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Series I: Composition diary, 1956-2009
Series II: Biographical Materials, 1939-2010
Series III: Musical Works, 1933-2010
Series VIII: Datebooks, 1964-2009

Jack Beeson papers, 1854-2013

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Series VII: Subject Files, circa 1933-2010

This series contains papers related to Beeson's roles as a professor, administrator, and composer. It is divided into two subseries, loosely titled "professional" and "personal." The "professional" subseries relates to Beeson's activities at Columbia University, while the "personal" subseries includes documents pertaining to music- and arts-related activities outside of his professional appointments, and also includes research for composition projects, and correspondence with figures in the arts.

Subseries VII.1: Professional Subject Files, 1945-2007

This subseries includes subject files related to Beeson's activities at the Columbia University Music Department, the Columbia University School of the Arts, and to other functions at Columbia University such as committees, clubs, prizes, and funds. It is organized alphabetically.


Box 55 Columbia University/Post Retirement, 1988-1990

Box 55 Arts Center Reports, 1959-1961

Box 55 Columbia Appointments and Offers, 1945-1984

Box 55 Committees: Ad Hoc, 1960-1980

Box 55 Committees: Arts (Mellon), 1975

Box 55 Committees: Arts, 1964-1965

Box 55 Committees: Arts, 1973-1974

Box 55 Committees: Arts (Priorities Conference), 1974

Box 55 Committees: Arts, 1974-1975

Box 55 Committees: Arts (Spectator), 1974-1975

Box 55 Committees: Arts (FebruaryReport), 1975

Box 55 Committees: Arts, 1977-1979

Box 55 Composition Department, 1977-1979

Box 55 School of the Arts, 1964-1971

Box 55 School of the Arts, 1966-1972

Box 55 School of the Arts, 1959-1977

Box 55 School of the Arts, 1976-1977

Box 55 School of the Arts, 1977-1978

Box 55 School of the Arts, 1980-1982

Box 55 School of the Arts, 1984-1987

Box 55 Practice Rooms, 1962-1964

Box 55 Brahms organ fugue manuscript, 1972-2007

Box 55 Cary Trust, 1968-1984


Box 56 Columbia College Music Department reports, 1963-1968

Box 56 Columbia College admissions and applicants, 1961-1985

Box 56 Columbia Music Department budgets, 1971-1972

Box 56 Columbia commencement, 1986

Box 56 Columbia centennial, 1995-1996

Box 56 Columbia College Committee on Humanities, 1962-1963

Box 56 Columbia Music Department: Electronic Music Center, 1977-1979

Box 56 Columbia Music Department: Executive Committee, 1973-1977

Box 56 Columbia Music Department: Bearns Prize, 1991

Box 56 Columbia Music Department: Frankel Committee, 1969

Box 56 Columbia Music Department: Fundraising, 1976-1979

Box 56 Columbia Music Department: Fundraising, 1986

Box 56 Columbia Music Department: Glee Club, 1960-1964

Box 56 Columbia Music Department: Grades (Miscellaneous Matters Concerning), 1956-1984

Box 56 Columbia Music Department: Library (and Gifts to), 1961-1980

Box 56 Columbia Music Department: President's/Provosts' Committee, 1967-1984

Box 56 Columbia Music Department: President and Presidential Committees, 1970-1977

Box 56 Composers Forum, 1985-1994

Box 56 Copyright Infringement (2 cases, unpaid), 1975

Box 56 President's Commission on Academic Priorities in the Arts and Sciences, 1978-1983

Box 56 Composers Recording Incorporated (CRI): Minutes, etc., 1967-2002

Box 56 Ditson Fund, 1981-2003

Subseries VII.2: Personal Subject Files, circa, 1933-2010

This subseries contains documents related to Beeson's activities as a composer, including activities related to such organizations as the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the American Academy in Rome, the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), the Pulitzer, and the National Endowment for the Arts; composition projects including completed operas as well as aborted opera conceptions; recommendations; delivered lectures; publications; biographical materials on figures in the arts such as Aaron Copland, Benjamin Britten, and Douglas Moore; and correspondence with colleagues in the arts including Paul Henry Lang, Otto Luening, Douglas Moore, William Saroyan, John Updike, Charles Wuorinen, and others. It is organized alphabetically.


Box 82 Albany Records


Box 57 American Academy Institute of Arts and Letters: Centennial Committee,, 1991-1999

Box 57 American Academy of Arts and Letters: Charles Ives Living Award, 1992-1998

Box 57 American Academy Institute of Arts and Letters: General, 1992-1994


Box 82 American Academy of Arts and Letters


Box 57 American Academy of Arts and Letters: Luening Tribute, 1996

Box 57 American Academy of Arts and Letters: Centennial Volume Beeson Chapter,, 1997

Box 57 American Academy of Arts and Letters: Records (Board), 1968-1977

Box 57 American Academy in Rome, 1960-1964

Box 57 American Academy in Rome, 1965-1966

Box 57 American Academy in Rome, 1974-1975

Box 57 American Academy in Rome, 1984-1988


Box 82 American Academy in Rome

Box 82 American Chamber Opera


Box 57 American Composers Alliance, 1947-1971

Box 57 American Music Center, 1964-1965

Box 57 American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), 1959-1965

Box 57 ASCAP, 1966-1969

Box 57 ASCAP, 1970-1972

Box 57 ASCAP, 1973-1980

Box 57 ASCAP, 1980-1987


Box 83 ASCAP


Box 58 American Society of University Composers (ASUC), 1968-1969


Box 83 Authors' Permissions (misc.)


Box 58 Avshalomov, Jacob (correspondence), 1945-1990


Box 83 Avshalomov, Jacob


Box 58 Aziz, Razak Abdul (correspondence), 1990-1992


Box 84 Bartok, Bela

Box 84 Bartok House

Box 84 Bay Cities

Beeson:

Box 84 Beeson Grants, Fellowships, Prizes

Box 84 Beeson, Who's Who Reports

Box 84 Beeson, Diabetes, Heart, Lyme, etc.


Box 85 Beeson, Pacemaker

Box 85 Beeson, Sietzer Disservation

Box 85 Beeson, Articles

Box 85 Beeson, Autobiographical Notes

Box 85 Beeson, Misc.

Box 85 Beeson, THE BOOK Files


Box 58 Bellagio/Rockefeller Foundation, 1975-1976

Box 58 Bergsma, William (Bill) (correspondence and biographical), 1975-1976

Box 58 Boyle, Harrison (correspondence), 1982-1986

Box 58 Britten, Benjamin (biographical), 1981-1997


Box 86 Brown, Angela


Box 58 Buketoff, Igor: International Contemporary Music Exchange, Inc. (National Endowment for the Humanities) (correspondence),, 1973-1994

Box 58 Burr vs. Burr (abandoned opera idea), undated

Box 58 Camino Real Pursuit (Tennessee Williams play),, 1965-1979


Box 86 Center for Cont. Opera


Box 58 Center for Law and the Arts, 1987-1988


Box 86 Citadel / New World

Box 86 CMS / CRI

Box 86 Columbia Post Retirement

Box 86 Columbia Magazine


Box 58 Columbia University Press, 1988-1997


Box 86 Columbia University Press

Box 86 Composition Students


Box 58 Conductor's Award, 1999-2002

Copland, Aaron--Donation of Manuscript Material to Columbia University's Rare Book & Manuscript Library


Box 81 Original Materials, 1921 1979, 1921, 1979

(Letters, manuscripts, and printed materials, including the autograph manuscript ofFour Motetsby Aaron Copland, as well as three letters from Copland, copies of letters from Beeson, all related toFour Motets.)


Box 58 Photocopies of Materials in Box 81

Box 58 Related Materials, 1979-1984


Box 86 Copland House

Box 86 Copyright


Box 59 Cyrano German translation, 1994

Box 59 Cyrano performance at Hagen, 1994


Box 87 Ditson Fund Files, 2006 to 2009


Box 88 Ditson Fund files, Earlier Years


Box 89 Douglas Moore Fund


Box 59 "Dowager-Villa" (poem), 1976-1993


Box 89 Eastman


Box 59 Eastman notes and compositions, 1940-1942


Box 89 Elmslie, Kenward

Box 89 Encompass

Box 89 Evening Primrose


Box 59 Forum (Columbia Forum ) article, 1960-1973

Box 59 Foundation for New Music, 1990-1991


Box 89 Glimmerglass Opera Co.


Box 90 Gompper. Daniel

Box 90 Greenwich House


Box 59 Grove Dictionary (Beeson/Luening/Moore entries), 1972-1999

Box 59 Guggenheim, 1958-1962


Box 90 Guggenheim Fund


Box 59 MACS (Guggenheim), 1961-1986


Box 60 Hanson, Howard (correspondence), 1945-1966


Box 90 Harnick, Sheldon

Box 90 Heidegger, Casting Premiere

Box 90 Heidegger, Rehearsals & Premiere

Box 90 Heidegger, Recording

Box 90 Heidegger, Bel Canto & other

"Hello Out There":


Box 91 "Hello Out There", Libretto

Box 91 "Hello Out There", Premiere

Box 91 "Hello Out There", Publicity

Box 91 "Hello Out There", Saroyan / Beeson

Box 91 "Hello Out There", Non-publishers

Box 91 "Hello Out There", Recording

Box 91 "Hello Out There", MOMA

Box 91 Highlands

Box 91 Highlands, Recording


Box 60 Hinrichsen Award, 1969-1975

Box 60 Hunter College (program evaluation), 1975

Box 60 IIE/Rockefeller, 1963-1964

Box 60 Indiana State University, 1968

Jinks:


Box 92 Jinks, Early & Later

Box 92 Jinks, Correspondence

Box 92 Jinks, Parts & Rols

Box 92 Jinks, Financing of Writing

Box 92 Jinks, Recording

Box 92 Jonah

Box 92 Juilliard

Box 92 Kander, John

Box 92 Kansas City


Box 60 Kirkpatrick, John (correspondence), 1948-1953

Box 60 Lang, Paul Henry (correspondence), 1963-1991

Box 60 Lectures: Columbia University lectures, 1987-1988 undated, 1987-1988, undated

Box 60 Lectures: 'Macbeth' Shakespeare and Verdi, 1960

Box 60 Lectures: Columbia College Dean's Day, 1963

Box 60 Lectures: RISD Words and Music lecture, 1965

Box 60 Lectures: UCLA lecture, 1966

Box 60 Lectures: UCLA "Words and Music" lecture, 1967

Box 60 Lectures: University Lecture, 1988

Box 60 Lectures: CU Society of Fellows, 1988

Box 60 Lectures: SUNY Plattsburg, 1994

Box 60 Lectures: Penn State, 1994

Box 60 Lectures: Lecture/Panel at Hofstra, 2000

Box 60 Lectures: Lecture for Verdi 100th, 2001


Box 61 Leda, 1957-1960 1994-1995, 1957-1960, 1994-1995


Box 92 Levy Bequest


Box 61 Libretto search (leading to Cyrano ), 1978-1979

Box 61 Libretto search, 1995

Box 61 Libretti (ideas), 1971-2005

Box 61 Lizzie Borden: performances, 1960-1965

Box 61 Lizzie Borden: National Education Television,, 1965-1966

Box 61 Lizzie Borden: Desto Recording, 1965-1966

Box 61 Lizzie Borden: Deschner/Opera Quarterly articles,, 1966-1986

Box 61 Lizzie Borden: New York Opera Company revival,, 1967

Box 61 Lizzie Borden: German translation, 1973-1974

Box 61 Lizzie Borden: New York Opera Company revival,, 1976

Box 61 Lizzie Borden: Centennial, 1991-1997

Box 61 Lizzie Borden: Hagen performance, 1992-1993

Box 61 Lizzie Borden: Hagen performance clippings and "extras," circa, 1992-1993

Box 61 Lizzie Borden: Glimmerglass production


Box 62 Lizzie Borden: New York Opera Company revival,, 1998-1999

Box 62 Lizzie Borden: New York Opera Company/PBS (correspondence),, 1999

Box 62 Lizzie Borden reviews, etc: miscellaneous, 1965-1967 1992 1996, 1965-1967, 1992, 1996

Box 62 Lizzie Borden reviews, etc: Phillips dissertation,, 1993-1996

Box 62 Lizzie Borden reviews, etc: Glimmerglass symposium essays (Barzen),, 1996

Box 62 Lizzie Borden reviews, etc: Opera Journal review,, 1999

Box 62 Lizzie Borden reviews, etc: Sponaugle thesis,, 2002

Box 62 Louisville Opera, 1953-1957

Box 62 Luening, Otto (correspondence), 1945-1999

Box 62 MacDowell Colony, 1988


Box 63 MacDowell Professorship and EAM, 1967-1986

Box 63 Manacher, Zelda (correspondence), 1969-1971

Box 63 Manhattan School Commencement Address, 1986


Box 92 May King / Ginsberg


Box 63 Meet the Composer, 1980-1990

Box 63 Meet the Composer, 1993-1998

Box 63 Mellen Press, 2007-2009

Box 63 Mellen Press (ad clippings), 2008-2010

Box 63 Metropolitan Opera and Columbia University, 1963

Box 63 Mikhashoff, Yvar (correspondence), 1980-1984


Box 92 Miller Theatre


Box 63 Belwin Mills Publishing Corporation, 1958-1959

Box 63 Belwin Mills Publishing Corporation, 1959-1960

Box 63 Belwin Mills Publishing Corporation, 1960-1961

Box 63 Belwin Mills Publishing Corporation, 1961-1962


Box 64 Belwin Mills Publishing Corporation, 1962-1981

Box 64 Belwin Mills miscellaneous/backup, 1959-1986

Box 64 Monod, Jacques-Louis (biographical), 1958-1977

Box 64 Moore, Douglas (biographical), 1969 2004 undated, 1969, 2004 undated

Box 64 Moore, Douglas (correspondence), 1948-1966

Box 64 Moore, Douglas (miscellaneous), 1952-2010

Box 64 National Arts Club, 1973-1999

Box 64 National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), 1986-1988

Box 64 National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), 1990-1991


Box 93 National Endowment for the Arts


Box 64 National Federation of Music Clubs Prize, 1968


Box 93 National Opera Association

Box 93 New Music Connoisseur

Box 93 New York City Opera

Box 93 North/South Consonance


Box 65 O'Neill Theater Center, 1978-1980


Box 93 Opera, Misc.

Box 93 Opera, American

Box 93 Opera at Columbia

Box 93 Oxford University Press


Box 65 Parnassus Article, 1977

Box 65 Peabody Conservatory of Music, 1980

Box 65 Prosody (research materials), circa, 1982

Box 65 Potential publishers of "the Book" (rejected), 2006-2008

Box 65 Past music publishers' contracts and copyrights, 1945-1995


Box 93 Peer Music (Successor to Southern)

Box 93 Peters, C. F.

Box 93 Presser, Theodore


Box 65 Pulitzer (music committee), 1941-1986

Box 65 Pulitzer (music committee), 1986-1994

Box 65 Pulitzer (music committee), 1995-2007

(includes a "confidential" notebook of finalists and winners started by Douglas Moore and continued by Beeson, 1943-2004)


Box 93 Ramey, Phillip


Box 65 Recommendations (sorted by date), 1959-1967

Box 65 Recommendations, 1968-1970

Box 65 Recommendations, 1971-1973

Box 65 Recommendations, 1974-1978

Box 65 Recommendations, 1978-1983

Box 65 Recommendations, 1984-1988


Box 66 Rockefeller Foundation, 1974

Box 66 Rogers, Bernard (biographical and correspondence), 1944-2005


Box 94 Rosenzweig, Michael

Box 94 San Francisco Opera


Box 66 Saroyan, William (correspondence and miscellaneous), 1958-1959 1984-1997, 1958-1959, 1984-1997

(bulk of correspondence with Saroyan is inHello Out ThereandMy Heart Is in the Highlandsfiles and scrapbooks)


Box 94 Schirmer, E. C. / Galaxy


Box 66 Schonberg, Harold (miscellaneous), 1961-1992


Box 94 Shawnee Press

Box 94 Smith, Gregg

Box 94 Smith, J. Kellum


Box 66 Smith, Milton (correspondence), circa, 1970


Box 94 Society of Senior Scholars


Box 66 Solum, John (commission), 1991-1998


Box 94 "Sorry, Wrong Number"


Box 66 Sovern, Michael (Columbia University Press), 1980-1981


Box 94 Sponaugle, Harlie


Box 66 Stevens, Denis (miscellaneous), 1973

Box 66 Stewart, Robert (correspondence), 1981-1982


Box 94 Texts set by JB

Box 94 Texts for setting


Box 66 Updike, John (correspondence, mostly regarding AAAL centennial), 1991-1997

Box 66 U.S. Institute for Theatre Technology, Inc. (USITT), 1960-1963


Box 94 Viereck, Peter


Box 66 Wright, Maurice (correspondence), 1980-1985

Box 66 Wuorinen, Charles (correspondence and biographical), circa, 1971 undated

Box 66 Yorck, David and Freya von Moltke (biographical), 1990-1993

Box 66 "Xylophone Period," circa, 1933

(a banner that reads "Jack Beeson, Soloist with Garrett's Boys Band")