Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Baum, Morton, 1905-1968
2. Henze, Hans Werner, 1926-2012
3. Bernstein, Leonard, 1918-1990
4. Ferrer, José, 1912-1992
5. Still, William Grant, 1895-1978

Description

1. ca. 1 linear ft.

Summary

1. The first installment consists of 2 distinct collections: papers concerning Morton Baum, and papers concerning Hans Werner Henze. The Morton Baum materials include a typescript history of City Center from 1945-1956, including inserted clippings and letters to Morton Baum from Leonard Bernstein, William Grant Still, Jose Ferrer, and others; clippings about City Center, 1965 and about Morton Baum's selection as board chairman for City Center, 1966; program and clippings about a memorial concert for Morton Baum, 1969; and a letter to Heddy Baum from Lincoln Kirstein, 1973. The Hans Werner Henze materials include 82 items of correspondence (chiefly ALS) from Henze to Heddy Baum, 1973-1990; 3 ALS from Henze to Gert and Hilde von Gontard, 1974-1975, with an enclosed copy of a letter from Henze to Mr. Oppenheimer, 1975; pencil holograph of Henze's Piano sonata; and a portfolio published by the Frankfurt Feste '86 containing 5 portraits of Henze by his friend Renzo Vespignani, an essay on Vespignani by Henze, and 5 facsimiles of sketches of Henze's compositions. These last 2 items have also been cataloged in the RLIN Scores file. A portrait by Fritz Wolff of Polish violinist Bronislaw Huberman has been separated from the collections and transferred to the Music Division's iconography collection: PhD 2546.

Subject

1. Baum, Heddy
2. Baum, Morton, 1905-1968
3. Huberman, Bronislaw -- Portraits
4. City Center of Music and Drama (New York, N.Y.)
5. Musical sketches

Genre/Form

1. Musical scores.
2. Clippings.
3. Correspondence.
4. Portraits.

Call number

1. JPB 91-112

Source (note)

1. Baum, Heddy

Biography (note)

1. Heddy Baum's late husband Morton Baum (1905-1968) was a performing arts administrator involved with New York's City Center for Music and Drama from its beginnings in 1943 until his death. Her friend Hans Werner Henze (b. 1926) is a German composer.

Language (note)

1. Chiefly in English; Henze's essay on Vespignani and the letters from Henze to Gert and Hilde von Gontard are in German.

Processing action (note)

1. Accessioned

Author

1. Baum, Heddy.

Title

1. Heddy Baum papers, ca. 1945-1990.

Biography

1. Heddy Baum's late husband Morton Baum (1905-1968) was a performing arts administrator involved with New York's City Center for Music and Drama from its beginnings in 1943 until his death. Her friend Hans Werner Henze (b. 1926) is a German composer.

Language

1. Chiefly in English; Henze's essay on Vespignani and the letters from Henze to Gert and Hilde von Gontard are in German.

Connect to:

1. Request Access to Music & Recorded Sound Division Special Collections material

Added author

1. Baum, Morton, 1905-1968.
2. Henze, Hans Werner, 1926-2012.
3. Bernstein, Leonard, 1918-1990.
4. Ferrer, José, 1912-1992.
5. Still, William Grant, 1895-1978.

Research call number

1. JPB 91-112