source file: mills2.txt Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 17:03:00 -0800 Subject: Partch letters From: "Adam B. Silverman" In case anyone finds this interesting, I have found a thread of correspondence between Harry Partch and Virgil Thomson (and Otto Luening) in the Thomson archive at Yale. It is comprised of twelve letters, most of which are attempts and thank-yous for meetings in New York and exchanges of "the manuscript", which is most likely a pre-publication hand-typed _Genesis_ (the letters date from 5 October 1942 to 21 October 1943, plus two in September/October 1953 which thank Thomson for publishing a review of Oedipus and sending a gift of "Plectra and Percussion Dances." His copy of the exposition was apparrently the only one, yet Partch lent it out with little hesitation.) The intent of these letters are to pave to way for reccommendations for a Guggenheim fellowship, which Partch indeed attained in March 1943. If anyone is interested in these letters, please feel free to contact me for more details. _________________ Adam B. Silverman 153 Cold Spring Street; A3 New Haven, CT 06511 (203) 782-1765 abs22@pantheon.yale.edu Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Sat, 23 Nov 1996 02:02 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA04780; Sat, 23 Nov 1996 02:03:41 +0100 Received: from eartha.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA03983 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id RAA07555; Fri, 22 Nov 1996 17:03:38 -0800 Date: Fri, 22 Nov 1996 17:03:38 -0800 Message-Id: <199611220501_MC1-C51-261C@compuserve.com> Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu