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Composers Recordings, Inc. records

Title: Composers Recordings, Inc. records, 1946-2007 (bulk 1955-2007)
Author: Composers Recordings, Inc.
Supplementary Content: Finding Aid

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Status	Container	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	Box 36	Mixed material	Supervised use	JPB 07-2 Box 36	Offsite
How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	Box 35	Mixed material	Supervised use	JPB 07-2 Box 35	Offsite
How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	Box 34	Mixed material	Supervised use	JPB 07-2 Box 34	Offsite
How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	Box 33	Mixed material	Supervised use	JPB 07-2 Box 33	Offsite
How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	Box 32	Mixed material	Supervised use	JPB 07-2 Box 32	Offsite
How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	Box 31	Mixed material	Supervised use	JPB 07-2 Box 31	Offsite
How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	Box 30	Mixed material	Supervised use	JPB 07-2 Box 30	Offsite
How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	Box 29	Mixed material	Supervised use	JPB 07-2 Box 29	Offsite
How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	Box 28	Mixed material	Supervised use	JPB 07-2 Box 28	Offsite
How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	Box 27	Mixed material	Supervised use	JPB 07-2 Box 27	Offsite
How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	Box 26	Mixed material	Supervised use	JPB 07-2 Box 26	Offsite
How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	Box 25	Mixed material	Supervised use	JPB 07-2 Box 25	Offsite
How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	Box 24	Mixed material	Supervised use	JPB 07-2 Box 24	Offsite
How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	Box 23	Mixed material	Supervised use	JPB 07-2 Box 23	Offsite
How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	Box 22	Mixed material	Supervised use	JPB 07-2 Box 22	Offsite
How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	Box 21	Mixed material	Supervised use	JPB 07-2 Box 21	Offsite
How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	Box 20	Mixed material	Supervised use	JPB 07-2 Box 20	Offsite
How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	Box 19	Mixed material	Supervised use	JPB 07-2 Box 19	Offsite
How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	Box 18	Mixed material	Supervised use	JPB 07-2 Box 18	Offsite
How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	Box 17	Mixed material	Supervised use	JPB 07-2 Box 17	Offsite

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Description

14.8 linear feet (36 boxes )

Summary

The Composers Recordings, Inc. records document the history of the record label, mainly through recording project files, but also through business papers, financial papers and photographs.

Subjects

Genre/Form

Photographs.
Project files.
Correspondence.
Contracts.
Promotional materials.
Reviews.

Source (note)

Weille, Blair and Jacobi, Frederick

Biography (note)

Composers Recordings, Inc. (CRI) was founded in 1954 by the composers Otto Luening and Douglas Moore and the arts administrator Oliver Daniel.

Indexes/Finding Aids (note)

Collection guide available in repository and on internet.

Call Number

JPB 07-2

OCLC

194319250
194319250

Author

Composers Recordings, Inc.

Title

Composers Recordings, Inc. records, 1946-2007 (bulk 1955-2007)

Biography

Composers Recordings, Inc. (CRI) was founded in 1954 by the composers Otto Luening and Douglas Moore and the arts administrator Oliver Daniel. The label's mission was the discovery, distribution and preservation of the finest in contemporary American music. In 1976 CRI became one of the nation's first nonprofit, tax-exempt recording companies, and in June, 1980, it received one of the first three recording and distribution grants to be awarded by the National Endowment for the Arts. Over the years, four CRI recordings received Grammy nominations from the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences in the category of Best Contemporary Classical Composition. Among other honors and citations, the label received the Letter of Distinction by the American Music Center. Hundreds of American composers had their first recording released on CRI, making the label a mainstay of career development and audience contact for several generations of composers. Over 600 full-length recordings were released by CRI on LP, cassette and CD, representing well over 1,000 compositions in all styles and genres. While virtually every significant American composer was recorded under the label's banner, CRI was particularly successful in recording important talents early in their careers. Of the thirty-seven Pulitzer Prize-winning composers on the label, twenty-seven were recorded by CRI before they won the prestigious award. CRI also recognized and incorporated into its archives the experimental tradition that is so much a part of American music, including important early recordings of John Cage and Harry Partch. The label was an important advocate of women composers as well, starting from its first release in 1954 which featured the music of Marion Bauer. In 2003 CRI ceased recording activity, and in 2006 the rights to the label's recordings were transferred to New World Records, which now distributes the CRI catalog. The company was dissolved in 2007.

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