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BOX 33-40 Business Papers, 1977-2017
This series consists of contracts and correspondence that extensively document Adams's commissioned works, his appearances as a conductor or guest speaker, and the recording and publishing of his music. Adams filed his business papers by subject, such as titles of projects and compositions, performing organizations, publishers, recording companies, academic insitutions, and others.
Arranged alphabetically by folder title.
BOX-FOLDER 33/1 Abbey Road Studios, 1998
BOX-FOLDER 33/2 Absolut Vodka, 1988
BOX-FOLDER 33/3 "After Klee's 'Geschwister'," 1985
BOX-FOLDER 33/4 Aid and Comfort, 1990
BOX-FOLDER 33/5 American Composers Orchestra, 1980-1985
BOX-FOLDER 33/6 American Elegies, 1989-1990
BOX-FOLDER 33/7 American Standard copyright registration, 1977
BOX-FOLDER 33/8 American Tapestry, 1999
BOX-FOLDER 33/9 Artsource: The Music Center Study Guide to the Performing Arts, 1992, 1997
BOX-FOLDER 33/10 Aspen Festival, 1998
BOX-FOLDER 33/11 Associated Music Publishers, Inc./G. Schirmer, 1982-1987
BOX-FOLDER 33/12 Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, 2007
BOX-FOLDER 33/13 Australia, 2000
BOX-FOLDER 33/14 Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, 1986-1987
BOX-FOLDER 33/15-19 Boosey and Hawkes/Hendon Music, Inc., 1987-2009
Note: Box 33, Folder 17 includes contracts involving Alice Goodman for an unrealized opera
BOX-FOLDER 33/20 Boston Symphony Orchestra, 1984-1991
BOX-FOLDER 33/21 British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), 1991, 1993, 2009
BOX-FOLDER 33/22 Philharmonic, 1993
BOX-FOLDER 33/23 Proms, 2001, 2003
BOX-FOLDER 33/24 Symphony Orchestra, 2001, 2004
BOX-FOLDER 33/25 Symphony Orchestra - Lake Junction, 2002
BOX-FOLDER 33/26 The Making of American Music, 1990
BOX-FOLDER 33/27 Weekend and tour (London, Paris, Brussels - John's Earbox), 2002
BOX-FOLDER 33/28-29 Broadcast Music Inc. (BMI), 1980-1998 and undated
BOX-FOLDER 34/1 Brooklyn Philharmonic, 1993-1994
BOX-FOLDER 34/2 Cabrillo Music Festival, 1990-1991
BOX-FOLDER 34/3 California Institute of the Arts, 1983, 1986-1987
BOX-FOLDER 34/4 Carnegie Hall, 2002-2006
BOX-FOLDER 34/5 Carnegie Hall: Zankel Hall opening, 2002-2004
BOX-FOLDER 34/6 Century Rolls: The Cleveland Orchestra, 1996-1997
BOX-FOLDER 34/7 Century Rolls: The Cleveland Orchestra recording, 1998-1999
BOX-FOLDER 34/8 Charles Ives Society, 2011
BOX-FOLDER 34/9 Chicago Symphony, 1997-1999
BOX-FOLDER 34/10 Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, 1996-1997
BOX-FOLDER 34/11 Cité de la Musique, 2010
BOX-FOLDER 34/12 City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, 1993, 1995
BOX-FOLDER 34/13 City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra recording, 1993
BOX-FOLDER 34/14 Cleveland Orchestra, 1991, 1998-1999
BOX-FOLDER 34/15 Clockwise Music, 1995
BOX-FOLDER 34/16 The Commonwealth of Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities New Works Program, 1984
BOX-FOLDER 34/17-19 Concertgebouworkest, 1982, 1992-2002, 2010 and undated
BOX-FOLDER 34/20 Creative Work Fund: Walter and Elise Haas Fund, 1995-1996
BOX-FOLDER 34/21 Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, 1999
BOX-FOLDER 34/22 The Death of Klinghoffer, 1988-1991
BOX-FOLDER 34/23 Brooklyn Academy of Music, 1991
BOX-FOLDER 34/24 Film, 2001
BOX-FOLDER 34/25 Los Angeles, 1991-1992
BOX-FOLDER 34/26 Recording, 1990-1991
BOX-FOLDER 34/27 San Francisco, 1990-1991
BOX-FOLDER 35/1 Decca International, 1988
BOX-FOLDER 35/2 Detroit Symphony Orchestra, 1999-2000
BOX-FOLDER 35/3 Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie, 1996-1997
BOX-FOLDER 35/4 Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, 1994, 1998
BOX-FOLDER 35/5 Disney Hall, 2001
BOX-FOLDER 35/6 Djerassi Foundation, 1986
BOX-FOLDER 35/7 Doctor Atomic, 2004-2005
BOX-FOLDER 35/8 BBC, 2016-2017
BOX-FOLDER 35/9 San Francisco Opera Association, 2002-2004
BOX-FOLDER 35/10 El Dorado recording, 1992-1993
BOX-FOLDER 35/11 El Dorado: San Francisco Symphony, 1991
BOX-FOLDER 35/12 Ensemble Intercontemporain, 1993
BOX-FOLDER 35/13-14 Ensemble Modern, 1991-1996
BOX-FOLDER 35/15 US Tour, 1996
BOX-FOLDER 35/16 BBC Proms, 1997
BOX-FOLDER 35/17 Tour, 1999
BOX-FOLDER 35/18 Le Festival D'Automne a Paris, 1993
BOX-FOLDER 35/19 Finnish Radio, 2003
BOX-FOLDER 35/20 Five Colleges Composer-in-Residence, 1991
BOX-FOLDER 35/21 Five Songs by Charles Ives, 1989-1993
BOX-FOLDER 35/22 A Flowering Tree: Barbican Centre, 2006-2007
BOX-FOLDER 35/23 Forbes, Inc., 2001
BOX-FOLDER 35/24 Fromm Music Foundation at Harvard, 1984-1986
BOX-FOLDER 35/25-26 G. Schirmer, Inc., 1984-1992
BOX-FOLDER 35/27 Gnarly Buttons: London Sinfonietta and Present Music, 1996
BOX-FOLDER 35/28 Gravity's Rainbow, 1994
BOX-FOLDER 35/29 Grinnell College, 1996
BOX-FOLDER 35/30 Hail Bop: A Portrait of John Adams, 1997
BOX-FOLDER 35/31-32 Hallé Concerts Society, 1994, 1997
BOX-FOLDER 35/33 Harmonium recording, 1982-1983
BOX-FOLDER 35/34 Harmonium: Central Independent Television, 1986-1987
BOX-FOLDER 36/1-2 Harrison Parrott, Ltd., 1990-1995
BOX-FOLDER 36/3 Harrison Parrott, Ltd. - Jane Piper, 1996-2009
BOX-FOLDER 36/4 Harvard Magazine, 1990-1991
BOX-FOLDER 36/5 Harvard University, 1988, 1994, 2002-2003, 2010
BOX-FOLDER 36/6 Harvard University, Chief Marshall, 1994
BOX-FOLDER 36/7 Helsinki Festival, 1994-1995
BOX-FOLDER 36/8 Hoodoo Zephyr recording, 1993
BOX-FOLDER 36/9 Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, 1986
BOX-FOLDER 36/10 Itineraries, 1985-2017
BOX-FOLDER 36/11-12 I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky, 1993-1997
BOX-FOLDER 36/13-14 The John Adams Earbox: A Retrospective, 1997-1999
BOX-FOLDER 36/15 John's Book of Alleged Dances: Kronos Quartet, 1993-1995
BOX-FOLDER 36/16 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1981-1982
BOX-FOLDER 36/17 Koussevitzky Music Foundation, 1977-1993
BOX-FOLDER 36/18 Kuusisto, Pekka, 2010
BOX-FOLDER 37/1 Landseer: Sinfonietta Series II, 1988
BOX-FOLDER 37/2 Lincoln Center Festival, 2001-2003
BOX-FOLDER 37/3 Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, 1988, 1993-1995, 2002, undated
BOX-FOLDER 37/4 Lollapalooza, 1996
BOX-FOLDER 37/5 London/Norway, 1998
BOX-FOLDER 37/6-7 London Sinfonietta, 1989-1995
BOX-FOLDER 37/8-9 London Symphony Orchestra, 1998-2013
BOX-FOLDER 37/10 Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, 2001
BOX-FOLDER 37/11 Los Angeles Festival Film and Video Project, 1990-1991
BOX-FOLDER 37/12-15 Los Angeles Philharmonic, 1984-2001, 2014-2015
BOX-FOLDER 37/16 Los Angeles Philharmonic Institute, 1985
BOX-FOLDER 37/17 Lucerne Festival, 1993-1995
BOX-FOLDER 37/18 Mayfest, 1994
BOX-FOLDER 37/19 The Minnesota Orchestra, 1986-1994
BOX-FOLDER 37/20 Montreal Symphony Orchestra, 2001
BOX-FOLDER 37/21 The Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles: Available Light, 1982-1983
BOX-FOLDER 37/22 Music America, 1991
BOX-FOLDER 37/23 Music Associates of Aspen, 1998
BOX-FOLDER 37/24 My Father Knew Charles Ives: San Francisco Symphony, 2002-2003
BOX-FOLDER 37/25 Naïve and Sentimental Music: Ensemble Modern, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Vancouver Symphony, The Sydney Symphony, 1993-2001
BOX-FOLDER 37/26 Naïve and Sentimental Music: Nonesuch recording, 1999
BOX-FOLDER 37/27 National Endowment for the Arts (NEA): New Music Performance Section of the Music Advisory Panel, 1983
BOX-FOLDER 37/28 New Albion Records, 1983-1992
BOX-FOLDER 37/29 New Music Concerts, 1985
BOX-FOLDER 37/30 New World Symphony Orchestra, 1999-2003
BOX-FOLDER 37/31 New York City Ballet, 1990-2000 and undated
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