Series II: Office Files

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{"value"=>"1935-1993", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1935/1993"}
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{"value"=>"Series II: Office Files"}
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{"format"=>"simple", "value"=>"9.5 boxes"}
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{"value"=>"<p>This series holds subject files containing reports, board of trustees meeting minutes, development and membership files, clippings, and photographs.</p> <p> The files hold correspondence and other papers regarding composers, performers, music festivals, and Forum projects such as the Composers' Services Program, the publications <span class=\"title\">New Music Calendar</span> and <span class=\"title\">Network News</span>, and events produced for the Forum's fiftieth anniversary season. One file is devoted to the papers of the composer Jacob Glick, a board member.</p> <p> The board meeting minutes (which include correspondence as well), and, to a lesser extent, the annual reports, offer an inside view of the development of the Forum from the early 1960s to the early 1990s. Other official Forum papers in the series include Statements of Purpose, prospectuses, letters of agreement with employees, auditor reports, annual reports, and certificates of incorporation.</p> <p> The development files contain grant applications to and correspondence with funding agencies such as the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts, and Meet the Composer; and private foundations such as the Martha Baird Rockefeller Fund. One folder in the development files contains a history of grant funding of the Forum, mostly from the 1980s.</p> <p> Membership files contain lists of membership and general letters sent to members. The clipping files are extensive and cover the history of the Forum from its beginning to 1991. The photographs are of composers and performers associated with the Forum, including Ben Weber, Roger Goeb, Ashley Pettis, Darius Milhaud, Lukas Foss, Muhal Richard Abrams, Anthony Braxton, Joel Chadabe, Leroy Jenkins, Kronos String Quartet, Yvar Mikashoff, J.D. Parran, the Relâche ensemble, Bruno Spoerri, and Leo Smith.</p>"}
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1935
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1935
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1993
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1935
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1993

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  1. Annual Reports
  2. Auditor Reports
  3. Board of Trustees Correspondence and Meeting Minutes
  4. Carter, Elliott
  5. Clippings
  6. Coleman, Ornette
  7. Columbia/Princeton Electronic Music Center
  8. Composers' Services Program
  9. Boudreau, Walter
  10. Certificates of Incorporation and Amendments
  11. Cross, Lowell
  12. Development [16/1]
  13. Einhorn, Richad
  14. Errante, F. Gerard
  15. Festival Database
  16. Fiftieth Anniversary
  17. Finney, Ross Lee
  18. Glick, Jacob
  19. Hellerman, William
  20. Klein, Eric
  21. Letters of Agreement
  22. Maccombie, Bruce
  23. Martriano, Sal
  24. Membership
  25. Merkin Hall
  26. Music From France Festival
  27. National Jazz Service Organization
  28. Network News
  29. New Music America
  30. New Music Baltimore
  31. New Music Calendar
  32. New Music / New Composers Series [2/1]
  33. New Music News
  34. New Music Virtuosi Festival
  35. New School for Social Research
  36. Performer Contracts
  37. Photographs
  38. Prospectuses
  39. Radio
  40. Record Distribution
  41. Relâche
  42. Statements of Purpose
  43. Supove, Kathleen
  44. Tudor, David
  45. Wigglesworth, Frank