Inventory of the Andrew Imbrie Papers, 1955-1998
Processed by Cynthia Golembeski and revised by Judy Tsou; machine-readable
finding aid created by Susana Franco
Music Library
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© 1999
The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Inventory of the Andrew Imbrie Papers, 1955-1998
Collection number: ARCHIVES IMBRIE 1
The Music Library
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California
Contact Information
- Music Library
- 240 Morrison Hall
- University of California, Berkeley
- Berkeley, California, 94720-6000
- Phone: (510) 642-2623
- Fax: (510) 642-8237
- Email: bancref@library.berkeley.edu
- URL: http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MUSI/
- Processed by:
- Cynthia Golembeski
- Revised by:
- Judy Tsou, 1995, Atsuko Tanida 1998
- Date Completed:
-
November 14, 1995
- Date Revised:
-
Jan. 1999
- Encoded by:
- Susana Franco and Xiuzhi Zhou
© 1999 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Descriptive Summary
Title: Andrew Imbrie Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1955-1988
Collection number: ARCHIVES IMBRIE 1
Creator:
Imbrie, Andrew, 1921-
Extent: Number of containers: 1 document box, 1 carton
Linear
ft.: 1.5
Repository: The
Music Library
Berkeley, California 94720-6000
Shelf location: For current information on the location of these
materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Provenance
All material collected by Andrew Imbrie.
Access
Collection is open for research.
Publication Rights
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in
writing to the Head of the Music Library.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Andrew Imbrie Papers, ARCHIVES IMBRIE 1, Music Library,
University of California, Berkeley.
Biography
Andrew Welsh Imbrie (b. New York, April 6, 1921). Composer. He began piano studies at the
age of four with Ann Abajian, and continued with Pauline and Leo Ornstein. At Princeton
(BA 1942), he studied composition with Roger Sessions. After serving in the U.S. Army
(1942-6), he followed Sessions to Berkeley, where he received an M.A. in 1947 and the
same year was appointed an instructor. He postponed his teaching career to accept a
fellowship at the American Academy in Rome (1947-9), to which he later returned as
composer-in-residence. At Berkeley, Imbrie was rapidly promoted, becoming professor of
music in 1960, and in the course of his long association with the University he has
acquired the reputation of a distinguished teacher; his pupils have included Larry Austin
and David Del Tredici. In 1970 he was also named chairman of the composition department
at the San Francisco Conservatory, and in 1982 Jacob Ziskind Visiting Professor of Music
at Brandeis University. He has contributed articles to
Perspectives of New Musicand other periodicals. Imbrie has received many awards, including the Alice M.
Ditson Fellowship (1946-7), two Guggenheim Fellowships (1953-4, and 1960-61), a Brandeis
University Creative Arts Award (1958), and a Naumburg Recording Award (1960). In 1969 he
was elected to the National Institute of Arts and Letters and in 1980 to the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences. He has received commissions from the Naumburg Foundation
(for
Three Campion Songs), California State University, Hayward
(A
Song for St. Cecilia Day),
the San Francisco Opera
(Angle of Repose)and the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
(Requiem: In Memoriam John H.
Imbrie 1962-1981).
[From
The New Grove Dictionary of American
Music
].
Professor Imbrie retired from the University of California, Berkeley in Spring, 1991. He
was named the Faculty Research Lecturer the same year, a prestigious campus-wide award.
Scope and Content
The collection is arranged into five series: biographical materials, pedagogical
materials, correspondence and notes, audio materials, and miscellany. The range of
materials are from 1955 to 1988, with the bulk of the materials in the late 50s to the
late 70s. There is a series of "Bio-Bibliography Annual Supplement" forms from 1955 to
1972, chronicling his compositional output and administrative involvement during those
years. The pedagogical materials include mostly class assignments from his years of
teaching, arranged by class numbers and years. There is also a body of materials that
students and others have sent to him, apparently for evaluation.
Container List
Series I. Biographical Material
Series II. Pedagogical Material
Series III. Correspondence and Notes
Box Box 1, Folder 1
Score and Notes (Curt Veeneman)
Box Box 1, Folder 4
American Musicological Society [December 1962]
Folder 6
International Society of Contemporary Music [1960]
Folder 7
International Society of Contemporary Music [1967-1968]
Box Box 1, Folder 10
May T. Morrison Festival [1958]
Folder 13
Research Grant-Symphony #1 [1965-1966]
Folder 14
Rockefeller Foundation [1957-1965]
Folder 15
Rockefeller Foundation [1966-1972]
Folder 18
Hoffman-Schonberg Edition
Folder 20
Milton Salkind [1980-1982]
Folder 21
Music Department [1982-1985]
Folder 22
Sessions Memorial Concerto [Spring 1986]
Folder 23
Publication Project [1962]
Folder 24
Thesis Committees (Works Completed) [1958-1962]
Folder 25
W. J. Dowling - Thesis:
Scale and Contour[1977]
Folder 26
Peter Van Den Toorn - Thesis:
Stravinsky Re-Barred[1986]
Folder 27
Virginia Samuel - Dissertation: Symphony [1988]
Folder 29
UC Press contemporary Music Series [1969-1974]
Folder 31
Research Grant [1957-1959]
Folder 32
Research Grant -
Three Against Christmas [1961-1962]
Folder 33
Research Grant - Symphony No. 3 [1970]
Folder 34
Research Grant - Symphony No. 2 [1968-1969]
Folder 35
Research Grant - Sabbatical Year-Chamber Symphony [1968]
Box Box 2, Folder 36
East West Music Encounter Conference
Box Box 1, Folder 37
Lecture: "Composing Music: The Bonfire of the Categories"
Series IV. Audio Materials
Box Box 2, Folder 1
Chamber Music of Andrew Imbrie, Old First Church; January 27, 1985
Physical Description: (2-tape
Set)
