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277-M
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Title: Ojai Music Festival Records,
Date (inclusive): 1940-
Collection number: 277-M
Creator: Ojai Music Festival
1940-
Extent:
148 boxes.
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library.
University of California, Library Special
Collections
Los Angeles, California 90095-1490
Abstract: The collection consists of materials pertaining to
the Ojai Music Festival, founded in 1947. The festival is held annually in Ojai,
CA, in Ventura County. Notable conductors and performers have included Pierre
Boulez, Aaron Copland, Igor Stravinsky, Michael Tilson Thomas, Dawn Upshaw, the
Kronos Quartet and Murray Perahia, among many others. The collection includes
programs, artist biographies, press clippings, business records, and recordings.
The collection is in the midst of being processed. The finding aid will be
updated periodically.
Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact UCLA Library Special Collections
for paging information.
Language of Material: Collection materials in
English
Open for research. STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact UCLA Library
Special Collections for paging information.
Property rights in the physical objects belong to the UCLA Music Library.
Literary rights, including copyright, are retained by the creators and their
heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the
copyright and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to
publish if the Music Library does not hold the copyright.
[Identification of item], Ojai Music Festival Records, 277-M, University of
California, Library Special Collections, University of California, Los
Angeles.
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
The collection was donated by the Ojai Music Festival.
Established in 1947 by music aficionado John Bauer, the Ojai Music Festival
has fostered a healthy spirit of eclecticism in its adventurous programs,
gaining a worldwide reputation for attracting artists who are given artistic
freedom as they perform exceptional pieces of classical music.
That spirit was reinforced in 1954 with the appointment of Lawrence Morton as
the Festival Artistic Director. A man of broad musical tastes, Morton was a
visionary whose constant curiosity and unwavering integrity shaped the
Festival's future direction. Under his leadership, the Ojai Festival developed
an enduring concept whereby the artistic director engages a different Festival
music director each year around whom that year's Festival is built.
Among the Festival's diverse music directors have been such renowned musical
luminaries as composers John Adams, Ingolf Dahl, Peter Maxwell Davies, Lukas
Foss, John Harbison and Oliver Knussen; conductors Kent Nagano, Michael Tilson
Thomas, and Esa-Pekka Salonen; and instrumentalists Emanuel Ax and Mitsuko
Uchida.
In its sixth decade, the Festival - under the leadership of Artistic Director
Thomas W. Morris - continues this unparalleled musical legacy in which the
creativity of the moment and the artists define each year's event.
The Ojai Music Festival offers educational programs for students attending
Ojai Valley public schools, enriching the region's cultural opportunities and
promoting classical music to future generations.
The collection consists of materials pertaining to the Ojai Music Festival,
founded in 1947. The festival is held annually in Ojai, CA, in Ventura County.
Notable conductors and performers have included Pierre Boulez, Aaron Copland,
Igor Stravinsky, Michael Tilson Thomas, Dawn Upshaw, the Kronos Quartet and
Murray Perahia, among many others. The collection includes programs, artist
biographies, press clippings, business records, and recordings.
The collection is organized into the following series:
- Series 1. Festival Recordings and Artist Interviews, 1940s-1980s
- Series 2. Artist Biographies and Contracts, 1940s-1980s
- Series 3. Business Papers, 1940s-1990s
- Series 4. Programs
- Series 5. Correspondence
- Series 6. Artists
- Series 7. Clippings--Individuals--Performers
- Series 8. Clippings--Individuals--Composers
- Series 9. Clippings--Individuals--Philanthropists
- Series 10. Clippings--Groups--Performance ensembles
- Series 11. Ojai Clippings, 1940s-1980s
- Series 12. Unprocessed Materials
- Series 13. Ojai Archives. 1960-1965