Finding Aid for the Feri Roth Collection of Papers, Photographs
and Recordings, 1930-1969
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Finding Aid of the Feri Roth Collection of Papers, Photographs
and Recordings, 1930-1969
Collection number: 197
UCLA Library, Performing Arts Special Collections
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA
- Processed by:
- Hermine Vermeij.
- Date Completed
- June 2004
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- UCLA Library, Performing Arts Special Collections staff.
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Descriptive Summary
Title: Feri Roth Collection of Papers, Photographs and
Recordings,
Date (inclusive): 1930-1969
Collection number: 197
Creator:
Roth,
Feri
Extent:
9 boxes
(4.5 linear
ft.)
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library.
Performing Arts Special Collections
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
Abstract: Correspondence, photographs, recordings,
programs, clippings, datebooks and other personal papers from the estate
of the violinist Feri Roth.
Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice
is required for access to the collection. Please contact Performing Arts Special Collections
Special Collections for paging information.
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Access
Collection is open for research.
Publication Rights
Property rights in the physical objects belong to the UCLA Music
Library. Literary rights, including copyright, are retained by the
creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to
determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or his or
her heir for permission to publish if the Performing Arts Special Collections does not hold the
copyright.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Feri Roth Collection of Papers, Photographs
and Recordings, 197, Performing Arts Special Collections, University of
California, Los Angeles.
Acquisition Information
Marissa Roth, June 2001
Processing Information
Processed by: Hermine Vermeij, June 2004
Biography
Born July 18, 1899, at Zvolen, Czechoslovakia, Feri Roth received his
musical training at the Royal Hungarian Academy of Music in Budapest where
he graduated in 1917. His first position was the concertmastership of the
Budapest Opera from 1919-1920; a year later he joined the Berlin Volksoper
in the same capacity. In 1922, he founded the string quartet which bore
his name for forty-seven years. Two years later, the quartet made a
successful debut in Paris, then embarked on a tour of Europe and Africa.
On an invitation from Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge in 1928, the quartet,
reorganized to include Jeno Antal, Ferenc Molnar, and Janos Scholz, made
its first appearance in the United States at the Pittsfield
(Massachusetts) Music Festival. Subsequently, the quartet concertized
throughout the United States, Canada, and Mexico, participating in
concerts at the Library of Congress, giving many concerts of modern works
in New York City and Washington, and performing all of Beethoven's string
quartets including his Grosse Fuge.
In 1937, the quartet joined the faculty of Westminster Choir College at
Princeton University. Resigning from the college in 1939, Mr. Roth
assembled a new group consisting of former members of the Manhattan String
Quartet: Rachmael Weinstock, Julius Shaier, and Oliver Edel. In 1947, Roth
began his long association with UCLA, joining the Department of Music as
Lecturer. In 1960, he was named full professor. During his years at the
University, he made further changes in the personnel of the quartet. The
group that was most familiar to concert goers included Thomas Marrocco,
professor of music at UCLA; Irving Weinstein; and Cesare Pascarella, UCLA
lecturer in music. It was principally this combination that Roth led in
his yearly festivals of Beethoven's chamber music. He made many other
important contributions. Occasionally he would exchange his violin and bow
for the conductor's baton and lead larger chamber music ensembles in
performances of concertos by Vivaldi, Handel, and Bach, and of Bach's The
Art of Fugue. For more than ten years, he organized the Tuesday Noon
Concerts, a weekly production of the Department of Music in Schoenberg
Hall Auditorium. His authoritative and stimulating teaching found
expression in a continuing series of chamber music classes, and his course
on the music of Bach and Beethoven attracted thousands of students.
A champion of modern music, Roth's quartet performed in concert many
works by composer-colleagues in the department, and gave public readings
of newly composed works by graduate students. This service was invaluable.
In its off-campus appearances, the Roth Quartet concertized widely, not
only on the west coast, where it gave many performances each year, but
also on the east coast, in Canada, and in Great Britain. During 1963 and
again in 1966, the quartet played a series of concerts in London; and in
the spring of 1968, it presented the entire cycle of Beethoven's quartets
in New York City's Lincoln Center. A further presentation of the cycle,
scheduled for Elizabeth Hall, London, in the spring of 1969 had to be
cancelled because of Roth's death, on May 7, 1969.
During its long history, the Roth Quartet recorded thirty-five albums
for Columbia Masterworks and five for the Society for Forgotten
Masterpieces. Especially important is the quartet's recording of Bach's
Art of the Fugue, in the Harris-North transcription. In 1966, the Roth
Quartet was televised at UCLA during performances of two Beethoven
quartets: Opus 74 (The Harp) and Opus 95 (Serioso). The video tapes are
valuable to students, and also to amateurs, for their visual clues to the
secret of successful quartet performances.
Feri Roth was the recipient of the Award of Merit from the National
Association of American Composers and Conductors in 1942 for outstanding
service to American music, and he was awarded an honorary Doctorate of
Music from the New York College of Music in 1949. He was a member of the
Beethoven Association of New York, the International Society for
Contemporary Music of London, the Mozart Society of Salzburg, and the
Triton Music Society of Paris.
Scope and Content
Collection consists of correspondence, photographs, recordings,
programs, clippings, datebooks and other personal papers from the estate
of the violinist Feri Roth. Correspondents include George Antheil, Alfredo
Cassela, Carlos Chávez, Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, Aaron Copland,
David Diamond, Lukas Foss, Benny Goodman, Morton Gould, Roy Harris, Andre
Previn, Artur Schnabel, William Schuman, Roger Sessions, Marcel
Vertés, and Meredith Willson.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this
collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Subjects
Roth,
Feri--Archives
Series 1.
Correspondence 1939-1976
Physical Description:
170 items.
Scope and Content Note
Letters received Feri Roth and family.
Box 1, Item 1
Franz Alexander, to Roth. TLS.March 8,
1961
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 1, Item 2
Ernest S. Allan, to Roth.
TLS.N/A
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 1, Item 3
George Antheil, to Roth. TLS.November 2,
1949
Physical Description: 2 p.
Box 1, Item 4
George Antheil, to Roth. TLS.November 10,
1949
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 1, Item 5
Berea, to Roth. Program, signed. October
1964
Physical Description: 2 p.
Box 1, Item 6
Faris M. Brown, to Roth. Business card,
signed.N/A
Physical Description: 1 card
Scope and Content Note
Box 1, Item 7
Niven Busch, to Elizabeth Roth. Autograph note, signed,
photocopy.N/A
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 1, Item 8
Alfredo Cassela, to Roth. TLS.June 22,
1940
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 1, Item 9
Abram Chasins, to Roth. TLS.March 13,
1953
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 1, Item 10
Carlos Chávez, to Roth. TLS.April 28,
1945
Physical Description: 1 p.
Note
Includes photocopy.
Box 1, Item 11
Albert Sprague Coolidge, to Roth. TLS.November
15, 1953
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 1, Item 12
Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, to Roth. TLS.May 11,
1940
Physical Description: 2 p.
Box 1, Item 13
Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, to Roth. TL.May 16,
1940
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 1, Item 14
Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, to Roth.
TLS.September 29, 1940
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 1, Item 15
Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, to Roth. TLS.May 16,
1946
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 1, Item 16
Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, to Roth.
Telegram.March 15, 1949
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 1, Item 17
Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, to Roth. TLS.
Photocopy.August 22, 1949
Physical Description: 1 p.
Note
2 copies.
Box 1, Item 18
Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, to Roth. TLS.December
26, 1949
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 1, Item 19
Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, to Roth.
Telegram.February 10, 1950
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 1, Item 20
Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, to Roth.
Telegram.November 3, 1952
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 1, Item 21
Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, to Roth.
Telegram.October 27, 1953
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 1, Item 22
Aaron Copland, to Roth.
ALS.1947
Physical Description: 1 p.
Note
Includes a photocopy.
Box 1, Item 23
Norman Corwin, to Feri and Elizabeth Roth.
TLS.November 11, 1958
Physical Description: 1 p.
Note
Inlcudes photocopy.
Box 1, Item 24
Archivald J. Davison, to Roth. TLS.March 11,
1949
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 1, Item 25
Aurelio de la Vega, to Roth. TLS.May 22,
1967
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 1, Item 26
David Diamond, to Roth. TLS.July 15,
1940
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 1, Item 27
David Diamond, to Roth. TLS.August 28,
1940
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 1, Item 28
David Diamond, to Roth. Postcard,
signed.September 29, 1949
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 1, Item 29
David Diamond, to Roth. TLS.January 20,
1950
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 1, Item 30
W.W. Doe, to Roth. TLS.July 21,
1945
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 1, Item 31
Olin Downes, to Roth. TLS.December 16,
1940
Physical Description: 1 p.
Note
Includes photocopy.
Box 1, Item 32
Olin Downes, to Roth. TLS.December 14,
1944
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 1, Item 33
Olin Downes, to Roth. TLS.January 17,
1945
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 1, Item 34
Olin Downes, to Roth. TLS.October 19,
1945
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 1, Item 35
James H. Fassett, to Roth. TLS.August 26,
1946
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 1, Item 36
Lion Feuchtwanger, to Roth. TLS.July 16,
1954
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 1, Item 37
Lukas Foss, to Elizabeth Roth. ALS.June 15,
1969
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 1, Item 38
Lukas Foss, to Roth.
ALS.N/A
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 1, Item 39
Romain Gary, to Roth. TLS.February 28,
1958
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 1, Item 40
Gordon P. Getty, to Elisabeth Roth. TLS.July 15,
1988
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 1, Item 41
Vladamir Golschmann, to Roth. TLS.May 26,
1945
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 1, Item 42
Benny Goodman, to Roth. TLS, photocopy.August 15,
1955
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 1, Item 43
Eugene Goossens, to Roth. TLS.May 20,
1940
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 1, Item 44
Hans Habe, to Feri and Elizabeth Roth.
Telegram.August 6, 1946
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 1, Item 45
Morton Gould, to Roth. TLS, photocopyApril 6,
1955
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 1, Item 46
Morton Gould, to Feri and Elizabeth Roth. ALS,
photocopy.April 20, 1955
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 1, Item 47
Roy Harris, to Roth. TLS.February 11,
1944
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 1, Item 48
Roy Harris, to Roth. TLS.July 17,
1944
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 1, Item 49
Roy Harris, to Roth. TLS.January 4,
1945
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 1, Item 50
Roy Harris, to Roth. TLS.May 22,
1945
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 1, Item 51
Roy Harris, to Roth. TLS.November 20,
1945
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 1, Item 52
Roy Harris, to Roth. TLS.December 13,
1955
Physical Description: 2 p.
Box 1, Item 53
Roy Harris, to Roth.
ALS.N/A
Physical Description: 2 p.
Box 1, Item 54
Roy Harris, to Roth.
ALS.N/A
Physical Description: 2 p.
Box 1, Item 55
Roy Harris, to Roth.
ALS.N/A
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 1, Item 56
Jean Hersholt, to Feri and Elizabeth Roth.
ALS.September 12, 1953
Physical Description: 1 p.
Note
Includes photocopy.
Box 1, Item 57
Albert Hirschfeld, to Roth. Autograph note, signed,
photocopy.N/A
Physical Description: 1 p.
Note
2 copies. Includes sketch.
Box 1, Item 58
Mrs. Herbert Hoover, to Roth. TLS.August 1,
1939
Physical Description: 1 p.
Note
Includes 2 photocopies.
Box 1, Item 59
Herbert Hoover, to Roth. Autograph note, signed,
photocopy.N/A
Physical Description: 1 p.
Note
2 copies.
Box 1, Item 60
Ernest Hutcheson, to Roth. TLS.April 5,
1944
Physical Description: 1 p,
Box 1, Item 61
Jeno Kerpely, to Roth. ALS.December 16,
1946
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 1, Item 62
Irving Kolodin, to Roth. TLS.May 10,
1969
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 1, Item 63
Erich W. Korngold, to Roth. Telegram.June 23,
1946
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 1, Item 64
Karl Krueger, to Roth. TLS.July 3,
1945
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 1, Item 65
Karl Krueger, to Roth. TLS. September 17,
1946
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 1, Item 66
Paul Laszlo, to Roth. TLS.September 26,
1957
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 1, Item 67
Peter Lawford, to Ruta. TLS.June 27,
1962
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 1, Item 68
Erich Leinsdorf, to Roth. ALS.May 9,
1951
Physical Description: 2 p.
Note
Includes photocopy.
Box 1, Item 69
Melchior Lengyel, to Roth. ALS.November 22,
1966
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 1, Item 70
Melchior Lengyel, to Roth. ALS.January 2,
1967
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 1, Item 71
Goddard Lieberson, to Roth. TLS.April 17,
1944
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 1, Item 72
Goddard Lieberson, to Roth. TLS.April 5,
1945
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 1, Item 73
Leonard Liebling, to Roth. TLS, copy.April 26,
1943
Physical Description: 1 p.
Note
2 copies.
Box 1, Item 74
Emil Ludwig, to the Roths. ALS.October
1942
Physical Description: 1 p.
Note
Inlcludes a photocopy.
Box 1, Item 75
Jayne Mansfield, to Elisabeth and Feri Roth. TLS,
photocopy.March 19, 1963
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 1, Item 76
Jayne Mansfield, to Roth. Card, signed,
photocopy.N/A
Physical Description: 1p.
Box 1, Item 77
Daniel Gregory Mason, to Roth. TLS.January 6,
1950
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 1, Item 78
Bernice Miller, to Roth. TLS, photocopy.October
24, 1956
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 1, Item 79
James S. Mize, to Mrs. Roth. TLS, photocopy.May
15, 1969
Physical Description: 2 p.
Note
4 copies.
Box 1, Item 80
Ferenc Molnar, to Roth. TLS.October 9,
1945
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 1, Item 81
Maria Molnar, to Roth. TLS.February 20,
1947
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 1, Item 82
Maria Molnar, to the Roths. TLS.April 14,
1947
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 1, Item 83
Douglas Moore, to Roth.
TLS.N/A
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 1, Item 84
Henry Morgenthau, to Hon. John Flournoy Montgomery.
TLS.December 15, 1934
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 1, Item 85
Eugene Ormandy, to Roth. TLS.December 11,
1968
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 1, Item 86
Bertha Palmer, to Mr. and Mrs. Roth. TLS.November
2, 1945
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 1, Item 87
Andre Previn, to Roth. TLS.November 18,
1958
Physical Description: 1 p.
Note
Includes photocopy.
Box 1, Item 88
Andre Previn, to Roth. Card,
signed.N/A
Scope and Content Note
1 p.
Note
Box 1, Item 89
Vincent Price, to Dr. and Mrs. Roth.
ALS.N/A
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 1, Item 90
Gabor Rejto, to Roth. ALS.June 28,
1947
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 1, Item 91
Edward G. Robinson, to Roth. TLS, photocopy.July
30, 1940
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 1, Item 92
Edward G. Robinson, to Roth. TLS,
photocopy.December 3, 1940
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 1, Item 93
Artur Rodzinski, to Roth. TLS.November 27,
1946
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 1, Item 94
José Roismann, to Roth. Note,
photocopy.N/A
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 1, Item 95
Feri Roth, to Elisabeth Roth. ALS.November 24,
1966
Physical Description: 3 p.
Note
Includes photocopy.
Box 1, Item 96
Feri Roth, to Elisabeth Roth. ALS.December 1,
1966
Physical Description: 1 p.
Note
Includes photocopy and translation.
Box 1, Item 97
B. Albert Roussel, to Roth. ALS.July 23,
1939
Physical Description: 1 p.
Note
Includes photocopy.
Box 1, Item 98
Miklos Rozsa, to Roth. ALS.September
26
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 1, Item 99
S.Z. Sakall, to Roth. ALS.May 21,
1946
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 1, Item 100
Gabriele Sale-Joachim, to Roth. ALS.December 1,
1968
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 1, Item 101
Gabriele Sale-Joachim, to Roth. ALS.July 8,
1971
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 1, Item 102
Joseph Schildkraut, to Elisabeth Roth.
ALS.February 3, 1959
Physical Description: 1 p.
Note
Includes photocopy.
Box 1, Item 103
Artur Schnabel, to Roth. Note, signed,
photocopy.N/A
Physical Description: 1 p.
Note
2 copies.
Box 1, Item 104
Henry Schnitzler, to Roth. TLS.April 20,
1955
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 1, Item 105
Henry Schnitzler, to Andreas Meyer-Hanno. TL.June
14, 1955
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 1, Item 106
William Schuman, to Roth. TLS.June 7,
1946
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 1, Item 107
William Schuman, to Roth. TLS.September 12,
1946
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 1, Item 108
William Schuman, to Roth. TLS.October 1,
1946
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 1, Item 109
Joseph Schuster, to Roth. ALS.December 17,
1952
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 1, Item 110
Roger Sessions, to Roth.
ALS.N/A
Physical Description: 1 p.
Note
Includes photocopy.
Box 1, Item 111
Henry W. Simon, to Roth. TLS.April 5,
1965
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 1, Item 112
Robert Gordon Sproul, to Roth. ALS.March 1,
1952
Physical Description: 1 p.
Note
Includes photocopy.
Box 1, Item 113
Janos Starker, to Roth. ALS.June 8,
1950
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 1, Item 114
Janos Starker, to Roth. ALS.December 20,
1950
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 1, Item 115
Janos Starker, to Roth. ALS.January 24,
1951
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 1, Item 116
Janos Starker, to Roth. ALS.October 11,
1959
Physical Description: 1 p.
Note
Includes photocopy.
Box 1, Item 117
Igor Stravinsky, to Roth. Note, signed,
photocopy.June 1957
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 1, Item 118
Soulima Stravinsky, to Roth. TLS,
photocopy.October 4, 1961
Physical Description: 1 p.
Note
2 copies.
Box 1, Item 119
Joseph Szigeti, to Roth. ALS.December 31,
1949
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 1, Item 120
Davidson Taylor, to Roth. TLS.February 28,
1947
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 1, Item 121
Edward Teller, to Roth. TLS, photocopy.September
18, 1963
Physical Description: 1 p.
Note
2 copies.
Box 1, Item 122
Edward Teller, to Roth. TLS, photocopy.April 10,
1964
Physical Description: 1 p.
Note
2 copies.
Box 1, Item 123
Edward Teller, to Roth. TLS, photocopy.February
9, 1965
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 1, Item 124
Edward Teller, to Roth. Program, signed,
photocopy.N/A
Physical Description: 1 p.
Note
2 copies.
Box 1, Item 125
Randall Thompson, to Roth. ALS.March 4,
1958
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 1, Item 126
Ernst Toch, to Roth. TLS.February 5,
1940
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 1, Item 127
Ernst Toch, to Roth. ALS.August 30,
1944
Physical Description: 1 p.
Note
Includes photocopy.
Box 1, Item 128
Ernst Toch, to Roth. TLS.April 20,
1960
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 1, Item 129
J. Rigbie Turner, to Elisabeth Roth. TLS.October
21, 1988
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 1, Item 130
J. Rigbie Turner, to Elizabeth Roth. TLS.February
15, 1989
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 1, Item 131
J. Rigbie Turner, to Elisabeth Roth. TLS.April 8,
1989
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 1, Item 132
J. Rigbie Turner, to Elisabeth Roth. TLS.August
18, 1989
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 1, Item 133
Adelaide Tusker, to Mrs. Roth. TLS.June 2,
1969
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 1, Item 134
UCLA, to Mr. and Mrs. George Roth. Note.March
1970
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 1, Item 135
UCLA, to Mrs. Feri Roth. Envelope.October 8,
1971
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 1, Item 136
Marcel Vertés, to Roth. ALS.February 11,
1957
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 1, Item 137
Marcel Vertés, to Roth. ALS.April 23,
1957
Physical Description: 2 p.
Box 1, Item 138
Marcel Vertés, to Roth. ALS.October 12,
1957
Physical Description: 2 p.
Box 1, Item 139
Marcel Vertés, to Roth. ALS.December 10,
1957
Physical Description: 2 p.
Box 1, Item 140
Marcel Vertés, to Roth. ALS.March 21,
1958
Physical Description: 1 p.
Note
Includes photocopy.
Box 1, Item 141
Marcel Vertés, to Mrs. Bössi Roth.
ALS.December 31, 1958
Physical Description: 1 p.
Note
Includes photocopy.
Box 1, Item 142
Marcel Vertés, to Madame Bössi Roth. Card,
signed.February 18, 1959
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 1, Item 143
Marcel Vertés, to Elisabeth Roth.
ALS.August 17, 1959
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 1, Item 144
Marcel Vertés, to Mrs. Elisabeth Roth.
ALS.August 31, 1959
Physical Description: 1 p.
Note
1 page photocopy included.
Box 1, Item 145
Marcel Vertés, to Madame Elisabeth Roth.
Envelope.September 1, 1960
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 1, Item 146
Marcel Vertés, to Mme. Elisabeth Roth.
Envelope.October 1, 1960
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 1, Item 147
Marcel Vertés, to Roth. Backs of envelopes,
photocopies.N/A
Physical Description: 1 p.
Note
4 copies.
Box 1, Item 148
Von Karman, Todor.
Coaster.N/A
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 1, Item 149
Josef von Sternberg, to the Roths. ALS.September
30, 1947
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 1, Item 150
Sylvie and Irving Wallace. Note,
signed.N/A
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 1, Item 151
Alfred Wallenstein, to Roth. TLS.June 24,
1947
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 1, Item 152
Bruno Walter, to Roth. Note, signed.September 26,
1956
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 1, Item 153
Lotte Lenya Weill-Davis, to Roth. TLS,
photocopy.June 23, 1955
Physical Description: 1 p.
Note
2 copies.
Box 1, Item 154
Paul Whiteman, to Roth. TLS.September 2,
1944
Physical Description: 1 p.
Note
Includes photocopy.
Box 1, Item 155
Meredith Willson, to Elisabeth and Feri Roth. TLS,
photocopy.July 25, 1966
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 1, Item 156
Meredith Willson, to Elizabeth Roth. Note, signed,
photocopy.January 6, 1976
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 1, Item 157
Meredith Willson, to Roth. ALS,
photocopy.N/A
Physical Description: 1 p.
Note
2 copies.
Box 1, Item 158
C.K. Wing, to Roth. TLS, photocopy.January 23,
1967
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 1, Item 159
Efrem Zimbalist, to Roth. TLS.May 7,
1951
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 1, Item 160
Adolph Zukor, to Roth. Note, signed.June 23,
1937
Physical Description: 1 p.
Note
Includes photocopy.
Box 1, Item 161
Adolph Zukor, to Roth. TLS.June 29,
1937
Physical Description: 1 p.
Note
Includes photocopy.
Box 1, Item 162
Adolph Zukor. Note.N/A
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 1, Item 163
Unknown, to Roth. ALS.October 16,
1940
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 1, Item 164
Unknown, to Roth. Note, signed.September 29,
1940
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 1, Item 165
Unknown, to Roth. Envelope.June 12,
1944
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 1, Item 166
Unknown, to Mr. and Mrs. Roth. Note, signed,
photocopy.June 1946
Physical Description: 1 p.
Note
2 copies.
Box 1, Item 167
Unknown, to Roth. ALS.October 2,
1946
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 1, Item 168
Unknown, to Roth. ALS.March 20,
1947
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 1, Item 169
Unknown, to the Roths. ALS.February 27,
1957
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 1, Item 170
Handwritten descriptions of correspondence, photographs,
and some ephemera in the Feri Roth collection.
N/A
Physical Description: 28 p.
Series 2.
Photographs unknown
Physical Description:
11 items
Scope and Content Note
Photographs of Roth and acquaintances.
Box 2, Item 3
G. Francesco Malipiero, signed.September
1930
Box 2, Item 7
Alfredo Casella and his trio with Feri and Elisabeth
Roth
Box 2, Item 8
Lion Feuchtwanger, Italian Counsul Gen. Mr. Ungaro, Igor
Stravinsky, and Feri Roth, phtocopy.
Note
2 copies. Includes handwritten caption by donor.
Box 2, Item 9
Feri Roth and his quartet
Box 2, Item 10
Unknown man with Feri and Elisabeth Roth
Note
4 different small photos.
Box 2, Item 11
Feri Roth and his quartet with unknown man
Series 3.
Programs and Promotional Material 1945-1968
Physical Description:
18 items.
Scope and Content Note
Material relating to Roth and the Roth Quartet.
Box 2, Item 12
Inauguración del Instituto Federal de
Capacitación del
Magisterio1945
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 2, Item 13
Die Tänzerin: Komödie in 3 Akten von Melchior
Lengyel.1946
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 2, Item 14
Ralph Vaughan WilliamsOctober 20,
1954
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 2, Item 15
Los Angeles Chapter of The American Red Cross wishes to
honor Hollywood - Wilshire Areas Fund Campaign Volunteers who have
served Five and Ten YearsOctober 25,
1956
Physical Description: 3 p.
Note
Includes 2 photocopies.
Box 2, Item 16
The Roth Quartet: Beethoven Festival,
photocopy.March 1, 8, 22, 1960
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 2, Item 17
Melody in music - Four evenings at
UCLA.1962
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 2, Item 18
UCLA Committee on Fine Art Productions -- Concerts Spring
1965.January 5, 1965
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 2, Item 19
UCLA Concerts presented by the committee on fine arts
productions.June-July 1965
Physical Description: 1 booklet.
Box 2, Item 20
Roth Quartet -- 15th Annual Beethoven
Festival.February 2, 1968
Physical Description: 3 p.
Box 2, Item 21
Lincoln Center Calendar of Events,
photocopy.June/July 1968
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 2, Item 22
Memorial Concert for Professor Feri RothMarch 16,
1970
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 2, Item 23
The Roth Quartet: The World's Foremost String
Ensemble
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 2, Item 24
The "Unsurpassed" Roth Quartet
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 2, Item 25
The internationally celebrated Roth Quartet
Physical Description: 1 p.
Note
4 copies.
Box 2, Item 26
Roth Quartet: "Unsurpassed and even
unapproached"
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 2, Item 27
First performances given by the Quartet
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 2, Item 28
PreviewApril 6
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 2, Item 29
Loyola University presents Andre Previn and the Roth
Quartet, photocopy.October 5, 1966
Physical Description: 1 p.
Series 4.
Articles and Newspaper Clippings 1948-1987
Physical Description:
20 items
Scope and Content Note
Material primarily about the Roth Quartet.
Box 2, Item 30
The year in American music / Edited by David Ewen, excerpt,
photocopy.1948
Physical Description: 2 p.
Note
3 copies.
Box 2, Item 31
Texas string news: Ravel and his string quartet / Feri
Roth, photocopy.Summer 1951
Physical Description: 2 p.
Box 2, Item 32
Los Angeles Herald & Express: Champagne and Caviar /
Meredith Overpeck, photocopy.September 18,
1952
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 2, Item 33
Los Angeles Times: The sounding board: Roth Quartet
celebrates 25 years of concert playing in the United States / Albert
GoldbergMarch 7, 1954
Physical Description: 1 p.
Note
Includes photocopy.
Box 2, Item 34
The New York Times: Third of a century of quartet playing /
Edward Downes, photocopy.June 17,
1956
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 2, Item 35
Roths hosts at supper, photocopy.November 27,
1958
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 2, Item 36
Los Angeles Times: Rich legacy left by Feuchtwanger /
Robert R. Kirsch, photocopy.December 28,
1958
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 2, Item 37
Los Angeles Examiner: Roth Performance Gem of Season /
Patterson Greene, photocopy.March 5,
1959
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 2, Item 38
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner: Trios, quartet at festival
concert / Patterson Greene, photocopy.March 11,
1964
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 2, Item 39
Los Angeles Times: Mexican Maestro Carlos Chavez
DiesAugust 4, 1978
Physical Description: 1 p.
Note
Includes photocopy.
Box 2, Item 40
Los Angeles Times Magazine: Gordon Gerry's Gamble / Steve
CollMay 10, 1987
Physical Description: 3 p.
Box 2, Item 41
Prolific Norman Vincent Peale: Positively 90 / Beth Ann
KrierJune 5, 1988
Physical Description: 2 p.
Box 2, Item 42
Los Angeles Examiner: Janssen wins new plaudits / Florence
Lawrence
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 2, Item 43
There weren't many like Olin Downes / Raymond
Kendall
Physical Description: 1 p.
Note
Includes photocopy.
Box 2, Item 44
The Columbia Dispatch: Roth Quartet gives memorable
concert: Shostakovitch C Major Quartet, superbly played, is highlight
of Wednesday evening program / Samuel T. Wilson,
photocopy.
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 2, Item 45
Los Angeles Examiner: Couple host music fete,
photocopy.
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 2, Item 46
Los Angeles Times: Andre Previn / Helen Drees Ruttencutter,
photocopy.
Physical Description: 1 p.
Note
2 copies.
Box 2, Item 47
Drawing of a band
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 2, Item 48
Goodman to give Brahms a whirl
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 2, Item 49
Roth's favorite review written by Brooklyn girl
Physical Description: 1 p.
Series 5.
Ephemera 1942-1969
Physical Description:
15 items
Scope and Content Note
Awards, diplomas, receipts, etc.
Box 2 , Item 50
Certificate of Naturalization -- Feri
RothFebruary 24, 1944
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 2, Item 51
Award of Merit given by The National Association for
American Composers and Conductors -- The Roth
Quartet1942-43
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 2, Item 52
Diploma -- The New York College of Music -- Feri Roth --
Doctor of MusicFebrary 9, 1949
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 2, Item 53
NBC policy concerning submission of ideas and other
material -- "Four Strings at Four"July 20,
1955
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 2, Item 54
Groman Mortuaries -- receipt for funeral services for Feri
RothMay 10, 1969
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 2, Item 55
Several pages from memoirs on UCLA letterhead / Feri Roth,
photocopy.
Physical Description: 5 p.
Box 2, Item 56
List
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 2, Item 57
Waldorf-Astoria -- Reservation receipt,
photocopy.
Physical Description: 1 p.
Note
2 copies.
Box 2, Item 58
Page from address book, photocopy.
Physical Description: 1 p.
Note
2 copies.
Box 2, Item 59
Handwritten note about Janos Scholz and Jeno
Kerpely
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 2, Item 60
Roth Quartet letterhead
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 2, Item 61
Vertés painting, photocopy.
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 2, Item 62
Vertés -- Peintures murales, photocopy.
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 2, Item 63
List of Vertés exhibitions
Physical Description: 1 p.
Box 2, Item 64
Check for $167 from Feri Roth to Andre PrevinMay
11, 1965
Physical Description: 1 p.
Series 6.
Personal Records 1945-1969
Physical Description:
1 box
Scope and Content Note
Memoirs, datebooks.
Box 3, Item 1
Dailyaide: the silent secretary (date
book)1945
Box 3, Item 4
Dailyaide: the silent secretary (date
book)1959
Box 3, Item 5
Memoirs of a Musician / Feri Roth
Physical Description: 503 p.
Note
Unpublished original manuscript of Feri Roth's memoirs.
Includes a list of questions not yet solved and some editorial comments
and markings.
Series 7.
Sheet Music 1907
Physical Description:
2 items
Scope and Content Note
From Roth's music collection.
Box 3, Item 6
ÉchoN/A
Note
First violin part only. Very bad condition.
Additional Note
Plate no.: 688
Series 8.
7 1964-1968
Physical Description:
15 reels.
Scope and Content Note
Recordings of Roth and the Roth Quartet.
Box 4, Item 1
Roth quartet concert at L.A. State CollegeOctober
8, 1964
Box 4, Item 2
Ravel quartet U.C.L.A.October 27,
1964
Box 4, Item 4
Feri Roth Reel No. IJuly 19,
1966
Box 4, Item 5
Feri Roth Reel No. IIAugust 5,
1966
Box 4, Item 6
Feri Roth Reel No. IIIAugust 17,
1966
Box 4, Item 7
Feri Roth Reel No. IVAugust 31,
1966
Box 4, Item 8
Feri Roth Reel No. VSeptember 14,
1966
Box 5, Item 1
Feri Roth Reel No. VIOctober 7,
1966
Box 5, Item 2
Feri Roth Reel No. VIIOctober 21,
1966
Box 5, Item 3
Feri Roth Reel No. VIIINovember 11,
1966
Box 5, Item 5
Eugene Ysaye, Two dances, Sarasate, Castel-Neavo-edesco,
Vivaldi, Bach
Series 9.
Books 1937-1968
Physical Description:
16 books
Scope and Content Note
Books from Roth's library.
Box 6, Item 2
Jefta und seine Tochter / Lion
Feuchtwanger1957
Note
Inscription by the author.
Box 6, Item 3
Italian gem dictionary: Italian-English : English-Italian /
Isopel May1954
Box 7, Item 1
Who's who in the west: United States of American and
Canada1968
Box 7, Item 2
Sweet and sour / by Joseph
Wechsberg1948
Note
Inscription by the author.
Box 7, Item 3
The California
register1960
Box 7, Item 4
A fözkanáltól az estélyi
ruháig / Faragó
Baba1947
Box 7, Item 5
Az elsö fecske: és egyéb
elbeszélések / Herczeg Ferenc
Box 8, Item 1
The California
Register1962
Box 8, Item 2
The California
Register1966
Box 8, Item 3
Ragyogó Szakácskönyv
Note
In fairly bad shape.
Box 8, Item 4
Magyar album / Szerkesztette Incze
Sándor1956
Box 8, Item 5
Sacy Von Blondel / Versei Csak a Fényre
Vigyázz!
Note
In fairly bad shape.
Box 9, Item 1
Gustav Mahler: Memories and Letters / By Alma
Mahler1946
Note
Inscription by the author.
Box 9, Item 2
Cleopatra: the Story of a Queen / Emil
Ludwig1937
Note
Inscription from the author.
Box 9, Item 3
A History of the Jews / by Abram Leon Sachar,
Ph.D.1955
Box 9, Item 4
Lion Feuchtwanger zum Gedanken / Von seined Freunded auf
der Heidecksburg
