American Symphony Orchestra
1962-2000
Box and Folder List
Record Series 1: Organizational Files
Box 1: 1962-1989; bulk: 1962-1963, F.1-12
Box Folder Content
1 1 Production and Planning, 1962
1 2 ASO Founders Committee, 1962
1 3 Board of Trustees, 1962: [Meeting Minutes]
1 4 Hearst, Siegfried, 1962: [Named Administrative Coordinator of the ASO in August 1962]
1 5 Historical Personnel, 1962
1 6 Sponsorship Requests [ASO Patron Boxes and Sales], 1962-1963
Includes Correspondence to and/or from the following:
Stewart J. Warkow
Albert A. List
Jean Dalrymple
Gertrude Ely
Laura Johnson (Mrs. R. Raymond Johnson)
Mrs. F. Raymond Johnson
Fairfield Osborn
John E. Kilgrove, Jr.
1 7 Solicitation Letters, 1962
Includes Correspondence to and/or from the following:
Marie Luca Secretary to Dean Lindsay
James L. Kunen
George A. Parker

Frank E. Joseph
Frank E. Joseph
J. P. Corcoran
Charles S. Hamilton, Jr.
1 8 Advisory Board/Music Selection Requests [“Letters from Famous People”], 1962 - 1963
Includes Correspondence to and/or from the following:
Andre Kostelanetz
Helen Hayes
Ronald F. Wagner, Mayor
William L. Dawson

John V. Lindsay, M.C.
Ralphe J. Bunche
Eva Jessye
Oliver Daniel
Henry Schuman

1 8 Jackie Robinson
Marian Anderson
Adlai E. Stevenson
Mrs. Arthur Rubenstein
Howard Hanson
William Grant Still
Quinto Maganini
Pablo Casals
1 9 ASO Advisory Board Correspondence, 1962
Includes Correspondence to and/or from the following:
Sophia Yarnall Jacobs (on behalf of ASO)
Marion R. Ascoli
Jonathan B. Bingham
Richard F. Humphreys
Margaret C. Fowler (on behalf of Governor Rockefeller)
Cynthia Fay (on behalf of Mr. Thomas M. Messer)
James M. Hester
Judge Justine Wise Polier
Debs Myers (on behalf of Mayor and Mrs. Robert Ferdinand Wagner)
Adlai Stevenson
Jackie Robinson
Emily Kimbrough
August Hecksher
Mrs. D. D. Brockman
Oliver Daniel
Honorable Stanley Isaacs
Honorable Ralph J. Bunche
Senator and Mrs. Jacob Javits
Lloyd Goodrich
Paul Taubman
Avery Claflin
Mrs. Alexander Dick
Mr. and Mrs. William L. Laurence
Dorothy Strelson



Maxwell Lehman
Leonard Altman
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Rubenstein
Honorable and Mrs. John V. Lindsay
Theodate Johnson
Robert W. Dowling
Thomas M. Messer
Mr. and Mrs. Basil Rathbone
Jack Lasdon
Jean Kennedy
Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt
Billy Rose
Mr. and Mrs. Frederick March
Mrs. Nahum Goldman
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Pittcairn
Dr. and Mrs. Nahum Goldman
Commissioner and Mrs. Richard Patterson
Mrs. William Breed
Dr. Paul Hoch
Harvey J. Scribner
Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd K. Garrison
Joseph B. Martinson
Frank B. O’Connor
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph V. Reed
1 10 Historical Financial, 1962 – 1989
1 11 Corporate Documents, 1962: [Includes By-laws]
1 12 Stokowski and Starr, 1962: [Correspondence, press releases, articles]
     
Box 2: 1962-1993, F. 1-7
Box Folder Content
2 1 Marketing and Public Relations, 1962 – 1993, inclusive; (bulk 1962-1963; 1990-1993): [Stagebills; Advertising Flyers; News Releases; Reviews]
2 2 Pablo Casals Tribute Correspondence – 1969 - 1970
 
Includes Correspondence to and/or from the following:
Jack Benny                                                          
C. V. Whitney
Albert A. List
James W. Brady
Roger L. Stevens
Mrs. Marshall Field


Dorothy Rodgers (Mrs. Richard Rodgers)
Joan Kennedy (Mrs. Edward M. Kennedy)
William S. Paley
Christine Ford (Mrs. Henry Ford)
2 3 Koussevitzky, Olga – Caricatures of Copeland and Bernstein, 1980
2 4 East Hampton Concert, Aug 26, 1984: [Financials and Patron List]
2 5 ASO, 1985-1986: [Includes grants awarded for years 1980-1987]
2 6 “Aaron Copland: A Self Portrait”: [PBS Documentary], 1985
2 7 Farwell, Arthur, 1985-1986
     
Box 3: 1987-1994, F. 1-10
Box Folder Content
3 1 General Fundraising, ASO, 1987-1990
3 2 General Fundraising, ASO, 1990-1991
3 3 Board of Trustees, 1990-1991: [Activities]
3 4 Fundraising Patrons, Fiscal 1992
3 5 Monthly Fundraising Updates, Fiscal Year 1994
3 6 Japanese Chamber of Commerce Event Ticketing, Mar. 11, 1994
3 7 Japanese Chamber of Commerce Event Invitations Correspondence, Mar. 11, 1994 
3 8 Japanese Chamber of Commerce Event Response, Mar. 11, 1994
3 9 Japanese Chamber of Commerce Event, Mar. 11, 1994
3 10 Japanese Chamber of Commerce Event Follow-up, Mar. 11, 1994
Box 4: Carnegie Hall, 1984-1989, F. 1-9
Box Folder Content
4 1 Carnegie Hall 1984 – 1985 Season
4 2 Carnegie Hall 1985 – 1986 Season
4 3 Museum of Broadcasting Bravo – Carnegie Tribute – 1986
4 4 AT&T – Carnegie Hall Tonight – 1986
4 5 Carnegie Hall 1986 – 1987 Season Planning
4 6 Carnegie Hall 1986 – 1987 Season
4 7 Carnegie Hall 1987 – 1988 Season Planning
4 8 Carnegie Hall 1987 – 1988 Season
4 9 Carnegie Hall 1988 – 1989 Season
Record Series 2: Publications and Printed Matter
Box 5: Concert Promotional Posters
Box Folder Content
     
Box 6:  Carnegie Hall Magazine, 1965-1967, bound as ASO
Box Folder Content
6   Carnegie Hall, Seventy-Fourth Season 1965-66, bound as The American Symphony Orchestra, 1965-66 Season
6   Carnegie Hall, Seventy-Fifth Season 1966-67, bound as The American Symphony Orchestra, 1966-67 Season
     
Box 7: ASO D & E (Dialogues & Extensions), 1992-2008
Box Folder Content
7   ASO D & E:  Unjust Obscurity?: The Orchestra Concert Repertoire: Its Origins and Contemporary Consequences, Feb. 26, 1992
7   ASO D & E:  The Other Encounter: European Composers in America 1933-1945, Sept. 20, 1992
7   ASO D & E:  Surrealism and Music?: The Musical World Around Rene Magritte, Nov. 13, 1992
7   ASO D & E:  American Modernism Seen & Heard: The Abstract and Geometric Tradition in Music and Painting, 1930-1975, Dec. 20, 1992
7   ASO D & E:  Focus on a Masterwork: Brahms’ 4th Symphony, Apr. 29, 1993
7   ASO D & E:  Shakespeare! Romanticism and Music, Sept. 26, 1993
7   ASO D & E:  “Der Rosenkavalier”: The Silent Film (New York Premiere), Dec. 19, 1993
7   ASO D & E:  The Breakup of the Soviet Union: A Musical Mirror (1980-1990), Feb. 18, 1994
7   ASO D & E:  An Italian Journey through German Romantic Painting and Music, Mar. 11, 1994
7   ASO D & E:  Common Ground: Jazz, African-American & Jewish-American Composers 1930-1955, Apr. 15, 1994
7   ASO D & E:  The American 1980s, May 22, 1994
7   ASO D & E:  Paris in the 1860s: The Origins of Impressionism (in conjunction with the Metropolitan Museum of Art), Sept. 25, 1994
7   ASO D & E:  Schubert Orchestrated, Nov. 18, 1994
7   ASO D & E:  Berlin 1894: A Concert Recreated, Dec. 11, 1994
7   ASO D & E:  Bruckner and 20th Century Politics, Jan. 13, 1995
7   ASO D & E:  Unjust Obscurity?, Mar. 10, 1995
7   ASO D & E:  Between War and Peace: The End of the Second World War (Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations), Apr. 30, 1995
7   ASO D & E:  Behind the Curtain: Submission and Resistance under the Soviet Regime, Oct. 1, 1995
7   ASO D & E:  Mythology: Homer’s Odyssey in Music, Nov. 10, 1995
7   ASO D & E:  Jews and the European Musical Tradition, Jan. 26, 1996
7   ASO D & E:  America’s Musical Pioneer: Homage to Leopold Stokowski, Mar. 3, 1996
7   ASO D & E:  Faith: Meditation and Mysticism in Turn-of-the-Century France, Apr. 28, 1996
7   ASO D & E:  Sounds of Fantasy: Music and Expressionism, May 10, 1996
7   ASO D & E:  The Composer’s Voice: Influence and Originality in Hartmann and Mahler, Oct. 6, 1996
7   ASO D & E:  A “Politically Incorrect” Masterpiece: Franz Schmidt’s The Book of the Seven Seals, Nov. 22, 1996
7   ASO D & E:  The Soul of Poland in Modern Times: The Music of Karol Syzmanowski, Jan. 24, 1997
7   ASO D & E:  Dreams and Realities: Re-Inventing American Music 1929-1942, Mar. 12, 1997
7   ASO D & E:  Against the Grain: The German Influence in French Music at the Turn of the Century, Apr. 13, 1997
7   ASO D & E:  Admiration and Emulation: The Friendship of Brahms and Dvorak, May 14, 1997
7   ASO D & E:  Uptown/Downtown: American Music 1880-1930, Oct. 22, 1997
7   ASO D & E:  The Other Voice of Johannes Brahms, Nov. 30, 1997
7   ASO D & E:  Die Agyptische Helena (Original Version, 1928), Jan. 18, 1998
7   ASO D & E:  Music of Conscience, Feb. 25, 1998
7   ASO D & E:  The Musical Romance of Childhood, Apr. 5, 1998
7   ASO D & E:  Nadia Boulanger: Teacher of the Century, May 13, 1998
7   ASO D & E:  Kings and Prophecies: A Road of Promise: A Concert Adaptation of Acts III and IV of Kurt Weill’s The Eternal Road, Oct. 4, 1998
7   ASO D & E:  Music and the Visual Imagination, Nov. 11, 1998
7   ASO D & E:  Music of the 1960s, Jan. 17, 1999
7   ASO D & E:  The Composer’s Advocate: Serge Koussevitsky, Mar. 17, 1999
7   ASO D & E:  Bluebeard!  Paul Dukas’s only opera Ariane et Barbe-bleue (1907), Apr. 25, 1999
7   ASO D & E:  Fin De Siecle, May 12, 1999
7   ASO D & E:  Tales of Edgar Allan, Oct. 15, 1999
7   ASO D & E:  Creative Differences: Bruckner’s Divided Vienna, Dec. 1, 1999
7   ASO D & E:  Richard Strauss, Die Liebe der Danae, Op. 83 (1940), Jan. 16, 2000
7   ASO D & E:  Polishing the Jewel: The Genius of George Enescu, Feb. 4, 2000
7   ASO D & E:  Beyond Good and Evil: Nietzsche and Music. Mar. 8, 2000
7   ASO D & E:  A Symphonic Saga: Gliere’s Ilya Muramets, Apr. 16, 2000
7   ASO D & E:  Remembrance of Things Past: Music of Reminiscence, Oct. 20, 2000
7   ASO D & E:  Music and Memory: The Anxiety of Influence, Nov. 19, 2000
7   ASO D & E:  Forgotten Patriotisms: Music as a Political History, Dec. 13, 2000
7   ASO D & E:  Chausson: King Arthur, Feb. 4, 2001
7   ASO D & E:  Reincarnations of Beethoven, Mar. 30, 2001
7   ASO D & E:  The Ecstatic Sequels to ‘Carmina Burana’: Carl Orff, May 16, 2001
7   ASO D & E:  From the Last Century, Oct. 10, 2001
7   ASO D & E:  A World Apart, Dec. 5, 2001
7   ASO D & E:  Dante’s Inferno, Jan. 25, 2002
7   ASO D & E:  Richard Strauss’s Musical Landscapes, Apr. 14, 2002
7   ASO D & E:  Scandinavian Romantics, May 10, 2002
7   ASO D & E:  Opera and Oscar Wilde, June 9, 2002
7   ASO D & E:  Richard Strauss: The Egyptian Helen, Oct. 6, 2002
7   ASO D & E:  American Originals, Nov. 17, 2002
7   ASO D & E:  Bruckner’s Journey, Jan. 10, 2003
7   ASO D & E:  The Romantic Soul: Lord Byron in Music, Feb. 9, 2003
7   ASO D & E:  Musical Autobiography, Mar. 14, 2003
7   ASO D & E:  The Circle of Shostakovich, Apr. 11, 2003
7   ASO D & E:  The Artist’s Conscience, Sept. 28, 2003
7   ASO D & E:  The Neoclassical Mirror, Nov. 21, 2003
7   ASO D & E:  Jews and Vienna, City of Music, Feb. 8, 2004
7   ASO D & E:  Opera Scandal 1920s, Mar. 5, 2004
7   ASO D & E:  Victorian Secrets, Apr. 2, 2004
7   ASO D & E:  Spiritual Romanticism, June 6, 2004
7   ASO D & E:  Complicated Friendship, Oct. 15, 2004
7   ASO D & E:  Czerny: Beethoven’s Pupil, Nov. 14, 2004
7   ASO D & E:  Revolution 1905, Jan. 16, 2005
7   ASO D & E:  Le Roi Malgre Lui Emmanuel Chabrier, Feb. 13, 2005
7   ASO D & E:  Hans Christian Anderson, Mar. 11, 2005
7   ASO D & E:  Richard Strauss Choral Works, Apr. 17, 2005
7   ASO D & E:  Inventing America, Sept. 25, 2005
7   ASO D & E:  Creative Links: The Career of Witold Lutoslawski, Nov. 18, 2005
7   ASO D & E:  Paradise, Jan. 26, 2006
7   ASO D & E:  The Gathering Storm, Apr. 7, 2006
7   ASO D & E:  Swiss Accounts, May 21, 2006
7   ASO D & E:  From Russia with Mozart, June 11, 2006
7   ASO D & E:  The Art of Psalm, Oct. 22, 2006
7   ASO D & E:  Symphonic Mexico, Nov. 17, 2006
7   ASO D & E:  Pioneering Influence: Cesar Franck, Jan. 7, 2007
7   ASO D & E:  Making Music: Composer-Conductors, Feb. 9, 2007
7   ASO D & E:  The Distant Sound, Apr. 15, 2007
7   ASO D & E:  Uncommon Comrades, June 3, 2007
7   ASO D & E:  The Wreckers, Sept. 30, 2007
7   ASO D & E:  Russian Futurists, Jan. 25, 2008 (3 Copies)
7   ASO D & E:  The Destruction of Jerusalem, Mar. 16, 2008 (3 Copies)
7   ASO D & E:  A New Italian Renaissance, Apr. 18, 2008 (2 Copies)
7   ASO D & E:  Spatial Explorations, June 1, 2008 (3 Copies)
7   ASO D & E:  Le Roi D’ys, Oct. 3, 2008 (3 Copies)
     
Box 8: ASO Programs, 1977-2001 (inclusive, bulk 1977-1979; 1990-1992)
Box Folder Content
8   “Echoes and Artifacts: 100 Years at Carnegie Hall,” The Carnegie Hall Centennial Exhibition at the Library & Museum of the Performing Arts, The New York Public Library at Lincoln Center, Oct. 31, 1990 – Jan. 26, 1991
8   Intermezzo, Magazine of Carnegie Hall, Feb. 1977
8   Intermezzo, Magazine of Carnegie Hall, Mar. 1977
8   Intermezzo, Magazine of Carnegie Hall, Apr. 1977
8   Intermezzo, Magazine of Carnegie Hall, May. 1977
Stagebills, 1978-1992
8   Carnegie Hall, Jan. 22, 1978
8   Carnegie Hall, Feb. 19, 18978
8   Carnegie Hall, Apr. 16, 1978
8   Carnegie Hall, June. 16, 1978
8   Carnegie Hall, Dec. 3, 1978
8   Carnegie Hall, Feb. 19, 1979
8   Carnegie Hall, Nov. 25, 1979
8   Carnegie Hall, Nov. 13, 1988
8   Carnegie Hall, Oct. 15, 1989
8   Carnegie Hall, Dec. 3, 1989
8   Carnegie Hall, Jan. 14, 1990
8   Carnegie Hall, Feb. 11, 1990
8   Carnegie Hall, Apr. 15, 1990
8   Carnegie Hall, Oct. 14, 1990
8   Carnegie Hall, Nov. 28, 1990
8   Carnegie Hall, Dec. 2, 1990
8   Carnegie Hall, Jan. 20, 1991
8   Carnegie Hall, Mar. 31, 1991
8   Carnegie Hall, Apr. 14, 1991
8   Carnegie Hall, Nov. 17, 1991
8   Carnegie Hall, Jan. 12, 1992
8   Carnegie Hall, Mar. 22, 1992
8   Carnegie Hall, Apr. 19, 1992
     
8   Henry Street Settlement Music School, American Symphony Orchestra, May 1, 1977
8   The Swedish Challenge for America’s Cup, American Symphony Orchestra, “A Swedish Musical Odyssey,” July 24, 1977
8   The Rockaway Music and Arts Council, Inc, American Symphony Orchestra, Oct. 8, 1977
8   The Huntington Township Association, American Symphony Orchestra, Nov. 5, 1977
8   Playbill, Minskoff Theater, “A Star Wars Laser Concert Live,” Dec. 1977
8   Carnegie Hall, American Symphony Orchestra, Jan. 21, 1978
8   Carnegie Hall, American Symphony Orchestra, Mar. 4, 1978
8   The Cadet Fine Arts Forum, Eisenhower Hall, Eugene Fodor w/ American Symphony Orchestra, Apr. 15, 1978
8   American Symphony Orchestra, “A Festival of Superstars,” June 21, 1978
8   American Symphony Orchestra, “United Nations Day,” Oct. 24, 1978
8   Danbury High School, Charles Ives Birthday Celebration, American Symphony Orchestra, Oct. 20, 1979
8   The Leonard Davis Center for Performing Arts, Aaron Davis Hall, Oct. 24, 1979
8   Bridgehampton Presbyterian Church, The Choral Society of the Hamptons and Symphony Orchestra, “Music From the Theater,” Aug. 4, 1984
8   Teatro, Alfa Real, American Symphony Orchestra, Apr. 23, 1998 (13 Copies)
8   Elaine Kaufman Cultural Center, Merkin Concert Hall, Abraham Goodman House, May 13, 2001 (5 Copies)
     
Record Series 3: Photographs, 1967 – 2000
Box 9: Photographs, 1972-1981, F. 1-8
Box Folder Content
9 1 Stokowski, Leopold-90th Birthday, Apr. 18, 1972 (Family?); [Carnegie Hall Rehearsal; Park Plaza Hotel Dinner Dance]
9 2 Stokowski, Leopold-90th Birthday, Apr. 18, 1972 (Some Identification); [Carnegie Hall Rehearsal; Park Plaza Hotel Dinner Dance]
9 3 Stokowski, Leopold-90th Birthday, Apr. 18, 1972 [Carnegie Hall Rehearsal; Park Plaza Hotel Dinner Dance]
9 4 Stokowski, Leopold-90th Birthday, Apr. 18, 1972 [Carnegie Hall Rehearsal; Park Plaza Hotel Dinner Dance]
9 5 Stokowski, Leopold-90th Birthday Celebration Concert? Apr. 24, 1972 
9 6 Copland Aaron-80th Birthday, Nov. 9, 1980
9 7 Gala of Stars, Feb. 16, 1981, WNET/Channel 13 Evening at Carnegie Hall
9 8 ASO Benefit Dinner Dance, Hotel Pierre, Apr. 23, 1981
9 9 Music Directors and Guest Conductors:
Includes:
Akiyama, Kazyoshi
Ansermet, Ernest
Commissiona, Sergiu
Gould, Morton
Khachaturian, Aram
Markevitsh, Igor
Stokowski, Leopold
9 10 Miscellaneous Photos 1965-1983
Binders, 1983-2000
Box Folder Content
    American Symphony Orchestra, (Old, Artistic, Miscellaneous), 1983-1996
    American Symphony Orchestra, (Leon Botstein, Orchestra, Asst. Conductors), 1990-1998
    American Symphony Orchestra, (Leon Botstein, Orchestra), 1999-2000
     
Box 10: Photographer's Samples
Box Folder Content
10   Includes images of the following: American Museum of Natural History; WWII Air Battles; Publicity shots for FDR, JFK, Harry S. Truman, Winston Churchill, Babe Ruth, Hank Aaron, Bobby Kennedy
       
Record Series 4: Audio Visual Materials
Box 11: ASO, 1992-1995
Box Folder Content
11   AMERICAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: Seoul Arts Center, July 15, 1992
11   Sunday Morning News: A Masters Imagination: Little Magritte Story, Nov. 8, 1992
11   AMERICAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: Der Rosenkavalier: Londoner Kopie, Sept. 28, 1993
11   AMERICAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: Part II of II, Nov. 9, 1993
11   AMERICAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: Toshiba Grand Concert, 1994
11   AMERICAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: Toshiba Grand Concert, Suntory Hall No. 1, 1994
11   AMERICAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: Toshiba Grand Concert, Suntory Hall No. 2, 1994
11   AMERICAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: Leon Botstein Conducting Schumann Festival, Tape 1;
Korea Tour; Botstein Firing Clay’s OnTheTown clip; CBS Little Magritte, 1992 – Aug. 13, 1994
11   Schumann Festival, Tape 2 Aug. 13, 1994
11   AMERICAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: Ko-Ko’s Earth Control, Apr. 24, 1995
11   Concordia Program, June 9, 1995
Box 12: ASO, 1994
Box Folder Content
12   AMERICAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: Alice Tully Hall 11 a.m. Performance, Sept. 24, 1994
12   AMERICAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: Alice Tully Hall 11 a.m. Performance, Sept. 25, 1994
12   AMERICAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: Alice Tully Hall 11 a.m. Performance, Oct. 22, 1994
Box 13: ASO, 1995-1999
Box Folder Content
13   AMERICAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: Peter Schickele, May 6 1:00am Alice Tully Hall, June 9, 1995 (5 Copies)
13   AMERICAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: Alice Tully Hall 1 pm Performance Saturday Oct. 22, 1994, July 12, 1995 (2 Copies)
13   AMERICAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: AMERICAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Bottazzi Oct. 18, 1998 at Carnegie Hall, Oct. 19, 1998
13   Sunday Morning: Leon Botstein, Apr. 11, 1999
Box 14: ASO, 1999-2000
Box Folder Content
14   AMERICAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: CBS Sunday Morning Apr. 11, 1999, “Mr. Botsteins’s Opus”, Apr. 29, 1999 (9 Copies)
14   Oprah Winfrey Show with Leon Botstein, President Bard College, “Does High School Do More Harm Than Good?”, Feb. 1, 2000 (2 Copies)
14   Botstein Firing LWE Clip, Undated