for the Eastman School of Music and the Juilliard School. They mostly contain inter-faculty and administrative correspondence, as well as course syllabi and correspondence with former students. The teaching files do not contain student work or transcripts; all files denoting student publications or correspondence hold content shared with Luening by his former students.</p> <p>The Foundation files contain correspondence with and grant applications to the Rockefeller Foundation, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, and the Ford Foundation, among others.</p> <p>The Writings files hold unpublished notes, drafts, finished manuscripts, and typescripts for articles, lectures, and Luening's autobiography, <span class=\"title\">The Odyssey of an American Composer</span>. They also contain correspondence regarding the writings. Most of the lectures are unpublished. Some of the lecture files have only notes. Writings, lecture texts, and notes can also be found in the files for the Association of American Colleges, Electronic Music, the Metropolitan Opera Guild, the National Federation of Music Clubs, Phi Beta Kappa, Silver Burdett Books, and in the Teaching files (under both Bennington College and Columbia University/Barnard College). Article and lecture topics include Harry Partch, Contemporary Music, Emily Dickinson, and Electronic Music. (See Series V for recorded lectures.) The files for Luening's autobiography contain correspondence, notes, photographs, drafts, proofs, galleys, finished manuscripts, and research, including original documentation of events.</p> <p>The CRI files document the history and operations of the record company to a greater extent than the records of CRI (a collection held by the Music Division).</p> <p>Luening's diary entries date only from his mid-late teens. He transcribed some of them for partial inclusion in his autobiography. His datebooks offer more consistent coverage, mainly from 1946 to 1975.</p> <p>The interviews date mainly from the 1980s, and were done for various publications, or for individuals, including Charles Wuorinen. The transcript for a 1990 oral history can be found in the files for BMI, and focused on that organization.</p> <p>Significant figures with correspondence include George Antheil, Henry Cowell, Fritz Reiner, Ned Rorem, Nicolas Roussakis, Carl Sandburg, Halsey Stevens, Leopold Stokowsky, Virgil Thomson, and Stefan Wolpe. The Students file contains correspondence with Luening's pupils, as well as a list of students Luening taught at various schools (files for students taught at Columbia University are in the Teaching files under Columbia). The single scrapbook in this series dates from 1917, and contains German newspaper clippings.</p> <p>Catherine Brunson Luening's files dating from after Otto Luening's death cover his memorial service and condolence letters, her continued promotion of his music and business matters regarding it, and a Centennial project she spearheaded and raised funds for that included a concert of Luening's music in 2000.</p>"}