Inventory of the Nineteenth Festival, International Society for Contemporary Music records, 1942

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The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.

Inventory of the Nineteenth Festival, International Society for Contemporary Music Records, 1942

Collection number: ARCHIVES ISCM 1

The Music Library



University of California, Berkeley

Berkeley, California

Contact Information

  • Hargrove Music Library
  • University of California, Berkeley
  • Berkeley, California, 94720-6000
  • Phone: (510) 642-2623
  • Email: music_reference@berkeley.edu
  • URL: https://guides.lib.berkeley.edu/music_library_archives
Processed by:
The Music Library staff
Encoded by:
Xiuzhi Zhou
© 1998 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.

Descriptive Summary

Title: Nineteenth Festival, International Society for Contemporary Music Records,
Date (inclusive): 1942
Collection number: ARCHIVES ISCM 1
Creator: International Society for Contemporary Music. Festival (19th : 1942 : Berkeley, Calif.)
Extent: 1 scrapbook ([49] leaves) ; 16 x 11 3/4 in
Repository: The Music Library
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Shelf location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Language: English.

Administrative Information

Donor:

Alfred Frankenstein.

Access

Collection is open for research.

Publication Rights

All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of the Music Library.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Nineteenth Festival, International Society for Contemporary Music records, ARCHIVES ISCM 1, The Music Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Scope and Content

Programs, notices, letters to Alfred Frankenstein, biographical sketches of some of the composers performed at the Festival, statements by some of the composers about their works, letters of congratulations.
The scrapbook compiled by Helen Renstrom (Farnsworth), contains notices, programs, biographical sketchescontains letters signed by:
  • Frederic Balazs
  • Bela Bartok
  • Arthur Benjamin
  • Nicolai Berezowsky
  • Rebecca Clarke
  • David Diamond
  • Hanns Eisler
  • Donald Fuller
  • Ellis Kohs
  • Ernst Krenek
  • Felix Labunski
  • Normand Lockwood
  • Jacques de Menasce
  • Robert Palmer
  • Karol Rathaus
  • Wallingford Riegge
  • Pedro Sanjuan
  • Arnold Schoenberg
  • Andre Singer
  • Alexander Tansman