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Finding Aid for the Morton Feldman Images by Jan Williams, 1974-1979

Mus. Arc. 2.3

State University of New York at Buffalo. Music Library

Finding aid prepared by John Bewley.
Finding aid encoded in EAD by John Bewley, August, 2007.
Finding aid is in English.
Finding aid prepared using DACS ( Describing Archives: A Content Standard ).

© 2007. State University of New York at Buffalo. All rights reserved.

Collection Overview

Administrative Information

[Specified item], Morton Feldman Images by Jan Williams, 1974-1979, Music Library, The State University of New York at Buffalo.

The collection of 56 slides was received as a gift from Jan Williams in 2001. The 8 x 10 color prints were made from the slides in 2001. Scans were made from the color prints by Library staff in January 2002.

Materials can be examined by qualified researchers in the Music Library during hours of operation during which Music Librarians are present. In order to insure access, researchers are advised to contact the Music Library in advance of visits.

Copyright for the materials in the collection does not reside with the Music Library. Therefore, patrons wishing to publish any item, or part of an item from this collection for any purpose, are responsible for securing requisite permissions.

Processed by John Bewley.

No further accruals are expected to this collection.

Biographical Note

Jan Williams was born in Utica, New York in 1939. He earned his B.M. and M.M. degrees as a percussionist at Manhattan School of Music where he studied with Paul Price. Jan Williams came to Buffalo as a Creative Associate at the Center of the Creative and Performing Arts in 1964. He became a member of the University at Buffalo Music Faculty in 1967 and Co-Director of the Center in 1974. He has been a mainstay of the contemporary music scene, not only in Buffalo, but also internationally, as percussionist, conductor, administrator, and educator.

Composer Morton Feldman (1926-1987) joined the University at Buffalo Music Faculty in 1972. He was the Slee Professor, 1972-1973, Edgar Varèse Professor, 1975-1987, and the Director of the Center of the Creative and Performing Arts, 1976-1980. Feldman also established the June in Buffalo festival in 1975 at the University. Under his leadership the new festival was presented 1975-1978, and again in 1980, with a year off in 1979 when Feldman was on sabbatical.

Scope and Content Note

The collection of Morton Feldman Images by Jan Williams contains 56 slides taken during concert tours made by Feldman and Williams in 1974, 1977, and 1979. The tours were part of the activities of the Creative Associates and the Center of the Creative and Performing Arts at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York. Locations of the images include Paris, London, Edinburgh, Lisbon, Barcelona, Perugia, Karlsrühe, Dartington and Harrogate, England, Hilversum, Shiraz, Iran, Padua, and Venice. Other musicians in the images include Lejaren Hiller, Eberhard Blum, Martha Herr Hanneman, Nils Vigeland, Dennis Kahle, David Gibson, Julius Eastman, Ralph Jones, Peter Gena, Jan Williams, Benjamin Hudson, Bunita Marcus, and Renée Levine, director of the Center of the Creative and Performing Arts.

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The collection is arranged by material type into two series:

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