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Collection Summary
Title | Randolph S. Rothschild collection, 1942-1992 |
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Span Dates | 1942-1992 |
Bulk Dates | (bulk 1973-1985) |
Call No. | ML31.R68 |
Collector | Rothschild, Randolph S., 1909-2003 |
Extent | circa 225 items ; 11 boxes ; 6 linear feet |
Language | Collection material in English |
Location | Music Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. |
Summary | The collection consists primarily of music (ms., facsimile, and printed) and accompanying correspondence, programs, and reviews. The majority of the music in the collection comprises facsimile scores of compositions commissioned by the Chamber Music Society of Baltimore and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra from prominent American composers, such as Dominick Argento, Milton Babbitt, Henry Cowell, Jacob Druckman, Ross Lee Finney, Lukas Foss, Leon Kirchner, Ernst Krenek, Robert Hall Lewis, Lawrence Moss, Roger Reynolds, Christopher Rouse, Gunther Schuller, Ralph Shapey, Hugo Weisgall, and Charles Wuorinen. Many of these scores are inscribed to Mr. Rothschild and signed by their composers. The collection also includes holograph ms. scores by Henry Cowell, Hugo Weisgall, and Brown Benson. Correspondence accompanies the scores by David Epstein, John Huggler, Jean Eichelberger Ivey, Leo Kraft, Lawrence Moss, Roger Reynolds, Ralph Shapey, and Hugo Weisgall. Besides the correspondence, a few scores include programs and reviews of the concerts at which they were performed. |
Finding Aid Permalink | Cite or bookmark this finding aid as: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu003013 |
LCCN Permalink | LC Online Catalog record for this collection: http://lccn.loc.gov/2004718268 |