RE: Announcement of Irving Fine Collection on American Memory

[Judy Pinnolis <pinnolis...>]

Sheryl:
Do you mean sacred services and the like?
Judy

At 04:03 PM 5/14/01 -0400, you wrote:
>     Did he write Jewish music? 
>sheryl 
>p.s this is a collection development question - not a stick to the topic
>comment.   -----Original Message----- 
>From: Reyzl Kalifowicz-Waletzky [mailto:reyzl (at) flash(dot)net] 
>Sent: Saturday, May 12, 2001 8:55 AM 
>To: World music from a Jewish slant 
>Subject: FW: Announcement of Irving Fine Collection on American Memory  
>  FYI.   This came from the Folklore mailing list.   Reyzl  
>  ---------- 
>  Mark Glazer [SMTP:mglazer (at) panam(dot)edu] 
>  Friday, May 11, 2001 8:45 PM 
>  FOLKLORE (at) listserv(dot)tamu(dot)edu 
>  FW: Announcement of Irving Fine Collection on American Memory  
>-----Original Message----- 
>From: danna bell-russel [mailto:dbell (at) loc(dot)gov] 
>Sent: Friday, May 11, 2001 2:44 PM 
>To: undisclosed-recipients: 
>Subject: Announcement of Irving Fine Collection on American Memory  
>  Good afternoon   This announcement is being sent to a number of lists.
>Please accept our 
>apologies for any duplicate postings.   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 
><http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ifhtml/>   "" by noted music lexicographer 
>Nicolas Slonimsky, Irving Fine (1914-1962) was included in the so-called 
>""' by fellow composer and longtime friend 
>  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 
>  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), 
>   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 
>"" 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 
>  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 
>  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 
>  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 
>  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 
>  The archival 
>collection also contains scrapbooks, programs, clippings, and sound 
>recordings.   Please direct any questions to ndlpcoll (at) loc(dot)gov  

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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