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General resources on the arts
Digital photographs and videos documenting art performances developed or sponsored by the Stanford Arts Institute, formerly the Stanford Institute for Creativity and the Arts (SiCa). Also included are press materials and website.
Stanford University Publications and Ephemera Collection
Items in the Publications and Ephemera collection are organized by four digit call numbers. To view materials, request by call number at the Special Collections reference desk in the Field Reading Room. Call numbers which include information on the arts at Stanford:
- 1690: Stanford Arts Initiative
- 3590-3629: Department of Art and Architecture
- 4390-4409: Department of Music
- 4590: Department of Theater and Performance Studies (formerly the Department of Drama, Department of Speech and Drama)
- 7800-7839: Student musical groups
- 7840-7879: Student dramatic groups
Drama and theater
Includes production books from various plays put on by the department and one box of miscellaneous records, including course bulletins, syllabi, departmental pamphlets, and "A Report on the Activities of the Department of Speech and Drama and the Stanford Players, 1939-42."
Photographs taken by anonymous amateur photographers and some local professional photographers of Drama Department theatrical productions; the majority are from 1920 to 1960.
Records of this student drama group include financial reports (1924-1957), Dramatic Council minutes (1925-1948), board minutes, (1935-1957), general correspondence (1934-1952), production books (1937-1959), and several LP records and audio tapes for such Ram's Head productions as the Big Game Gaieties, Winter-One-Acts, and Spring Shows. Accession ARCH-2012-016 includes programs and posters from productions between 1998 and 2011. Audio recordings in this collection have been digitized and are available online.
The records include correspondence, graphics, photographs, production books and scrapbooks of publicity clippings.
Music
Short essay by Martha Tanner documenting the history of the Department of Music.
Records primarily pertain to radio programs produced by the Music Department and broadcast by commercial radio stations, 1960-1963, and include drafts of scripts, complete programs and interviews.
Correspondence, grant files, research files, patents, concert programs, articles, clippings, photographs, and other records. Collection also includes electronic media, video and audiotapes, architectural drawings, radio-baton, and a computer.
The Friends were organized in 1940 to promote musical education at Stanford University by sponsoring concerts, lectures, and scholarships. Collection includes Minutes of annual meetings, board of directors, and executive committee meetings; financial records; and miscellaneous informational papers including a history of the Friends of Music.
Programs, news clippings, correspondence, photographs, audio recordings, music scores, and other materials which document Nanney’s tenure as university organist and professor of music.
Collection includes correspondence, articles, lab notebooks, musical scores, audio recordings, computer files, and other materials related to the professional work of computer music pioneer Max V. Mathews
Allen played a pivotal role in the establishment of the Department of Music at Stanford and was appointed Professor of Music and Education in 1941. Collection includes papers and lectures; reprints; correspondence; programs; and clippings.
Crosten established the Department of Music and served as its chair from 1947 to 1973. Collection includes biographical materials; several typescript articles; lecture notes; assorted programs, clippings, and press releases on Stanford performances; and notes, lists, and typescript histories of Stanford's music department and programs.
Materials consist primarily of research files from the French Académie de musique, as well as a few administrative files from his time as chair of the Department of Music.
Visual arts
Administrative records and photographs of the Department of Art and Art History.
Series Two of this collection contains interviews with several Stanford artists, including Matt Kahn, Leo Holub, Frank Lobdell, and Nathan Oliveira.
Correspondence, memoranda, proposals, plans, publicity materials, photographs, articles, and other records pertaining to the B. Gerald Cantor Rodin Sculpture Garden.
Correspondence between Clark and various administrative officers of the University regarding Department of Art affairs and the changing status of the study of fine arts at Stanford
Notes, lectures, articles, and other sources compiled for the art history courses taught at Stanford; course readers; drafts of published works; transcripts of interviews with artists; and subject files.
Correspondence, memoranda, reports, publications, newsletters, minutes, and other materials pertaining to her teaching and administrative duties in the art department, her involvement with the Stanford Humanities Center, and other aspects of her professional life, 1970-2006; and as acting director of the Stanford Museum, 1987-1992.
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