Collection context
Summary
- Creators:
- Ojai Music Festival 1940-
- Abstract:
- The collection consists of materials pertaining to the Ojai Music Festival, founded in 1947. The festival is held annually in Ojai, CA, in Ventura County. Notable conductors and performers have included Pierre Boulez, Aaron Copland, Igor Stravinsky, Michael Tilson Thomas, Dawn Upshaw, the Kronos Quartet and Murray Perahia, among many others. The collection includes programs, artist biographies, press clippings, business records, and recordings. The collection is in the midst of being processed. The finding aid will be updated periodically.
- Extent:
- 73.5 Linear Feet (147 boxes)
- Language:
- Materials are in English.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Ojai Music Festival records (Collection PASC 277-M). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.
Background
- Scope and content:
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The collection consists of materials pertaining to the Ojai Music Festival, founded in 1947. The festival is held annually in Ojai, CA, in Ventura County. Notable conductors and performers have included Pierre Boulez, Aaron Copland, Igor Stravinsky, Michael Tilson Thomas, Dawn Upshaw, the Kronos Quartet and Murray Perahia, among many others. The collection includes programs, artist biographies, press clippings, business records, and recordings.
- Biographical / historical:
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Established in 1947 by music aficionado John Bauer, the Ojai Music Festival has fostered a healthy spirit of eclecticism in its adventurous programs, gaining a worldwide reputation for attracting artists who are given artistic freedom as they perform exceptional pieces of classical music.
That spirit was reinforced in 1954 with the appointment of Lawrence Morton as the Festival Artistic Director. A man of broad musical tastes, Morton was a visionary whose constant curiosity and unwavering integrity shaped the Festival's future direction. Under his leadership, the Ojai Festival developed an enduring concept whereby the artistic director engages a different Festival music director each year around whom that year's Festival is built.
Among the Festival's diverse music directors have been such renowned musical luminaries as composers John Adams, Ingolf Dahl, Peter Maxwell Davies, Lukas Foss, John Harbison and Oliver Knussen; conductors Kent Nagano, Michael Tilson Thomas, and Esa-Pekka Salonen; and instrumentalists Emanuel Ax and Mitsuko Uchida.
In its sixth decade, the Festival - under the leadership of Artistic Director Thomas W. Morris - continues this unparalleled musical legacy in which the creativity of the moment and the artists define each year's event.
The Ojai Music Festival offers educational programs for students attending Ojai Valley public schools, enriching the region's cultural opportunities and promoting classical music to future generations.
- Acquisition information:
- The collection was donated by the Ojai Music Festival.
- Processing information:
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Processed by UCLA Library Special Collections staff, 2012.
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- Arrangement:
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The collection is organized into the following series:
- Series 1: Festival Recordings and Artist Interviews, 1940s-1980s
- Series 2: Artist Biographies and Contracts, 1940s-1980s
- Series 3. Business Papers, 1940s-1990s
- Series 4. Programs
- Series 5. Correspondence
- Series 6. Artists
- Series 7. Clippings--Individuals--Performers
- Series 8. Clippings--Individuals--Composers
- Series 9. Clippings--Individuals--Philanthropists
- Series 10. Clippings--Groups--Performance ensembles
- Series 11. Ojai Clippings, 1940s-1980s
- Series 12. Unprocessed Materials
- Series 13. Ojai Archives. 1960-1965
- Physical / technical requirements:
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CONTAINS DIGITAL AND AUDIOVISUAL MATERIALS: This collection contains both processed and unprocessed digital and audiovisual materials. For information about the access status of the material that you are looking for, refer to the Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements note at the series and file levels. All requests to access processed digital materials must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.
- Physical location:
- Stored off-site. All requests to access special collections material must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Indexed terms
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Portions of collection unprocessed. Material in the Unprocessed Materials series is unavailable for access. Please contact Special Collections reference (spec-coll@library.ucla.edu) for more information.
All requests to access special collections materials must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.
- Terms of access:
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Property rights to the physical objects belong to UCLA Library Special Collections. All other rights, including copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Ojai Music Festival records (Collection PASC 277-M). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.
- Location of this collection:
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A1713 Charles E. Young Research LibraryBox 951575Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575, US
- Contact:
- (310) 825-4988