Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Avshalomov, Aaron, 1894-1965
2. Portland Youth Philharmonic

Description

1. 5.6 linear ft. (15 boxes)

Summary

1. The Jacob Avshalomov scores consists chiefly of scores encompassing a fifty-year period of his work from 1928 to 1978.
2. Also in the collection is a scrapbook containing mostly articles about Jacob Avshalomov and his compositions. Includes many articles from foreign newspapers including from Chinese sources in the 1930s. Also includes selected concert programs and very few photographs.

Subject

1. Clippings (information artifacts)
2. Scrapbooks
3. Programs
4. Composers > United States
5. Typescripts
6. Scores
7. Correspondence
8. Avshalomov, Jacob, 1919-2013
9. Clippings

Genre/Form

1. Clippings.
2. Correspondence.
3. Programs.
4. Scores.
5. Typescripts.
6. Scrapbooks.
7. Clippings (information artifacts)

Call number

1. JPB 02-5

Source (note)

1. Jacob Avshalomov

Biography (note)

1. The composer Jacob Avshalomov spent the majority of his career as the director of the Portland Youth Orchestra (a/k/a the Portland Youth Philharmonic) from 1954 to 1995.

Indexes/finding aids (note)

1. Finding aid available in repository and on Internet.

Processing action (note)

1. Cataloged

Author

1. Avshalomov, Jacob, 1919-2013.

Title

1. Jacob Avshalomov scores, 1928-2001.

Biography

1. The composer Jacob Avshalomov spent the majority of his career as the director of the Portland Youth Orchestra (a/k/a the Portland Youth Philharmonic) from 1954 to 1995. Avshalomov was born in Tsingtao, China on March 28, 1919. He became a naturalized American citizen in 1944. In 1946, following his education and a stint in the U.S. Army, Avshalomov joined the music faculty at Columbia University. During his eight-year tenure, he founded and conducted the University chorus. In 1954, Avshalomov took over the Portland Junior Symphony, whose name was changed in 1978 to the Portland Youth Orchestra. He served as its conductor until 1995. Avshalomov received many honors during his career, including the Ernst Bloch award, a Guggenheim fellowship, the New York Music Critics Circle award, and multiple honorary degrees. He served on the National Council on Humanities from 1968 to 1978. Avshalomov's many compositions include Slow dance, Inscriptions at the city of the brass, How long o Lord, and Tom O'Bedlam.

Indexes

1. Finding aid available in repository and on Internet.

Connect to:

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

Local subject

1. JPB 02-5

Added author

1. Avshalomov, Aaron, 1894-1965.
2. Avshalomov, Jacob, 1919-2013. Avshalomovs' winding way : composers out of china : a chronicle.
3. Avshalomov, Jacob, 1919-2013. How long o Lord.
4. Avshalomov, Jacob, 1919-2013. Inscriptions at the city of the brass.
5. Avshalomov, Jacob, 1919-2013. Slow dance.
6. Avshalomov, Jacob, 1919-2013. Tom O'Bedlam.
7. Portland Youth Philharmonic.

Research call number

1. JPB 02-5