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Music, 1932-1995 (continued)
Holograph Music, 1935-1990 (continued)
XVII. Pax: Communion (Secret songs) (continued)
Ozalid short score with annotations by LB in red and blue pencil ; [15] p., p. 11-13 in pencil
Title page: (Finale)/XVII: Pax: Communion/2nd version: 28 Aug ‘71
BOX-FOLDER 1065/3 XVII. Pax: Communion (Secret songs)
Holograph short score/sketches in pencil ; [16] p.
Caption titles: Secret song; Double song; Fuguing song (trio); Variations on "Simple song"; G-maj canon; Oval–Dave [sic]/Wedding?; Fughetta
Digital content available
BOX-FOLDER 1090/1 Agnus I
Photoreproduction of holograph sketch ; [1] p.
Inscribed: For Harry with infinite thanks for good deeds in Washington and looking forward to many more Xmases. Fondly Lenny B Xmas '71
Digital content available
BOX-FOLDER 1092/12 Collect (Ork. meditation #2)/Mass ('70)
Photoreproduction of holograph score ; 4 p.
On cover: Poss mov't #2 Jubilee leading to Prayer
BOX-FOLDER 1065/4 Meditations
Holograph sketches in pencil ; [12] p.
Caption title: Ork. meditations (work sheets); Ob sonata/Prelude
Digital content available
BOX-FOLDER 1090/2 Sanctus
Holograph sketch in pencil ; [1] p.
Inscribed: For Shirley, without whom ... and with love and thanks and Osanna in excelsis – Lenny Xmas '71
Digital content available
BOX-FOLDER 1084/11 Meditation no. 2
Holograph full score in pencil ; 4 p.
Includes: Var. I, II, III, IV, interlude, Var. V, and VI
Dated: "Mass (‘70)
On envelope: "Active/Possible movt #2 Jubille games leading to prayer/later idea/Dec ‘86?"
BOX-FOLDER 1065/5 Two meditations from Mass arranged by the composer for cello solo and piano #1
Holograph score in pencil ; 5 p.
Dated: "3 Feb ‘72"
Inscribed: "For Msistlav Rostropovich" and "For my dear Slava, as a token of more to come"
BOX-FOLDER 1065/6 Two meditations from Mass arranged by the composer for cello solo and piano #2
Holograph score in pencil ; 5 p.
Dated: "12 Feb ‘72"
Inscribed: "For Msistlav Rostropovich"
BOX-FOLDER 1065/7 Insert p. 191
Holograph score in pencil ; [1] p.
BOX-FOLDER 1065/8 Cast auditions
Holograph cast listing and audition notes in pencil ; [15] p.
BOX-FOLDER 1065/9 Script
Bound typescript heavily annotated in red pencil ; 45 p.
Dated: "July 1, 1971 with revisions as of August 19, 1971"
Laid in note in red pencil: "A very important one"
BOX-FOLDER 1065/10 Notes and script
Holograph/typescript in pencil and ink ; [98] leaves
On envelope: "Dec ‘70-Aug ‘71"
Includes: A Mass for patriots ; 4 lullabies for martyrs ; Lost original impulses ; "Commitment" ; Agnus-2 ; Where are you? ; Poss new order ; Offertory ideas ; Confiteor plan A ; Order of High Mass ; Personal religion ; Celebrants–large puppets ; Rundown as of 14 Dec. ‘70 ; Hal Prince letter ; Characters in Mass? ; Forces ; Rundown 1 Dec. ‘70 ; Script ; "Darkness" by J. Chester Johnson
Digital content available
BOX-FOLDER 1065/11 Notes at MacDowell
Holograph notes in ink, pencil and red pencil on 43 3" x 5" index cards
Dated: Dec ‘70
On envelope by Helen Coates: "Lenny’s original notes for his ‘Mass’"
BOX-FOLDER 1066/1 Meditation in Sid Major
Holograph piano score/sketch in pencil ; [1] p.
Caption title: Anniversary for Sid Ramin (22 Jan ‘89)
BOX-FOLDER 1066/2 Meditation (on a prayerful theme my father sang in the shower thirty years ago)
Holograph score in pencil ; 4 p.
Title page: "For SJB on his 70th birthday" is crossed out
BOX-FOLDER 1066/3 Meditation (on a prayerful theme my father sang in the shower thirty years ago)
Ozalid piano score, bound in blue hardcover volume ; 4 p.
Gold embossed lettering on cover: "To Dad on his seventieth birthday with love from Lenny"
Inscribed, signed and dated in ink: "5 January, 1962"
On envelope: "removed from Jennie Bernstein’s apartment July 1991"
BOX-FOLDER 1066/4 Meditation (on a prayerful theme my father sang in the shower thirty years ago)
2 ozalids of copyist manuscript, 1 with LB annotations in red pencil ; 4 p. each
BOX-FOLDER 1066/5 Der Mensch ist überhaupt so schlimm
Holograph lyric sketch with music sketches in pencil ; [2] p.
On verso: holograph lyric, "Mother, o mother, the world is dying"
On envelope: "Chalk Circle material?"
BOX-FOLDER 1066/6 Mildred will have to be capitalism
Holograph piano-vocal score in pencil ; [16] p.
Subtitles: Overture (sea picture); The transmogrified sea-shell
BOX-FOLDER 1066/6 Mildred will have to be capitalism
Typescript libretto by Paul Bernard Davis with annotations in pencil ; [3] p.
Heavily stained
On envelope: "1930s"
BOX-FOLDER 1066/7 Minnie-poo
Holograph piano-vocal score/sketch in pencil, with lyric sketch re Adolph Green on verso ; [3] p.
Inscribed: "For my little Nina with many kisses Daddy"
On envelope: "has verse, unlike later version. Refers to Candide"
BOX-FOLDER 1066/8 Mixolydian mix-up
Holograph piano score in pencil ; 2 p.
Inscribed: "For Jamie with love on her 14th birthday from Daddy/8 Sept ‘66"
BOX-FOLDER 1066/9 Moby Diptych
Holograph piano score ; 2 p.
Inscribed: "For Tony Kuerti, who visits with grace"
Dated: "Tyringham, Mass. 19 July 1981"
On envelope: "For book on saving whales, ed. Tony Kuerti, published in ‘13 Anniversaries’"
BOX-FOLDER 1066/10 Music for string quartet
Holograph score in ink and pencil ; [6] p.
On envelope: "Juvenalia, late ‘30's"
BOX-FOLDER 1066/11 Music for string quartet and flute (1938)
Holograph score in ink with annotations in pencil ; [10] p.
BOX-FOLDER 1066/12 Music for two pianos (1937)
Holograph full score in ink with annotations in pencil ; 15 p.
BOX-FOLDER 1066/12 Music for two pianos
Holograph piano I part in ink with annotations in pencil ; [6] p.
BOX-FOLDER 1085/8 A musical toast: salute to Kosty (in memory of A. Kostelanetz)
Holograph full score tissue masters in pencil with annotations by JG ; 18 p.
Signed and dated: "(orch. 15 Sept. ’80; consummated at 4:50 A.M.)"
Inscribed: "Fondly dedicated to the memory of André Kostelanetz"
BOX-FOLDER 1066/13 A musical toast: salute to Kosty (in memory of A. Kostelanetz)
Holograph short score in pencil and red pencil ; 3 p.
Dated: "July 1980"
BOX-FOLDER 1066/13 A musical toast: salute to Kosty (in memory of A. Kostelanetz)
Holograph sketch in pencil ; [1] leaf
Dated: "Summer, 1980"
BOX-FOLDER 1066/14 My new friends
Holograph piano-vocal score in pencil ; [1] p.
Inscribed: "For Phyllis [Newman] with love"
Dated: "12 March ‘79"
BOX-FOLDER 1066/14 My new friends
Holograph sketch score in pencil ; [1] p.
BOX-FOLDER 1066/15 My twelve-tone melody
Holograph piano-vocal score in pencil and photocopy with annotations in red and green pencil ; 4 p. each
Inscribed: "To honor Irving Berlin on his 100th birthday"
Dated: "12 March 88"
BOX-FOLDER 1066/15 My twelve-tone melody
Holograph sketches in pencil ; [5] p.
BOX-FOLDER 1066/15 My twelve-tone melody
Holograph lyric sketches in pencil ; [2] p.
BOX-FOLDER 1066/15 My twelve-tone melody
Photocopy of sketch and piano-vocal score with annotations in pencil ; [2] p.
Inscribed: For Jamie (3 Sept. 1973) and Felicia (9 Sept. 1973)
BOX-FOLDER 1066/16 Nachspiel (in memory of Jack Romann)
Photocopy of "First love" heavily annotated in pencil and blue pencil ; [1] p.
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