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| BOX 186-199 | Correspondence, 1938-2018 | ||||||||||||
| Items in this series are primarily professional in nature. Early correspondence is
from Wuorinen’s instructors at Columbia University: Jack Beeson, Vladimir
Ussachevsky, and Otto Luening, with whom Wuorinen stayed in touch throughout his
career. Included are letters from a wide circle of collaborators and
contemporaries, such as conductor Lukas Foss, flutist Harvey Sollberger, cellist
Fred Sherry, pianists Peter Serkin and Ursula Mamlok, composers Nicolas Roussakis
and Raoul Pleskow, and journalist Joan Peyser. There are numerous letters from
Virginia de Blasiis, an accomplished violinist and music educator who, along with
her sister Giovannina, ran a chamber music series in Glens Falls, New York.
Wuorinen performed on this series. Virginia de Blasiis also commissioned
Wuorinen’s Letters from notable musicians of the twentieth century, including Aaron Copland, Henry Cowell, Nadia Boulanger, and John Cage, are also included. Most are brief but encouraging responses to an inquiry from Wuorinen. This series also includes personal correspondence from family members, the bulk of which is from Charles Wuorinen’s parents, John Sr. and Alfhild, with whom he corresponded regularly, and his maternal grandmother, Ida Kalijarvi. Additional personal correspondence was from peers and primarily date from the 1950s and early 1960s. Another notable correspondent was Arnold Roth, a prominent illustrator who was a fellow member of the Century Association in New York City. Roth’s colorful cartoon of Wuorinen composing features on the homepage of Wuorinen’s website, which can be found in the Library of Congress Commissioned Composers Web Archive; a color slide of the cartoon is in the Photographs series. The Correspondence series also contains letters from organizations and companies. Columbia University correspondence begins in 1956 when Wuorinen enrolled as an undergraduate and continue during his time as a faculty member, a post he held until 1971. In addition, there is extensive correspondence from editors and colleagues from the journal Perspectives of New Music; Wuorinen served on their editorial board in addition to publishing numerous articles, many of which are in the Writings series. The companies most heavily represented are Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI) and the C. F. Peters Corporation. BMI awarded Wuorinen several youth composition awards and he remained involved with the company as a juror for other composition prizes. Starting in the 1960s, C. F. Peters became his exclusive publisher. |
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| Arranged alphabetically by last name of individual or company name and chronologically therein. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 186/2 | Aaron Copland School of Music, 1984-1985, 2000 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 186/3 | Adams, John, 1980-1981 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 186/4 | Adler, Samuel, 1993 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 186/5 | Albany Symphony Orchestra, 1982-1984 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 186/6 | Allied Artists Bureau, 1982-1987 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 186/7 | American Recorded Music Society, 1966 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 186/8 | American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), 1982-1989, 2000, 2007 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 186/9 | American Society of University Composers (ASUC), 1963-1980 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 186/10 | American Symphony Orchestra League, 1966, 1976-1996 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 186/11 | Amy, Gilbert, 1982 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 186/12 | Aspen Music Festival, 1974, 1981 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 186/13 | Associated Music Publishers, 1957-1962 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 186/14 | "B" miscellaneous, 1969, 1986-1987, 1993, 2001 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 186/15 | Babbitt, Milton, circa 1969-2005 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 186/16 | Barzun, Jacques, 1961-1991 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 186/17 | Bassett, Leslie, 1971 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 186/18 | Beeson, Jack, circa 1956-1973 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 186/19 | Bennett, Richard Rodney, 1997 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 186/20 | Blaustein, Susan, 1982 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 186/21 | Blumenfeld, Harold, 1975 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 186/22 | Boehm Quintette, 1974-1984 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 186/23 | Boretz, Ben, circa 1961-1963 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 186/24 | Boston Symphony Orchestra, 1964-1981, 2000-2003, 2011 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 186/25 | Boulanger, Nadia, 1961-1963 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 186/26 | Boulez, Pierre, 1963 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 187/1 | Brandeis University, 1963-1964, 1975-1983, 1992 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 187/2 | British Broadcasting Company (BBC), 1970, 1993, 1998 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 187/3 | Britton, Coby, 1970-2017 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 187/4-7 | Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI), 1956-2017 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 187/8 | Broughton, Shirley, 1961-1965 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 187/9 | Bruce, Renaud C., 1970s-1992 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 187/10 | Burbank, Richard, 1977-2008 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 187/11 | Bush, George and Laura, 2004 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 187/12 | "C" miscellaneous, 1964, 1973, 1984-1994 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 188/1-5 | C. F. Peters Corporation, 1970-2007 and undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 188/6 | Cage, John, 1966-1967, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 188/7 | Calendar for New Music - Center for New Music, 1972-1988 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 188/8 | Calendar for New Music - Institute for Art and Urban Resources, 1981-1985 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 189/1-6 | Calendar for New Music - The Sound Art Foundation, 1986-2016 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 189/7 | Carl Fischer, Inc., 1969-1970, 1980 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 189/8 | Carmody, Joe, 1959 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 189/9 | Carnegie Hall, 1960-2000 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 189/10 | Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, 1985-2008 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 190/1 | Chicago Symphony Orchestra, 1975-1980, 1987, 2000 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 190/2 | Childs, Barney, 1962-1970 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 190/3 | Christmas cards, 1952-1963 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 190/4 | Clayton, Laura, 1986-1987 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 190/5 | Clinton, William Jefferson and Hillary Rodham, 1995 and undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 190/6 | Columbia Records, 1954-1962 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 190/7-11 | Columbia University, 1955-2006 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 190/12 | Composers Guild of New Jersey, 1989-2001 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 191/1 | Contemporary Chamber Ensemble, 1977 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 191/2 | Contemporary Chamber Orchestra, 1977 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 191/3 | Contemporary Concerts, Inc., 1978-1981 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 191/4 | Copland, Aaron, 1965, 1971 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 191/5 | Copland House, 1995-2006 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 191/6 | Cowley, David, 1979 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 191/7 | Creative Artists Public Service Program (CAPS), 1971-1983 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 191/8 | Crumb, George, 1971 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 191/9 | "D" miscellaneous, 1975, 1995 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 191/10 | Da Capo Chamber Players, 1973-1980 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 191/11 | Daniel, Oliver, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 191/12 | Danielpour, Richard, 1987-1989 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 191/13 | Daugherty, Michael, 1978-1980 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 191/14 | Davies, Dennis Russell, 1979-1982 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 191/15 | Davidovsky, Mario, 1964-1969, 1984 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 191/16-18 | de Blasiis, Virginia, 1961-1991 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 191/19 | Dixon, James, 1963-1975 | ||||||||||||
| see also University of Iowa | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 191/20 | Dlugoszewski, Lucia, 1965, 1980 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 191/21 | Dodge, Charles, 1963-1966, 1984 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 191/22 | Dorati, Antal, 1959 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 191/23 | Drummond, Dean, 1981 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 191/24 | Duffy, John, 2000 and undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 191/25 | Erb, Donald, 1963 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 191/26 | Feldman, Morton, 1978-1979 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 192/1 | Felice Lesser Dance Theater, 1978-1979 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 192/2 | Fisher, Avery R., undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 192/3 | Foss, Lukas, 1963-1964, 1980-1982, 1988, 2009 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 192/4-5 | Fromm Music Foundation and Paul Fromm, 1961-1993 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 192/6 | Fulkerson, Christopher, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 192/7 | Gerry Mulligan Productions, 1985 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 192/8-9 | Getty, Gordon, 1985-2018 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 192/10 | Grantham, Donald, 1980 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 192/11 | Green, Barbara, 1955 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 192/12 | Greenough, H. Vose, 1959 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 192/13 | Greeting cards, circa 1954-1963 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 192/14 to 193/1 | Groupp, Irving "Doc", 1959-1985 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 193/2 | "H" miscellaneous, 2003 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 193/3 | Harbison, John, 1965-1970 and undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 193/4 | Harms, John, 1953-1955 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 193/5 | Harrison, Lou, 1986 and undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 193/6 | Harvard University, 1963-1964, 1992-1993, 2000-2006 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 193/7 | Harvey, Jonathan, 1970, 1988 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 193/8 | Heaton, Ray, 1961-1962 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 193/9 | Hills, A. Gorman, 1957-1959 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 193/10 | Hitchcock, H. Wiley, 1982 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 193/11 | Indiana University, 1985 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 193/12 | Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique/Musique (IRCAM), 1977-1981 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 193/13 | Institute for Studies in American Music (City University of New York [CUNY], Brooklyn), 1980-1981, 1997 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 193/14 | Javits, Jacob, 1960-1963 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 193/15 | John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, 1977-1996 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 193/16 | Johnstone, Winifred Hope, 1961-1966 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 193/17 | Juilliard School, 1971, 1991, 2001, 2006 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 193/18 | Kalijarvi, Ida, circa 1949-1961 | ||||||||||||
| Note: Wuorinen's grandmother | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 193/19 | Karchin, Louis, 2008 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 193/20 | Kay, Ulysses, 1980 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 193/21 | Keating, Kenneth, 1963 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 193/22 | Kempner, Jane, 1955 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 193/23 | Kernis, Aaron Jay, 1980-1984 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 193/24 | Kirchner, Leon, 1963-1977 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 193/25 | Knussen, Oliver, 1994-1995, 2000-2001 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 193/26 | Korf, Anthony, 1975-1977, 1983-1987 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 193/27 | Koussevitzky Music Foundation, 1966 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 193/28 | Koussevitzky, Olga, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 193/29 | Kresky, Jeffrey, circa 1970-1988 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 193/30 | Krosnick, Joel, 1962-1970 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 194/1 | Kupferman, Meyer, circa 1963-1980 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 194/2 | "L" miscellaneous, 1993 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 194/3 | Lauer, Elizabeth, 1959-2016 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 194/4 | Lavan, Lawrence "Larry", 1955-1957 | ||||||||||||
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