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Yvar Mikhashoff Archive Inventory
TABLE OF CONTENTS
| I. | Correspondence with musicians | VIII. | Students and teachers | |
| II. | Other correspondence | IX. | Program designs and criticism | |
| III. | Concert programs | X. | Memorabilia and artifacts | |
| IV. | Clippings | XI. | Scrapbooks | |
| V. | Dossier | XII. | Posters | |
| VI. | Compositions, writings, and artwork | XIII. | Recordings and tapes | |
| VII. | Festivals and Seminars | XIV. | Video recordings |
I. CORRESPONDENCE WITH MUSICIANS
(For description of contents, see Autograph file)
Folder 1. Aaron Copland to Yvar Mikhashoff.
Folder 2. Sylvano Bussotti to Mikhashoff.
Folder 3. Joseph Fennimore to Mikhashoff.
Folder 4. Maurice Ohana to Mikhashoff.
Folder 5. Ernst Krenek to Mikhashoff.
Folder 6. Hunter Johnson to Mikhashoff.
Folder 7. Giacinto Scelsi to Mikhashoff.
Folder 8. Thomas Putsche to Mikhashoff.
Folder 9. Virgil Thomson to Mikhashoff.
Virgil Thomson to Mrs. Herbert W. Dickerman (photocopy)
Folder 10. Leo Smit to Mikhashoff.
Folder 11. Jan Kapr to Mikhashoff.
Folder 12. Ivan Wyschnegradsky to Mikhashoff.
Folder 13. Barbara Bond to Mikhashoff.
Folder 14. Frances Uitti to Mikhashoff.
Folder 15. Mrs. Dieter Salbert, for her husband, to Mikhashoff.
Folder 16. Mikhashoff to Frances Marie Uitti.
Folder 17. Lukas Foss to Mikhashoff.
Folder 18. Anders Eliasson to Frances Marie Uitti.
Folder 19. Peter Kaul to Mikhashoff.
Folder 20. Ole Friis Nielsen to Mikhashoff.
Folder 21. Leo Ornstein to Mikhashoff (photocopy).
Folder 22. Aaron Copland and Virgil Thomson to Mikhashoff, for the Buffalo Sesquicentennial.
II. OTHER CORRESPONDENCE
Folder 1. Margit Fellegi, for Adam Fellegi, to Mikhashoff, December 16, 1977, regarding concert and recording dates in Budapest, January 1978.
Folder 2. Susan Krane, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, to Mikhashoff, November 19, 1979, regarding program for the concert to be given during the Sonia Delauney exhibit, January 1980.
Folder 3. Mikhashoff and Lukas Foss to the American Music Center, May 24, 1979 (photocopy), regarding commissioning of a work by Foss.
Folder 4.
Folder 5. Robert L. Ketter, President, SUNY at Buffalo, to Mikhashoff, October 25, 1974, regarding discretionary salary increase. John P. Sullivan, Provost, SUNY at Buffalo, to Mikhashoff November 13, 1974, with congratulations on receipt of merit raise.
Folder 6. George Kehler to Mikhashoff. Form letter, November 1, 1974, requesting biographical information for Kehler's research.
Folder 7. E. Ruth Anderson to Mikhashoff. Form letter, December 1973, requesting biographical information for her Contemporary American Composers: A Biographical Dictionary.
Folder 8. Recording contract with Radio-Television Suisse Romande, December 1977.
Folder 9. Hanne Wilhelm Hansen of Wilhelm Hansen Koncertdirektion to Mikhashoff, September 30, 1980, regarding 1981/82 concert season.
Folder 10. Jan Williams, Chairman, Music Department, SUNYAB, to Mikhashoff, November, 30, 1981.
Folder 11. Mikhashoff's nomination of Aaron Copland for Honorary Doctorate, SUNYAB, ca. 1981/82.
Folder 12. Richard Lawrence, Arts Council of Great Britain, to Mikhashoff, March 9, 1983, regarding ICA series.
Folder 13. Karl Aage Rasmussen, International Society of Contemporary Music, Denmark, September 20, 1983, regarding ISCM World Music Days.
III. CONCERT PROGRAMS
Folder 1. undated programs: 1970- . Arranged chronologically by year
N.B.: for Zagreb Music Biennale, 1981, see posters folio (XII)
IV. NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS
Folder 1. undated clippings before 1971- . Arranged chronologically by year
1980
- a Musik Nyt Ar, Denmark, January 1980 reviews and translations
- b other 1980 clippings
- c Sylvano Bussotti's Le Racine, Milan 1980
V. DOSSIER
Folder 1. Vitae
- Item 1. Proposed program of work for the degree of Doctor of Musical Arts [1973] (draft)
- Item 2. Request for Final Oral Examination and Proposed Program of Work for the Degree of Doctor of Musical Arts, May 1973.
- Item 3. List of larger compositions [1973]
- Item 4. List of compositions ordered by opus number (draft)
- Item 5. Curriculum vitae [1978]
- Item 6. Curriculum vitae [1979-80]
- Item 7. Curriculum vitae [1980]
- Item 8. Repertoire 1979/80
- Item 9. Professional Activities: Pianist/Programmer [1979]
- Item 10. "Yvar Mikhashoff since 1980" [1982]
- Item 11. Curriculum vitae [1982]
- Item 12. Diploma, The Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing, Inc., 1964
Folder 2. Promotional brochures
- Item 1. Yvar Mikhashoff, pianist
- Item 2. Piano Program, State University of New York, Department of Music
- Item 3. Terry Charles Schwarz, Arts Management. Brochure including description of The Lost Art of Melodeclaration by Schmidt and Mikhashoff.
- Item 4. The Lost Art of Melodeclamation
- Item 5. Cambiata, Inc.
- Item 6. Drafts of up-date for publicity brochure
Folder 3. Photographs.
- Envelope 1. Early photos.
- Envelope 2. Miscellaneous photos.
- Envelope 3. Professional photos.
- Envelope 4. Photos from performances.
- Envelope 5. Photos from performances
VI. MIKHASHOFF COMPOSITIONS, WRITINGS, AND ART
For lists of Mikhashoff's compositions and transcriptions, please refer to: Yvar Mikhashoff Collection of Compositions and Yvar Mikhashoff Collection of Compositions: Transcriptions, based on Matthew Sheehy's An Annotated Catalogue of the Yvar Emilian Mikhashoff Musical Compositions and Transcriptions in the Music Library, SUNY at Buffalo: ML410.M66AXS54 1998.
WRITINGS AND ART
Box 13.
Crossword puzzle: "Championship" 2-7-65, Houston
Cuchulain; a trilogy based on W. B. Yeats [Musical play]
libretto by Mikhashoff: typescript ; libretto translated from Maeterlinck; 4°
Illustrative sketches for songs, Paris, 1969
8° in spiral binder
VII. FESTIVALS AND SEMINARS
Folder 1. Graz, Austria, summer, 1975, 1976
Folder 2. Copenhagen, September 1978
Newspaper and magazine articles in Danish, with English translations, programs, letter from Friedrich Gurtler of the Danske Musikkonservatorium regarding seminar and recital by Mikhashoff.
Folder 3. Holland, June 1982
Folder 4. Almeida 1985
VIII. STUDENTS AND TEACHERS
Folder 1. Nils Vigeland
Folder 2. William Eddins
Folder 3. Anthony de Mare
Folder 4. John Newell
Folder 5. Michael McCandless
Folder 6. William Doppmann (teacher)
IX. PROGRAM DESIGNS AND CRITICISM
Folder 1. Reviews by Mikhashoff
Folder 2. Program notes [by Mikhashoff]
Folder 3. Program plans and suggestions
Folder 4. Graphics and designs for posters and programs
Folder 5. Cambiata, Inc. [as received]
Documents, reviews, information on the group and its members.
Folder 6. Ives [as received]
Program plans and performance materials for "an Ives Stereopticon"; notes for "an Ives Retrospective"; "A Thematic Survey of the First Movement (Emerson) of the Sonata no. 2, `Concord, Mass., 1840-1860-,' of Charles Ives" By Mikhashoff [n.d., 12p.]; Ives bibliography; etc.
X. MEMORABILIA AND ARTIFACTS
Folder 1. Articles about Mikhashoff and/or Buffalo
Folder 2. Other articles saved
Folder 3. Invitations
Folder 4. Programs in which Mikhashoff was not a participant
Folder 5. Poetry and literature, art, etc.
Folder 6. Brochures
Folder 7. Miscellaneous: Information on competitions and awards; payment statement from Brock University; addresses and phone numbers
Folder 8. Bussotti. Musica per amici: Mikhashoff's performance copy
Folder 9. Cage. Music Walk: realization
Folder 10. Catalogs including works or recordings by Y. Mikhashoff
Folder 11. Hanon. The Virtuoso Pianist: lesson book used by Mikhashoff Dec. 1952-1954
Folder 12. School papers: Notes and finished report on Pacific Islands
Folder 13. School papers: Notes on Egypt, hieroglyphics
XI. SCRAPBOOKS
1. Clippings, programs, letters and photos through 1974.
2. Clippings and programs numbered to coordinate with a list of Mikhashoff's professional activities as pianist/programmer, 1974-1979.
XII. CONCERT POSTERS
Located in Seminar Room Treasure cabinet #5, bottom
Folio 1.
Dated posters (in chronological order)
Undated posters following
also: Program booklet for Zagreb Music Biennale, 1981
XIII. RECORDINGS
Recordings (jackets autographed) are listed under Mikhashoff in the Autograph file and are housed in the Treasure Room oak cabinet 6, bottom.
Folder 1. Cassette tapes (4 90-minute) of The Great American Piano Marathon, Symphony Space, New York, May 19, 1984.
Additional lists of Mikhashoff recordings can be found under:
XIV. VIDEO RECORDINGS
A complete list of video recordings collected by, or featuring Mikhashoff is available at: Yvar Mikhashoff Video Collection.
