This series features Davis's other writings from across his professional career (1960s-2010s), including program notes and essays (in academic journals or in other special volumes). The series comprises full editions of publications containing Davis's articles, and clippings or tearings of individual articles by Davis. Additionally, this series includes two cassette tapes of Davis's radio appearances. There are some unlabeled floppy disks within this series; these disks were housed with other identifiable disks relating to Davis's work as a writer and a critic.
Box 9 Folder 3
Seattle Opera Magazine: clippings and complete issues, 2007-2009
Contains an undated feature article, "Bellini's Endless Melody."
Box 9 Folder 4
Davis's article in the Atti del II Congresso Internazionale di Studi Verdiani, 1971
Contains the full edition of the publication and a bound copy of the article itself. Documents are in Italian.
Box 9 Folder 5
Copies of Riccardo Muti: Twenty Years in Philadelphia, playbills for the Philadelphia Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic, 1992, 2008-2009
Box 12 Folder 1
Programs for the National Endowment of the Arts Opera Honors, 2009
Box 12 Folder 2
Publications received in correspondence, 1971, 1979, 1990, 1995
Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts program (1971-1972 season), score of Octagon for orchestra by William Mayer, The Nutley Papers: A Fresh Look at the Titans of Music by James Billings, score of String Quartet No. 4 by Ned Rorem.
Box 12 Folder 3
Correspondence with prominent musical figures, circa 1960s-2010s
Includes letters from Anthony Perkins regarding cats; Correspondence regarding music from EMI, Leonard Bernstein, Glen Gould, Ned Rorem, Hugo Weisgall, Otto Luening, Lucia Popp, Gwyneth Jones, Astrid Varnay, Tim Page, Margaret Price, William Schuman, Régine Crespin (includes letter from Crespin to James Levine), E. Power Biggs, Lee Hoiby, Milton Babbitt, Emanuel Ax, Dawn Upshaw, Dominick Argento, Eric Bentley, Richard Tucker, Dorothy Kirsten, Lazlo Halasz, Boris Goldovsky, Felix Wolfes, Carl Lamson, Allen Sapp, Jean Kraft, Erich Leinsdorf, Meyer Kupferman, Schuyler Chapin, Donald Martino, William Mayer, Heddy Baum, Alexander Kipnis, Kent Nagano, William M. Hoffman, Joel Honig, Timothy Nolen, Omus Hirschbein, Nina Bojolo Alfano, Speight Jenkins, Teresa Sterne, Stephanie von Buchau, Nora London, Denes Striny, James Billings, autographed material by Renata Tebaldi, Frances Bible, and Anna Russell.
Box 13
Rosa Ponselle Juror's Medal (for judging the Rosa Ponselle singing competition in the mid-late 1970s), circa mid-late 1970s, 1 items
In a small box inside Box 13.
Box 21 Item 8
A radio interview with Peter Davis, WNFC-FM's Verdi Celebration, circa 1989, 1 audiocassettes
Box 21 Item 26
Davis's radio show, "The Art of Great Singing", undated, 1 audiocassettes
On both sides of item 26.
Box 21 Item 31-39
Unlabeled 5.5-inch floppy disks, undated, 8 items
Items 33-39 have paper sheaths.
Box 21 Item 45
Windows 98 startup disk, 1998, 1 items
Box 21 Item 46
"Movie Actors, Part One", undated, 1 items
Box 21 Item 47-48
"Movie Actors, Part Two", undated, 2 items
Two floppy disks with the same label: may contain the same content or it could be a single piece of content spread out over two disks.
Box 21 Item 49-50
"Movie Actors, Part Three", undated, 2 items
Two floppy disks with the same label: may contain the same content or it could be a single piece of content spread out over two disks.
Box 21 Item 51-66
Unlabeled 3.5-inch floppy disks, undated, 15 items
Box 21 Item 67
Universal boot disk (disk 1 of 1), undated, 1 items
Box 21 Item 68
Upgraded modem download, undated, 1 items
Box 21 Item 69-70
McAfee [anti]virus backup, undated, 2 items
Box 21 Item 71
McAfee [anti]virus program, undated, 1 items
Box 21 Item 72
"Invisible Rivers, Marmoneck, masters of ceremony, [illegible]", undated, 1 items
It is unclear whether the phrases written on the label of the disk refer to a single file or to multiple files.
Box 21 Item 73
"Actors N- composers", undated, 1 items
Box 21 Item 75
"Actors A-M", undated, 1 items
"Davis Music Column" and some other text has been scratched out.