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Jacob Avshalomov scores

Title: Jacob Avshalomov scores, 1928-2001.
Author: Avshalomov, Jacob, 1919-2013.
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Status	Container	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Folders 1-3	Mixed material	Supervised use	JPB 02-5 Folders 1-3	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Folders 106-114	Mixed material	Supervised use	JPB 02-5 Folders 106-114	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Folders 115-130	Mixed material	Supervised use	JPB 02-5 Folders 115-130	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Folders 131-138	Mixed material	Supervised use	JPB 02-5 Folders 131-138	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Folders 139-144	Mixed material	Supervised use	JPB 02-5 Folders 139-144	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Folders 145-146	Mixed material	Supervised use	JPB 02-5 Folders 145-146	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Folders 147-153	Mixed material	Supervised use	JPB 02-5 Folders 147-153	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Folders 24-40	Mixed material	Supervised use	JPB 02-5 Folders 24-40	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Folders 4-23	Mixed material	Supervised use	JPB 02-5 Folders 4-23	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Folders 41-48	Mixed material	Supervised use	JPB 02-5 Folders 41-48	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Folders 49-60	Mixed material	Supervised use	JPB 02-5 Folders 49-60	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Folders 61-67	Mixed material	Supervised use	JPB 02-5 Folders 61-67	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Folders 68-83	Mixed material	Supervised use	JPB 02-5 Folders 68-83	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Folders 84-95	Mixed material	Supervised use	JPB 02-5 Folders 84-95	Offsite
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person.	Folders 96-105	Mixed material	Supervised use	JPB 02-5 Folders 96-105	Offsite
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite Rose to submit a request in person.	Scrapbook	Mixed material	Request in advance	JPB 02-5 Scrapbook	Offsite Rose - Performing Arts

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Description

5.6 linear ft. (15 boxes)

Summary

The Jacob Avshalomov scores consists chiefly of scores encompassing a fifty-year period of his work from 1928 to 1978.
Also in the collection is a scrapbook containing mostly articles about Jacob Avshalomov and his compositions. Includes many articles from foreign newspapers including from Chinese sources in the 1930s. Also includes selected concert programs and very few photographs.

Subjects

Genre/Form

Clippings.
Correspondence.
Programs.
Scores.
Typescripts.
Scrapbooks.
Clippings (information artifacts)

Source (note)

Jacob Avshalomov

Biography (note)

The composer Jacob Avshalomov spent the majority of his career as the director of the Portland Youth Orchestra (a/k/a the Portland Youth Philharmonic) from 1954 to 1995.

Indexes/Finding Aids (note)

Finding aid available in repository and on Internet.

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Cataloged

Call Number

JPB 02-5

OCLC

NYPT03-A6

Author

Avshalomov, Jacob, 1919-2013.

Title

Jacob Avshalomov scores, 1928-2001.

Biography

The composer Jacob Avshalomov spent the majority of his career as the director of the Portland Youth Orchestra (a/k/a the Portland Youth Philharmonic) from 1954 to 1995. Avshalomov was born in Tsingtao, China on March 28, 1919. He became a naturalized American citizen in 1944. In 1946, following his education and a stint in the U.S. Army, Avshalomov joined the music faculty at Columbia University. During his eight-year tenure, he founded and conducted the University chorus. In 1954, Avshalomov took over the Portland Junior Symphony, whose name was changed in 1978 to the Portland Youth Orchestra. He served as its conductor until 1995. Avshalomov received many honors during his career, including the Ernst Bloch award, a Guggenheim fellowship, the New York Music Critics Circle award, and multiple honorary degrees. He served on the National Council on Humanities from 1968 to 1978. Avshalomov's many compositions include Slow dance, Inscriptions at the city of the brass, How long o Lord, and Tom O'Bedlam.

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