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Alice M. Ditson Fund Records, 1940-2009

42.2 linear feet

The Alice M. Ditson Fund was established at Columbia University in 1940 and is still active in its primary function of providing financial support to composers, performances, and recordings of contemporary American music. The fund also gives out the annual Ditson Conductor's Award, established in 1945, which honors conductors who have a distinguished record of championing American music. The collection includes files regarding the selection of this prize across several decades, as well as financial records, meeting minutes, applicant files, and subject files for the general Fund since its creation.

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Alice M. Ditson Fund--Music Deposit, 1940s-2000s

20 linear feet

This collection is in deep storage. Patrons must use the digital copies in the Music Library, and new user copies can be made from, the digital versions. This collection can only be recalled for the use of PRD staff.

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Columbia University Archives

Historical subject files, 1810s-2022, bulk 1968-1972

182.23 linear feet
The Historical Subject Files Collection documents Columbia University history and related topics from 1754 to the present. The collection includes articles, booklets, clippings, correspondence, memoranda, non-photographic images, notes, pamphlets, posters, press releases, programs and reports.
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Jack Beeson papers, 1854-2013

80 linear feet
Jack Beeson (1921-2010) was a noted twentieth-century American composer, professor of composition, and the chair of the Columbia University Department of Music from 1968 to 1972. The collection includes scores, correspondence, subject files, scrapbooks, datebooks, drafts of written works, biographical materials, programs, and audio and audiovisual recordings.
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Columbia University Archives

Central Files (Office of the President records), 1890-1984

927 linear feet
Central Files is composed chiefly of correspondence sent and received between Columbia University administrators and other University officers, faculty, and trustees, as well as correspondence sent and received between University administrators and individuals and organizations from outside the university.
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Beeson, Jack file, 1961-1967. 7/1961-6/1967 (1 Folder), 7/1961-6/1967 Box 504, Folder 14

Correspondence between Jack Beeson, acting secretary of the Alice M. Ditson Fund in the Department
, and information on award recipients. Includes minutes of the Advisory Committee on the Alice M. Ditson
Fund dating from 1962, 1963, 1964 and 1967. In addition to other topics, the minutes relate to fund

Correspondence between Jack Beeson, acting secretary of the Alice M. Ditson Fund in the Department of Music at Columbia University, and University administrators. Records relate to: the organization and administration of the fund, allocations to composers and performers from the fund, fund finances, and information on award recipients. Includes minutes of the Advisory Committee on the Alice M. Ditson Fund dating from 1962, 1963, 1964 and 1967. In addition to other topics, the minutes relate to fund finances and projects that were sponsored by the fund.

  1. Series I: Central Files, 1895-1971
  2. Subseries I.2: Personal Names, 1890-1971

Moore, Douglas files, 1940-1962., 9/1940-5/1962 Box 382, Folder 10 to 20

, correspondence regarding: the Alice M. Ditson Fund, which was established to support musicians and music programs
and music programs from the Pulitzer Prize Fund. Includes minutes of the Committee on the Alice M
. Ditson Fund. Also, correspondence and reports relating to the conflict between the Department of Music

Correspondence between Douglas Moore, professor of music at Columbia University, and the president, secretary and provost of the University. Correspondence relates to the Department of Music, the University's choirs, and music funds and prizes. Topics related to the Department of Music include: budgeting, appropriations, workshops, equipment, faculty appointments, the curriculum, arrangements for concerts, prizes, faculty affairs, and the purchase of musical scores and recordings. Includes departmental budgets. Includes correspondence documenting the effect of World War II on the department, correspondence regarding Columbia's Core Curriculum, and a report and five year plan (ca. 1954) on the departmental library. Also, correspondence regarding: the Alice M. Ditson Fund, which was established to support musicians and music programs; the Bearns Prize, which supported the publication of American music; and disbursements to musicians and music programs from the Pulitzer Prize Fund. Includes minutes of the Committee on the Alice M. Ditson Fund. Also, correspondence and reports relating to the conflict between the Department of Music and the chapel music director over the administration of the Chapel Choir. Also includes correspondence regarding Moore's personnel issues and professional activities as well as clippings and programs regarding The Ballad of Baby Doe, an operetta which was written by Moore

  1. Series I: Central Files, 1895-1971
  2. Subseries I.2: Personal Names, 1890-1971
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Gloria Coates papers, 1970-1986

0.5 linear feet
Gloria Coates is an American composer who studied at Columbia University with Jack Beeson and Otto Luening. These papers include correspondence, concert programs and business records related to her activities as director of the German-American Contemporary Music Series in Munich from 1970 through 1986.
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George Edwards papers, 1963-2012

16 linear feet
George Edwards (1943-2011) was an American composer, critic, and teacher. He taught in Columbia University's Music Department from 1977 to 2006 and was named an Edward MacDowell Emeritus Professor of Music by Columbia's Board of Trustees. This collection includes scores, teaching materials, audio recordings, programs, clippings, correspondence, and biographical materials, including medical records and information surrounding Edwards' death from Alzheimer's disease.
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Douglas Moore papers, 1883-2018, bulk 1907-1969

45 linear feet
Douglas Stuart Moore (1893-1969) was an American composer, educator, and author. His best known works include the operas The Devil and Daniel Webster (1937-1939), The Ballad of Baby Doe (1953-1956), and Giants in the Earth (1949-1950), which won the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1951. The papers include clippings, correspondence, course and lecture materials, librettos, photographs, programs, publicity materials, recordings, and scores.
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