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Music, 1932-1995 (continued)
Holograph Music, 1935-1990 (continued)
The Age of Anxiety: The epilogue revisions (continued)
Holograph piano score/short score in pencil ; 10 p.
Includes: Orchestral changes; Solo piano additions; solo piano cadenza (before (J))
BOX-FOLDER 1045/9 The Age of Anxiety: The epilogue
Holograph of 4 measure "Epilogue" theme in ink; 1 p.
Dated: "1975"
BOX-FOLDER 1045/10 The Age of Anxiety
Holograph sketches in pencil with annotations in ink ; [38] p.
Includes: Prologue and Variations (Part I) ; Prologue ; Var I ; Var II ; Var 3 ; Var IV ; Var V ; Var VI ; Var VII
BOX-FOLDER 1045/11 The Age of Anxiety
Holograph sketches in pencil with annotations in ink ; [62] p.
Includes: Dirge/Masque and Epilogue ; Dirge ; Insert ; Epilogue [full score for strings in ink with annotations in pencil ; 6 p.] ; Epilogue ; The Epilogue
Alarums and Flourishes (1980)
Unfinished musical theater work in collaboration with Arthur Laurents
BOX-FOLDER 1045/12 Rough drafts and unfinished sketches
Holograph sketches and lyric sheets; [53] p.
Caption titles: Saquina's lullaby ; Tirade ; Hail ; After hail (prologue) ; Alexo (cont'd) ; Credo ; Perpetual horniness ; The song of inconvenience of perpetual horniness
BOX-FOLDER 1045/13 Sketches
Holograph sketches and lyric sheets; [67] p., 3 p.
Caption titles: verse to Expo ; Oriana ; Lucie song (sc. 2) ; Balladiers ; Balls ; 12-tone serenade ; Everybody loves me ; A night with you ; Hail ; Palador song ; Canon ; Renaissance (lullaby?) ; Pomposo ; Line ideas ; Exposition
BOX-FOLDER 1087/1 Script materials
Typescript/manuscripts with annotations ; [107] p.
BOX-FOLDER 1087/2 Lyric sheets
Holograph/typescript in pencil ; [7] leaves
BOX-FOLDER 1087/3 Correspondence from Arthur Laurents
Typescript letter ; 2 p.
BOX-FOLDER 1087/4 Script materials
Typescript/manuscripts with annotations ; [55] p.
BOX-FOLDER 1087/5 Notes, letters, outlines
Typescripts with annotations and LB holographs in pencil ; [55] p.
BOX-FOLDER 1045/14 Amen
Holograph piano-vocal score in pencil ; [3] p.
Title page: Shout for McCarthy rally, 15 Aug ‘68
BOX-FOLDER 1045/15 ... and it has!
Holograph cello score in pencil ; [1] p.
Signed: For Alexander’s graduation/7 June 79
BOX-FOLDER 1088/3 ... and it has!
Photoreproduction of holograph cello score and sketch ; [4] p.
Inscribed: For Alexander on his graduation with all my love/Daddy/7 June '79
BOX-FOLDER 1045/16 Anniversaries
Holograph sketches in pencil ; [5] p.
Title page: Current sketches/July ‘73
"Anniversaries" title from envelope
BOX-FOLDER 1045/17 Anniversary for Adam Green
Holograph piano score sketch in pencil, incomplete ; [1] p.
BOX-FOLDER 1045/18 Anniversary for Jessica Fleischmann
Holograph piano score sketch in pencil ; p. 2 and title page
Later published as part of Thirteen anniversaries
BOX-FOLDER 1045/18 Anniversary for Jessica Fleischmann
Thermocopy of fair copy with annotations in red pencil ; [2] p.
BOX-FOLDER 1045/19 Arbeit
2 melodies with non-English lyrics and sketches in pencil ; [3] p. out of sketchbook, 8 1/4" x 5 3/4"
Title in Hebrew; described on envelope as "Arabic folk songs"
BOX-FOLDER 1083/1 Arias and barcarolles
Manuscript piano four hands score in pencil in hands of LB and JB ; [62] p.
Includes: Prelude; Love duet; Little Smary; The love of my life; Greeting; At my wedding; Mr. and Mrs. Webb say goodnight; Nachspiel
BOX-FOLDER 1083/2 Arias and barcarolles
Photocopies of manuscript scores, heavily annotated in colored pencil with editing markings
BOX-FOLDER 1083/3 Arias and barcarolles
Photocopies of manuscript scores, heavily annotated in colored pencil with performance markings
BOX-FOLDER 1092/1 Arias and barcarolles
Photocopies of piano-vocal scores
Some annotations by LB
"Welcome greeting" and "Nachspiel" are in JG's hand
BOX-FOLDER 1045/20 Arias and barcarolles
Holograph sketches in pencil ; [20] p.
Includes: Mr. and Mrs. Webb say goodnight ; Roughhouse ; Nocturne ; Prayer/Goodnight ; Moving; sections that were not used in the final version
Dated: 23 April ‘88
BOX-FOLDER 1045/21 Arias and barcarolles: Love duet
Holograph sketch in pencil ; [1] p.
Caption title: Serial/Cereal song (corn-pops)?
Dated: 10 Jan ‘86
BOX-FOLDER 1045/22 Arias and barcarolles
Holograph sketches in pencil ; [5] p.
Includes: I love you ; I love my life
BOX-FOLDER 1045/22 Arias and barcarolles
Holograph lyric sketches in pencil ; [2] p.
BOX-FOLDER 1083/4 Arias and barcarolles
Holograph music and lyric sketches in pencil ; [51] p.
BOX-FOLDER 1083/5 Arias and barcarolles: Love duet
Holograph music and lyric sketches in pencil ; [26] p.
BOX-FOLDER 1046/1 Arias and barcarolles: Love duet
Photocopies of printed score, heavily annotated in colored pencils ; 16 p.
Caption: proofs spring, 1991
BOX-FOLDER 1046/2 Arias and barcarolles
Photocopies of printed score, heavily annotated in colored pencils ; 72 p.
Caption: proofs, 6-11-91
BOX-FOLDER 1046/3 Arias and barcarolles
Photocopies of various pages of printed score, heavily annotated in colored pencils ; [8] p.
BOX-FOLDER 1046/4 Awkward waltz
Holograph sketch in pencil, incomplete; 1 p.
Babel
see Holocaust opera
BOX-FOLDER 1046/5 BB (Burton Bernstein)
Holograph sketch in pencil ; 1 p.
Dated: "30 June 88"
BOX-FOLDER 1046/5 BB (Burton Bernstein)
Photocopy of holograph piano-vocal score ; 4 p.
For Burton Bernstein’s birthday
BOX-FOLDER 1046/6 B'day serenata
Photocopy of piano-vocal score ; 2 p.
Inscribed: For [Paul] Woodiel, 17 Jan ‘90
BOX-FOLDER 1046/6 B'day serenata
Holograph sketch in pencil ; [1] leaf, torn in half
BOX-FOLDER 1046/7 Beginning of hymn to Nidom
Photocopy of 7-note melody with lyrics ; [1] p.
To hotel in Sapporo; dated : "July 1990"; possibly last piece by LB
BOX-FOLDER 1046/8 Ben Mauceri’s third birthday present
Holograph sketch in pencil ; [1] p.
Dated: 29 Aug. 1980
BOX-FOLDER 1046/9 Berceuse
Holograph piano score sketch in pencil ; [2] p.
Crossed out sketch on top, possibly labeled "New opening (here come the Jets)," Jack Gottlieb suggests may be a reject from West Side Story; someone else suggests it may be "Here Comes the Sun" and have been for The Skin of Our Teeth
BOX-FOLDER 1046/10 The birds
Holograph full score in pencil with annotations ; 52 p.
Includes: I. Prelude ; III. Fanfare ; IV. Hoopoe’s serenade ; V. Nightingale flourish ; III. Introduction to Act I ; VI. Invocation of the Birds ; VII. Ensemble ; VIII. Acceptance of man ; X. Serenade to Pracne ; XI. Parabasis ; XII. Introduction/Act II ; XIII Hymn-parody ; XIV. Jazz-poet ; XV. Chorus ; XVI. Warsong and Iris music ; XVII. Chorus ; XVIII Finale
BOX-FOLDER 1046/11 The birds
Manuscript parts in ink with annotations in pencil and pasteovers ; [50] p.
Parts appear to be in the hand of someone with the initials R.RB.
BOX-FOLDER 1046/12 Ein Blueslein zu Singen
Photocopy of holograph piano-vocal score ; 3 p.
Inscribed: For Dietrich Fischer Dieskau on his 60th birthday
Dated: "12 Feb. ‘85"
BOX-FOLDER 1046/13 La Bonne Cuisine (1947)
Holograph piano-vocal scores in ink on onionskin ; [13] p.
Includes: (1) Plum–pudding; (2) Quened de bouef; (3) Tavouk Guenksis [The bottom third of p.2 has been torn off]; (4) Civet a toute vitesse
BOX-FOLDER 1046/14 La Bonne Cuisine (1947)
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