{"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>"}