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Music Library, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York

Finding Aid for
Leo Smit Papers, 1939-2000

Collection Number: Mus. Arc. 6.2


Container List

I. Personal documents

Box 1 Folder 1 Curriculum vitae (1980)
Box 1 Folder 2 Works list (1995)
Box 1 Folder 3 Works remaining with ASCAP
Box 1 Folder 4 Works coming to BMI
Box 1 Folder 5 Aaron Copland legacy notification and receipt
Box 1 Folder 6 Title page and page 1 of Aaron Copland's Four Piano Blues with dedication to Smit on p. 1 caption.

II. Writings by Leo Smit

Box 1 Folder 7

Aaron Copland, 1900-1990
Keyboard, March 1991: 3

Box 1 Folder 8 Alchemy of Love: notes
Box 1 Folder 9 Cantata for a Roman Lady: libretto on words by Catullus
Box 1 Folder 10 Classic Cole Porter
Saturday Review Dec. 25, 1971: 48-49, 57
Box 1 Folder 11 For Aaron (1970)
Box 1 Folder 12 For Aaron (1975)
Box 1 Folder 13 In Woods: notes
Box 1 Folder 14 Interview with Vivian Perlis about Aaron Copland
Printed in Copland: Since 1943 (1989)
Box 1 Folder 15 Introduction to Liszt in Italy
Box 1 Folder 16 Johann Sebastian Bach: Fox or Hedgehog: a tribute on his 300th birthday
Keyboard Classics, Jan. 1985
Box 1 Folder 17 Magic Water: synopsis
Box 1 Folder 18 On artistic obsession (1999)
Box 1 Folder 19 Pianista: a concert journal
Clavier July-August, 1983
Box 1 Folder 20 Pianista Noteamericano: a concert and travel journal (1969?)
Box 1 Folder 21 Remarks address to graduating music students at SUNY/Buffalo, New York, May 15, 1998
Box 1 Folder 22 Remembering Aaron Copland, 1988 (written after Copland's death in 1990)
Box 1 Folder 23 Sir Fred Hoyle: introduction
Box 1 Folder 24 Symphony of Dances and Songs: notes by the composer
Box 1 Folder 25 To Aaron Copland
Box 1 Folder 26 Translation of two songs from Stravinsky's Four Russian Songs
Box 1 Folder 27 Trishky (short story?)

III. Correspondence

Box 1 Folder 28 1940-1949
14 letters on 11 leaves
Box 1 Folder 29 1950-1959
26 letters on 28 leaves
Box 1 Folder 30 1960-1969
17 letters on 18 leaves
Box 1 Folder 31 1970-1979
25 letters on 25 leaves
Box 1 Folder 32 1980-1989
8 letters on 8 leaves
Box 1 Folder 33 1995-1997
2 letters on 2 leaves
Box 1 Folder 34 Undated
2 letters on 2 leaves

IV. Clippings and reviews

Box 1 Folder 35 1962-1967
10 clippings
Box 1 Folder 36 1976-1979
7 clippings
Box 1 Folder 37 1981-1984
3 clippings
Box 1 Folder 38 1994-2000
7 clippings, including 3 obituaries

V. Programs

Box 1 Folder 39 1939-1958
3 programs
Box 1 Folder 40 1962-1978
7 programs
Box 1 Folder 41 1980-1983
7 programs
Box 1 Folder 42 1994-2000
4 programs

VI. Promotion and publicity

Box 1 Folder 43 1969-1986
4 pieces

VII. Lecture materials

Box 2 Folder 44 Crazy Quilt of American Piano Music (no lecture texts, only music)

Kern, Jerome Siren's song (p. 1 only)
Shapero, Harold Mister La Sol
Gottschalk, Louis Ossian, op. 4
Farwell, Arthur Polytonal study, op. 109, no. 20
Fine, Irving Red Queen's Gavotte
Cage, John Suite for Toy Piano
MacDowell, Edward In Deep Woods, op. 62
Copland, Aaron Three Moods
Copland, Aaron Two Piano Pieces
Burge, David Incomplete work from Contemporary Keyboard
Schuman, William Three Piano Moods
Cage, John Dream

Programs

Sept. 9, 1995 Brooks-Rogers Recital Hall, Williams College, Williamstown, MA (includes photocopy proof)
Sept. 17, 1995 Gerald G. Wilmot Hall of Music, Nazareth College, Rochester, NY (includes texts to Emily Dickinson songs)
April 19, 1996 Karl Geiringer Hall, University of California, Santa Barbara

 

Box 2 Folder 45

Liszt in Italy

Text

Typescript (2 leaves) Introduction to Liszt in Italy

Music (2 photocopied sets of the following works)

Liszt, Franz Angelus!
Liszt, Franz Carillon
Liszt, Franz Les Funerailles
Liszt, Franz Consolation No. 3
Liszt, Franz Liebesträume: Notturno no. II
Liszt, Franz Il Pensieroso
Liszt, Franz Canzonetta del Salvator Rosa
Liszt, Franz Miserer
Liszt, Franz Les Jeus d'Eaux à la Villa d'Este
Wagner, Richard Isolden's Liebestod
Liszt, Franz Kleine Stücke
Liszt, Franz Sursum Corda

Additional music

Bach, Johann Sebastian Cantata no. 161. Der Lieb zwar in der Erden (Chorale)
Liszt, Franz La Notte
With typescript letter from Paul Pascal, University of Washington, July 11, 1997, regarding literary allusions in the Liszt work
Liszt, Franz Harmonies poetiques. Invocation
Liszt, Franz Abschied
Liszt, Franz Unstern
Liszt, Franz En rêve
Liszt, Franz Nuages gris
Liszt, Franz Angelus
Liszt, Franz Consolations
Liszt, Franz Five Hungarian Folksongs
Liszt, Franz Glockenspiel (Carillon)
Schumann, Robert Liebeslied
Liszt, Franz Sursum Corda

Programs

June 11, 1986 Gartner Auditorium, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
May 31, 1995 Gartner Auditorium, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
With typescipt letter (1 leaf) from Lita Grier to Leo Smit

 

Box 3 Folder 46

Songs (no lecture title provided)

Music

Porter, Cole Art
Porter, Cole I am in love
Porter, Cole Cherry pies ought to be you
Porter, Cole Trust your destiny to a star
Porter, Cole No lover
Porter, Cole Nobody's chasing me
Porter, Cole Red, hot and blue
Porter, Cole A little skipper from heaven above
Porter, Cole Where oh where
Porter, Cole Fresh as a daisy
Porter, Cole Most gentlemen don't like love
Porter, Cole Blow, Gabriel, blow
Porter, Cole Give me the land
Raksin, David Laura
Ives, Charles Songs my mother taught me
Ives, Charles The circus band
Ives, Charles Walking
Ives, Charles The greatest man
2 copies
Blitzstein, Marc Jimmie's got a goil
Rorem, Ned Snake
Citkowitz, Israel Gentle lady
Carter, Elliott The line-gang
Thomson, Virgil Susie Asado
Fine, Irving Polaroli
Kubik, Gail The Lamb
Gershwin, George I can't be bothered now
Gershwin, George How long has this been going on?
Bernstein, Leonard Some other time
Bernstein, Leonard My house
Bernstein, Leonard One hundred easy ways
2 copies
Copland, Aaron (arr.) Simple gifts

 

Box 3 Folder 47

Tchaikovsky - Self Portrait

Text Tchaikovsky diary entries and letters
Music ca. 39 works by Tchaikovsky, mostly songs

 

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