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Contributing Institution:
UCLA Library Special Collections
Title: Lawrence Morton papers
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.1522
Physical Description:
42.5 linear feet
(85 boxes, 1 oversize folder, 50 oversize boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1908-1987
Abstract: Lawrence Morton (1904-1987) played the organ for silent movies and studied in New York before moving to Los Angeles, California,
in 1940. He was a music critic for
Script magazine, was the executive director of
Evenings on the Roof, director of the Ojai Music Festival and curator of music at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The collection consists
of books, articles, musical scores, clippings, manuscripts, and correspondence related to Lawrence Morton and his activities
and friends in the Southern California music scene.
Physical Location: Stored off-site. All requests to access special collections material must be made in advance using the request button located
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Language of Material: Materials are in English.
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Immediate Source of Acquisition
Bequest of Lawrence Morton, 1987.
UCLA Catalog Record ID:
9924702923606533
[Identification of item], Lawrence Morton papers (Collection 1522). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research
Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
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Morton was born in 1904; he played the organ for silent movies and studied in New York before moving to Los Angeles, California,
in 1940; wrote music criticism for
Script magazine; executive director,
Evenings on the Roof (later renamed
Monday Evening Concerts), 1952-71; director of the Ojai Music Festival; as curator of music at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, he staged several
Bing Concerts each year; died in 1987.
Collection consists of books, articles, musical scores, clippings, manuscripts, and correspondence related to Lawrence Morton
and his activities and friends in the Southern California music scene. Includes Morton's Igor Stravinsky bibliography and
an assemblage of Stravinsky icons made up of photographs, reproductions, and original portraits of the composer. Also includes
Morton's diary from his 1956 journey to Europe for the premiere of Stravinsky's Canticum Sacrum in Venice, Italy. Also contains
manuscripts and drafts of Morton's published works, including chapters of an unfinished Stravinsky biography and articles
for The musical quarterly,
Tempo, and Notes. Includes materials related to his involvement with the Evenings on the Roof (later called Monday Evening Concerts), the
Ojai Festival, and the Bing Concerts at the Los Angeles County Museum.
Arranged in the following series:
- Correspondence
- Biographical
- Manuscripts by L.M.
- Research material
Monday evening concerts: Interview of Lawrence Morton [oral history transcript] / Adelaide G. Tulser, interviewer. UCLA Library Special Collections,
Center for Oral History Research interview, 1973.
Available at UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.
Lawrence Morton Collection of Materials Relating to the Monday Evening Concerts (Collection 965). Available at UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Concerts -- California -- Los Angeles.
Musicologists -- California -- Los Angeles -- Archives.
Morton, Lawrence -- Archives
Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971.