Found 4 collections related to Thorne, Francis

Francis Thorne is an American composer. Most of his was work created in the late 20th Century. He has composed over 100 works, including symphonies, concerti, string quartets, as well as chamber music, choral music and songs. In addition to composing, he has been active in music administration, being a founding member of the American Composers Orchestra. He has been President/Treasurer of the Thorne Music Fund as well as the Executive Director of the Music Theatre Group, and American Composers Alliance. His music is published by Merion Music, Inc. and distributed by Theodore Presser Company. This collection consists mainly of scores. There are also office files. less

The Frank Wigglesworth Papers document Wigglesworth's life and career. The collection was assembled by Wigglesworth over the course of his lifetime, and includes musical scores, correspondence, clippings, programs, miscellaneous papers, iconography, and books. Correspondents include Henry and Sidney Cowell, Lou Harrison, Otto Luening, Virgil Thomson, and Edgard Varèse among many others. Maurice Sendak and Adlai Stevenson are represented by one letter each. Lou Harrison's letter of February 12, 1952, contains the autograph score of his Serenade for Guitar, spontaneously composed for Wigglesworth. Series A/4 contains other autograph scores by Harrison and by Otto Luening, a manuscript score by Vittorio Rieti, and reproductions of manuscript scores by Paul Arma, Chester Biscardi, Edward V. Bonnemere, Richard Brooks, John Cage, Gerald C. Chenoweth, Edward T. Cone, Stefania M. De Kenessey, Aaron Einbond, Daniel S. Godfrey, Daron Aric Hagen, Jose Halac, Reiko Ito, Barbara Kolb, Robert Maggio, Denman Maroney, Henry Martin, Lucas Mason, Richard Owen, Peter Phillips, David L. Post, David Rakowski, Loren Rush, Marvin Salzberg, John Sembret, Davy Temperley, Virgil Thomson, Brian Wilson, Marilyn Ziffrin, and Ellen Taafe Zwilich. Sound recordings originally with the collection are now housed in the Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound. less

New Music for Young Ensembles (NYME), founded in 1974 by Claire Rosengarten, was an organization which fostered musical composition of ensemble music for intermediate level players. The organization's main activities centered around an annual composition competition, and an annual concert of music which would include the competition winner and other contemporary music. The New Music for Young Ensembles records consist of a variety of materials, including correspondence, photographs, administrative records, concert programs, and scores documenting the entire history of NMYE from 1974 until 2004, as well as materials detailing the assembly of this archive. less