Notes For Notes (2022)

Notes For Notes David Snow, Melissa Weber, and Rebecca Shaw Composer Christopher Rouse (1949–2019) bequeathed his entire collection of music manuscripts to The Juilliard School, where he was a member of the composition faculty from 1997 until his death. The collection includes 139 holograph scores and 72 published scores by Rouse, essays, program notes, and concert reviews by the composer, correspondence (including letters from composers John Adams, Chester Biscardi, Aaron Copland, Lukas Foss, John Harbison, Lou Harrison, Alan Hovhaness, Per Nørgård, George Rochberg, Poul Ruders, William Schuman, Augusta Read Thomas, and Charles Wuorinen), personal and business documents, juvenilia, and photographs. A complete finding aid will be available in the months ahead. David Snow Juilliard ________ The Laurraine Goreau Interviews & Recordings and The Lynn Abbott Interviews are now digitized. Oral history recordings about Mahalia Jackson and Black gospel quartets in the South are available online. The personal stories of famous musicians, politicians, industry executives, and community leaders regarding renowned "Queen of Gospel" Mahalia Jackson are now available online via the Tulane University Digital Library. This digitization project, administered by Tulane University Special Collections, is made possible by a 2019 Recordings at Risk grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR). The Laurraine Goreau Interviews and Recordings feature Mahalia Jackson, her family members, and others who worked with and knew Jackson, including entertainers Ella Fitzgerald, John Hammond, Della Reese, and Dinah Shore; Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) co-founder Reverend Ralph Abernathy; television host Ed Sullivan; gospel stars J. Robert Bradley, Thomas A. Dorsey, Sallie Martin, and Albertina Walker; and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Studs Turkel. These interviews were conducted by Jackson's biographer and New Orleans States-Item journalist Laurraine Goreau as part of her research for her 1975 authorized biography of Jackson, Just Mahalia, Baby: The Mahalia Jackson Story. "I'm astounded by the range of interview subjects and topics that Goreau covered. There are even live music excerpts that she captured, such as Mahalia Jackson singing impromptu acapella verses of 'His Eye is on the Sparrow' at a 1971 press conference in Tokyo," says Melissa A. [End Page 538] Weber, curator of the Hogan Archive of New Orleans Music and New Orleans Jazz. CLIR funding also enabled digitization of interviews conducted in the 1980s by historian Lynn Abbott for his 2013 book, To Do This, You Must Know How: Music Pedagogy in the Black Gospel Quartet Tradition, co-authored by Doug Seroff. The Lynn Abbott interviews feature Black gospel quartet singers and practitioners in the South who both predated and assisted Jackson's international success. This includes gospel performers such as Mary Thames Coleman, Reverend Paul Exkano, and Bessie Griffin; and New Orleans blues and rhythm & blues artists such as Chuck Carbo and Snooks Eaglin. "Knowing that people around the world now have access to these recordings, many of which have not been heard for decades, is very exciting," says, Jillian Cuellar, director of Tulane University Special Collections. "Hearing intimate recollections of Jackson and her musical antecedents firsthand personalizes history for the listener, giving them the opportunity to interpret these stories without mediation." Both collections may be accessed at digitallibrary.tulane.edu. For more information contact Melissa A. Weber, curator of the Hogan Archive of New Orleans Music and New Orleans Jazz, at mweber3@tulane.edu or 504-247-1807. To learn more about Tulane University Special Collections, visit the TUSC website at library.tulane.edu/tusc, email specialcollections@tulane.edu, and follow us on Facebook and Instagram. Melissa Weber Tulane University Special Collections ________ The University of Toronto Music Library Archives acquires, makes accessible, and preserves records created or collected by individuals associated with the Faculty of Music at the University of Toronto. Our archives document the contributions of Toronto musicians to local, national, and international music communities. In 2021, we received various significant archival donations. They include: • The manuscripts of J. Churchill Arlidge (1849–1913), an English-born flutist, organist, teacher, and composer, who permanently settled in the Toronto area in 1885. He appeared as a flutist with the Toronto Philharmonic Society and accompanied many renowned singers, including Emma Caldwell, Lilli Lehmann, and Emma Albani. In 1902, he...