Scope and Content Note
Materials in the Randolph S. Rothschild Collection span from 1942 to 1992, the bulk of which date between 1972 and 1985. The collection is arranged in one series, Music, that consists primarily of manuscript, facsimile, and printed music and accompanying correspondence, programs, and reviews. The majority of the music is facsimile scores of compositions commissioned by the Chamber Music Society of Baltimore and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra from American composers such as Dominick Argento, Milton Babbitt, Henry Cowell, Jacob Druckman, Ross Lee Finney, Lukas Foss, Leon Kirchner, Ernst Krenek, Robert Hall Lewis, Lawrence Moss, Roger Reynolds, Christopher Rouse, Gunther Schuller, Ralph Shapey, Hugo Weisgall, and Charles Wuorinen, among others. Many of these scores are inscribed to Rothschild and signed by the composers. The collection also includes holograph manuscript scores by Henry Cowell, Hugo Weisgall, and Brown Benson. A few scores were sent as complimentary copies from publishers. Correspondence accompanies the scores by David Epstein, John Huggler, Jean Eichelberger Ivey, Leo Kraft, Lawrence Moss, Roger Reynolds, Ralph Shapey, and Hugo Weisgall. A few scores include programs and reviews of the concerts at which they were performed.