Henry Cowell Collection miscellaneous materials

1 half box, shelved in Music Library Locked Stacks. Does not circulate.

Folder 1: Inventory and shelf list

1. Inventory of Cowell Collection from the Menlo Park Public Library. Compiled by Joan Brainard, August 1983.

2. Menlo Park Public Library. Shelflist of Henry Cowell Music Center.

Folder 2: 4 photographs and one negative.

Folder 3: Newspaper clippings.

Folder 4: Misc. print materials

1. Press release announcing the establishment of the Henry Cowell Music Center at the Menlo Park Public Library. 1980.

2. Music by Henry Cowell in Menlo Park. Description of the Cowell Collection at Menlo Park Public Library.

3. How may a composer live in the whole world of music? Essay by David Hall, and Cowell discography, 1964. Printed as 1-fold brochure.

4. San Francisco Symphony program, Dec. 1960-Jan. 1961.

5. Program, flyer and poster for the Bicentennial Contemporary American Music Series, Oct. 10, 1976.

6. Introduction of a famous American composer in the U.S.I.S. auditorium. News release from Ettela’at, Tehran, Iran, February 9, 1957.

7. Cowell’s Symphony No. 13 wins acclaim in India. News release from Oliver Daniel, BMI New York, March 11, 1959.

8. Flyer for a concert by the Little Orchestra, directed by Thomas Scherman, featuring Cowell’s Madras Symphony. Teynampet, Madras, March 3, 1959.

9. Henry Cowell: champion of the avant garde, by Harold C. Schonberg. Reprint from Hi-Fi Systems, Spring 1959.

10. The music of Henry Cowell, by Hugo Weisgall. Reprint from the Musical Quarterly, October 1959.

11. The Music Magazine/Musical Courier, May 1962.

12. Henry Cowell (1897-1965): a memoir and an appreciation, by Richard Franko Goldman. Reprint from Perspectives of New Music, Spring-Summer 1966.

12. Extreme experimenter and naïve nationalist: Henry Cowell (1897-1965), by Peter Dickinson. Reprint from Composer, Spring 1967.

13. Piano music by Henry Cowell: twenty pieces played by the composer. Copy from Folkways Records Album #FG 3349, c1963.

Folder 5: Bruce Kueffer print materials
Folder 6: Bruce Kueffer photographic materials

Bruce Keuffer is the sculptor of the Henry Cowell bronze bust on display in the Music Library.

Sound recordings

American Music Sampler: Henry Cowell. Audio documentary by Ev Grimes.

[2] 10" sound reels (56:40; 63:38) : stereo., non-Dolby master.

Also available on 2 compact discs.

This audio material was added to the collection in August 2006. Gift of Ev Grimes.

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