Box 5
Contains 69 Collections and/or Records:
KCA/NEC Partnership Proposal, 1997-2001
Includes draft and revised proposal for collaboration of NEC and KCA, September 1998, which contains several valuable appendices about KCA's and DB's history. Also includes "What I (Denise Bacon) Want for American Music Education" and "Denise Bacon's Concerns about American Music Education," April 1998.
Meetings with Larry Scripp, NEC, 1998
DB's notes on partnership meetings.
Frank Battisti and John Heiss Conversations/Advice on NEC, 1998
Includes program from Musicfest involving area schools, which DB thought was a disaster for lack of preparation.
NEC Kodaly Course (Non-KCA), 1998
Taught by Jon Rappaport and Mary Epstein.
NEC/Kodaly Music Institute Summer Courses, 1999-2001
KCA/NEC Partnership Proposal, with Letter to Robert Freeman, 1998
Another copy of the proposals by KCA and Larry Scripp of NEC. Includes letter from DB to Robert Freeman expressing her surprise and dismay at his rejection of the proposal.
NEC Correspondence, 1996-2000
Includes letter to Robert Freeman, February 2000.
NEC Proposal -- The KCA/KMTI Archives, 1998
Appendix to NEC proposal already included elsewhere.
New England Conservatory -- Correspondence and Proposal, 1998-2000
Further correspondence about KCA's merger proposal to NEC which was informally agreed to but then rejected in late 1998.