Series I: Correspondence, Office Files, Teaching Files, Writings, 1950s-2010s
Box 1
Chamber Brass
Box 1
Contracts
Box 14
Contracts, Grants
Box 15
Contracts, Grants, Tyger Publications
Box 1
Correspondence--Early Correspondence
Box 1
Correspondence--Fan Mail
Box 13
Landmarks of Jazz Series, Carnegie Hall, 1989 July
Ellington, Antheil, Clef Club
Box 6
Lectures
Box 3
Lectures Notes
Box 1
Notes
Box 2
Notes
Box 2
Promotional Materials
Box 2
Queens College
Box 6
Queens College
Appointment records, etc.
Box 2
Published Articles
Box 6
Articles
Box 3
Working Notes
Box 4
Working Files--Ellington, Grainger, Capenter, Gershwin
Box 5
Working Files--Antheil, Robinson
Box 6
Working Files
Box 7
Books By Peress
Box 8
Working Files--Dvorak to Ellington
Box 9
Working Files--Dvorak to Ellington
Box 10
Working Files--Dvorak to Ellington
Box 11
Working Files--Dvorak to Ellington
Box 12
Third Book Files (On Conducting)
Includes drafts, manuscript materials.
Box 99
Native American Research
Envelope of notes on cards
Box 3
Reference Materials
Series II: Conducting and Publicity Files, 1950s-2014
This include some business materials, correspondence, and resumes, in addition to the clippings, publicity, and reviews.
Box 125
Publicity Files--Miscellaneous Biographical Statements, CV
Box 16
Resume
Box 74
Peress--New York Times Obituary
Box 16
New York Philharmonic
Box 16
Publicity Files, Early Reviews
Box 17
Publicity Files, Early Reviews
Box 18
Publicity Files, Reviews
Box 19
Publicity Files, Reviews--Corpus Christi and Austin, Texas, 1960-1971
Box 20
Publicity Files, Reviews--Kansas City, Miami, Vienna, Australia, 1969-1981, 1989, 1996-1998
Box 21
Publicity Files, Reviews--Prague, 1989-1997
Box 22
Publicity Files, Reviews--Rome, China, 1996-2003
Box 74
Crib Sheet for Conducting in China
Box 19
Gigs on Hold / Vitae File, 1989-1993
Box 125
Clippings, 1950s, 3 folders
Includes The Chamber Brass Players
Box 125
Clippings, 1960s
Includes goodbye "card" made of a large clipping
Box 125
Clippings, 1970s, 3 folders
Box 125
"Mass"-- Reviews, Time Magazine Issue, 1971
Box 74
Clippings, 1976-1977
Box 125
Clippings, 1980s, 2 folders
Box 125
Clippings, 1990s
Box 125
Clippings, 2000-2014
Box 125
Clippings, undated
Box 24
Periodicals
Box 125
Periodicals, Programs, etc., 4 folders
Box 23
Reviews, Clippings
Series III: Address Books, Appointment Books, Journals, Passports, 1960s-2015, undated
Box 27
Address Books, Phone Books, and Business Cards
Box 27
Appointment Books, 1973, 1979, 1981, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1987, 1989-1990, 1991, 2003, 5 folders
Box 27
Calendars, 1974-1982, 2 folders
Box 25
Journals / Notebooks, 1974 June-1978
These are work related notebooks, primarily for the Kansas City Philharmonic. These includes notes, drafts of letters, financial information etc.
Box 26
Journals / Notebooks, 1979 April-1989
These are work related notebooks. These includes notes, drafts of letters, financial information etc.
Box 27
ID Cards, 1960s, undated
Box 27
Passports, 1974-2015
Series IV: Correspondence (Alphabetical)
Series V: Programs, 1960s-2010s
Bound Concert Programs
Unbound Concert Programs
Series VI: Bernstein Mass Scrapbook Materials, circa 1971
Scrapbook has been disbound.
Series VII: Photographs, 1950s-2000s, undated
Box 41
Photographs
Primarily professional photographs related to Peress.
Box 74
Photographs--Peress in Action (Portrait)
Box 42 Folder Slide Box
Photographs--Dvořák 17th, 1980s, Color Slides
Slides appear to be from the area of what was the Dvořák House on 17th Street.
Box 42
Photographs--The Chamber Brass Players, 1950s/1960s
Box 42
Photographs--Early Conducting Photos, 1960s, Contact Sheets
Box 42
Photographs--Paul Whiteman's Historic Aeolian Hall Concert of 1924--Recording Session, 1986, Contact sheets, 1 print, 1 related negative
Box 42
Photographs--Antheil Pictures, 1989
Box 42
Photographs--Poland/Prague - Dvořák/Tygiers, 1990 October, Negatives
Box 42
Photographs--Celebration to Save the Dvořák House, 1991
Box 42
Photographs--Křečovice, Czech Republic (Birthplace of Josef Suk), 1992 May
Box 42
Photographs--Prague, 1993, undated
Box 42
Photographs--Czech Republic?, 1980s/1990s
Box 42
Photographs--Concert at Queens College Aaron Copeland School of Music Hall, 1990s?
Box 42
Photographs--China National Symphony Orchestra, 2004
Box 42
Photographs--Professional, Miscellaneous, 2 folders
Box 42
Photographs--Negatives, Miscellaneous
Box 42
Photographs--Research and Other Photographs
Box 74
Photographs--The Garden Fleischman's (Restaurant)
Box 74
Photographs--Café Boulevard
Box 74
Photographs--Clef Club
Series VIII: Historical Materials
Series IX: Duke Ellington Files
Box 118
Are you Stickin'
Box 118
Bakiff
Box 45
Beggars Holiday Script
Box 118
Black Beauty
Box 118
Black Beauty, Big Piano Interlude
Box 118
Black Beauty
Box 45
Black Brown and Beige, Original Ellington Orchestra Version
Box 49
Black, Brown and Beige--Black, Brown Parts--Jazz Band
Box 50
Black, Brown and Beige--Beige Parts--Jazz Band
Box 78
Black, Brown and Beige--Parts (Orchestral Arrangement by Peress)
Box 115
Black, Brown and Beige
Photocopy of pencil score with markings
Box 115
Black, Brown and Beige
Box 117
1943 BLACK "Work Song", 1993
Reconstruction by Peress, "not proofed," 1993
Box 117
1943 BLACK "Work Song," "Come Sunday," "Light", 1993-1999
Reconstruction by Peress, 1993-1999, no markings
Box 117
1943 BLACK "Work Song," "Come Sunday," "Light", 1993-1999
Reconstruction by Peress, 1993-1999, with conducting markings
Box 117
1943 BROWN "West Indian Dance," "Emancipation Celebration," "The Blues", 1993-1999
Reconstruction by Peress, 1993-1999
Box 117
1943 BEIGE, 1993-1999
Reconstruction by Peress, "Corrected," 1993, Premiered Carnegie Hall Jazz Band, January 21, 1999
Box 117
1943 BEIGE, 1993-1999
Reconstruction by Peress, 1993-1999, no markings
Box 117
1943 BEIGE, 1993-1999
Reconstruction by Peress, 1993-1999, with conducting markings
Box 117
1943 BEIGE, 1993-1999
Reconstruction by Peress, 1993-1999, with conducting markings
Box 120
Black, Brown and Beige
Peress orchestration, original pencil full score; and copy of Schirmer published score
Box 45
Black and Tan Fantasy
Box 118
Blue Belles of Harlem
Box 76
The Blues
Box 77
The Blues
Box 118
Bojangles
Box 118
Boy Meets Horn
Photocopy of score and parts; engraved score with markings
Box 117
Celebration
Peress working score, "Last Orchestral Symphonic Work of D. K. Ellington unpublished;" photocopy of manuscript with pencil markings, with note "First performance 5/16/72 Jacksonville Symphony, Florida"
Box 76
Come Sunday
Box 118
Cotton Tail
Box 118
Day Dream
Box 118
Don't Get Around Much Anymore
Box 118
Goin Up!
Box 115
The Golden Broom and The Green Apple
Box 115
Grand Slam Jam
Box 77
Harlem
[Orchestrated by Luther Henderson and Maurice Peress?]. Parts. Copyright 1952 by G. Schirmer, Inc. This arrangement copyright 1988 by G. Schirmer, Inc.
Box 58
Harlem--Parts--Symphonic Brass and Jazz Band Originals
Box 115
Harlem
Orchestrated by Luther Henderson and Maurice Peress. Full score, 2 different copies.
Box 102
Harlem
Photocopy, with markings.
Box 115
Harlem
Revised. Orchestrated by Luther Henderson and edited by John Mauceri.
Box 136
Harlem
Harlem – full score, revised
Box 118
Jack the Bear
Box 118
Ko Ko
Box 118
Mood Indigo
Score with markings; copy marked "corrected"
Box 118
Moon Mist
Peress manuscript; missing piano part
Box 76
New World A-Comin'
Box 116
New World A-Comin'
Piano Solo Part and 2 Piano Arrangement
Box 116
New World A-Comin'
Full Score - Peress arranged and edited
Box 118
Portrait of Bert Williams
Queenie Pie
Box 116
The River
Full Score: Riba, Meander, Vortex, Spring, Giggling Rapids, Lake
Box 118
Rockin' in Rhythm
Box 118
Rose of the Rio Grande
Box 76
The Shepherd
Box 118
Star Spangled Banner
Photocopy of Peress manuscript
Box 116
Three Black Kings
Full score – Ellington and Mercer Ellington, Orchestrated by Peress, and the harp part (includes markings).
Box 137
Les Trois Rois Noirs
Full score – orchestrated by Luther Henderson
Box 116
Two Dancers In Love
Peress orchestration, notes and working manuscript of score, with parts
Duke Ellington Carnegie Hall 1943 Reconstruction by Peress
Box 115
Ellington Gems: A-Train, Don't Get Around Much, Prelude to a Kiss, Satin Doll, Mood Indigo, 1994-1995
Arranged for orchestra by Peress, 1994-1995
Box 77
Three Vocalises: The Mooch, Creole Love Call, Transbluency
Working manuscript and parts
Box 57
Photocopies from the Smithsonian
Includes Black, Brown and Beige poem, one page Queenie Pie sketch in Ellington's hand
Series X: Clef Club Reconstruction, 1989 July
Landmarks of Jazz, Carnegie Hall Concert Series
Full Scores
Box 114
Burleigh, Harry T.--On Bended Knee
Box 114
Cook, Will Marion--Rain Song
Box 114
Cook, Will Marion--Swing Along
Box 114
Europe, James Reese--Clef Club March
Box 114
Europe, James Reese--Hi-Lo
Box 114
Tyers, William H.--Tout à vous
Parts
Box 61
Other Works, Not Orchestrated
Works by Paul C. Bolin; H. T. Burleigh; Samuel Coleridge-Taylor; J. R. Europe; J. R. Johnson; W. C. Sweatman; L. F. Muir; Schwartz; W. H. Tyers
Box 114
Other Works, Not Orchestrated
Will Marion Cook - Who Dat Say Chicken in Dis Crowd
Box 79
Research Materials
Noble Sissle, Memoirs of Lt. "Jim" Europe; Marva Griffin Carter, Dissertation on The Life & Music of Will Marion Cook; Will Marion Cook Biographical Material, Research Files
Series XI: George Antheil Reconstruction of US Debut of George Antheil, January 23, 1943, 1989 July
Landmarks of Jazz, Carnegie Hall Concert Series
Ballet Mechanique
Other Works
Box 83
String Quartet (Viola missing)
Box 83
Second Violin Sonata
Box 83
A Jazz Symphony
Full score, piano reduction, and parts
Series XII: Paul Whiteman Reconstruction of Aeolian Hall Concert 1924 (The Birth of Rhapsody In Blue), 1980s
Series XIII: Leonard Bernstein
Box 88
Age of Anxiety
Candide
Box 89
Full score
Box 89
Opera House Version, Piano/Vocal score
Box 89
Piano/Vocal score
Box 89
Piano/Vocal score with working notes and New Lisbon Sequence, Sept. '58
Box 89
Piano/Vocal with notes
Box 89
"Nothing More Than This" - Full score, orchestrated by Peress
Box 89
Overture - Full Score
Box 105
Chichester Psalms
Box 123
Divertimento
Box 88
Fancy Free - Ballet
Box 74
For Helen / Another Happy Birthday
Box 105
Halil
Box 88
Jeremiah Symphony
Box 105
Kaddish
Vocal score with narrator cues
Box 123
Kaddish Symphony
Mass
Box 74
"Mini Mass" Notes
Box 74
"Mass" Prep Worksheet
Box 90
Working Scores
With some red pencil marks by Bernstein
Box 90
Chorus Book score
Box 90
Full Score
Box 90
Piano/vocal score
German translation with rehearsal notes, schedule, folded diagram
Box 90
Vocal Score, First edition
Box 90
Meditation 1, 2, and 3 From Mass
Ozalid copy of full score
Box 124
Mass
Full Score used by Peress for Premiere and subsequent performances; manuscript of opening recorded vocal sequence in hand of copyist; manuscript addition to Meditation score
Box 73
Mass--Scrapbook Materials
Box 88
Prelude, Fugue and Riffs
Full Score with pencil notations
Box 88
On The Town - Three Dance Episodes
Box 88
On The Waterfront - Symphonic Suite
Box 105
Serenade After Plato's Symposium
Box 123
Slava
Box 105
Songfest
Box 105
Songfest
Box 138
Songfest, 1978
Ozalid from original manuscript, Corrected Jan. 1978
Box 88
Symphonic Dances from West Side Story
Box 88
West Side Story
Box 88
West Side Story
Series XIV: George Gershwin
Series XV: Aaron Copeland
Box 65
Appalachian Spring Suite
Box 65
Appalachian Spring
Full Orchestra, Full Score
Box 65
Appalachian Spring
Full Orchestra, Full Score, with teaching notes for conducting class
Box 65
Billy the Kid
Box 65
Canticle of Freedom
Box 65
Concerto for Clarinet
Box 65
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra
Box 65
El Salon Mexico
Box 65
Fanfare for the Common Man
Box 65
Symphony for Organ and Orchestra
Box 65
Third Symphony
Series XVI: John Lewis, Sergey Prokofiev
Series XVII: Jimmy Heath
Series XVIII: Earl Robinson
Box 109
Ballad For Americans
Box 109
The Lonesome Train
Full Score; 2nd copy with markings for Lincoln Bicentennial performance at Riverside Church
Box 109
The Lonesome Train
Piano/Vocal score, photocopy
Box 109
Ride the Wind
Full Score - Chinook, "Shochone" and Williams
Series XIX: John Corigliano, Morton Feldman
John Corigliano
Morton Feldman
Box 110
…Out of Last Pieces
Box 110
Rothko Chapel
Full Score (used for premier of work)
Box 74
The Swallows of Salangan
Score and 2 copies of the chorus part
Series XX: Bruce Saylor
Box 111
Adagio for Orchestra
Box 111
Amazing Grace
Full Score, 2 copies, one corrected
Box 111
Autumn Revels
Box 111
Cantilena for String Orchestra
Box 111
Images, Orchestral Music from The Image Maker
Box 111
Mass of the Holy Trinity
Box 111
Orpheus Descending [Opera],
Full Score, Acts I and II
Series XXI: David Amram, Joel Mandelbaum
David Amram
Box 92
American Dance Suite
Box 92
Autobiography for Strings
Box 92
Autobiography for Strings, June 1959, Revised October 1961
Full Score, Dedicated to Lorca Peress, June 1959
Box 112
Celebration Suite
Box 112
Celebration Suite
Box 112
Concerto for Horn and Orchestra
Box 112
Elegy (with Solo Violin)
Box 92
Fanfare and Processional for Brass Quintet
Box 112
Fanfare for Seventeen Brass and Percussion
Full Score, commissioned by MP for Austin Symphony, 1970
Box 112
Fanfare for Seventeen Brass and Percussion
Box 112
Giants of the Night, concerto for Flute and Orchestra
Full Score, and Flute Solo Part. 1. For Charlie Parker; 2. For Kack Kerouac; 3. For Dizzy Gillespie
Box 92
Kokopelli, A Symphony, 1997
Box 92
Overture for Brass choir and Percussion
Full Score, and parts, Kansas City Symphony and MP Dedication, with Frank Franano, Solo Horn
Box 92
Shakespearean Concerto, for Oboe, 2 Horns, and Strings
Box 92
Sir L'Erev Shabbat
Full Score, for Organ, SATB Choir, and Cantor; Published score
Box 92
Sonata Allegro for String Orchestra (Pencil Title Impressions),, 1959
Full Score, Dedicated to Lorca Peress, June 1959
Box 92
Sonata Allegro for String Orchestra,, 1959
Full Score, also June 1959
Box 112
Songs of the Soul (Shiray Neshama)
Box 112
Symphonic Variations on a Song by Woodie Guthrie for Orchestra
Full Score, Includes street sounds of New York neighborhoods
Box 92
Theme and Variations on "Red River Valley" for Flute and Strings
Full Score and Flute Solo part
Box 92
Joel Mandelbaum--The Dybbuk [Opera]
Acts 1, 2, and 4 piano/vocal, and Act 3 Organ and 2 violins
Series XXII: Morton Gould, Benjamin Lees, Jan Meyerowitz
Morton Gould
Box 113
American Symphonette No. 4
Box 113
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (1938)
Box 113
Dance Variations for Two Pianos and Orchestra
Box 113
Symphonette No. 2
Box 113
Tap Dance Concerto
Benjamin Lees
Box 113
Etudes for Piano and Orchestra
Box 113
Passacaglia for Orchestra
Jan Meyerowitz
Box 67
The Barrier
Box 113
Friday Evening Service
Score for Organ, choir and cantor
Box 113
The Glory Around His Head, Text by Langston Hughes
Full Score for Orchestra, chorus and solo
Box 113
Sinfonia Brevissima, 1976
Full Score, World premiere Corpus Christi, 12/67
Series XXIII: Samuel Adler, Will Marion Cook, Alberto Ginastera
Box 114
Adler, Samuel--Requiescat in Pace, A Poem for Symphony Orchestra in Memory of John F. Kennedy, 1963
Includes cover letter from Adler
Box 62
Cook, Will Marion--In Dahomey
Box 114
Cook, Will Marion--In Dahomey for Theater Orchestra, 1998
Full Score, working score, Peress arrangement and parts
Box 96
Cook, Will Marion--Selections From Clorindy
Box 114
Ginastera, Alberto--Glosses Sobre Temes de Pau Casals
Full Score [Pablo Casals]
Series XXIV: Other Scores
Box 93
Bartok, Bela--Concerto for Orchestra
Box 66
Beethoven--Piano Concerto No. 4
Box 93
Beethoven--Symphony No. 7
Box 95
Bledsoe, Jules
African Suite; Ode to America; Climbin' Jacob's Ladder; He Rose; Home, Home, Home; We Will All/ The Crawfish Song
Box 94
Blitzstein, Marc--Regina
Box 93
Bloch, Ernest--Avodath Hakodesh
Score for Organ, choir and cantor
Box 66
Brahms--Orchestral Works for Cello
Box 66
Brown, Earl--From Here
Box 66
Brown, Earl--Music for Violin, Cello and Piano
Box 66
Brown, Earl--Three Pieces for Piano
Box 66
Brown, Earl--Tracking Pierrot
Box 66
Brown, Earl--Windsor Jam
Box 66
Cage, John--Aria
Box 95
Carpenter, John Alden--Krazy Kat, A Jazz Pantomime
Piano/Conductor Score; condensed score; violin I; and photocopy of MS score
Box 93
Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel--Hiawatha
Box 67
Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel--Twenty-Four Negro Melodies, Transcribed for the Piano
Box 94
Coward, Noel--Bitter Sweet, Act I, II, III
Box 93
Dawson, William--Negro Folk Symphony
Box 95
Debussy--La Mer
Box 66
Dvorak--Cello concerto
Box 96
Eben, Peter--Vox Clamantis; Tres Iubilationes
Box 74
Elgar--Pomp and Circumstance
Box 66
Grainger, Percy--In Dahomey
Box 66
Grofe, Ferde--Grand Canyon Suite
Box 69
Grofe (Metropolis, parts)
Box 69
Suess, scored by Grofe (Concerto in Three Rhythms, score and parts)
Box 67
Handy, W. C.--Blues, An Anthology
Box 74
Handy, W.C.--Sheet Music
Box 96
Handy, W.C.
Various works, mostly photocopies
Box 67
Harrison, Lou--A Joyous Procession and a Solemn Procession
Box 93
Ives, Charles--Central Park In the Dark
2 photocopies of Full Score; 1 used for conducting New York Philharmonic, 1961
Box 95
Janace--Sinfonietta
Box 67
Krehbiel, Henry Edward--Afro-American Fold Songs
Box 93
Lateef, Yusef--African American Epic Suite
Box 96
Monteverdi--To centat Ritornelli, Peress orch
Box 96
Mussorgsky--Tableux d'une Exposition
Box 67
Porter, Grace Cleveland--Negro Folk Singing Games
Box 67
Ravel--Daphne & Cloe
Box 94
Rorem, Ned--Concerto for English Horn and Orchestra
Box 67
Rorem, Ned--Poemes pour la paix
Box 96
Rubin Goldmark, Rubin--The Call of the Plains
Box 94
Schoenberg--Kol Nidre
Box 67
Schuman, William--Amaryllis, Varients for Strings
Box 93
Stravinsky, Igor--Histoire du Soldat
Box 67
Stravinsky, Igor--Rite of Spring and Danse Sacrale, Rev. 1943
Box 66
Thomson, Virgil--The Mother of Us All
Box 94
Weill, Kurt--Kleine Dreigroschenmusik
Box 94
Weill, Kurt--Mahogonny
Libretto, Piano/Vocal, and Full Score
Box 94
Weill, Kurt--Walt Whitman Songs
Box 93
Williams, John--Star Wars, Symphonic Suite
Anthologies
Box 68
Dann, Hollis--Fifty-Eight Spirituals for Choral Use
Box 68
Cowell, Henry--United Nations Songs of the People
Box 68
Nationalhymmen Texte and Melodien
Box 68
Foster, Stephen--The Social Orchestra
Box 68
Ascher's Standard--Waltz Folio No. 1
Box 68
Ascher's Standard--Irish Danse Folio
Box 68
The People's Song Book, 1949
Box 68
The People's Song Book, 1959
Box 68
The Second People's Song Book, 1953
Box 68
Porgy - Theatre Guild Production - Spiritual Songs
Box 68
Porgy and Bess
Box 68
Sapoznik, Henry--The Compleat Klezmere
Box 68
Carnegie Hall--Great Moments in Music
Box 68
Hecht, Ben--A Flag Is Born
Box 68
Chicago Tribune Souvenir, Glimpses of the World's Fair, [1893]
Box 68
Rinuccini--L'Euridice
Libretto, performed at the wedding of Maria Medici
Series XXV: Other Peress Arrangements
Series XXVI: Posters
Box Tube A Item 3
Bernstein, conductor, Robert Casadesus, Pianist, 1961 October 26-29, 28 x 39.75". A bit fragile, with some tearing.
New York Philharmonic. Appears to be a program that would have been hung on the wall, rather than a promotional poster. Programs available on New York Philharmonic's digital site.
Box Tube A Item 3
The Gallic Approach, 1961 October 26-29, 28 x 39.75". A bit fragile, with some tearing.
New York Philharmonic. Includes Satie's Parade, conducted by Peress. The rest of the program was conducted by Bernstein. Appears to be a program that would have been hung on the wall, rather than a promotional poster. Programs available on New York Philharmonic's digital site.
Box 121
Dream Sequence '76, 1976 August, 16.5 x 23.5"
Premiere of Alvin Singleton's Dream Sequence 1976, with Peress conducting.
Box Tube B Item 3
A Beethoven Festival, Kansas City Philharmonic, 1978 April 29-May 2, 21 x 27"
Box Tube A Item 1
Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia Gestinone Autonoma Dei Concerti - Concerti al Campidoglio, 1985, 37.5 x 55.5". Some tearing at the botoom.
Includes Maurice Peress with pianist Randall Hodgkinson
Box Tube B Item 2
Duke Ellington's Queenie Pie World Premiere, Philadelphia, 1986, 24 x 36"
Box Tube B Item 1
XXV Festival Pianistico Internazionale: Orchestra "Paul Whiteman" di New York, 1988 May 21, 27 1/8 x 39 3/8"
Maurice Peress, conductor
Box Tube C Item 2
Talich Chamber Orchestra, 1994 February 27, 27 x 33"
Maurice Peress, conductor
Box Tube C Item 1
Karlovarský symfonický orchestr (Karlovy Vary Symphony Orchestra), 1997 May 5, 19 x 25"
Maurice Peress, conductor, Boris Krajný, soloist. Signed by Boris Krajný.
Box 121
French Impression, Shenzhen Symphony Orchestra, 2003 April 25, 14 x 20.25"
Box 121
China National Symphony Orchestra 2003/2004 Concert Season, 2003-2004, 12 1/8 x 18"
Includes concert by Peress on 2004 March 6. 2 copies.
Box Tube A Item 2
The Man with the Magic Wand-- Beijing Conert with Maestro Maurice Peress, 2008, 26 x 37.5"
China National Symphony Orchestra
Box 121
Romare Bearden--"New York at Night" Exhibition, 1983, 16 x 21"
Sheldon Ross Gallery, Birmingham, MI. 2 copies.
Box 121
Romare Bearden--Watercolors and Collages, 1978, 17 x 23"
Sheldon Ross Gallery, Birmingham, MI.
Box Tube D Item 2
The Full Earth, 1972, 22 5/8 x 29"
Apollo 17. With article on the space experience by Frank White.
Box Tube D Item 3
Learning Together, [circa 1992], 16.5 x 23.5"
Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation
Box Tube D Item 1
Dizzy Gilespie, 1979 August 28-September 9, 24 x 37.75"
Box 121
Posters, various
Series XXVII: Books
Series XXVIII: Audio and Video Recordings
Subseries XXVIII.1: Audio Recordings
Box 127
The Telemann Society Orchestra and Band, undated, 1 audiocassettes
Peress' Lecture / Demonstration precedes a recording of Music for Royal Fireworks
PRES028681
Box 127
New York Philharmonic Radio Interview, 1961, 1 audiocassettes
Interview with John Canarina, Seiji Ozawa & Maurice Peress, three assistant conductors of the New York Philharmonic; interview by Jim Fassett. The audio link is to the New York Philharmonic archives, but there is also digitized audio available from the audiocassette in this collection under identifier cul:fn2z34tp95 as needed.
PRES028630
Box 127
Interview on Clef Club Reconstruction (NPR), 1989, 1 audiocassettes
Interview of Peress speaking about Clef Club and the related reconstruction concert at Carnegie Hall in 1989.
PRES028622
Box 127
Marion Cumbo Interview, 1989 March 31, 1 audiocassettes
Interview of Marion Cumbo by Maurice Peress. Cellist; Shuffle Along and Clef Club.
PRES028657
Box 127
Marion Morrey Richter Interview, 1989 February 8, 1 audiocassettes
Interview of Marion Morrey Richter by Maurice Peress. Pianist; G. Antheil Ballet Mécanique, April 10, 1927.
PRES028665
Box 127
H. Peress Oud Music, 1955 December 25, 1 audiocassettes
Oud music played and sung by Henry Peress (father of Maurice Peress).
PRES028690
Box 127
Mercer Cook Interview, 1980, 1 audiocassettes
Interview of Mercer Cook by Josef Škvorecký.
PRES028649
Box 127
Paul Whiteman Interview for the Aeolian Hall Concert, 1985 June 27, 1 Reels; 5" audio reel
Recording of an unidentified interview with Whiteman; produced by Peress, 1985.
PRES028703
Box 127
Škvorecký City Key Note Address, 1 audiocassettes
Audiocassette is mis-labeled and contains a series of music recordings, including Swanee River.
PRES028673
Box 127
NPR Inter[view] Gould, circa 1994-1996, 1 audiocassettes
Although a paper insert indicates that this audiocasette contains interviews, it contains the premiere of Gould's Stringmusic along with a short interview from NPR which is a closer match to the title handwritten on the cassette itself. Aired circa 1996.
PRES028614
Box 127
Audio Recordings, 73 audiocassettes
Most recordings in Box 127 are directly related to Peress in some way - performances, interviews, talks, etc.
Box 127
Audio Recordings, 14 Reels; Nine 5" audio reels and five 7" audio reels
Most recordings in Box 127 are directly related to Peress in some way - performances, interviews, talks, etc.
Box 127
Audio Recordings, 10 compact disks
Most recordings in Box 127 are directly related to Peress in some way - performances, interviews, talks, etc.
Box 128
Audio Recordings, 135 audiocassettes
Most recordings in Box 128 appear to have been collected by Peress for research and other purposes, and include recordings of pieces that he used in performance. There may be some recordings mixed in with these audiocassettes that are directly related to Peress' work and performances, as some items are not well labeled.
Box 131
Audio Recordings, 1 audiocassettes
Recordings in Box 131 are non-commercial and are directly related to Peress.
Box 131
Audio Recordings, 1 Reels; 3" audio reel
Recordings in Box 131 are non-commercial and are directly related to Peress.
Box 131
Audio Recordings, 56 compact disks
Recordings in Box 131 are non-commercial and are directly related to Peress.
Box 132
Audio Recordings, 1950s, undated, 6 phonograph records
One 8" and five 10" records; mix of 33 1/3 and 78 recordings. Include recordings by the Chamber Brass Ensemble, the Mark Paris Ensemble, the Mannes College of Music Program, and the 173 Army Band.
Box 133
Audio Recordings, 9 phonograph records
Includes set of six records from "Some Music Lessons for American Indian Youngsters", as well as recordings by the Mark Paris Ensemble.
Box 133
Duke Ellington And His Orchestra – Black, Brown & Beige (The 1944-1946 Band Recordings), 1988, 3 audiocassettes
Box 134
Audio Recordings, 15 phonograph records
Commercial recordings. These are directly related to Peress' in that he was involved in the music, liner notes, or some other aspect of the work.
Box 135
Audio Recordings, 17 phonograph records
Commercial recordings. These are directly related to Peress' in that he was involved in the music, liner notes, or some other aspect of the work.
Subseries XXVIII.2: Video Recordings
Box 129
Video Recordings, 1 videotapes; Hi-8
Video recordings in Box 129 are a mix of commercial and non-commercial recordings. The commercial recordings relate to Dvořák, Earl Robinson, and Queens College. Most of these recordings appear to relate directly to Peress.
Box 129
Video Recordings, 1 videotapes; 8mm (size: videotape)
Video recordings in Box 129 are a mix of commercial and non-commercial recordings. The commercial recordings relate to Dvořák, Earl Robinson, and Queens College. Most of these recordings appear to relate directly to Peress.
Box 129
Video Recordings, 5 videocassettes (U-matic)
Video recordings in Box 129 are a mix of commercial and non-commercial recordings. The commercial recordings relate to Dvořák, Earl Robinson, and Queens College. Most of these recordings appear to relate directly to Peress.
Box 129
Video Recordings, 2 videocassettes (Betacam)
Video recordings in Box 129 are a mix of commercial and non-commercial recordings. The commercial recordings relate to Dvořák, Earl Robinson, and Queens College. Most of these recordings appear to relate directly to Peress.
Box 129
Video Recordings, 13 videocassettes (VHS)
Video recordings in Box 129 are a mix of commercial and non-commercial recordings. The commercial recordings relate to Dvořák, Earl Robinson, and Queens College. Most of these recordings appear to relate directly to Peress.
Box 130
Video Recordings, 3 videocassettes (U-matic)
Video recordings in Box 130 are primarily non-commercial recordings. Most recordings appear to relate directly to Peress.
Box 130
Video Recordings, 5 videocassettes (Betacam)
Video recordings in Box 130 are primarily non-commercial recordings. Most recordings appear to relate directly to Peress.
Box 130
Video Recordings, 20 videocassettes (VHS)
Video recordings in Box 130 are primarily non-commercial recordings. Most recordings appear to relate directly to Peress.
Box 131
Video Recordings, 7 DVDs
Recordings in Box 131 are non-commercial and are directly related to Peress.
Series XXIX: Performance Clothes
Series XXX: Peress Memorabilia and Other Items
Box 121
Corpus Christi, TX--Proclamation of Maurice Peress Day, 1971 September 24
Box 100
Place Card from TFMC Austin Convention, 1971
Box 72
Peress--Plaque, circa 2003
Probably China National Symphony. Photograph of Peress.
Box 72
Peress--Plaque, 1984
60th anniversary celebration of Paul Whiteman's historic Aeolian Hall concert at Town Hall.
Dvořák Memorabilia
Box 71
Photograph of Fireplace in 17th Street Home, circa 1990
Box 71
Piece of Marble Mantel from Fireplace of 17th Street Home, 1990 February 16
Peress was a founding member of Dvořák American Heritage Association (DAHA), that tried to save the house from demolition in the early 1990s. This is a piece of the marble mantelpiece that was saved from the house.
Box 100
Wood from Springville, Iowa, 1993
Small piece of wood from "old" tree next to church; handwritten label on wood.
Box 100
Wood [from Springville, Iowa?], undated
Larger piece of unlabelled tree bark.
Box 100
Bookmark
Box 100
Matchbox from The Old Mill, South Egremont, MA
Box 72
Medals and Coins
Primarily commemorative medals for various composers.
Series XXXI: Index of Repertoire