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Finding Aid for the Music Department Photograph Collection, circa 1920-2008Mus. Arc. 16State University of New York at Buffalo. Music Library112 Baird Hall Buffalo, New York 14260-4750 United States Phone: 716 645-2924 Fax: 716 645-3906 Email: musique@buffalo.edu URL: http:ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/units/music © 2008. State University of New York at Buffalo. All rights reserved.
Information for UsersPreferred Citation[Specified item], Music Department Photograph Collection, circa 1920-2008, Music Library, The State University of New York at Buffalo. Terms of Access and UseMaterials 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. CopyrightCopyright 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. Administrative InformationAcquisition InformationMaterials acquired by the Music Library from the Music Department and the Center for the Creative and Performing Arts since 1968. Accruals and AdditionsAdditional accruals possible on irregular basis. Alternate FormsCollection has been digitized and is available in UBdigit. Processing InformationProcessed by John Bewley and Romeo Whou. Historical NoteThe Music Department of the University at Buffalo truly began to flourish in the late 1950s and early 1960s. With the establishment of the Center of the Creative and Performing Arts in 1964, the Music Department became a major international location for the performance and composition of new music. The Center awarded positions to musicians to come to Buffalo and become Creative Associates of the Center. The Center, including participation by the Creative Associates, Univeristy at Buffalo Music Department faculty, and the many visiting musicians who came to Buffalo, was chiefly responsible for Buffalo's reputation during the 1960s and 1970s for being very hospitable to whatever was new in the arts. The Department also benefited from two projects funded by local businessman and amateur musician, Frederick Slee: the Slee Beethoven String Quartet Cycle series and the Slee Visiting Professors in Music Theory and Composition. The performances of the Beethoven quartet cycle began in 1955 with performances by the Budapest Quartet and continues to this day. The Slee Professorship attracted several of the most noted composers of the period, including Aaron Copland, Carlos Chavez, David Diamond, Leo Smit, George Rochberg, Ned Rorem, Harrison Birtwistle, Mauricio Kagel, Henri Pousseur, Morton Feldman, Leon Kirchner, and Lejaren Hiller. Scope and Content NoteThe Music Department Photograph Collection contains 639 photographs of musicians who have participated in events of the Music Deptartment dating back to ca. 1920. This includes music faculty, students (though not student events and ensembles), and visiting musicians. The collection is especially strong in its representations of performers and composers of contemporary music from 1960-2000. Many of these musicians came to Buffalo as visiting faculty or as Creative Associates at the Center of the Creative and Performing Arts (1964-1980). The list of composers in the collection is impressive. It includes: Earle Brown, Harrison Birtwistle, Pauline Oliveros, Colin Bright, Julius Eastman, John Cage, Morton Feldman, Lejaren Hiller, Cornelius Cardew, Carlos Chavez, Aaron Copland, Lukas Foss, Elliott Carter, David Del Tredici, Harold Shapero, Mauricio Kagel, Ralph Shapey, Ingolf Dahl, Henri Pousseur, Philip Glass, George Crumb, Fredric Myrow, Leon Kirchner, George Rochberg, New Rorem, Allen Sapp, Toru Takemitsu, Morton Subotnick, Leo Smit, and Augusta Read Thomas. The Music Department at the University at Buffalo has also hosted more than 24 string quartets that have performed the Slee Beethoven String Quartet Cycle series dating back to 1955. The collection includes photographs of the Budapest, Cassatt, Cleveland, Colorado, Concord, Emerson, Guarnieri, Juilliard, Orford, Prague, and Vermeer string quartets. ArrangementThe collection is in one series arranged alphabetically by the principal subject. Newly acquired images are placed at the end of the collection. Container List
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