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

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Series XXI: David Amram, Joel Mandelbaum


David Amram



Box 92 American Dance Suite

Full Score


Box 92 Autobiography for Strings

Full Score


Box 92 Autobiography for Strings, June 1959, Revised October 1961

Full Score, Dedicated to Lorca Peress, June 1959



Box 112 Celebration Suite

Full Score


Box 112 Celebration Suite

Full Score


Box 112 Concerto for Horn and Orchestra

Full Score


Box 112 Elegy (with Solo Violin)

Full Score



Box 92 Fanfare and Processional for Brass Quintet

Full Score



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

Score, photocopy


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

Full Score, 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

Full Score


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)

Full Score


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