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The Music Library Association is pleased to announce the receipt by the MLA Archives of primary source materials from the landmark publication Resources of American Music History: A Directory of Source Materials from Colonial Times to World War II (RAMH). Published in 1981 by the University of Illinois Press, RAMH was edited by D. W. Krummel, Jean Geil, Doris J. Dyen, and Deane L. Root. The materials, which were in Krummel's possession, were placed in the archives for safekeeping.

Bonnie Jo Dopp, curator of the MLA Archives, notes, "The RAMH archives documents the history of this monumental project. It contains files on all the libraries and repositories, state by state, that were surveyed; administrative files such as minutes of meetings, grant proposals, mailing lists, publicity materials, and memoranda of decision making; and texts of talks given by the editors about the project while it was in progress."

MLA's archives are housed in Special Collections in Performing Arts, a department of the Michelle Smith Performing Arts Library at the University of Maryland, College Park. Accessions inventories of the RAMH archives exist, and the collection may be used by visiting researchers in the Irving and Margery Morgan Lowens Room for Special Collections weekdays from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm by appointment with the curator. Persons with questions about the RAMH archives, or any other aspect of the MLA Archives, may e-mail the curator via the Web site at www.lib.umd.edu/PAL/SCPA/scparefreqform.html.

The Metropolitan Opera Guild has placed on deposit at the Pierpont Morgan Library(J. Rigbie Turner, Mary Flagler Cary Curator of Music Manuscripts and Books) nearly fifty of its most valuable music manuscripts and letters. Among the autograph manuscripts are sketches for Ludwig van Beethoven's String Quartet in A Minor, op. 132; part of an insertion aria Joseph Haydn wrote for Antonio Salieri's opera La scuola de' gelosi; Franz Schubert's Piano Sonata in A, D. 557 (incomplete); two pages from the short score of Richard Strauss's last opera, Capriccio; and the concert ending for Richard Wagner's Das Rheingold. Important letters include those of Beethoven, Gaetano Donizetti, Christoph Willibald von Gluck, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Modest Musorgsky, Robert Schumann, and Carl Maria von Weber. Records for most of the items can be found by going to corsair.morganlibrary.org/ and doing a "Keyword or Phrase" search for "mog and music" (without the quotation marks).

The pianist Ruth Laredo has placed on deposit at the Morgan Library her Sergey Rachmaninoff collection. Among the nearly 150 items are twelve Rachmaninoff letters to Nicolai Mandrovsky, his private secretary between 1939 and 1943, several of which are unpublished. There are many letters to Rachmaninoff as well as copies of his letters to Marian Anderson and Douglas Moore, among others. Also included are Rachmaninoff's tour books, in which the cancelled concerts during his final months bear sad witness to his declining health; he died on 28 March 1943.

Eric Moe, senior composer on the music faculty at the University of Pittsburgh, has donated his music manuscripts to the university's Theodore M. Finney Music Library (James P. Cassaro, Head Librarian). The collection includes sketches, fair copies, and computer-generated holographs of the composer's works from the late 1970s to the present, including that of No Time Like the Present (1996), a commission from Mariss Jansons and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. Moe's generous donation will allow generations of scholars to study his works from initial conception to final product. Eric Moe has been characterized by the New York Times as a composer of "music of winning exuberance." He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Rhonda and Walter Lakond Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters (2002), a Guggenheim Fellowship, and grants from the Fromm Foundation, Meet-the-Composer USA, and the Koussevitzky Foundation, among others. The composer has been in residence at the MacDowell Colony, Yaddo, Bellagio Center, Virginia Center for the Creative...