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North American New Music Festival Archive, 1983-1995 (Mus. Arc. 13)

This archive contains documents related to the planning and production the North American New Music Festival, a series of annual festivals of contemporary art music sponsored by the University at Buffalo Department of Music from 1983 to 1993, in 1995, and in 1996.


North American New Music Festival Sound Recordings, 1983-1993 (Mus. Arc. 13.1)

Contains sound recordings on 390 cassettes and 22 reels of performances from the previous hit North American New Music Festival next hit, a series of annual festivals of contemporary art music sponsored by the University at Buffalo Department of Music from 1983 to 1993. The collection contains recordings of circa 720 musical works by about 334 different composers, including most of the most prominent composers of the 20th century. Many works were rehearsed and prepared with their respective composers in attendance and performers at the festival were chiefly specialists in new music.