Research Catalog
Letters to Morris Hochberg
- Title
- Letters to Morris Hochberg, ca. 1940-1977.
- Author
- Mills, Charles, 1914 Jan. 8-
Details
- Additional Authors
- Description
- .3 cubic ft.
- Summary
- 83 ALS in ink or pencil from Charles Mills, 3 ALS from Charles Mills and his wife Pat or Patricia, 3 ALS from Patricia alone, and 1 ALS from a later wife Selma, all to Morris Hochberg, Morris and Sylvia, or Morris, Sylvia and Rena Hochberg ; 1 ALS from Charles Mills to oboist Lare Wardrup, sent in care of Morris Hochberg. Nearly every letter discusses both personal matters and technical matters of music composition. Enclosures include a poster, 3 clippings, 7 photographs, and 2 brochures. Accompanied by 31 drawings by Charles Mills in ink or pencil.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Correspondence.
- Letters (correspondence).
- Graphite drawings.
- Ink drawings.
- Source (note)
- Hochberg, Morris
- Biography (note)
- Charles (Borromeo) Mills, 1914-1982, was an American composer of chamber music, orchestral works including movie music and ballets, and vocal music including sacred choral works. He became a Roman Catholic in 1944. Morris Hochberg was a conductor and violinist, and his wife Sylvia was a noted pianist. Their daughter Rena was born in 1944. Mills lived in New York City, and the Hochbergs in Detroit throughout the correspondence.
- Processing Action (note)
- Processed
- Cataloging revised
- Call Number
- JPB 93-106
- OCLC
- NYPW94-A8
- Author
- Mills, Charles, 1914 Jan. 8-
- Title
- Letters to Morris Hochberg, ca. 1940-1977.
- Biography
- Charles (Borromeo) Mills, 1914-1982, was an American composer of chamber music, orchestral works including movie music and ballets, and vocal music including sacred choral works. He became a Roman Catholic in 1944. Morris Hochberg was a conductor and violinist, and his wife Sylvia was a noted pianist. Their daughter Rena was born in 1944. Mills lived in New York City, and the Hochbergs in Detroit throughout the correspondence.
- Connect to:
- Occupation
- Composers.
- Added Author
- Hochberg, Morris.Hochberg, Sylvia.
- Research Call Number
- JPB 93-106