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Sound recording - Boulez, Pierre, and Aarand Parsons, n.d.

 File — Box: 3, item: 34

Scope and Content of the Collection

From the Collection:

This collection contains significant correspondence mainly from the 1950s and 1960s with Cleveland Orchestra conductor George Szell, conductor and Chicago Symphony Orchestra music director Artur Rodzinski, composer and pianist Alexander Tcherepnin, and journalist and NBC anchor John Chancellor.

Additionally, the collection includes large scrapbook pages containing newspaper clippings of Marsh’s reviews and columns, some correspondence, other clippings collected for personal interest, and memorabilia collected from 1969-1978.

Also included are Marsh’s classical record reviews from High Fidelity Magazine and his corrected unbound copy of The Cleveland Orchestra.

A 2015 addition from the Estate of Kathleen Marsh includes reel-to-reel tape recordings (currently inaccessible) of radio broadcast interviews and features on classical music, photographs of prominent conductors and musicians, many autographed to Marsh, and some memorabilia. The Peabody award certificate along with the recording of the Stravinsky program were also donated.

Dates

  • Creation: n.d.

Creator

Access

The Robert Marsh Papers are open for research in the Special Collections Reading Room; 1 box at a time (Priority III).

Conditions Governing Audiovisual Access

Audiovisual recordings in this collection have not been digitized and are unavailable for use at this time.

General Physical Description note

1 sound tape reel: analog; 7 in.

Repository Details

Part of the The Newberry Library - Modern Manuscripts and Archives Repository

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