Finding Aid for the Irwin Parnes Collection of Composers' Music
1938-1948
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Descriptive Summary
Title: Irwin Parnes Collection of Composers'
Music,
Date (inclusive): 1938-1948
Collection number: 66-M
Creator: Parnes,
Irwin
Extent:
1 box
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library.
Performing Arts Special Collections
Los Angeles, California 90095-1490
Abstract: The collection consists of ozalid masters and copies
of music manuscripts by Eric Zeisl, Werner R. Heymann, Jarold Green and Jacob
Weinberg.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Irwin Parnes Collection of Composers' Music, 66-M,
Performing Arts Special Collections , University of California, Los Angeles.
Biography
Parnes was a Los Angeles-based music impresario.
Scope and Content
Collection consists of ozalid masters and copies of music manuscripts,
including Eric Zeisl's "Partizane song" and "Kuma echa" from "To the promised
land", Werner R. Heymann's "Let us keep our land the 'land of the free'",
"Jarold Green's "Israel reborn", and Jacob Weinberg's "Haganah."
Box 1, Folder 1
Partizanne song
Composer: Zeisl, eric
Scope and Content Note
Conductor's score and 26 parts in ozalid copies with annotations in pencil
for performance.
Box 1, Folder 2
Kuma echa from "to the promised land"
Composer: Zeisl, eric
Scope and Content Note
Violoncello part in ozalid copy with pencil annotations for performance
Box 1, Folder 3
Let us keep our land the "land of the free"
Composer: Heymann, Werner R.
Parts: For unison chorus and piano
Physical Description: Ozalid copy
Box 1, Folder 4
Israel reborn
Composer: Green, Harold
Parts: For voice and piano
Physical Description: Ozalid Copy, with orchestration annotations in pencil.
Note
Also ozalid copies of Clarinet I and Violin II parts.
Box 1, Folder 5
Haganah
Composer: Weinberg, Jacob
Publisher: SATB Score published by Transcontinental Music
Corp.
Scope and Content Note
Conductor's score, 18 parts for orchestra (ozalid copies), 6 ozalid masters
of orchestral parts.
Box 1, Folder 6
"Sisu v'simchu" and "lulou chant"
Parts: For two voices
Physical Description: Mimeograph copy.
