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A.   CORRESPONDENCE WITH CHOREOGRAPHERS.
1958-1987;  Correspondence with John Butler.  Includes correspondence concerning various projects on which Butler and Glanville-Hicks collaborated, particularly the 1961 world premiere of her opera Nausicaa in Athens.  Also includes later personal correspondence. (Call No.: MLMSS 6394/7X)

B.   CORRESPONDENCE WITH COMPOSERS AND MUSICIANS. 
1950-1951;   Letters received from George Antheil. (Call No.: MLMSS 6394/8)

1954-1956;  1964-1966;  1973;   Correspondence with Moritz Bomhard.  Includes correspondence concerning various projects, and some personal correspondence. (See also MLMSS 6394/16, Music File  The Transposed Heads: Louisville performance, for other correspondence with Bomhard).  (Call No.: MLMSS 6394/8)

1965-1970;   Correspondence with Nadia Boulanger. (Call No.: MLMSS 6394/8)

1954-1957;  1976;   Letters received from Carlo Bussotti and Newell Jenkins.  Includes newscuttings and programs. (Call No.: MLMSS 6394/8)

1948-1949;   Letters received from John Cage.  Written from Paris in 1949.  Includes biographical data and draft of A Composer's Confessions, an address given by Cage before the National Inter-Collegiate Arts Conference, Vasser College, February 28, 1948. (Call No.: MLMSS 6394/8)

1979-1981;  1989;   Letters received from Oliver Daniel.  Includes personal correspondence, and letters received from Donald J. Ott. (See also MLMSS 6394/17 Correspondence with Publishers: Broadcast Music Inc., for other correspondence with Oliver Daniel). (Call No.: MLMSS 6394/8)

1971-1973;  1977;   Letters received from Gene Forrell. (Call No.: MLMSS 6394/8)

1950;  1958-1959;  1967;  1982;  1987;   Correspondence with Lou Harrison. (Call No.: MLMSS 6394/9)

1971-1974;  1978-1979;  1981-1984;   Letters received from John Kozar. (Call No.: MLMSS 6394/9)

?1948-1949;  ?1960;   Letters received from Colin McPhee. (Call No.: MLMSS 6394/9)

1959;   Letters received from Harry Partch. Includes programs and newscuttings. (Call No.: MLMSS 6394/9)

1962;  1965;  1971;  1976;   Letters received from Carlos Surinach.  (See also MLMSS 6394/14, Music File: Nausicaa, for other correspondence with Carlos Surinach). (Call No.: MLMSS 6394/9)

1949;  1961-1962;  1966;  1970-1971;  1974;  1976;  1980;  1983;  1988-1989.  Correspondence with Virgil Thomson.  Includes 1949 correspondence between Glanville-Hicks and Lee Fairley, Associate Editor, Notes, concerning Glanville-Hicks's review of Thomson's opera Four Saints in Three Acts. (Call No.: MLMSS 6394/9)

?1948-?1951;   Correspondence with Ralph Vaughan Williams.  Includes undated letter from Vaughan Williams to Stanley Bate. (Call No.: MLMSS 6394/9)

1954-1990 and undated;   General Correspondence.   Correspondence on a range of music related matters with other composers and musicians. Correspondents include Chandler Cowles, Dennis Russell Davies, Ross Lee Finney, Bernard Heinze, Alan Hovhaness, Francis Loring, Gian Carlo Menotti, James Murdoch, Vincent Plush, Esther Rofe, Dane Rudhyar and Nicanor Zabaleta.  (Call No.: MLMSS 6394/9)

C.   MUSIC FILES.
1971-1972;  1985-1987. Adelaide Festival.  Correspondence concerning the staging of Glanville-Hicks's operas  The Glittering Gate (1972) and  The Transposed Heads and  The Glittering Gate  (1986).  Correspondents include Ian Johnston, Gerald Krug, Joyce McGrath, Ruby Mercer, Anthony Steel and Elizabeth Wood.  (Call No.: MLMSS 6394/10)

1972-1973;   'Aegina Arts Festival/Budapest/Prague/Munich, 1972-1973'.  Correspondents include Miklos Erdelyi and Claus Raab. (Call No.: MLMSS 6394/10)

1954-1956;  1962-1965;   'ACA [American Composers Alliance] - Berlin Concert and Miscellaneous'.  Correspondents include Robert Kollitsch, Carl Haverlin and Avery Claflin. Includes ACA Bulletin Volume IV No. 1, 1954 containing article on Glanville-Hicks by George Antheil. (Call No.: MLMSS 6394/10)

?1956;   American Opera Theatre.  Includes material concerning the formation of a contemporary opera group to present modern operas both in America and Europe.  Annotation reads "Plan for American Opera Theatre. Never Developed.  PGH." (Call No.: MLMSS 6394/10)

1954-1960;   Australasian Performing Right Association Ltd. (Call No.: MLMSS 6394/10)

1967-1968;  'Australia'.  Correspondence, mainly with Kevin McBeath, on various  issues concerning musical life in Australia during the period.  Includes newscuttings.  (Call No.: MLMSS 6394/10)

1972-1977;  1982-1985;   Australia Council. Correspondents include James Murdoch, Maria Prerauer and Ian Johnston. (Call No.: MLMSS 6394/10)

1975-1985;   Australia [later Australian] Music Centre.  Includes correspondence with James Murdoch.  Also includes newscuttings, brochures and other material relating to Glanville-Hicks's association with the Australia Music Centre.  (Call No.: MLMSS 6394/10)

?1976-1984;   Australian Broadcasting Commission/Corporation. (Call No.: MLMSS 6394/10)

1973-1989;   'Bate. General File.'  Material relating to attempts by Glanville-Hicks to locate Stanley Bate's music manuscripts, and later to establish a Composers' Assistance Fund.  Includes correspondence with music publishers, collecting institutions, and with Virgil Thomson, Michael Barlow, Anthony Hodges and Bate's sister Dorrie ?Dorgan.  Also includes a catalogue of Bate's works, programs, newscuttings, biographical notes, photographs of Bate's paintings and a catalogue for a 1948 exhibition of his works held at the American British Art Center, New York.  (Call No.: MLMSS 6394/11)

1987-1989;   Bio-Bibliography - Deborah Hayes. (Call No.: MLMSS 6394/11)

1953-1990;   Biographical entries - music dictionaries and other works.  Correspondents include David Ewen, Dennis Gray Stoll, Jill Sykes and Elizabeth  Wood.  Also includes the text of Glanville-Hicks's 1953 contribution to the radio program '"This I Believe". Presenting the Personal Philosophies of Thoughtful Men and Women in All Walks of Life'.  (Call No.: MLMSS 6394/11)

1975-1981;   'Pam Boden'.  Seven sculptures for seven compositions.  Documents arrangements for exhibitions of Boden's work in Sydney and Melbourne in 1978.   Includes correspondence with, and biographical information on some of the composers invited to contribute, including Don O Banks, Lou Harrison, Vincent Plush and  Peter Sculthorpe.  Other correspondents include Pam Boden, Jean Battersby of the Australia Council and James Murdoch of the Australia Music Centre.  Also includes later letters received from Dorothy Andrews, advising of Boden's illness and subsequent death in 1981, programs and newscuttings.   (Call No.: MLMSS 6394/11)

1962-1986;   Commissions.  Correspondents include Edward B. Benjamin, Jo Caust, John O. Crosby of The Opera Association of New Mexico, Edward Gerber of The Philharmonia of New York, Mark Schubart of the Juilliard School of Music, Harold Spivacke of the Music Division of The Library of Congress and Louise Stanley of the Music Department, Wykeham Rise School.  (Call No.: MLMSS 6394/11)

1958-1961;  1984;   'Composers' Forum.'  Documents Glanville-Hicks's activities as executive officer of the Composers' Forum.  Correspondents include Ashley Pettis, Carleton Sprague Smith and Frank Wigglesworth.  Also includes Composers' Forum 25th Anniversary Survey, 1961. (Call No.: MLMSS 6394/11)

1975-1978;   Composers Guild of Australia. (Call No.: MLMSS 6394/11)

1949-1961;   'Concerts.'  Documents Glanville-Hicks's association with various organisations, including the Contemporary Music Society and the American Composers Alliance, with whom she arranged concerts promoting the work of young composers and contemporary music.  Correspondents include Julian Bautista, Carlo Bussotti, Doda Conrad, Dick Donovan, Paul Fromm, Gertrud Mellon of The Museum of Modern Art, Samuel R. Rosenbaum of the Music Performance Trust Funds of the Recording Industries, Henry Schuman, Carlos Surinach, Carol Truax and Nicanor Zabaleta.  Also includes programs. (Call No.: MLMSS 6394/12)

1955-1957;   Empire State Music Festival Inc.  Correspondence with Basil Langton, Executive Director.  Includes Statement of General Policy of the Festival.. (Call No.: MLMSS 6394/12)

1975;   Fellowship of Australian Composers. (Call No.: MLMSS 6394/12)

1959-1964;   'Fulbright'.   Correspondents include Daryl Dayton and other personnel from The United States Educational Foundation in Greece, Kenneth Holland of the Institute of International Education, Jacob K. Javits, Kenneth B. Keating, Carr B. Lavell and John V. Lindsay.  (Call No.: MLMSS 6394/12)

1956-1990;   General Music Inquiries. (Call No.: MLMSS 6394/12)

1956-1959;   'The Glittering Gate'.  Includes correspondence with Lord Dunsany and his legal representatives, and later correspondence with the Dowager Lady Dunsany, concerning contractual arrangements for the composition and performance of the opera. (Call No.: MLMSS 6394/12)

1961-1962;   'Greek composers'.  Includes correspondence with various Greek composers, including John Christou, Diamantis Diamantopoulos, Petro Petridis, and Yeorgo Sicilianos, and biographical and other information. (Call No.: MLMSS 6394/12)

1945-1950;   'Grove's Dictionary. USA. Scandinavia. Blom - Correspondence'.  Correspondence with Eric Blom, Editor, Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Fifth Edition, for which Glanville-Hicks contributed many of the American and some Danish entries.  Also includes some 1945 correspondence relating to articles published in the journal Music & Letters.  (Call No.: MLMSS 6394/13)

1947-1948;   'Grove's Dictionary. Denmark'. Includes correspondence with Flemming Weis and draft entries, many with manuscript annotations.   (Call No.: MLMSS 6394/13)

1948-1949;   'Grove's Dictionary. USA Composers'.  A-C.  Correspondents include George Antheil, Marion Bauer, Samuel Barber, Elliott Cook Carter, Ruth Crawford Seeger and Carleton Sprague Smith. Includes draft entries, many with manuscript annotations. (Call No.: MLMSS 6394/13)

1948-1950;   'Grove's Dictionary. USA Composers'.  D-K.  Correspondents include John Duke, Cecil Effinger and Morton Gould.  Includes draft entries, many with manuscript annotations. (Call No.: MLMSS 6394/13)

1949-1950;   'Grove's Dictionary'. USA Composers'. L-Z.  Correspondents include Reuel Lahmer, Otto Leunig, Gian-Carlo Menotti, Charles Mills, Nicolas Nabokov, Walter Piston, Harold Shapero and Frank Wigglesworth.  Includes draft entries, many with manuscript annotations. (Call No.: MLMSS 6394/13)

1971-1977;   Grove's Dictionary.  Letters received from Stanley Sadie concerning the Sixth Edition. (Call No.: MLMSS 6394/13)

1955-1961;  1982-1990;   Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Correspondents include James F. Mathias, Henry Allen Moe and Peter Kardon from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and Izler Solomon, Music Director and Conductor of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra. (Call No.: MLMSS 6394/13)

1957-1970;   'India'.  Mainly correspondence, professional and personal, with Narayana Menon, Director of the National Centre for the Performing Arts, and his wife Rekha Menon. Other correspondents include Vanraj Bhatia of the Sir Shanker Lall Institute of Music, Delhi, S.N. Ratanjankar and Gulammohammed Sheikh.  (Call No.: MLMSS 6394/14)

1971-1983;   'India'.  Mainly correspondence with Narayana Menon and his wife Rekha Menon.  Other correspondents include Mrinalini V. Sarabhai and Georg Lechner.Also includes research notes, programs, journals, travel itineraries and information.  (Call No.: MLMSS 6394/14)

1948;   'International Music Fund'.  Relates to the founding of the IMF and the first benefit concert at Tanglewood.  Includes Manifesto and program. (Call No.: MLMSS 6394/14)

1947-1948;   'I.S.C.M.' [The International Society for Contemporary Music].  Includes letter received from Louise B.M. Dyer;  draft report on the Delegates Conference, The International Festival of Contemporary Music, Amsterdam 1948;  and Minutes of the Assembly of Delegates.   (Call No.: MLMSS 6394/14)

1975-1978;   Miller, Jeffrey: Compilation of Paul Bowles letters.   (Call No.: MLMSS 6394/14)

1955-1970;   Nausicaa.  Correspondence with Robert Graves and Alastair Reid.  Includes correspondence with lawyers, contracts and variant libretto drafts.  Also includes some personal letters received from Graves and his wife Beryl. (Call No.: MLMSS 6394/14)

1961-1964;   Nausicaa: Correspondence with Carlos Surinach. (Call No.: MLMSS 6394/14)

1962-1965;   'Nausicaa Recording'.  Correspondence relating to the recording, pressing and distribution of the world premiere performance of Nausicaa, and negotiations for additional funding.  Correspondents include David Hall of Composers Recordings, Inc., and Harry Scherman. (Call No.: MLMSS 6394/15)

1957-1965;   Nausicaa: General.  Includes correspondence relating to Glanville-Hicks's research into Greek music, fundraising efforts to offset transportation costs of the Greek American principals and to a CBS Radio broadcast relating to Nausicaa.  Correspondents include Ralph Backlund, James H. Fassett, Peter Gradenwitz, Jane Morton Norton, J.A. Notopolous and Kimon P.Vourloumis. (Call No.: MLMSS 6394/15)

1971-?1989;   Nausicaa: Sydney performance.  Correspondence relating to Glanville-Hicks's attempts to arrange for the performance of her opera in Sydney.   Correspondents include Claude Alcorso, Chairman of The Australian Opera, Miklos Erdelyi, Ian Potter and Carlos Surinach. (Call No.: MLMSS 6394/15)

1950-1969;   Projects - various.  Correspondents include Rolf Liebermann, Yehudi Menuhin and Paul Strauss. (Call No.: MLMSS 6394/15)

1956-1962;   'Rockefeller Foundation'.   (Call No.: MLMSS 6394/15)

1967-1968;   'Sadler's Wells Correspondence'. (Call No.: MLMSS 6394/15)

1960-1972;   'Sappho':  negotiations Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera and Adelaide performances. (Call No.: MLMSS 6394/15)

1959-1960;   '"Saul" CBS-T.V. Ballet. John Butler'. (Call No.: MLMSS 6394/15)

1955-1989;   Seminar Participation. (Call No.: MLMSS 6394/16)
1950;   The Transposed Heads: Contracts.  Includes correspondence with Thomas Mann. (Call No.: MLMSS 6394/16)

1953-1954;   The Transposed Heads: Louisville performance.  Correspondence with Moritz Bomhard. (Call No.: MLMSS 6394/16)

1953-1972;   The Transposed Heads: The Louisville Orchestra.  Correspondence concerning an invitation from The Louisville Orchestra to submit a work for the commissioning Committee's consideration, subsequent negotiations, performance and recording arrangements.  Also includes later correspondence on various matters. (Call No.: MLMSS 6394/16)

1954-1958;   The Transposed Heads. 'Opera Production. Phoenix Th. "T.H."'  Correspondents include Ralph Backlund of Columbia Broadcasting System Inc., Richard Barr, Avery Claflin, C. David Hocker of MCA Artists Ltd., Norris Houghton of the Phoenix Theatre, the New York Herald Tribune, Hugh Ross of the  Manhatten School of Music and Sylvia Spencer. (Call No.: MLMSS 6394/16)

1955-1958;   'The Transposed Heads. Germany'.  Correspondents include Robert Kollitsch, Rolf Liebermann, Yehudi Menuhin, Audrey Nossamon, Paul Strauss and Heinz Schneider-Schott.    (Call No.: MLMSS 6394/16)

1955-1957;   The Transposed Heads: Venice Festival.  Correspondents include Moritz Bomhard, Carlo Bussotti, Newell Jenkins and Audrey Nossamon.  (Call No.: MLMSS 6394/16)

1970;   The Transposed Heads: Sydney.  Includes letter from Stephen Benedict of the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. (Call No.: MLMSS 6394/16)
1979-1987;   University of Sydney.  Correspondents include Hermann Black and Peter Platt. (Call No.: MLMSS 6394/16)

1961-?1980;   Working/research notes. (Call No.: MLMSS 6394/16)

D.   CORRESPONDENCE WITH PUBLISHERS AND LITERARY AGENTS.
1955-1966;   Associated Music Publishers Inc.   Includes Contracts. (Call No.: MLMSS 6394/17)

1954-1990;   Broadcast Music, Inc.  Correspondents include Carl Haverlin and Oliver Daniel. Includes Contracts. (For personal correspondence with Oliver Daniel after his  retirement from BMI, see MLMSS 6394/8).   (Call No.: MLMSS 6394/17)

1966-1988;   C.F. Peters Corporation.  Includes Contracts. (Call No.: MLMSS 6394/17)

1959-1985;   G. Ricordi & Co./Belwyn Mills Publishing Corp. (Call No.: MLMSS 6394/17)

1982-1987;   Soundings Press.  Correspondence with Peter Garland. (Call No.: MLMSS 6394/17)

1951-1983;   Other Music Publishers.  Includes correspondence with Louise B.M. Dyer of L'oiseau-Lyre, Weintrab Music Company, G. Schirmer, Inc., and Alfred A. Knopf Incorporated. (Call No.: MLMSS 6394/17)

1961-1964;   Literary Agents.  Correspondence with A.S. Knight, Glanville-Hicks's Literary Agent in the United Kingdom, 1961-1962, and Julian S. Bach Jr., literary representative in the USA, 1963-1964.  (Call No.: MLMSS 6394/17)

1956-1988;   Other Literary Correspondence.  Includes correspondence with Harp News, Time, The Juilliard Review, The Daily Telegraph and Morning Post, London, Opera News, Vogue Magazine, Greek Heritage, Opera Canada and HiFi/Stereo Review.  (Call No.: MLMSS 6394/17)

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