Finding Aid for the Juan Aguilar Collection of Musical Works and
Papers ca.
1907-1957
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Descriptive Summary
Title: Juan Aguilar Collection of Musical Works and
Papers,
Date (inclusive):
1907-1957
Collection number: 107
Creator: Aguilar,
Juan
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library.
Performing Arts Special Collections
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
Abstract: The collection consists of music manuscripts,
correspondence, scrapbooks, papers and photographs of Mexican-American composer,
Dr. Juan A. Aguilar.
Access
Collection is open for research.
Publication Rights
Property rights in the physical objects belong to the UCLA Performing Arts Special Collections.
Literary 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 if the Performing Arts Special Collectionsdoes not hold the copyright.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Juan Aguilar Collection of Musical Works and
Papers, 107, Performing Arts Special Collections, University of California, Los
Angeles.
Acquisition Information
Beatrice Aguilar; gift; 1991
Scope and Content
Collection consists of music manuscripts, correspondence, scrapbooks, papers
and photographs of Mexican-American composer, Dr. Juan A. Aguilar.
The collection is organized into the following series:
- Series 1. Manuscripts
- Series 2. Photographs
- Series 3. Correspondence
- Series 4. Programs
- Series 5. Sound Recordings
- Series 6. Miscellaneous
Container List
Box 3, Item 5
Adelita
1927
Publisher: Juan Aguilar
Parts: piano
Box 8, Item 9
Adelita
Physical Description: full score, parts, original manuscript
Box 6, Item 5
Arcades de Roma
1914 February 24
Physical Description: full score
Box 6, Item 6
Arcades de Roma
1914 February 24
Physical Description: parts
Box 6, Item 9
Asturiana
Parts: piano, saxophone
Physical Description: piano score, piano and saxophone score
Box 8, Item 10
Cantilena Imperial
Physical Description: parts
Box 5, Item 6
Canzona All' Antico
Physical Description: parts
Box 2, Item 7
Concierto
1911 November 10
Box 2, Item 8
Concierto
1911 November 10
Parts: instrumental parts
Box 8, Item 14
Concierto para Piano y Orquesta
Physical Description: piano and orchestra reduction
Box 6, Item 13
Consuelo: Concert Valse for Piano Solo
1927
Physical Description: sheet music
Box 4, Item 23
Contra la Corriente
Physical Description: parts
Note
Last two sections only.
Box 5, Item 1
Contra la Corriente
Physical Description: parts
Box 4, Item 14
Contra la Corriente. Cantilena Nupcial
Physical Description: parts
Box 4, Item 10
Contra la Corriente. Cocktail Party
Physical Description: parts
Box 4, Item 12
Contra la Corriente. Sorpressa de Rosalia
Physical Description: parts
Box 4, Item 11
Contra la Corriente. Tango
Physical Description: parts
Box 4, Item 17
Contra la Corriente. Valse
Physical Description: full score
Box 4, Item 15
Contra la Corriente. Vida de Rosalia, Luz de Lun
Physical Description: parts
Box 4, Item 5
Coqueta (Polka).
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Parts.
Box 8, Item 12
Easter Mass
Physical Description: full score
Box 8, Item 13
Ecos de Mexico
1932 April 2
Physical Description: original parts
Box 5, Item 8
El Grano
Arranger: Aguilar, Juan
Physical Description: parts
Box 4, Item 19
El Santo de Dona Luz (Contra la Corriente)
Physical Description: parts
Box 5, Item 9
Geisha Girl
1933 March 20
Physical Description: parts
Box 5, Item 3
Geisha Girl. Wisteria Vine
Physical Description: manuscript photocopy
Box 5, Item 14
Ghosts of the Golden West
05/26/1931
Box 4, Item 8
Gran Coro a Cervantes.
07/12/1916.
Scope and Content Note
Parts and piano-vocal score.
Box 5, Item 5
Granada.
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Parts.
Box 8, Item 1
Guajiras
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Full score.
Box 8, Item 8
Guajiras
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Parts.
Box 1, Item 4
Guajiras (Moorish Suite, part 1).
07/20/1934 (date performed at Hollywood Bowl).
Physical Description: 105 lvs.
Note
For orchestra.
Box 1, Item 6
Guajiras (Moorish Suite, part 1).
07/20/1934 (date performed at Hollywood Bowl).
Physical Description: 59 pp.
Note
For orchestra.
Box 8, Item 7
Guajiras. Zapateo del Monte
Parts: piano
Note
2 copies.
Box 4, Item 16
Honeymoon - Valse (Contra la Corriente).
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Parts.
Box 5, Item 15
Incidental Music to Pathe Freres Film d'Art "Faust"
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Arranged by Charles P. Muller.
Box 4, Item 20
La flor (Contra la Corriente).
n.d.
Box 3, Item 27
La Folle Serenade.
04/29/1933
Scope and Content Note
Piano-vocal.
Note
By Louis Reix, with words by Maurice Dufresne.
Box 5, Item 12
La Jesusita
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Parts.
Note
Arranged by Juan Aguilar.
Box 4, Item 4
Las Tres Pelonas
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Parts.
Box 4, Item 18
Londres Polka (Contra la Corriente).
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Parts.
Box 6, Item 8
March (Moorish Suite)
08/27/1931
Box 4, Item 2
Marcha/Oficio de Defuntos/Salve Regina/Veni Creator
Spiritus.
n.d.
Box 8, Item 16
Mexican Rhapsodie
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Parts.
Box 8, Item 3
Mexican Rhapsody #3
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Full score.
Box 8, Item 4
Mexican Rhapsody #3
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Original manuscript and copies of parts.
Box 8, Item 15
Mexican Rhaspody #3
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Parts.
Box 4, Item 24
Minuet (Contra la Corriente).
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Parts.
Box 1, Item 5
Moorish Festival: March.
07/20/1934 (date performed at Hollywood Bowl).
Box 3, Item 1
Moorish Suite
Scope and Content Note
Photocopy of typewritten sheet, 1 lv.
Note
Acknowledgements by the composer.
Box 2, Item 3
Moorish Suite. Asturiana
Physical Description: instrumental parts
Box 5, Item 7
Morenita.
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Parts.
Note
Rhumba by Juan Aguilar.
Box 4, Item 22
Music Box (Contra la Corriente).
n.d.
Box 3, Item 4
Nocturno.
1911 (Published by Friedrich Hofmeister, Leipzig).
Note
Opus 102, no. 1 for piano.
Box 4, Item 13
Novelette (Contra la Corriente).
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Parts.
Box 4, Item 9
Obertura.
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Full score.
Box 3, Item 7
Pastoral.
n.d.
Note
For orchestra, no. 16.
Box 4, Item 21
Primera Impression (Contra la Corriente).
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Parts.
Box 4, Item 1
Princesita.
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Orchestra parts.
Note
Includes typewritten biography sheet.
Box 2, Item 4
Reveile (from Moorish Suite).
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Instrumental parts.
Box 2, Item 5
Reveille
Physical Description: ozalid copy
Note
Inscribed by the composer to Sr. D. Victor Franco.
Box 6, Item 10
Reveille (Moorish Suite)
Physical Description: manuscript
Box 2, Item 6
Reverie
Parts: strings, winds and timpani
Box 6, Item 11
Reverie
Physical Description: full score and instrumental parts
Box 4, Item 7
Rhapsodie Mexicana
1914 July 1
Box 3, Item 29
Russian Gypsy Serenade
1921
Publisher: Metro Music
Physical Description: piano vocal score
Box 8, Item 2
San Diego: La Perla del Oceano
1990
Composer: Stoecklin, Carmen Prietto
Physical Description: full score
Note
Composed by Carmen Prietto Stoecklin (close friend of Aguilar
family).
Box 5, Item 2
Shrine of Jizo
Physical Description: manuscript photocopy
Box 5, Item 10
Shrine of Jizo
Physical Description: full score
Box 4, Item 3
Somos Las Floristas de Madrid
Physical Description: piano conductor score, full score
Box 3, Item 6
To a Viking's Daughter
1943
Lyricist: Tow, James
Publisher: James Tow
Box 8, Item 11
Vexilla Regis
Physical Description: full score
Box 3, Item 8
Zortzico
Parts: piano, violin, voice
Box 3, Item 26
Charles Walker, Pryor Moore, [unidentified], Jesus Varquez. Standing:
Lorn Steinberger, Charles White, Louis Vilelle, Juan Aguilar, [2 unidentified
men]
Box 3, Item 3
Father Basel Frison with Juan Aguilar
ca 1940
Box 3, Item 10
Ignacio de Castillo, Dr. Frank Nagel, Juan Aguilar and C.W.
Cadman
Note
Unidentified location.
Box 3, Item 20
Juan Aguilar
1907 June 22
Note
Inscription to "Chole".
Box 3, Item 31
Juan Aguilar, aged 14 years.
n.d.
Box 3, Item 19
Juan Aguilar, Pryor Moore and Charles Stewart
Box 3, Item 9
Loren Powell, Osmar Dietz, Philip Kahgan, Juan Aguilar, Bela Adams
and Philip Musgrave (recording session)
Box 3, Item 12
Misa de Resurrection (chorus and orchestra)
1935 April 21
Note
Premiere performance of the work.
Box 3, Item 16
Pryor Moore, Alice Brag McGinty and Juan Aguilar
Box 3, Item 22
St. Vibiana's Cathedral Choir
circa 1940
Note
With Juan Aguilar at the organ.
Box 3, Item 15
Wedding of Juan Aguilar and Solidad Gomez
circa 1905-07
Box 5, Item 18
Easter Mass (assorted correspondence)
1926 April
Scope and Content Note
Typewritten copies of assorted correspondence regarding KMTR radio's
broadcast of Juan Aguilar's "Easter Mass".
Box 3, Item 18
From: Florence M. Irish
1934 July 18
Scope and Content Note
Regarding: Artist's and Conductor's Breakfast, held by the Symphony Society
of the Hollywood Bowl on July 24, 1934.
Box 3, Item 17
From: Mrs. G.W. Ballard
1937 February 12
Scope and Content Note
Regarding the arrangement of "Goddess of Liberty" for brass band.
Box 3, Item 28
Regarding "Russian Gypsy Serenade"
1941 March 17
Note
To Mr. Roman Navarro from Martha Cumacho.
Box 3, Item 11
Regarding Aguilar Accomplishments and Compositions
1933 April 5 - June 26
Note
Photocopies of thre letters from Elmer Clifton, Hugo Rosenfeld and
Arthur Lange to Juan Aguilar, regarding compositions and other accomplishments
of Juan Aguilar.
Box 5, Item 17
Regarding Juan Aguilar and the Musician's Protective Union (Assorted
Correspondence)
1916-1917
Box 3, Item 25
Everyman
1936 September 10-17
Note
Performance took place at the Hollywood Bowl.
Box 3, Item 13
Holy Trinity Church (Los Angeles) Easter Sunday
Performance
1935 April 21
Box 6, Item 2
Otto Ploetz Recital
1928 October 21
Scope and Content Note
Otto Ploetz - recital with the Jonathan Club Orchestra.
Box 5, Item 16
Turn to the Right
1920 May 16
Composer: Smith, Winchell
Scope and Content Note
Program from a performance of "Turn to the RIght" by Winchell Smith and John
E. Hazzard at the Majestic Theatre in Los Angeles.
Series 5.
Sound Recordings
Box 7, Item 11
Cada Loco Con Su Tema, Mulata Soy Yo
Performer: Machito y Su Orquesta
Physical Description: 1 10" sound disc
Box 7, Item 1
California Christmas, Blue Again
Performer: Prietto , Carmen
Physical Description: 2 7" sound discs
Box 7, Item 9
Cielo Andaluz
1955 May 18
Performer: Mendez, Rafael
Physical Description: 1 10" sound disc
Box 7, Item 4
Continuation of Mass in G
Performer: Aguilar, Juan
Physical Description: 1 10" sound disc
Box 7, Item 5
End of Mass in G, Organ Solo
n.d.
Scope and Content Note
Juan Aguilar performing.
Note
10" disc
Box 8, Item 5
Giordano
Composer: Chenier, Andre
Arranger: Aguilar, Juan
Performer: Prietto , Carmen
Physical Description: 1 10" sound disc
Box 7, Item 3
Mass in G
Performer: Aguilar, Juan
Physical Description: 1 10" sound disc
Box 7, Item 2
Organ Solo
Performer: Aguilar, Juan
Physical Description: 1 10" sound disc
Box 7, Item 8
Princessita
Arranger: Aguilar, Juan
Physical Description: 1 10" sound disc
Box 7, Item 12
Record Album
Physical Description: 6 10" sound discs
Scope and Content Note
Contains 6 untitled (possibly blank) 10" discs.
Box 7, Item 10
To a Viking's Daughter, Mohave Moods
Composer: Aguilar, Jose
Performer: Barnes, Francis
Physical Description: 1 10" sound disc
Box 7, Item 6
Vexilla Regis
Physical Description: 1 10" sound disc
Box 7, Item 7
Vexilla Regis (part 2), Organ Solo
Physical Description: 1 10" sound disc
Box 8, Item 6
Viking's Daughter
Performer: Aguilar, Juan
Physical Description: 1 10" sound disc
Note
Also performed by Carmen Prietto, soprano.
Box 6, Item 3
Grove Dictionary of Musicians Article
Scope and Content Note
Photocopy of article in Grove Dictionary of Musicians by Joseph Vernon.
Box 3, Item 14
Juan Aguilar Obituary
1953 October
Note
As printed in Overture magazine.
Box 3, Item 23
Los Angeles Herald and Express Article
1936 October 10
Note
Regarding Juan Aguilar.
Box 3, Item 24
Los Angeles Times Article
1936 September 16
Note
Regarding the music of Juan Aguilar.
Box 6, Item 4
Moorish Suite Program Notes
Box 6, Item 1
Receipt
September 1936
Scope and Content Note
Manuscript receipt regarding Juan Aguilar and performance of "Everyman" -
California Festival Association.
Box 1, Item 1
Scrapbook
1913-1957
Scope and Content Note
Contains programs, correspondence and newspaper clippings from English and
Spanish language newspapers.
