Marilyn Crispell papers, 1980-2021

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Series I: Papers



Box 1 Early Compositions, 1965

National Federation of Music Club's Certificate for Junior Composers and Judge's Rating Sheet, includes four compositions: "Piano Sonata I","Requiem and Kyrie", "Glory on High", "Le Ciel Est, Par Dessus le Toit"(with words by Paul Verlaine).


Box 1 For Trio/The Kitchen Concert, 1989 February

sheet music and poetry for "Failing", "Solstice", "Night Light Beach", "Alchemy", "For L.T.", "Ahmadu/Sierra Leone", "Three Poems" (for CT). Commissioned by Roulette with funds from Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust


Box 1 Marilyn Crispell "Circles", 1991


Box 1 Santuerio, 1993


Box 1 Suite for Trio, 1991 October

Solstice, Not Wanting, Commodore, Rain, Movement Changable.


Box 1 NOW Orchestra, "Yin-Yang", 2004

Program, sheet music, conductors copy and description of program.


Box 1 Cy Twombly Dream House, 2006 May 26

CD in case (no extra desc) in plastic green file with 12 copies of Cy Twombly original art work for event.


Box 1 Original Compositions by Marilyn Crispell, 1988-2016

Works include: Demonstration Fragments and Composition for Improvisation, Ballad, America, Element Air...Leap, Homage, In Violet, Numus, Only Paradise, Opium Dream Eyes, Point in Time, Rythms Hung in Undrawn Sky, Rounds, Mars, Soft White Star that Beats, Gives Subtle Light, Song for Jean Lee, Song for Abdullah, Theme for Gary, Thomas, Woodstock 3/13/87, Piano t


Box 1 Marilyn Crispell "Luzerne Originals", 2009


Box 1 Reggie Workman Ensemble


Box 1 Reggie Workman Quartet at Visiones, 1988 April 21

description of performance


Box 1 "Middle Passage" by Anthony Davis, 1983

Handsigned Printed Sheet Music copy by Anthony Davis to Marilyn (on back)


Box 1 "Word Scores" by Jacques Demierre, 2003

Quartet Noir performance at Luzerne Festival


Box 1 Co-Stellar Pulsations by Robert Cogan,, Mirabilis II & Manfred Niehaus' "Concerto for Marilyn", Robert Cogan, 1991 November & 1992 March

Costellar Pulsations for two pianos,Mirabilis II piano, clarinet, sax, trumpet, Concerto for Marilyn (piano part)


Box 1 Buenos Aires Residency, Student Ensemble Pieces, 2016 November

Structures I-III, La distancia entre los pasos (Ramila Nebbia) at


Box 1 Miller Theatre NYC, 2006 October


Box 1 Soundscape Archival Recording Project, 2009 November 11


Box 1 Braxton Music "For Trio", Marilyn Crispell, Mark Dresser, Gerry Hemingway, 2012

from "for Trio" from recording of "Marilyn Crispell, Mark Dresser, Gerry Hemingway Play Braxton"


Box 1 "Odyssey", "Ithaca","Phases of the Night" Trio: Berry and Paul, 2001

from CD Intakt, CD 070, 2001, Intakt CD 096, 2004 and Intakt CD 138, 2008



Box 2 Barry Guy, 1997

Sleeping Furiously (Three Haiku for Marilyn Crispell), "Strange Loops" (uses attached Cecil Taylor poems as text-poems), "Sleeping Furiously" and "Strange Loops" as recorded in "Three Pieces for Orchestra", "Three Meditations" (also using the included Cecil Taylor poems as text)


Box 2 Barry Guy's Big Band Music, 1998 2001

pieces include "Double Trouble II", "Inscape Tableaux", "Theoria", "Harmos"


Box 2 Gathering Together: Piano for Eight Hands, 1983 April

42 page, hand written musical score of Pauline Oliveros, for Kitchen Benefit NYC for performers: Ursula Oppens, Marilyn Crispell, BlueGene Tyranny, Debra Richards


Box 2 Gunhild Seim's "Elephant Wings", 2012

pieces include "Joni", "Honu", "Jambo", "Elefant i Romaret", "Eyes No See", "Morning Perspective", "Enough", "Manu", "Volcano Village", "Song for Meelie", "Set List"


Box 2 John Geggie/Geggie Project/Ambience Magnetique, 2008

pieces include "Across the Sky", "Canon", "Credo""...From Which", "I Wanted More", "Or Not", "Run Away Sheep", "View from the Bridge","Again", "What Not #3"


Box 2 Charles Alexander "The Air of June Sings", 2016 March 11

poetry pages for performance


Box 2 Mark Helias, 1977-2007

Pieces include "Kdreefda Molaina", "Kdreefda Solo Form", "Professor of AIr Science", "Subway", "Limbo", "The Harmonic Line", "Broken", "Story Line", "Trundle"


Box 2 "Shifting Grace" by Michele Rabbia, 2006

pieces include "Shifting Grace", "Soffio", Masque,Sequence, Liaisons,Figure


Box 2 Correspondence: Lloyd Peterson, 2004-2016


Box 2 Correspondence: Charlie Banacos, 1987-1997


Box 2 Email correspondences, 2008-2013

George Quasha and correspondences from various fans


Box 2 Christian Marclay Festival Whitney Museum (excerpts), 2010


Box 2 Tuning Score for the Nervous system, 4/18/18


Box 2 Apart


Box 2 Music Scores for Angelica Sanchez Project, 2018


Box 2 ICE, 2018


Box 2 Memoria for Pessa Malka


Box 2 Jazz Danmark Summer Session, 2019


Box 2 Revised & Re-written compositions, Original score "One World", 2020


Box 2 New tunes for Recording Session, 6/26/2021


Box 2 Correspondence with Robert Gibbons 2019-July 2021


Box 2 Correspondence with Robert Gibbons 2002-2018


Box 2 Marilyn Crispell, Bobby Skankel Quartet, 1996, June 19


Box 2 Jazz Lines, 1998 August 23-30

Linda Graedl


Box 2 Pianist by Mikhail Horowitz, 1995 April 22


Box 2 Letter from Gary Parker Chapin, 1993 September 12


Box 2 Marilyn Crispell list of Archives CDs Folder 1


Box 2 Marilyn Crispell list of Archives CDs Folder 2


Box 2 My Compositions on Recordings Info (Archives)



Box 3 Archival Scrapbook

Early 1970s-1980s,


Box 3 Archival Scrapbook

Early 1980s-1990s,


Box 3 Archival Scrapbook

Late 1990s-2001


Box 3 Archival Scrapbook

Mostly early newspaper articles


Box 3 Archival Scrapbook

Early to 2004



Box 4 Archival Scrapbook

2003-2006


Box 4 Archival Scrapbook

ECM: 2004-2008


Box 4 Archival Scrapbook

Mostly 2006-2007


Box 4 Archival Scrapbook

2007-2008


Box 4 Archival Scrapbook

2009-2010



Box 5 Archival Scrapbook

January 2011-June 2013


Box 5 Archival Scrapbook

Letters mostly 2013-2015


Box 5 Archival Scrapbook

2017-2018


Box 5 Archival Scrapbook

2018-2021


Box 5 Archival Scrapbook

Record Reviews


Box 5 Archival Scrapbook

Foreign Full Length Magazine articles



Box 6 4x6 Photo Book, 1981-2007

37 photographs, privately collected of artist and colleagues


Box 6 Art Portfolio Photo Book, 1985-2011


Box 6 Photograph of Anthony Braxton Quartet at Stonehenge 1985, 1985