Finding Aid for the Alan Rich papers, 1923-2010, bulk 1960-2010
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Room A1713, Charles E. Young Research Library
Box 951575
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575
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Descriptive Summary
Title: Alan Rich Papers
Date (inclusive): 1923-2010, bulk 1960-2010
Collection number: 1975
Creator:
Rich, Alan.
Extent:
12.2 linear ft.
(10 document boxes, 5 record cartons, 7 flat boxes, 2 index card boxes)
Abstract: Alan Rich was an American music critic, based in New York and Los Angeles, who began his professional career in the 1950s
and continued writing until his death in 2010. The collection includes research files, correspondence and memorial tributes,
promotional scores and recordings sent to Rich from composers and music publications, an extensive collection of both drafts
and periodical clippings of his writings, and recordings from the "Music Room" salons he co-hosted in Los Angeles with philanthropist
Betty Freeman.
Language: Finding aid is written in
English.
Language of the Material:
Materials are in English.
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library Special Collections.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
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.
Administrative Information
Restrictions on Access
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.
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
Property rights to the physical object belong to the UC Regents. 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 where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
The collection was donated to UCLA by Alan Rich through the Alan Rich Trust, executed by trustee Raymond Richards and transferred
in 2010.
Processing Note
Processed by Andrea Moore and Mike D'Errico in 2012 in the Center for Primary Research and Training (CFPRT), with assistance
from Jillian Cuellar.
The processing of this collection was generously supported by
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Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Alan Rich papers (Collection 1975). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research
Library, UCLA.
Biography/History
Alan Rich was born in Boston on June 17, 1924. While attending Harvard in the 1940s, he began working as an assistant music
critic for
The Boston Herald. Upon graduating, he discarded his original plans to attend medical school and instead enrolled at the University of California,
Berkeley. Under the mentorship of the musicologist Joseph Kerman, he earned a master's degree in Music in 1952. After graduating,
he went to Europe on fellowship for a year, and then returned to Berkeley to become the music director of Pacifica Radio,
station KPFA.
KPFA later sent Rich to New York to work at radio station WBAI; this move led to Rich becoming a music critic for
The New York Times in 1961. He moved to
The Herald Tribune in 1963, and later wrote for
New York magazine from 1968 to 1981. Toward the end of his tenure there he contributed to
New West magazine, a spin-off of
New York that was soon renamed
California. Rich moved to Los Angeles in 1981 and became music editor of
Newsweek. He also wrote for
The Los Angeles Herald Examiner and
LA Weekly. Rich used these national and local publications as a platform for a campaign to put Los Angeles' musical culture in the
spotlight. He became a crucial advocate for contemporary music as he continued to make the case for LA's significance as a
musical hub throughout his career. Rich's music column was cut from
LA Weekly in 2008 as a cost-cutting measure after a sixteen year run. This led Rich to begin a blog, "So I've Heard," named after the
title of a 2006 compilation of his reviews,
So I've Heard: Notes of a Migratory Music Critic. He also continued to contribute reviews to
Bloomberg News,
Variety, and others.
Rich was the author of several books, among them
Careers and Opportunities in Music (1964),
The Lincoln Center Story (1984),
American Pioneers: Ives to Cage and Beyond (1995), and the "Play-by-Play" series of books and CDs, with volumes devoted to Bach, Mozart, Beethoven and Tchaikovsky (1995).
He passed away in April 2010, at the age of 85.
Scope and Content
The collection includes research files, correspondence and memorial tributes, promotional scores and recordings sent to Rich
from composers and music publications, an extensive collection of both drafts and periodical clippings of his writings, and
recordings from the "Music Room" salons he co-hosted in Los Angeles with philanthropist Betty Freeman.
Organization and Arrangement
Arranged in the following series:
- Writings, 1950-2010
- Subject, 1936-2004
- Personal, 1932-2010
- Books, 1923-2008
- Scores, 1961-2009
- Media, 1950-2009
All series are arranged alphabetically.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Subjects
Rich, Alan --Archives.
Music critics --United States --Archival resources.
Separated Material
The bulk of Alan Rich’s books from his personal library were transferred to the Music Library for individual cataloging. They
are available via the UCLA Library Catalog.
Related Material
Related materials providing additional information on philanthropist Betty Freeman, with whom Rich worked closely, can be
found in the
Betty Freeman Papers (MSS 227)
at Mandeville Special Collections Library, UC San Diego.
Container List
Series 1: Writings.
1950-2010.
Scope and Content
Series comprises drafts and clippings of Rich's primary publications, including his cover stories for
LA Weekly and
Newsweek, record and concert reviews, program notes, and radio program transcripts.
Box 7, Folder 2
American Judaism.
1964-1966.
Box 7, Folder 3
American Pioneers: Manuscript.
2006-2008.
Box 7, Folder 4
American Record Guide.
1960-1969.
Box 7, Folder 5
Articles: A Publication of California Institute of the Arts.
1980-1989.
Box 12, Folder 5
Cover Stories.
1958-1989.
Box 12, Folder 6
Cover Stories.
1991-1997.
Box 12, Folder 7
Cover Stories.
2001-2004.
Box 7, Folder 6
Freelance: General.
1970-1999.
Box 7, Folder 7
Freelance: Glossies.
1950-1989.
Box 12, Folder 1
The Herald Tribune (1 of 4).
1960-1969.
Box 12, Folder 2
The Herald Tribune (2 of 4).
1960-1969.
Box 12, Folder 3
The Herald Tribune (3 of 4).
1960-1969.
Box 12, Folder 4
The Herald Tribune (4 of 4).
1960-1969.
Box 7, Folder 8
History of Music: Manuscript.
undated.
Box 7, Folder 9
House and Garden: New York Herald Tribune.
1960-1989.
Box 15, Folder 2
Houston Grand Opera's
An American Voice,
Los Angeles Times on the opening of Music Center, and
LA Weekly columns..
1964-2000.
Box 9, Folder 3
KFAC, Los Angeles.
1960-1969.
Box 7, Folder 10
KPFA, Berkeley: Radio Scripts.
1960-1969.
Box 9, Folder 4
KUSC (1 of 2).
1985-1990.
Box 9, Folder 5
KUSC (2 of 2).
1985-1990.
Box 11, Folder 1
LA Weekly: "A Lot of Night Music" Columns.
1992-1995.
Box 11, Folder 2
LA Weekly: "A Lot of Night Music" Columns.
1996.
Box 11, Folder 3
LA Weekly: "A Lot of Night Music" Columns.
1997-1998.
Box 8, Folder 3
LA Weekly, Life, Herald Tribune.
1990-1999.
Box 8, Folder 5
New York Magazine.
1968-1969.
Box 8, Folder 9
New York Magazine.
1972-1973.
Box 8, Folder 10
New York Magazine.
1974-1975.
Box 8, Folder 12
New York Magazine.
1977-1979.
Box 8, Folder 13
New York Magazine.
1980-1981.
Box 8, Folder 14
Newsweek: Bach Cover Story.
1983-1988.
Box 8, Folder 15
The Open Space Magazine.
2003.
Box 9, Folder 1
Program Books.
1960-1969.
Box 9, Folder 2
Program Notes and Liner Notes.
1980-1999.
Box 9, Folder 6
Radio: Music Under Fire.
undated.
Box 9, Folder 7
Radio: Reviews.
1985-1990.
Box 9, Folder 8
Record Reviews.
1960-1987.
Box 9, Folder 9
Reviews and Columns.
1980-1999.
Box 9, Folder 10
Romantic Art Song (Radio Program).
1980-1989.
Box 17, Folder 2
Piano Spheres: The First Ten Years.
2004.
Box 9, Folder 11
Slonimsky, Nicholas: Interview Transciption (1 of 2).
1992.
Box 9, Folder 12
Slonimsky, Nicholas: Interview Transcription (2 of 2).
1992.
Box 10, Folder 4
So I've Heard: Manuscript.
1997.
Box 10, Folder 5
So I've Heard: Manuscript.
2006.
Box 9, Folder 13
So I've Heard: Volumes 1-2.
1992.
Box 10, Folder 3
West Coast Publications.
1980-1989.
Series 2: Subject Files.
1936-2004.
Scope and Content
This series includes research materials, scripts, and documents pertaining to particular musicians, institutions, or topics.
Of particular interest is an extensive interview with musicologist Nicholas Slonimsky, a controversy over coverage of the
San Francisco Symphony, and the writings, some unpublished, of composer Robert Erickson, on whom Rich conducted extensive
research.
Box 3, Folder 2
Bach, Johann Sebastian.
1984.
Box 4, Folder 2
Cage, John: Musicworks.
1992.
Box 4, Folder 3
Cage, John: Cage at 80.
1992-1993.
Box 5, Folder 4
Cage, John: Cage at 75.
1987.
Box 5, Folder 5
Cage, John: Cage's Writing.
1955-1991.
Box 21, Folder 12
Cage, John: Composition in Retrospect.
1993.
Box 5, Folder 6
Cage, John: Interviews & Recipes.
1991.
Box 5, Folder 7
Cage, John: Museum of Contemporary Art Celebrations.
1992.
Box 5, Folder 8
Cage, John: University of California, San Diego, Program.
1980.
Box 5, Folder 9
California Composers Radio Program.
1980-1981.
Box 3, Folder 6
Casals, Pablo (film).
after 1970.
Box 3, Folder 8
D'Indy, Vincent.
undated.
Box 3, Folder 9
Erickson, Robert: Essays.
1974-1980.
Box 3, Folder 10
Erickson, Robert: Worklist & Correspondence, Criticism.
1980-2002.
Box 3, Folder 11
Erickson, Robert: Score,
Night Music.
1984.
Box 3, Folder 13
Erickson, Robert:
Hearing Things.
1980.
Box 3, Folder 14
Erickson, Robert:
Other Worlds.
1975.
Box 3, Folder 12
Erickson, Robert: UCSD Celebration & Writings.
1987.
Box 3, Folder 15
Fleishmann, Ernest.
1989-1998.
Box 3, Folder 16
Freeman, Betty (1 of 2).
1980-1990.
Box 3, Folder 17
Freeman, Betty (2 of 2).
1980-1990.
Box 3, Folder 18
Furtwaengler, Wilhelm.
undated.
Box 3, Folder 25
Kerman, Joseph.
1950-1969.
Box 3, Folder 27
Listening and Silence.
undated.
Box 4, Folder 5
Los Angeles Philharmonic.
1980-1999.
Box 4, Folder 6
New York City Opera.
undated.
Box 4, Folder 8
Pinkham, Daniel.
undated.
Box 4, Folder 9
Public Programs.
1985-1986.
Box 5, Folder 11
Research: General.
1980-1989.
Box 4, Folder 10
San Francisco Opera.
1958-1959.
Box 4, Folder 11
San Francisco Symphony.
1959.
Box 4, Folder 12
San Francisco Symphony.
1987.
Box 4, Folder 13
San Francisco Tape Music Center.
1963.
Box 4, Folder 14
Scherchen, Hermann.
1965.
Box 4, Folder 15
Schubert, Franz: Schubert 10.
1984.
Box 4, Folder 16
Singers: Curtin and Sills.
undated.
Box 4, Folder 17
Slonimsky, Nicholas.
1936-1989.
Box 4, Folder 18
So I Hear: Outline.
2002.
Box 4, Folder 19
Stephan, Rudi: Tributes.
undated.
Box 4, Folder 21
Weill, Kurt: Interviews & Notes (1 of 2).
1980-1989.
Box 4, Folder 22
Weill, Kurt: Interviews & Notes (2 of 2).
1980-1989.
Box 4, Folder 23
Weill, Kurt: Newsletters.
1986-1989.
Box 4, Folder 24
Weill, Kurt: Research & Sources.
1980-1989.
Box 4, Folder 25
Weill, Kurt: Rich on Weill.
1982-1998.
Series 3: Personal.
1932-2010.
Scope and Content
The series includes Rich's correspondence with composers, musicians, and publishers, tributes to him (including his festschrift),
and reviews of books or projects he created.
Box 15, Folder 1
Awards, Diplomas, Citations.
1932-2009.
Box 6, Folder 1
Correspondence.
1960-1969.
Box 6, Folder 2
Correspondence.
1970-1979.
Box 6, Folder 3
Correspondence.
1980-2010.
Box 6, Folder 4
Correspondence: Letters to Editors.
1967-2000.
Box 21, Folder 3
Correspondence:
Play-by-Play CDs.
1995.
Box 6, Folder 5
Correspondence: Poznak, Alan Van.
2000-2009.
Box 6, Folder 6
Correspondence: Professional.
1980-1999.
Box 6, Folder 7
Documents and Photos.
1950.
Box 21, Folder 2
Dupre, Marcel: Methode d'Orgue.
undated.
Box 6, Folder 8
Festschrift: 80th Birthday.
2004.
Box 21, Folder 1
LA Weekly: 75th Birthday Tribute.
1999.
Box 6, Folder 10
Newspaper Notices.
1970-1973.
Box 6, Folder 11
Oral History: KPFA, Berkeley.
1994.
Box 6, Folder 12
Proposals and Contracts.
1980-2002.
Box 6, Folder 13
Quinn, Janice: Thesis.
undated.
Box 6, Folder 14
Reviews of Rich: Career Opportunities in Music.
1964.
Box 6, Folder 15
Reviews of Rich: CD-ROM.
1990-1996.
Box 6, Folder 16
Time Capsule (1 of 3).
1950-1969.
Scope and Content
The time capsule boxes were transferred from a box of the same name, and consist of newspaper clippings by or about Rich from
the 1950s and 1960s.
Box 7, Folder 1
Time Capsule (2 of 3).
1950-1969.
Box 5, Folder 1
Time Capsule (3 of 3).
1950-1969.
Box 5, Folder 2
University Work: Research Papers.
1951-1954.
Box 5, Folder 3
University Work: Thesis, "Formal Practices in Schubert's Larger Instrumental Works".
1952.
Series 4: Books.
1923-2008.
Scope and Content
These books cover a broad range of musical topics, from Baroque era aesthetic styles to contemporary musical cultures and
communities. Although they represent a small portion of Rich's personal library, many are inscribed to him by their authors
or dedicated to him as gifts.
Box 2
Adorno, Theodor W.:
Gesammelte Schriften 12, Philosophie Der Neuen Musik.
1975.
Scope and Content
Inscribed to Rich from unknown
Box 1
Amtmann, Willy:
Music in Canada, 1600-1800.
1975.
Box 2
Arkatov, James
Masters of Music: Great Artists at Work.
1990.
Scope and Content
Photos by Arkatov, with essays by Alan Rich. Inscribed to Rich from Arkatov.
Box 1
Berio, Luciano:
Two Interviews.
1985.
Scope and Content
Inscribed to Rich from Berio
Box 1
Bloch-Morhange, Lise:
Vies de Divas.
1990.
Scope and Content
Inscribed to Rich from Bloch-Morhange
Box 2
Cage, John: Italian Program.
1984.
Scope and Content
Inscribed to Rich from Cage
Box 1
Crawford, John C. and Dorothy L. Crawford:
Expressionism in Twentieth-Century Music.
1994.
Scope and Content
Inscribed to Rich from Crawfords
Box 2
Farneth, David, ed.:
Lenya, the Legend: A Pictorial Autobiography.
1998.
Box 2
Freeman, Betty:
More Music People: Irvine, CA.
1989.
Box 2
Freeman, Betty:
Music People: Carnegie Hall, New York.
2003-2004.
Box 2
Freeman, Betty:
Music People: Deutsche Oper Berlin.
1989.
Box 1
Freeman, Betty:
Music People: The Photographic Works of Betty Freeman.
1990.
Scope and Content
Inscribed to Rich by Freeman
Box 1
Freeman, Betty:
Music People and Others.
1987.
Box 2
Freeman, Betty:
Music People and Others: Berlin.
1990.
Box 2
Freeman, Betty:
Music People and Others: London.
1996.
Box 2
Freeman, Betty:
Music People and Others: Italy.
1987.
Scope and Content
Inscribed to Rich by Freeman
Box 1
Garland, Peter:
Americas: Essays on American Music and Culture, 1973-1980.
1973-1980.
Scope and Content
Inscribed to Rich from Garland
Box 1
Kerman, Joseph:
The Art of Fugue: Bach Fugues for Keyboard, 1715-1750.
2005.
Scope and Content
Inscribed to Rich from Kerman
Box 1
Kerman, Joseph:
Opera and the Morbidity of Music.
2008.
Scope and Content
Inscribed to Rich from Kerman
Box 1
Kowalke, Kim H.:
Kurt Weill in Europe.
1979.
Scope and Content
Inscribed to Rich from Kowalke
Box 2
Malm, William P.:
Music Cultures of the Pacific, the Near East, and Asia.
1967.
Box 1
May, Thomas, Editor:
The John Adams Reader: Essential Writings on an American Composer.
2006.
Box 2
Nayttely, Oopperaa Linnassa:
Opera in the Castle.
1997-1998.
Box 2
The Open Space Magazine: Fall 2003, Issue 5.
2003.
Scope and Content
Book review by Rich, p. 22
Box 1
Plantamura, Carol:
The Opera Lover's Guide To Europe.
1996.
Scope and Content
Inscribed to Rich from Plantamura
Box 2
Plantamura, Carol:
Women Composers.
1983.
Box 1
Reische, Diana:
The Performing Arts In America.
1973.
Scope and Content
Contains chapter by Rich
Box 2
Rich, Alan:
American Pioneers: Ives to Cage and Beyond.
1995.
Box 2
Rich, Alan:
Bach, Cantata 80 and 147.
1995.
Scope and Content
Book with CD. Chinese. Two copies.
Box 2
Rich, Alan:
Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 and Egmont Overture.
1995.
Scope and Content
Book with CD. Chinese.
Box 2
Rich, Alan:
Careers and Opportunities in Music.
1964.
Box 2
Rich, Alan:
Johann Sebastian Bach, Cantana No. 147, Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring.
1995.
Box 2
Rich, Alan:
The Lincoln Center Story.
1984.
Scope and Content
Two copies
Box 2
Rich, Alan:
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 20 and No. 21.
1995.
Scope and Content
Book with CD. Chinese.
Box 2
Rich, Alan:
So I've Heard: Notes of a Migratory Music Critic.
2006.
Scope and Content
Two copies, unopened plastic wrap
Box 2
Rich, Alan:
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 and Romeo and Juliet Overture.
1995.
Scope and Content
Book with CD. Chinese.
Box 1
Rorem, Ned:
Knowing When To Stop (A Memoir).
1994.
Scope and Content
Inscribed to Rich from Rorem
Box 1
Rosenfeld, Paul:
Musical Chronicle (1917-1923).
1923.
Scope and Content
Inscribed to Rich from Kermans
Box 2
Schmidgall, Gary:
Literature as Opera.
1977.
Scope and Content
Partially corrected proofs
Box 1
Schnabel, Tom:
Stolen Moments.
1988.
Scope and Content
Inscribed to Rich from Schnabel
Box 1
Schonberg, Harold:
Facing the Music.
1981.
Scope and Content
Proof. Inscribed to Rich from unknown.
Box 2
Schwendowius, Barbara and Wolfgang Doemling:
Johann Sebastian Bach: Life-Times-Influence.
1977.
Box 1
Shapiro, Nat, ed.:
An Encyclopedia of Quotations About Music.
1978.
Box 2
Small, Christopher:
Music, Society, Education.
1977.
Box 1
Sposato, Jeffrey S.:
William Thomas McKinley, A Bio-Bibliography .
1995.
Scope and Content
Inscribed to Rich from Sposato
Box 2
Surrans, Alain:
Jeux de Massacre: 100 compositeurs de A a Z.
undated.
Box 2
Wager, Gregg:
Symbolism as a Compositional Method in the Works of Karlheinz Stockhausen.
1998.
Scope and Content
Inscribed to Rich from Wager. Possibly a dissertation.
Box 1
Weber, William:
The Great Transformation of Musical Taste: Concert Programming from Haydn to Beethoven.
2008.
Scope and Content
Inscribed to Rich from unknown
Box 1
Winter, Robert:
Music for our Time.
1992.
Scope and Content
Inscribed to Rich from Winter
Box 1
Zenck, Claudia Maurer:
Ernst Krenek: ein Komponist in Exil.
1980.
Scope and Content
Inscribed to Rich from Krenek
Series 5: Scores.
1961-2009.
Scope and Content
This series includes scores by local and international composers. Some are clearly performance scores, thoroughly marked;
some are promotional materials sent to Rich by publishers. Of particular interest is the pre-publication score of John Adams'
On the Transmigration of Souls, commissioned by the New York Philharmonic to memorialize September 11, 2001. The completion of Schubert's 10th Symphony
is also of interest.
Box 21, Folder 4
Adams, John:
Death of Klinghoffer.
1991.
Box 14, Folder 1
Adams, John:
On the Transmigration of Souls, Pre-Publication Copy.
2002.
Box 14, Folder 2
Adams, John:
The Wound-Dresser.
1989.
Box 15, Folder 5
Carow, Stefan:
Five Pieces for Orchestra,
Dreams and Nightmares.
1986.
Box 13, Folder 1
Erickson, Robert:
Auroras.
1982.
Box 13, Folder 2
Erickson, Robert:
Corona.
1986.
Box 14, Folder 3
Erickson, Robert:
Down At Piraous.
1968.
Box 14, Folder 11
Erickson, Robert:
Ramus.
1961.
Box 14, Folder 4
Harbison, John:
Mottetti di Montale.
1981.
Box 15, Folder 4
Kraft, William:
Settings from Pierrot Lunaire.
1994.
Box 14, Folder 5
Lear, Evelyn and Thomas Stewart: Edition of Songs.
1985.
Scope and Content
Inscribed to Rich from Lear and Stewart
Box 13, Folder 3
Lentz, Daniel:
Time's Trick.
1985.
Box 21, Folder 6
Leung, Simon: Proposal for
The Side of the Mountain.
2002.
Box 21, Folder 5
Lindberg, Magnus:
Cello Concerto.
1997-1999.
Box 14, Folder 6
Marcus, Bunita:
Music for Japan.
1983.
Box 21, Folder 7
Previn, Andre:
Brief Encounter.
2009.
Box 14, Folder 7
Putt, Alistair: Various.
2009.
Scope and Content
With a note from the composer
Box 14, Folder 8
Rorem, Ned:
Evidence of Things Not Seen.
1998.
Box 14, Folder 9
Schubert, Franz:
Symphony No. 7 in E, Realized by Brian Newbould.
1978.
Box 14, Folder 10
Schubert, Franz:
Symphony No. 10 in D Major, Realized by Brian Newbould.
1983.
Box 13, Folder 4
Steiger, Rand:
Frame(s).
1998.
Box 21, Folder 8
Stucky, Steven:
Second Concerto for Orchestra.
2003.
Box 21, Folder 9
Subotnick, Morton:
All My Hummingbirds Have Alibis.
1991.
Box 21, Folder 10
Subotnick, Morton:
and the butterflies begin to sing.
1991.
Box 15, Folder 3
Ten Holt, Simeon:
Lemniscaat.
1982-1983.
Box 13, Folder 5
Unknown Composer:
Requiem.
undated.
Box 21, Folder 11
Wilson, Robert:
Civil Wars: A Tree is Best Measured When it is Down, Overview.
1984.
Series 6: Media.
1950-2009.
Restrictions on Access
Audio materials in this collection require advance notice for use. Use of audio material requires production of listening
copies.
Scope and Content
This series includes commercial, promotional, and non-commercial CDs of performances, studio recordings, interviews, and lectures.
It also includes some DVDs of opera and other performances, reel recordings of various composers work, as well as recordings
from the “Music Room” salons Rich co-hosted in Los Angeles with philanthropist Betty Freeman.
Box 13
Adams, John:
Guide to Strange Places, Promotional CD.
2001.
Box 13
Adams, John:
On the Transmigration of Souls, Promotional CD.
2002.
Box 13
Andriessen, Louis:
La Passione, Promotional CD.
2002.
Box 20
Arbizu, Ray:
Tessabel and Symphony of Love, 45 RPM.
undated.
Box 13
Belcea Quartet: Bartok
String Quartets 1-6.
2008.
Box 13
Brendel, Alfred: Beethoven Sonatas, No. 27-32.
1991.
Box 22
California Composers Radio Program (15 Reels).
1980-1981.
Box 13
Chihara, Paul:
Minidoka.
2008.
Box 13
Chin, Unsuk: Promotional CD.
undated.
Box 13
Chin, Unsuk:
Violin Concerto, Promotional CD.
2001.
Box 13
Del Sol Quartet:
Tear.
2002.
Box 20
Erickson, Robert:
Auroras.
2008.
Box 20
Erickson, Robert:
Night Music, 7" Reel.
1978.
Box 13
Glennie, Evelyn: With the Singapore Symphony Orchestra.
2002.
Box 13
The Idaho Falls: Johnny Savant and Mark Wedin.
2004.
Box 13
Kayhan Kalhor and Brooklyn Rider:
Silent City.
2008.
Box 13
Ligeti, Gyorgy: Interview.
2002.
Box 20
Listening Room with Robert Sherman: Alan Rich, 7" Reel.
1975.
Box 13
Mozart,
Magic Flute: Achim Freyer/Salzburg Production.
1997.
Box 13
Part, Arvo:
Symphony No. 4, Los Angeles Philharmonic Live.
2009.
Box 20
Rich, Alan:
Composers in California, No. 3 and 4.
1981.
Box 20
Rich, Alan: Interview with Elizabeth Schwarzkopf and Paul Badura-Skoda, 7" Reel.
1973.
Box 13
Schiff, Andras: Lecture, 8 Discs.
2010.
Box 20
Shower Scene From
Psycho, 45 RPM.
1984.
Box 13
Stalvey, Dorrance: 5 Compositions.
undated.
Box 13
Stein, Leonard:
Leonard Stein Remembers: Conversations with Piano Spheres Pianists.
2004.
Box 13
Stone, Dorothy:
None But the Lonely Flute.
1994.
Box 20
Unlabeled 7" Reels (2).
undated.
Box 24
Unlabeled 7" Reels (5).
undated.
Box 20
Verrett, Shirley: Philharmonic Hall performance, 7" Reel.
1963.
Box 23
Miscellaneous 7" Reels.
undated.
Scope and Content
Contains mostly unlabeled 7" reels, but also includes compositions by Robert Erickson, interviews with Pierre Boulez, and
performances by the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
Box 17
Audio cassettes.
undated.
Box 19
Audio cassettes.
1950-1999.
Scope and Content
Includes the remaining Freeman Musicales recordings, Rich's work from the Pacifica Tape Library, and various Rich interviews
and radio programs including Pablo Casals, Mauricio Kagel, Anthony Davis, and Ned Rorem. Includes part of the Romantic Art
Song radio program (scripts are in the Writing series).
Box 16
Audio cassettes.
1972-1999.
Scope and Content
Recordings of interviews and radio programs. Highlights include Rich's interviews with Maria Callas.
Box 18
Audio cassettes.
1982-1987.
Scope and Content
Includes archival recordings of the Freeman Musicales, salons featuring major composers and hosted by Rich with philanthropist
Betty Freeman in Freeman's home. Also includes recordings of works played at the salons, either live or from recordings. Notable
composers include Steve Reich, Pauline Oliveros, Milton Babbitt, Conlon Nancarrow, Terry Riley, and others.
Box 24
Audio CDs.
1986-1999.
Scope and Content
A vast majority of the CDs consist of recordings by Bela Bartok, but also includes other "B" composers such as Amy Beach
