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Series I: Correspondence, Office Files, Teaching Files, Writings, 1950s-2010s
Series II: Conducting and Publicity Files, 1950s-2014
Series III: Address Books, Appointment Books, Journals, Passports, 1960s-2015, undated
Series IV: Correspondence (Alphabetical)
Series V: Programs, 1960s-2010s
Series VI: Bernstein Mass Scrapbook Materials, circa 1971
Series VII: Photographs, 1950s-2000s, undated
Series VIII: Historical Materials
Series IX: Duke Ellington Files
Series X: Clef Club Reconstruction, 1989 July
Series XI: George Antheil Reconstruction of US Debut of George Antheil, January 23, 1943, 1989 July
Series XII: Paul Whiteman Reconstruction of Aeolian Hall Concert 1924 (The Birth of Rhapsody In Blue), 1980s
Series XIII: Leonard Bernstein
Series XIV: George Gershwin
Series XV: Aaron Copeland
Series XVI: John Lewis, Sergey Prokofiev
Series XVII: Jimmy Heath
Series XVIII: Earl Robinson
Series XIX: John Corigliano, Morton Feldman
Series XX: Bruce Saylor
Series XXI: David Amram, Joel Mandelbaum
Series XXII: Morton Gould, Benjamin Lees, Jan Meyerowitz
Series XXIII: Samuel Adler, Will Marion Cook, Alberto Ginastera
Series XXIV: Other Scores
Series XXV: Other Peress Arrangements
Series XXVI: Posters
Series XXVII: Books
Series XXIX: Performance Clothes
Series XXX: Peress Memorabilia and Other Items
Series XXXI: Index of Repertoire

Maurice Peress papers, 1898-1923, 1950s-2017

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Series X: Clef Club Reconstruction, 1989 July

Landmarks of Jazz, Carnegie Hall Concert Series

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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 62 Maurice Arnold (American Plantation Dances)


Box 59 Harry T. Burleigh (On Bended Knee): Will Marion Cook (Rain Song; Swing Along!)


Box 60 James Reese Europe (Clef Club March; congratulations; Hey There)


Box 61 James Reese Europe (Hi-Lo); William H. Tyers (Panama; Tout à vous)


Box 62 James P. Johnson (Yamekran)


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