Box 1 Folder 1
Department events, 1971, 1973, 1983-1984, undated
Programs, flyers, and schedules for various events at the Columbia University Music Department, or involving Columbia University Music Department faculty
Box 1 Folder 2
Correspondence, 1969-1975, 1986, undated
Howard Shanet's correspondence with Music Department faculty, with university administrators, with the Music Department Executive Committee, and with community stakeholders.
Box 1 Folder 3
Documents relating to Adolf C. Robinson's 1973, 1975 and 1983 donations to the Music Performance Program and Columbia University Orchestra, 1973, 1975, 1983
Materials collected by Howard Shanet to send to President Michael Sovern regarding a $5000 donation to the Music Performance Program and the Columbia University Orchestra: correspondence between Shanet and Robinson, a letter template sent by President Sovern, notes from a phone conversation with Robinson; notes relating to Robinson's 1975 donation of a Heckell bassoon to the Columbia University Orchestra. Notes relating to Robinson's 1973 donation to the Music Department. Tickets and programs for Columbia University Orchestra concerts are interspersed throughout this folder.
Box 1 Folder 4
Zemlinsky Prize documents, 1975, 1981-1986
Includes: Shanet's notes, correspondence (with Columbia Office of Deferred Giving, Office of Development and Alumni Relations, Louise von Zemlinsky), prize guidelines.
Box 1 Folder 5
Boris and Eda Rapoport Fund documents, 1970-1978, 1980-1981, 1983-1984
Primarily financial documents: budgets, calculator printouts, expense reports, Shanet's notes, correspondence (with Ernest Sanders), other administrative documents. In 1984, Shanet himself made a donation of $1500 to the fund: this folder includes his correspondence with Ernest Sanders regarding this donation. Includes a 1971 finding aid for the Rapoport papers (RBML MS#1051)
Box 1 Folder 6
Boris and Eda Rapoport Composition Prize documents, 1971-1978
Documents relating to the selection, awarding, and funding of the Boris and Eda Rapoport Prize for composition. Includes: lists of awardees, prize guidelines, prize announcements, correspondence (with Jack Beeson, Davidson Taylor, Ruth Ihrig, Emma Stoloff [Eda's sister], George Fraenkel, William McGill, Chou Wen-Chung, Columbia Office of the Treasurer), letters notifying awardees, prize committee documents, programs for performances of Eda Rapoport's music at Columbia, press releases, Shanet's notes. Also includes documents relating to the accessioning of Rapoport's papers (RBML MS#1051).
Box 1 Folder 7
Julian Clarence Levi Bequest documents, 1973-1975
Box 1 Folder 8
H. Harold Gumm Estate documents, 1975, 1978, 1985, 1990, 1998,
Mainly Shanet's notes: also contains correspondence between the treasurer and President McGill, a copy of Gumm's will.
Box 1 Folder 9
Robert Emmett Dolan Prize documents, 1972-1974, 1985-1989
Contains: Shanet's reccomendations for the prize, correspondence (with Irving Berlin, Leeman Perkins, Juilliard School, university treasurer, William McGill, Robert and Casey Dolan, Nan Martin, Berlin's lawyers), awardee notices, Shanet's notes.
Box 1 Folder 10
Administrative documents, 1973-1976
Print documents relating to curriculum planning, class scheduling, implementation of university policy, relationship with the Barnard music program, and space management. Contains correspondence with and memoranda from university administrators, especially Dean George Fraenkel and President William McGill.
Box 2 Folder 1-3
Administrative documents, 1962, 1970-1976
Print documents relating to curriculum planning, class scheduling, implementation of university policy, relationship with the Barnard music program, and space management. Contains correspondence with and memoranda from university administrators, especially Dean George Fraenkel and President William McGill.
Box 2 Folder 4-5
Executive Committee meeting minutes, 1969-1975