Finding aid for the Rayner Brown papers 1002
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Title: Rayner Brown papers
Creator:
Brown, Rayner, 1912-1999
Identifier/Call Number: 1002
Physical Description:
109.25 Linear Feet
128 boxes
Date (bulk): 1940s-1990s
Abstract: The papers of American composer, organist, teacher, and USC alumnus Rayner Brown (1912-1999) include music scores, manuscripts
and books.
Language of Material:
English.
Rayner Brown (1912-1999) was an American composer, organist, and teacher. Brown wrote over 200 compositions. He was a church
organist from 1941 to 1977 at the Wilshire Presbyterian Church. He also taught at Biola University. He was a graduate from
the University of Southern California, where he earned a Bachelor of Music degree in organ and a Master of Music degree in
composition.
This collection contains the papers of American composer, organist, teacher, and USC alumnus Rayner Brown (1912-1999). Materials
include music scores, manuscripts, and books. Brown composed over 200 pieces of music over his career. He also taught at Biola
University and was the church organist for the Wilshire Presbyterian Church.
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[Box/folder# or item name], Rayner Brown papers, Collection no. 1002, Music Library, USC Libraries, University of Southern
California.
This collection is not fully processed. Some portions of the collection are described at the folder level in this finding
aid, but the bulk of the collection is unprocessed.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Composers -- California -- Los Angeles -- 20th century -- Archival resources
Music -- United States -- 20th century -- Archival resources
Musicians -- California -- Los Angeles -- Archival resources
Books
Ephemera
Manuscripts
scores (documents for music)
Brown, Rayner, 1912-1999 -- Archives
Box 1, Box 2, Box 3, Box 4, Box 5, Box 6, Box 7, Box 8, Box 9, Box 10, Box 11, Box 12, Box 13, Box 14, Box 15, Box 16, Box 17, Box 18, Box 19, Box 20, Box 21, Box 22, Box 23, Box 24, Box 25, Box 26, Box 27, Box 28, Box 29, Box 30, Box 31, Box 32, Box 33, Box 34, Box 35, Box 36, Box 37, Box 38, Box 39, Box 40, Box 41, Box 42, Box 43, Box 44, Box 45, Box 46, Box 47, Box 48, Box 49, Box 50, Box 51, Box 52, Box 53, Box 54, Box 55, Box 56, Box 57, Box 58, Box 59, Box 60, Box 61, Box 62, Box 63, Box 64, Box 65, Box 66, Box 67, Box 68, Box 69, Box 70, Box 71, Box 72, Box 73, Box 74, Box 75, Box 76, Box 77, Box 78, Box 79, Box 80, Box 81, Box 82, Box 83, Box 84, Box 85, Box 86, Box 87, Box 88, Box 89, Box 90, Box 91, Box 92, Box 93, Box 94, Box 95, Box 96, Box 97, Box 98, Box 99, Box 100, Box 101, Box 102, Box 103, Box 104, Box 105, Box 106, Box 107, Box 108, Box 109, Box 110, Box 111, Box 112, Box 113, Box 114, Box 115, Box 116, Box 117, Box 118, Box 119, Box 120, Box 121, Box 122, Box 123, Box 124, Box 125, Box 126, Box 127, Box 128
Unprocessed materials
Letters
Box 52, Folder 36
"Letters; Contract 1st Congo 1966
Brochure of works by Karl Schiske
Thank you note from Charles Shaffer for Sonatina for Clarence Mader. It was originally accompanied by a check. 7/27/66
Agreement for the First Congregational Church of Los Angeles for the composition of a Concerto for two organs and about seventeen
brass and percussion instruments dated 10/18/66
Letter of agreement between Rayner Brown and the Professional Educator's Placement Bureau dated 11/21/66
Box 24, Folder 6
"Rayner's 70th Birthday, 1982, BIG!" 1982
Birthday Music for Rayner from William Lock (?) [2/23/82] and Don Johns [2/27/82]
Card from Homer Wickline
Card from Cherry and Ladd
Card from Sanchez neighbors
Card from Homer Wickline
Card from Stu and Ruth Plummer
Card from Emma and Kent Smith
Letter from Albert McGlinchy (?)
Card from Judy Zachs (?)
Card from Bob and Sato
Card from Joe O'Donnell
Card from Bill Lock
Card from Homer and Conrad
Tiny card from Alida and Tus
Box 19, Folder 2
Box 28, Folder 4
American Wind Symphony 1970-1976
AWS Orchestra Bicentennial Odyssey 1976, promotional pamphlet
Letter to Rayner from Robert Boudreau [6/4/75]
"Music to Ride the Ohio River With," by Theodore Strongin, New York Times, [1/18/70]
"Barge Man," Time [7/26/71]
Letter to Rayner from Robert Boudreau [4/7/75]
Letter to Robert from Rayner [4/11/75]
Letter to Rayner from Robert Boudreau [9/10/74]; Letter to Robert from Rayner [11/2/74]
Sequence of letters between Rayner and Robert Austin Boudreau, Music Director for the American Wind Symphony Orchestra; [11/27/73],
[12/7/73], [12/30/73], [1/5/74], [1/16/74], [1/20/74], [2/27/74], [3/2/74], [4/9/74], [5/3/74], [5/28/74], [6/8/74].
Box 18, Folder 4
Box 19, Folder 3
ASCAP 1979-1986
Letter to Rayner from Bernice Cohen, ASCAP [06/23/86]
Note from Rayner regarding Clarinet Concerto [no date]
Chapman College: Chapman College Wind Ensemble, Concert Choir, College Singers [03/02/86]
Church bulletin: First UMC Glendale [06/09/85]
Whitworth College: Michael E. Young, organ [02/11/86]
Letter to Rayner from Bernice Cohen, ASCAP [07/03/79]
Box 31, Folder 3
ASCAP 1978-1995
Blank Recording Info. Cards
The Facts, published by ASCAP 1987
Folder of ASCAP information
Letter from Frances Richard of ASCAP congratulating Rayner on his 85th birthday
Letter from Ken Cicerale [3/13/95]
Articles of ASCAP, Nov. 1994
ASCAP Title Registration Data Entry Form Instructions and Forms
Writer Foreign Royalty Statement, December 1995
Letter from Stanley Adams [8/20/78]
Letter from the Panel for the Standard Awards, ASCAP [8/6/87]
Box 31, Folder 6
Biola University Letters to Rayner: Contributions of Music 1984-1986
Receipt for a donation of 13 bound scores to the Biola University Library; Thank you letter for the preceding gift from Richard
Dunham [6/4/86]
Letter from Jack Schwarz, Music Department Chairman [5/7/86]
Letter from Jack Schwarz, Music Department Chairman [9/15/86]
Certificate in Recognition of Service, 12/14/68
Biola College Music Building Floor Plan, June 1984
Box 25, Folder 7
Birthday 1976-1992
"Rayner Brown: 80th Birthday Tribute," compiled by Robert Tusler. The Diapason [March 1992]
Program to a Birthday Tribute: Organ Works of Rayner Brown [2/17/85]
Letter, card and gift of a stamp from Leigh and Margaret
Program from a First Day of Issue Ceremony Honoring Jimmie Rodgers, complete with postage stamp inside [5/24/78]
Birthday Card from Bob and Lida Tusler [2/23/79]
Birthday note from Soney and Ernesto (?) [1976]
Birthday card from Judy, Zack and Kim
Card from Homer
Card from Conrad
Letter from Sharon [3/19/87]
Letter from Jack Schwarz, Chairman of the Music Department at Biola [11/14/86]
Box 26, Folder 3
California Organist - correspondence 1963-1972
Tikey Zes [11/8/63]
Harold Gleason [11/27/72]
Gilbert Martin [11/23/64]
Card from Charles [1/11/64]
John R. Hanson [11/9/64]
Mrs. Conrad R. Farber [2/16/65]
Charles [2/17/65]
Albin D. McDermott [2/2/65]
Post card from John Biggs [11/23/64]
Theodore Ripper [2/8/65]
C. Griffith Bratt [2/14/65]
John Biggs [2/9/65]
Don Johns [3/2/65]
Hans Georg Bertram [3/31/64]
Baerenreiter-Antiquariat [2/27/64]
Don Johns [3/19/64]
Don Johns [1/1/64]
Allen Brings [2/19/64]
Samuel Adler [3/17/64]
Hans Georg Bertram [4/15/64]
Charles Thomas Taylor [4/15/64]
George Frederick McKay [4/30/64]
Robert P. Manookin [4/29/64]
Charles Thomas Taylor [4/27/64]
George Frederick McKay [5/14/64]
Robert Powell [5/12/64]
J. W. Coffman [5/23/64]
Carl N. Helmick, Jr. [6/5/64]
David A. Wendlandt, 8th US Army Retreat Center [6/10/64]
Perry D. Marshall [4/8/64]
Roy Travis [6/4/64]
Michael Smolanoff [6/10/64]
George Frederick McKay [1/31/64]
Ervin Henning [2/29/64]
Gregory W. Kostech [2/5/64]
Gene [1/18/64]
Jill Le Croissette [1/17/64]
Donald Johns [1/22/64]
US Copyright Office [1/22/63]
Gerhard Wuensch [1/19/64]
Dr. D. L. Melvin [2/1/64]
Ernesto P. Pellegrini [1/28/64]
Robert P. Manookin [2/11/64]
Irving Schlein [2/12/64]
Perry Marshall [2/11/64]
Lewis Raymond [2/14/64]
Letter cut off the details of who sent it [2/10/64]
Dalmazio Santini [2/18/64]
Ervin Henning [2/19/64]
Samuel Adler [2/19/64]
Gerhard Wuensch [2/1/64]
George Frederick McKay [2/25/64]
Letters between Mr. McKay and Rayner Brown, February 1964
Irving Lowens, Library of Congress [2/27/64]
Gilbert Martin [2/27/64]
Irwin Fischer [2/28/64]
Samuel Adler [3/20/64]
Ben Tongue
Friedrich Suck, Barenreiter-Antiquariat [12/20/63]
Robert Larsen [12/16/63]
Aline Wilson [1/1/64]
Nellie E. Night (?) [12/31/63]
Gerhard Wuensch [11/4/63]
Post card from Ruth E. Priest [8/10/64]
Norberto Guinaldo [8/19/64]
T. W. Dudley, September 9th
Gerhard Wuensch, September 10th
Mrs. Archie C. Berry [8/7/64]
"A New Shofar Service" by Dr. Herman Berlinski
Lois Lynn Hardy
David Wendlandt, 8th US Army Retreat Center [8/21/64]
Charles [9/14/64]
Doris Knies [9/17/64]
Roy Hallman [8/18/64]
Don Johns [9/21/64]
Margarethe Hokanson [9/22/64]
Michael Smolanoff [8/18/64]
Mrs. Garnet Mallery [10/3/64]
Axel Anderson
Card with 2 measures of music written on it.
Don Johns with a correction to a piece of his written in manuscript in the middle of the letter. A change for his Kleine
Partita ins included on an attached page.[4/21/64]
Don Johns [10/6/64]
From Don Johns with a fragment of the attached Partita [10/12/64]
Mr. Arthur Hunkins [9/4/64]
Gilbert Martin [9/17/64]
Axel V. Anderson [11/3/64]
Jad Schmidt (sp. ?) [10/26/1964]
Gilbert Martin [10/23/64]
Joseph Roff [12/26/64]
Michael E. Young [2/3/65]
Tinkey Zes [1/19/64]
Sully B. Chamberlin [1/25/65]
John Biggs [1/10/65]
George E. Klump [2/2/65]
Kenneth Lowenberg [2/1/65]
"Music for Organ" by Leonard Raver, The American Organist, September 1964. A review of recent publications by the California
Organist.
Gerhard Wuensch [11/18/65]
Ralph Evan Brown, regarding the estate of Don Stone [1/17/66]
Biographical Information Sheet from Donald C. Johns
List of information to be printed with Gerhard Wuensch's Sonata Breve
Bio and Biographical Information Sheet for C. Griffith Bratt
Box 25, Folder 9
California Organist Correspondence 1962-1966
From Lois Lynn Hardy
From George Brandon [2/26/63]
From Gerhard Krapf [12/28/62]
From Henry Campbell, Montana State College [12/12/62]
From Milton Gill, Dartmouth College [12/12/62]
List of Compositions by Michael E. Young
Biographical Information for Gerhard Wuensch
Biographical Information for Michael E. Young
Biographical Information and works list for Matt. H. Doran
Biographical Information for George Frederick McKay
Biographical Information & works list for John Biggs
Biographical Information & works list for Harold Owen
Biographical Information for Gilbert M. Martin
Biographical Information for Norberto Guinaldo
Biographical Information for Charles Shatto
Biographical Information for Orpha Ochse
Biographical Information for Clarence Mader
Biographical Information for William Schmidt
Biographical Information for Gerhard (Joseph) Wuensch
Biographical Sketch of Samuel Adler
Biographical Information for Robert Jennings Powell
Biographical Information for Tikey Zes
From George Frederick McKay [3/4/64] with a works list attached
From Clifford Vaughan [3/15/63]
Biographical Information for Don Philip Stone
Biographical Information for Henri Lazarof
Biographical Information for William Grant Still, brochure and unsigned letter grouped with other documents
Biographical Information for Kenneth Lowenberg
Biographical Information for Lowndes Maury
Biographical Information for Robert P. Manookin
Invoice for One Booth and Exhibitors' Information Sheets for AGO Convention [2/17/66]
From Gerhard Wuensch [3/23/66]
From Antone Godding [4/6/65]
From Robert Gerster [5/24/65]
From Clifford Vaughan [3/24/65]
From Gene Driskill [6/3/65]
From Charles Bradley [7/23/65]
From Fred Swan [5/19/65]
From C. Griffith Bratt [8/26/65]
From Una Common [11/13/65]
From Gerhard Wuensch [11/5/65]
From Gerhard Wuensch [11/23/65]
Report and Minutes of Tri-Chapter Executive Board Meeting [1/24/66]
From Miriam Palmore [2/3/66]
Copyright Office list of fees
From Don Johns [11/22/65]
Copyright for "Three Meditations on the 'Nunc Dimittis'" issued to Rayner Brown
Copyright for "Service Piece" issued to Rayner Brown
From Verniere E. Ragan
From Klaus Weinhold
From Donald Johns [11/3/65]
From Mrs. J. J. Kraemer [12/17/65]
From Verniere E. Ragan [1/23/66]
From Helen Barnard Finley [1/4/66]
From Rebecca Carol Thompson [12/28/65]
Two letters from Gilbert M. Martin [1/18/66] & [1/20/66]
From Axel V. Anderson [1/26/66]
Program to an Organ Dedication in Vancouver, St. Luke's Episcopal Church [10/21/62]
From Mildred Gilbert
From Ralph Evan Brown [3/23/65]
From Gerhard Wuensch [12/29/65]
From George Krump [6/17/65]
From Mrs. Wilmont Higginbothum [1/18/66]
From Mildred Gilbert
Note from Occidental College, regarding a change in Clarence Mader's Biography
From Gerhard Wuensch [5/31/65]
From George Frederick McKay [3/15/65]
To Ralph Evan Brown from Rayner, regarding the royalties left to the estate of Don Stone [3/25/65]
From Ralph Evan Brown [3/30/65]
From Mrs. Charles Hindman [3/29/65]
From Charles [4/5/65]
From Mrs. Fayze Fandey [4/10/65]
From Charles Thomas Taylor [4/7/65]
From Gilbert Martin [4/8/65]
Envelope from J. Biggs, Belgium
From C. Griffith Bratt
From C. Griffith Bratt [11/3/64]
From Samuel Adler [7/20/64]
From Samuel Adler [7/27/64]
From Julian (?) [7/31/64]
From Gerhard Wuensch [7/25/64]
From Douglass G. Stow [7/8/64]
From Michael Smolanoff [6/20/64]
From Julian (?) 7/24/64]
From Anthony R. Hand [5/20/64]
From Allegro Music Service [7/27/64]
From Gilbert Martin [7/31/64]
From James L. Duncan [5/18/64]
From Arthur B. Hunkins [7/26/64]
From Robert E. Middleton [12/11/62]
From Wilmer Hayden Welsh [12/5/62]
From Gene [12/19/62]
Box 18, Folder 8
California Organists 1963-06-1963-11
Letter to "Sirs" from George E. Boyer [no date]
Letter to "Gentlemen" from Charles Richard [08/05/63]
Letter to Rayner from Joseph Miranda [11/03/63]
Letter to Rayner from Morris Haigh [10/31/63]
Letter to Rayner from Robert P. Manookin [10/22/63]
Letter to Rayner from George Frederick McKay [10/20/63]
Letter to Rayner from Don [10/19/63]
Letter to Rayner from Xenia Desby [no date]
Letter to Rayner from Frank McCarty [10/15/63]
Letter to "Fellow guild members" from George Brandon [06/08/63]
Letter to George Brandon from Rayner Brown [07/23/63]
Letter to Rayner from Robert P. Manookin [11/05/63]
Letter to "The California Organist" from Eleanore Blackwood [07/24/63]
Letter to Rayner from Otto? [07/28/63]
Letter to Rayner from Donald C. Johns [08/20/63]
Letter to "Sir"? from Charles T. Taylor [07/31/63]
Letter to Rayner from Conald C. Johns [07/25/63]
Box 22, Folder 2
Christmas Card 1993, Letters 1974-1993
Newspaper clipping: Paris, Barry. "Wind Symphony to join Liberty ceremonies." (unknown publication) [no date]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [02/22/__]
Letter to Rayner from Al [03/27/74]
Letter to Rayner from Al [06/07/74]
Letter to Rayner from Al [03/22/__] on back of "Wanted Persons"
Christmas card from Matt and Theresa Doran [1993]
Christmas card from Carol and Tom [1993]
Christmas card from Gaylord [1993]
Christmas card from Catherine? [1993]
Letter to Rayner from Samuel John Swartz [12/19/93]
Box 34, Folder 1
Correspondence with Albert McGlinchy, school friend from San Diego 1975-1987
Letter 1/21/87
Letter 6/5/84
Thank you card, postmarked 5/14/82
Letter 5/28/82
Letter 7/7/82
Prototype of a birthday Card for Albert, 1982
Letter 6/17/82
Letter dated " Year of the Pig, 4743"
Letter 9/24/82
Letter dated "May the Once, Tra La. !
Letter dated "Shevat 26, 5743"
Letter dated "Shevat 27, 5743"
Letter dated 2/13/78
Letter 2/4/84
Sketch of Albert McGlinchy
Picture of Grace Cathedral
Pictures from a "Zoo Series"
Letter 10/13/81
Letter 6/12/75
Lertter 6/7/75
Full page P. S. to a letter
Page 2 to a letter
Something with a note attached to it saying, "I do not know what this is." The note is from the sifting archivist. I think
it may be a joke piece of music.
Letter with poem
Letter dated March 12th
Letter dated "June twice, 1986
Box 26, Folder 2
Correspondence, Extraneous publicity & photos 1961-1996
Letter from Augustinum Franz Kropfreite (?) in German [2/13/70]
Card from Orpha Ochse [12/17/88]
Letter from Norberto Guinicaldo (?) [3/5/96]
Card from Bonnie and Blaine Ricketts [2/16/79]
Letter from Homer Wickline [3/2/82]
Letter from Homer Wickline [3/8/82]
Letter from Homer Wickline [1/7/82]
Letter from Homer Wickline [1/22/82]
Letter from Homer Wickline [1/23/82]
Letter from Homer Wickline [2/22/82]
Letter from Homer Wickline [March 1979]
Letter from Leslie P. Spelman [4/21/58]
Note from Tim of the Biola College Music Department [5/8/79]
Retirement letter from Dave Stirling, California State Assemblyman [4/22/77]
Letter from Charles Thomas Taylor [12/16/63]
From Joel E. Ramette [12/13/63]
From Rene Frank [11/14/63]
From Joseph Roff [11/7/63]
Birthday card from the Tuslers
Picture of First United Presbyterian Church in San Diego
Publicity Postcard for the USC Trojan Symphonic Band Concert Series, 1961-62
Immanuel Presbyterian Church, Publicity card for three Spring Organ Recitals
Picture of Rayner and Robert Parris [2/8/82]
Picture of Rayner and Barbara at a party at the home of Bonnie and Robert Prichard [2/8/82]
Flyer for Los Angeles Brass Society with Ladd Thomas and Dorothy Remsen [5/25/64]
Clipping for a concert by David Craighead [January 1978]
Box 11, Folder 3
Crystal Cathedral- March 1984
Five flyers for Cherry Rhodes and Ladd Thomas. Organ
Ticket stub [03/02/84] and postcard (2 copies), Crystal Cathedral
Large postcard of organ in Crystal Cathedral (2 copies)
Photocopy of article: "Organ Recital Staged at Cathedral." Los Angeles Times (Mar. 6, 1984). One original, 6 copies
Three large postcards of exterior of Crystal Cathedral
Large postcard of interior of Crystal Cathedral
Two pamphlets of concerts at the Crystal Cathedral [1984]
Letter and envelope to Rayner from Barb McCullan [03/13/84]
Letter to Rayner from Sharon Bailey; attached letter to Sharon from Rayner [03/21/84]
Letter to Rayner from Aileen B. O'Neil [04/19/84]
Copies of three articles regarding Clarinet Concerto: from LA Life, Daily News, Star News, and Los Angeles Times
Advertisement for Good Friday Music at the UMC of Garden Grove [04/17/__]
"Calendar" section of Los Angeles Times (Mar. 6, 1984), containing "Organ Recital Staged at Cathedral
Box 52, Folder 12
Box 2, Folder 6
Ford Foundation 1970-1977
Receipt No. CB 25539, Project # 699-0584
Letter to Rayner Brown from Ford Foundation pertaining to Project # 699-0584 [01/25/71]
Letter to Rayner Brown from Ford Foundation pertaining to Project # 699-0584 [11/11/71]
Letter to Rayner Brown from Ford Foundation pertaining to recording projects [09/29/71]
Recording Publication Program Application Form for several works by Rayner Brown [08/11/71] (six pages)
Receipt No. MG 58714, Project # 699-0584
Letter to Rayner Brown from Ford Foundation pertaining to future recordings [11/19/71]
Letter to Rayner Brown from Ford Foundation pertaining to recording project [11/08/71]
Recording Publication Program Application Form for brass works [09/13/71] (three pages)
Recording Publication Program Statement of Provisions and Conditions
Letter to William Nims (Ford Foundation) from Rayner Brown [12/22/70]
Letter to Rayner Brown from Ford Foundation [02/23/71]
Letter to Rayner Brown from William Nims (Ford Foundation) [02/23/71]
Letter to Rayner Brown from William Nims (Ford Foundation), Grant No. 699-0584 [01/29/71]
Recording Publication Program Publishers Narrative Report [02/16/71] (three pages)
Letter, Statement of Provisions and Conditions, and Recording Application Form to Rayner Brown from Ford Foundation pertaining
to Sonata [08/03/70]
Recording Publication Program Application Form (flute works) [07/01/70] (four pages)
Schedule of Expenses from WIM Records [12/19/70] (two pages)
Schedule of Expenses from Avant Records [12/10/70]
Letter to Rayner Brown from Richard Kapp (Ford Foundation) [05/25/77]
Letter to Rayner Brown from William Nims (Ford Foundation) [07/12/72]
Box 19, Folder 8
Friends 1980-1989
Card from Kim? [Easter, no year]
Letter and envelope to Barbara from Rosemary? [08/24/80]
Invitation- "Open House" [12/29/__]
Letter to Barbara from Alma [04/10/80]
Letter to Rayner and Barbara from Marrea? [09/04/89]
Thank you note from Janice Wojciak [08/04/89]
Birthday card to Barbara from Chery and Ladd [no date]
Birthday card to Barbara from Roy and Dorothy [04/24/89]
Advertisement for Seaver College Community Symphony concert [02/16/89]
Anniversary card for Rayner and Barbara from Roy and Dorothy [07/23/89]
Card to Barbara from Eda [no date]
Card "Happy Birthday- Love, XXOO Christopher" [no date]
Note to Barbara from Eda [no date]
Box 7, Folder 1
Homer Wickline Letters to Rayner Brown 1976-1987
Where not otherwise indicated, item is a letter to Rayner from Homer Wickline
Newspaper clipping (recital advertisement) from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette [10/02/81]
Newspaper clipping (recital advertisement) from the Pitspurgh Press [02/21/82]
Newspaper clipping (recital advertisement) from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette [10/06/81]
Newspaper clipping (recital advertisement) from the Pitspurgh Press [02/08/81]
01/09/85
01/22/85
12/14/81
12/__/81 ("Friday afternoon")
Undated sheet music ("Music from Taize") with drawings
1981 ("Sunday evening 9:15")
Undated ("Tuesday afternoon")
04/__/81 ("Tuesday night")
03/__/81 ("Monday 5:15")
11/24/__ ("Monday afternoon 1:15")
01/03/__ ("Saturday evening")
Letter to Rayner from David [06/28/80]
12/15/80
Recital program, Homer Wickline, organ [12/21/80]
04/30/81
05/13/77
01/24/81
Undated letter ("Friday morning")
Undated letter ("Wednesday afternoon")
Undated letter ("Voting day eveining")
Undated letter ("Sunday evening 6:45)
Undated letter ("In between teaching Sat. aft.)
Undated letter ("Tuesday evening")
12/08/__ ("Monday 5:50")
Undated letter ("Saturday in between lessons")
Undated letter ("Sunday noon")
01/12/__ ("Monday noon")
01/11/__ ("Sunday night")
Undated letter ("Tuesday morning")
Undated letter ("Monday morning") with attached newspaper clipping from Pittsburgh Press
11/28/__ (on hotel stationary)
Undated letter ("Tuesday afternoon")
02/__/81 ("Friday recovering from lunch")
Undated letter ("Tuesday 12:32")
"Friday the 13th, 1981"
02/18/81 with attached mini-envelope
03/09/81 with attached postcard
02/08/81
02/__/81 ("Tuesday 5:40")
02/__/81 ("Monday morning…Groundhog Day")
02/__/81 ("Wednesday noon")
"The Great Dining Room Organ" [no date]
03/__/77 ("Thursday morning")
10/09/81
10/08/81
09/28/81
09/15/81
08/__/81 ("Aspinwall-on-ye-Allegheny")
09/04/81
10/14/81
10/__/81 ("Thursday evening 9:38")
10/07/81 with attached note
11/16/81
11/15/81
11/12/81
10/30/81
10/31/81
10/24/81
11/6/81
Labeled "Goodbye November 1981"
01/21/82
01/13/82
02/__/82 ("Tuesday afternoon 5:35")
06/__/76 with attached picture of Homer Wickline at organ
04/20/82
Four letters bound together: 06/27/81, 06/25/81, 06/22/81, 06/15/81
03/05/79
Small note labeled "Monday evening" [no date]
Undated letter ("Sunday evening")
06/05/81
06/04/81 with attached copy of article "Speaking of Music…"
05/15/81
01/12/81
05/30/81
02/18/__ ("Monday")
07/24/81 with map and letter/resume for Don Simmons, inside envelope
05/28/81
05/20/81
05/31/83
06/28/85
09/17/86
07/21/87
Box 22, Folder 6
Homer-Letters 1986-1989
Promo for Pittsburgh's American Waterways Wind Orchestra [06/10/88]
Note to Rayner from Homer [03/22/89]
Birthday card to Raynr from Homer
Letter to Rayner from Homer [03/22/89]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [02/21/88]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [02/16/88]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [02/07?/88]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [no date]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [07/01/86]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [07/15/__]
Postcard to Rayner from Homer [06/25?/86]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [05/12/86]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [06/25/86]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [06/13/86]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [Fall 1988]
Letter to Rayner from Homer ["Thursday Morning 1988"]
Letter to Rayner from Homer ["Friday Evening" Fall 1988]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [12/07/88]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [02/21/89]
Letter to Rayner from Homer ["Sat. Eve 6:44"]
Letter to Rayner from Homer ["Sunday Afternoon 5:25"]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [02/08/89]
Box 19, Folder 10
Letters 1963-1989
Letter to Rayner from Carole Williams [05/15/89]
Letter to "friends" from Homer [05/17/89]
Letter and envelope to Rayner from Bruce Duffie?, WNIB/WNIZ [05/15/89]
Letter to Barbara from Conrad [05/09/89]
Letter to Rayner from Kathy Edsill-Charles [06/22/88]
Note to Rayner from Tom, All Saints' Episcopal Church [11/10/88]
Letter to Rayner from Fred Hohman, Pro Organo [12/27/85]
Season calendar: Organ Department- University of Iowa [1987-8]
Program: "Four Episodes from St. John" by Smallbridge, Wuensch [11/06/88]
Letter and envelope to Rayner from Dr. G. Wuensch, University of Western Ontario [02/03/89]
Letter and envelope to Rayner from Tom, The Parish of Sainte Matthew [10/26/84]
Letter to Rayner from AGO, Los Angeles Chapter [09/16/88]
Letter to Rayner from Dennis K. McIntire, Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians [02/02/89]
Receipt from Biola University #221766 [04/20/88]
Letter to Rayner from Florence Nelson, The National Flute Association Inc. [12/29/87]
Letter to Rayner from Samuel John Swartz [01/26/88]
Letter to Rayner from Anders Paulsson and Harry Huff [02/17/88]
Letter to Rayner from Wayne J. O'Neil [04/15/87]
Letter to Rayner from James Kibbie, University of Michigan School of Music [09/23/87]
Envelope to Rayner from The Pennsylvania State University [11/10/63]
Letter to Rayner from Myron G. Leet [06/15/88] with attached program: Myron Leet and Beverly Ratcliffe, organ [01/22/78]
Letter to Rayner from Charlotte Atkinson, AGO North San Diego County [07/28/86]
Letter and envelope to Barbara from Orpha [05/16/83]
Note and envelope to Barbara from Helen Eagleson [05/18/83]
Letter and envelope to Rayner from Ray Lutlee [06/01/83]
Note and envelope to Rayner from Arlene Judd [06/18/83]
Card and envelope to Barbara and Rayner from Emma [06/06/83]
Card and envelope to Rayner and Barbara from Cherry and Ladd [06/07/83]
Schedule of programming for "Pipedreams" [1987]
Letter and envelope to Rayner from JMB?, Minnesota Public Radio [09/16/88]
Letter to Rayner from Harold C. Cobb, Clayton F. Summy Co. [09/05/41]
Box 29, Folder 3
Letters 1961-1999
To Bohemian Members, from John Flittie, secretary of the Bohemian Club [3/15/61]
From Mary Ann Dodd, includes a listing of Rayner's works [7/21/91]
Thank you note from Les and Dottie Remsen [9/3/91]
Note from Phil and Jean Dodson [10/6/91]
Copy of "Fanfare for a Retiree" by Rayner Brown, dedicated to Gerald Gooden, January 1990
Letter to Rayner from Homer Wickline [4/5/92]; Letter to Conrad from Homer (Friday, Noon); "Massachusetts man appointed city
organist," Press Herald, Tuesday July 19; "An Exponent of Order and Control," New York Times [7/24/88]; enveloppe for the
above items.
Card from Debbie Baker
From James Warren II, Chairman of the Music Dept. Noon Concerts Committee at Pierce College [8/5/87]
Card from Norberto [5/30/89]
Note from Alice Rucker [6/8/89]
Note from Janice Mitchell, re: Azaiah Prelude [12/1/88]
Card from Archie Wade Jr., Zach'z flute teacher
Note from Ladd Thomas [11/22/74]
Note from Leonard Henderson, "Your Retired Postman"
Note from Dave and Liz
Card from Ruth and Steve
Invitation from Carol and Tom Foster, All Saint's Beverly Hills
Letter from Al [2/10/86]
From Rev. Alan Stront of First United Methodist of Glendale
Page out of the June 1975 Diapason. P. 21 makes a reference to one of Rayner's works
From Matt H. Doran [1/29/79]
From Hendrik Timmerman of the Noordhollands Jongenskoor en Koorschool
Postcard from Robert Duerr
Note from David Banes [5/31/85]; letter from Francine Di Blasi [10/25/84]; poster for the 1984-85 Pasadena Chamber Orchestra
season
Note from Larry (?) Livingston (?) [11/2/87]
Note from The Stills [1/27/65]
Letter from David Craighead [1/16/88]
Letter from Homer Wickline [3/13/91]
Letter from Fred and Millie [2/7/91]
Letter from Tusler [11/13/90]
From Wilbur Melbye [8/20/90]
From Robert Plimpton [8/8/90]
Letter from "Don" (?) [7/22/90]
Letter from Maxine Grove [1/25/74]
Card from Jane Bailey [5/20/74]
From Mary Lou Lampright, Music Print Corporation [12/22/87]
Letter from Al [1/7/88]
Scrap of paper noting the range of a singer
Letter from Samuel H. Sutherland, President Emeritus of Biola College [3/14/77]; Letter from William D. Shanebeck, Assistant
Dean, Humanities and Fine Arts, Biola College [4/4/77]
From Franceine Di Blasi of the Pasadena Chamber Orchestra [6/18/85]
Copy of a letter from Sam Swartz [6/1/85]
From Homer Wickline, April 16?
From Homer Wickline [10/13/94]
Letters from Homer Wickline [12/16/91], [3/17/92], [4/26/92], [3/2/92], [2/25/92]
From Maciej Piwowarski [3/14/86]
From Loescheke [7/3/82]
From Jack Schwarz, Biola University Music Department [1/28/86]
From Maciej Piwowarski [4/11/86]
Postcard from Don Johns [4/17/86]
From Jerald Hamilton [4/29/86]
From Larry and Grace [4/21/86]
To Mother and Dad from Rayner [1/23/45]
From Homer Wickline [8/30/94]
From John and Isla Garth [11/1/88] & 11/20/89]
From Jean and Ray, Christmas 1989
Letter from Robert Tusler and Rayner Brown announcing Musical Vespers for 1960-61. [10/18/60]
From Jim Vail [5/23/99]
From Lee and Dottie Remsen, December 1988
"Pasadena Pro Musica Permieres 'Pooh' Mass," LA Times, photocopy of review by Terry McQuilkin
Letter from Bonnie, Oct 30??
Notes from Barbara Brown [6/16/99]
Thomas Foster, harpsichord & Carol Foster, organ [4/5/81]
Letter from Janet Krellwitz [5/12/82]; Flyer for organ concert by Janet Krellwitz on 5/23/82; Program from organ concert [5/23/82];
program from organ concert [6/24/82]; "Organistin LieB Tradition und Moderne verschmelzen," Schaumburger Nachrichten, [6/3/82]:
"Fesselnder Bach aus USA," Nurnberger Nachrichten [6/9/82]
Artist Recitals Talent Agency, release for Dr. Janet Krellwitz
From Bernice Cohen, ASCAP [6/24/82]
Letters from Homer Wickline [9/22/91]; [10/5/91]; "Tuesday March 28" attached to organ recital program dated [6/2/85]; [10/13/91]
Prototype for Barbara and Rayner's 1997 Christmas Card
Postcard from Laurence Putnam (?), 1974
Box 29, Folder 6
Letters 1940-1991
Letter from Willian Schmidt to the National Endowment of the Arts [11/4/78]
Christmas Letter from Ruth and Bill Mader, 1989
To Mrs. Brown from Frederick Barnes [11/17/43]
Christmas card from Bob and Consuelo Bennett
Telegram from Rayner announcing birth of Zachary David Brown on 6/12/45
Letter from Rayner to his parents [1/5/44]
From Samuel Swartz [3/25/91]
From Kathleen Bride [3/12/91]
From Mary Ann Dodd [3/6/91]
List of Los Angeles AGO members, 1940-41
From Christine Springston (?); Junior Lions Club Membership card; California Hi-Y Clubs Card.
Graduation Announcement for the San Diego Class of 1930
From Donald Stuart, April 3, 19?? – Camp Roberts Chaplain
Box 53, Folder 1
Letters – Professional 1955-1989
From W. Clarence Wright of Wilshire Presbyterian [12/17/57]
From W. Clarence Wright of Wilshire Presbyterian [12/14/55]
From W. Clarence Wright of Wilshire Presbyterian [4/4/58]
From W. Clarence Wright of Wilshire Presbyterian [3/8/60]
From Arlene Judd [11/30/89]
From James H. Laster of the Shenandoah College and Conservatory of Music [6/6/75]
From Leslie Spelman of the University of Redlands [12/5/57]
From W. Clarence Wright of Wilshire Presbyterian [12/23/58]
From W. Clarence Wright of Wilshire Presbyterian [2/25/58]
To Mr. Zachary Brown from W. Clarence Wright of Wilshire Presbyterian [1/26/56]
From W. Clarence Wright of Wilshire Presbyterian [8/26/58]
From David Barnes [2/6/86]
From Arlene [10/26/91]
From W. Clarence Wright of Wilshire Presbyterian [2/7/57]
From Martha Farr, AGO Pasadena [5/3/60]
From President Sutherland of Biola College [3/17/60]
Box 31, Folder 2
Box 6, Folder 4
Letters from Raner and Barbara to Robert and Lida Tusler 1970-1982
12/10/82
11/28/82
11/18/82
11/15/82 with attached concert program, USC
11/05/82
One page of sheet music "2. Fugue" with attached newspaper clippings [11/03/82], in envelope
11/02/82 with attached note ("The Case of the Missing Letters") and newspaper clipping; attached to letter: 10/28/82 with
attached note
10/17/82 with attached sheet music page and concert program, USC
10/13/82
10/05/82 with attached recital program, American Guild of Organists
09/29/82
09/26/82
09/17/82 handwritten letter (three pages) and sheet music ("Sonata for Two Pianos") inside envelope
09/10/82
09/09/82
08/21/82 with attached envelope
Letter dated Aug. 1982
08/25/82
08/21/82 ("The Case of the Second Missing Letter")
08/21/82
08/17/82
07/25/82
Organ recital program, featuring music of Rayner Brown [02/20/82]
Cartoon in envelope [01/27/82]
Card in envelope, 02/27/82
Christmas card with attached note [1981]
07/18/81 with attached recital program featuring music of Rayner Brown
04/06/81 with attached newsletter clipping ("Rayner Brown Spotlighted in Organ Festival")
Card, "Seasons Greetings to…" from Barbara and Rayner
Card, "The Dutch Touch" with handwritten note on back [04/24/79]
Christmas card "The Five Days of Christmas" [1979?]
Card, 07/10/78, in envelope
Christmas card, 1977
Recital program "A Tribute to Rayner Brown" [03/29/77] (two copies)
Birthday card to Robert [04/01/76]
08/15/74, handwritten letter
07/12/74
07/18/72
07/09/72
07/01/72
06/23/72
06/10/72 with attached program
06/03/72 (four pages)
Undated letter to Robert from Barbara ("A breezy Saturday morning hello…")
Recital program [05/24/72]
05/23/72
05/13/72
04/29/72
04/19/72
04/14/72
03/28/72
Concert program, USC, featuring music of Rayner Brown [03/18/72?]
Recital program, Rayner Brown, organ [03/17/72] (two copies, one with handwritten notes)
03/24/72
Copy from unknown source, labeled "The New Records" [August 1971]
Resume for Sheridon Stokes, flute with attached copy of article from NACWPI Bulletin
03/15/72
03/11/72
03/04/72
02/27/72
02/19/72
02/18/72
02/12/72
02/06/72
Undated listing, labeled "Ten Organ Recitals for Regional Convention"
02/05/72, handwritten letter from Barbara
02/04/72
01/29/72
01/28/72
01/22/72
01/16/72
01/14/72
01/07/72
12/22/71
12/08/71
11/23/71
11/19/71
09/27/71
09/16/71
07/27/70
Box 5, Folder 1
Letters from Rayner and Barbara to Robert and Lida Tusler 1992-1993
Letters: 12/31/93
12/26/93
12/17/93 with attached organ recital program and handwritten chart
12/08/93
11/25/93
11/11/93
Newspaper clipping: "The Southland Fires" [10/30/93]
11/07/93
Concert Program: The William Lock Singers and Orchestra, featuring music of Rayner Brown [11/06/93]
10/31/93
Envelope containing three photos [Oct. 1993]
10/26/93
10/12/93
09/28/93, printed on back of sheet music ("First Prelude") with attached football schedule
09/08/93
08/27/93
09/13/93
08/02/93
07/31/93
07/13/93
07/08/93 with attached sheet music ("Pedal Cadenza from Sirist")
06/30/93
06/19/93
06/09/93 with attached newspaper clipping: "Cries, Whomps and Whimpers at the Ojai Finale" [06/08/93]
06/05/93 with attached newspaper photos of Michael Woo and Richard Riordan
05/28/93
05/21/93 printed on program of organ recital featuring music of Rayner Brown
05/07/93
05/01/93 with copy of picture of two performers of the music of Rayner Brown
Undated letter, printed on back of unidentified publication advertising the premiere of a Rayner Brown work [May 1993]
04/28/93 printed on organ recital program with attached pictures of Michele Zukovsky and a dog
04/24/93 printed on organ recital program
04/16/93
04/06/93 note: "The Final Game"
Undated chart of the "Final Four"
03/28/93 organ recital program featuring the music of Rayner Brown
03/17/93
03/14/93 recital program: "Pasadena Pro Musica"
03/09/93
03/07/93 recital program: "American Guild of Organists: Music by Los Angeles Composers" featuring music of Rayner Brown
02/28/93
02/20/93 printed on back of sheet music ("Zymbojk No. 1")
02/20/93 recital program "Sigma Alpha Iota American Composers Program"
02/16/93 card
02/14/93 organ recital program featuring music of Rayner Brown
02/11/93 with attached sheet music "Scherzo 1" (five pages)
01/20/93 with attached recital program featuring music of Rayner Brown
01/20/93 [handwritten letter]
Flyer for organ recital featuring music of Rayner Brown [01/16/93]
Box 5, Folder 3
Letters from Rayner and Barbara to Robert and Lida Tusler 1989-1991
12/27/91
12/14/91
12/03/91
12/01/91
11/12/91 (handwritten letter- two pages)
11/09/91 program "Finals of the Tenth National Organ-Playing Competition"
Envelope containing eight photos of family [1989]
Envelope containing two photos of Rayner and Lida [1989]
Group of six photos of "Mark's Senior Recital" [10/12/90]
10/24/91 printed on back of "1. Prelude"
09/29/91 with handwritten music on back
09/29/91
10/22/91
09/24/91
09/16/91
09/05/91 with attached "Artist Recitals Promo"
08/27/91
08/22/91
08/20/91
08/14/91
08/11/(no year) note pertaining to compositions
08/07/91
08/06/91
08/03/91
07/28/91
07/21/91
07/16/91
Recital schedule and church information for St. Eustache [1991]
07/10/91
Newspaper clipping for "Tarzana Estates" [no date]
07/09/91
07/07/91
06/26/91 written on copy of Music Review: "Rhodes Organ Recital in Pasadena"
05/31/91
05/28/91
05/27/91 with handwritten notes
05/23/91
05/21/91
05/17/91
05/08/91
05/03/91
04/17/91
04/02/91
Birthday card for Robert Tusler [04/01/91], Christams card from Barbara and Rayner [1991], postcard to Tuslers from Rayner
[May 14], postcard to Tuslers from Rayner [Aug. 7]
Box 6, Folder 1
Letters from Rayner and Barbara to Robert and Lida Tusler 1987-1989
03/03/89
02/27/89
01/25/89 with handwritten notes
12/04/88
10/16/88
10/04/88
10/11/88
01/13/89
01/01/89
12/22/88
11/10/88
11/09/88 with attached football scores
11/01/88 with attached football scores
07/04/88
06/12/88
06/06/88
06/03/88 handwritten note
04/27/88 written on recital program
03/06/88
03/02/88
02/24/88
02/23/89
02/21/88
02/17/88
02/11/88
01/27/88
01/20/88
01/07/88
12/28/87
12/15/87
Christmas card from Barbara and Rayner [1987]
12/08/87
11/30/87
11/22/87
11/19/87
Unidentified score: text: "Asaph, Heman, Ethan…"
10/31/87
10/24/87
Review from "The American Organist" [September 1987]
Box 5, Folder 4
Letters from Rayner and Barbara to Robert and Lida Tusler - Part II 1989-1991
03/24/91
03/10/91
02/28/91
02/26/91
02/25/91
02/19/91
02/16/91 printed on back of organ recital program featuring music of Rayner Brown
02/08/91
02/07/91
01/29/91
01/17/91
12/27/90 with attached newspaper clipping "Bush Says He Is Mentally Ready to Order Attack on Iraqi Forces"
Undated card from Barbara and Rayner
12/23/90
12/15/90
12/04/90
11/30/90
11/11/90
11/15/90
11/06/90 with attached program "Rayner Brown: This is Your Night" (music of Rayner Brown) and group photo
11/05/90
10/28/90
Advertisement for "Rayner Brown: This Is Your Night" in LA Pipeline [10/15/90]
10/02/90
09/30/90 with attached clipping of train
09/02/90
08/17/90
08/14/90
08/05/90
08/01/90
Copies of six newspaper advertisements for Rayner Brown recitals, from unidentified sources, with picture [08/26/37]
07/25/90
06/26/90
05/14/90
04/29/90
04/17/90
04/07/90
List of compositions "Organ Duets" [1961-1990]
03/30/90
03/25/90
Program from Sigma Alpha Iota "An Afternoon of Music" featuring music of Rayner Brown [03/18/90]
03/12/90 printed on back of organ recital program featuring music of Rayner Brown
02/27/90
Copy of newspaper article: Henken, John. "Neo-Classical Recital by Organist Cherry Rhodes." Los Angeles Times (Feb. 27,
1990).
Copy of newspaper article: Cariaga, Daniel. "Rayner Brown: The Organist/Composer at 78." Los Angeles Times (Feb. 23, 1990).
Advertisement for recital by the Kent Shulman Duo, featuring music of Rayner Brown [02/25/90]
Program for the High Desert Symphony Orchestra, featuring music of Rayner Brown [1989-1990]
Box 5, Folder 5
Letters from Rayner and Barbara to Robert and Lida Tusler - Part III 1989-1991
Advertisement for performance of St. Winfred Mass, Pasadena Pro Musica [02/23/(no year)]
02/13/90 with attached organ recital program
02/07/90
01/30/90 with handwritten note on back
01/01/90
12/27/89 with attached handwritten note
12/07/89
Christmas card [1989]
12/12/89
11/28/89
11/14/89 with attached organ program
11/04/89
10/31/89 with two attached drawings
10/29/89
10/20/89
10/19/89 with drawing on back
09/28/89
09/20/89
09/07/89
08/15/89
08/02/89
07/26/89 with handwritten notes on back
Brief note "FRB born 2/23/12…"
07/11/89
07/16/88
Card to Tus from Rayner [no date]
06/22/89 with attached receipt, handwritten note on back
06/13/89
05/26/89
05/11/89
05/06/89
04/25/89
Brief note: "Happy Moving Day!" [no date]
04/08/89
04/05/89
Birthday card to Tus from Rayner and Barbara [01/01/89]
01/01/89
03/27/89
03/21/89 with attached basketball schedule
03/18/89
Box 5, Folder 2
Letters from Rayner and Barbara to Robert and Lida Tusler Part II 1992-1993
If not otherwise indicated, the item is a letter from Rayner to Robert and Lida Tusler.
01/10/93 with attached "Thank you" card, photo ("Fabiola"), Christmas card (Dec. 1992), and envelope containing five photos
of Rayner, Barbara, Ladd, Cherry, and others (Jan. 1993)
12/27/92 printed on back of "Cantata…Sr. Don Quixote"
12/06/92
11/24/92
11/18/92
11/02/92 recital program with inserted note from Rayner (11/03/92)
08/31/92
10/30/92
10/22/92
10/18/92 organ recital program
10/18/92 with attached picture of grandson
10/12/92
10/11/92 recital program
10/07/92
10/03/92 organ recital program featuring music of Rayner Brown, with attached letter [10/04/92]
09/29/92
09/22/92
09/17/92
09/04/92
08/29/92
08/21/92
Envelope containing seven photos of family [Aug. 1992]
08/18/92
08/16/92 with two photos attached of Rayner and Arlene
08/11/92 note pertaining to "Zimbajk"
08/08/92
07/27/92 with attached clipping about Ruben Dario
07/16/92
07/07/92
06/30/92
06/20/92 with attached business card for Dr. Arthur C. Hurt III
06/18/(no year)
06/12/92
06/01/92
05/27/92
05/22/92
05/14/92
05/05/92
04/10/92
Note [Good Friday/Easter 1992]
04/04/92
03/22/92 with attached clipping with handwritten notes
03/22/92
03/18/92
02/27/92
02/24/92
02/07/92
01/28/92
01/20/92
01/16/92
01/14/92
01/06/92
Box 28, Folder 6
Letters Re: California Organist 1941-1966
To George Brandon [9/18/63]
From James R. Weeks, Long Beach AGO Dean [10/4/63]
From Georger Brandon [9/27/63]
From Gerhard Wuensch [9/25/??]
From George Frederick McKay [10/7/63]
From Gerhard Wuensch [4/9/63]
From Gerhard Wuensch [6/7/?]
From Wilmer Hayden Welsch, professor at Winthrop College
From James F. Coats [6/20/63]
From George F. McKay [3/11/63]
From Mrs. Victoria Ford [6/7/63]
From Walter E. Hartley [5/30/63]
From George F. McKay [5/18/63]
To the Convention Chairmen of the 15 regional AGO conventions from Rayner Brown [4/15/63]
From Gerhard Wuensch [10/10/63]
From David J. Billeter, AGO Pasadena [4/30/76]
From Antony Garlick [1/14/63]
From James H. Winter [1/7/63]
From Charles K. Hoag [1/4/63]
From Antony Garlick [1/4/63]
From Scott Austin [12/28/62]
From Joseph Alexander [12/27/62]
From Axel Anderson [11/20/62]
To Gene from Rayner [12/28/62] and a reply to Rayner from Gene [12/28/62]
From Harold Harsch [12/31/62]
From Maurice Need (?) [12/12/62]
From Alec Wyton, Cathedral of St. John the Divine, NYC [11/28/62]
Postcard from Richard Donovan [12/15/62]
From George Walker [11/28/62]
Copies of two letters to Gene Driskill; one is to Mr. W. McNeil Lowry [11/27/62] and the other is to Rayner and a few others
[11/30/62]
From Donald Wilson [1/26/63]
From C. A. Feather [1/16/63]
From Gerhard Wuensch [1/13/63]
Letter from Ian Meloy [1/29/63]
List of Published Works of Eugene Hemmer
From Kenneth Lowenberg [2/13/63]
From Philip M. Slates
From Rodney Ash [2/6/63]
From Leon Dallin [2/8/63]
From Julian Zuniga [2/5/63]
From Eugene Hemmer [2/28/63]
From George Frederick McKay [3/26/63]
From George Frederick McKay [2/28/63]
From Florence S. Abel [3/8/63]
From Luther Tyson [2/19/63
To Don Stone from Rayner [3/11/63]
To Clifford Vaughn from Rayner [3/11/63]
To William Grant Still from Rayner [3/11/63]
To Gerhard Wuensch from Rayner [3/11/63]
To Donald Johns from Rayner [3/9/63]
From Paul Earls [3/9/63]
From Donald Johns [3/18/63]
From Julian Zuniga [3/22/63]
To Paul Earls from Rayner [3/11/63]
From Irene Robertson [10/9/42]
Three letters from Elkan-Vogel [12/15, 19, 21/41]
From Nancy Edwards [3/9/66]
From Gustave Reese [7/18/42]
From Royal A Brown [7/27/42]
Box 19, Folder 7
Letters to R.B. 1938-1989
Letter to Rayner from Musicians' Guild, Los Angeles [03/04/38]
Letter to Rayner from Al [07/07/80]
Letter to Rayner from Lowndes Maury [06/08/61]
Letter to Rayner from W. Clarence Wright, Wilshire Presbyterian Chuch [02/27/61]
Letter to Rayner from Leslie P. Spelman, AGO [01/26/61]
Letter and envelope to Rayner from W. Clarence Wright, Wilshire Presbyterian Church [12/13/42]
Letter to Rayner from Anita M. Ames, Biola College [05/13/80]
Letter to Rayner from Robert P. Prichard [10/31/56]
Note and envelope to Rayner from Xenia Desby [04/16/75]
Letter to Rayner from John T. Burke, First Congregational Church of Berkeley [11/07/77] with attached "The Centennial Hymn"
Postcard to Rayner and Barbara from Cherry and Ladd [07/13/89]
Note from Janice Wojciak [no date]
Card and envelope to Rayner from Russell Stepan [09/23/89]
Card and envelope to Rayner from Patricia Murphy Lamb [02/17/89]
Card and envelope to Rayner from Elfrefda Baum [11/22/88]
Card to Rayner from Raylusch [07/04/76]
Letter to Rayner from Dan, University of California, Riverside [04/25/74]
Letter to "friends" from Wilbur Held [Feb. 1988]
Letter to Rayner and Barbara from Cherry and Ladd [no date]
Box 23, Folder 6
Box 23, Folder 7
Letters to Rayner 1978-01-30-1978-03-17
Box 24, Folder 2
Letters to Rayner 1979
From Claire Idendrix [9/11/79]
From Jean and Ray Drake [December 1979]
From Carolyn Wineland, program to a service at 1st Presbyterian Church in Burbank [8/26/79]
From Willian F. Russell, Pomona College [4/3/79]
To Norman from John La Montaine [9/5/79]
To Russell Sherman from John La Montaine [9/5/79]
Postcard from the Gleasons [6/22/79]
From Dorothea Arne Steinke, Los Alamos Arts Council [6/19/79]
From Elfrieda, AGO [7/12/79]
From David Britton [Christmas 1979]
Postcard from Arlene [9/7/79]
Box 24, Folder 4
Letters to Rayner 1980
From Judith Berman, The Musart Singers [2/29/80]
To Robert Tusler from Judith Berman [2/29/80]
From Mrs. Gleason (?) [11/24/80]
From Emma and Kent Smith, note and invitation [10/13/80]
Letter and concert announcement from Matt Doran [1980]
From Pauline Chubbuck, AGO Pasadena [2/27/80]
Leslie Spelman [11/4/80]
Card from? Childs [2/23/80]
From Arlene [2/10/80]
From Mrs. Gene Marie Green [1/23/80]
Postcard from Bernice and Ben, originally attached to a gift [2/20/80]
From Ruth Francety (?) [9/7/80]
From Judith Berman [2/6/80]
Box 24, Folder 5
Letters to Rayner 1981
From Gerhard Wuensch [3/29/81]
From Richard Lund [6/3/80]
From Sally Terri Biggs [11/27/81]
From R. Plummer [10/13/81]
Note and letter from Judith M. Berman [3/13/81]
Two letters from Robert Prichard, Pasadena Presbyterian [3/18/81 & 3/30/81]
Flyer for "Musical Offerings of the Lenten Season, 1981, First Presbyterian Church of Salem, Oregon"
From Conrad Seamen [4/14/81]
From Homer Wickline [4/14/81]
From Connie Moody [4/14/81]
Program from "Musique En Liberte 1981"
From Fred Barnes [9/10/81]
From Bonnie Picketts [6/12/81]
From Bob Prichard [12/26/81]
From Hermann Lehnhoff [8/14/81]
Box 24, Folder 7
Letters to Rayner 1982
From Helena (?) illegiable
Postcard invitation to cocktails on July 6th
Note and clippings from Bob Duerr, Pasadena Chamber Orchestra, Program for an organ recital by Jean Guillou [6/4/82] & LA
Times review of the concert [6/8/82]
Bundle of cards to Barbara: 1st card is from Emma and Kent [4/26/82] including hand drawn pictures of sailboats and a sketch
of a person signed or labled "Kent." ; 2nd letter from Emma and Kent [5/11/82]; 3rd letter from Emma [5/14/82]
Card from Jean and Phillip C. Dodson [9/14/82]
Card from Bonnie and Blaine [6/12/82]
Note from Kent and Emma [8/5/82]
From Margaret Richards [10/12/82]
Card from Ruth with picture of Arno Schonstedt
Letter from ASCAP [8/20/82]
American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, Combined Statement of Receipts, Expenses Paid and Change in Fund Balance
[12/31/82]
Letter from "Russel" (?) [9/20/82]
Letter from Al [3/6/82]
From Robert Parris [2/14/82]
From Erin L. Faust [2/5/82]
Invitation card from John Biggs [1982?]
From Ronn J. Huettmann
From Dr. Paul W. Wohlgemuth of Oral Roberts University [6/4/82]
"Music: Newsletter of the School of Music, University of Southern California" Vol. V, No. 2; Page 17 has a mention of Rayner
and the premiers of 10 of his new compositions
Picture of the organ of St. Bavoskerk, Haarlem [Christmas 1982]
Card from Ezra and Margaret
Letter from Thurston J. Dox [9/24/82]
Card from Margaret [6/18/82]
From Arno Schonstedt [December 1982]
Letter from Robert Prichard [6/11/82] with attached Worship and Arts Calendar for July and June, 1982
Letter to Nathalie Teevin from Dorothy Remsen [3/20/82]
From Robert B. Fischer, Biola University [10/15/82]
Card from Ezra and Margaret which appears to have been originally attached to a gift of chocolate
From Elfrieda [11/9/82]
Thank you note from Stan and Cindy. The enveloppe's return address says "John S. Bogel" [11/20/82]
From Janice Mitchell [11/20/82]
From Jean and Ray Drake [12/17/82]
Thank you card from Mrs. Irving G. Hessen (Erna) [10/25/82]
Card from Ruth Plummer [9/30/82 – 7 A.M.]
Box 23, Folder 1
Letters to Rayner 1982-1983
DMA Recital Invitation from Patricia Murphy Lamb
Postcard from David Jen (?) archivist for theHiller Foundation [Nov. 23, 1983]
Thank you note from Janet Keulen Alfuso [Dec. 15, 1983]
Two letters from Jan Overduin of Wilfrid Laurier University [Nov. 3 & 21, 1983]
Thank you note from Daniel Quig (?) [Dec. 23, 1983]
Note from Ms. Betty Trimmer
Note from Sharon Davis [Oct. 5, 1983]
Two letters from Dan Johnson of UC Riverside. [Oct. 2 & 13, 1983]
Inquiry from Robert Schindler, Pikeville College [Sept. 20, 1983]
Thank you note from Ruth [June 23, 1982]
Thank you note from Msgr. Paul E. Stroup [March 31, 1983] and program from Msgr. Stroup's Requiem Mass on June 29, 1983.
Invitation to Music Awards Banquet – "awarding of Raynor Brown scholarship in composition" [May 13, 1983]
Letter to Barbara from Linda Tusler [April, 4, 1983]. Includes a candid photograph of Barbara and Raynor and the program
for a recital by pianist Blaise Bryski on March 20, 1983.
Project proposal and bio from Arthur Woodbury. [Feb. 18, 1983]
Thank you note from Jean Dodson [March 3, 1983]
Thank you note from Gaylod [3/6/83]
Thankyou note from Barbara Stanley Ricketts and a program from her Masters Recital [2/26/83].
Note from Ladd Thomas [3/10/83]
Thank you note from Karel Paukert of the Cleveland Museum of Art
Birthday Card dated 2/23/83
Note from David Criaghead [3/6/83]
Card from Mr. & Mrs. Ricketts [3/28/83]
Note from "Elfrieda" [5/6/83]
Short letter from Elfrieda [4/20/83]
Father's Day card from Judy and Zach
Seasons greetings from Boris Pilli [1982]
Note from Robert Duerr, Pasadena Chamber Orchestra [3/18/83]
Thank you from Orpha Ochise [7/2/83]
Note from Janice Mitchell, AGO Dean of Los Angeles [8/12/83]
Note from Bill Locks [3/18/83]
Note from Gilbert Reese [8/11/83]
Birthday Card from ??
Thank you note from Connie Grisham [July 1983]
Letter of inquiry from Kirk Evan Billet
Letter from Michael [7/17/83]
Note of payment from Connie Kuhne
Invitation to an Open House in honor of Janice Mitchell, 7/31/1983
Invitation to an organ recital by Clifford Vaughan dated 8/22/83
Card from Bernice and Ben Zelinka (?) [January 1983]
Thank you note from "Bill"
Note from Bonnie [2/9/83]
Note from Lee Jessingh (?) [2/4/83]
2 cards and one letter from Bonnie Ricketts. [1/3/83, 1/8/83 & 1/27/83]
Christmas card from Bob and Bonnie Ricketts [1983]
Note from Ezra and Margaret [3/23/83]
Thank you from Dr. Wuensch [7/11/83]
Card and note from John Garth [2/15/83]
Box 24, Folder 1
Letters to Rayner (Retirement) 1977
From AGO Far Western Region [7/7/77]
From Lucille of Wilshire Presbyterian [5/31/77]
Kathryn K. James [9/7/77]
From Halstead Mc Cormac [6/25/77]
Card from George and Eleanor Armstead
Card from Tom Harper
From Roger Martinson [3/11/77]
Birthday card from Bill [1977]
Page from the AGO magazine with a paragraph about Rayner's retirement. [1977]
Rayner's nameplate from his office door at Biola College
From Farat (?) and Hilda [5/17/77]
Card from Irma Hall [May 1977]
Card from Iona Haugh (?)
From Carlene Kern [5/23/77]
From Daniel Britton (?) [4/17/77]
Request from Cornelius Rainsford [5/26/77]
From Mrs. G. Lampright, Music Print Corporation [5/19/77]
From Betty and Jim [1/12/77]
From Michael Young [11/6/77]
From Liz Van Lant [10/16/77]
From Don Johns [2/14/77]
Box 2, Folder 8
Letters to Rayner Brown (Wickline, Homer) 1981-1987
Newspaper placed in archival paper
Letter to Rayner from Homer [08/27/84]
Letter and envelope to Rayner from Homer [01/31/84]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [02/16/84]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [03/16/84]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [03/22/84]Letter to Rayner from Homer [04/24/84]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [labeled "Saturday Afternoon"]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [03/23/84]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [labeled "Sat late afternoon" '81]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [01/27/81]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [ Tues. 12/07- no year]
Bulletin from St. Michael the Archangel Church, advertisement for Homer Wickline's organ recital [08/25/81]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [09/22/84]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [08/10/84]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [10/13/84]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [02/03/85]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [10/29/84]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [12/04/84]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [01/29/85]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [12/29/84]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [05/27/85]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [05/19/85]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [08/01/85]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [04/29/85]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [05/03/85]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [04/22/85]
Bulletin from West Brooksville Congregational Church/Saunders Memorial Congregational Church featuring Homer Wickline and
Conrad Seaman [06/30/85]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [07/08/85]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [06/27/85]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [08/16/85]Letter to Rayner from Homer [07/06/85]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [09/07/85]
Newspaper clipping from Pittsburgh Catholic [01/25/85]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [02/19/85]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [03/23/85]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [03/01/85]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [02/11/85]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [02/13/85]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [05/20/85]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [05/26/85]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [04/13/85]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [labeled "Saturday Afternoon 5:50" c.18th 1985]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [06/05/85]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [08/25/85]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [10/12/85], card labeled "Bangor Chapter Ago", letter to Homer from Rayner with response [04/02/76],
Article: Platt, Frederick. "Conducting- Simple as One, Two, Three." Ovation. (no date): 19-20.
Article: Bernheimer, Martin. "A Big LA Splash for Andre Previn." The Pittsburgh Press. (Sept. 28, 1985): C5.
Postcard to Rayner from Homer [10/17/85]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [09/23/85]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [11/04/85]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [03/22/87]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [03/16/87]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [03/12/87]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [labeled "Wednesday Morning 10:10]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [09/29/86]Letter to Rayner from Homer [10/22/86]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [10/18/86]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [labeled "Sunday Aft. 5:05]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [09/07/86]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [labeled "Labor Day Evening 1986"]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [11/19/86]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [10/29/68]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [12/08/86]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [labeled "Friday Morning 0957" Fall '86]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [no date…begins "Your latest letter…"]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [labeled "Monday Morning…Groundhog Day!" 1987]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [01/15/87]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [01/25/87]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [02/__/87]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [02/15/87]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [02/25/87]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [03/__/87]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [04/29/87]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [labeled "Easter Monday Morning" 1987]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [04/05/87]
Envelope to Rayner Brown from Conrad Seamen [02/08/84]
Box 3, Folder 1
Letters to Rayner Brown (Wickline, Homer)- Part II 1978-1987
letter misfiled: Lida and Tus
Letter to Rayner from Homer [10/26/78]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [08/06/81]
Letter and two envelopes to Rayner from Homer [06/20/84]
Postcard to Rayner from Homer [no date] "The Eastland"
Letter to Rayner from Homer [07/14 no year]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [01/19/84]
Bulletin from St. Michael the Archangel Church [11/06/83], Program for Homer's recital of Rayner Brown music [11/27/83], and
envelope
Card and letter to Rayner from Homer [01/04/84]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [labeled "Sunday night" March 1983]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [01/26/84]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [labeled "Sunday Evening", beginning "If Conrad I can persist…"
Letter to Rayner from Homer [08/29/82]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [04/21/83]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [04/25/83]
Bulletin featuring Conrad Seamen and Homer Wickline [08/01/82]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [06/04/82]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [05/13/82]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [05/20/82]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [04/__/83]
Letter and envelope to Rayner from Homer [05/31/82]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [06/10/82]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [06/09/82]
Letter and envelope to Rayner from Homer [03/24/83]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [09/25/83]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [10/12/38]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [10/17/83]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [12/03/83]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [11/15/83]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [11/12/83]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [11/21/83]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [11/22/83]
Letter and ticket stub (The Magic Flute) to Rayner from Homer [11/22/83]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [10/29/83]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [11/29/83]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [12/15/83]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [12/24/83]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [labeled "Wednesday Evening- The Winter Equinox" 1983]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [01/__/83]
Card to Rayner from Homer [Winter 1983]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [02/29/83]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [03/06/83]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [08/24/82]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [08/06/82]
Card to Rayner from Homer [06/23/82]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [09/07/83]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [08/20/83]
Postcard to Rayner from Homer [07/26/83]
Recital Announcement/Tourist Information, with notes by Homer [May-July, no year]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [06/19/83]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [01/31/83]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [12/28/82]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [06/__/83]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [06/07/84]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [06/04/84]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [06/02/84]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [05/14/84]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [05/24/84]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [labeled "Saturday Evening ere Dinner" 1984]
Program: Beth Shalom Spring Concert (Homer Wickline, accompanist) [05/28/81]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [11/06/84]
Misfiled Letter to Rayner and Barbara from Tus and Lida [10/01/86]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [12/24/86]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [07/14/87]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [07/13/87]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [07/09/87]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [05/22/87]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [06/08/87]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [06/14/87]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [06/19/87]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [06/24/87]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [06/25/87]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [07/01/87]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [07/03/87]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [05/30/87]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [07/07/87]
Box 23, Folder 3
Letters to Rayner prior to 1977 1935-1977
many of the letters refer to a record recently released by Rayner
From Thomas E. Miller [10/14/69]
From John Thomas Burke [4/11/73]
From Eugene P. Lombardi [1/18/73]
From Sharon de Keyser [7/12/73]
From Rosemary Baer [6/14/72]
From Marjerie and Frank [5/16/73]
From Derek Lewis of the BBC [9/5/73]
From Leslie P. Spelman [7/25/73]
From Harold Gleason [September 1973]
From Bob Prichard [8/30/73]
Card from Judy and Ron Huntington [1966]
From Julian Zuniga [7/19/66]
Picture card from the Remsens [1976]
From Dotty and Les [1976]
From Kenneth Crawford of Laverton, Australia [4/29/70]
From Joyce Jones [6/7/70]
From Jean Dodson [6/26/69]
From Lynne S. Gross of the Long Beach Unified School District [12/22/73]
From Dov (?) Johns of UC Riverside [12/7/76]
From Leonore Laudman [April 1973]
From Miriam Clapp Duncan of Lawrence University [9/5/73]
From Dorothy Addy [2/24/71]
From Harold Gleason [12/16/72]
From Dorothy Remsen [3/18/73]
From Roger Martinson [12/14/73]
Card from Orpha Ochse [3/13/73]
Post Card from "Crazier"
From Margaret [10/20/66]
Telegram of Congratulations from Larry and Grace Larsen
From Don Johns [3/9/73]
From George E. Klump [7/25/66]
Christmas Post Card from Karl and Schicke [12/18/66]
Note from Dr. & Mrs. Jake Main [12/27/65]
From Julia Howell [3/29/58]
Program from Rollins College Lessons and Carols [12/11/66]
Worship Bulletin for First Presbyterian Church, New Castle, PA [7/25/43]
From Bobbie and Rayner [2/6/72]
From Frank Linden [11/16/35]
From Brownell, Office of the Chaplain, Camp Grant, IL [8/10/42]
From Otto Bostelmann, chairman of Bohemian Composers Group [11/8/58]
From Boh, Pasadena Presbyterian Church [1/31/62]
From Justin Kramer [7/12/62]
From Orpha Ochse, AGO [7/14/62]
From Norberto Guinaldo [4/17/70]
From James Christian, Biola College [12/21/65]
From Breitkopf & Hartel [10/20/71]
From Mrs. Richard K. Biggs [3/26/73]
Aerogramme from Dr. Karl Schiske [2/29/68]
Two newsletters from the Society of Organists, Victoria [October and December 1969] & Aerogram from Terrence Stokes [8/19/69]
From Janet Bailey [Spring 1977]
Worship Bulletin from First Presbyterian, New Castle, PA [3/21/43]
Christmas Card from Florence Riniker
Letter Rayner from Walter Piston [6/14/50]
Letter to Rayner from Joyce Jones [11/20/68]
Box 34, Folder 2
More letters from Homer Wickine 1985-1990
1/3/90
4/29/90
5/8/90
10/22/90
Two postcards, one postmarked 6/24/85; "Thursday Evening"; April 10th; rec'd 5/30/86; rec'd 5/31/86; 5/21/86; 6/5/86; rec'd
8/1/87.
5/30/85
6/4/85; 6/2/85
10/20/89
1/1/88
"Friday 6:35"
12/3/89
12/17/89
12/10/89
"Jan 27th"
2/14/90
2/6/90
"July 25"
10/29/89
"Wednesday afternoon 5:23" 1989
Box 19, Folder 6
Prelim filing– Wick letters 1985-1986
Letter to Rayner from Homer [03/03/86]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [03/20/86]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [03/16/82]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [12/23/__]
Letter to Rayner from Homer ["Wednesday Evening" 8:40, 1985]
Letter to Rayner from Homer ["Tuesday Evening 9:10"]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [01/14/86]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [01/15/86]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [01/10/86]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [01/02/86]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [01/14/86]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [01/17/86]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [01/24/86]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [01/20/86]
Letter to Rayner from Homer ["Saturday Morning 10:03"]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [12/29/86]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [12/26/85] with attached pamphlet "Warner Premiere"
Letter to Rayner from Homer [02/19/85]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [03/10/86]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [02/24/__]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [02/18/__]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [02/22/__]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [02/23/__]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [02/05/86]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [02/14/86]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [02/09/86]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [03/12/86]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [01/29/86]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [01/29/86]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [03/09/86]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [03/07/86]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [03/25/86]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [02/17/86]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [02/14/__]
Letter to Rayner from Homer ["Friday Afternoon 4:53" 1986]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [04/15/86]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [04/06/86]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [04/__/86]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [04/19/86]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [05/01/86]
Box 22, Folder 5
Prichards 1962-1997
Father's Day Card and envelope to Rayner from Zach [1997]
Postcard to Rayner and Barbara from Bob [04/24/71]
Season Schedule: Pasadnea Presbyterian Church- 12th Summer Organ Festival [1981]
Card to Rayner and Barbara from Bob and Bernine? ["Wednesday"]
Letter to Rayner from Bob [06/25/62]
Wedding invitation from Mr. and Mrs. Robert Prichard [09/07/85]
Box 29, Folder 4
Programs and Flyers 1930-2001
Ambassador Foundation 1984-85 Season, p. 16
The American Organist, May 1991, p. 45
Program, Cherry Rhodes & Ladd Thomas, organists [3/2/84]
Program, rudolf Inselmann, organist [2/12/84]
Program, Elizabeth Van Lant, organist [1/29/84]
Morning Worship Bulletin, 12th Regiment Chapel, Camp Roberts, CA [4/25/43]
The Diapason, June 1982
PasaPipes, March 1994
Newspaper picture of Camp Roberts where Rayner and Barbara lived 1943-44
Wedding Announcement for Ken H. Bennett and Terry Loughney
Bonnie Stanley Ricketts, organist
USC Alumni Newsletter, Oct. 1976, p. 4
Clarinet Choir News International, Fall 1979.
Program, Janet Krellwitz, organist [5/23/82]
Copied clipping from an unknown source, upcoming performance of Rayner's "Music for Summer Weekend: Four Shoronic Preludes."
Marian & David Craighead, organists [5/13/94]; Peoria AGO Recital [2/19/95]
Homer Wickline, organist [5/26/85]
LA Pipeline, February 2001
Los Angeles AGO Chapter Program for 1942 – 1943
LA Brass Society Recording Flyer, includes Rayner's "Five Pieces for Organ, Harp, Brass and Percussion
First Congregation Church Worship Bulletins [4/30/39], [10/8/39], [5/14/39]
Samuel Schwartz, organist [10/3/92]
Worship Bulletins for the Northeast Chapel of the 16th Infantry Regiment, Camp Roberts, CA [3/28/43] & [3/21/43]
SAI American Composer's Program [2/20/93]
Catherine Crozier, organist [3/5/79]
Pasadena Pro Musica [2/23/90]
Student Concert Guild, Charles Shatto and Rayner Brown, organists, September 30th; Includes a copied newspaper article about
the concert
Commencement Exercises, Class of 1930, San Diego Senior High School
Vesper Service, Class of June 1930
Box 11, Folder 4
R's "Song of Zechariah" 1991
Nothing in this folder relates to "Song of Zechariah"
Chabot, Lucy. "Thousands Baptized in Ocean Rite." Los Angeles Times (Aug. 18, 1990).
Program: Beethoven Festival! [1991]
Advertisement for USC Symphonic Band Concert [01/12/62]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [05/01/91]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [05/21/91]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [07/03/91]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [05/30/91]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [04/08/91]
Box 11, Folder 6
Rayner's Teachers 1929-1968
Letter to Rayner from Dudley Warner Fitch [03/13/42]
Letter to Rayner from Lucien Cailliet [03/13/42]
Picture of Dudley Warner Fitch, with notes at bottom
Note to Rayner from Boris Morris (professor) [no date- after service in WW II]
Program from St. Paul's Cathedral [05/31/37]
Letter to Rayner from Dudley Warner Fitch [04/22/68]
Newspaper clipping: bio of Rayner and concert announcement [no date]
Program: Royal A. Brown, organ (with Rayner) [12/12/29]
Small newspaper clipping, obituary for Lucien Cailliet (professor) [Jan. 1985]
Newspaper clipping: obituary for Charles E. Pemerbton (professor) [1937?]
Newspaper clipping: "Bail Given for Release of Couple" concerning Hanns Eisler [10/07/47] (note: "Rayner says this man is
the best teacher he ever had")
Box 20, Folder 2
Box 18, Folder 2
Spelman- Dr. Leslie Pratt 1940-1987
Letter to "Friends" from Leslie Pratt Spelman [05/25/87]
Letter to "Family and Friends" from Leslie Pratt Spelman [Dec. 1986]
Program: Pacific Coast Regional Convention of AGO- First Methodist Church [June 24-6, 1940]
Letter to Rayner Brown from Leslie Pratt Spelman [05/28/40]
Letter to Rayner from Leslie P. Spelman [01/15/81]
Newsletter: AGO, San Diego Chapter [01/13/81]
Letter to Rayner from Leslie Spelman [Christmas, no year]
Letter to Rayner from Majorie Belliaeff, AGO San Diego Chapter
Program: AGO San Diego Chapter- "A Tribute to a Teacher honoring Leslie Pratt Spelman" [01/12/81]
Letter to Rayner from Marvin McKissick, Biola College [12/06/60]
Box 2, Folder 7
St. Winfred's Mass- Contract for Performance 1986-1987
Letter with response attached and envelope to E.P. Dutton from Rayner Brown [06/30/86]
Letter to Charles Elton of Curtis Brown from Rayner Brown [03/02/87]
Letter to Rayner Brown from Charles Elton [02/16/87]
Permission for Musical Setting, from Curtis Brown
Signature Page, Curtis Brown [02/23/87]
Letter to Rayner Brown from Elizabeth Stevens of Curtis Brown [02/23/87]
Box 23, Folder 4
Box 19, Folder 1
Tusler- Letters 1986-1989
Letter to Rayner and Barbara from Robert Tusler [01/26/89]
Program: "Harmonie en perspectief" containing notes by Robert Tusler
Postcard "Edinburgh" to Rayner and Barbara from Robert Tusler [01/11/89]
Card and envelope to Rayner and Barbara from Bridget, Rick and Wiggletto Risembergs [07/10/86]
Wedding invitation for Judith Ann Pfuntner and Mark Tusler [07/13/86]
Letter to Rayner and Barbara from Robert Tusler [09/25/87]
Letter to Rayner and Barbara from Robert Tusler [03/16/89]
Box 23, Folder 2
Undated Letters to Rayner undated
From Ron at Wilshire Christian Church, "November 3rd"
From Steve Juscik
Two concert invitations from an unspecified year
Merry Christmas from Mildred and Fred
Thank you from Cherry and Ladd
From Mr. & Mrs. Frank Millard Billings
From Joyce Jones
Christmas card from the "Chancel Choir" 1964?
From Anita Priest
Letter of inquiry from Natalie Freeman
Note from sender, signiture illegible
Season's Greetings from Judy, Ron, and Ronnie Huntington
Letter to Barbara from Ron Huntington [April 15, ?]
Letter from W. Clarence Wright
Postcard of Austria from the "Korus" [8/21/57?]
Letter and promotional materials from Gregg M. Nestor
Note from Orpha [Oct. 27?]
Box 15, Folder 2
Various Cards/Letters 1939-1997
Christmas card from Rayner and Barbara [1996], 3 copies
Christmas card from the choir of Westwood Methodist [12/27/39]
Letter to Rayner from Gordon C. Chapman, Westwood Community Church [11/09/39]
Letter and notecard to Rayner from Gordon Chapman [no date]
Letter and envelope "Froidevaux" [09/02/92]
Christmas card from Barbara and Rayner [no date] (Merry, Merry, merry, Happy, happy)
Christmas card from Marthella, Zachary, Barbara, Rayner [1966]
Letter, envelope, and paper ("Follow this written guide") [08/05/97]
Box 7, Folder 4
Various Letters 1963-2000
Letter to Rayner from Homer "Tuesday Morning 11:39"
Letter to Rayner from Homer [06/22/88]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [07/02/88]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [07/06/__]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [03/01/88]
Letter "Dear Sirs" from Mrs. Donald W. Wilson [12/12/63]
Invitation to flute choir concert [12/12/75]
Letter to Rayner from Sean Tyler (IBC) [07/05/96]
Note "Dear Friends and Family" from John, Genesa, Jasper, Amber [June 1992]
Card, with picture, to Barbara from Tus and Lida [04/01/00]
Christmas card to Rayner from Les and Dotty Remsen?
Christmas card from Rayner [1973], 3 pages
Letter to Rayner from Homer [02/12/91]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [02/01/91]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [02/04/91]
Letter, envelope, and newspaper clipping to Rayner from Homer [07/28/88]
Map of Portsmouth, trolley brochure, and envelope to Rayner from Homer [08/01/88]
Letter to Rayner from Homer "Monday Evening" [1990]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [07/14/90]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [08/01/90?]
Church bulletin, Homer Wickline, organ [07/24/88]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [02/01/91]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [11/06/90]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [02/05/91]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [12/28/90]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [01/12/91]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [01/23/91]
Birthday card to Rayner from Chancel Choir, Judy Klinger [no date]
Note to Rayner and Barbara from Roy and Dorothy Whalley, with attached eulogy for Richard (3 pages)
Letter to Rayner from Janice Woycrak? And Dee [no date]
Christmas card from Barbara and Rayner [1998]
Holiday letter, with envelope, to Barbara from Tom and Patty Worth [2000]
Letter to Barbara and Rayner from Tus and Lida [08/11/96], 4 pages
Box 20, Folder 7
Various Letters from Box C 1975-2001
Christmas card from Barbara and Rayner [1975], 7 copies and envelope
Christmas card from Lazlo and Karen Lak [no year]
Christmas card and envelope from Harold Gleason [1975]
Chritstas card from Gaylord [1975]
Christmas card from Barbara and Rayner [1979], 5 copies
Card to Bobb? From Peggy McClern? [1979]
Note to Barbara from Roger and Margaret Harmon [Jun. 1999]
Letter and envelope to Barbara from Bernie? Zelonka [06/30/01]
Letter to Rayner and Barbara from Connie Grisham [06/09/99]
Letter to Rayner from The Musicians' Union Local 47 [02/12/86]
Letter to Rayner from Don G. Fontana, Garden Grove Community Church [05/26/77] with attached church and organ statistics
Letter to Rayner and Barbara from Robert Tusler [05/10/93]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [08/06/92]
Letter, envelope, and chart to Rayner and Barbara from Robert and Lida Tusler [01/16/85]
Letter to Rayner from David Hoiles, Hans Holborn, First UMC [10/22/93]
Letter to Rayner and Barbara from Robert Tusler [05/27/86]
Letter to Barbara from David Boucher [05/02/01]
Letter to Rayner from Sam Batt Owens, Grace-St. Luke's Episcopal Church [02/23/78]
Card and envelope to Barbara from Cherry and Ladd [06/24/99]
Letter to Rayner from International Biographical Centre [02/16/01]
Letter with attached note from Bob Tall, AGO Los Angeles Chapter [1989-90]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [10/08/90]
Letter to Raynr from Alicer Rucker, AGO Los Angeles Chapter [06/09/89]
Box 7, Folder 5
Various Letters- Part II 1946-1999
Christmas card, envelope, and picture to Barbara and Rayner from Catherine Gleason [01/06/99]
Christmas card from Becky [no date]
Birthday card from Cherry and Ladd [no date]
Card and envelope to Barbara and Rayner from Cherry Rhodes [07/31/95]
Birthday card to Rayner from Billy? [02/23/95]
Card with baby picture to Barbara and Rayner from Bonnie Ricketts? [03/26/__]
Postcard, Griffith Park [no date]
Note and envelope to Rayner from Fran Johnston [09/20/95]
Note to Rayner and Barbara from Bill and Marlene Hazen [no date]
Note from Elfrieda Baum? [Dec. 1987]
Card to Rayner from Bonnie [11/29/__]
Note to Rayner from Thomas Foster with concert calendar, All Saints' Episcopal Church [01/11/91]
Envelope containing note and candle, belated birthday for Rayner [1995]
Letter to Rayner from Tus and Lida [10/01/96]
Christmas card to Barbara and Rayner from Myra, Roger, Tara, Marissa, Sterling [no date]
Christmas card from Blaine, Bonnie, and Catherine Ricketts [no date]
Sheet music (Christmas card?) from Barbara and Rayner [1969]
Christmas card from Barbara and Rayner [1990], 4 copies
Chistmas card and envelope from Barbara and Rayner [1972], 3 copies
Christmas card in envelope from Barbara, Rayner, and Zachary [1946]
Christmas card to Barbara from Irene C. Langton [1995]
Letter to Rayner from Sidney B. Smith [02/04/02]
Letter "Dear friends" from Ron and Rommie? [12/__/87]
Series of cartoons to Rayner from McGlinchy [no date], 7 pages
Birthday Card to Matt from Barbara and Rayner [no date]
Note to Rayner from Arlene Judd [11/05/92]
Thank you/New Years card from Barbara and Rayner [1994]
Christmas card from Rayner and Barbara [1996], 5 copies
Letter to Rayner from Terry Solomonson, regarding commissions [07/05/84]
Letter and envelope to Rayner from Conrad Seamen [04/29/88]
Letter, attached note, and envelope to Rayner from Homer [04/13/88]
Letter and information about "Papillions" to Rayner from Catherine Crozier [01/27/90]
Box 22, Folder 1
Wickline 1937-1991
Letter to Rayner from Homer [09/26/85]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [11/20/89]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [11/05/89]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [12/05/85]
Letter to Rayner from Homer ["Wednesday Afternoon 1:40", 1985]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [12/01/85]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [02/01/86]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [10/29/__]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [03/29/85]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [04/09/85]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [02/04/86]
Newspaper clipping: Bernheimer, Martin. "A Little Night Music from Peter Maag." Loa Angeles Times (Aug. 31, 1991)
Letter to Rayner from Homer [02/09/86] with attached article: Said, Edward W. "Remembrances of Things Played." Harper's (Nov.
1985)
Letter to Rayner from Homer ["Friday Afternoon" no year]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [02/15/86]
Program: Homer Wickline, organ [03/31/85]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [10/20/88] with two attached train tickets
Postcard to Rayner from Homer [09/30/88]
Letter to Rayner from Homer ["Saturday Evening 9:00 on the dot!" 1988]
Program: Homer Wickline, organ [04/04/82]
Program: Homer Wickline, organ [10/30/88]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [10/08/88]
Program: Homer Wickline, organ [10/02/88]
Program: Homer Wickline, organ [04/17/88]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [10/28/88]
Program: Homer Wickline, organ [10/23/88]
Announcement from West Virginia University Division of Music
Program: Homer Wickline, organ [10/16/88]
Program: Homer Wickline, organ [11/06/88]
Program: Homer Wickline, organ [11/20/88]
Program: Homer Wickline, organ [11/13/88]
Program: Homer Wickline, organ [10/09/88]
Prorgam: Homer Wickline, organ [02/28/88]
Program: Homer Wickline, organ [02/07/88]
Program: Homer Wickline, organ [01/24/88]
Program: Homer Wickline, organ [01/24/88]
Program: Homer Wickline, organ [01/17/88]
Program: Homer Wickline, organ [01/31/88]
Program: Homer Wickline, organ [05/08/88]
Program: Homer Wickline, organ [03/13/88]
Program: Homer Wickline, organ [04/10/88]
Program: Homer Wickline, organ [05/01/88]
Program: Homer Wickline, organ [03/20/88]
Program: Homer Wickline, organ [05/22/88]
Program: Homer Wickline, organ [05/15/88]
Program: Homer Wickline, organ [01/10/88]
Program: Homer Wickline, organ [06/05/88]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [04/11/90]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [01/06/90]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [03/28/90]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [02/18/90]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [04/03/__]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [02/22/91]
Church bulletin: St. Paul's Cathedral [05/30/37]
Box 18, Folder 9
Wickline- Letters to R.B., Programs 1988-1989
Letter to Rayner from Homer [11/12/89]
Recital Program: Homer Wickline, organ [02/21/88]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [09/20/89]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [06/07/89]
Letter to Rayner and Barbara from Robert and Lida Tusler [06/06/89]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [06/13/89]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [07/24/89]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [08/16/89]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [10/06/89]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [09/15/89]
Box 18, Folder 12
Willem de Fesch- Research project of Robert L. Tusler- Alkmaar, Holland 1986-1989
Announcement for "Two Lectures by Robert L. Tusler" [04/19/88]
Letter to Rayner and Barbara from Tusler [02/12/89]
Envelope to Rayner from "Feschtival"
Postcard "The Hengist" with notecard to Rayner from Tusler [06/02/87]
Postcard to Rayner and Barbara from Robert and Lida Tusler [05/26/87]
Postcard "Canterbury" to Rayner and Barbara from Robert and Lida Tusler [06/02/87]
Postcard to Rayner and Barbara from Robert Tusler [05/17/86]
Notes on Willem de Fesch (3 notecards) [no date]
"Feschtival Alkamaar: Willem de Fesch" [Sept. 10-20, 1987]
Letter and envelope to Rayner and Barbara from Robert Tusler [06/18/87]
Musical Scores and Parts
Box 44, Folder 4
Box 16, Folder 5
Box 38, Folder 2
Box 27, Folder 3
Assorted Pieces 1939-1999
Composer(s): Brown, Rayner; Pachelbel, Johann; Erik Satie
Kyrie and Gloria, arr. By Rayner Brown
A. G. O. Prelude Book, includes Sonatina No. 16 by Rayner Brown, 1962.
Sonatina No. 28, by RB, 1973
Johann Pachelbel, Ricercar, arr. for 4 trombones by RB, 1980
Messe de Pauvres, Kyrie, by Erik Satie, copied in manuscript by RB. 1939-40. A letter from Frederick M. Barnes is attached,
[8/19/99]
Pages 3 - 16 of an unidentified work for organ.
Copies of Sketches for Piano, by RB, 1994
Sonata for Organ and Brass in a envelope, some pages are missing, 1981.
Box 37, Folder 12
Box 13, Folder 6
Box 20, Folder 5
Box 39, Folder 4
Box 12, Folder 4
Box 32, Folder 6
Box 42, Folder 3
Box 40, Folder 11
Box 12, Folder 3
Box 18, Folder 11
Box 13, Folder 5
Box 13, Folder 3
Box 16, Folder 4
Box 13, Folder 4
Box 32, Folder 5
Box 21, Folder 5
Guillons (arr. Of 'Suite Georgia Brown') 1941-1985
Composer(s): Brown, Rayner
Newspaper clipping: (unknown publication) "Calendar" section (July 26, 1981): 5-8, with attached note
Program: First Congregational Church, Los Angeles- H. Toni Roelofsma, organ, Mary Legigh Putnam, piano [11/09/41]
Merchandise listing for Elkan-Vogel Company (Philadelphia, PA) [no year]
Letter to "Mother and Dad" from Rayner [12/22/41]
Sheet music: Prelude on 'St. Fabian' by Rayner Brown- Published bt Elkan-Vogel Co. [1942]
Term Paper: "Some New Organ Music from Germany" by Rayner Brown [May 1953]
Manuscript: Prelude on 'St. Fabian' by Rayner Brown
Receipt from James Vester: Music Dealer & Importer [06/18/85]
Manuscript: Momentum Repreaesentum by Rayner Brown [Feb. 1944], 6 pages
Envelope containing series of numbers and "Concerto No.4 for Organ and Wind Orchestra" "Two Players and Percussion" "Organ
Music"
Part of church bulletin (unknown date)
Catalog: "Music by Rayner Brown" from Church Music Supply
Box 14, Folder 4
Instrumental Works 1980-1999-02
Composer(s): Brown, Rayner
Passacaglia for Organ Duet, unbound score [Jan. 1998], 33 pages; with two additional cover pages (Passacaglia for Piano Duet
and Passacaglia)
Etudes for Organ, title page and unbound score of Etude 3, 8 pages
Three Pieces for Two Players, unbound score [Feb. 1999], 15 pages (possibly incomplete)
Tuba Quartet, unbound parts [1980], 7 pages (does not include all parts)
Box 45, Folder 2
Items left on the piano in June 1999 1999
Copy of Piece for Organ dated June 1999
Not titled
Cello Concerto dated June 1999
Master copy of something - Cello Concerto (?)
Master copy of something for trumpet (?)
Pencil copies mixed with xeroxed copies of what Rayner left on the piano when he was taken to the hospital on 6/6/99.
Box 39, Folder 7
Box 34, Folder 4
Box 39, Folder 3
Box 41, Folder 13
Box 33, Folder 3
More Unidentified White Pages undated
located in a large square box; Paper clipped groupings are original; all handwritten notes are original
A page marked "Rayner Brown, Concertino, 1. Allegretto" is included
One page marked "2. Adagio", some of the following pages appear to be in some order, although they were not clipped together
One page marked "3. Scherzo"
Cover page to "Concertino for piano and band; First page of "Second Organ Concerto" was clipped in the bunch of papers attached
to the Concertino Cover
Pp. 21-29 to something for Organ and orchestra
The cover page and dedication to Rayner's Concerto No. 2 for Organ and Orchestra; clipped to the first three pages of the
score to Rayner's Second Symphony
Copied parts for Trombones I & II to "Triptych: Andante Con Moto" and "Fugue: Allegro Con Brio"; Tuba part to "Fugue: Allegro
Con Brio"
Box 53, Folder 2
Box 12, Folder 6
Box 32, Folder 2
Music Master Copies 1965-1967
Master Copy of "Passacaglia for Organ Pedals" dated April 1967
Master Copy of "Prelude and Scherzo for Seven Flutes"3
Sonatina No. 21
Two (2) copies of "Music for the Twilight Hour" for organ.
Group of German titled pieces for organ dated 1965
Brass Quintet no. 2
Incomplete master of Carol Cantata
Scherzo (for Organ)
Momentum Repraesentum (for Organ)
Box 32, Folder 4
Musical Pages Clipped Together undated
This is the beginning of a large mass of papers and fragments that remained unidentified at the time of the creation of this
finding aid.
Pages from Book of Fugues
Labeld "Concertino for piano and band"
No label, pages 2 – 12.
A mass of papers where many in the sequence are printed backwards
A bunch of pages clipped together with a note
Ozalid Masters for instrumental parts without titles. This entire stack was clipped together.
Another stack of unidentified pages clipped together. The note reads "There are a few rough pages like this parchment paper…
where?"
Box 46
Musical Scores 1955-1975
Composer(s): Brown, Rayner; This is a tall grey box
American Organ Music, vol. II, compiled and edited by Leslie P. Spelman.
Cantata: Letania de Nuestro Senor Don Quijote for Chorus, Brass and Percussion by Rayner Brown
Brass Quintet No. 3, in part book form. Parts for Trumpets 1 & 2, Trombone, Horn and Tuba
Quartet for Violin, Viola, Cello and Piano, in Score form
Brass Quintet No. 2, in score form
Toccata for Organ, in manuscript form dated July 1958
Passacaglia for Chorus, Organ and Soloists, with penciled registration notes, dated 1975
Quintet No. 2, for Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Horn & Bassoon, dated 1957
Quintet for Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Horn & Bassoon, dated Oct. 1955
Two Fugues for Harpsichord and Organ, dated January 1954
String Quartet, dated April 1953
Quintet for Organ and Strings, dated Nov. 1951
Variations on a Sunday School Hymn; The Shepherds Boy and the Wolf, dated April 1957
Box 47
Musical Scores 1958-1976
Composer(s): Brown, Rayner; This is a tall grey box
Four Poems by E. E. Cummings for Women's Chorus, Flute, Bassoon and Cello
Sonata for Two Pianos, dated January 1958
Sonata No.2 for Flute and Piano, dated Feb. 1959 (2 copies)
Concerto for Organ and Orchestra, dated Sept.1959
Sonata for Cello & Organ, dated March 1961
Trio for Violin, Cello and Organ, dated May 1961
Prelude and Fugue
Sonata for Four Trumpets and Organ, dated Dec. 1976
Chaconne for Organ, dated 1973
Prelude and Fugue for Six Trumpets, no date
Chaconne for Organ and Two Players, no date
Chorale Preludes for Organ
Chaconne for Violin and Organ, May 1973
Box 48
Musical Scores 1976-1994
Composer(s): Brown, Rayner; This is a tall grey box
Preludes for Piano, 1994
Intermezzi for Piano, 1994
Quatre Skizzen for Piano, 1993
Sonata for Piano, 1990
Music for a Big Red Piano, 1991
Owlish Nocturnes for Piano, 1991
Florinda for Piano, 1995
Six Tuslows for Piano, 1994
13 Piano Preludes
Two-part Inventions for Piano, April 1995
Sonatina No. 31 for Organ
Buxtehude Fugue, arr. For 3 Clarinets in B flat, Alto, Bass and Contrabass Clarinet
Pedro Carrera Y Lanchares: Versets, for 6 part clarinet choir, 1976.
"Schumann," for Clarinet Choir in 6 parts
Concerto del Signore Mect, by Johann Gottfried Walther, arr. for piano and clarinet choir by Rayner Brown (2 copies)
Introduction and Passacaglia, by Josef Rheinberger, arr. by Rayner Brown for Clarinet Choir
Divertimento for Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Horn, Bassoon and Piano Four Hands, piano score, 1980
Box 49
Musical Scores 1969-1977
Composer(s): Brown, Rayner; This is a tall grey box
Sonatina No. 30 on Von Gott will ich nicht Lassen
Sonata I for Flute and Piano, written at Camp Roberts (2 copies)
Sonata for Flute and Organ, 1969
Book of Fugues for Organ, contains 16 pieces
Prelude and Fugue for Trombone and Organ
Sonata for Violin and Piano
Prelude and Quadruple Fugue for Piano and Clarinet Choir
Passacaglia for Organ, April 1977
Sonata for Bassoon and Piano (Bassoon and Piano copies)
Prelude and Fugue for Organ
Chorale Intermezzi for Organ
Versets by Johann Pachelbel on the Magnificat arr. For two bassoons (2 copies)
Sonata for Oboe d'Amore and Organ
Box 50
Musical Scores 1967-1996
Composer(s): Brown, Rayner; This is a tall grey box
Prelude and Fugue for Six Trumpets
Variations for Organ
Sonata for Violin and Piano
Prelude and Quadruple Fugue for Piano and Clarinet Choir
Concerto for Two Organs, Brass and Percussion, April 1967
Chorale Preludes for Organ, 1967
Sonatina No. 22 for Organ, May 1967 (2 copies)
Sonatina No. 20 for Organ, March 1996
Versets: Carrera y Lancharas, Bass Clarinet in B Flat and Clarinet 1 books
Chorale Preludes, 1967
Quintet, parts for Alto, Tenor and Soprano Saxophones, 1970
Box 51
Musical Scores 1957-1966
Composer(s): Brown, Rayner; Large Flat Blue Box
Chorale Prelude for Viola and Organ, Aus Tiefer Not, November 1965; also includes a printed score of Rayner's Cantata Aus
Tiefer Not, Published in the Wilshire Presbyterian Choral Series
Kontrapunktium,Demonstration Piece for Positiv, 1966
A Solemn Prelude, April 1967
Carol Cantata, August 1964
Benedictus for Choir, Viola and Organ, 1962
Symphony No. 2, December 1957
Sonata for Oboe and Organ, April 1962
Sonatina No. 14, February 1960
Symphony No. 3, November 1958
"Wondrous Love" Cantata, text by Robert Tusler, some original organ registrations penciled on the pages.
Sonata for Organ, Jan. 1960
Concerto No. 2 for Organ and Orchestra, April 1966
Prelude and Fughetta for Bass Clarinet and Piano, March 1963
Prelude and Fugue for Violin and Organ, 1963
Box 45, Folder 3
Box 33, Folder 1
Ozalid Masters of Dubious Origin undated
Located in a large, almost square box; Paperclip groupings are original
Bass part clipped to a title page for Rayner's Symphony #2
"Allegro" from an unidentified composition with at least one page missing
Parts from an unidentified work clipped together
Fragments clipped together
More fragments clipped together
Parts to another unidentified work on blue Ozalid paper
More blue Ozalid pages clipped together
Blue masters with one page reference to Symphony #1
White masters marked solo trumpet
More blue masters for a full score123
Masters labled "Concerto for Organ and Brass"
White Ozalids that were not clipped together
Two bunches of more white Ozalids that were not clipped together
Two bunches labeled "Prelude"
Box 44, Folder 6
Box 37, Folder 7
Box 44, Folder 10
Box 13, Folder 1
Box 34, Folder 3
Pieces of Music undated
Composer(s): Brown, Rayner; All notes paperclipped
Two pages with parts called "1,2,4, A, B, CB" and two bracketed treble lines.
Copied parts in Alto Clef for Prelude, Fugue, and Rondo.
Two pages clipped together. The first is a part written in treble clef marked "diptych", the second looks like a score for
treble instrument and organ.
Two pages marked "Solemn Prelude"
Two pages marked "Prelude and Fugue," Clarinet?
Clarinet, Oboe, Clarinet 1 & 2, Trumpet 1, Horn 3 and Horn in F" parts to an unknown piece
Page 44 of something for orchestra and organ
Three pages of something for orchestra and organ
Cymbals and Snare drum part to "1. Allegro, 2. Andante"
Two pages of a Flute I part marked "Allegro Moderato" and "Andante"
Pages to violin 1 & 2 parts to something
Pages to viola parts to something
Copied bass parts to Prelude, Fugue, Aria, and Rondo.
Page 1 of Cello and Viola parts to Allegro Moderato.
Unidentified Score pages
A bundle marked "pages for?"
Title Page for Brass Quintet no. 2
'Rayner Brown: A Sample of his Manuscript'
Box 16, Folder 12
Box 44, Folder 8
Box 14, Folder 7
Box 45, Folder 4
Box 54
Scores and books 1970-1978
Composer(s): Lenard, Alexander; Sacco, Peter; Mader, Clarence
Concerto for Organ and Brass (11 parts)
Concerto for Organ by Clarence Mader
Pencil copy of Lenten Passion Music
Concerto for Clarinet and Wind Orchestra (33 parts)
Quintet for Baritone Saxophone [1970]
Sonata for Piano [April 1978]
Sonata for Oboe d'Amore and Organ [1976]
Cantata for Two Voices by Peter Sacco [January 1974]
Winnie Ille Pu-Milnei [Latin translation of Winnie the Pooh]
The Valley of the Latin Bear by Alexander Lenard
Box 34, Folder 5
Box 12, Folder 2
Box 25, Folder 1
Box 16, Folder 10
Box 44, Folder 5
Box 41, Folder 14
Box 12, Folder 5
Box 21, Folder 6
Box 14, Folder 1
Box 16, Folder 8
Box 14, Folder 2
Box 20, Folder 4
Box 10, Folder 1
Suite on Aberystwyth 1956
Sheet music Suite on Aberystwyth (3 pages) [1956], 2 copies (one paper, one other)
Program notes for Papillons [05/31/81]
Christmas card to Rayner and Barbara from John and Isla Garth [no date]
Program : Mildred Kammeyer-Barnes, organ, with written note to Rayner from Mildred [11/15/81], 2 copies
Letter to 'Family and Friends" from John and Isla Garth [09/21/81]
Box 12, Folder 1
Box 12, Folder 7
Box 41, Folder 1
Box 16, Folder 6
Box 38, Folder 3
Box 38, Folder 7
Box 32, Folder 3
Box 44, Folder 9
Box 45, Folder 1
Box 33, Folder 2
Box 41, Folder 11
Box 20, Folder 3
Box 44, Folder 11
Box 15, Folder 3
Various Sheet Music 1996
Composer(s): Brown, Rayner; Johns, Donald
Donald Johns' Magnificat
Title page, Triptych by Rayner Brown
Title page, Six Bergen Pieces by Rayner Brown [Sept. 1996]
Bundle of pages: "Prelude, Scherzo, Pacato, Fantasy"
Unlabeled sheet music, brass and string
Unlabeled sheet music, for string quartet and organ (page 9)
Sheet music labeled "2. Romanza" (1 page)
Sheet music labeled "7. Intermezzo 'In Dulci Jubilo'" (four pages)
Box 20, Folder 8
Box 14, Folder 3
Vocal Works 1966-02-1998-06
Composer(s): Brown, Rayner; Chorale pages are out of order
Aus tiefer Not, bound score [1968], 32 pages; written for mixed choir, soloists, and organ
Children's Song, unbound score [June 1998], 12 pages; written for organ and children's choir
Cantata Begat David, unbound score [Aug. 1974]; written for soprano and organ
Chorale- 'O Sacred Head', unbound score, in folder with notes written on exterior [Feb. 1966]; written for SATB choir and
organ
Box 13, Folder 2
Box 16, Folder 7
Box 36, Folder 2
Promotional Materials
Box 31, Folder 7
"Rayner Brown Bio, to be filed properly" 1912-1997
Certificate of Church Membership at Wilshire Presbyterian 11/16/41
Birth Announcement for Frank Rayner on 2/23/1912; handwritten note card found with the announcement
CD notes to "The Craigheads at Asbury: Organ Duets played by Marian and David Craighead"; handwritten note taped to the inside
[11/9/96]
Typed draft for another biographical entry
Note on the A. S. C. A. P. award
Typed bio for Rayner Brown
Invoice from Marquis' Who's Who 12/15/88
Certificate from Marquis Who's Who Publications Board, 1989/1990
Invitation to list in International Leaders in Achievement
Who's Who in American Education, proofs of entry for Rayner Brown
Typed bio for Rayner Brown
Flyer for Rayner Brown: Composer, Organist, Teacher [1/1/84]
List of Organ Music by Rayner Brown
Letter from Who's Who in the West
"Latin Musicians of Local 47" from page 6 of an unidentified publication
Another typed biography for Rayner Brown
List of recordings of music by Rayner and a promotional flyer from WIM Records
List of Music by Rayner Brown available from Church Music Supply, 1997
Box 30, Folder 1
"Rayner's Teachers" 1929-1953
Short unidentified newspaper clipping for an organ recital by the young Rayner
Program from a recital by Royal Brown, assisted by Rayner Brown and others [12/12/29]
Recommendation from Dr. Ernest Kanitz, USC for Rayner Brown [6/17/53]
Picture of Dudley Warner Fitch of St. Paul's Cathedral, LA, one of Rayer's organ teachers. Picture is circa 1940.
Descriptive pamphlet for St. Paul's Cathedral where Rayner practiced while a student at USC
Program for a "Special Master Class for Organists to be conducted by Albert Riemenschneider," August 3 – August 21, 1931.
Box 30, Folder 5
AGO 1930-1987
If only proper names and dates are given the item is a concert program.
Rayner's AGO membership cards, 1981-83 and 1976-77
Ladd Thomas, organist [4/13/70]
Pacific Coast Regional Convention of the AGO, June 24-26, 1940
Robert Prichard and David Billeter, [2/8/54]
A Program of Compositions in Manuscript [5/6/??]
Invitation card, LA AGO Chapter meeting [4/6/1940]
Pacific Coast Musician, May 18, 1940.
"A Program of Compositions in Manuscript [4/7/??]
Lynnwood Farnam, organist [2/5/30]
AGO Newsletter, LA AGO, 1953-54 [10/20/53]
"Manuscript Program,"; concert program and anonymous report/review [5/7/45]
Pipings: AGO Pasadena Newsletter, Nov. 1981; Letter from the Dean of the Pasadena AGO, Oct. 1981; AGO Calendar for Oct. –
Nov. 1981.
Pipings: AGO Pasadena Newsletter, April 1984.
LA Pipeline: LA AGO. Dec. 1983.
Letter from James E Bryan, National Headquarters of the AGO. [5/23/79]
179 AGO Nominations National Officers, see page 31.
NEW Music Project Flyer
AGO Officers 1979-1980
AGO Far Western Region Conference, 1977, p. 23.
Name badges for Rayner and Barbara, AGO conference 1962.
The American organist, June 1987, see. pp. 32-33.
AGO Calendar, Dec. 1981 – Jan. 1982.
New Music Notes, [3/1/74]; [September 1974]
Christmas Card Pictures: Plummers, 197; Baums, 1970; Baums, 1977; Maders, 1979; McCormacs.
Envelope of AGO membership cards for Rayner.
AGO Far-Western Regional Convention Program, June 1973, p. 13 & 28.
The Diapason, 1962, pages 22 – 28. Photographs from the 1962 AGO convention.
AGO National Convention Program, July 2-6, 1962.
Report to the Executive Board of the LA AGO from the New Music Committee [4/3/87]
Picture of Rayner, Sam Yorty, William Connell and Clarence Mader, 1972.
Box 25, Folder 8
Articles and documents pertaining to "Letania de Nuestro Senor Don Quixote 1992-1994
Editorial "El heroico esfuerzo cultural de la 'Editorial Cubana'"
Poem "Letania de nuestro senor Don Quixote"
"Rayner Brown: 80th Birthday Tribute" in The Diapason, March 1992
Correspondence with Mr. Vizcaino Pérez about the rights to the above-mentioned poem
"Return to La Mancha" by Jim Krusoe, Los Angeles Times/ Book Review [7/31/94]
Box 52, Folder 3
ASCAP 1990-1993
First Quarterly Distribution of 1993
Title Registrations Received, 12/25/92
Generic Letter from Morton Gould 8/5/92
Special Distribution 1992
Letter dated 7/10/92
Fourth Quarterly Distribution of 1992
Third Quarterly Distribution of 1992
Second Quarterly Distribution of 1992
ASCAP Writer Performance Statement, 10/1/90-9/30/91
Box 52, Folder 4
Box 52, Folder 5
Box 53, Folder 11
Box 31, Folder 1
Bio 1979-1999
Master Copy of Rayner Brown's 1994 Catalog
Another list of music by Rayner Brown
Death notice for Dr. Pauline Alderman, one of Rayner's teachers
Letter from Kathleen Karscher, Licensing Associates [11/3/98]
Letter to Stanley Sadie from Rayner Brown [8/9/97]
Typed note entitled "Re: Rayner Brown Pertaining to his having an active influence involving many aspects of serious music."
Contains biographical information
Another shorttyped bio
Many more pages of biographical information, some meant to be used as masters for copying
A card with Rayner's name written in Arabic, or so it is labled.
Rayner's obituary from the LA Times [6/25/99] – saved in a Ziplock bag
Announcement for St. Mary's Cathedral, SanFrancisco, Concert Series, Winter/Spring 1979
Letter from Joan Doran, Editor of the International Who's Who in Music and Musicians' Directory
Printed out biography and works and recording lists from SAI's website; Letter from Betsy Thal [9/8/97]
Letter from the American Biographical Institute [10/6/95]
Letter from the International Who's Who in Music and musicians' Directory [8/5/94]
Proof for an entry in the Who's Who in Entertainment
Letter from the International Biographical Centre for the "Men of Achievement" volume
Picture of Rayner (?) [6/4/98]
Box 25, Folder 2
Biola Univ. Rayner Brown Scholarship Award in composition 1978 - 1984-1985
The title of this folder is the same as on the original folder in which the materials were found, however except for the first
item, the contents does not match the title of the folder.
Invitation to Music Awards Banquet [5/7/85]; Thank you note from Jack Schwarz, Chairman of the Biola College Music Department
[5/2/84]; Personal invitation from Jack Schwarz to the Music Awards Banquet [3/5/85]
"Chartered for His Glory: Biola University, 1908 – 1983," A History of Biola University (book)
Program for a tribute concert of Rayner's music at Biola University (3 copies)
Box 24, Folder 10
Biola University, Students' Programs (organ) 1968-1974
Advanced Student Recital [1/20/68] 2 copies
Ruby Robbins, Organist, student of Rayner Brown [3/27/71]
Stephen Sturz, Organ, student of Rayner Brown [November 7, year missing]
Program for a tribute concert of Rayner's music at Biola University
Program for Biola College American Music Series, Spring 1974, Rayner Brown program on March 29, 1974.
Box 25, Folder 6
Bohemian Club 1951-1964
Program to Tenth Annual Divertimento [5/18/57]
List of performers and composers for their "First Public Chamber Music Concert" [3/30/57]
Catalog for the Bohemian Composers Group [November 1957]
Clipping from Citizen News, "Bohemians of L.A. Are Not High-Hat" [2/28/64]
Paragraph about the Bohemian Composers Group on page 41 from International Musician, [March 1951]
Box 53, Folder 4
Cards/Programs 1938-2007
Christmas card from Rayner and Barbara, with handwritten note [1996], 2 copies + envelope
Commencement Program: USC (Rayner received B Mus.) [06/04/38]
Catalog: Music by Rayner Brown from Foothill Music
Envelope containing: listing of Rayner's compositions, printout of USC Library catalog of Rayner's works, and smaller envelope
of composition title page texts
Program: Philip Hahn, organ [07/12/07], 2 copies
Handwritten note from Barbara pertaining to Rayner's Triptych [06/30/99]
Box 25, Folder 10
Box 20, Folder 1
Catalogs Misc.- Compositions of Rayner Brown 1958-1986
Box 27, Folder 1
Catalogs of Music by Rayner 1984-1999
Flyer for "Pro Organo," a CD of organ music from popular radio programs that contains Rayner's "Intermezzo"
Catalogue of Music by Rayner Brown, June 1999
Music by Rayner Brown available from Foothill Music
"Rayner Brown: Composer, Organist, Teacher," promotional pamphlet [1/1/84]
Flyer with first pages of music for "Six Pieces by Rayner Brown"
Flyer with first pages of music for "Musica Romantica: Nine Pieces for Organ" by Rayner Brown
Flyer with first pages of music for "Divertimenti for Organ" by Rayner Brown
Flyer for a recording of the Los Angeles Brass Society, including Rayner's "Five Pieces for Organ, Harp, Brass and Percussion"
Flyer for a recording entitled "The Flute in Various Chamber Settings," including Rayner's Sonata for flute & organ
Sheet of biographical information for Rayner Brown
Organ Music by Rayner Brown published by Western International Music
Working Draft of Foothill Music Catalogue
Music by Rayner Brown, Available from Church Music Supply
List of pieces entitled "Composer's Library," two copies. The second has a cover sheet that shows it was intended to be sent
to Rodney Rolf.
Box 19, Folder 12
Catalogs- Music of Rayner Brown 1983
"Music by Rayner Brown", 3 copies
Promo for "Sonata for Two Pianos"
Promo for "Three Contemporary Solos for unaccompanied Flute", 7 copie
Promo for "Brass Quintet no.2", 4 copies
"Organ Music by Rayner Brown from the Composer's Library"
"Music by Rayner Brown" (Symphonies, concertos, large ensembles, chamber music) [Sept. 1983], 17 pages
Box 19, Folder 11
Box 7, Folder 2
Commissions- R's 1969-1985
Organ recital series program, The Parish of St. Matthew, Pacific Palisades, CA [05/19/85-06/15/85]
Newspaper clipping: Henken, John. "David Craighead Inaugurates Organ," Los Angeles Times (May 21, 1985), 7.
Newspaper clipping: performance calendar, Los Angeles Times (06/20/71]
Recital announcement [05/31/85]
Newspaper clipping: recital announcement, Los Angeles Times [05/19/85]
Organ recital schedule, The Parish of St. Matthew, Pacific Palisades, CA [05/19/85-06/15/85] (three copies)
Newspaper clipping: "Craighead Will Launch New C.B. Fisk Organ." Los Angeles Times (May 16, 1985).
Newspaper clipping: "Concerto Set for Church's New Organ" [10/__/69]
Short handwritten note [10/26/69]
Recital program, First Congregational Church of Los Angeles [10/26/69] (six copies)
Newsletter for the First Congregational
Church of Los Angeles [10/26/69]
Note to Rayner from Tom [no date]
Recital announcement in the Los Angeles Times [10/19/69]
Recital announcement in the Los Angeles Times [10/26/69]
Newspaper clipping: "Benefit Musicale Planned" The Daily News (Nov. 3, 1969): 3.
Newspaper clipping: "Concerto Set for Church's New Organ." Los Angeles Times (Oct. 25, 1969): 22.
Newspaper clipping: "Mehta to Open Symphony Season." Los Angeles Times (Oct. 26, 1969).
Newspaper clipping: Riley, Robert. "Concerts West Has Diversified Program." Los Angeles Times (Oct. 27, 1969): 21.
Box 7, Folder 3
Commissions- R's- Part II 1969-1984
Newspapaer clipping: Feather, Leonard. "Menza Quuartet in Series." Los Angeles Times (Oct. 28, 1969): 13. (2 copies)
Recital invitation [06/02/82] in envelope
Concert calendar, "Music at St. Alban's" [1984-5]
Concert calendar, "Music at St. Matthew's" [1984-5]
Letter to Rayner Brown from Thomas Neenan (The Parish of Saint Matthew) [05/21/84]
Letter to Rayner Brown from Thomas Neenan (The Parish of Saint Matthew) [09/13/84]
Unidentified cartoons [no date], (5 pages)
Series of sheet music and corresponding artwork for Rayner Brown's "Spiritus" [no date], 10 pages
Letter to Rayner from Tom (The Parish of Saint Matthew) [no date]
Detail of organ at The Parish of Saint Matthew [no date], 2 copies
Handwritten letter to Rayner from Tom (The Parish of Saint Matthew) [no date]
Concert calendar for the First Congregational Church of Los Angeles [1983-4]
Handwritten note "Commission…", Letter to Rayner Brown from Tom Neenan [03/29/84]. Letter to Rayner Brown from Tom Neenan
[01/14/81], Recital program for Tom Neenan [01/21/81]
Box 11, Folder 3
Crystal Cathedral- March 1984
Five flyers for Cherry Rhodes and Ladd Thomas. Organ
Ticket stub [03/02/84] and postcard (2 copies), Crystal Cathedral
Large postcard of organ in Crystal Cathedral (2 copies)
Photocopy of article: "Organ Recital Staged at Cathedral." Los Angeles Times (Mar. 6, 1984). One original, 6 copies
Three large postcards of exterior of Crystal Cathedral
Large postcard of interior of Crystal Cathedral
Two pamphlets of concerts at the Crystal Cathedral [1984]
Letter and envelope to Rayner from Barb McCullan [03/13/84]
Letter to Rayner from Sharon Bailey; attached letter to Sharon from Rayner [03/21/84]
Letter to Rayner from Aileen B. O'Neil [04/19/84]
Copies of three articles regarding Clarinet Concerto: from LA Life, Daily News, Star News, and Los Angeles Times
Advertisement for Good Friday Music at the UMC of Garden Grove [04/17/__]
"Calendar" section of Los Angeles Times (Mar. 6, 1984), containing "Organ Recital Staged at Cathedral
Box 28, Folder 1
Box 22, Folder 8
Dr. Neuman, Dr. Mark Dwight 1981-1992
Letter to "friend" from Richard H. Neuman [11/04/92]
Drawing of Robert Wojcack in rehearsal [02/17/82]
Program: AGO Pasadena Chapter [01/18/82], 7 copies
Program: Biola College- "Music at Noon" [03/23/83]
Program: USC Wind Orchestra, Robert Wojciak, conductor [03/18/83], 5 copies with program notes (2 copies), 1 promo, 2 invitations,
and 1 ticket stub
Program: Mildred Kammeyer-Barnes, organ [02/20/83], 2 copies
Program: Mildred Kammeyer-Barnes, organ, featurning "The Redwood Suite" [11/15/81]
Newsletter: mUSiC (Volume V number 2) [Jan. 1983]
Program: AGO- Mary Preston, organ [02/07/83], 7 copies
Letter and envelope to Rayner and Barbara from Mary Preston [04/15/83]
Letter to Rayner from Mary Preston [08/08/82], promo for Mary Preston from Artist Recitals Talent Agency (4 copies), and recital
schedule from Artist Recitals Talent Agency for Mary Preston [May 1982] (2 copies)
Publication clipping: "Organ Recitals." The Diapason (July 1983).
Newspaper clipping: "Organist to Present Recital." Los Angeles Times (02/08/83)
Newspaper clipping: Religion page of Los Angeles Times (Feb. 5, 1983)
Newspaper clipping: Calendar- Music/Dance (Feb. 6, 1983)
Publication clipping: Worship and Arts Section of unidentified publication [Feb.-Mar. 1983]
Publication clipping: Premieres section of The American Organist (March 1983)
Newspaper clipping: "Calendar" [unidentified publication] (March 13, 1983): 45.
Newspaper clipping: "(More) Calendar." Trojan Family (March 1983).
Invitation from Rayner and promotional flyer for USC Wind Orchestra Concert [03/18/__]
Program: "Music at Country Club Christian Church" David A. Diebold, Carol Flynn Hursh, organ [01/24/83], 2 copies
Program: First Congregational Church: "Fine Arts Vesper" Dr. Phillip Dodson, organ [02/13/83]
Program: USC Wind Orchestra, Robert Wojciak, conductor [03/18/__]
"Worship and Arts" Section (unidentified publickation) (April-May 1981), 3 copies
Program: St. Cross Episcopal Church- Darrell Orwig, organ [01/09/83], 10 copies
Schedule for AGO Los Angeles Chapter [01/05/83]
Program: Sylvia Eisenman, organ [05/01/83]
Pamphlet: USC School of Music "The Connoisseur Series" [Spring 1983]
Program: AGO Orange County Chapter- Dr. Janet Krellwitz [04/29/83]
Recital Flyerand envelope: James Calhoun, organ [04/24/83]
Box 19, Folder 4
Box 22, Folder 3
Box 45, Folder 5
Miscellaneous Catalogs Containing Rayner's Music 1980-1993
Vester Music, Sacred Choral Music 1992
Vester Music, Organ Music 1988-1989
James Vester, Music for Organ, August 1981
James Vester, Music for Organ, August 1980
One page of something with French markings
Pendragon Press, New Titles for 1993
Gothic Records, 1993 Fall and Christmas Catalog
2oth Century Music for Trumpet and Organ: An Annotated Bibliography by Philip T. Cansler
Vester Music, Organ Music 1992 - 1993
Box 45, Folder 6
Box 28, Folder 3
Newspaper clippings 1959-08-1985
"Ford Foundation Grant to Music Faculty Member"
"Organ Repertoire," by Orpha Ochse, Worship and Arts, p. 8
"Concerts Go Beyond Catholicism: Musical Trek Through Ages Under Way," by Max Vanzi, L.A. Times [7/12/80]
"Calendar," L.A. Times [7/2/78]
Name of article cut off in the photocopying, by Daniel Cariaga, L.A. Times
"Rayner Brown: Sinfonietta," Newsletter of the International Trombone Association, September 1978, p. 24.
Program Notes for St. Winfred Mass by Rayner Brown
"Today's Calendar," Los Angeles Times [12/21/78]
Musicians Local 47 - Los Angeles [August 1959]
Pardee Memorial Organ, Parich of St. Matthew, Pacific Palisades, Dedicatory Celebration, May 19 - June 15, 1985
"Pipe Notes," Worship and Arts, April - May 1985
"PCO plays host to twin premieres," Star-News [4/25/85] and "Brown, Schubert Works in Pasadena," L.A. Times [4/25/1985]
"Dedication of 212-Rank Organ Held at Church," photocopy from unknown publication [10/26/69]
Box 29, Folder 5
Newspaper Clippings & Picture 1929-1993
Worship and Arts, "Organ Repertoire," August – September 1978, p. 12.
"Organists Offer Works From 20th Century," LA Times, [6/19/91]
The Diapason, October 1990, p. 18.
"Concert – Dedication of the Calrence V. Mader Archive at the University of California, Los Angeles," The Diapason, September
1980, p. 10; Program from the concert [4/27/80]
Trojan Family, February 1979, p. 19
Pipings: The Newsletter of the Pasadena Chapter, AGO, February 1993
Six newspaper clippings for organ recitals played by Rayner Brown, 1930's (?)
LA Times Calendar, Oct. 14, 1990, p. 105, Pipedreams listing
"Concerts West Has Diversified Program," by Robert Riley, date and publication unknown
LA Pipeline, October 1990
Biola Emeriti News, p. 6.
Occidental College News, promotion for an organ concert my Cherry Rhodes
Picture of Rayner at age 17 [11/6/29]
Emeriti Association Newsletter, Biola University, Spring 1985, p. 3-4.
Box 24, Folder 8
Box 53, Folder 3
Pamphlets/Papers 1931-2001
Map of Rayner's burial plot
Postcard with drawn map on back
Handwritten note about Rayner
Photo of Rayner at Irene Robertson's recital
Envelope with 2 pamphlets and 3 clippings for Glendale First United Methodist Church
In Memorium for Rayner from the Emeriti Newsletter [Fall/Winter 1999], 3 copies
Newspaper clipping with handwritten note from Barbara [09/__/84]
Program for Masterclass by Albert Reimenschneider, sponsored by Rayner [08/21/31]
Autographed picture addressed to Rayner (G. Edwardson?)
Clipping with photos of organists associated with Rayner, from The American Organist Vol. 52, 10. (Oct. 1969).
Recital Program: A Program of Original Compositions by Rayner Brown [05/27/47], 2 copies
Clipping: Virgil Fox, organ from The American Organist Vol. 52,10 (Oct. 1969)
Clipping listing honors, prizes, and awards of Rayner [no date], 2 pages
Miscellaneous bio notes on Rayner Brown
Notecard- Barbara and Rayner [1984]
Advertisement for recital of Rayner Brown [02/18/01]
Publication: American Guild of Organists Quarterly Vol. 2, 1 (Jan. 1957)
Card to Rayner from Cherry and Ladd [no date]
Season schedule: Cal State Northridge [May 1993]
Two photots: Rayner with family and collegues at Cal State Northridge [May 1993]
Application (unknown) listing personal/professional information for Rayner
Letter to Rayner from Arlene [09/27/91]
Catalog of works: "Music of Rayner Brown", 7 pages
Box 30, Folder 4
Performance Related Materials 1961-1990
"Rayner Brown: The Organist/Coposer at 78," LA Times [2/23/90]
Eight newspaper blurbs publicizing organ recitals by Rayner. Found together in an enveloppe.
"L.A. Composer's Chorale Slated,"LA Times, [3/12/71]
LA Times Calendar, p. 14 [7/24/66]
LA Times Calendar, p. 50 [6/24/73]
The American Organist, p. 50.
"Music of Rayner Brown," by Sharon Winklhofer LA Times, p. 44.
LA Times Calendar, I[3/18/73] p. 34.
Worship and Arts, January 1973, p. 2.
The Diapason, June 1971, p. 15.
"'Paul of Tarsus' in Glendale," by Melody Peterson, LA Times [6/28/73]
The American Organist, June 1981, p. 12.
Ticket Stub for Biola College Faculty Series, Rayner Brown [2/27/70]; LA AGO Open Meeting invitation [10/5/??]
"Unusual Music Featured in Rayner Brown Program," The Diapason, April 1970, p. 15.
"Pasadena AGO Announces Concert Series," Worship and Arts, Aug. – Sept. 1981, p. 2.
"Artists on AGO Concert Series Pasadena Chapter," Worship and Arts, Oct. – Nov. 1981, p. 11.
Flyer for a "Composers of California Concert" [3/21/??]
Mildred Kammeyer-Barnes, organist [11/15/81]
"Organ Recital Slated at Methodist Church," LA Times [3/7/70]; "Thomas In Organ Recital at Church," LA Times [4/15/70]
The Music Teachers' Association of California West Los Angeles County Branch, December 1969 Bulletin.
LA Times Calendar, [1/15/67], p. 21.
Flyer for Dedication Ceremonies for a Positiv Organ at UCLA [11/8/66]
Rayner Brown, organist [1/13/67]
Organ Concert Series 1969 – 70, World Premiere of Concerto for Two Organs, Brass and Percussion [10/26/69]
Northeast Los Angeles Symphony Association Concert [3/21/75]
Note from Robert Prichard [7/8/81]; attached to Worship and Arts, June – July 1981, p. 1.
"Festival Plans Third Concert," LA Times, [3/8/53]
Flyer for the USC Wind Orchestra [1/18/82]
Church Music Exploration '79
Prototype for a flyer for Robert Prichard, organist [6/20/82]. It specifically advertises the First Performance of Rayner's
Sonata for Organ and Brass Quintet
"Brass Society Presents Concert at Biola College"
Clarinet Choir News International, Fall 1979.
LA Times Calendar, Feb. 3, 1963, p. 14.
"Novel Music Service Set," The Citizen-News, [2/25/61]
"Wil. Presbyterian Gives Minister World Tour," Wilshire Press, [5/23/63]
"Pipings," The American Organist, October 1979, p. 28.
"Pipings," The American Organist, July 1979, p. 28.
Flyer for the "International Contemporary Organ Music Festival" July 21 – 25, 1980.
Patricia Murphy Lamb, Organist [6/3/85]
"Organ Works Inspired by Bach," [1/20/85]
Invitation to Christmas Eve by Candlelight at Immauel attached to a letter from Sam, dated 1/13/85
Box 18, Folder 1
Pillins 1981
Caltech Public Events: Pasadena Chamber Orchestra- Fifth Season [11/03/81], 2 copies
Newspaper clipping: McQuilkin, Terry. "Pasadena Chamber Season Opens." Los Angeles Tiems (Nov. 5, 1981): 4.
Copy of newspaper clipping: Stiles, Richard. "PCO Begins 5th Season at Ramo." (unknown source and date)
Advertisement for the Pillin Gallery [no year]
Box 53, Folder 9
Box 26, Folder 1
Programs 1930-1980
The Music of Rayner Brown in a series of noon concerts [2/13/80, 2/20/80, 2/27/80, 3/5/80]
Biola College American Music Series, Spring 1974
The Music of Rayner Brown [4/19/74]
Stephen Sturz, USC Graduate Recital [4/22/74]
Richard Unfried, Lansing Concert Hall [10/26/73]
Jim Jansen, violinist, Lansing Recital Hall [1/11/74]
Announcement for "A Lenten Organ Concert" by Darlene Kaysen on March 17th of an unspecified year
AGO sponsored New Music Project Committee Program [4/1/74]
LAAGO Concert at Wilshire Presbyterian [5/6/63]
Los Angeles Brass Society, with Wallace Dunn and Sandra Bielawa, organists and Dorothy Remsen, harpist [2/4/63]
Los Angeles County Museum Calendar for June- July 1963. Includes programs for Chamber Music Concerts
Thank you note from St. James Presbyterian Church for a donation of $10 to the Jeannette McCormac Memorial fund
USC Festival of Contemporary Music, 1962-3
Los Angeles County Museum Chamber Music Concerts, April1 - June 24, 1962
Los Angeles Brass Ensemble [3/12/??]
Los Angeles Brass Society [4/8/62]
Immanuel Presbyterian Church, Sunday Service [4/19/64]
Eleventh Annual Divertimento, the Bohemians of Los Angeles [5/17/58]
Pasadena AGO Concert Series, Hannah Marcia Farmer, Organist
Trombone Choir Concert, CSU Northridge [5/10/79]
USC Saxophone Ensemble [4/30/79]
Ambassador College Music Department, Los Angeles Clarinet Society, [5/7/77]
A Tribute to Rayner Brown, L.A. Clarinet Society, Sharon Davis, pianist [3/29/77]
David Craighead at Garden Grove Community Glass Sanctuary [1/20/78]
Chamber Music Concerts, Winter Series 1978, Los Angeles County Natural History Museum
Music for Organ, Winds, and Percussion for the Far-Western Regional Convention of the American Guild of Organists [6/29/77]
David Craighead, organist [1/23/78]
Robert Prichard, organist [5/13/74]
AGO Far Western Region Convention Program, June 24-28, 1963
Contemporary Music for Harpsichord and Organ, Robert Prichard, harpsichordist & Orpha Ochse, organist [4/30/65]
Los Angeles County Museum Chamber Music Concerts, Summer Series 1964
Music for Brass, Organ, Harp and Percussion, Dorothy Remsen, harp and Ladd Thomas, organ [5/25/64]
Los Angeles Brass Society with Ladd Thomas and Dorothy Remsen [10/26/64]
USC Trojan Symphonic Band, 5/22/64]
Rayner Brown's Senior Organ Recital Program [1/18/38]
Biola College Chamber Music, Lansing Recital Hall [4/4/75]
Biola College Calendar of Events, Concert Programs, Oct. - Nov. 1974
USC Trojan Symphonic Band [5/22/64]
Irene Robertson, organist in for faculty recitals [1/12/58, 1/19/58, 1/26/58 & 2/3/58]
First United Presbyterian Church of San Diego, worship bulletin [10/20/35]
First Methodist Episcopal Church of San Diego, Dedicatory Service program [4/13/30]
St. Paul's Cathedral, Figueroa at Wilshire, Organ Recital, Rayner Brown, organist [1/25/37]
Organ Recital, Leslie P. Spelman, organist [6/26/58] & congratulatory note to Rayner
AGO Young Artists Recital [2/12/57]
Los Angeles Flute Club [3/12/56]
Sunday Afternoons on Wilshire, April 1958
Ronald M. Huntington, organist [11/10/58]
Rayner Brown, organ & Albert Falkove, viola [3/7/60]
Rayner Brown, organ [4/11/60]
Phillip and Jean Dodson, organists [5/22/60]
Music of Southern California Composers [5/6/60]
Los Angeles Flute Club [9/11/60]
Biola College, Music for Flute, Clarinet & Viola [10/6/59]
Biola College, Los Angeles Brass Ensemble [1/20/61]
Biola College, Concert of Chamber Music [3/3/61]
Eight Programs on the Schlicker Organ in Westminster Chapel, February - March, 1961
Flyer for "3 Los Angeles Composers," [6/2/61]
"Three Los Angeles Composers" at Wilshire Presbyterian Church [6/2/61]
Phillip & Jean Dodson, organists [6/3/62]
Three Spring Organ Recitals, May & June 1962
Program of Compositions in Manuscript [6/12/39]
Box 28, Folder 2
Programs 1978-2000
Pasadena Pro Musica [2/23/90]
Nova Brass & Joann Turovsky, harpist [12/21/78]
SAI Delta A and C Province Day [3/11/2000]
Cherry Rhodes & Ladd Thomas [5/3/98]
Jiyeon Kim, organist [5/17/98]
Robert Prichard, organist [5/2/99]
Los Angeles AGO, A Guild Service [6/1/87]
DeeDee Ellis & Jud Owens, organists [11/20/78]
1978 Summer Series Flyer for the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Trumpet Ensemble, CSUN [12/8/78]
Cherry Rhodes & Ladd Thomas [5/3/98]
David Britton, organist [5/1/76]
UCLA Women's Choral Society [3/9/79]
Robert Prichard, organist [10/14/79]
"Craigheads in Concert" [6/25/79]
Ladd Thomas [10/7/79]
Russell Stepan, pianist, Bohemian Club [11/4/79]
LeeAnn Bon and Orpha Ochse [11/4/79]
Arlene De Young Judd [4/4/79]
Russell Stepan, pianist [11/9/79]
UCLA Wind Ensemble [11/18/79]
David & Marian Craighead [11/25/79]
Church Music Exploration '79, "Craigheads in Concert" [6/26/79]
David Britton, organist [5/1/79]
Jelil Romano, organist [4/29/79]
AGO, Concert of Works for Organ and Instruments [1/8/79]
Flyer for a Concert of Music of Our Time [3/2/79], drawing of an organist on the back.
Music at Immanuel [4/22/79]
Flyer for Music at St. Cyrils, 1998-99
Box 28, Folder 5
Programs 1947-1987
The Carillons of Biola College
Festival of Contemporary Music, 1961-62
California Philharmonia Brass Quintet [10/1/87]
Cal State Bakersfield, Clarinel Choir, poster [3/11/87]
"Clarinets and Friends" [3/11/87] with note from Diane
James Walker, organist [6/10/79]
Laurie Chinn, organist [4/12/87]
CSUN Saxophone and Trombone Choir [4/29/76]
Four Sunday Vesper Concerts, Ronald M. Huntington, organist [3/9/75]
LA Brass Ensemble, flyer, March 12
Richard Unfried, organist [5/27/77]
Trombone Choir, East Texas State [11/30/76]
Catharine Crozier, organist, AGO Convention Recital [6/26/90]
Biola College Music Department Flyer, Concert on 11/9/77
Organ-Duet Recital program, Wilkes-Barre, PA, October 9, 1988; letter from Myron Leet [10/10/88]; Xerox of three newspaper
clippings advertising the concert in the Sunday Independent, Citizen's Voice and The Times Leader.
Music-At-Noon, Biola College, [11/9/77]
Organ Vespers, Mildred and Frederick Barnes, organists [4/17/88]
Flyer for Chamber Music Concerts, Spring 1976, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
James Walker, organist [2/2/76]
James Walker, organist [6/10/79]
Tim Harvey, organist [5/21/76]
Biola College American Music Series, Spring 1974
An Evening of Chamber Music, Biola College, [4/4/75]
Highland Park Symphony Orchestra [3/21/75]
Flyer for "Four Sunday Evenings in Advent" 1965
David Craighead, organist, May 19th
Flyer for Grace Cathedral Concert Series, Fall 1989
Organ Institute of America [11/29/87]
The American Organist, August 1985, page 32
Listing of Institute of the Arts Programs for the Spring Semester, 1947; Program from Rayner's Master's degree recital [5/27/47]
AGO, Pasadena Chapter, 1981-82 Concert Series, Carey Coker-Robertson, organist [3/8/82]
Mildred Kammeyer-Barnes, organist [2/20/82]
David Britton, organist [11/16/80]
Clipping from an unidentified source publicizing "The Rayner Brown Series of Concerts" in the Spring of 1980
The American Organist, 1980, 1 page. See top of page 51.
David Britton, organist [11/9/1980] & postcard of First Presbyterian Church of El Camino Real
"The Music of Rayner Brown in a series of noon concerts: Presented by the Biola College Music Department" February 13, 20,
27 and March 5, 1980
"A Program of Original Compositions" by Rayner Brown [5/27/47]
Invitation to the "Fourteenth Annual Apolliad" [5/14/38]
Note to Rayner and Barbara from Sharon [7/9/80]; Program for Crystal Chamber Soloists [7/6/80]; "Bach for the Connoisseur
in Oregon," Los Angeles Times, July 20, 1980.
Mark Fackrell, organist [2/10/85]
Pasadena Chamber Orchestra [4/23/85]
"Organ Works Inspired by Johann Sebastian Bach" Samuel John Schwartz, organist [1/20/85]
Janet Keulen Alfuso, organist, program and invitation [3/17/85]
First United Methodist Church of Glendale, morning service [6/9/1985]
Organ Vespers, Mildred Kammeyer-Barnes and Frederick M. Barnes, organists [10/6/85]
Box 29, Folder 1
Programs 1986-1987
Kent-Shulman Duo [9/27/86]; Card from Amy & Peter [10/16/86]; Flyer for San Buenaventura City Hall Concert Series 1986-87
Homer Wickline, organist [9/14/86]
Celia Elmore, organist, program and notes [5/17/86]
Homer Wickline, organist [11/30/86]
Ray Wiggs, organist [4/29/86]
Debra J. LeBrun, organist [12/9/85]
Gerald Hamilton, organist [4/27/86]
Announcement and information for the 9th Mader Organ-playing competition, 1986
Worship Bulletin from Emmanuel Lutheran Ministries [4/13/86]
Chapman College Department of Music [3/2/86]
Celia Catherine Elmore, organist [5/17/86]
Samuel Schwartz, organist 6/29/85]
Flyer for a concert by Thomas Neenan, organist [5/3/87]
"Recital of Music by Rayner Brown" Lansing Hall, Biola College [2/27/??]
Thomas Neenan, organist [5/3/87]
Organ Institute of America [5/17/87]
Mark Fackrell, organist [5/1/87]
Laurie Chinn, organist [4/12/87]
Community Church, Congregational Worship Bulletin, Corona Del Mar and a note from Pat Lamb [3/29/87]
Homer Wickline, organist [2/15/87]
"Clarinets and Friends" [3/11/87]
Homer Wickline, organist [2/22/87]
Homer Wickline, organist [4/26/87]
"Celebrating Music at Biola" brochure
New Music USA [3/22/81]; typed note from Pratt (?) on the back
AGO New Music Project Committee [4/1/74]
Jim Jansen, violinist [1/11/74]
A Program of 20th Century Romanticism [4/11/74]
Benefit Concert for the Ruth and Clarence Mader Memorial Scholarship Fund [1/5/76]
Organfest 1975 [11/18/75]
Highland Park Symphony Orchestra [3/21/75]
Chamber Music Ensemble, Biola College [2/17/76]
Maud Fluchere, pianist and Clarence Jones, organist [2/1/76]
Rayner Brown, organist [2/27/70]
Thomas Neenan, organist [6/2/82]
"Music of Rayner Brown," LA AGO [2/18/01]
LA Pipeline, February 2001
David Craighead, organist [5/19/85]
Homer Wickline, organist [2/26/76]
Richard Unfreid, organist [2/8/80]
David Britton, organist [11/9/80]
David Britton, organist [11/16/80]
Pasadena Presbyterian Church, 12th Summer organ Festival, 1981
Wednesday Noon Organ Recitals [5/12/82]
David and Marian Craighead, organists [7/24/80]
Robert Prichard, organist [6/20/82]
Music by Rayner Brown Los Angeles Brass Society [10/21/66]
Willian Beck & James Walker, organists [11/5/82]; LA Times Calendar clipping with advertising the above concert
LeeAnn Wilma Bon, Patricia Murphy Lamb and Linda West Brown, organists [11/9/81]
Box 31, Folder 8
Programs 1964-1998
Cherry and Ladd: Crystal Cathedral 3/2/84; "Music Review: Organ Recital Staged at Cathedral," by Benjamin Epstein, March 6,
1984, LA Times; Flyer for "An Evening of Organ Duets" at Trinity Church, Wall Street [4/12/88]; Flyer for Grace Cathedral
Concert Series, Cherry Rhodes 10/15/89; picture of Cherry and Ladd dated 6/7/98.
Mildred Kammeyer-Barnes, organist [11/15/81]
List of Scheduled Performances for 1990; notes for Craigheads in Concert [6/25/79]; another typed bio for Rayner.
Rayner Brown, organist [1/17/66]
Rayner Brown, organist [3/7/??]
Rayner Brown, organist with Sharon Davis, Martha Aarons, Frank Halamka, Joe Atkins, and Matt Garbutt [2/27/70]
Rayner Brown, organist [1/13/67]
Rayner Brown, organist [11/23/64]
A homemade booklet of Biola College Music Department Programs, circa 1967
Homer Wickline, organist [4/24/88]
Thomas and Carol Foster, organists [4/5/81]
Box 53, Folder 12
Programs 1937-1990
First Presbyterian Church, Dedication of The Schantz Organ [09/13/81]
First Congregational Church of Los Angeles, Dedication Concert [10/26/69]
St. Mary Redcliffe, Garth Benson, organ [06/06/78]
USC, A Program of Original Compositions by Rayner Brown [05/27/47]
Contemporary Music Ensemble [11/01/78]
USC, Kathleen Scheide, organ [04/30/89]
Bulletin: St. Paul's Cathedral, Lenten Services [02/07/40]
The Prodigal Son, St. Paul's Cathedral [04/10/38]
Cherry Rhodes, organ [11/18/90]
Catharine Crozier, organ [06/26/__]
Cherry Rhodes and Ladd Thomas, organ [04/12/88]
St. Paul's Cathedral, A Descriptive Pamphlet [no date]
St. Paul's Cathedral, Rayner Brown, organ [05/30/38]
Bulletin: Cathedral Church of St. Paul [05/03/36], 2 copies
Bulletin: St. Paul's Cathedral [03/02/__]
Bulletin: St. Paul's Cathedral [07/25/37]
Buletin: St. Paul's Cathedral, Lenten Services [02/26/41]
Advertisement: St. Paul's Cathedral- May Music Festival
St. Paul's Cathedral, An Hour of Organ Music by Rayner Brown [12/20/37]
Bulletin: St. Paul's Cathedral [04/13/38]
Picture: St. Columba' Chapel, St. Paul's Cathedral
Bulletin, St. Paul's Cathedral [04/10/38]
St. Paul's Cathedral, Dudley Warner Fitch, organ [05/31/37]
USC Wind Sinfonietta [12/05/90]
Summer Organ Festival, Robert Prichard, organ [06/20/82]
Friday Evening Concerts, Wilshire Christian Church [01/23/53]
List of attendees at "It's Your Night Rayner Brown"
Letter, with two clippings, to Rayner from W. Clarence Wright [02/23/58]
Claire-Hendrix-Julian, organ [03/13/81]
Trojan Tuba & Trombone Ensemble Concert [04/28/81]
Noontime Organ Concerts [03/__/81]
Box 29, Folder 2
Programs – Music of Rayner Brown, 1990/1991 1990-1991
Samuel John Schwartz, organist [11/1/91]
Dr. Phil Dodson, organist with Jean and Donna Dodson, violinists [10/6/1991]
Samuel John Schwartz, organist [1/21/91]
North Holland Youth Choir from the Choir School of St. Laurens' Church, Alkmaar
Worship Bulletin from the First United Methodist Church of Glendale [9/9/90]
"Rayner Brown: 'This is your night!'", LA AGO, [11/5/90]
Cherry Rhodes, organist [11/18/90]
Cherry Rhodes, organist [2/3/91]
Yunggyu Yoo, organist [4/14/91]
Arlene deYoung-Judd, organist [1/28/90]
Outlook, First United Methodist Church, Glendale, [10/9/90], p. 1.
Pasadena Pro Musica [2/23/90]
William Beck & James Walker [2/12/90]
Pasa Pipes, Sigma Alpha Iota, March 1991
AGO, Pasadena Chapter, 1990-91 Season Flyer
AGO, Long Beach Chapter, Calendar, February 1991
Mark Fackrell, organist [3/5/90]
SAI, Pasadena Alumnae Chapter, An Afternoon of Music [3/18/90]
AGO Calendar, March 1990
Darrell Orwig, organist [3/11/90]
Cherry Rhodes, organist [2/25/90], LA premier of Rayner's 20th Organ Sonata
Flyer for world premier of Rayner's Concerto for Violin, Harp and Orchestra, High Desert Symphony Orchestra [2/25/90]; Program
[2/25/90]
Flyer for the first performance of Rayner's St. Winfred Mass, Pasadena Pro Musica [2/23/?]
Frederick M. Barnes & Mildred Kammeyer-Barnes, organists [3/18/99]
Long Beach Bach Festival, May 1990
Robert Parris, organist [2/8/82]
Immanuel Presbyterian Church Worship Bulletin [1/4/76]
LA County Museum Chamber Music Concerts, Spring Series, April – June 1962
Sundays at Seven, Chamber Music Series
Richard Unfried, organist [5/11/84]
Homer Wickline, organist, "Organ Works of Rayner Brown" [2/17/85]
Homer Wickline, organist, "Various Shads of Brown" [6/3/84]
"Our Homage to Orpha Ochse," Frances Norbert, organist [2/14/93]
Cherry Rhodes, organist, AGO National Convention [7/1/92]
Flyer for Cherry Rhodes and Ladd Thomas, organists [1/16/93]
"Music by Los Angeles Composers" [3/7/93]
Natalie C. Ning [3/28/93]
Cherry Rhodes and Ladd Thomas, organists [1/16/93]
Samuel John Swartz, organist [10/3/92]
Program and note from Arlene [7/25/92]
Cherry Rhodes, organist [5/3/92]
Box 28, Folder 7
Programs as composer and organist 1937-1987
Invitation to a reception following a concert by David Craighead [1/20/78]
Page from the July 1988 Diapason, David and Marian Craighead recital
Program from Samuel Swartz, organist [6/29/85]; two letters from Swartz dated June 1, 1985 and June 29, 1985.
Flyer for Music and Liturgy for the Episcopal Church of the Holy Faith, Inglewood, CA, 1988-89
The Chapel in the Sky, Service of Worship Bulletin [3/9/69]
AGO Concert [4/21/47]
LA Brass Ensemble [1/19/65]
Los Angeles Flute Club [7/14/57]
Sunday Morning Worship [8/11/29]
Program for "Organ Recitals" [10/13/29]
"Wilshire Presbyterian Church honors Rayner Brown for 35 years of service" [5/23/77]
Program for "Wondrous Love" at Wilshire Presbyterian
Westwood Community Church Worship Bulletin [7/13/34]
Reference for Rayner from Gordon Chapman, Westwood Community Church [10/27/41]
Senior Organ Recital of Rayner Brown [1/18/38]
St. Pauls Organ Recitals Program
The Third Annual Orchestral Symposium of American Music [3/22/58]
USC Trojan Symphonic Band in Concert III [5/22/64]
Rayner Brown, organist [1/25/37]
Evening Prayer with Prelude Recital [6/13/37]
"Manuscript Evening" at St. Paul's Cathedral [5/31/37]
Flyer for St. Paul's Cathedral, Lenten Organ Recitals
Organ Institute of America with Oneonta Congregational Church [6/21/87]
Richard Unfreid, organist & James Weld, harpsichordist [7/6/87]
An Afternoon of Chamber Music: Dale Schweitzer and Friends [3/15/87]
AGO Far West Regional Convention Program, July 5-9, 1987, see page 13.
Richard Unfreid, organist & James Weld, harpsichordist [10/2/87]
California Philharmonia Brass Quintet [10/1/87]
Mark Fackrell, organist [5/1/87]
Box 18, Folder 6
Programs attended 1987-1988
Season Schedule: Los Angeles Philharmonic New Music Group [1987-8]
Libretto to Nixon in China by John Adams
First UMC Santa Monica: "A Festival of Music" [06/05/88]
CSU Northridge Singers, John Alexander, conductor [05/02/88]
Newspaper clipping: various concert announcements from unknown source [02/21/88]
The Green Umbrella: Los Angeles Philharmonic New Music Group [02/22/88], 2 copies
The Green Umbrella: Los Angeles Philharmonic New Music Group [11/09/87]
Pamphlet for "The Art of Communication- A Lecture Series" UK/LA [1988]
Advertisement for William Hall Chorale and Orchestra- Brahms' Ein Deutsches Requiem [05/01/88]
Advertisement for "Music at St. Cyril's" [no year]
Advertisement for William Hall Chorale and Orchestra- Durufle's Requiem Mass and Mathias' Missa Brevis [03/20/88]
USC Concert Calendar [1988]
Saint Cyril's Choir and Orchestra in Charles Gounod's Messe solennelle de Sainte Cecile [11/22/87]
Newspaper clipping : Cariaga, Daniel. "New, 'Old' Fare from the U.K." Los Angeles Times (Feb. 24, 1988): 6.
Newspaper clipping: Henken, John. "Green Umbrella Series Opens with Rand Steiger Concerto." Los Angeles Times (Nov. 11,
1987): 1.
Box 53, Folder 8
Programs for Music of Rayner Brown 1937-1995
Westlake Village Music Society, Trumpet, Organ, and Cello Concert [05/14/95]
Maria Casale, harp, Timothy Howard, organ [05/09/94]
Pasadena Presbyterian Church 12th Summer Organ Festival [1981]
Bulletin, St. Paul's Cathedral [07/25/37]
Dudley Warner Fitch, organ, St. Paul's Cathedral [05/31/37]
Photo, note, and envelope from Stennis Waldon, of Rayner and Stennis
Program and Announcement: Pasadena Chapter, American Guild of Organists, Timothy Howard, organ [05/09/94]
Program and Announcement: Cherry Rhodes, organ [10/02/94]
Los Altos United Methodist Church, Arts Series [1994-5]
American Guild of Organists Long Beach Chapter Guild Service [05/03/94]
Lilly An, organ [04/24/94]
Marian and David Craighead, organ, Annual Organ Concert Series [1993-4]
Letter to Rayner from Janice [08/21/__]
Bulletin: Westwood United Methodist Church [07/31/94]
Ae-Kyong Hong, organ [06/13/94]
Letter to Rayner and Barbara from Sherry Seckler
Newspaper clipping: "On the Town." Los Angeles Independent Newspapers (May 11, 1994).
Newspaper clipping: "Music and Dance." Los Angeles Times (May 8, 1994).
Newspaper clipping: Calendar, Los Angeles Times (May 8, 1994).
Box 22, Folder 7
Programs including compositions by Rayner 1983-1984
USC Wind Orchestra: Robert Wojciak, conductor [03/18/__]
Season Schedule: UCLA [Winter 1984]
"Performer's Notes" by Carol Flynn Hursh [01/24/83]
"Music at Country Club Christian Church" David A. Diebold and Carol Flynn Hursh, organ [01/24/83]
USC: James Calhoun, organ [04/24/83]
Newspaper clipping: "Reader's Guide" (March 18, 1983)
"Organ and Instruments"- Beverly Hills Presbyterian Church [05/01/83]
Sylvia Eisenman, organ [05/01/83]
Box 10, Folder 2
Programs including compositions by Rayner Brown 1982 1977-1984
Arrangements, Transcriptions, and Compositions for Brass by Irving Rosenthal (WIM Music)
Program: Rayner Brown, for 35 Years of Service, Wilshire Presbyterian Church [05/23/77], 2 copies
Program: A Tribute to Rayner Brown [03/29/77], 3 copies
Program: Homer Wickline, organ [01/15/84]
Advertisement for Robert Glasgow, organ with attached letter from Abbott and Sieker, organ builders [11/01/__]
Memo from Ruth Plummer, Artist Recitals Talent Agency [10/09/79]
Record advertisement: Sharon Davis, piano [WIM Music]
Schedule for USC School of Music [Spring 1982], 4 copies
Program and advertisement (2 copies): USC Wind Orchestra [01/18/82], and letter from Dean of American Guild of Organists [Jan.
1982]
Program: Music at Noon, Biola University [03/24/82]
Envelope labeled "Premieres 1982-1983": Series of notecards pertaining to specific pieces, Artists Recitals Talent Agency
advertisement, 2 typed pages
Box 53, Folder 5
Programs including music by Rayner Brown 1988
Homer Wickline, organ [01/24/88]
Marian and David Craighead, organ [03/19/88]
Organ Vespers, Frederkick and Mildred Barnes, organ [04/17/88], 2 copies
Long Beach Chapter American Guild of Organists Member Recital [11/15/88]
Vahe Berberian and Associates [03/03/88]
Postcard of First United Methodist, Glendale, with handwritten note
Program Guide, Classical 97 FM [Nov. 1988]
Listing of Organ Recitals [July 1988]
Box 53, Folder 6
Programs including music by Rayner Brown 1981
LeeAnn Wilma Bon, Patricia Murphy Lamb, Linda West Brown, organ [11/09/81], 2 copies
Carey Coker-Robertson, organ [03/08/82]
Jean Dodson, violin, Phil Dodson, organ [03/24/82]
Letter to Barbara from Quentin Faulkner, University of Nebraska-Lincoln [11/11/81]
UN-L Organ Conference- University of Nebraska [10/15/81], 4 copies
Advertisement for UN-L conference [Oct. 1981]
Portland Wind Ensemble [04/26/81]
Mildred Kammeyer-Barnes [11/15/81]
Bulletin from Spurgeon Memorial United Methodist Church [10/11/81]
Dedicatory Organ Recital, Homer Wickline, organ [11/01/81]
"The Clarion" Newsletter [06/21/81]
Pasadena Presbyterian Church Summer Music Festival Pamphlet [no date]
Box 15, Folder 5
Programs Including Music by Rayner Brown 1989-1990
Nord Johnson, organ [01/31/89], 2 copies
Church bulletin: All Saints' Episcopal Church [01/08/89[
Keller Hall Series: Arlene deYound-Judd, organ [01/28/90]
James Walker, organ [05/08/89], 8 copies
Recital announcement: James Walker, organ [05/08/89]
Laurie A. Chinn, organ [01/15/89]
Church bulletin: United Methodist Church of Garden Grove [05/28/89]
Classical Organ Concert: Mr. Rick Barnes [07/09/89]
Organ and Instruments by Guild Members and Local Instrumentalists [11/13/89], 7 copies; 3 copies of corresponding program
notes
Church bulletin: Westwood United Methodist Church [06/25/89]
Note to Rayner from Tom [Foster, All Saints' Episcopal Church] [01/07/89]
Grace Cathedral Concert Series [Fall 1989], 2 copies
Cherry Rhodes [10/15/89]
Promotion for Cherry Rhodes, organ
Concert calendar from Datebook [10/15/89]
Box 10, Folder 5
Box 17, Folder 1
Programs including music by Rayner Brown, prior to 1976- Part I 1961-1974
Faculty Recital: Robert Prichard, organ [02/20/71], 2 copies
Whittier College: Robert Prichard, organ [03/14/71], 3 copies
Dedication of the Gloria in Excelsis Organ, Parish Church of Saint Peter, Robert Tusler, organ [02/28/71], 2 copies
Saint Alban's Episcopal Church: A Service of Evensong [03/15/71], 2 copies
Riverside Churh in the City of New York: Robert S. Macdonald, organ [02/07/71]
Marilyn Willman Faulkner, organ [01/31/71]
First United Methodist Church: "Paul of Tarsus" [06/26/73], 2 copies and announcement
American Guild of Organists: Joanna de Keyser, cello and Karen McKinney, organ [05/14/73], 4 copies
Biola College: Richard Unfreid, organ, Doris Henry Werst, flute [02/23/73], 4 copies
Biola College: Rayner Brown, organ [03/23/73]
California State University: Jelil Romano, organ [05/20/73], 2 copies
Newspaper clipping: "Calendar" from Los Angeles Times [03/25/73]
Recital announcement: James H. Vail, organ [02/07/71] and St. Alban's Choir [03/15/71]
Biola College: Ruby Robbins, organ [03/27/71], 2 copies
Church Bulletin: [03/25/73]
American Guild of Organists: Owen Brady & Richard Slater, organ [02/12/73], 2 copies
Biola College: Los Angeles Brass Society [03/09/73], 4 copies
American Guild of Organists: Young Artists Recital [01/08/73]
Elburg Grote Kerk [08/24/66]
Eugene Lombardi, violin, Sue Lombardi, organ [02/12/73]
First United Methodist Church : Ladd Thomas, organ [10/02/72], 5 copies
Biola College: Jim Jansen, violin [01/11/74], 2 copies
Music by Rayner Brown [10/21/66], 3 copies, 2 envelopes
Advertisement for "Two Harp Concerts" [June 1966]
Biola College: Rayner Brown, organ [01/17/66]
Biola College: Rayner Brown, organ, Howard Whitaker, clarinet [01/13/67], 2 copies
First Methodist Church: Music for Brass, Organ, Harp, and Percussion [05/25/64]
St. Johanniskirche Zu Luneburg [09/08/66]
Biola College: Los Angeles Brass Ensemble [03/12/62], 3 copies
Letter to Rayner Brown from Dr. Herbert Vogg [03/06/70?]
The United Methodist Church of Southgate: Don Palmer, organ [12/14/69]
Church bulletin: Carpinteria Community Church [11/16/69]
Concerts West: Manucher Sadeghi, santur, Sharon-Leigh Duo, piano [10/24/69]
Church bulletin: Fremont Presbyterian Church [09/21/69]
Music at Noon, Collegium Musicum [05/26/66], 3 copies
California State College at Fullerton: Los Angeles Brass Ensemble [05/06/65]
Pomona College: Los Angeles Brass Society [05/06/63]
Los Angeles County Museum Chamber Music Concerts: Los Angeles Brass Society [07/14/63]
El Camino College: Los Angeles Brass Society [09/27/63]
UCLA Concerts [June 23-July 29, 1966]
Church bulletin: Occidental College Chapel [03/05/67]
Los Angeles Brass Society (Crozier Junior High School Auditorium) [05/20/62]
Biola College: Richard Unfried, organ, Faculty Recital [02/21/66], 2 copies
Biola College: Robert Prichard, harpsichord, Orpha Ochse, organ [04/18/66], 2 copies
Church bulletin: Grandview Presbyterian Church [02/17/66]
Biola College: Los Angeles Brass Society [03/04/63]
Biola College: Los Angeles Brass Ensemble [01/20/61]
Biola College: Los Angeles Brass Ensemle [03/12/62]
Box 17, Folder 2
Programs including music by Rayner Brown, prior to 1976- Part II 1952-1974
"In Memory of Jane E. Hopson" [10/29/69]
First Congregatinal Church of Los Angeles, Dedication Concert [10/26/69]
AGO Contra Costa County Chapter- Lois Lynn Hardy, organ [09/17/62]
AGO National Convention [July 2-6, 1962]
Artist Concert: Mallory String Quartet [05/01/59]
Concert calendar: Highland Park Symphony and Nela Opera Company [1974-5], 2 copies
Recital announcement- "Composers of California Concert" Highland Park Symphony Orchestra [03/21/75]
Los Angeles Chapter, American Guild of Organists: Elfrieda Baum, organ [10/07/74], 2 copies
Youngstown Symphony Society: Alexander Fielder, flute, Robert Allison, piano [10/05/52]
The Phillips Gallery: Alex Fielder, flute, Robert Allison, piano [10/12/52]
"The First Junior Music Guild Concert with Groucho Marx" [01/31/53], 4 copies
University of Redlands: Third Annual Orchestral Symposium of American Music [03/22/58], 6- copies
Biola College: Robert Prichard, harpsichord, Orpha Ochse, organ [04/18/66], 2 copies
Biola College: Rayner Brown, organ, Faculty Recital [01/17/66]
UCLA Concerts [June 23- July 29, 1966]
Church bulletin: Immanuel Presbyterian Church [06/05/38]
Church bulletin: First Presbyterian Church (New Castle, Pennsylvania) [03/21/43]
Occidental College: Carolyn Pryor, organ [12/04/56], 2 copies
Los Angeles Chapter, AGO, Annual Manuscript Program [06/07/43]
Biola College, Music at Noon: "A Program of Contemporary Organ Music" [10/27/71], 3 copies
Los Angeles County Museum Chamber Music Concerts: Los Angeles Brass Society [07/14/63], 2 copies
Newsletter: "The Sounding Board" op.17, no.4 [Jan. 1972]
"Instituut voor Muziekwetenschap der Rijksuniversiteit te Utrecht" (Robert Tusler) [Feb.-Mar. 1972]
Church bulletin: Chrystal Cathedral [02/13/72], 3 copies
Biola College: Rayner Brown, organ, William Lock, baritone, Keith Weathers, trumpet, David Dickinson, trombone [03/17/72]
AGO- Riverside-San Bernardino County Chapter: Kathryn Knapp James and Rayner Brown, organ [04/21/47]
Pasadena and Valley Districts Chapter, AGO- Robert Prichard, organ and Los Angeles Brass Ensemble [05/13/57] with letter to
Rayner from Robert Prichard [05/09/57]
AGO: Robert Prichard, organ, David Billeter, harpsichord, Rebecca Haight Hathaway, viola da gamba [02/08/54], 4 copies
Winthrop College: George E. Klump, organ [03/01/65]
Winthrop College: Patricia Marie Smith, organ [04/22/65]
Premier Series: University Lutheran Chapel, Rayner Brown, organ [11/21/65]
Los Angeles Flute Club [09/28/52]
Fourth Annual Summer Organ Festival, Pasadena Presbyterian Church [July-Aug. 1965], 3 copies
Biola College: Los Angeles Brass Society [10/26/64]
Los Angeles Flute Club [07/14/57]
Biola Bible College: Student Concert [11/18/58]
Ronald M. Huntington, organ [11/10/58], 3 copies
Box 17, Folder 3
Programs including music by Rayner Brown, prior to 1976- Part III 1937-1973
Biola Bible College: Los Angeles Brass Ensemble [03/03/59], 4 copies
Biola College: Music for Flute, Clarinet, and Viola [10/06/59], 3 copies
The Bohemians of Los Angeles: Twelfth Annual Divertimento [05/16/59], 2 copies
AGO Far-Western Regional Convention [June 17-20, 1957]
Los Angeles Flute Club [07/14/57], 2 copies
Los Angeles Flute Club [01/16/55]
Newsletter: "The Meetinghouse" for First Congregational Church [03/21/54]
Los Angeles Flute Club [03/12/56]
Unknown venue: "Sonatina No.6" played by Ronald M. Huntington [Feb 1955]
Robert Prichard and The Los Angeles Brass Ensemble [05/13/57], 3 copies
The Bohemians of Los Angeles: Tenth Anniversary Celebration- "A Concert of Compositions" with the Mallory String Quartet [03/30/57]
St. Paul's Cathedral: Dudley Warner Fitch, choirmaster and organ [05/31/37]
AGO Young Artists Recital [02/04/57]
Occidental College: Carolyn Pryor, organ [12/04/56]
"A Program for Organ, Oboe, and Voice" [03/07/55]
University of Redlands: "Third Annual Orchestral Symposium of American Music" [03/22/58]
Music Educators National Conference Biennial Convention: Organ Session [03/22/58]
Rayner Brown, organ- First Congregational Church [04/11/60]
USC Festival of Contemporary Music [1961-2]
"Music of Three Los Angeles Composers" Robert Tusler, director, Rayner Brown, organ [06/02/61]
"3 Los Angeles Composers- Boris Kremenliev, Rayner Brown, Lowndes Mawry" [06/02/61]
Biola College: Los Angeles Brass Ensemble [10/01/57]
Los Angeles Flute Club [09/11/60]
AGO- First UMC of Glendale: Ladd Thomas, organ, Los Angeles Saxophone Quartet [04/13/70], 3 copies
Newspaper clipping: Arlen, Walter. "Thomas in Organ Recital at Church." Los Angeles Times (Apr. 15, 1970): 14.
Newspaper clipping: "Methodist Church Slates Contemporary Music Fete." Valley Paper- Green Sheet (Apr. 10, 1970)
Mid-Wilshire Parish: "Friday Noon Series of Organ Recitals" [03/13/70], 4 copies
Biola College: Richard Unfreid, organ, Jean Dodson, violin [04/03/70], 3 copies
Biola College: Rayner Brown, organ, Martha Aarons, flute, William Lock, baritone, Fine Arts Brass Quintet [02/27/70], 5 copies
San Fernando Valley State College: Marilyn Willman Faulkner, organ [01/31/71], 2 copies
St. Paul's Church (Des Moines, Iowa): Dudley Warner Fitch, organ [04/04/43]
AGO: Robert Prichard, organ, David Billeter, harpsichord, Rebecca Haight Hathaway, viola da gamba [02/08/54]
First Baptist Church (Los Angeles): Third Annual Hymn Festival [05/05/40]
Newsletter: The Meeting House, First Congregational Church of Los Angeles [03/28/40]
Church bulletin: First Baptist Church (Los Angeles) [05/02/37]
Church bulletin: First Baptist Church (Los Angeles) [04/18/37]
USC Festival of Contemporary Music [1961-2]
AGO: Robert Prichard, organ, "Organ and Instruments" [11/02/53], 2 copies
Newspaper clipping: "Organ Music On Air is 'Ideal Listening.'" The Diapason (Nov. 1, 1947).
Music Arts Society of Santa Monica, Inc.: William C. Beck and Karen McKinney, organ [10/08/67]
Mount St. Mary's College: National Association of American Composers and Conductors [10/27/67], 2 copies
Los Angeles Chapter of the National Association for American Composers and Conductors [06/11/67]
Letter to Rayner Brown from Catherine Crozier [01/05/66]
Sketch (possibly by Barbara) labeled "Rayner's Symphony No.2 Rehearsal; Redlands Univ. Chapel, March 22, 1958"
Ladd Thomas, organ- "Dedication Concert II" [10/07/73]
Box 14, Folder 6
Programs- Music of Rayner Brown 1993-1994
Envelope to Barbara Brown from William Leigh Dutton [02/12/01]
Newspaper clipping: "The Science of DNA Goes Prime Time." Los Angeles Times (May 8, 1995).
Program: California State University Northridge May Music Festival [1993]
Program: Summer Organ Festival- Robert Prichard, organ [06/20/82]
Program: 14th Organ Concert Series [1982-3]
Program: American Guild of Organists Pasadena Chapter [1981-2]- Carey Coker-Robertson, organ [03/08/82]
Recital announcement- Cherry Rhodes, organ [10/02/94]
Program: American Guild of Organists Long Beach Chapter Guild Service [05/03/94], 5 copies
Program notes for Sonata for Organ Duet and Brass Quintet, 2 copies (correspond to Melody Turnquist, organ recital)
Program: Lilly An, organ [04/24/94], 2 copies
Program: Ae-Kyong Hong, organ [06/13/94], 4 copies, and recital invitation in envelope
Recital: Melody Turnquist, organ [03/05/94], 4 copies, with note to Rayner from Melody
Sketch of Chris Poppervell?, tuba [03/04/94]
Various bank account records, 12 pages
Letter to Rayner from Homer [02/10/96]
Letter from American Heart Association
Church bulletin: Westwood Unite Methodist Church [05/16/93]
Program: "Four Concerts of Organ Music, students of Leslie P. Spelman" [April-May 1993]
Pages from address book (letters I-M), 11 pages
Box 18, Folder 10
Programs- music of RB (earlier than Apr. 1989) 1937-1988
Biola College: Richard Unfreid, organ [02/08/80]
First Methodist Church: "Music for Brass, Organ, Harp and Percussion"- Los Angeles Brass Society, Ladd Thomas, organ [05/25/64]
Church bulletin: First Baptist Church [05/02/37]
Immanuel Presbyterian Church: "The Tuesday Evening Series of Organ Recitals" [Oct. 1961], 3 copies
UCLA Department of Music Production Calendar [Fall 1966]
First United Methodist Church: Ladd Thomas, organ, David Breidenthal, bassoon [10/02/72]
Organ Instute of America- Oneonta Congregational Church [06/21/87]
Los Angeles- Pierce College: California Philharmonia Brass Quintet [10/01/87], 8 copies
Biola Music: Richard Unfreid, organ, James Weld, harpsichord [10/02/87]
Tuedsay Evening Organ Recitals, Trinity Church: Cherry Rhodes and Ladd Thomas [04/12/88]
Organ Vespers: Frederick Barnes, Mildred Barnes, organ [04/17/88]
Sunday Afternoon Organ Rectials: Homer Wickline, organ [04/24/88]
Long Beach Chapter- AGO: Member Recital [11/15/88]
Catalog of organ music by Rayner Brown from WIM and Composer's Library [no date]
Catalog of music by Rayner Brown from WIM and Composer's Library [no date]
Church bulletin/newsletter: "Covenant Chimes"- Covenant Presbyterian Church [06/25/78]
California State University, Northridge: Trumpet Ensemble [12/08/78]
Biola College: Music at Noon [03/29/78]
Artist Series & Concerts: David Craighead, organ [01/20/78]
Wilshire Presbyterian Church: Rayner Brown "Honors" [05/23/77]
Chamber Music Concerts- Natural History Museum: Summer Series [July-Sept. 1978]
Letter to Rayner from Ronald M. Huntington [no date]
Organ Recital: Ronald M. Huntington [03/23/76]
Church bulletin: (church not given) [11/02/75]
Bonnie Stanley, organ and harpsichord [04/25/76]
Letter to "organist friends" from AGO- Los Angeles Chapter [12/22/81]
Spurgeon Memorial UMC: Frederick M. Barnes, organ [06/14/81]
Trojan Tuba & Trombone Ensemble Concert [04/28/81]
Church bulletin : Spurgeon Memorian UMC [07/12/81]
Biola College: Richard Unfreid, organ [10/26/73]
UCLA: Arlene de Young Judd, organ [04/04/79]
New Music Notes- Notes from the New Music Project Committee [1974?]
Church bulletin: Holy Week and Easter- St. Paul's Cathedral [April 1939], 2 copies
Recital schedule: St. Paul's Cathedral [April- no year]
Box 10, Folder 3
Programs- R 1942-1990
Program: Mildred Kammeyer-Barnes, organ [11/15/81]
Darrell Orwig, organ [03/11/90]
American Guild of Organists- New Music Project Committee- Premiere Performances Program [04/01/74], 3 copies
Carolyn Pryor, organ [12/04/56]
Sunday Afternoons on Wilshire [April 1956]
Mary Preston, organ [11/19/82]
Richard Unfreid, organ [02/08/80]
American Guild of Organists Young Artists Recital [02/04/57]
Music at Noon, Biola College [11/09/77]
University of Redlands Vespers [11/15/42]
A.G.O. Far Western Regional [06/29/77]
Church Bulletins from GGCC [Dec. 1976]
Program of Compositions by Members of the Classes of Hanns Eisler [06/13/46], 8 copies
Magazine clippings from AGO-RCCO Magazine [June 1975]
Concert series announcement for The Association of Fine Arts, Inc. [1967-8]
Church bulletin from Fremont Presbyterian Church [04/27/69]
UCLA Concerts [06/26/66]
Ladd Thomas, organ [10/07/79]
Music of Rayner Brown, Biola College [Feb.-Mar. 1980], with attached letter to Rayner and Barbara from Jack [02/15/80], 2
copies
Russell Stepan, piano [11/09/79], 5 copies
Rayner Brown, organ and The Carrillons [03/07/__]
Richard Unfreid, organ [04/18/69]
Los Angeles County Museum Chamber Music Concerts [Summer 1964]
Music at USC [Spring 1982]
American Guild of Organists: Charles Shaffer, organ [04/04/67]
Los Angeles Brass Society, Ladd Thomas, organ [02/13/67]
Daniel Orwig, organ [01/09/83]
Box 10, Folder 4
Programs- R- Part II 1959-1982
A Festival of American Music- Concert Band [04/02/68], 2 copies
Janie Hopson, piano [04/11/69], 2 copies
Music at Noon, Biola College, Steve Sturz, organ [02/19/69], 2 copies
Music at Noon, Biola College, Richard Unfreid, organ [02/05/69]
USC "A Recital of Contemporary Organ Music" [03/03/69], 3 copies
Biola College, Music for Flute, Clarinet, and Viola [10/06/59], 2 copies
Biola College, Paul Moorefield and Stephen Sturz, organ [05/31/68], 2 copies
USC Wind Orchestra Concert II [02/16/68], 2 copies
Dorothy Hester and Howard Don Small, organ [01/08/68], 2 copies
Charles Shafer, organ [02/23/68], 2 copies
Rayner Brown, organ, Biola College [11/23/64]
William C. Beck and Karen McKinney, organ [10/08/67]
Fifth Annual Summer Organ Festival [1966]
Music for Brass, Organ, Harp and Percussion, First Methodist Church [05/25/64], 3 copies
David Britton, organ [11/09/80]
Los Angeles County Museum Chamber Music Concerts [summer 62]
National Convention, American Guild of Organists, Guild Festival Service [07/02/62]
The Dominant Club [10/14/61], 2 copies
"An Invitation" for Organ Session of Music Educators National Conference Biennial Convention
Church bulletin, Washington Cathedral [07/23/67]
Magazine clipping from The AGO-RCCO Magazine [Sept. 1975]
San Fernando Valley State College, Recital at One [01/17/69]
Organ Music at Noon, Janice Mitchell, organ [03/07/90]
Immanuel Presbyterian Church Wednesday Noon Organ Recitals [05/12/82]
Ev. Lutheran Christuskirche- Bad Eilsen [06/01/82]
Orgelkonzert, St. Wolfgang, Nurnberg-Schweinau [06/06/82]
Newspaper clipping: USC School of Music Fall Concert Season [1982]
Organ Concert by Connie Grisham [12/03/82], 2 copies, with pamphlet for Our Lady of Lourdes
Advertisement for USC Wind Orchestra with Ladd Thomas [01/18/82]
Sigma Alpha Iota concert [01/29/00]
Aumuhler Kirchenmusik Sommerliche Orgelmusiken [May-Jun. 1982]
Thomas Neenan, organ [06/02/82]
Ambassador Auditorium, 1984-1985 Season
Box 15, Folder 7
Programs, Including Compositions by Rayner Brown 1955-1991
Music for Organ and Harpsichord (Pasadena First Congregational Church) [11/04/79]
Russell Stepan, piano [11/09/79], 2 copies
UCLA Wind Ensemble, James Westbrook, conductor [11/18/79]
AGO Far Western Regional Convention [1957], 2 copies
Church bulletin: Lake Avenue Congregational Church [06/09/91]
Concert Schedule, AGO Far West Regional Convention [June16-19, 1991], 20 copies
Phil Dodson, organ- Bakersfield Christian Life Center [10/06/91], 4 copies
Title page to Fioretti for Two Violins and Organ with newspaper clipping attached "Student joins orchestra" [11/10/91]
A Program for Organ, Oboe, and Voice [03/07/55], 2 copies
Tenth Anniversary Celebration- The Bohemians of Los Angeles- "A Concert of Compositions" [03/30/57], 4 copies
Samuel John Swartz, organ [11/01/91]
Los Angeles County Museum Chamber Music Concerts- Los Angeles Brass Society [07/14/63]
Biola College- Los Angeles Brass Ensemble [05/16/66], 3 copies
Biola College- Los Angeles Brass Society, Lester Remsen, conductor [03/04/63], 7 copies
Biola College, Music at Noon [03/29/78], 4 copies
USC- Irene Robertson, organ [07/05/62], 9 copies
American Guild of organists- New Music Project Committee [04/01/74]
The Crystal Cathedral- Cherry Rhodes, Ladd Thomas, organ [03/02/84], 2 copies
Programs for Recital Series at The Parish of St. Matthew, Pacific Palisades, CA [May-June 1985]
Seventeenth Annual Long Beach Bach Festival [May 1990], 2 copies
Noordhollands Jongenskoor en Koorschool van de Grote [05/24/90], 5 copies
Pasadena First Congregational Church : Music for Organ and Harpsichord [11/04/79], 2 copies
UCLA Symphonic Wind Ensemble [03/13/76], with attached nametag for Rayner Brown
Organ Vespers- Frederick Barnes, Mildred Barnes [04/17/88], 2 copies
Whittier College- LeeAnn Bon, organ [04/12/75]
Darrell Orwig, organ [03/11/90]
Newspaper clipping: "Openings" in Los Angeles Times [05/18/90]
Text Translations- Chichester Psalms
Highland Park Symphony and Nela Opera Company Season Schedule [1974-1975]
Bonnie Stanley, organ and harpsichord [04/25/76]
Season schedule for the Ambassador Auditorium [1984-1985]
Advertisement for Los Angeles Brass Society, Ladd Thomas, organ album, WIM Music, 8 copies
American Guild of Organists 24th National Convention [06/23-27/58]
Four O'Clock Favorites: Dr. Phil Dodson, organ [10/06/91]
Season Schedule: Bakersfield Christian Life Center [1991-2]
Brochure: The Great Organ of The First Baptist Church (Bakersfield)
Box 53, Folder 7
Programs/R 1957-2000
St. Paul's Cathedral, Organ Recitals [June __]
Robert Prichard and David Billeter [02/08/54], 2 copies
Letter from "The Bohemians of Los Angeles"
The Bohemians of Los Angeles- Twelfth Annual Divertimento [05/16/59]
First Junior Music Guild Concert with Groucho Marx [01/31/53], 2 copies
The Carillons, Biola College [1969-70]
American Guild of Organists, New Music for Service and Recital [04/07/80], 2 copies
Tenth Anniversary Celebration, The Bohemians of Los Angeles, with Program Notes [03/30/57]
Season Schedule, Thirty-Fourth Los Angeles Bach Festival
Dedication Concert, First Congregational Church of Los Angeles [10/26/69]
Newspaper clipping: "Dedication of 212-Rank Organ Held at Church." Los Angeles Times (Oct. 28, 1969), 13
Organ dedication, Wilshire United Methodist Church [11/16/80]
American Guild of Organists Far-West Regional Convention [06/28/00]
Mount St. Mary's College, Fourth Annual Symposium of Contemporary Composition [05/12/62]
Letter from Harold E. Robison, Ohio University [07/31/79]
Letter to Rayner from Robert Prichard [10/08/79]
Letter to Rayner from Dan, Univ. California Riverside [09/10/79]
Letter to Rayner and Barbara from John J. Rodgers, Wilshire Presbyterian Church [08/20/79]
Box 53, Folder 10
Box 18, Folder 3
R's Programs 1945-1947
"Program of Compositions by Members of the Classes of Hanns Eisler" [06/13/46]
USC Wind Orchestra, Robert Wojciak, conductor [03/18/__], 6 copies
AGO Riverside-San Bernardino County: Kathryn Knapp James and Rayner Brown, organ [04/21/47], 2 copies
Newspaper clipping: "Sharps and Flats" Los Angeles Times (March 24, 1946): 5.
Newsletter: The Meetinghouse- First Congregational Church of Los Angeles [03/21/46], 2 copies
Newspaper clipping: "Organ Guild Will Preset Program of Manuscripts." Los Angeles Times (May 6, 1945).
Newspaper clipping: "Works of Service Men on a Special Broadcast from Harvard Museum." The Diapason (July 1, 1945).
Newsletter: Ambassador International Cultural Foundation- News of the Performing Arts [April-June 1985]
Program: The Los Angeles Women's Symphony [01/26/__], 3 copies
Church bulletin: Wilshire Presbyterian Church [03/16/47]
Church bulletin: Wilshire Presbyterian Church [06/03/45]
Program: AGO (Los Angeles)- "Manuscript Program" at Occidental College [05/07/45]
Invitation to "Daughter of Jairus: A Sacred Cantata by John Stainer" Wilshire Presbyterian Church [06/08/47]
Box 25, Folder 5
Box 31, Folder 4
Regarding Lucienne G. Biggs 1985
Original Folder: "Biggs, Lucienne – teacher, organist, wife of Richard Keys Biggs – organist at Blessed Sacrament Church of
Hollywood
LA Times, "Lucienne G. Biggs, Organist, Teacher" 2/2/85
Concelebrated Mass of Christian Burial for Lucienne Gourdon Biggs
Announcement of the establishment of the Dr. and Mrs. Richard Keys Biggs Memorial Scholarship Fund
Box 11, Folder 8
Reviews and Announcements of Performance 1982-1998
"Dedication of the Great Organs" at First Congregational Church of Los Angeles [05/21/95]
Newspaper clipping: Woodard, Josef. "Pipe Dreams- by the Thousands." Los Angeles Times (Jun. 18, 1995).
Catalog of "Choral Music" from Vester Music [1995-1996]
Corrected score to St. Winfred Mass
Program: Pasadena Pro Musica (premiere of St. Winfred Mass) [02/23/90]
Newspaper clipping: Drake, Sylvie. "Pooh Bewitched him to 'Bother!'" Los Angeles Times (May 21, 1987).
"Arabesque" (Christmas card?) [Dec. 1992], 3 copies
Unlabeled sheet music, 29 pages [May 1998]
Sheet music labeled "3. Allegro Spensierato" (9 pages) [Dec. 1982]
Unlabeled sheet music, 1 page (single staff, 8 lines) [1982]
Sheet music (page 10-12) and title page "Nineteenth Sonata for Organ"
Set of parts and score for unidentified piece (parts incomplete); Score: 2 pages, brass parts; Parts: cello, oboe I, oboe
II, horn IV, trumpet I
Box 19, Folder 9
Reviews of music/ Notices of performance 1988
Box 22, Folder 9
Reviews R- Invoices? And Announcers? 1962-1979
Newspaper clipping: "L.A. Composers' Chorale Slated." Los Angeles Times (Mar. 13, 1971), 21.
Newspaper clipping: "Calendar." Los Angeles Times (June 20, 1971).
Newspaper clipping: "Calendar." Los Angeles Times (June 20, 1971).
Clipping: "Organ Notes." Worship and Arts (June-July 1979).
Magazine clipping: [untitled] The Diapason (July 1968).
Newspaper clipping: "Miss Kirsten Recital in Pasadena." Los Angeles Times (Feb. 3, 1963), two pages.
Newspaper clipping: "Music This Week." Los Angeles Times (Jan. 7, 1962).
Notecard to Rayner from Halstead McCormac (10/05/
Box 10, Folder 6
Reviews/Notices- R's music- Re-Recording Catalogs 1975-1987
Clipping from The American Organist [Oct. 1987]
Advertisement for "The Flute in Various Chamber Settings" (WIM Records)
Unknown catalog- Noted "1190 Leslie P. Spelman: Organ Plus" with attached address Theodore Front Musical Literature
Catalog of Organ Duets by Rayner Brown, 2 copies
Catalog of Organ Music by Rayner Brown, 2 copies (2 versions)
Clipping from unidentified paper, "Concerts West Has Diversified Program"
Small clipping from unidentified paper, labeled "Diapason- Jan. 1975"
Arnold, Corliss R. "A Bird's Eye View of Organ Composition Since 1960." The AGO-RCCO Magazine (May 1975): 23-7.
Recording Advertisement: Los Angeles Brass Society, Ladd Thomas (WIM Records)
Recording Advertisement: The Los Angeles Brass Quintet Playing Bach, Brown, Cheetham, Schmidt (WIM Records)
Copy of magazine "Pipings" from The American Organist [June 1987]
Two pages of recital announcements from The American Organist [July 1985]
Box 27, Folder 5
Sigma Alpha Iota 1995-1998
Pan Pipes, SAI Magazine, Winter 1996. Rayner was an honorary member. See page 23.
Pan Pipes, Winter 1995, page 18.
Pan Pipes, Winter 1998, page 23.
Sigma Alpha Iota Concert Program [3/21/98]
Pan Pipes, Spring 1998, page 29.
Note from Shirley Boucher [7/1/96]; Note from Mary Jane Amringe; Letter "American Composers" from SAI Composers Bureau [6/28/97]
Picture of Rayner with Mary Jane Amringe and Shirley Boucher
Card from Shirley Boucher, March 26, of an unspecified year
Card from Shirley Boucher, March 4th, of an unspecified year
Box 14, Folder 5
St. Winfred Mass- Program Notes 1990-02-2001-02
Newsletter: LA Pipeline [Feb. 2001], containing recital announcement and program for "Music of Rayner Brown" [02/18/01], 3
copies
Cartoon labeled "The Back Forty"
Christmas card from Rayner and Barbara [1995], with notes on back
Small paper schedule "Morgen BIJ Holland Music Sessions
Program: "Music of Rayner Brown" [02/18/01]
Newspaper clipping: Davis, Phil. "An Enterprise to Improve L.A.'s Celestial Eyesight." Los Angeles Times (Jul. 19,2001):
6.
Program: Pasadena Pro Musica [02/23/90] (premiere of St. Winfred Mass)
Copy of newspaper article: Cariaga, Daniel. [title not readable] Los Angeles Times (no date available); concerns St. Winfred
Mass
Newspaper clipping: Lurie, Alison. "The Countercultural Winnie-the-Pooh." Los Angeles Times (Mar. 4, 1990)
Program Notes (3 copies) and picture, St. Winfred Mass
Title page and text (2 copies) for St. Winfred Mass
Box 2, Folder 9
U.S.C. Programs 1959-1988
USC Wind Ensemble [03/09/88]
11th Festival Contemporary Music [1959]
USC Wind Ensemble [02/03/88]
USC Symphony [02/12/88]
Note and envelope to Rayner Brown from USC for alumni donation of $10 [08/23/76]
USC Wind Ensemble, Robert Wojciak Memorial Concert [10/12/88] (three copies)
USC School of Music Newsletter [Commencement 1986]
Box 28, Folder 8
Unlabled Ephemera 1938-1992
Three notes from Tom Foster, all Saints Beverly Hills [2/20/90], [2/26/91], [6/5/92]
Picture of "Arlene" in 1992
Cherry Rhodes, organist [11/21/80]
List of Organ Music by Rayner Brown [6/1/88]
Letter to Dr. Stephen von Spelman from Rayner [2/16/93] and Stephen's response [2/23/93]
"Magnigicent Organ Installed at First Congregation Church," Worship and Arts, Dec. 1969- January 1970, see page 5.
Tribute to Rayner napkin [3/29/77]
Note from Catharine Crozier [9/21/1991]
Note from Trudy (?) Allison [12/28/78] and a letter from Bob Allison [1/6/79]
From George Shrug (?), Winthrop College [1/11/64]
Organ Repertoire review by Orpha Ochse, Worship and Arts, Oct. – Nov. 1978, page 12
"Church Organist Called by Army: W. Brownell Martin Will Leave First Congregational in June," LA Times, [5/18/41]; W. Brownell
Martin, organist [1/12/41]
Note from Charles Jones [1/6/64]
Letter from Emily L. Bangs [1/11/64]
Letter from Blaine and Bonnie Ricketts [1/15/79]
Thank you note from Anita [1/29/79]
Copy of a card that Barbara and Rayner sent out for Christmas in 1982
Brochure for New Mexico Music Festival at Taos, Summer 1981; has a handwritten note from Robert Tusler (?)
Thank you card from Emma and Keith Smith [1/12/81]; Card from Anita [1/12/81; Charles Benbow, organist-harpsichordist [1/11-12/81]
Note from Ray and Dorothy [1/20/79]
"Composium: A Quarterly Index of Contemporary Compositions" see page 1.
Friday Evening Concerts [2/27/53]
First Congregational Church of Los Angeles, Dedication Concert [10/26/69]
LA County Natural History Museum Chamber Music Concerts, Winter Series, 1978
Christmas card from Orpha Ochse
Letter from Bonnie Stanley [9/15/78]
AGO Concert Program [11/3/47]
AGO Concert Program [5/6/?]
Dudley Warner Fitch, organist [4/21/41]
H. Toni Roelofsma, organist & Mary Lehigh Putnam, pianist [11/9/41]
USC Wind Orchestra [3/18/?]
AGO Concert [6/12/39]
Pacific Coast Regional Convention o0f the AGO, Pasadena, CA, June 24-26, 1940.
Fine Arts Festival of Mount St. Mary's Campus, May 1962
Wilshire Presbyterian Worship Bulletin [12/16/56]
Rayner Brown, organist [12/20/37]
Los Angeles A Cappella Choir, LA AGO Concert, Rayner Brown, organist [11/3/47]
St. Brendan's Choristers, Rayner Brown, organist, LA AGO Concert [12/5/38]
All Souls Chapel, Hospital of the Good Samaratan, Christmas Concert, Rayner as organist [12/14/?]
All Souls Chapel, Hospital of the Good Samaratan, Christmas Concert, Rayner as organist [12/13/39]
Westwood Community Methodist Church Choir, Rayner as organist [11/5/39] & [11/24/40]
First Congregational Church of Los Angeles, worship bulletin [6/27/40]
Contemporary Music Ensemble [4/29/80]
Box 30, Folder 3
USC related folder 1938-1982
LA Times Calendar, p. 27 [3/14/71]
LA Times Calendar, p. 22 [1/16/72]
Denver Post, section G [11/17/71]
"It's Commencement Week at USC Where 1600 Prepare for Graduation," LA Times, [5/30/38]
"Music This Week," LA Times [10/4/59]
LA Times Calendar, p. 10 [8/5/62]
"Bulletin of the University of Southern California: Introduction to the University" 1961
Letter from Lane Shepherd with accompanying church bulletin [5/14/54]
Program from Rayner's Senior Organ Recital [1/18/38]
Flyer for music at USC, 1982
Rayner's USC Alumni Card, 1980-81
Program for the Trojan Tuba and Trombone Ensemble Concert [4/28/81]
Irene Robertson, organist [7/5/62]
Sixth Annual Festival of Contemporary Arts, 1953
Invitation to the "Fourteenth Annual Apolliad [5/14/38]
"A program of compositions by members of the classes of Hanns Eisler" [6/13/46]
"1600 Receive USC Diplomas," Los Angeles Examiner, [6/5/38]
Box 18, Folder 7
USC School of Music Programs 1987-1988
"An Evening of New Music: featuring works by USC faculty composers" [10/27/88]
Contemporary Music Ensemble, Donald Crockett, conductor [10/20/87]
USC Wind Ensemble, Robert H. Wojciak, conductor [11/04/87]
USC Wind Ensemble, Robert H. Wojciak, conductor; USC Percussion Ensemble [12/02/87]
"An Evening of New Music with a Specital Centenial Tribute to Ernst Toch" [10/23/87]
Eudice Shapiro, violin, Jean Barr, piano [Nov. 1, 8, 15, 22, 1987]
USC Chamber Orchestra, Larry Livingston, conductor [10/08/87]
USC Wind Ensemble, Robert H. Wojciak, conductor [09/30/87]
USC Symphony, Daniel Lewis, conductor [11/13/87]
USC Chamber Orchestra, Robert Duerr, conductor [11/12/87]
USC Concert Choir, James Vail, conductor [10/25/87]
Box 20, Folder 10
Various Catalogs from Box C 1990-1993
"Music by Rayner Brown" from Foothill Music (10 pages), 4 copies
Cover sheet to "Music by Rayner Brown- Recent Compositions 1990-2" from Foothill Music
Promo for Six Pieces by Rayner Brown
Promo for Musica Romantica: Nine Pieces for Organ by Rayner Brown, 2 copies
Catalog for Rayner Brown from Composer's Library, 6 pages
Catalog for "Music of Rayner Brown", 7 pages
"Music of Rayner Brown and Record of Copyrights" [05/10/93], 7 pages
Envelope with notes regarding copyrights
Box 21, Folder 2
Various Concert Schedules/Promos from Box C 1981-2002
"Music of Ranyer Brown" [02/18/01]
Saint-Eustache 2nd Festival D-Orgue [1991]
Biola University: section from Calendar [no year]
Organ Concert Series- Holy Family Cathedral, Audrey Jacobsen, organ [1997]
Calendar- Musc at All Saints [1997-8]
The AIDS Ministry of All Saints' Beverly Hills- "A Benefit Concert of Chamber Music" [05/23/93]
AGO Calendar- Long Beach, Los Angeles, Orange County, Pasadena [1993-4]
All Saints' Music Guild Calendar [1993-4]
All Saints' Music Guild- "A Procession with Carols on Advent Sunday" [11/28/93]
St. Matthew's Music Guild- Chamber Orchestra- "1791: Mozart's Last Year" [05/23/__]
All Saints' Parish Music Guild: A Duo Organ Recital- Carol and Thomas Foster [10/18/92]
Calendar- Music at Immanuel [1993-4]
Festival D'Orgue a Saint-Eustache [1991], 5 copies
St. Mark's Episcopal Church Ministry of Music [1997]
LA Opera: "Carmen" [09/08/98]
St. Mark's Episcopal Church Ministry of Music [1995]
January Concerts at St. Matthew's Pacific Palisades [no year]
Music at St. Cyril's- Organ Recital and Solemn Vespers [02/17/02]
Westwood UMC: Melody Turnquist-Steed, organ [03/31/98]
All Saints' Church Music Guild Season [1996-7]
Pasadena Presbyterian Church: 12th Summer Organ Festival [1981]
Box 8, Folder 2
Various Concert/Recital Programs 1964-1996
Homer Wickline, Howard Ludwig, Conrad Seamen [04/24/88]
Recital Calendar, Hollywood Organ Series [1996-7]
Organ recital, Riverside-San Bernardino Counties Chapter, American Guild of Organists [no date]
Sigma Alpha Iota Concert [03/16/96]
Church bulletin from Garden Grove United Methodist Church [03/03/96]
Biola College American Music Series (music of Rayner Brown and Rayner Brown, organ) [Spring 1974], 2 copies
"A Tribute to Rayner Brown" Los Angeles Clarinet Society [03/29/77], 8 copies
Rayner Brown, organ [03/29/74]
Richard Unfreid, organ [05/27/77], 3 copies
"Rayner Brown, for 35 Years of Service" Wilshire Presbyterian Church [05/23/77], 5 copes (program includes a listing of works),
with envelope
Biola Trombone Choir [05/28/77], 2 copies
Biola Clarinet Choir [04/27/77]
James Walker, organ [05/22/77]
Marilyn Faulkner. Organ [01/31/71]
"Music for Brass, Organ, Harp, and Percussion" [05/25/64], 5 copies
Steve Sturz, organ [02/19/69]
Sharon/Leigh Duo [11/09/69]
USC Recital of Contemporary Organ Music [03/03/69], 2 copies
Organ Dedication, First Congregational Church of Los Angeles [10/26/69]
"Los Angeles' 'King of Instruments.'" Worship and Arts (Feb.-Mar. 1980), 12.
Music by Rayner Brown, Wilshire Presbyterian Church [10/21/66], 9 copies
Summer Organ Festival [1966], Pasadena Presbyterian Church with note to Rayner from Charles [01/30/67]
Rayner Brown, organ, faculty recital [11/23/64], 4 copies, with 2 recital announcements
Box 8, Folder 3
Various Concert/Recital Programs- Part II 1939-2001
Los Angeles Brass Society, Biola College [10/26/64], 4 copies
San Fernando Valley State College- Recital at One [01/17/69]
Bulletin from Garden Grove Community Church [02/02/69], 2 copies
Music at Noon, Biola College [02/05/69]
Whittier College- Orhpa Ochse, organ [08/12/69]
Music for Two Organs, St. John's Church [03/19/__], 2 copies
The Bohemians- Tenth Annual "Divertimento" [05/18/57]
The Bohemians of Los Angeles- A Concert of Compositions [03/30/57]
Los Angeles Brass Society, Wilshire Methodist Church [no date]
Church bulletin, Wilshire Presbyterian Church [11/10/68]
Robert Prichard, organ and Los Angeles Brass Ensemble [05/13/57
Pre-Convention Concert, Long Beach Municipal Band [06/16/57]
Los Angeles Brass Society [10/02/__], 3 copies
American Harp Society [06/23/76]
Chamber Music Concerts Winter Series, Natural History Museum [1978]
Music at Noon, Biola College, Biola Brass Ensemble [no date], 2 copies
Wittier College Department of Music, Organ with Instruments [10/28/__]
Martin Haselbock, organ [10/04/76]
A Program of Compositions in Manuscript [06/12/39], 2 copies
Los Angeles A Capella Choir, Rayner Brown, organ [11/03/47], 2 copies
Music Educators National Coference, Biennial Convention Organ Session [03/22/58], 3 copies
USC Sixth Annual Festival of Contemporary Arts, Program III [03/08/53]
Pacific Coast Regional Convention of the American Guild of Organists [06/24-6/40]
Los Angeles Chapter, American Guild of Organists, Guild Service [06/06/66], 3 copies
Los Angeles County Museum Chamber Music Concerts Summer Series [1961]
Los Angeles County Museum Chamber Music Concerts, Chamber Orchestra [06/30/63]
Music of Rayner Brown, Pasadena Presbyterian Church [02/18/01], 3 programs, 2 announcements
Robert Prichard, organ [no date]
USC, Irene Robertson, organ [01/12/58], 3 copies
Chamber Ensemble Concert, Jennie Kuk-Ying Wong [04/29/75]
CSB Clarinet Choir [03/11/87]
Biola College, An Evening of Chamber Music [04/04/75]
Harold Daugherty, Jr., organ [11/20/62]
Three Spring Organ Recitals, Immanuel Presbyterian Church [06/04/62]
American Guild of Organists Far-Western Regional Convention [06/26-30/61]
American Guild of Organists, Pasadena Chapter [1981-2], 2 copies
Cal State Bakersfield Clarinet Choir [11/18/87]
James Walker, organ [11/12/89]
Los Angeles Brass Society [05/20/62]
Pasadena Pro Musica (St. Winfred Mass) [02/23/90], 2 copies
Mark Tusler, percussion, program and recital announcements [12/15/90]
Los Altos United Methodist Church Organ and Violin Concert [06/09/96] with letter [06/29/96] and photo from Jean, Phil and
Donna Dodson
USC David Wolfe, organ [03/10/95], 2 copies
Pasadena Chapter American Guild of Organists, Member's Recital [05/07/95], 2 copies
Box 8, Folder 4
Various Concert/Recital Programs- Part III 1936-1988
Biola College American Music Series [Spring 1974]
Musica Angelica Baroque Orchestra, Anglican Choir of St. Luke's "Henry Purcell" [02/17/95]
Berlin Philharmonic, James Levine [05/10/78]
Berlin Philharmonic [1977-8]
"Schloß Grafenegg" [1978]
"Coriolinus" [06/__/78]
Berlin Philharmonic [May 1978]
Wiener Festwochen [1978]
All Souls Chapel "The Nightingales" [04/13/41]
Westwood Community Church Bulletin [10/14/38]
Biola College (carols) [12/02/70]
Cathedral Church of St. Paul May Music Festival [05/__/36], 4 copies
Biographies for Biola College Faculty Recital Series [03/07/69]
St. Paul's Cathedral Lenten Services [1937]
USC A Cappella Choir, Male Chorus, Women's Glee Club [05/08/36]
Westwood Community Church Bulletin [11/10/39]
Cover Page: "Music by Rayner Brown" [1990-2]
Wilshire Presbyterian Church Bulletin [05/28/44]
Wilshire Presbyterian Church Bulletin [11/09/47]
Wilshire Presbyterian Church Bulletin [03/23/47]
Westwood Community Church Bulletin [07/02/37]
Eighth Annual Florence Nightingale Service [05/09/37]
Rayner Brown, organ [01/13/67]
Regular Monthly Organ Recital: Dudley Warner Fitch [01/21/41]
Pasadena Pro Musica [1997-8]
Homer Wickline, organ [04/24/88]
Homer Wickline, organ [02/26/76]
Homer Wickline, organ [05/20/76]
Homer Wickline, organ [11/08/81]
Homer Wickline, organ [03/01/87]
Homer Wickline, organ [02/22/87]
Homer Wickline, organ [02/15/87], 2 copies
Pittsburgh Guild, Preview [1986-7]
Schedule for the Sixteenth Season of the Sunday Afternoon Organ Recitals [Fall 1986]
Homer Wickline, organ [05/08/83]
Homer Wickline, organ [11/30/86]
Homer Wickline, organ [11/08/81]
Homer Wickline, organ [10/04/81]
Homer Wickline, organ [06/14/81]
Homer Wickline, organ [05/10/81]
Homer Wickline, organ [04/12/81]
Homer Wickline, organ [03/08/81]
Homer Wickline, organ [02/08/81]
Homer Wickline, organ [01/11/81]
Homer Wickline, organ [11/09/80]
Homer Wickline, organ [12/14/80]
Homer Wickline, organ [10/12/80]
Homer Wickline, organ [03/11/79]
Homer Wickline, organ [11/11/76]
Homer Wickline, organ [06/14/81]
Homer Wickline, organ [06/14/81]
Biola College "A Tribute to Rayner Brown" [03/29/77], 2 copies
Wilshire Presbyterian Church bulletin [04/03/77]
Box 21, Folder 3
Various Itemes from Newspapers/Magazines from Box C 1979-2001
LA Pipeline [Feb. 2001], 2 copies
LA Pipeline [Nov. 1993]
Pipings [Oct. 1993]
Worship and Arts [Oct.-Nov. 1979]
Mangan, Timothy. "Phoenix Symphony in Local Debut." Los Angeles Times (Mar. 23, 1993). With UCLA program [1992-3]
Organ News [1990?] cover and corresponding article
Far West Regional Convention: AGO [June-July 1993]
Copy of two articles regarding Clarinet Concerto: Thomas, Robert D. "PCO Plays Host to Twin Premieres." Star News (Apr.
2, 1985). Henken, John. "Brown, Schubert Works in Pasadena." Los Angeles Times (Apr. 25, 1985).
Page from unidentified publication- "Cherry Rhodes Recital Cancelled"
Sigg, Eric. "An Undying Attraction After Life." (unknown publication and year)
Los Angeles Times (Jun. 29, 1998): A8.
Los Angeles Times: Book Review (Dec. 27, 1998).
The American Organist (Nov. 1993)
Box 8, Folder 1
Various Newspaper Clippings 1954-2001
Blume, Howard. "Belmont Stakes." LA Weekly (Oct. 11-7, 1996).
Front page of Los Angeles Times Arts and Entertainment [12/12/01]
"Gabe Bartold and Wife Killed in Auto Accident." Overture (Nov. 1980), 31.
Copy: Epstein, Benjamin. "Organ Recital Staged at Cathedral." Los Angeles Times.
"Chung to Be Assistant Conductor." Los Angeles Times (Aug. 21, 1978), 9.
Los Angeles Times Book Review [08/19/01]
"Learn the Meaning of Life- Attend Church." Hollywood Advertiser and Shopping News (Jul. 23, 1961). 7.
"Come to Church." Los Angeles Times (Apr. 17, 1954), 8.
Rubin, David M. "Vincent Persichetti." ASCAP in ACTION (Spring 1980), 8-12.
"Concert Set to Honor Retiring Professor." The Daily News (Mar. 24, 1997), 7.
Pischel, David. "Music Professor Ends Tenure on Fine Note." The Chimes (Mar. 25, 1977).
Box 21, Folder 1
Various Programs from Box C 1974-1993
AGO Pasadena: Carey Coker-Robertson, organ [03/08/82]
Pasadena Pro Musica Advent Concert [11/22/92]
AGO Pasadena Guild Service [05/09/88]
Church bulletin: Public Worship- First Congregational Church Berkeley [11/06/77]
Musica Barroca y Romantica de las Americas [05/15/93]
Music at St. Tim's [05/16/93]
Wilshire Presbyterian Church: "Honors Rayner Brown" [05/23/77]
Dollars-for-Scholars Benefit [11/15/93]
Music Guild of All Saints' Parish: Music of Ralph Vaughan Williams [05/17/92]
The Music Guild of All Saints' Parish: Carol and Thomas Foster, organ [10/18/92]
AGO Los Angeles: "Preludes & Postludes: A Members Recital" [11/02/92]
First UMC Pasadena: Diane Meredith Belcher, organ [10/11/92]
USC: Stephen Sturz, organ [04/22/74]
Church bulletin: St. George's Episcopal Church [06/11/89], 2 copies
UCLA Symphonic Wind Ensemble [03/13/76]
Biola College: Debbie Mullins, clarinet [02/25/76]
First UMC: Anita Priest, organ [05/04/80], 4 copies Pasadena Pro Musica [02/23/90] attached to large envelope with notes
Ambassador's 1993-4 Season
Box 15, Folder 1
Various Recital Program/Announcements 1937-1997
AGO Far West Padadena Regional Convention: Cherry Rhodes, organ [06/18/91]
David Craighead, organ [01/12/97]
Harold Daugherty Jr., organ [11/20/62]
Concert calendar: USC Spring 1982
Recital announcement in The American Organist [June 1982]
Biola University: Rayner Brown retirement concert [1977]
Pasadena Presbyterian Church: 12th Summer Organ Festival [1981]
"St. Cecilia Mass" at Westwood Community Methodist Church [11/05/39]
"St. Cecilia Mass" at Westwood Community Methodist Church [11/24/40]
"The Babe of Bethlehem" at Westwood Community Methodist Church [12/22/40]
Westwood Community Church Bulletin [12/22/39]
Westwood Community Church Bulletin [03/21/41]
Westwood Community Church Bulletin [07/16/37]
Westwood Community Church Bulletin [07/09/37]
Westwood Community Church Bulletin [07/02/37]
Westwood Community Church Bulletin [07/23/37]
Westwood Community Church Bulletin [07/16/37]
Recital announcement: Darlene Kaysen, organ [03/17/74]
Pasadena Pro Musica (premiere of St. Winfred Mass) [02/23/90]
Highland Park Symphony Orchestra [03/21/75]
James Walker, organ [02/02/76]
American Guild of Organists: Ladd Thomas, organ [04/13/70]
The William Lock Singers & Orchestra [11/06/93]
Wilshire Presbyterian Church Honors Rayner Brown for 35 Years of Service [05/23/77]
Recital announcement: "Meet Your Chaplain Day" [07/29/45]
Bonnie Sanley, organ [05/07/75]
Box 53, Folder 14
Various- B 1938-1998
Two pictures, not labeled (Cherry and Ladd in Poland?)
Title page text for Intermezzi
Newspaper clipping: Karson, Burton. "Dedication of 212-Rank Organ Held at Church." Los Angeles Times (Oct. 28. 1969), 2
copies
Publication: "Outlook", First United Methodist Church [12/10/91]
Program notes for St. Winfred Mass by Charles Beckwith
Letter to Rayner Brown from Jack, Biola University [08/26/98]
Catalog of Rayner's works from Composer's Library (Six Pieces, Four Sonatas)
Letter to Rayner from David Craighead with attached advertisement for Frederick Swann [08/21/95]
Letter and envelope, to Raner from David and Marian Craighead
Season Schedule: Los Angeles County Museum Chamber Music Concerts [Spring 1962]
Catalog: Music by Rayner Brown from Foothill Music
Rayner Brown, Biography and List of Recordings [01/01/84]
Letter to Ranyer from Dean, ST. Paul's Cathedral [04/07/38] with church bulletin [04/21/41]
Season Schedule, American Guild of Organists Pasadena Chapter [1981-2]
Copy of article: "Rayner Brown Honored at November 5th Meeting." LA Pipeline (Oct. 15, 1990)
Calendar, American Guild of Organists [Nov. 1990]
Administrative Handbook, Virginia Band and Orchestra Directors Association [1982-4]
Envelope containing catalog of works by Rayner, 6 pages
Card to Barbara from ? [03/04/91]
Box 53, Folder 13
Various-A 1937-1991
Letter to Barbara from Elfrieda, with Resume and envelope [12/06/90]
Advertisement, Festival D'Orgue a Saint-Eustache [1991
Advertisement, Eglise Saint-Eustache, JeanGuillou
The Parish of St. Luke, Thomas Foster, harpsichord [04/05/81]
Newspaper clipping: Calendar [04/05/81]
American Guild of Organists, 1981-2 Concert Series, Carey Coker-Robertson, organ
Copy of article: Eder, Richard. "Beautiful and Silly Poetry Is a Game the Reader Can Play." Los Angeles Times (May 9, 1991)
Pamphlet: Rayner Brown, Biola University Department of Music
Print-out, Sigma Alpha Iota, Rayner Brown compositions
Program, Darrell Orwig, organ [03/11/90]
Program: St. Paul's Cathedral, Organ Recital- Rayner Brown [01/25/37]
Envelope with notes by Barbara, containing picture of St. Paul's Cathedral
Bulletin: St. Paul's Cathedral [06/13/37]
Notes from Barbara on Duet for Organ
Box 19, Folder 5
Wickline Programs- Music of Rayner Brown 1976-1985
Good Shepherd Catholic Church [06/02/85]
Newspaper clipping: "Organist Homer Wickline Taking Break." PGH Press (Sept. 24, 1985?).
Letter from Homer Wickline regarding sabbatical [1985]
Note from Homer [05/07/__]
Saint James Roman Catholic Church [04/22/76]
Saint James Roman Catholic Church [05/20/76]
Saint James Roman Catholic Church [05/20/76], 3 copies
Saint James Roman Catholic Church [10/25/81]
Saint James Roman Catholic Church [12/06/81]
St. Michael's Church [11/27/83], 4 copies
Saint James Roman Catholic Church [05/08/83], 7 copies
Season schedule of recitals (St. Michael's Church) [Sept. 1983]
Saint James Roman Catholic Church [06/14/81], 3 copies
Saint Michael the Archangel Church [06/03/84], 7 copies
Saint James Roman Catholic Church [04/12/81]
Saint James Roman Catholic Church [03/08/81]
Saint James Roman Catholic Church [02/08/81]
Saint James Roman Catholic Church [01/11/81]
Saint James Roman Catholic Church [06/14/81]
Saint James Roman Catholic Church [10/04/81]
Saint James Roman Catholic Church [11/08/81]
Saint James Roman Catholic Church [02/21/82]
Saint James Roman Catholic Church [05/08/83]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [no date- "Saturday Afternoon 2:45"]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [05/02/83]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [06/13/83] attached to Program: Saint James Roman Catholic Church [06/12/83]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [06/16/83] attached to Newsletter: "St. James Informer" [June 1983]
Newspaper clipping: "Presstige Events for the Week." Pittsburgh Press (June 12, 1983).
Letter to Rayner from Homer [06/06/83] attached to Program: Saint James Roman Catholic Church [05/29/83]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [05/04/83]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [01/13/83]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [02/14/83]
Letter to Rayner from Homer [05/09/83]
Saint James Roman Catholic Church [05/01/83]
Saint James Roman Catholic Church [05/15/83]
Letter to Rayner from David Craighead [05/28/83]
Dedicatory Organ Recital: Saint Michael Roman Catholic Church [11/01/81]
Box 23, Folder 5
Box 11, Folder 1
Wilshire Presbyterian Church 1946-1977
Two photos in envelope: Wilshire Presbyterian Church choir and group photo (Dr. Wright, Mrs. Wright, Dr. Huttyreu?, Mrs. Nuetyreu?,
Rayner)
Church Bulletin [03/03/46] (with handwritten note)
Magazine clipping: "Pipings" from The AGO-RCCO Magazine (Aug. 1977)
Wilshire Presbyterian Church, Church Directory [1975]
Letter to congregation from Wilshire Presbyterian Church [04/23/87]
Church concert schedule [Nov.-Dec. 1950]
Newsletter: The Sounding Board [Jan. 1970]
Church bulletin [12/24/46]
Service program- "The Redemption" by Charles Gounod [03/16/47]
Church bulletin [12/22/46]
Box 11, Folder 5
Wilshire Presbyterian Church- B 1941-1979
Picture, from postcard, of Wilshire Presbyterian Church
Letter to Rayner from W. Clarence Wright [03/31/53]
Letter to Rayner from W. Clarence Wright [12/27/50]
Church bulletin [03/20/66]
Church bulletin [12/21/41]
Church bulletin [11/09/41]
Church bulletin [03/24/46]
Service program for Wondrous Love [no date]
Newspaper clipping: "Fire-Stricken Presbyterian Church Studies its Options." Los Angeles Times (Feb. 26, 1977)
Church directory [1962]
Church bulletin [03/20/66]
Church bulletin [12/24/65]
Church bulletin [03/29/53]
Church bulletin [12/20/64]
Church bulletin [01/18/53]
Church bulletin [05/10/64]
Plaque in envelope with two copied pages (picture of church, and detail of stained glass)
Service bulletin Mortgage Burning Celebration [02/29/44]
Letter to Rayner from W. Clarence Wright [11/25/47]
Letter to Rayner from W. Clarence Wright [12/18/56]
Letter to Rayner from W. Clarence Wright [04/05/55]
Church bulletin [12/19/65]
Church bulletin [01/02/44]
Church bulletin [11/02/41]
Church bulletin [04/26/42]
Church bulletin [07/19/42]
Article: Hillinger, Charles. "Wilshire Church Marks Birthday." Los Angeles Times (Sept. 16, 1962): 6.
Letter to Rayner from W. Clarence Wright [10/30/62]
Letter to Rayner from Maude Wright? [10/31/62]
Church bulletin [10/28/62]
Church bulletin [11/04/62]
Letter to Rayner from W. Clarence Wright [11/23/43]
Church bulletin [11/21/43]
Program: "Wilshire Presbyterian Church presents Music by Rayner Brown" at First Baptist Church [05/23/77] (includes list of
compositions)
Bundle of letters: to Mr. Tusler from J.M. Quinn [05/20/77], to Robert Tusler from Tev Bishop? [05/20/77], to Rayner from
Halstead McCormac [03/29/77]
Letter to Rayner from William A. Hazen [07/02/79]
Church bulletin [12/24/61]
Church bulletin [11/10/68], 2 copies
Church bulletin [03/29/42]
Church bulletin [03/15/42]
Church bulletin [12/17/47]
Letter to Rayner from W. Clarence Wright [10/26/64]
Advertisement card for Messiah [Dec. 1947], with notes on back
Box 11, Folder 2
Box 52, Folder 8
Wilshire Press Publishing 1968-1970
List of Royalties for Dec. 1968 – Dec. 1969
Letter from Lee H Bristol to Mr. Peter Basch of the AGO Magazine, 2/17/70
Statement of Royalties from the Wilshire Presbyterian Foundation, July – Dec. 1969
Four Licensing Agreements for the Wilshire Presbyterian Music Foundation from Avant Music, dated 3/7/70
Miscellaneous
Box 30, Folder 6
Box 24, Folder 3
Box 14, Folder 8
"Son of Zechariah"- Rayner Brown 1990-06-30
Notecards with various bible verses and pertinent notes, 11 pages
Newspaper clipping: review of "Three Tales" by Gustave Flaubert
Newspaper clipping: Chandler, Russell. "Tutu Visits Prepared Way for Mandela." Los Anglels Times (June 30, 1990).
Various sheets of paper containing bible texts intended for "Zechariah," 23 pages
Sheet of Recitative text for "Zechariah"
Box 33
75th Birthday Album undated
Box 31, Folder 5
Artists Recitals: Ruth Plumber & Augsburg/Foothill Music Invoice 1982-1990
Press releases from Ruth Plummer
Letter from Ruth Plummer regarding Bob Parris [3/25/82]; Promotional materials for Bob Parris
Foothill Music Purchase Order and Invoice 1/20/90
Foothill Music Purchase Order and Invoice 6/17/89
Foothill Music Purchase Order and Invoice 4/10/89
James Vester Music Dealer & Importer, Invoice 12/12/88
Foothill Music Purchase Order and Invoice 12/26/88
Onondaga Music Company Check Stubb 11/25/88
Foothill Music Purchase Order and Invoice 11/1/88
Augsberg Publishing House Remittance Advice 9/20/88
Augsberg Publishing House Remittance Advice 10/22/88
Foothill Music Purchase Order and Invoice 10/3/88
Augsberg Publishing House Remittance Advice 6/15/88
Augsberg Publishing House Remittance Advice and PO 1/11/88
Augsberg Publishing House Remittance Advice 1/28/88
Augsberg Publishing House Remittance Advice 12/20/87
Augsberg Publishing House Remittance Advice 10/28/87
Augsberg Publishing House Remittance Advice 9/20/87
Augsberg Publishing House Remittance Advice 6/20/87
Augsberg Publishing House Remittance Advice 5/20/87
Statement from Rayner Brown to Foothill Music, Inc. 2/8/88
Augsberg Publishing House Remittance Advice 11/28/86
Augsberg Publishing House Remittance Advice 9/20/86
Augsberg Publishing House Remittance Advice 8/20/86
Augsberg Publishing House Remittance Advice 7/20/86
Augsberg Publishing House Remittance Advice 6/20/86
Augsberg Publishing House Remittance Advice 5/20/86
Augsberg Publishing House Remittance Advice 3/20/86
Augsberg Publishing House Remittance Advice 12/20/85
Augsberg Publishing House Remittance Advice 11/20/85
Augsberg Publishing House Remittance Advice 9/20/85
Augsberg Publishing House Remittance Advice 6/20/85
Augsberg PO 4/19/85
Augsberg Publishing House Remittance Advice 5/20/85
Augsberg PO 4/1/85
Augsberg PO 3/29/85
Augsberg Publishing House Remittance Advice 3/20/85
Box 34, Folder 7
ASCAP 1966-1995
'Music of Rayner Brown and Record of Copyrights'
Records of Music and Recent Performances for 1992-3
Records of Music and Recent Performances for 1991
Records of Music and Recent Performances for 1990-91
Application to the Standard Awards Panel for compositions dated 1994-5
Application to the Standard Awards Panel for compositions dated 1993-4
List of Recent Performances and Premiers from 1989 and 1990
Records of Music and Recent Performances for 1989
Records of Music and Recent Performances for 1987-8
Records of Music and Recent Performances for 1986
Information for Standard Awards Panel for works dated 1985-86
Records of Music and Recent Performances for 1984-85
Records of Music and Recent Performances for 1983-84
Information for Standard Awards Panel 1982-83
Records of Music and Recent Performances for 1981-82
Information for Standard Awards Panel 1980-81
Records of Music and Recent Performances for 1978
Log of KFAC (Avant Music) p. 3; lists performances of Rayner's works on KFAC
Information for Standard Awards Panel 1979-80
Information for Standard Awards Panel 1978-79
Information for Standard Awards Panel 1977-78
Information for Standard Awards Panel 1976-77
Record of Music Composed and Recent Performances for 1975-76
Information for Standard Awards Panel 1974-75
Information for Standard Awards Panel for 1972-73
Information for Standard Awards Panel 1971 - 72
Information for Standard Awards Panel 1970-71
Information for Standard Awards Panel 1969-70
Information for Standard Awards Panel 1968-69
Information for Standard Awards Panel 1967-68
Information for Standard Awards Panel 1966-67
1975 Recording -Publication Program, information and budget page for Concertino for Piano and Band
1975 Recording -Publication Program, information and budget page for Vendor's Call for Piano and Clarinet Ensemble and "Though
Men Call Us Free" for Soprano, Clarinet and Piano and Concertino for Piano and Band
Box 27, Folder 2
Assortment of Ephemera 1930-1999
Postcard to Rayner from Robert Tusler, a.k.a. "Tus" [2/2/88]
Rayner's USC Grade Cards, 1935-1938
Rayner's High School Graduation Announcement, 1930 (?)
Invitation to a Senior Ball [6/18/30]
Invitation to "A Family Gathering for Rayner Brown," [6/18/99] (memorial)
Program from a concert featuring Rayner's "Fourth Sonata for Organ Duet." Cherry Rhodes and Ladd Thomas, organists. Poland,
1998.
Christmas Card and letter from Cherry and Ladd, 1998
Ruth and Claernce Mader Memorial Scholarship Fund, Board of Director's List, 1998
Copy of a program from "2e Festival D'Orgue" at Saint-Eustache in Paris, concerts by Cherry Rhodes and Ladd Thomas featuring
music by Rayner Brown
Copy of "Rayner Brown: 80th Birthday Tribute," compiled by Robert Tusler, The Diapason, March 1992, pp. 2 - 16.
Box 52, Folder 37
Avant Contracts 1962-1964
Statement of Royalties for the year ended Dec. 31, 1962
Assignment of Copyright for Prelude and Fughetta for Bass Clarinet and Piano, dated 5/9/1964
Assignment of Copyright for Liturgical Fugue, dated 2/24/1964
Assignment of Copyright for Prelude and Fugue for Brass and Percussion, dated 2/18/1963
Assignment of Copyright for Brass Quintet #2, dated 2/18/1963
Box 25, Folder 3
Bible Institute of LA downtown, a job after the army! 1948-1973
Job offer letter from The Bible Institute of Los Angeles [6/4/48]
Letter granting a raise in salary from Herbert G. Tovey, Director fo the School of Sacred Music [8/24/51]
Service Recognition Certificate to Raynor Brown for 13 years of service to the Bible Institute of Los Angeles [12/15/61]
Service Recognition Certificate to Raynor Brown for 25 years of service to Biola College [12/15/73]
Box 52, Folder 9
Box 52, Folder 41
California Teachers Association Life Insurance Certificate undated
Box 22, Folder 4
Box 52, Folder 38
Box 52, Folder 39
Box 25, Folder 4
Documents concerning Biola College 1951-1996
Invitation to the retirement dinner for Rayner at Biola College [3/29/77]
List of Gifts given to Biola College by Rayner [4/6/96]
Letter from President Sutherland [2/12/62]
Letter of reference for Rayner from President Sutherland [10/12/59]
List of Emeritus Faculty [October 1983]
Handbook for Organ majors
Syllabus for Applied Music – Organ
Sixteenth Century Counterpoint, by Rayner Brown. A short tutorial book [C 1951]
Syllabus – Theory of Sixteenth Century Music, MUSIC 301
Box 15, Folder 6
Box 52, Folder 40
Box 27, Folder 4
High School Yearbook / Education 1930-1947
Box 24, Folder 9
Loose Materials 1973-2000
Original score and parts to a birthday greeting to Bill Lock [February 1985]
Review of an American Wind Symphony Concert that included a piece by Rayner, The Daily Item, Port Chester, NY [7/26/73]
Catalogue of Music by Rayner Brown available from Foothill Music
Program from a concert in honor of Rayner featuring a program of his compositions, Wilshire Presbyterian Church [5/23/77]
Card from William Lock, originally saved in attached enveloppe
Solicitation letter from the Hotel Del Coronado, enveloppe says that Rayner played there [10/19/2000]
Catalogue from Alphonse Leduc. Rayner frequently ordered music from them. [10/25/2000]
Box 52, Folder 25
Miscelaneous bills 1988
Box 52, Folder 30
Box 52, Folder 16
Box 52, Folder 17
Box 52, Folder 18
Box 52, Folder 19
Box 52, Folder 20
Box 52, Folder 21
Box 52, Folder 22
Box 52, Folder 23
Box 52, Folder 24
Box 52, Folder 26
Box 52, Folder 27
Box 52, Folder 28
Box 52, Folder 29
Box 52, Folder 31
Box 52, Folder 33
Musical Contracts 1959-1965
Agreement for "The Shepherd Boy and the Wolf" between Rayner and Charles Maxwell, Otto Bostelmann and Veronika Pataky dated
6/11/59
Copyright Assignment for Rayner's Concertino for Harp and Brass Quintet dated 1/1/65
Contract for the cash sale of Rayner's Sonatina #7 for Organ Solo to Summy-Birchard Publishing Company for the price of $65,
dated 10/28/57.
Memorandum of Agreement between Avant Music and the LA AGO regarding the Christmas Carol Cantata by Rayner Brown, dated 6/1/65.
Box 11, Folder 7
Organ Institute of America 1977-1998
Card to Rayner and Barbara from Tus and Lida, with photo of Tus and Lida [May 1990]
Card containing address for Daryl E. Nichols
Letter to "Friends and Relatives" from Daryl and Marjorie Nichols [Christmas 1998]
Letter to Barbara from Margaret Marsh [04/29/91], envelope, and photocopy of article from The New York Times [04/13/91]
Three USC programs, labeled as students of Ladd and Cherry [April 1991]
Letter from PasaPipes, Sigma Alpha Iota [May 1991]
PanPipes, Sigma Alpha Iota Quarterly Magazine [Spring 1991]
Series of recital flyers and program notes (10 pages), Cherry and Ladd, organ [04/12/88] in envelope
Ticket stub, Organ Institute of America [06/21/87], 2 copies
Recital announcement, Organ Institute of America, Dr. Ronald Huntington, organ [05/17/87]
Letter to "Friends of the Organ Institute from David Elson, president [06/05/87]
Recital announcement, Organ Institute of America, Ronald Doiron, organ [06/21/87]
Information on the organ of Saint-Sulpice
Letter to Ruth from Orpha [Aug. 30]
Poem: "Cathedral" for Rayner Brown, by Richard Risemberg [May 1977]
Box 16, Folder 1
Panpipes Newsletters - Sigma Alpha Iota 1991-1993-03
Pan Pipes Newsletter- Sigma Alpha Iota Quarterly [Winter 1992]
Letter to Rayner from Shirley Boucher, with envelope [03/16/92]
PasaPipes Newsletter [March 1992]
PasaPipes Newsletter [February 1992]
Pan Pipes Newsletter- Sigma Alpha Iota Quarterly [Summer 1991]
PasaPipes Newsletter [May 1992]
Sigma Alpha Iota Pasadena Alumnae Chapter [1991-2]
PasaPipes Newsletter [March 1993]
Envelope to Rayner and Barbara from Mr. and Mrs. David Boucher
Pan Pipes Newsletter- Sigma Alpha Iota Quarterly [Spring 1992]
Box 10, Folder 1
Papillons 1956-1981
Sheet music Suite on Aberystwyth (3 pages) [1956], 2 copies (one paper, one other)
Program notes for Papillons [05/31/81]
Christmas card to Rayner and Barbara from John and Isla Garth [no date]
Program: Mildred Kammeyer-Barnes, organ, with written note to Rayner from Mildred [11/15/81], 2 copies
Letter to 'Family and Friends" from John and Isla Garth [09/21/81]
Box 32, Folder 1
Pictures 1939-1965
Two (2) copies of a photo of Rayner at the bench of the Pasadena Presbyterian Organ; both copies have different things written
on the back
Off-kilter and damaged picture of Ladd Thomas (?)
Picture of a poster advertising Rayner's 75th Birthday Celebration
Picture of pipes to an unknown organ
Small manilla folder containing five pictures of Rayner at an organ. Two of these are duplicates of the first entry for this
folder
A very old picture of all participants from an AGO Convention (1940's ?)
Picture of Rayner dated 1939
Picture of Rayner in uniform at Camp Roberts, 1943
Picture of the church at Camp Roberts where Rayner played the organ, dated 1945 or before.
Picture of "Clarence Mader, Alex Wyton, Orpha Ochse, Rayner Brown (Kojiack!) and Gene Driskill, AGO Committee July 1965 at
Riverside Inn in Riverside, Cailfornia.
Picture of Rayner Brown, Bill Connell (sp. ?), Clarence Mader and Sam Yorty, mayor of New York, 1962.
Portrait of Rayner dated "c. 1939"
Portrait of Rayner playing the piano, also dated "c. 1939"
Box 26
Box 52, Folder 35
Published Music Contracts 1961-1962
Assignment of Copyright for Brass Quintet No. 2, dated 2/26/62
Assignment of Copyright for Concerto for Organ and Band, dated 7/9/62
Contract for the AGO Organ Book dated January 1962
Assignment of Copyright for Preludes for Organ dated 5/11/62
Satement of Royalties from Avant Music for the year ended Dec. 31, 1961.
Box 52, Folder 15
Box 30, Folder 2
Random Assortment 1943-1998
Cover Pictures for printed music of Rayner Brown
Biola College Emeritus Club Newsletter, Spring 1984
Program from the USC Wind Orchestra containing Concert no. 4 for Organ and Wind Orchestra [1/18/82]
List of books where Rayner is listed
Schedule of Performances of compositions for 1990
Letter to Dr. Dennis K. McIntire of Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians [2/13/89]
Postcards of and a bill from a hotel where Rayner and Barbara stayed while attending a conference in San Francisco
Patient Lense Implant Identification Card for Rayner from the Optical Radiation Corporation
Typed Biography for Rayner
Labeled photocopy of a picture of Rayner
Letter from ASCAP with his royalties for part of 1998
A page from Music Notes: Arkansas Federatin of Music Clubs Journal, Summer 1975
A great picture of Rayner at the organ
Picture of "Stephan, 10 and Sarah, 6"
Book of instruments and ranges that Rayner used as an aid in his composing
Notes from a meeting of the Ruth and Clarence Mader Memorial Scholarhip Fund Board of Directors [1/16/86]
Postcard from Rayner and Barbara's 1980 trip to San Diego – text appears to be written by Mrs. Brown
Note written on Hotel Fenix paper, dated 7/25-31/1973 – text appears to be written by Mrs. Brown.
A menu for Christmas 1943 at Battery "A" 54th Batallion, 12th F.A.T.R., Camp Roberts, CA
Memo from Capt. James H Reardon, dated March 13, 1943. Contains, under the number 6, the announcement of Rayner's promotion
to the grade of Techn 5th Gr.
Bio for Ruben Dario, librettist for Cantata Letania de Nuestro Senor Don Quijote bu Rayner Brown.
Barbara and Rayner's 1998 Christmas Card
Box 34, Folder 6
Box 16, Folder 11
Box 52, Folder 14
Box 52, Folder 6
Box 16, Folder 3
Box 34
Rayner's Library Stamp for Embossing papers undated
Box 52, Folder 32
Box 52, Folder 1
Records/ American Federation of Musicians Local 47 1947-1987
Box 52 is a small brown box originally used by the Browns for filing important papers. The box is in its original order with
original envelopes.
Post card for USC Graduate School, 1/9/47
Letter dated 1/22/86
Union Card through 12/31/86
Union Card through 12/31/87
Life Member Union Card
Box 52, Folder 2
Records/ USC Grades 1946-1974
Ticket Refund 2/1/74
Postcard from Ingolf Dahl, 6/8/56
Grade card dated 1/29/47
Grade card dated June 1946
Grade card dated 5/19/47
USC transcript dated 10/21/59
Grade card dated June 1946
Veterans Administration Letter, Award of Educatin or Training Subsistence Allowance, 4/25/46
Box 52, Folder 34
Box 18, Folder 5
Box 16, Folder 9
The Making of Cantata Don Quixote undated
Box 16, Folder 2
True Simplicity (1992) 1989-1992
Letter to Rayner and Barbara from Robert and Lida Tusler [06/06/92]
Text for True Simplicity by Robert Tusler, in letter to Rayner [02/23/89]
Handwritten sheet music for Simple Gifts and Lord of the Dance
Four versions of cover for True Simplicity
Two copies of illustrations for True Simplicity,
Envelope containing four cutout drawings for True Simplicity
Box 52, Folder 13
Box 20, Folder 9
Various Compositional Texts from Box C undated
Composer(s): Brown, Rayner
Title page from St. Winfred Mass by Rayner Brown (2 versions) and text
Title page from Sonata: Organ Duet, 13 Brass, Percussion by Rayner Brown
Title page from Third Suite for Organ by Rayner Brown
Title page from Sonata No.2 for Flute and Piano by Rayner Brown
Text to "Litany of Our Lord Don Quixote" (four English, three Spanish versions, with various notes)
Various notes and copies regarding Children's Song by Rayner Brown, 8 pages
Box 9, Folder 1
Various Items from Box A 1966-2000
Photocopy and original of bookjacket, with bio: Shepherds in Sackcloth by Sheila Kaye-Smith
English text to "Solomon" with illustrations
Page taken from address book
Blank card, Monet's Chemin Dans Les Bles A Pourville
Photo : Barbara, Cherry, Ladd, Jim Rotter, Theresa Dimond
Advertisement for new books from Indiana University Press [2000]
Cover page to St. Winfred Mass
Tree illustration
USC Half Century Trojans Day card
Photo: Rayner and Shirley, in envelope
Advertisement for St. Winfred Mass [02/23/__]
Cover sheet for Sonata for Violin and Harp
Tour guide of Biola campus pamphlet
Recital advertisement [02/27/__]
Biography and program notes, St. Mary's Cathedral [Winter/Spring 1979], 3 copies
"Recital" listing (pieces composed in 1960s)
Donation card for American Red Cross [03/24/97]
IBM Maintenance Agreement [06/14/86]
"Eleven Day Diet"
Receipts from various European banks for monetary exchanges [1985]
Resident Personal Income Tax Form [1985]
Receipt for car service [10/02/97]
Letter from dean of American Guild of Organists
"The Meeting House" First Congregational Church of Los Angeles [10/05/39]
The American Organist [02/__/95]
The Composer and Conductor [Nov. 1966]
The Composer and Conductor [Feb. 1967]
National Association for American Composers and Conductors membership advertisement
Soli Deo Gloria, American Guild of Organists, Pasadena and Los Angeles Chapter Seasons [1989-1990]
Program notes for St. Winfred Mass, 2 copies
Copy of poem "Miss Me, But Let Me Go…"
Series of pamphlets and program notes, Bel Air Presbyterian Church
Series of photocopies regarding Jeremiah Smith, Jerry Qualification, and Jeremiah Rex
Photocopy and original of Susan Spray by Sheila Kaye Smith
Handwritten obituary for Rayner Brown
USC form filled for Rayner
Photo: Dodson Family in concert
Photo: The Baums/Burims?
Picture of organ at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church
Funeral service bulletin for Anita Priest
American Guild of Organists Yearbook [1990-1]
Box 9, Folder 2
Various Items from Box A- Part II 1964-1997
Materials through Folder 9.3 came from Box A and Tusler bundle of letters
"Musiktheater Nurnberg: Johann Strauß"
Reindeer card front
Line of sheet music "Rayner"
Stamp- Thornton Wilder
Announcement for graveside service, Rayner Brown
"The Organ in St. Paul's Cathedral"
Large envelope with various notes written
Biola University, The Emeriti Newsletter [Spring/Summer 1997]
Cover sheet for catalog of Rayner Brown music, 3 copies
Recital announcement, Rayner Brown, organ [11/23/64]
Catalog of works for Rayner Brown
Photocopy, info about Pooh and its author
Handwritten sheet "Cello Concerto"
Quotations used in Quiet Sonata composed by Rayner
Program schedule for Pipedreams [09/02/96]
Catalog of works for Johann Nepomuk David
Roy Harris, Associated Music Publishers, Inc.
Two sheets labeled "Rayner's regrets"
Series of papers with notes regarding Asaph
Page of sheet music "Piu mosso" from Asaph, 2 copies
First page of Asaph
Series of drawings for Asaph
List of Twentieth Century German organ music
Flower stamp
"Rayner Brown to Retire" in The Wilshire Focus [March 1977]
Press Release, Biola College "Biola Professor to Retire this Spring" [03/03/77]
Letter from American Guild of Organists, advertising "A Tribute to Rayner Brown"
Series of drawings of people
Series of drawings "The Morning Glory"
Drawing on envelope "A Happenstance" with leaf inside
Series of various magazine clippings
Box 15, Folder 4
Various Items from Box B 1942-1997
Materials from Folder 10.1-Folder 15.4 came from box B
Catalog for music of Rayner Brown from Foothill Music
Catalog for music of Rayner Brown, 6 pages (differences in charts)
Original newspaper clipping and two copies Karson, Burton. "Dediction of 212-Rank Organ Held at Church" (unidentified publication)
[1969]
Schedule for the Tenth Annual Redlands Organ Festival [Jan. 18-22, 1997]
Page from The Diapason- "New Publications for Organ" [08/01/42]
Advertisement for Los Angeles Brass Society, Ladd Thomas Record; WIM Records
Page from The Diapason- "New Recordings" [April 1971]
Advertisement for "The Flute in Various Chamber Settings"; WIM Records
Advertisement for the Los Angeles Brass Quintet; Crystal Record Company
Clipping from The American Organist [April 1982]
Newspaper clipping: Schilling, Susan. "Africa for Kids." Los Angeles Times (no date)
Advertisement from Crystal Record Company of recordings available
Advertisement for "Music of Rayner Brown" from WIM Records
Two copies of picture: Matt Doran, Hanns Eisler, Peter Jona Korn, Rayner Brown
Box 21, Folder 4
Various Items from Box C 1947-2002
Up to 21.4 from Box C
"Some notes re Rayner Brown"
University of Michigan School of Music: Historic Tour XLVI [May 2002]
The United States Copyright Law: A Practical Online
Copy of Rayner's AARP Membership card
"The Litany of Kerouac O'Cat" Kathleen E. Scheide
Copy of picture of Rayner Brown in plaster with attached note
Receipts from CA hotels [July 1983]
The OHS Catalog 1994
William Hall Master Chorale: England in-Depth [July 1997]
Rayner's dissertation: "Quartet for Violin, Viola, Cello, and Piano" [June 1947]
Address for Phi Beta Kappa Alumni
Address for Grace Cathedral
Check and information for Barbara from the US Treasury [2002]
Barbara "Household Profit/Customer Profit" document [10/27/98]
Various pictures from magazines (11 pieces)