{"value"=>"<p>The Administrative Files, dating from 1978 to 2015, document the operation of Symphony Space through marketing and development files; papers from the offices of Isaiah Sheffer, Allan Miller, and Kay Cattarulla; legal and real estate files; board, committee, and staff meeting minutes; information on rentals of the venue; audits; clippings; and files on various other topics. The largest components of the series are the development, Kay Cattarulla, real estate, legal, and marketing files.</p> <p>The development files hold grant applications to and correspondence with the city of New York, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts; files on benefit galas which include programs and photographs; information on corporate sponsorships; and volumes containing logs of annual fundraising activities. The files include Symphony Space's first funding proposal, which outlines the vision Allan Miller and Isaiah Sheffer had for the venue at its founding.</p> <p>The Kay Cattarulla files contain historical documentation of Symphony Space, including transcripts of interviews with employees and lawyers regarding the history of the organization's real estate litigation, and files of clippings and other sources on the history of the property. They also hold the Allan Miller files, which tell the story of the organization from its 1978 founding through the early 1980s. The Miller files hold correspondence; memos; proposals; legal and real estate papers; and a description of the goals of Symphony Space compiled in 1981 by Miller and Isaiah Sheffer. Other components of the Cattarulla files include early publicity efforts and letters of praise for the Selected Shorts program from writers such as V.S. Pritchett and Daniel Okrent. See also the files for Wall To Wall Bach (1978) in Series III: Programming Files, for historical documentation of the birth of Symphony Space.</p> <p>The marketing files contain advertisements, press releases, brochures, calendars, postcards, and other promotional literature; correspondence; memos; budgets; proposals; programs; attendance records; audience surveys; publicity schedules; and photographs of performing artists and literary figures, some in performance. These include Frank McCourt, Meryl Streep, Cynthia Nixon, and William Hurt. Programs and marketing literature can also be found throughout Series III: Programming Files.</p> <p>The Isaiah Sheffer files include Sheffer's writings (lyrics, poems, parodies, and scripts); Symphony Space calendars, posters, programs, and advertisements; photographs of Pinchas Zukerman, Malachy McCourt, Stephen Lang, and Abby Newton; and correspondence, clippings, memos, and notes, many dating from 1978 to 1980.</p> <p>The real estate and legal files contain correspondence, hearing transcripts, depositions, decisions, and appeals in Symphony Space, Inc. v. Pergola Properties, Inc., the legal battle for the organization to retain ownership of its property. Some of these papers are annotated.</p> <p>The rental files contain booking brochures; contracts; correspondence with artists and presenters; and promotional material, including posters for some of the jazz concerts produced by Symphony Space in its early years.</p>"}