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Alvin Singleton papers, 1952-2021 9.22 Linear Feet (10 document boxes (Boxes 1-3, 14-20), 6 tall document boxes (Boxes 4-7, 21-22), 6 flat boxes (Boxes 8-13), 1 compact disk box (Box 23))

Singleton, Alvin, 1940-
Composer Alvin Singleton was born on December 28, 1940 in Brooklyn, New York. He has composed music for theatre, orchestra, solo instruments, and a variety of chamber ensembles. The collection includes primarily musical scores, as well as audio recordings, clippings and other biographical materials, correspondence, photographs, programs, scrapbooks.
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Group for Contemporary Music records, 1962-1999 10 linear feet (24 manuscript boxes)

Group for Contemporary Music

The Group for Contemporary Music records document the function of an American chamber ensemble dedicated to the performance of contemporary classical music, dating from 1961 to 2012. The records consist of correspondence, photographs, programs, memoranda, schedules, meeting notes, clippings, contracts, bills, financial records, fund raising and grant applications, and so on.

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Leonard Altman papers, 1930-1995 1 linear feet (2 manuscript boxes)

Altman, Leonard, 1920-1996

Correspondence, manuscripts, documents, notes, printed material, and photographs of Leonard Altman concerning his work as editor of LISTEN and board member of Carnegie Hall as well as his other professional and personal interests.

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Peter G. Davis Papers, 1912-2021, bulk 1948-2021 13 Linear Feet (2 record storage cartons, 21 manuscript boxes, and 2 flat boxes) 78 Megabytes (13 floppy disks (5.25-inch) and 43 floppy disks (3.5-inch).)

Davis, Peter G.
This collection contains the papers of Peter G. Davis (1936-2021), who worked as a classical music critic at various national and specialist publications from 1962-2018. It includes the vast majority of Davis's writings on music (published or draft), along with print material relating to these writings, Davis's compositions (1957-1964), material relating to Davis's early education (1948-1959), and correspondence and interviews with a number of major classical musicians.
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Virgil Thomson papers, 1920-1981 12.5 linear feet (24 ms boxes, 1 tall ms box (box 15) & 2 RCS of scrapbooks)

Thomson, Virgil, 1896-1989

Prose manuscripts, related correspondence, notes, printed material, scrapbooks, and audio tapes of Thomson. Included are notes and drafts of many of Thomson's early articles, written while he was a student at Harvard University and in Paris, and numerous manuscripts of columns published in the HERALD TRIBUNE in the 1940s. Thomson's special interests reflected in these writings are modern music, American hymns, and the performance of music in Europe. Also, manuscripts and related material for six of Thomson's books and for Gertrude Stein's BEE TIME VINE, which was published after her death and for which he wrote the preface; and 125 reels of tapes of Thomson's program on radio station WNCN (New York), 1969-1970. Cataloged correspondents include Chalmers Clifton, Lincoln Kirstein, Alfred A. Knopf, and Man Ray.

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