Finding Aid to the Albert Israel Elkus Papers, 1893-1976
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Finding Aid to the Albert Israel Elkus Papers, 1893-1976
Collection number: BANC MSS 82/16 c
The Bancroft Library
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-6000
Phone: (510) 642-6481
Fax: (510) 642-7589
Email: bancref@library.berkeley.edu
URL: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/
- Finding Aid Author(s):
- Processed by Kristin Jacobsen, John Hawk
- Date Completed:
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August 1992; additions, March 1997
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Collection Summary
Collection Title: Albert Israel Elkus Papers
Date (inclusive): 1893-1976
Collection Number: BANC MSS 82/16 c
Creator:
Elkus, Albert I. (Albert Israel),
1884-1962
Extent:
Number of containers: 4 boxes, 1 carton, 2 oversize folders, 6 volumes
Linear feet: ca. 3.5
Repository: The Bancroft Library.
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-6000
Phone: (510) 642-6481
Fax: (510) 642-7589
Email: bancref@library.berkeley.edu
URL: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/
Abstract: The collection consists primarily of correspondence files
containing letters and related material documenting Elkus' career as an educator and a
leader in the music and arts community of his time, in particular that of the San Francisco
Bay Area. The collection also contains significant material pertaining to Cornel Lengyel,
internationally known author and long-time personal friend of Elkus. Lesser amounts of other
material related to Elkus' career, including some material on the University of California
loyalty oath controversy, and scrapbooks and other memorabilia relating to the Elkus family,
including his wife, Elizabeth Britton Elkus, and his father, Albert Elkus Sr., are found
here as well.
Languages Represented: Collection materials are in English
Physical Location: For current information on the location of these materials,
please consult the Library's online catalog.
Information for Researchers
Access
Collection is open for research.
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Materials in this collection may be protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17,
U.S.C.). In addition, the reproduction of some materials may be restricted by terms of
University of California gift or purchase agreements, donor restrictions, privacy and
publicity rights, licensing and trademarks. Transmission or reproduction of materials
protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of
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without permission of the copyright owner. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively
with the user.
All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials
must be submitted in writing to the Head of Public Services, The Bancroft Library,
University of California, Berkeley 94720-6000. See:
http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/reference/permissions.html .
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Albert Israel Elkus papers, BANC MSS 82/16 c, The Bancroft
Library, University of California, Berkeley
Related Collections
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the
library's online public access catalog
Elkus, Albert I. (Albert
Israel), 1884-1962
Elkus, Elizabeth Britton
Lengyel, Cornel Adam
Lengyel, Teresa
University of California,
Berkeley. Dept. of Music
University of California,
Berkeley--Faculty
Loyalty oaths--California--Berkeley
Music--California--San Francisco Bay Area
Music--Instruction and study--California
Addresses
Faculty papers
Musical works
Poems
Scrapbooks
Scripts (documents)
Administrative Information
Acquisition Information
Gift of Mrs. Albert (Elizabeth) Elkus, August 11, 1981. One
additonal letter was given by Jonathan Elkus on July 16, 1991, and additonal material was
transferred to The Bancroft Libary from the Music Library by Judy Tsou in March 1993.
Biography
Albert Israel Elkus came from a family outstanding in the musical, commercial, and public
life of Sacramento. His mother, Bertha Kahn Elkus, was a distinguished
pianist and patroness of music; his father, Albert Elkus, was a prominent businessman and
several times mayor of the city.
Professor Elkus was born in Sacramento on April 30, 1884, and began there in 1896 his
career as pianist and composer. His teachers were first his mother, then Hugo
Mansfeldt and Oscar Weil in San Francisco,
Harold Bauer in Paris, Hugo Kahn,
Joseph Lhevinne,and Georg Schumann in Berlin,
Carl Prohaska and Robert Fuchs in Vienna. He was
a graduate of the University of California, receiving the degrees
Bachelor of Letters in 1906 and Master of Letters of 1907.
From 1916 to 1928 he was conductor of choral societies in Sacramento and San Francisco, and
in 1923 he began the long series of academic associations that were to continue until his
death in Oakland on February 19, 1962. He was head of the Theory Department at the
San Francisco Conservatory of Music from 1923 to 1925, and again from
1930 to 1937; Teacher of Music Theory and Composition at Dominican College, San
Rafael, from 1924 to 1931; Lecturer in Music at Mills
Collegefrom 1929 to 1933, and from 1933 to 1944 Instructor in Piano there;
Lecturer at Stanford University in the summer of 1933.
Professor Elkus joined the faculty of the University of California in 1931 as Lecturer in
Music, becoming Conductor of the University Symphony Orchestra in 1934.
In 1935 he was appointed Professor of Music and in 1937, Chairman of the Department, in
which post he continued until his retirement in 1951, a tenure of fourteen years.
For Professor Elkus it was a period of intense concentration and activity, during which he
gave his energy to the realization of his own vision of a university music department, a
vision larger in its scope than perhaps he himself realized.
During the decades immediately preceding this period, the position of the arts in American
universities had become perceptibly ambiguous, with the creative aspects of the arts under
considerable pressure from the more obviously and enticingly academic historical studies.
The University of California became deeply involved in this issue and took a lead in
resolving it. Professor Elkus aligned himself firmly with those bent on demonstrating that
all aspects of an art are academically compatible and, indeed, mutually fructifying.
But, although his voice was strong in administrative councils of the University, Professor
Elkus was not content to establish his point of view by argument alone. Within the
Department of Music he secured the appointment of a series of men of international renown,
but of very different casts of mind: Randall Thompson, Arthus
Bliss, Manfred Bukofzer, Ernest
Bloch, Roger Sessions. He encouraged younger colleagues to
broaden their interests at the same time they cultivated their specialties. And he strove
constantly toward an ideal curriculum that would offer not only maximum value to the
students but also maximum opportunity to the faculty. So it was that a historian might teach
a course in musical theory and a composer a course in history, For Professor Elkus believed
implicitly in the value of the contribution that the one might make in the field of the
other.
While beset with the increasing administrative burden in a rapidly expanding department,
Professor Elkus continued as long as possible his activity as a performer and teacher. He
reluctantly gave up the conductorship of the University Symphony Orchestra in 1946, after
twelve years in which he had established his view of the threefold responsibility of such an
organization: to the players, for the experience of great works in the mainstream of musical
development; to the department, for works newly composed; and to the musical public for
works they might otherwise not hear.
In Music 27, which he taught from 1938 to 1950, Professor Elkus presented to thousands of
general students his own mature and balanced view of the art of music. In his later years,
in places remote from Berkeley, people would approach him, identify themselves as former
students, and express their gratitude for his instruction.
In 1951, reaching the University retirement age, Professor Elkus became Emeritus, and he
immediately assumed the directorship of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, a post he
held for six years. He retired in 1957. Accepting the invitation of the Department of Music,
he returned to active service on a part-time basis, and in the fall of 1958, in his
seventy-fifth year, taught a course in counterpoint, a discipline in which he had taken
abiding delight since his student days, and in which he has masterly skill.
On Charter Day, March 20, 1959, during ceremonies inaugurating Glenn T.
Seaborg as Chancellor of the Berkeley campus, a grateful University conferred on
him the honorary degree, Doctor of Laws.
Until his death, Professor Elkus continued to teach piano at the Conservatory and to
lecture in University Extension.
During his whole professional life, Professor Elkus was active in the musical milieu of San
Francisco and contributed greatly to forming it. He was from 1933 a member of the Board of
Governors of the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra and served on an enormous variety of
governing boards, executive boards, and advisory and administrative committees at all
levels--campus, regional, state, and national. His friends in San Francisco were legion, and
the confidence inspired by his presence on the Berkeley campus resulted in generous gifts to
music at the University of California.
Professor Elkus was a commanding and beloved figure in the musical world of two continents.
During his life a constant procession of young musicians sought him out for help and
counsel, which they received from an open and untiring hand.
Professor Elkus came out of the Romantic Period of music, and remained deeply devoted to
the music of that period. His gods were Beethoven, whose creative processes he studies
throughout his life; Wagner; Chopin; Verdi; and Brahms. But he also had great love for the
music of the Renaissance and Baroque composers and took a vigorous part in furthering the
music of his own time. Whatever form his musical activity, as composer, performer, or
teacher, he sought beauty as he understood it, and his understanding was neither restricted
by shibboleths of idiom nor clouded by fad.
As a performer, whether pianist of conductor, he was a true poet, equally at home in
concepts of grandeur, delicacy, or drama. Even after the demands of administration had made
regular practice impossible, his skill as a pianist was such that he made the most casual
classroom illustration an arresting experience and a brilliantly lighted glimpse into his
musical world.
He virtually ceased to compose after he became Chairman of the Department of Music,
channeling his creative energy into the tasks at hand. Of his works one,
Impressions from a Greek Tragedy, received the Juilliard Award in
1935 and his found a place in the repertory of many orchestras throughout the world.
Professor Elkus is survived by his wife, Elizabeth Britton Elkus, whom
he married in 1929, and two sons, Jonathan Britton Elkus and
Benedict Britton Elkus.
Professor Elkus had a warm, generous nature, and a natural grace in all his human
relationships. It would be hard to separate in his countless students the influence of the
man from the influence of the musician and artist. A loyal and devoted friend, he evoked
loyalty and devotion in his friendships. In a very real sense he survives in every student
he taught, every colleague he worked with, and every friend he made, for there is not of
them who has not been in some degree changed as a result of the association.
A paragraph from his official correspondence as Chairman of the Department of Music gives a
quick insight into his whole personality, for it reveals him as he affirms ingratiatingly
his secure faith in the intellectual dignity of the artistic processes:
I venture to emphasize a point of view of performance which, it
seems to me, you have not estimated at its proper value--a serious and adequate production
of a major work of musical literature involves certain professional techniques only as a
means to an end. The end is highly creative, for the translation of a complex score (the
notation of which is laid out with the care of an architectural plan) into sound involves
an analytic and critical study of the work in relation to its character, time and period.
Such interpretations of major works are properly to be considered as essays in
criticism.
Taken from University of California, "In Memoriam," April 1963
Scope and Content of Collection
The Albert I. Elkus papers consist primarily of correspondence documenting Elkus'
career as an educator and a leader in the musical and arts community of his day, in
particular in the San Francisco Bay area. Exam files and other professional files also are
included.
The collection also contains a significant quantity of material pertaining to
Cornel Lengyel, internationally known author and longtime personal
friend of the Elkus family, as well as lesser amounts of materials related to the University
of California loyalty oath controversy, and the Elkus family.
Series 1:
Correspondence.
1908-1975,
undated
Arrangement
Arranged alphabetically by correspondent, with incoming and outgoing interfiled.
Content/Description
Contains correspondence (and related material) chiefly pertaining to Elkus'
career. Correspondents include music educators, musicologists and scholars in related
fields, including colleagues at the University of California, music critics, performers,
composers and individuals and organizations involved in promoting music and the arts.
Also includes a limited number of letters to his wife, Elizabeth.
Principal correspondents include Arthur Bliss, Leo Eloesser and Frederick Jacobi. Other
significant correspondents include: Monroe Deutsch, Edwin Grabhorn, Dame Myra Hess,
Werner Janssen, Luther Marchant, Moshe Menuhin, Pierre Monteux, Douglas Moore, Max
Pirani, Paul Pisk, Roger Sessions, Isaac Stern, Virgil Thompson, Mrs. Benjamin Ide (Amay
W.) Wheeler, Cedric Wright, and Harold Zellerbach.
Additional correspondence is located in Series 4 (re Cornel Lengyel) and Series 5 (re
UC Loyalty Oath).
box 1, folder 1
A Miscellany.
1935-50
Physical Description:
8 letters
box 1, folder 2
Allen, Warren Dwight (1885-1964).
1944
Physical Description:
1 letter
box 1, folder 3
American Composers Alliance .
1941-44
Physical Description:
7 letters
box 1, folder 4
American Musicological Society .
1939-41
Physical Description:
5 letters
box 1, folder 5
American Scandinavian Review .
1943
Physical Description:
2 letters
box 1, folder 6
American Society for Aesthetics .
1941-44
Physical Description:
6 letters
box 1, folder 7
Amyx, Darrell A. (1911-).
1950
Physical Description:
1 letter
box 1, folder 8
Anderson, Katherine M.
1948
Physical Description:
4 letters
box 1, folder 9
Armsby, Leonora Wood.
1943
Physical Description:
3 letters
box 1, folder 10
Aschenbrenner, Karl.
1943
Physical Description:
3 letters
box 1, folder 11
B Miscellany.
1914-50
Physical Description:
19 letters
box 1, folder 12
Barkan, Hans.
1938-48
Physical Description:
7 letters
box 1, folder 13
Barryte, Maurice.
1939-42
Physical Description:
7 letters
box 1, folder 14
Bauer, Marian (1887-1955).
1947-50
Physical Description:
2 letters
box 1, folder 15
Beckett, Wheeler.
1938
Physical Description:
2 letters
box 1, folder 16
Berdahl, Arthur C.
1938-45
Physical Description:
5 letters
box 1, folder 17
Bertha K. Elkus Music Fund .
1948
Physical Description:
1 letter
box 1, folder 18
Bing, Rudolph, Sir (1902-).
1950
Physical Description:
1 letter
box 1, folder 19
Blanding, Gordon.
1939
Physical Description:
1 letter
box 1, folder 20
Blinder, Naoum (1889-1965).
1942
Physical Description:
1 letter
box 1, folder 21
Bliss, Arthur.
1942-49
Physical Description:
10 letters
box 1, folder 22
Blom, Eric (1888-1959).
1938-39
Physical Description:
2 letters
box 1, folder 23
Bonsack, Danie.
1947
Physical Description:
3 letters
box 1, folder 24
Boosey, Hawkes, and Belwin .
1940
Physical Description:
3 letters
box 1, folder 25
Bos, Coenraad Valentyn (1875-1955).
1943
Physical Description:
2 letters
box 1, folder 26
Boyden, David Dodge (1910-).
1940,
undated
Physical Description:
2 letters
box 1, folder 27
Boyle, Edgar, Rev.
1938-39
Physical Description:
6 letters
box 1, folder 28
Brandenstein, M.J. (Mrs.).
1939
Physical Description:
1 letters
box 1, folder 29
Bremmer, Anne (1872-1923).
1914
Physical Description:
1 letter
box 1, folder 30
Brennan, Robert Edward (1897-).
1939
Physical Description:
2 letters
box 1, folder 31
Brescia, Domenico.
1939
Physical Description:
1 letter
box 1, folder 32
Broude Bros. .
1943
Physical Description:
4 letters
box 1, folder 33
Brunswick, Mark.
1941
Physical Description:
4 letters
box 1, folder 34
Buck, Barbara [to Elizabeth].
ca. 1930s
Physical Description:
1 letter
box 1, folder 35
Burk, John Naglee (1891-).
1945
Physical Description:
1 letter
box 1, folder 36
Bynner, Witter (1881-1968).
undated
Physical Description:
2 poems
box 1, folder 37
C Miscellany.
1939-51
Physical Description:
10 letters
box 1, folder 38
The Carmel Cymbal .
1940
Physical Description:
5 letters
box 1, folder 39
Carruth, William W.
1913
Physical Description:
1 letter
box 1, folder 40
Chopin Centennial National Committee .
1949
Physical Description:
2 letters
box 1, folder 41
City College of San Francisco .
1950
Physical Description:
4 letters
box 1, folder 42
Commonwealth Club of California .
1939-47
Physical Description:
12 letters
box 1, folder 43
Composers' Forum .
1941-50
Physical Description:
3 letters
box 1, folder 44
Coop, Squire.
[1939?]- 40
Physical Description:
3 letters
box 1, folder 45
Cooper, W.A.
1936-42
Physical Description:
3 letters
box 1, folder 46
Couper, Howard E.
1939
Physical Description:
5 letters
box 1, folder 47
Cowell, Henry.
[1940?]
Physical Description:
1 letter
box 1, folder 48
D Miscellany.
1939-47
Physical Description:
7 letters
box 1, folder 49
Davison, Archibald T. (1883-1961).
1939
Physical Description:
1 letter
box 1, folder 50
Dayton, Clara.
1948
Physical Description:
7 letters
box 1, folder 51
Denny, William.
1940-44
Physical Description:
5 letters
box 1, folder 52
de Ridder, Allard.
1939-44
Physical Description:
9 letters
box 1, folder 53
Deutsch, Monroe E.
1943 Oct. 8
Physical Description:
1 letter
box 1, folder 54
Dickinson, G.S.
1938
Physical Description:
3 letters
box 1, folder 55
Dominic, Sister Mary.
1938-40
Physical Description:
3 letters
box 1, folder 56
Dutton, Charles.
1938-39
Physical Description:
4 letters
box 1, folder 57
E Miscellany.
1939-49
Physical Description:
8 letters
box 1, folder 58
Ehlers, Alice.
1939
Physical Description:
3 letters
box 1, folder 59
Einstein, Alfred.
1941-51
Physical Description:
4 letters
box 1, folder 60
Elkus, Charles and Marjary de Y.
1938-48
Physical Description:
4 letters
box 1, folder 61
Eloesser, Leo.
1936-75
Physical Description:
38 letters
box 1, folder 62
Eloesser, Leo.
1938-75
Physical Description:
21 items
box 1, folder 63
Engel, Carl.
1944
Physical Description:
2 letters
box 1, folder 64
Enos, Helen A.
1942-46
Physical Description:
3 letters
box 1, folder 65
Evans, Griffith Conrad.
1944
Physical Description:
2 letters
box 1, folder 66
F Miscellany.
1939-50
Physical Description:
8 letters
box 1, folder 67
Fallows-Hammond, Patricia.
1948
Physical Description:
1 letter
box 1, folder 68
Family Club (San Francisco) .
1950
Physical Description:
2 letters
box 1, folder 69
Federal Music Project (W.P.A.) .
1935-36
Physical Description:
2 letters
box 1, folder 70
Frankenstein, Alfred V.
1939-44
Physical Description:
5 letters
box 1, folder 71
Fredericks, Jessica.
1950
Physical Description:
5 letters
box 1, folder 72
Friedberg, Annie.
1941-44
Physical Description:
4 letters
box 1, folder 73
Friskin, James.
1948
Physical Description:
4 letters
box 2, folder 1
G Miscellany.
1939-49
Physical Description:
6 letters
box 2, folder 2
Gainsborough Music Foundation .
1945-46
Physical Description:
5 letters
box 2, folder 3
Goldberg, Bob.
1945
Physical Description:
3 letters
box 2, folder 4
Goldschmidt, Nicholas.
1942-46
Physical Description:
4 letters
box 2, folder 5
Gordon, Marcus.
1935-42
Physical Description:
3 letters
box 2, folder 6
Grabhorn, Edwin.
1939-43
Physical Description:
6 letters
box 2, folder 7
Grabhorn, Marjorie[to Elizabeth].
1948
Physical Description:
1 letter
box 2, folder 8
Grout, Donald.
1942-43
Physical Description:
4 letters
box 2, folder 9
Guenther, Felix.
1944
Physical Description:
1 letter
box 2, folder 10
H Miscellany.
1935-51
Physical Description:
22 letters
box 2, folder 11
Hannas, Ruth.
1939
Physical Description:
4 letters
box 2, folder 12
Harcourt, Brace, and Company .
1941-45
Physical Description:
5 letters
box 2, folder 13
Harris, Roy (1898-).
1942
Physical Description:
1 letter
box 2, folder 14
Hayes, Harrison Olaf.
1945
Physical Description:
1 letter
box 2, folder 15
Heil, Walter.
1944
Physical Description:
1 letter
box 2, folder 16
Hess, Myra.
1936-41
Physical Description:
5 letters
box 2, folder 17
Hibberd, Lloyd.
1941-43
Physical Description:
3 letters
box 2, folder 18
Hindesmith, Paul.
1942
Physical Description:
1 letter
box 2, folder 19
Hodghead, Lilian King.
1938
Physical Description:
1 letter
box 2, folder 20
Hohfield, Edward.
1948
Physical Description:
4 letters
box 2, folder 21
Hollinrake, Horace.
1948-49
Physical Description:
7 letters
box 2, folder 22
Howe, Winifred.
1941-50
Physical Description:
3 letters
box 2, folder 23
Hughs, Anselm.
1935
Physical Description:
2 letters
box 2, folder 24
Huttenbach, Dorothy.
1938-48
Physical Description:
6 letters
box 2, folder 25
International Society for Contemporary Music .
1942
Physical Description:
5 letters
box 2, folder 26
J Miscellany.
1939-51
Physical Description:
11 letters
box 2, folder 27
Jacobi, Frederick.
1938-48
Physical Description:
15 letters
box 2, folder 28
Janssen, Werner.
1942-46
Physical Description:
7 letters
box 2, folder 29
Jorda, Audrey [to Elizabeth].
1962
Physical Description:
1 letter
box 2, folder 30
K Miscellany.
1938-[56?]
Physical Description:
11 letters
box 2, folder 31
Kahn, Ivan.
1939-40
Physical Description:
2 letters
box 2, folder 32
Kanitz, Ernest.
1949
Physical Description:
4 letters
box 2, folder 33
Keane, Augustin C.
1939-42
Physical Description:
4 letters
box 2, folder 34
Kim, Earl.
undated
Physical Description:
1 letter
box 2, folder 35
Kirchner, Leon.
undated
Physical Description:
1 letter
box 2, folder 36
Kneucker, Alfred W.
1950
Physical Description:
4 letters
box 2, folder 37
Kohs, Ellis B.
1948
Physical Description:
4 letters
box 2, folder 38
Kosmos Club .
1938
Physical Description:
1 letter
box 2, folder 39
Krenck, Earnst.
1941
Physical Description:
1 letter
box 2, folder 40
Kuypers, John M.
1949-51
Physical Description:
11 letters
box 2, folder 41
L Miscellany.
1908-50
Physical Description:
23 letters
box 2, folder 42
Lamont, Corliss (1902- ).
1942
Physical Description:
2 letters
box 2, folder 43
Lange, Dorothea[to Elizabeth].
1954-63,
undated
Physical Description:
3 letters
box 2, folder 44
Legge, Rene Farjeon.
undated
Physical Description:
1 letter
box 2, folder 45
Lehman, Henriette Goodrich Durham (nee Blandine) (1891-1973).
1957
Physical Description:
1 letter
Lengyel, Cornel
see: SERIES 4
box 2, folder 46
Leplin, Emanuel.
1938-44
Physical Description:
12 letters
box 2, folder 47
Lewis, Austin (1865-1944).
undated
Physical Description:
1 letter
box 2, folder 48
Lifschey, Samuel.
1939-48
Physical Description:
3 letters
box 2, folder 49
Locke, Arthur Ware (1883- ).
1942
Physical Description:
2 letters
box 2, folder 50
Lomas Reciprocal Concerts, Inc. .
1942-43
Physical Description:
4 letters
box 2, folder 51
Lowinsky, Edward E. (1908-1985).
1944
Physical Description:
2 letters
box 2, folder 52
M Miscellany.
1936-49
Physical Description:
24 letters
box 2, folder 53
Mackay-Cantell, Lilia.
1948-49
Physical Description:
6 letters
box 2, folder 54
Mansfeldt, Mabel.
1948-49
Physical Description:
3 letters
box 2, folder 55
Marchant, Luther.
undated
Physical Description:
1 letter
box 2, folder 56
Margen, Jeanne.
1943
Physical Description:
3 letters
box 2, folder 57
Mason, Daniel G.
1935-49
Physical Description:
4 letters
box 2, folder 58
Matthews, George.
1941
Physical Description:
4 letters
box 2, folder 59
May, Elizabeth.
1941-48
Physical Description:
3 letters
box 2, folder 60
McClatchy, Ellery.
1943-50
Physical Description:
3 letters
box 2, folder 61
McClatchy, V.S.
1927
Physical Description:
1 letter
box 2, folder 62
McManus, George S.
1939-44
Physical Description:
3 letters
box 2, folder 63
Meiklejohn, Alexander and Helen.
1952
Physical Description:
1 letter
box 2, folder 64
Menuhin, Moshe and Marutha.
1960,
undated
Physical Description:
3 letters
box 2, folder 65
Meylan, Edward Ferdinand (1903- ).
1949
Physical Description:
1 letter
box 2, folder 66
Mitchell, William John (1906- ).
1948
Physical Description:
1 letter
box 2, folder 67
Montalvo Foundation .
1940-41
Physical Description:
4 letters
box 2, folder 68
Monteux, Pierre.
1939-49
Physical Description:
7 letters
box 2, folder 69
Moore, Douglas.
1939-51
Physical Description:
7 letters
box 2, folder 70
Morrell, Katherine.
1940
Physical Description:
3 letters
box 2, folder 71
Music Press, Inc. .
1940
Physical Description:
3 letters
box 2, folder 72
Music Teachers' National Association .
1943-49
Physical Description:
15 letters
box 2, folder 73
Musicians Club of San Francisco .
1939
Physical Description:
1 letter
box 2, folder 74
N-O Miscellany.
1940-50
Physical Description:
12 letters
box 3, folder 1
Nagin, Helen.
1947-48
Physical Description:
3 letters
box 3, folder 2
National Association of Schools of Music .
1940
Physical Description:
2 letters
box 3, folder 3
National Committee for Music Appreciation .
1939-40
Physical Description:
8 letters
box 3, folder 4
National Federation of Music Clubs.
1940
Physical Description:
4 letters
box 3, folder 5
Oldfield, Otis.
1940
Physical Description:
1 letter
box 3, folder 6
P Miscellany.
1936-50
Physical Description:
16 letters
box 3, folder 7
Pacific House .
1940-42
Physical Description:
7 letters
box 3, folder 8
Pacifica Foundation .
1949-50
Physical Description:
10 letters
box 3, folder 9
Parrish, Carl.
1950
Physical Description:
1 letter
box 3, folder 10
Pazmor, Radiana.
1948
Physical Description:
4 letters
box 3, folder 11
Pirani, Max.
1940-48
Physical Description:
8 letters
box 3, folder 12
Pisk, Paul.
1939-43
Physical Description:
9 letters
box 3, folder 13
Plaat, Otto.
1950
Physical Description:
3 letters
box 3, folder 14
Pochon, Alfred (1878-1959).
1942
Physical Description:
3 letters
box 3, folder 15
Poladian, Sirvart.
1939-43
Physical Description:
3 letters
box 3, folder 16
Popper, Jan and Beta.
1960-61
Physical Description:
2 letters
box 3, folder 17
Q-R Miscellany.
1938-49
Physical Description:
6 letters
box 3, folder 18
Quinan, Francis G., Father.
1947-49
Physical Description:
5 letters
box 3, folder 19
Reutinger, Joan (Mrs. Otto).
[1939?]-1949
Physical Description:
6 letters
box 3, folder 20
Rinder, Reuben R.
1938
Physical Description:
letters
box 3, folder 21
Rosen, Jerome (1921- ).
1949
Physical Description:
2 letters
box 3, folder 22
S Miscellany.
1935-50
Physical Description:
25 letters
box 3, folder 23
Sacramento Saturday Club .
1947
Physical Description:
2 letters
box 3, folder 24
Sadowski, Reah.
1945
Physical Description:
3 letters
box 3, folder 25
Salinger, Herbert H.
1944-45
Physical Description:
4 letters
box 3, folder 26
San Francisco Art Commission .
1945
Physical Description:
2 letters
box 3, folder 27
San Francisco Chronicle .
1940-43
Physical Description:
3 letters
box 3, folder 28
San Francisco Conservatory of Music .
1944-50
Physical Description:
3 letters
box 3, folder 29
San Francisco Musical Club .
1940
Physical Description:
1 letter
box 3, folder 30
San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department .
1939-51
Physical Description:
38 items
box 3, folder 31
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra .
1936-50
Physical Description:
12 letters
box 3, folder 32
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra Young People's Concert
.
1942-50
Physical Description:
22 letters
box 3, folder 33
Santa Barbara College .
1950-51
Physical Description:
46 letters
box 3, folder 34
Saxton, Earl.
1948-49
Physical Description:
5 letters
box 3, folder 35
Schmidt, Harold C.
1950
Physical Description:
1 letter
box 3, folder 36
Schmitz, E. Robert.
1940-48
Physical Description:
4 letters
box 3, folder 37
Schuessler, Selma.
1945-46
Physical Description:
3 letters
box 3, folder 38
Schweitzer Committee .
1940-42
Physical Description:
3 letters
box 3, folder 39
Seidel, Toscha (1899-1962).
1939
Physical Description:
1 letter
box 3, folder 40
Sessions, Roger.
1938
Physical Description:
3 letters
box 3, folder 41
Shepherd, Arthur (1880-1958).
1949
Physical Description:
2 letters
box 3, folder 42
Silva, Giulio.
1939
Physical Description:
3 letters
box 3, folder 43
Sparks, Edgar.
1939-48
Physical Description:
5 letters
box 3, folder 44
Spivacke, Harold (1904- ).
1941
Physical Description:
1 letter
box 3, folder 45
Standard School Broadcasts .
1939-50
Physical Description:
15 letters
box 3, folder 46
Stanford University .
1940
Physical Description:
6 letters
box 3, folder 47
Stassen, Harold Edward (1907- ).
1945
Physical Description:
1 letter
box 3, folder 48
St. Edmunds, John.
1939-41
Physical Description:
2 letters
box 3, folder 49
Stern, Isaac.
1943
Physical Description:
3 letters
box 3, folder 50
Stricklen, Edward G.
1938-45
Physical Description:
4 letters
box 3, folder 51
Symphony League .
1943
Physical Description:
2 letters
box 3, folder 52
T Miscellany.
1936-50
Physical Description:
7 letters
box 3, folder 53
Tansman, Alexander (1897- ).
1942
Physical Description:
1 letter
box 3, folder 54
Taylor, Ross.
1943
Physical Description:
4 letters
box 3, folder 55
Temple Emanu-El .
1947-48
Physical Description:
11 letters
box 3, folder 56
Thompson, Meredith.
1944-45
Physical Description:
12 letters
box 3, folder 57
Thomson, Virgil.
1944-45
Physical Description:
3 letters
box 3, folder 58
Toch, Ernst (1887-1964).
1945
Physical Description:
1 letter
box 3, folder 59
Tullis, Walter.
1945-48
Physical Description:
8 letters
box 3, folder 60
Turner, Bernice.
1940-44
Physical Description:
4 letters
box 3, folder 61
Turner, Godfrey B.
[1939?]-1949
Physical Description:
7 letters
box 3, folder 62
Turner, Robert.
1938-50
Physical Description:
4 letters
box 3, folder 63
V-Z Miscellany.
1935-51
Physical Description:
15 letters
box 3, folder 64
Vincent, John Nathanial (1902- ).
1949
Physical Description:
1 letter
box 3, folder 65
Violin, Moriz.
1941-42
Physical Description:
4 letters
box 3, folder 66
Weitzner, Lillian [to Elizabeth].
1967
Physical Description:
1 letter
box 3, folder 67
Wheeler, Amay W. (Mrs. Benjamin Ide Wheeler).
1929
Physical Description:
1 letter
box 3, folder 68
Whiton, Sherrill.
undated
Physical Description:
1 letter
box 3, folder 69
Williams, Marie (Mrs. Homer L.).
1936-39
Physical Description:
3 letters
box 3, folder 70
Winchell, Anna Cora.
[1938?]-44
Physical Description:
3 letters
box 3, folder 71
Wood, Charles Erskine Scott (1852-1944).
1939
Physical Description:
1 letter
box 3, folder 72
Wright, Cedric (1889-1959).
1939-49
Physical Description:
3 letters
box 3, folder 73
Young People's Symphony Orchestra .
1940-50
Physical Description:
5 letters
box 3, folder 74
Zellerbach, Harold L.
1950
Physical Description:
2 letters
Series 2:
Papers.
1940-1945
Content/Description
Chiefly Papers presented at conferences, but including Elkus' foreword to the
W.P.A. Federal Music Project's publication,
Early Master
Teachers of San Francisco,
containing short biographies of Hugo Mansfeldt,
Oscar Weill, and Henry Heyman. Some of the files include correspondence pertaining to
the conferences or related subjects.
carton 1, folder 1
[Comparing music education in conservatories and colleges and universities].
1941 May 3
carton 1, folder 2
Changing Values in Interpretation .
1945
carton 1, folder 3
Early Master Teachers of San Francisco,
Introduction.
1940-45
carton 1, folder 4
Richard Wagner from a Contemporary Point of View .
undated
carton 1, folder 5
The Teaching of Counterpoint from the Contemporary Point of
View
.
1940-41
carton 1, folder 6
[Tonality, influences of past styles on modern styles].
undated
Series 3:
Exams.
1938-1961,
undated
Content/Description
Exams for courses in music appreciation taught by Elkus at UC Berkeley from 1938-1945,
and at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music from 1960-61.
carton 1, folder 7
Exam dates (no course name).
1938-45
carton 1, folder 8
Exam (no course name).
undated
carton 1, folder 16
Music 27C, 27D, 27E.
1943-45
carton 1, folder 17
Music Literature 1A.
1960-61
Series 4:
Cornel Lengyel.
1937-1976,
undated
Content/Description
Correspondence, letters of recommendation, reviews, resumes, articles, and programs
concerning internationally known author Cornel Lengyel and his wife Teresa. Also
includes typescripts and drafts of many of Lengyel's works, plays such as
The Atomic Clock and
Jonas Fugitive,
as well as collections of poetry and prose.
carton 1, folder 18
Correspondence Lengyel-Albert Elkus.
1937-61
carton 1, folder 19
Correspondence Lengyel-Elizabeth Elkus.
1952-76
carton 1, folder 20
Correspondence Lengyel-Others.
undated
carton 1, folder 21
Recommendations Elkus for Lengyel.
1939-61
carton 1, folder 22
Recommendations Others for Lengyel
carton 1, folder 23
Programs and Announcements
carton 1, folder 24
Reviews, Resumes, Articles
carton 1, folder 28
The Atom Clock, Book jacket
carton 1, folder 32
Jonas Fugitive,
Illustration
carton 1, folder 36
S.O.S. From Easter Island
Other correspondence, programs, notes, and more
Series 5:
Miscellany.
1938-1952,
undated
Content/Description
Various family and professional papers. These include an address by Monroe Deutsch;
reports from the UC Berkeley Dept. of Music; information on the U.C. loyalty oath
controversy; a eulogy for Nathan Firestone; material on various speaking engagements,
etc. Additions to the collection have been incorporated here, and include family
correspondence, scrapbooks, and other memorabilia, chiefly converning Albert Elkus, Jr.
and Sr.
Additional Note
Additions are housed in box 4, v. 1-6, and oversize folders 1A-2A.
carton 1, folder 43
Clippings and letters re. Albert Elkus, Sr.
(father)
carton 1, folder 44
U.C. Berkeley, Department of Music reports.
1938-49
carton 1, folder 45
Draft and typescript of eulogy for Nathan Fireston,
written by Elkus.
1943
carton 1, folder 46
Typescript of nomination of Edwin Grabhorn for Honorary Degree, 1949 Feb. 19.
1949-02-19
carton 1, folder 47
Deutsch, Monroe.
Address:
The Preservation of the University
Correspondence
re. Deutsch eulogy
carton 1, folder 48
Speaking Engagements.
1941-50
carton 1, folder 49
U.C. Loyalty Oath, Letters.
1949-50
carton 1, folder 50
U.C. Loyalty Oath, Newspaper Clippings.
1949-51
carton 1, folder 51
U.C. Loyalty Oath, Published Materials.
1947-52
oversize-folder 1A
Klavierstuck, printed sheet music
written by Elkus
oversize-folder 2A
What herb will cure a melancholy,
autograph mss. score, signed:
To Elizabeth Elkus / with remorse /
Cornel
Lengyel /.
June 1935
box 4, folder 1
Postcard written by Albert Elkus to his mother while he was travelling in
Europe.
7 Aug. 1921
box 4, folder 2
Transcription of letter written by Albert Elkus to the U.S. Attorney in
Billings, Mont., concerning his friend, T. Z. Shiota, a Japanese resident in San
Francisco.
1 Jan. 1941
box 4, folder 3-6
Letters written to Albert Elkus by various family members and friends, while
he was studying in Berlin.
1908 Mar.-May
box 4, folder 7-10
Letters written to and from Albert Elkus, Sr. by various family members and
friends.
1896-1936
box 4, folder 11
School theme book.
undated
box 4, folder 12
Time books, San Francisco [lessons?].
1927-28
box 4, folder 13
Description of the Chicago World's Fair by Albert Elkus, Sr.
1893
box 4, folder 14-15
Log books of the Red Raven [boat of Albert Elkus, Sr.].
1912-15
box 4, folder 16
Albert Elkus, Sr., Certificate of election as Director of 3rd ward,
Sacramento Municipal Utility District.
1942 Dec. 11
box 4, folder 17
Train ticket from Sacramento, Calif., to Council Bluffs, Iowa.
[1880s ?]
box 4, folder 18-24
Loose items removed from scrapbooks.
undated
Scrapbooks relating to family activities.
1870s-1920s
Physical Description:
Volumes 1-6, oversize-folder 3B.
volumes 1-2
1871-1905
Content/Description
Newspaper clippings, menus, greeting cards, programs, and other items.
oversize-folder 3B
The Sunday News, vol. 2 no. 22.
1895 Sept. 8
Note:
Removed from volume 2.
volume 3
1880-1896
Content/Description
Primarily related to the theater.
volume 4
1902-1921
Content/Description
Regarding Elkus ordinance regarding alcohol and other political issues in
Sacramento.
volume 5
1918-1921
Content/Description
Regarding Elkus's campaign as mayor and other political issues.
volume 6
Circa 1880s.
Content/Description
Bertha Elkus scrapbook of greeting and advertising cards.
oversize-folder 1A
"Klavierstuck," printed sheet music, written by Elkus.
undated
oversize-folder 1A
"What herb will cure a melancholy," autograph mss. score,
signed: To Elizabeth Elkus / with re morse / Cornel Lengyel / June 1935.
1935
oversize-folder 1A
Issue of Emanu-El, with article on Sacramento Jews.
1903 Sept. 18
oversize-folder 1A
San Francisco Music and Drama, vol. 1 no. 40.
1884 Mar. 15
oversize-folder 2A
Masonic Certificate, Albert Elkus [Sr. ?].
1907 Dec. 24
