New Irving Fine site (American composer)

[Judy Pinnolis <pinnolis...>]

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>Thought some of you might find this interesting...
>
>--Dan
>
>Forwarded posting on new Irving Fine site
>
>Irving Fine Collection Now available on American Memory.
>
>The work of Irving Fine, composer, conductor, writer and academic is now
>represented online as part of the American Memory online collections.
>This first release of materials coincides with the Music Division's
>concert tribute to Fine scheduled this evening at the Coolidge
>Auditorium of the Library of Congress. The Irving Fine collection can be
>found at the following url: <http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ifhtml/>
>
>Called a "remarkable American composer" by noted music lexicographer
>Nicolas Slonimsky, Irving Fine (1914-1962) was included in the so-called
>"American Stravinsky School"' by fellow composer and longtime friend
>Aaron Copland (1900-1990).  Fine, whose compositional output was
>influenced by the music of Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) and Paul
>Hindemith (1895-1963), died prematurely in 1962, thereby cutting short
>one of the most promising careers in twentieth-century American
>classical music.
>
>Fine's early, neoclassic works include his Music for Piano (1947) and
>Partita for Wind Quintet (1948).  His later romantic style is
>represented by the orchestral works Notturno (1951) and Serious Song
>(1955), both often programmed by orchestras to this day. The most
>frequently performed of his choral works are Alice in Wonderland (1942),
>The Hour Glass (1949), and The Choral New Yorker (1944).   With the
>completion of his String Quartet in 1952, it appears that Fine was able
>to combine his earlier tonal approach to music writing with the then new
>technique of "serialism," or twelve-tone technique.
>
>Fine taught music theory and history at Harvard University from 1939 to
>1950 and music theory and composition at Brandeis University from 1950
>to 1962.  He also taught composition at the Berkshire Music Festival at
>Tanglewood from 1946 to 1957.
>
>This first online release of The Irving Fine Collection includes a
>selection of 57 photographs of Irving Fine (many of them with other
>notable musicians at Tanglewood and elsewhere). A special presentation
>consists of manuscript sketches and the score for the String Quartet,
>along with a recorded performance of this work by the Juilliard String
>Quartet.  In addition, the site includes a timeline of the composer's
>life as well as the finding aid for the complete collection.
>
>Irving Fine's career is documented in the Library of Congress Music
>Division by approximately 4,350 items from the Irving Fine
>Collection.  These materials were collected by the composer's widow,
>Verna Fine, who maintained a long relationship with the Music Division
>of the Library of Congress to which she donated the materials in stages
>just before and after the composer's death.  She tirelessly devoted
>herself to promoting her husband's music until her own death in 2000.
>
>The collection contains manuscript and printed music, sketchbooks,
>writings, and personal and business correspondence from such
>twentieth-century musical luminaries as Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990),
>Aaron Copland, Lukas Foss (b. 1922), Alberto Ginastera (1916-1983), Ned
>Rorem (b. 1923), and William Schuman (1910-1992).  The archival
>collection also contains scrapbooks, programs, clippings, and sound
>recordings.
>
>Please direct any questions to ndlpcoll (at) loc(dot)gov
>
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Judith S. Pinnolis
Reference Librarian
Coordinator for Publications and Training
Brandeis University Libraries
Goldfarb Library MS045
P.O Box 549110 
Waltham, MA 02454-9110
phone:781-736-4705
fax: 781-736-4719
email: pinnolis (at) brandeis(dot)edu

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