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Guide to the Records of the Committee on Music and Drama, University of California, Berkeley, ca. 1910-1945
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Collection Title: Records of the Committee on Music and Drama, University of California, Berkeley,
Date (inclusive): ca. 1910-1945
Collection Number: CU-17
Creator:
University of California, Berkeley. Committee on Music and Drama
Extent:
17 boxes (13 linear ft.)
Repository: The
Bancroft Library. University Archives.
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Physical Location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Languages Represented:
English
Collection is open for research.
Copyright has not been assigned to The Bancroft Library. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts
must be submitted in writing to the Head of Public Services. Permission for publication is given on behalf of The Bancroft
Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which
must also be obtained by the reader.
[Identification of item], Records of the Committee on Music and Drama, University of California, Berkeley, CU-17, University
Archives, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
These records were transferred from the Committee in December 1965.
The basic function of the committee was to present on campus a wide variety of cultural programs and lectures to benefit students
as well as the university community at large.
The committee had its origins in a committee appointed by President Benjamin Ide Wheeler to oversee the management of the
Greek Theatre after its construction in 1903. The chair of the committee was William Dallam Armes, professor of English. After
his death in 1918, Samuel Hume as appointed as director of the Greek Theatre. Hume resigned in 1923, and there was a return
to a management committee, which was in effect until the creation of a more professional theater management organization,
Cal Performances, in about 1980.
During this period the name of the committee: the Committee on Music and Drama, the Committee on Drama, Lectures and Music,
and finally the Committee for Arts and Lectures.
This collection includes administrative and financial materials pertaining to the work of the committee as well as files on
individual events presented on campus. The Sam Hume correspondence contains both administrative and personal correspondence.