Music -- Instruction and study -- New York (State) -- Ithaca
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Cornell University Department of Music records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 14-20-513
Abstract
Correspondence and financial records; programs for University Orchestra concerts, recitals, and music festivals; scores of student productions; drawings for a proposed Department of Music building; historical sketches of the University Orchestra and photographs.
Dates:
1884-2000.
Festival of Contemporary Arts records
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065183372]
Identifier: 14-20-1145
Scope and content
Correspondence, reports, meeting minutes, and programs concerning the Festival of Contemporary Arts. Also included is a report on the teaching of music at Cornell, submitted to President Edmund Ezra Day by John M. Kuypers in 1945. Also, correspondence and newspaper clippings from 1914, documenting earlier efforts to put together a series of chamber music concerts in Ithaca, New York. Correspondents include John M. Kuypers, P.B. (Paul Bruce) Pettitt, the Walden String Quartet from the...
Dates:
1914, 1945-1963.
Paul Weaver correspondence
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065233441]
Identifier: 14-20-840
Scope and content
Professional correspondence, covering topics such as faculty appointments, employment possibilities for students, concerts, purchase of an organ, invitations to Professor Weaver to judge music competitions or to evaluate musical radio programs, compilation of a college songbook, outreach to the public schools, and other activities. Includes a lengthy report on the Department of Music and its needs (1938), one letter concerning Carl Wiegand, and one folder of more recent correspondence by...
Dates:
1929-1946, 1970.