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Abstract
Ralph Berkowitz (1910-2011) was a music educator and pianist. He performed many solo recitals throughout the world and was an accompanist for cellist Gregor Piatigorsky. Berkowitz was also a staff member at the Curtis Institute of Philadelphia, the executive assistant at the Tanglewood Institute, and the business manager of the Albuquerque Symphony Orchestra. This collection contains 2.00 linear feet of scrapbooks and an unpublished biography that contain photographs, correspondence,...
Dates:
1918-1991; Majority of material found within 1952-1981
Abstract
Ralph Waldo Steetle, Sr. (1912-2004) a prime mover in the creation of public television, began working in educational radio at Louisiana State University. There he was director of broadcasting and helped build WLSU (later renamed KLSU), one of the first non-commercial FM radio stations in the south. He spent ten years in Washington, D.C. as Executive Director of the Joint Council on Educational Television (JCET), under a Ford Foundation grant. JCET served as an advocacy...
Dates:
1942-1981; Majority of material found within 1950-1958
Collection
0470-SCPA-NORDSCHOW
Abstract
Randy Nordschow (1969-2019) was an American composer and sound artist. He earned a Bachelor of Music degree in film music compostion at the Berklee College of Music in 1994 and a Master of Arts in music compostion at Mills College in 2002. The dates for the materials in this collection range from 1986 to 2008. The collection includes audio-visual recordings of Nordschow's compositions, press kits and personal copies of music that Nordschow owned, manuscripts of pieces, and published versions...
Dates:
1986-2008
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Jonas R. Rappeport attended the University of Maryland in the 1940s and graduated with a B.S. in 1949. While at the university, he served as a student photographer for the Diamondback, the Old Line, and the Terrapin yearbook. Rappeport later graduated from the University of Maryland School of Medicine in 1952 and established himself as a notable forensic psychiatrist in Baltimore, Maryland....
Dates:
1942-1988; Majority of material found within 1942-1949
Abstract
John E. Rastall was a Union Lieutenant with the First Regiment, Eastern Shore, Maryland Volunteers during the Civil War. The collection includes 128 letters written by Rastall to his family in Milwaukee, Wisconsin detailing his service in Virginia and Maryland, especially on the Eastern Shore.
Dates:
1861-1864
Abstract
Frederick L. Rath, Jr. was a pioneer of historical conservation who served from 1949 to 1956 as the director of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, newly created by Congress to succeed the National Council for Historic Sites and Buildings, which he had also headed. The papers document Rath's time at the National Trust, as well as his later career at the New York State Historical Association, where he became vice-director in 1957; at New York State's Office of Parks, Recreation and...
Dates:
1917-1998; Majority of material found within 1937-1988
Abstract
Raymond D. Hurlbert (1902-1996) began his public broadcasting career in the early 1950s when he helped establish the Alabama Educational Television Network and the Alabama Educational Television Commission, becoming its first president from 1953 to 1955. In 1955, he served as general manager of the Alabama Educational Television Network. From 1962 to 1963, Hurlbert served on the television board of the National Association of Educational Broadcasters (NAEB), including a stint as chair. He...
Dates:
1953-1973; Majority of material found within 1953-1973
Abstract
Raymond F. Dvorak (1900-1982) was an American band director and music educator who spent much of his career as director of the University of Wisconsin bands. The Dvorak Papers covers the period from 1876 to 1987, with the bulk of the materials dating from 1960 to 1980. The collection consists of both personal and professional papers, including published and collected articles, correspondence, programs, memorabilia, and photographs related to Dvorak's work as a band director, particularly...
Dates:
1876-1987; Majority of material found within 1960-1980
Abstract
The Raymond Haggh (September 4, 1920 - March 13, 2011) and Hilde Wentzlaff-Eggebert (February 8, 1927 - March 16, 2007) correspondence documents the lives and long-distance relationship of these two music scholars. The collection primarily consists of pieces of correspondence exchanged between Haggh and Wentzlaff-Eggebert and sent to them by their respective relatives. Letters are occasionally accompanied by newspaper clippings or other loose papers, including a musical score composed by...
Dates:
1944–1949, undated; Majority of material found within 1947–1949
Abstract
Raymond Luedeke (b. New York, NY, 11 November 1941), a North American composer, clarinetist, and educator, was born a U.S. citizen but also became a naturalized citizen of Canada in 1988. He returned to New York in 2010. Luedeke earned a Bachelor of Music in music history from the Eastman School of Music in 1966, a Master of Music in composition from the Catholic University of America in 1971, and a Doctor of Musical Arts in composition from Northwestern University in 1976. His composition...
Dates:
1965-2016; Majority of material found within 1980-2014
