General information
Type of the document Letter
SenderDavison, Edward
Sender (corporation)Hunter College
Sender‘s locationNew York, NY
Send date20.12.1954
RecipientShuster, George Nauman
Recipient (corporation)Hunter College
Recipient‘s locationNew York, NY
LanguageEnglish
AcquiredCopy from Hunter College, Opera Association, 10/2024
Owner of the sourceHunter College
Owner‘s call numberOpera Association Box 1 Folder 9
Call number at IBMHC 1954-12-20
Content and physical description
ContentEdward Davison, director of the School of General Studies, writes to Hunter College President George N. Shuster that after meeting with Douglas Moore, he is sending a proposal to Mr. [Francois] Jaroschy and Mrs. [Rose] Landver for three thirty-minute operas to be performed at the Opera Association workshop: the first is Alexander Tcherepnin's "The Farmer and the Fairy," the second is "WHAT MEN LIVE BY" by Bohuslav Martinů, who teaches composition at the Mannes School. This is a new work not previously performed based on a Tolstoy short story. It requires a baritone, two bass-baritones, a soprano, a mezzo-soprano, a narrator (tenor) and a four-part chorus. Simple cast. The libretto is in English. The third opera is "The Bad Boys in School" by Jan Meyrovitz.
F. Jaroschy consulted the selection with the Opera Association committee, which objected that the proposals lacked a work by a modern American composer, but FJ defended himself that he had not found a suitable work. The operas proposed by D. Moore were too large and unsuitable for performance at the Opera Association workshop. The committee members present agreed to state that they recommended the operas mentioned for performance. Mr. Brownlee would like to hear the operas performed with piano accompaniment if piano lifts are prepared within the next week. ED recommends convening the committee at the earliest possible date. In the meantime, the ED authorized Rose Landver and F. Jaroschy to begin practicing on the Martinů opera and to procure vocal scores so that they can assign roles to the singers.
Total number of leaves2
Number of pages bearing text2
NoteLetterhead of Hunter College, School of General Studies
FixationTypescript, handwritten signature
Digitisation
Quality of digitisationNot professional black-and-white
Digitized athunter College
Date of digitisation2024

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Person as subject
Jaroschy, Francois H.
Landver-Davison, Rose
Martinů, Bohuslav
Meyerowitz, Jan
Moore, Douglas Stuart
Tcherepnin, Alexander
Tolstoj, Lev Nikolajevič
Corporation as subject
Aspen Music Festival and School
Mannes School of Music
Composition as subject
What Men Live by [auth.], H 336
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