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New England Conservatory of Music (NEC; Jean A. Morrow, Director of Libraries) recently received a significant new collection of American composer George Whitefield Chadwick (1854-1931) materials that had been unavailable since 1932. Chadwick was director of NEC from 1897 until 1930, a year before his death. Shortly thereafter, family members stored several trunks full of his music manuscripts, sketchbooks, correspondence, photographs, and other primary source materials. The family lost track of these materials, however, until Chadwick's great grandson, Theodore Chadwick III, rediscovered them in February 2001 in a storage facility in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Among hundreds of items of special interest, the collection includes two manuscript vocal scores for his opera ThePadrone; manuscript materials for two unfinished choral works, Pontius Pilate and Pastoral; and thirty-threesketchbooks dating from 1879 to 1925. Letters to Chadwick include substantial correspondence from Frederick Shepherd Converse, Henry Lee Higginson, Helen Hopekirk, Horatio Parker, Carl Stoeckel, George Templeton Strong, and Theodore Thomas; and limited correspondence from Amy Marcy Beach, Antonín Dvorák, Arthur Foote, Gabriel Fauré, Edward MacDowell, and John Philip Sousa. Among the photographs is a small collection of Chadwick portraits, family photos, several group photos taken at the Bohemian Grove, and portraits of other individuals such as Carl Muck, William McCoy, Horatio Parker, and Templeton Strong. Chadwick's personal writings include eighteen volumes of memoirs, ten daybooks, and several dozen speeches. In addition, the collection contains over five hundred newspaper clippings, primarily reviews of Chadwick's music, dating from the late 1880s to 1931. The NEC library staff is currently processing and cataloging all of these materials and, in November 2004, will have a finding aid available on the library Web site, http://www.newenglandconservatory.edu/libraries.

Also in November 2004, NEC will initiate festivities to commemorate the 150th anniversary of Chadwick's birth (13 November 1854). On 15 November, NEC invites the public to attend a special afternoon colloquium in which prominent Chadwick musicologists Marianne Betz, Bill Faucett, Steven Ledbetter, and Victor Yellin will participate, and an evening concert that will feature scenes from The Padrone. For details on the day's events, please consult the NEC Web site.

A major repository of performance materials for Chadwick's music, NEC will program a variety of works during the composer's sesquicentennial year. Any institutions that are also interested in performing Chadwick's instrumental or choral repertoire, in particular, should contact Jean Morrow, Director of Libraries, or Russ Girsberger, Performance Librarian, about availability.

Charles Suttoni, compiler of comprehensive bibliographies of Franz Liszt's published correspondence, has donated his collection of books and offprints of articles to The Juilliard School Library (Jane Gottlieb, Vice President for Library and Information Resources). Suttoni's "Liszt Correspondence in Print: An Expanded, Annotated Bibliography" was published as the entire contents of volume 25 (1989) of the Journal of the American Liszt Society (a preliminary version of the bibliography had appeared in Fontes Artis Musicae 26 [July-September 1979]: 191-234), and a supplement was published in the Journal of the American Liszt Society 46 (Fall 1999): 1-43. Suttoni's collection includes three meticulously arranged file boxes of the published articles, with keys to their respective numbers in his published bibliographies. His book collection includes all of the major published collections of Liszt's correspondence, from the eight-volume La Mara edition (Franz Liszt's Briefe, published 1893- 1905) to more recently published collections and translations.

The University of Pennsylvania Library (Richard Griscom, Head, Otto Albrecht Music Library and Eugene Ormandy Music and Media Center) has received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Division of Preservation and Access, for $130,000 to process and preserve the papers of Alma Mahler and Franz Werfel. The Mahler-Werfel collection comprises three hundred linear feet of letters, diaries, writings, photographs, memorabilia, and research materials concerning the lives and careers of Alma Schindler Mahler Gropius Werfel (1879-1964) and her third husband, the poet, playwright, and novelist, Franz Werfel (1890- 1945). The collection is particularly rich in documents related to Viennese cultural life of the...