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Music, 1932-1995 (continued)
Holograph Music, 1935-1990 (continued)
BOX-FOLDER 1071/20 Six Sabras
Holograph piano score in pencil ; 8 p.
On envelope: Related to trip to Israel 1954?
BOX-FOLDER 1071/20 Six Sabras
Holograph sketches in pencil ; [5] p.
Caption titles: The tired woodpecker; Disappointment; Cesarino Riso (3 Nov. 1939)
Cesarino riso became "Candide’s Lament"
BOX-FOLDER 1071/21 SJB 70th birthday piece
Holograph sketch in pencil ; [2] p.
On envelope: "Used in Kaddish"
BOX-FOLDER 1071/22 The Skin of Our Teeth
Holograph music and lyric sketches in pencil ; [50] p.
Titles include: Oh oh oh/Sabina’s opening air; Rolling on; War song; It’s cold; Chorale (save the human race) (today); Fanfares ; Canon; Opening?; Save the human race; Teen faggot; Hooray today; Enjoy (waltz) (later march); Opening (segue from Prelude); Funerailles; Plaintive round
BOX-FOLDER 1071/23 The Skin of Our Teeth
Holograph/manuscript/typescript lyric sheets in pencil in hands of LB, Comden and Green ; [22] p.
Titles or first lines include: Bayonet drill; What a perfect model family; Before S’s aria; Then came Gladys, her Daddy’s (pride and) joy; I have served this bloomin’ family; And here they are on their wedding day; (Six-o-five); The father: George Adam Antrobus; list of numbers; George–; Help help hooray; Oh oh oh–it’s six o’clock!; Enjoy your ice cream while it’s on your plate; Me; Spring; Opening; Sabina; Oh oh oh! : Sabina’s opening number
BOX-FOLDER 1095/2 Slava!
Manuscript full score in pencil ; 33 p.
Some parts are in LB's hand
Dated: Revised Jan. 1979
BOX-FOLDER 1072/1 Slava!
Holograph short score in pencil ; 11 p.
Dated: NYC 1 Oct '77
BOX-FOLDER 1072/2 Slava!
Holograph music and lyric sketches in pencil ; [3] p.
Title page: Puk (Slava or.) Puk was Rostropovich’s dog, and LB considered as possible title to work
BOX-FOLDER 1072/3 Slava!
Holograph piano-vocal score/sketch in pencil ; 4 p.
Annotations in red ink
Title page: Rehearsing (new opening)
Laid in: typescript lyric sheet with annotations in red pencil ; 3 p.
BOX-FOLDER 1072/3 Slava!
Holograph sketches in pencil ; [3] p.
Title page: A new century
Laid in: holograph and typescript lyric sheets ; [2] p.
BOX-FOLDER 1072/3 Slava!
Ozalid of piano-vocal score ; 4 p.
No lyric
Annotations in pencil
BOX-FOLDER 1072/4 So pretty
Holograph piano-vocal score in pencil ; [2] p.
Final version
Dated: 20 Jan '68
BOX-FOLDER 1072/4 So pretty
Holograph piano-vocal score in pencil and photocopy ; [2] p. each
1st version in C
BOX-FOLDER 1072/4 So pretty
Holograph sketches in pencil ; [3] p.
BOX-FOLDER 1072/5 So who's out there
Holograph music and lyric sketches in pencil ; [2] p.
BOX-FOLDER 1072/6 Something was here and went away/F fever
Holograph piano-vocal sketch in pencil ; [1] leaf
On envelope: "From ‘Opera Tunes" folder (Fairfield)/(Francis–St Francis film)
BOX-FOLDER 1072/7 Sonata for Clarinet and Piano ( 1941-1942 )
Holograph score in ink with annotations in pencil ; 28 p.
On title page: "For David Oppenheim"
Original pagination 26 p. with 2 p. inserted after p. 10
BOX-FOLDER 1072/8 Sonata for Clarinet and Piano
Holograph sketch/score in pencil ; [23] p.
Portions of back page cut out
On envelope: "Found in LB’s mother’s apartment, May 1969"
BOX-FOLDER 1072/9 Sonata for Clarinet and Piano
Holograph clarinet part in ink with annotations in pencil ; 7 p.
On title page: "For David Oppenheim"
BOX-FOLDER 1072/10 Sonata for Violin and Piano ( 1940 )
Holograph full score in ink with annotations in pencil and red pencil ; 33 p.
BOX-FOLDER 1072/10 Sonata for Violin and Piano
Holograph violin part in ink with annotations in pencil ; [7] p.
BOX-FOLDER 1072/11 Sonata ideas
Holograph music and lyric sketches in pencil ; [14] p.
Caption titles: Piano sonata (crazed)/Chants + duets (cycle #2)/(+ Touches)/(+ Page turner scherzo); Sonata (scherzo (w/ page-turner)); Nocturne? (precede Touches in sonata); L.A. summer ‘82 Bel-Air; Page-turner’s turn; (Nachspiel) : 6 Feb (Felicia’s birthday) : For Ellen Goetz R.I.P. (+25 Jan ‘86); Allegretto; Page-turner; Mod to march; Oidl-doidl/There is something. What?
Note stapled to inside cover; one sketch titled "David’s father-in-law’s meditation : Meditation before a wedding"
On envelope: "From ‘Opera Tunes’ folder (Fairfield)"; suggestion that lyric my be related to, or described as: Meditation
"For Ellen Goetz" later published as part of Thirteen anniversaries
BOX-FOLDER 1072/12 Song for Frankie (pre-natal)
Holograph piano-vocal sketch in pencil ; [1] p.
Dated: "Feb ‘87"
BOX-FOLDER 1072/13 The song we heard together
Holograph lead sheet in ink, lyrics in red pencil ; [2] p.
Unidentified pencil sketch on cover, music wheel on back
BOX-FOLDER 1072/14 Song without words (for our 28th Birthday) from your loving spouse
Photocopy of piano score with annotations in red pencil ; [2] p.
Dated: "For Felicia, 6 Feb. 1974"
Later published as part of Thirteen anniversaries
Songfest (1977)
Holograph full scores in pencil ; 195 p.
Portions (mostly vocals) are in other hands, some in ink
Songs are numbered both individually and sequentially
BOX-FOLDER 1095/3 I. Opening hymn: To the poem/sextet
12 p.
BOX-FOLDER 1095/4 II. The pennycandystore beyond the El
14 p.
Dated: NYC June '77
BOX-FOLDER 1095/5 III. A Julia de Burgos
31 p.
Dated: N.Y.C., 23 Sept. '76
BOX-FOLDER 1095/6 IV. To what you said
see also Middle "C"
14 p.
BOX-FOLDER 1095/7 V. I, too, sing America (Langston Hughes)/Okay "Negroes" (June Jordan)
20 p.
BOX-FOLDER 1095/8 VI. To my dear and loving husband
13 p.
Inscribed and dated: For Lady Rosalyn/10 Dec. '76/Leonard Bernstein/orchestrated/Jan. 10, 1977
BOX-FOLDER 1095/9 VII. Gertrude Stein: Storyette H.M.
11 p.
BOX-FOLDER 1095/10 VIII. If you can't eat you got to
12 p.
BOX-FOLDER 1095/11 IX. Music I heard with you
12 p.
Dated: 1 Oct. '76
BOX-FOLDER 1095/12 X. Corso: Zizi's lament
19 p.
Dated: N.Y.C. 17 Sept. '76
BOX-FOLDER 1095/13 XI. Millay sonnet/What my lips have kissed
13 p.
Dated: Carmel 12 Sept '76
BOX-FOLDER 1095/14 XII. Israfel
24 p.
Dated: 24 Sept '77
Songfest ( 1977 )
Individual numbers, arranged alphabetically by title.
BOX-FOLDER 1073/1 A Julia de Burgos
Holograph short score in pencil ; 11 p.
Dated: Carmel, 10 Sept '76
BOX-FOLDER 1073/2 A Julia de Burgos
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