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University of Illinois Festival of Contemporary Arts Music and Sound Recordings, 1954-1990

By Adriana P. Cuervo, Kelly Carlson

Collection Overview

Title: University of Illinois Festival of Contemporary Arts Music and Sound Recordings, 1954-1990

ID: 12/5/818

Creator: Kuypers, John Marinus (1900-)

Extent: 1.0 cubic feet

Arrangement: The collection is arranged in three series; Series 1: Concerts and Festivals, 1953-1967; Series 2: Individual Works, ca. 1973-1990; and Series 3: Sheet Music, ca. 1980. Series 1 is arranged alphabetically by concert/festival name, then chronologically by performance date. Series 2 is arranged alphabetically by the last name of the composer whose work is recorded on the reel. Series 3 consists of one piece of sheet music, which is housed at the end of Series 2.

Date Acquired: 01/22/2007

Scope and Contents of the Materials

Consists of 27 reel-to-reel recordings and sheet music of musical works by University of Illinois composition faculty and guest composers. These items document the Chamber Music and Contemporary Arts Festivals that took place between 1954 and 1990, as well as the compositional output of the faculty.

Administrative Information

Acquisition Method: Transferred from the University Archives to the Sousa Archives and Center for American Music in January of 2007.

Box and Folder Listing

Series 1: Concerts and Festivals, 1953-1967Add to your cart.
Box 1Add to your cart.
Item 1: University of Illinois Festival Chamber Music Concert Selections, 1953-1963Add to your cart.
10.5 inch reel housed with relevant concert programs.
Composers: Babbitt; Brown; Nilsson; Stockhausen; Wolff; Wolpe
Item 2: University of Illinois Festival of Contemporary Arts Selections, 1963-1967Add to your cart.
10.5 inch reel housed with relevant concert programs.
Composers: Babbitt; Cage; Gilbert; Kagel; Penderecki
Item 3: University of Illinois Festival of Contemporary Arts Selections, 1967Add to your cart.
10.5 inch reel housed with relevant concert programs.
Composers: Berio; Crumb; Feldman; Johnston
Item 4: University of Illinois Piano Division Concert Selections, March 7, 1963Add to your cart.
Performed by Dwight Peltzer. 7 inch reel housed with relevant concert program.
Composers: Martirano; Webern
Item 5: University of Illinois Piano Division Concert Selections, March 7, 1963Add to your cart.
Performed by Dwight Peltzer. 7 inch reel housed with relevant concert program.
Composer: Erickson
Series 2: Individual Works, ca. 1973-1990Add to your cart.
Box 2Add to your cart.
Item 1: Unknown, UndatedAdd to your cart.
Unidentified performer(s). 7 inch reel.
Composer: Brooks, William
Item 2: Dust: Sawdust no. 1, 1976-1990Add to your cart.
Electronic Music.  Includes handwritten note to K. Gaburo.  Published by Electronic Music Foundation, 1998; EMF CD 00644.  7 inch reel.
Composer: Brun, Herbert
Item 3: Dustiny; More Dust, UndatedAdd to your cart.
Electronic music. Published by Electronic Music Foundation, 1998; EMF CD 00644. 7 inch reel.
Composer: Brun, Herbert
Item 4: More Dust with percussion; At Loose Ends, UndatedAdd to your cart.
Electronic music and unidentified percussionist. Published by Electronic Music Foundation, 1998; EMF CD 00644.  7 inch reel.
Composer: Brun, Herbert
Item 5: Project Sawdust, 1978Add to your cart.
Unidentified performer(s). Published by Electronic Music Foundation, 1998; EMF CD 00644.  10.5 inch reel.
Composer: Brun, Herbert
Item 6: Sonoriferous Loops; Wayfaring Sounds, UndatedAdd to your cart.
Unidentified performer(s). Published by Electronic Music Foundation, 1998; EMF CD 60024.  7 inch disc.
Composer: Brun, Herbert
Item 7: Across 110th St., 1973Add to your cart.
Electronic music.  5 inch reel.
Composer: Burt, Warren
Item 8: Rash, 1982Add to your cart.
Electronic music.  Cassette tape in 5 inch reel box.
Composer: Burt, Warren
Item 9: Interjacence, UndatedAdd to your cart.
Bob Paredes, clarinet; Bart Cummings, Tuba.  7 inch reel.
Composer: Dunn, David
Item 10: Nexus I: Grand Canyon Recordings, 1973Add to your cart.
Unidentified performer(s). 7 inch reel.
Composer: Dunn, David
Box 3Add to your cart.
Item 1: Chamber Concerto I, II, III, UndatedAdd to your cart.
Illinois Wesleyan Faculty Student group.  Handwritten note "For Ken Gaburo" or back cover.  7 inch reel.
Composer: Erickson, Robert
Item 2: Piece for Bells and Piano, UndatedAdd to your cart.
Unidentified performers. Handwritten note "For Ken Gaburo" on back cover.  7 inch reel.
Composer: Erickson, Robert
Item 3: Visions and Spels, November 1975Add to your cart.
New Verbal Workshop.  Published by Composers Recordings, 1984; CRI SD 515.  7 inch reel.
Composer: Johnston, Ben
Item 4: Bricdage, 1979Add to your cart.
Steve Schick, percussion.  7 inch reel.
Composer: Lewis, Peter Todd
Item 5: Fragments/Hedgehogs for Orchestra, 1978Add to your cart.
University of Iowa Symphony Orchestra; James Dixon, conductor.  7 inch reel.
Composer: Lewis, Peter Todd
Item 6: Lamentation, 1981Add to your cart.
Unidentified performer(s).  7 inch reel.
Composer: Lewis/Froberger
Item 7: Voices I, 1971Add to your cart.
Unidentified performer(s).  5 inch reel.
Composer: Lewis, Peter Todd
Item 8: Pieces for Bassoon; Difficult Crossing; Tuba Magritte, 1978Add to your cart.
Charles Lipp, bassoon; William DeFotis, conductor; Dan Perentoni, tuba; electronic music.  5.5 inch reel.
Composer: Lipp, Charles
Item 9: Psaltery (for Lou Harrison), 1979Add to your cart.
Electronic music.  Handwritten note "For Ken Gaburo" on front cover.  7 inch reel.
Composer: Polansky, Larry
Item 10: Transition; Light and Shadows, 1974-1976Add to your cart.
Unidentified performer(s). Includes letter written to Ken Gaburo in 1978.  Published by New World Records, 1996; 80499-2. Published by Chicago Lakeside Jazz, 1999; CLJ-605-2.  7 inch reel.
Composer: Powell, Morgan
Item 11: Zooligscher Garten, 1965Add to your cart.
Unidentified performer(s).  7 inch reel.
Composer: Rzewski, Fredric
Item 12: Songs I-IX; Poems I, II, III; Tit for Tat, 1970-1981Add to your cart.
Arthur Steinhorn, percussion; Stuart Smith, vocal.  Includes note written to Ken Gaburo.  7 inch reel.
Composer: Smith, Stuart
Item 13: Performance directions for Songs I-IX and Tit for Tat, UndatedAdd to your cart.
21 typed pages.
Composer: Smith, Stuart
Series 3: Sheet Music, ca. 1980Add to your cart.
Box 3Add to your cart.
Item 14: Sonnets of Desolation, ca. 1980Add to your cart.
Commissioned by Fromm Music Foundation for The Swingle Singers.  Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins.  Includes performance note.
Composer: Johnston, Ben