İlhan Mimaroğlu Papers, 1926-2012

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Series II: Journalism, music and cultural criticism, circa 1950-2012

Series II contains materials related to Mimaroğlu's journalism and criticism. Much of this series is composed of manuscript and printed material, though it also contains recordings of his work for radio, especially the radio show he produced on New York's WBAI-FM from 1973 until 1980.



Box 20 Item 136 John Cage interview, İlhan Mimaroğlu, 1965 May 18, 1 open reel audiotapes



Box 26 Item 397 İlhan Mimaroğlu, Tract WBAI Talk and music, circa 1974, 1 audiocassettes



Box 24 Item 333 Box 23 Item 269 Box 21 Item 197 Tract WBAI program, 1974 March 5, May 5, July, 3 open reel audiotapes

Talk/music, from broadcast tape


Box 24 Item 321 José Maceda WBAI program, 1974 June, 1 open reel audiotapes



Box 23 Item 296 İlhan Mimaroğlu, WBAI Electronic Music Programs, 1975 July-October, 1 open reel audiotapes

1. 1975 July 7. 2. 1975 August 4. 3. 1975 September 1. 4. 1975 October 6.



Box 22 Item 230 İlhan Mimaroğlu, WBAI Electronic Music Program, 1975 May 5, 1 open reel audiotapes

Talk only


Box 22 Item 229 İlhan Mimaroğlu, WBAI Electronic Music Programs, 1975 November-1976 February, 1 open reel audiotapes

Side 1: 1975 November 3, 1975 December 1. Side 2: 1976 January 5, 1976 February 2



Box 23 Item 255 İlhan Mimaroğlu WBAI Programs, 1976 September-December, 1 open reel audiotapes

Side one: 1976 September, 1976 October. Side two: 1976 November, 1976 December.


Box 23 Item 274 İlhan Mimaroğlu WBAI Programs, 1977 January-October, 1 open reel audiotapes

1. 1977 January. 2. 1977 February. 3. 1977 July. 4. 1977 October.


Box 23 Item 285 İlhan Mimaroğlu, WBAI Electronic Music Programs, 1977 November-1978 March, 1 open reel audiotapes

1. 1977 November 16. 2. 1977 December 21. 3. 1978 January. 4. 1978 March.


Box 23 Item 277 İlhan Mimaroğlu, WBAI Electronic Music Programs, 1978 April-July, 1 open reel audiotapes

1. 1978 April 3. 2. 1978 May 8. 3. 1978 June 3. 4. 1978 July 1


Box 23 Item 276 İlhan Mimaroğlu, WBAI Electronic Music Programs, 1978 August-December, 1 open reel audiotapes

1. 1978 August 7. 2. 1978 September 2. 3. 1978 November 4. 4. 1978 December 2.



Box 22 Item 212 İdil Biret WQXR, 1979 April 19, 1 open reel audiotapes

1. Prelude and Scene 1 from UNI - ballet suite. 2. PAMP - for piano, tape, and bird whistles. 3. Wildflowers for Buchla box and piano I. Pink turtlehead II. Passion flower III. Pipsissewa



Box 23 Item 298 İlhan Mimaroğlu, WBAI Electronic Music Programs, 1979 January-May, 1 open reel audiotapes



Box 26 Item 433 İlhan Mimaroğlu, Jazz for a Desert Island, 1979 March 6, 1 audiocassettes


Box 26 Item 387 Fond de la question, Radio France, 1981 May 10, 1 audiocassettes

Side A: Turkish Music. Side B: Listening Room.


Box 26 Item 383 WQXR Turkish Music and Listening Room: İdil Biret, 1981 September 26, October 2, 1 audiocassettes

Side A: 1982 April 3 program, including İlhan Mimaroğlu Three Pieces, Pf.SIde B; 1982 January 23, including İdil Biret Rachmaninoff No. 2 with Pertev Apaydın and Finnadar ad.


Box 26 Item 445 WXQR Turkish Music, 1982 January 23, April 3, 1 audiocassettes

1982 No. 1, 1983 No. 2


Box 26 Item 443 İlhan Mimaroğlu, Streams of Jazz Consciousness, 1982-1983, 1 audiocassettes


Box 26 Item 399 Les après-midi de France-Culture, Le Mond au singulier de ToulaÏ, 1983 January 4, 1 audiocassettes

"The Records I Made," Parts 1 and 2, WBAI-FM, No. 1.


Box 26 Item 434 İlhan Mimaroğlu, Streams of Jazz Consciousness, 1984, 1 audiocassettes


Box 26 Item 394 Osman İkiz, İlhan Mimaroğlu, İsveç Radyo Programi, 1989 February 2, 1 audiocassettes



Box 23 Item 257 John Cage talk transfer, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes



Box 26 Item 423 Re: Jazz for a Desert Island (part one), undated, 1 audiocassettes


Box 26 Item 424 Re: Jazz for a Desert Island (part two), undated, 1 audiocassettes



Box 20 Item 134 Box 20 Item 135 Boyd Raeburn airchecks, undated, 2 open reel audiotapes


Box 20 Item 128 Stanley Dance Afro Eurasian Suite, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes

1. Gong 2. Tang 3. Dijd 4. True 5. Schn, 6. Afrique 7. Acht O'Clock Rock



Box 24 Item 351 İlhan Mimaroğlu, Belgian radio edit, undated, 1 digital audio tapes



Box 26 Item 401 Quartet Talk for Radio-France, undated, 1 audiocassettes



Box 20 Item 129 Composers Forum: İlhan Mimaroğlu, undated, 1 open reel audiotapes

1. Sing Me a Song of Songmy (2 excerpts) 2. Tracked (excerpt) 3. La Rouche 4. Sing Me a Song of Songmy excerpt: Black Soldier 5. Wings of the Delirious Demon



Box 27 On Dubuffet

Separated from vinyl LPs in Box 12.