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Collection Data
- Names
- Schuman, William, 1910-1992 (Creator)
- Dates / Origin
- Date Created: 1933 - 1986
- Library locations
- Music Division
- Shelf locator: JPB 87-33
- Topics
- Schuman, William, 1910-1992
- Genres
- Photographs
- Correspondence
- Notes
- Content: An American composer and educator, William Schuman was instructor at Sarah Lawrence College (1935-45), president of the Juilliard School of Music (1945-1962), director of publications for G. Schirmer (1945-1952), and president of Lincoln Center (1962-1968). In the 1970's he was chairman of the Norlin Foundation and of the MacDowell Colony. He was a founding director of the Charles Ives Society and a member of the board of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, the Naumburg and Koussevitzky Foundations, and of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and the Film Society of Lincoln Center, organizations which he founded. Mr. Schuman died Feb. 15, 1992.
- Content: Correspondence; memoranda; reports; minutes of meetings; press releases; drafts and final copies of articles, speeches, and statements; awards and certificates; diaries; photographs; magazines; clippings; pamphlets and papers; programs; posters; and scrapbooks. Correspondents include: Samuel Barber, Jacques Barzun, William Bergsma, Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, Agnes DeMille, David Diamond, Antal Dorati, Morton Gould, Martha Graham, Frank Loesser, Otto Luening, Peter Mennin, Eugene Ormandy, Vincent Persichetti, Frederik Prausnitz, Andre Previn, Josef Raieff, Claire Reis, Richard Rodgers, Isaac Stern, Risë Stevens, Anthony Strilko, Roman Totenberg, Edgard Varèse, and Hugo Weisgall; representatives of organizations with which he has been associated and of other orchestras, foundations, educational institutions, and publishers.
- Physical Description
- Extent: 50 linear ft. (195 boxes).
- Identifiers
- RLIN/OCLC: NYPW86-A45
- NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b11543696
- MSS Unit ID: 20053
- Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 799a3520-c621-012f-8230-58d385a7bc34
