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http://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf3000060v No online items Betty Freeman Papers Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego Copyright 2005 9500 Gilman Drive La Jolla 92093-0175 [email protected] URL: http://libraries.ucsd.edu/collections/sca/index.html Betty Freeman Papers MSS 0227 1 Descriptive Summary Languages: English Contributing Institution: Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego 9500 Gilman Drive La Jolla 92093-0175 Title: Betty Freeman Papers Creator: Freeman, Betty Identifier/Call Number: MSS 0227 Physical Description: 33.8 Linear feet (59 archives boxes, 2 records cartons, 1 cardfile box, 21 art bin items, 1 rolled drawing and 97 oversize folders) Date (inclusive): 1965 - 2008 Abstract: Papers of Betty Freeman, photographer, philanthropist, and patron of New Music and contemporary composers. The collection dates between 1965 and 2008 and contains photographs both of and by Freeman; correspondence with numerous artists and composers; and original artworks by Robert Wilson, John Cage, Steve Reich, and Merce Cunningham. The collection also includes clippings and ephemera related to music and the arts, musical scores dedicated to Freeman, and drafts of unpublished manuscripts written by Freeman. Scope and Content of Collection ACCESSION PROCESSED IN 1993 The Betty Freeman Papers contain materials that reflect Freeman's activities as a philanthropist and patron of contemporary composers and New Music. The collection is arranged in two series: 1) CORRESPONDENCE AND SUBJECT FILES and 2) ARTWORKS. SERIES 1: CORRESPONDENCE AND SUBJECT FILES The CORRESPONDENCE AND SUBJECT FILES series contains files, arranged by name of person that often comprise a variety of materials - correspondence, autographed programs, catalogs, and newsclippings. Well represented are composers John Adams, John Cage, Robert Erickson, Peter Garland, Lou Harrison, Harry Partch, Steve Reich, Virgil Thomson, and La Monte Young. Although Freeman's relationship with contemporary composers forms the bulk of the collection, many personalities in music and the arts are represented. SERIES 2: ARTWORKS In the ARTWORKS series are framed and unframed works given to Freeman from numerous artists. Many celebrate her birthday and are dedicated by the artist. The materials are arranged by artist. ACCESSIONS PROCESSED IN 1996 The accessions to the Betty Freeman Papers processed in 1996 chiefly comprise correspondence and subject files regarding the artists to whom Freeman provided emotional and financial support. Many files, including those for Robert Wilson, John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Steve Reich, and Mel Powell, contain personal exchanges, newspaper articles and critical reviews of a particular artist's work. Additional materials include photographs, personal mementos, musical scores (some in manuscript), and various works of art. The collection is arranged in five series: 3) CORRESPONDENCE AND SUBJECT FILES, 4) MUSICAL SCORES, 5) ARTWORKS, 6) CURIOS AND MEMENTOS, and 7) PHOTOGRAPHS. SERIES 3: CORRESPONDENCE AND SUBJECT FILES The CORRESPONDENCE AND SUBJECT FILES series contains files arranged alphabetically by person or topic. This series contains a wide range of materials, ranging from personal and business correspondence to autographed programs, catalogs, newsclippings and periodicals, and information on the artists. Persons include John Adams, Louis Andriessen, George Benjamin, Phillipe Boesmans, Pierre Boulez, John Cage, Philip Glass, Lou Harrison, Gyorgy Ligeti, Harry Partch, Mel Powell, Steve Reich, choreographers Merce Cunningham and Bill T. Jones, conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen, and director Robert Wilson. In addition to information about the artists with whom Freeman worked, files on composers such as Wolfgang Mozart, Arnold Shoenberg, and Olivier Messiaen are also present. SERIES 4: MUSICAL SCORES MUSICAL SCORES are by Harrison Birtwistle, John Cage, Morton Lauridsen, Gyorgy Ligeti, Tod Machover, Mel Powell, and Christopher Rouse. Several scores appear in holograph, and many are accompanied by information on the composer and the particular piece. SERIES 5: ARTWORKS Betty Freeman Papers MSS 0227 2 The ARTWORKS series contains the architectural/essayistic collaboration of Sumiko Kamagai and Shin Kano dedicated to John Cage. It also contains artworks by Mark Bulwinkle, John Cage, Steve Reich, and Charles Shere, and posters of Darius Milhaud, the Cabrillo Music Festival, the Salzburg Festival, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Rolywholyover: A Circus for Museum, and Wilson's "Einstein on the Beach." SERIES 6: CURIOS AND MEMENTOS CURIOS AND MEMENTOS contains three items. The first is a fossil in stone that was originally given by John Cage to Merce Cunningham; Cunningham subsequently gave it to Freeman. The second is a bundle of black satin ribbon with gold lettering from the Los Angeles Philharmonic. The last item is a nail found in Barstow by a researcher on hobos who was tracing Harry Partch's adventures there. SERIES 7: PHOTOGRAPHS The PHOTOGRAPHS series documents two music-related events: The American Music Center Award held in 1986 at Lincoln Center in New York City; and, The Gold Baton of the American Symphony Orchestra League held in 1987 at the Waldorf Astoria in New York City. Among those featured in the first set of photographs are John Cage, Lou Harrison, Milton Babbit, and Paul Zukofsky. The latter set of photographs features John Cage, Nicolas Slonimsky, Alan Rich, Ned Rorem, and Peter Kermani. Also included in this series is a photograph from Lou Harrison of the Gamelan he named for Freeman. ACCESSIONS PROCESSED IN 1998 The accession to the Betty Freeman Papers processed in 1998 includes clippings, letters to Freeman, several writings by Freeman, musical scores commissioned and/or dedicated to Freeman, artworks, awards, audiocassette interviews with Freeman, and outtakes from her film on Harry Partch entitled The Dreamer That Remains: A Portrait Of Harry Partch. The collection is arranged in eight series: 8) CLIPPINGS, 9) CORRESPONDENCE, 10) WRITINGS, 11) MUSICAL SCORES, 12) ARTWORKS AND POSTERS, 13) AWARDS AND GIFTS, 14) PHOTOGRAPHS, and 15) RECORDINGS. SERIES 8: CLIPPINGS The CLIPPINGS series contains articles about Betty Freeman, programs listing works she commissioned, panels on which she served, and her published photographs of composers and artists arranged alphabetically. SERIES 9: CORRESPONDENCE The CORRESPONDENCE series contains two folders: letters to Betty Freeman and letters to editors from Freeman. SERIES 10: WRITINGS The WRITINGS by Betty Freeman consist of an article on new music for Upbeat in 1990 and the speech she delivered at the Cunningham Award Dinner in 1984. SERIES 11: MUSICAL SCORES The MUSICAL SCORES series includes primarily published versions or bound photocopies of works in progress and works commissioned by and/or dedicated to Betty Freeman, many of which are inscribed with personal notes by the composer. The works of Fredric Myrow and Mel Powell contain pages from manuscript scores. Other composers include John Cage, Robert Erickson, Lou Harrison, Harry Partch, and Virgil Thomson. SERIES 12: ARTWORKS AND POSTERS The ARTWORKS AND POSTERS series includes artwork by Mark Bulwinkle, John Cage and William Kraft, a David Hockney poster for the San Francisco Opera, a Pierre Boulez Festival poster, and a Los Angeles Philharmonic poster with photography by Betty Freeman. SERIES 13: AWARDS AND GIFTS The AWARDS AND GIFTS series contains plaques and certificates awarded to Betty Freeman for her film The Dreamer That Remains: A Portrait Of Harry Partch, a gold baton from the American Symphony Orchestra League, a stone from the Cunningham Dance Foundation presented to her by John Cage, and two folders containing inscribed programs and keepsakes. SERIES 14: PHOTOGRAPHS The PHOTOGRAPHS series contains a group of photographs documenting the Cunningham Dance Foundation Arts Salute in February 1984, where Freeman received an award from John Cage. It also includes a photograph from Peter Garland taken during a trip to Mexico in 1981. Magazine clippings of published photographs by Freeman of artists and composers are located in Series 1: CLIPPINGS. SERIES 15: RECORDINGS The RECORDINGS series is arranged in two subseries: A) Film and B) Audiocassettes. Among the films are outtakes from the Betty Freeman-produced film The Dreamer That Remains: A Portrait Of Harry Partch. Audiocassettes include radio interviews of Freeman and programs of music dedicated to her. Betty Freeman Papers MSS 0227 3 ACCESSIONS PROCESSED IN 2001 The accession to the Betty Freeman Papers processed in 2001 contains correspondence, clippings, festival brochures and programs, musical scores commissioned by or dedicated to Freeman, photographs, cassette audio- and videorecordings, artworks, and miscellaneous material. The collection is arranged in seven series: 16) CORRESPONDENCE AND SUBJECT FILES, 17) FESTIVAL MATERIALS, 18) MUSICAL SCORES, 19) PHOTOGRAPHS, 20) RECORDINGS, 21) ARTWORKS AND POSTERS, and 22) MISCELLANEOUS. SERIES 16: CORRESPONDENCE AND SUBJECT FILES The CORRESPONDENCE AND SUBJECT FILES series, arranged alphabetically, contains correspondence with composers and artists, brochures and programs, and clippings. The collection features primarily composers such as John Adams, Harrison Birtwistle, and Steve Reich, but also includes materials from dramaturges such as Peter Sellars and Robert Wilson, as well as other members of the arts community. SERIES 17: FESTIVAL MATERIALS The FESTIVAL MATERIALS series