{"value"=>"<p>The Business Files, dating from 1924 to 2020, evidence the business and promotional aspects of Richter's career, as well as her work's performance history and critical reactions to it. It also reveals the history of the Long Island Composers Alliance. Most of the content is subject files for organizations, performing ensembles, publishers, management, record labels, funding agencies, and particular concerts or events. The series also holds biographies of Richter, a clippings file, and three other subdivisions, the Composition File, the Performance File, letters, journals and notes.</p> <p>The Composition File, arranged alphabetically, contains programs, performance histories, clippings, correspondence, and notes regarding Richter's works. This content is somewhat paralleled by the Performance File. Arranged chronologically, it holds programs, press releases, presenter brochures, and correspondence with presenters.</p> <p>The letters are mostly professional but contain some correspondence with friends or family members. Other correspondents include musicians, presenters, music industry professionals, and composers. Some letter files are larger than others, but there is no substantial ongoing correspondence with anyone in the collection.</p> <p>Further content in the series includes journals and notes, which date from 1976 onward; lecture notes; earning reports from the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP) and publishers including Carl Fischer, G. Schirmer, and Broude Brothers; an interview transcript; and photographs, which hold headshots of Richter and a print of Richter with her son, pianist Michael Skelly.</p>"}