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Financial Papers, 1975-2017 (Restricted) (continued)
BOX 45R-54R Royalty Statements, 1982-2016
Arranged alphabetically by organization and chronologically therein.
BOX-FOLDER 45R/6 1750 Arch Records, 1983-1984
BOX-FOLDER 45R/7-17 Boosey and Hawkes/Hendon Music, Inc., 1991-2001
BOX 46R Boosey and Hawkes/Hendon Music, Inc., 2002-2008
BOX-FOLDER 47R/1-2 Boosey and Hawkes/Hendon Music, Inc., 2009-2010
BOX-FOLDER 47R/3-22 Broadcast Music Inc. (BMI), 1982-2002
BOX 48R Broadcast Music Inc. (BMI), 1996-2008
BOX-FOLDER 49R/1-5 Broadcast Music Inc. (BMI), 2008-2010 and undated
BOX-FOLDER 49R/6-26 G. Schirmer, Inc., 1983-2005
BOX-FOLDER 50R/1-6 G. Schirmer, Inc., 2006-2010 and undated
BOX-FOLDER 50R/7 Miscellaneous, 1985-1998
BOX-FOLDER 50R/8 New Albion Records, 1983-1993
BOX-FOLDER 50R/9-15 Nonesuch/Elektra, 1989, 1994-1999
BOX 51R Nonesuch/Elektra, 2000-2010 and undated
BOX 52R Warner Music Group, 2012-2013
BOX 53R Warner Music Group, 2013-2014
BOX 54R Warner Music Group, 2015-2016
BOX 55-58, 69, 91, 128, 131-135 Biographical Materials, 1954-2016
This series consists of materials related to Adams's personal life and career, including datebooks and calendars, transcripts of interviews with Adams, awards and materials that pertain to them, schoolwork, and family documents. It also includes writings by Adams and others.
Chiefly arranged alphabetically by folder title. Awards are arranged chronologically.
BOX-FOLDER 55/1 Address books, undated
BOX-FOLDER 55/2 Artwork, undated
Awards and Honors
BOX 132 Music Award for Chamber Scale Composition, Royal Philharmonic Society, 1993
BOX 132 New York City Ballet gold lyre pin, Northwestern University, 1988
BOX 133 Grammy Award, 1989
BOX 134 Harvard University Alumni Association Commencement Chief Marshall baton, 1994
BOX-FOLDER 55/3 Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, Chevalier, Ministère de la Culture, 1995
BOX 135 Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, Chevalier, Ministère de la Culture, 1995
BOX-FOLDER 55/4 Cyril Magnan Award, 1995
BOX 132 Cyril Magnan Award, 1995
BOX-FOLDER 55/5 Grawemeyer Music Award, 1995
BOX-FOLDER 55/6 Stolichnaya Arts Achievement Award, San Francisco Focus Magazine, 1996
BOX-FOLDER 55/7 American Academy of Arts and Letters, 1997
BOX-FOLDER 91/1 American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1997
BOX 135 Cal Performances Exceptional Achievement in the Arts, University of California, Berkeley, 1997
BOX 133 Best Living Composer, Classical Insites, 1997
BOX 133 Grammy Award, 1997
BOX-FOLDER 55/8-9 Pulitzer Prize, 2003
BOX-FOLDER 55/10 University of Oregon Creativity Award, 2003
BOX-FOLDER 131/1 American Music Center, 2004
BOX 133 Grammy Awards (2), 2004
BOX-FOLDER 55/11, 128/1 Harvard University Centennial Medalist, 2004
BOX-FOLDER 55/12 Michael Ludwig Nemmers Prize in Musical Composition, Northwestern University, 2004
BOX 135 Michael Ludwig Nemmers Prize in Musical Composition, Northwestern University, 2004
BOX-FOLDER 91/2 San Francisco Conservatory of Music, 2004
BOX 133 Contemporary Music Award, 2005
BOX-FOLDER 128/2 Cultural Leadership Citation, Yale University, 2007
BOX 135 Commonwealth Club of California Gold Medal in Nonfiction, 2008
BOX-FOLDER 55/13 Northwestern University Honorary Doctorate, 2008
BOX 135 Distinguished Achievement Award, Opera News, 2008
BOX-FOLDER 91/3 Honorary Doctorate, Duquesne University, 2009
BOX-FOLDER 55/14, 128/3 Juilliard School, 2011
BOX-FOLDER 55/15 Harvard University Honorary Doctorate, 2012
BOX-FOLDER 55/16 The Association for Promotion of Study of Latin, undated
BOX-FOLDER 55/17-20 Biographies, 1992-1995 and undated
BOX 133 Carnegie Hall: Three Great Stages One Great Hall, 2003
Commemorative plexicube
BOX-FOLDER 55/21 Concert performance lists, 1989-1997
BOX-FOLDER 55/22 to 56/8 Datebooks, 1979-2001
BOX-FOLDER 91/4 Diploma: Bachelor of Arts in Music, Magna cum Laude, Harvard University, 1969
BOX-FOLDER 91/5 Diploma: Master of Arts, Harvard University, 1972
Family
BOX-FOLDER 56/9 Emily Adams birth announcement, 1984
BOX-FOLDER 56/10 Rosa cremation certificate, 1990
BOX-FOLDER 56/11 Jim Irwin, Sr., "Young Man with a Horn," undated
Interviews
American Music Series
BOX-FOLDER 56/12 Marshall, Ingram, 1999
BOX-FOLDER 56/13-14 Perlis, Vivian, 1983, 1997
BOX-FOLDER 56/15 Plush, Vincent, 1983
BBC
BOX-FOLDER 56/16-17 Radio 3 - Porter, Andrew, 1988
BOX-FOLDER 56/18 Radio 4, Kaleidoscope - Steyn, Mark, 1988
BOX-FOLDER 56/19 World Service, Music Now - Palmer, Bernard, 1988
BOX-FOLDER 56/20 Kühnen, Wolfgang, 1997
BOX-FOLDER 56/21 Spindler, Wolfgang, 1993
Strickland, Edward
BOX-FOLDER 56/22 American Composers: Dialogues on Contemporary Music, 1990
BOX-FOLDER 56/23 "From Richard Nixon to Walt Whitman": An Interview with John Adams (Fanfare Magazine), 1990
BOX-FOLDER 56/24 Ueno, Ken, undated
BOX-FOLDER 57/1 Journals, 1976-1977 and undated
BOX-FOLDER 57/2 Language study notebooks: French, undated
BOX-FOLDER 57/3 Language study notebooks: German, 1979, 1992 and undated
BOX-FOLDER 57/4 Passports, 1987-2007
BOX-FOLDER 69/10 Peace Corps application instruction, 1967-1968
BOX-FOLDER 57/5 Report cards: Concord Union School District, 1954-1956
BOX-FOLDER 57/6 Report card: Concord High School, 1962-1963
BOX-FOLDER 128/4 "Ripple the Sky," by Jacob Cooper, 2016
Inscribed first page of score
Note: Adams was the conductor for the world premiere of this work
BOX-FOLDER 57/7 Robert Frost Club, undated
BOX-FOLDER 57/8 Schoolwork: A Century of Nationalism, 1960
BOX-FOLDER 57/9 Technical manuals and instructions, 1989, 1994, and undated
BOX-FOLDER 57/10 Tributes, undated
BOX-FOLDER 91/6-10, 128/5-9 Wall calendars, 1981-1996
Writings by John Adams
BOX-FOLDER 57/11 "Adams über seine Musik," Oper Frankfurt program, 1993
BOX-FOLDER 57/12 California Governor's Awards in the Arts acceptance speech, undated
BOX-FOLDER 57/13 David Huntley, undated
BOX-FOLDER 57/14 "Elliott Carter, 1908-2012," The Amphion Foundation, 2013
BOX-FOLDER 57/15 "Goldberg Variations," New European Strings Chamber Orchestra, 1995
BOX-FOLDER 57/16 Grawemeyer Award lecture, 1995
BOX-FOLDER 57/17 Introductory essay, Midwest Trust Center Orchestra Residence book, undated
BOX-FOLDER 57/18 Ives: The Amount to Carry, undated
BOX-FOLDER 57/19 "John Adams Sends Philip Glass Packing," California Magazine, 1986
BOX-FOLDER 57/20 Journal entries, 1987-1994
BOX-FOLDER 57/21 Leon Kirchner, 1985
BOX-FOLDER 57/22-24 "The Making of American Music," BBC, 1990 and undated
Alternate title: "Singing the Body Electric"
BOX-FOLDER 57/25 "New Music: A Legacy Fulfilled," The San Francisco Conservatory of Music Newsletter, vol. 2, no. 1, undated
BOX-FOLDER 57/26 Program and liner notes, undated
Writings by Others
BOX-FOLDER 57/27 Antonsen, Rachel and Preben Pickard. Dog Days and Olive Branches, Poems and Prose. Berkeley, California, 1999
BOX-FOLDER 57/28 Antonsen, Rachel and Preben Pickard. Hyggellige 1 Danmark. Berkeley, California, 2000
BOX-FOLDER 57/29 Betz, Madelyn L. "The Story of Isaiah in John Adams's 'El Niño,'" Episcopal Divinity School, 2008
BOX-FOLDER 58/1 Cahill, Sara. "Adams, John (Coolidge)." The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Edited by Stanley Sadie. New York: Grove, 2001
BOX-FOLDER 58/2 Colvig, William. "An American Gamelan," undated
BOX-FOLDER 58/10 Commissioning Music. Meet the Composer, Inc., 1984
BOX-FOLDER 58/3 Coppola, Francis Ford. "Megalopolis." Unpublished manuscript, 2001
Typescript
Includes: Correspondence from Coppola
BOX-FOLDER 58/4 Cott, Jonathan. "The Desert Music: Steve Reich in Conversation with Jonathan Cott." Writings About Music, 1965-2000. Edited by Paul Hillier. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004
BOX-FOLDER 69/11 Dresher, Robin Kirck. Diary. Unpublished manuscript, 1993-1999
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