Roy Harris papers
Published: 1893
Language: eng
Number of pages: 6400
Subjects: Correspondence; Photographs; Music; Archives; Women pianists; Composers; Manuscripts; Pittsburgh International Contemporary Music Festival
Description: The collection contains materials that document Roy Harris' life and career. The music materials contain holograph or copyist manuscript scores and sketches for Harris' compositions as well as holograph manuscript scores, sketches, arrangements, and printed scores by other composers. There are also notes, clippings, and other materials related to specific Harris pieces. The published and unpublished writings include his articles, lectures, scripts, interviews, and drafts, in addition to articles, clippings and reviews about Harris. The correspondence chiefly consists of letters to and from Roy Harris and his wife Johana. Notable correspondents include Nadia Boulanger, John Cage, Lukas Foss, Eugene Ormandy, Vincent Persichetti, and Janos Starker. Harris' business papers relate to his professional life as a teacher and organizer of music conferences, in particular the Pittsburgh International Contemporary Music Festival. The programs and publicity files track the performance and public reception of Harris' compositions as well as Johana Harris' career as a pianist. The Roy Harris Archive Society materials document the founding of the Roy Harris Archive at California State University, Los Angeles. In addition, the collection contains financial and legal documents, photographs, scrapbooks, work files, posters, clippings, and biographical materials.
Notes: The majority of individually cataloged Harris manuscript scores and sketches are located in ML 96.H278.

Open to research.

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Roy Harris Papers, Music Division, Library of Congress.

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Gift; Roy Harris; 1959-1969.

Gift; Robert French; 2005.

Gift; Patricia Harris Connelly; 2010.

transferred to the Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division, Library of Congress.

American composer (b. Feb. 12, 1898, in Lincoln County, Oklahoma; d. Oct. 1, 1979, in Santa Monica, Calif.).

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Performing Arts Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu010029