Re: Announcement of Irving Fine Collection on American Memory

[wiener <wiener...>]

You can find out more about Irving Fine at
http://www.allclassical.com/

Bob

-----Original Message-----
From: Reyzl Kalifowicz-Waletzky <reyzl (at) flash(dot)net>
To: World music from a Jewish slant <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
Date: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 3:55 AM
Subject: RE: Announcement of Irving Fine Collection on American Memory


>I don't know anything else than what was written in the announcement.
I
>figured that someone with a name like 'Irving Fine' who was from New
York
>and taught at Brandeis, has to be Jewish and thus worthy of
consideration
>by this list.
>
>Reyzl
>
>
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>From:  Stahl, Sheryl [SMTP:SFStahl (at) cn(dot)huc(dot)edu]
>Sent:  Monday, May 14, 2001 4:03 PM
>To:  World music from a Jewish slant
>Subject:  RE: Announcement of Irving Fine Collection on American
Memory
>
>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
>
>
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>From:  Mark Glazer [SMTP:mglazer (at) panam(dot)edu]
>Sent:  Friday, May 11, 2001 8:45 PM
>To:  FOLKLORE (at) listserv(dot)tamu(dot)edu
>Subject:  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
>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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