Columbia University Orchestra records, 1949-1987

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Series I: Howard Shanet's Columbia University Orchestra records, 1953-1985, bulk 1981-1985



Box 12 Folder 1 Scrapbook of Columbia University Orchestra programs, posters, and tickets, 1953-1959, 1962-1981

Also includes a program for the 1980 Columbia Varsity Show which Shanet conducted. These items were removed from a 3-ring binder and refiled in the order in which they were originally housed.


Box 12 Folder 2-3 Publicity and programming, 1984-1985

Correspondence (internal, related to planning, and external, relating to publicity etc.), publicity material, press releases, player lists, attendence registers, Shanet's notes, programs, mailing lists, photographs (of performers, for publicity), invitations to recording sessions.


Box 12 Folder 4-6 Logistical documents, 1980-1984

A wide range of documents relating to the day-to-day operations of the orchestra. Includes: attendence registers, schedules (concerts, rehearsals auditions), brochures (for coach rental, Music Performance Program, other musical organizations), correspondence (with Ruth Ihrig, Columbia administrators, with orchestra members, assistant conductor Guy Garnett, music publishers, press advertisers, other universities and musical organizations, audience members), public safety notices, repertoire lists,academic calendar, job advertisements, staff manual, policy documents, Shanet's notes, other administrative documents.


Box 12 Folder 7 Programs, 1984

Draft and printed programs for orchestra concerts.


Box 12 Folder 8 Princeton University Orchestra exchange, 1984-1985

Programs (draft and printed), press clippings, correspondence (with Princeton University Orchestra conductor Mordechai Sheinkman and Princeton University Orchestra manager Roger Wu, Princeton University Concert Office), posters, Shanet's notes, annotated map of Princeton University.


Box 12 Folder 9 "A Gift of Brahms" (free concert series), 1984

Brochures, programs, correspondence (with Guy Garnett, conductor of the Barnard-Columbia Chorus Peter Schubert), posters, repertoire lists, Shanet's notes.


Box 12 Folder 10 Concert conducted by Guy Garnett, 1984 March 8, 1984

Programs, tickets, Shanet's notes, repertoire lists.


Box 12 Folder 11 Logistics for Virgil Thomson's 87th birthday concert, 1983 November 12, 1983

Schedules, correspondence (with Virgil Thomson, Guy Garnett, musicians), repertoire lists, orchestral layout plans, instrumentation lists, Shanet's notes.


Box 12 Folder 12 Publicity for Virgil Thomson's 87th birthday concert 1983 November 12, 1983

Correspondence (with invited guests, music publishers, press, Cathedral of Saint John the Divine), posters, flyers, reception guest list, programs, run sheet, press releases.



Box 13 Folder 1-2 "An American Heritage Festival" concert series at the New York Historical Society, 1983

Correspondence (with assistant conductor Noyes Bartholemew, music publishers, Ruth Ihrig, music librarians, venue, students), programs (draft and printed), flyers, repertoire lists, player lists, audition notes, attendence registers, posters, lyric sheets, run sheet, program notes, Shanet's notes.