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Series V: Commercials
Series VII: Other Material, 1999-2009, undated

Sid Ramin papers, circa 1957-2009, bulk 1957-1995

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Series VI: Other Works and Collaborations, 1960-1990s

Series contains scores arranged or reviewed by Sid Ramin that involve other musical artists or groups, as well as several audio reels for The Big Band Sound of Sid Ramin album and miscellaneous recording sessions. Most of the foldered scores pertain to works by composer Leonard Bernstein, including his fanfare for John F. Kennedy, Mass, Jubilee Games, Sonata for Clarinet, and orchestral suite from A Quiet Place. Other artists or groups included in the collection are the Boston Pops, the Cleveland Pops, the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, Robert Goulet, Sinéad O'Connor, Sidney Sheldon, and Barbra Streisand. There are several untitled and undated scores in this series that could not be identified with a specific work or production.

Subseries VI.1: Leonard Bernstein, 1960-1995


Box 11 Folder 7 Fanfare for L.B., 1960


Box 7 Folder 6 Jubilee Games w/ Bernstein markings, circa 1986


Box 12 Folder 5 Jubilee Games, circa 1986


Box 7 Folder 10 Boosey & Hawkes: Leonard Bernstein, Jubilee Games, 1986


Box 13 Folder 6 Bernstein on Broadway, circa 1990


Box 7 Folder 14 Leonard Bernstein – Orchestra Suite From A Quiet Place, circa 1991

Box 7 Folder 15 A Quiet Place (suite) - paperclipped score, undated


Box 27 Folder 2 A Quiet Place: Scene I, Set 22

Box 27 Folder 2 A Quiet Place: Scene II, Set 22

Box 27 Folder 3 A Quiet Place: Scene III, Set 22

Box 27 Folder 3 A Quiet Place: Scene IV, Set 22

Box 27 Folder 5 A Quiet Place & Trouble in Tahiti. Houston On Stage [magazine], 1981


Box 11 Folder 8 JFK Fanfare, Kennedy Fanfare, 1992


Box 13 Folder 12 Leonard Bernstein – Dream With Me, 1990-1992


Box 20 Folder 4 Dream with Me, undated


Box 13 Folder 5 Leonard Bernstein: Sonata for Clarinet, circa 1993


Box 1 Folder 14 Silhouette – Leonard Bernstein, 1995

Box 1 Folder 15 Two Love Songs, Piccola Serenata, So Pretty – Leonard Bernstein, 1995


Box 14 Folder 3 CBS Ode (On Themes of Leonard Bernstein), undated


Mapcase 15-L-1 Photograph of holograph note from Bernstein to Ramin and 2 pages of score ("Fanfare") annotated with "For Sid with affection and admiration and Thanks Lenny"

Subseries VI.2: Boston Pops, 1990, undated


Box 17 Folder 5 Pops – Bernstein on Broadway, circa 1990


Box 15 Folder 6-7 Astaire Medley, undated, 2 folders

Box 15 Folder 11 Pops- Love is Sweeping the Country, undated


Box 7 Folder 12-13 Luck Be a Lady (Sketch), undated, 2 folders


Box 23 Folder 2 Luck Be A Lady, Boston Pops, undated


Box 5 Folder 17 One for My Baby, undated

Box 5 Folder 15 Boston Pops: Roses, undated


Box 15 Folder 9 Star Wars--"The Cantina Band" Score, undated

Box 15 Folder 2-3 Pops – Swing Time, undated

Subseries VI.3: Disney Arrangements, 1990s, undated


Box 18 Folder 1 Aladdin--A Whole New World, 1990s


Box 15 Folder 4-5 Beauty and the Beast, 1990s, 2 folders

Box 15 Folder 12-14 Disney Medley, undated, 3 folders


Box 18 Folder 6-7 The Little Mermaid, 1990s, 2 folders

Subseries VI.4: Mass, 1972

Orchestral and vocal scores for Leonard Bernstein's Mass, A Theatre Piece for Singers, Players and Dancers. These scores appear to be from a chamber version of Mass with orchestrations by Sid Ramin was produced in 1972. Mass was originally commissioned by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis for the Opening of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. on September 8, 1971. It featured text from the Liturgy of the Roman Mass, additional texts by Stephen Schwartz and Leonard Bernstein, and orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick, Hershy Kay, and Leonard Bernstein.

I. Devotions Before Mass, 46 Pages

II. First Introit (Rondo), 49 Pages 260 Bars

III. Second Introit, 9 Pages

IV. Confession, 41 Pages 318 Bars

V. Meditation No. 1 (Orchestra), 6 Pages 59 Bars

VI. Gloria, 33 Pages 263 Bars

VII. Meditation No. 2 (Orchestra), 6 Pages 55 Bars

VIII. Epistle: "The Word of the Lord", 23 Pages 91 Bars

Gospel-Sermon: "God Said", 32 Pages 186 Bars

X. Credo, 42 Pages 96 Bars

XI. Meditation No. 3 (De Profundis, Part 1) and XII. Offertory (De Profundis, Part 2), XI. 7 Pages 57 Bars XII. 14 Pages 59 Bars

XIII. The Lord's Prayer, 6 Pages 44 Bars

XVI. Sanctus, 30 Pages 159 Bars

XV. Angus Dei, 37 Pages 248 Bars

XVI. Fraction: "Things Get Broken", 54 Pages 322 Bars

XVII. Pax: Communion ("Secret Songs"), 16 Pages 140 Bars


Box 1 Folder 1 Psalm: De Profundis, circa 1972

Box 1 Folder 2 The Lord's Prayer, circa 1972

Box 1 Folder 3 Gloria Tibi, circa 1972

Box 1 Folder 4 Gloria in Excelsis, circa 1972

Box 1 Folder 5 Confiteor, circa 1972

Box 1 Folder 6 Credo, circa 1972


Box 2 Folder 1 4 Part Kyrie, Hymn, and Pslam, circa 1972

Subseries VI.5: Kennedy Inaugural Anniversary Celebration, 1963

Original orchestral scores arranged for the inaugural anniversary celebration for President John F. Kennedy, 1963.


Flat Box Flat Box 705 Overture, 34 Pages 265 Bars

Flat Box Flat Box 705 Play-Ons, 7 Pages 24 Bars

Flat Box Flat Box 705 Cast Finale, 6 Pages 45 Bars

Subseries VI.6: President Johnson Overtures, 1965

Original orchestral scores and piano-conductor music arranged for the inaugural celebration for President Lyndon B. Johnson, 1965.

Flat Box Flat Box 705 Inaugural Overture [2 copies], 16 Pages 193 Bars

Flat Box Flat Box 705 Overture [2 copies], 34 Pages 266 Bars


Flat Box Flat Box 707 Overture Piano-Conductor Music, 19 Pages 266 Bars

Subseries VI.7: Sid Ramin Albums

Subseries VI.7.1: The Big Band Sound of Sid Ramin, 1963

Original orchestral scores arranged and conducted by Sid Ramin at Webster Hall, New York City for the record. The recording was produced by Jack A. Somer at RCA Victor in 1963 using the Dynagroove system.


Flat Box Flat Box 705 Blue Tango, 12 Pages 89 Bars

Flat Box Flat Box 705 Never on Sunday, 11 Pages 85 Bars

Flat Box Flat Box 705 In the Mood, 15 Pages 117 Bars

Flat Box Flat Box 705 The Syncopated Clock, 13 Pages 102 Bars

Flat Box Flat Box 705 Holiday for Strings, 30 Pages 235 Bars

Flat Box Flat Box 705 April in Portugal, 10 Pages 75 Bars

Flat Box Flat Box 705 The Poor People of Paris, 17 Pages 131 Bars

Flat Box Flat Box 705 Ruby, 11 Pages 86 Bars

Flat Box Flat Box 705 And the Angels Sing, 12 Pages 94 Bars

Flat Box Flat Box 705 The River Kwai March, 11 Pages 85 Bars


Flat Box Flat Box 706 RCA Recording

Original orchestral scores arranged and conducted by Sid Ramin at Webster Hall, New York City for the record. The recording was produced by Jack A. Somer at RCA Victor in 1963 using the Dynagroove system.


Box 26 The Big Band Sound of Sid Ramin, 1963, 1 Reels; 1 7" audio reel

2 copies of the RCA release of the album. Both copies of the reel are unopened.

Subseries VI.7.2: New Thresholds in Sound, 1963


Flat Box Flat Box 705 Strike Up the Band, 21 Pages 167 Bars

Flat Box Flat Box 705 Granada, 12 Pages 93 Bars

Flat Box Flat Box 705 The Sweetest Sounds, 12 Pages 95 Bars

Flat Box Flat Box 705 April In Paris, 17 Pages 66 Bars

Flat Box Flat Box 705 Varsity Drag, 22 Pages 172 Bars

Flat Box Flat Box 705 Embraceable You, 15 Pages 58 Bars

Flat Box Flat Box 705 Spring Is Here, 7 Pages 51 Bars

Flat Box Flat Box 705 I Believe In You, 14 Pages 107 Bars

Flat Box Flat Box 705 Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries, 20 Pages 74 Bars

Flat Box Flat Box 705 Hernando's Hideaway, 13 Pages 95 Bars

Flat Box Flat Box 705 Bewitched, 18 Pages 72 Bars


Flat Box Flat Box 706 RCA Recording


Box 26 New Thresholds in Sound, 1963, 1 Reels; 1 7" audio reel

1 copy of the original RCA release of the album. Item is unopened.

Subseries VI.7.3: Sketches


Box 1 Folder 11 Sketches, Various Albums, undated

Subseries VI.8: Other


Box 27 Folder 12 The Anatomy of Love. Words by Tony Velona. Music by Sid Ramin, 1969

Box 27 Folder 7 Brace Yourself (Piano Solo) by Sid Ramin, 1967

Box 27 Folder 7 California Summer (People Moving West). by Sid Ramin, 1967


Box 17 Folder 2 Carmichael Suite, undated


Box 14 Folder 4-5 CBS Ode, undated


Box 5 Folder 14 Cleveland Pops--Christmas Medley, undated


Box 27 Folder 7 Come Alive. Written and Produced by Batten, Barton, Durstein & Osborn, Inc. Music by Sid Ramin., 1964


Mapcase 15-L-1 Comes Love. Holograph score


Box 16 Folder 1-4 Gershwin--Unknown Gershwin, undated, 4 folders


Box 11 Folder 1-3 Robert Goulet Movie--Hollywood Hotel, 1963 December, 3 folders


Box 10 Folder 1 Hollywood Bowl Orchestra--A Little Night Music (The Night Waltzes), 1993

Irving Berlin Patriotic Overture, undated


Box 7 Folder 2-5 Irving Berlin Patriotic Overture, 4 folders


Box 11 Folder 4 Irving Berlin Patriotic Overture


Box 14 Folder 10 Interlude From a Pops Arrangement, undated


Box 10 Folder 2 John Kennedy: An Orchestral Tune-Poem, 1984


Box 1 Folder 7 Love in the Afternoon / Easy to Say, Hard to Do, undated


Box 15 Folder 10 Meadow Serenade, undated


Box 27 Folder 7 Music To Watch Girls By. Lyrics by Tony Velona. Music by Sid Ramin, 1966


Box 17 Folder 3 Al Nevin's Orch., undated


Box 27 Folder 7 No Man Gets Me Right Away. World by Fred Ward. Music by Sid Ramin, 1959


Box 23 Folder 1 Nola score, circa 1963


Box 27 Folder 7 One Land (Out of Many). Words and music by Sid Ramin, 1976


Box 20 Folder 5 Sinéad O'Connor Session (5/13/92), 1992 May 13


Box 27 Folder 4 Simon Says. Music by Hugo Taiani and Sid Ramin. Lysics by Sylvia Dee, 1947


Box 1 Folder 16 Piano – Various Sketches, undated


Box 27 Folder 11 Pretty People. Words by Tony Velona. Music by Sid Ramin, 1969


Box 13 Folder 10 Riddle (World on A String), Williams (The Cowboys), undated


Box 1 Folder 13 Rilke Songs (L8) – Charlie Harmon, 1995

Sidney Sheldon Songs, undated

Box 1 Folder 12 Sidney Sheldon Songs (arr. SR)


Box 5 Folder 4 Sidney Sheldon Songs (arr. SR)


Box 27 Folder 10 Can't Do. Words by Sidney Sheldon.. Music by Sid Ramin

Box 27 Folder 10 Ever Have A Day? Words by Sidney Sheldon.. Music by Sid Ramin

Box 27 Folder 10 When Love Has Gone. Words by Sidney Sheldon.. Music by Sid Ramin


Box 18 Folder 5 State Fair Overture, undated


Box 7 Folder 1 Stella By Starlight, undated

Barbara Streisand, undated


Box 5 Folder 12 Draw Me a Circle

Box 5 Folder 13 Just in Time


Box 15 Folder 8 Strike Up the Band, undated

See Also: Subseries VI.7.2: New Thresholds in Sound


Box 27 Folder 7 Sugar in the Rain (Theme from the Avco Embassy Film - Stiletto). Lyrics by Alan and Marilyn Bergman. Music by Sid Ramin, 1969


Box 14 Folder 11 Subtle Samba – Orch. For Southern Music Publishers, undated


Box 17 Folder 1 D. 6. B. – White Christmas, undated


Box 14 Folder 14 The Wrong Note Rag, undated


Box 17 Folder 4 Victor Young Tribute, undated