W. McNeil Lowry:

An Inventory of the W. McNeil Lowry Papers at the University of Illinois Archives.



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HUMANITIES AND THE ARTS PROGRAM STAFF WORK FIELD NOTES   Contains memoranda summarizing interviews and conversations with persons in the arts and humanities, and reports on visits to sites of artistic institutions and performances. Field notes are arranged by program area and alphabetically by name thereunder. Where extensive extensive field notes exist, the names of the interviewee(s) or the subject(s) of the interview are listed following each alphabetically grouping of files.

Box
35 Pre-H/A Program, 1954
Includes material relating to:
Gordon Ray, Head, Department of English, University of Illinois
Joseph Smiley, Dean, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Illinois
Fred Wall, Chair, University Research Board, University of Illinois
Academic, 1957-58
Includes material relating to:
McGeorge Bundy, Dean, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University
Nathan Pusey, President, Harvard University
Lincoln Center, 1957-58, 1964
Includes material relating to:
John Rockefeller 3rd
George Stoddard, Trustee
Summary Memos, 1956-58
Humanistic Scholarship, A - J (6 folders), 1957-73
Includes material relating to:
American Council of Learned Societies
Vincent Barnett, President, Colgate University
Bernard Berelson, Director, Bureau of Applied Social Research, Columbia University
Isaiah Berlin
Frederick Burkhardt, President, American Council of Learned Societies
Colgate University
Dickinson College
Duke University
Franklin and Marshall College
Gettysburg College
William Gibson, Modern Languages Association Center for Editions of American Authors
Hamilton College
Fred H. Harrington, President, University of Wisconsin
John Heller, Chair of the Classics Department, University of Illinois
Donald Jackson, Associate Director, University of Illinois Press
Box
36 Humanistic Scholarship, K - Y (6 folders), 1957-74
Includes material relating to:
Barnaby Keeney, Director, National Endowment for the Humanities
Chester Kerr, Director, Yale University Press
Lafayette College
Robert Lumiansky, Chair, American Council of Learned Societies
Archibald MacLeish, Director, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters
University of North Carolina
Father Robert O'Connell, Fordham University
Robert Oppenheimer, Institute for Advanced Study
Pennsylvania State University
William Phillips, Editor, Partisan Review
J. Kerker Quinn, Department of English, University of Illinois
Gordon N. Ray, President, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation; former head, Department of English, University of Illinois
Richard Schlatter, Director, Ford Humanities Project, Princeton University
G. Winchester Stone, Executive Secretary, Modern Language Association
Swarthmore College
Lionel Trilling, Columbia University
University Presses Program
Creative Writing, 1957-74
Includes material relating to:
Harold Brodkey, writer
Frederick Morgan, Editor, Hudson Review
William Phillips, Editor, Partisan Review
Budd Schulberg, Douglass House Foundation, Los Angeles
Translations (2 folders), 1962-71
Includes material relating to:
W. H. Auden, poet
Galway Kinnell, poet and translator
Frederick Morgan, Editor, Hudson Review
Archaeology, 1965-73
Includes material relating to:
J. J. Bateman, Chair, Department of Classics, University of Illinois
Froelich Rainey, University of Pennsylvania Museum
Architecture (3 folders), 1958-73
Includes material relating to:
Ulrich Franzen, architect
Ada Louise Huxtable, Contributing Editor, Progressive Architecture
Philip Johnson, architect
Frederick J. Kiesler, architect
I. M. Pei, architect
Theatre (14 folders), 1957-74
Includes material relating to:
Academy Theatre (Atlanta)
Actors' Studio Theatre
Alley Theatre
Arena Stage
Brooks Atkinson, drama critic, New York Times
Paul Baker, Director, Dallas Theater Center
William Ball, American Conservatory Theatre
Eugene Black, President, American Shakespeare Festival Theatre and Academy
Ray Boyle, Managing Director, Fred Miller Theatre, Milwaukee
John Caldwell, Director, University Theatre, University of Louisville
Harold Clurman, theatre director
Marc Connelly
Angus Duncan, Actors' Equity Association
Zelda Fichandler, Producing Director, Arena Stage
Allen Fletcher, American Shakespeare Festival Theatre and Academy
Front Street Theatre, Memphis, Tennessee
Robert Gard, Director, Wisconsin Idea Theatre
T. Edward Hambleton, Managing Director, Phoenix Theatre, New York City
Jules Irving, Managing Director, Actor's Workshop, San Francisco
Elia Kazan, Actors' Studio
Lincoln Kirstein, Trustee, American Shakespeare Festival Theatre and Academy
Paul Levitt, Co-producer, The Players Ring, Los Angeles
Howard Lindsay
K. Elmo Lowe, Producing Director, Cleveland Play House
McCarter Theatre, Princeton
Sidney Michaels, Playwright
Jack Morrisson, President, American Educational Theatre Association
Oregon Shakespearean Festival, Ashland, Oregon
Joseph Papp, Producer-Director, New York Shakespeare Festival
Phillip Pruneau, Playwright
DeWitt Ray, President Margo Jones Theatre
Joseph Verner Reed, Sr., Trustee, American Shakespeare Festival Theatre and Academy
John Reich, Director, Goodman Memorial Theatre
Richard Schechner, Performance Group
Alan Schneider, theatrical producer
Webster Smalley, The University Theatre at the University of Illinois
Robert Stecker, Trustee, Dallas Experimental Theater Center
Roger L. Stevens
Delano H. Stewart, Bed-Stuy Theater, Inc.
Lee Strasberg, Head, Actors' Studio
Nina Vance, Alley Theatre, Houston
John Vlahos, playwright
Anthony Williams, Dialogue Black/White, San Francisco
Edmund Wilson, critic
James Woods, Studio Watts Workshop
List of theatre memos given to Lowry for field trips, 1963, 1965
Film and TV (4 folders), 1957-73
Includes material relating to:
Stan Brakhage, film maker
Richard Griffith, Film Curator, Museum of Modern Art
Jan Kadar and Elmar Klos, film directors
Pauline Kael, film critic
Arthur Knight, Creative Film Foundation
Jonas Mekas, Director, New American Cinema Group
Marianne Moore, poet (proposed film on)
Daniel Rosenblatt
Robert Snyder, film maker
Jerry Stagg, film and television producer
David C. Stewart, American Council on Education
Parker Tyler, film critic
Melvin Van Peebles, film director
Colin Young, Chair, Department of Theater Arts, University of California at Los Angeles
Photography and TV, 1958-65, 1972-74
Includes material relating to:
Bob Adelman, photographer
Dorothea Lange, photographer
Nathan Lyons, Assistant Director, George Eastman House
Dennis Stock, photographer
Box
37 Music, (28 folders), 1957-75
Includes material relating to:
Kurt Herbert Adler, General Director, San Francisco Opera Association
Victor Alessandro, Musical Director, Symphony Society of San Antonio
Victor Babin, Director, Cleveland Institute of Music
Denise Bacon, Council for Public Schools, Boston
Sherwin C. Badger, Chairman of the Board, New England Conservatory of Music
Wilfred C. Bain, Dean, School of Music, Indiana University
John Barnett, Conductor, National Orchestral Association
Herbert Barrett, Herbert Barrett Management
Stefan Bauer-Mangelberg, Mannes College of Music
Morton Baum, Chair, Finance Committee, City Center of Music and Drama
Grant Beglarian, Director, Contemporary Music Project, Music Educators National Conference
Stephen Benedict, President, Festival Orchestra Society
Leonard Bernstein, conductor
Rudolf Bing, General Director, Metropolitan Opera Association
Anthony Bliss, President, Metropolitan Opera Association
Marc Blitzstein, composer
Dean Boal, Dean, Peabody Institute of the City of Baltimore
John Brownlee, Director, Manhattan School of Music
Morris Carter, Assistant to the Director, Smith Music Hall, University of Illinois
Saul Caston, Conductor, Denver Symphony Orchestra
Renato Cellini, Experimental Opera Theatre of America, New Orleans
Avery Claflin, President, Composers Recordings, Inc.
Aaron Copland, composer
John Crosby, General Director, Santa Fe Opera
Oliver Daniel, Broadcast Music, Inc.
Norman Dello Joio, composer
Antal Dorati, conductor
Carlisle Floyd, composer
Lukas Foss, composer
Joseph Fuchs, violinist
Peggy Glanville-Hicks, composer
Boris Goldovsky, Artistic Director, New England Opera Theater
Ray Green, Executive Secretary, American Music Center
Howard Hanson, Director, Eastman School of Music
Howard Harrington, Manager, Detroit Symphony Orchestra
Walter Hendl, Director, Eastman School of Music and Conductor, Dallas Symphony Orchestra
George Howerton, Dean, Northwestern School of Music
Thomas Iannaccone, General Civic Music Association
Olga Koussevitzky
George Kuyper, Manager, Chicago Symphony
Otto Luening, Chairman of the Board, American Music Center
Ruth McKay, Executive Director, Opera Company of Boston, Inc.
Joseph Maddy, President, Interlochen Arts Academy
John L. Magro, President, American Opera Auditions and President, Cincinnati Summer Opera Festival
Peter Mennin, Director of Peabody Conservatory, President of Juilliard School
Giancarlo Menotti, Harlem Opera Theatre
Carol Morse, Executive Director, Young Audiences, Inc.
Harry Partch, composer
Peter Pastreich, Manager, St. Louis Symphony Orchestra
James C. Pfohl
Walter Piston, composer
Quincy Porter, composer
Fritz Reiner, Conductor, Chicago, Symphony Orchestra
Ned Rorem, composer
Samuel R. Rosenbaum, Trustee, Music Performance Trust Funds of the Recording Industries
Hugh Ross, Conductor, Schola Cantorum of New York
Julius Rudel, General Director, New York City Opera Company
Milton Salkind, President, San Francisco Conservatory of Music
Gunther Schuller, President, New England Conservatory of Music
William Schuman, President, Juilliard School of Music
Rudolf Serkin, Director, Curtis Institute of Music and Director Marlboro Music School
Roger Sessions, composer
Benjamin Steinberg, Symphony of the New World
Isaac Stern, violinist
Leopold Stokowski, Managing Director, Houston Symphony
George Szell, Musical Director, Cleveland Orchestra
Frank Taplin, Chairman of the Board Marlboro School of Music
C. Edward Thomas, Executive Director, Afro-American Music Opportunities Association
Helen M. Thompson, Executive Vice-President, American Symphony Orchestra League
Virgil Thomson, composer
Gideon W. Waldrop, Dean, Juilliard School of Music
Alan Watrous, Manager, Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Hugo Weisgall, composer
Charles Wuorinen, composer
Pinchas Zukerman, violinist
List of music interviews and memos given to WML for field trips, 1965
Box
38 Visual Arts, A - Z (17 folders), 1957-75
Includes material relating to:
Clinton Adams, Dean, School of Art, University of New Mexico
Philip Adams, Director, Cincinnati Museum of Fine Arts
Andreas Anderson, Director, Otis Art Institute
H. Harvard Arnason, Director, Walker Art Center and Chair, Department of Fine Arts, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
Otto Karl Bach, Director, Denver Art Museum
Romare Bearden, artist
John T. Biggers, Chair, Art Department, Texas Southern University
Paul Brach, Dean, California Institute of Fine Arts
Wilhelmas B. Bryan, Director, Minneapolis School of Art
Leslie Cheek, Jr., Director, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
John Coolidge, Director, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University
Lamar Dodd, Chair, Department of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia
Thomas Ferdinand, Director, The Banfer Gallery
Florida State University, Tallahassee
Joseph T. Fraser, Jr., Director, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Martin Friedman, Director, Walker Art Center
Dean Gilmore, Art Institute of Chicago
Arnold Herstand, Minneapolis College of Art and Design
John Kinard, Director, Anacostia Museum
Lincoln Kirstein
Hilton Kramer, Managing Editor, ARTS
Lester Longman, Head, Department of Art, University of Iowa
Joseph McCullough, Director, Cleveland Institute of Art
Fred Martin, Director, San Francisco Art Institute
Mercedes Matter, Dean, New York Studio School
Joseph Patterson, Director, American Association of Museums
Harris Prior, Director, American Federation of Arts
Philip and Doanda Randall, Asian Conservation Laboratory
Perry T. Rathbone, Director, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Talbot Rantoul, President, Rhode Island School of Design
Edgar P. Richardson, Director, Detroit Institute of Arts
Andrew Ritchie, Director, Yale University Art Gallery
Theodore Roszak, sculptor
Charles H. Sawyer, Director, University of Michigan Museum of Art
Craig Hugh Smyth, Director, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
Parker Tyler, critic
University of Illinois at Chicago Circle Department of Art (see under Edward Colker, Chair)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Department of Art (see under Dean McKenzie, acting head)
Gordon B. Washburn, Director, Carnegie Institute Museum, Pittsburgh
June Wayne, Executive Director, Tamarind Lithography Workshop
Howard Weaver, Head, School of Arts, Yale University
Arnold Wesker, playwright
James M. Woods, Studio Watts Workshop
William Wolfenden, Executive Director, Archives of American Art
List of visual arts memos given to Sigmund Koch for field trips, 1965
Arts, General, A - Z (8 folders), 1957-75
Includes material relating to:
Royal Cloyd, President, Boston Center for the Arts
Peggy Cooper, Administrative Director, Workshop for Careers in the Arts
Walt Disney (see under Thornton Ladd)
C. Bernard Jackson, Inner City Cultural Center
Lincoln Kirstein
Lyle Lanier, Executive Vice-President and Provost, University of Illinois
Stella Lass, Director, New York Community Center of the Arts
Stan Madeja, CEMREL (Central Midwestern Regional Educational Laboratory)
Keith Martin, Director, Roberson Center for the Arts and Sciences
Robert Merton, sociologist, on FF economic survey of the arts
Lloyd New, Director, Institute of American Indian Arts
John D. Rockefeller III, President, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
Roger L. Stevens, Chair, Kennedy Cultural Center, and National Foundation for the Arts and Humanities
Robert Ward, President, North Carolina School of the Arts
June Wayne, Tamarind Institute
James M. Woods, Studio Watts Workshop
The Arts in Yugoslavia
Box
39 Dance, A - Z (8 folders), 1957-75
Includes material relating to:
Alvin Ailey, Artistic Director, Alvin Ailey Dance Company
Anthony Bliss, President, Foundation for American Dance
Lucia Chase, Director, American Ballet Theatre
Lew Christensen, Director, San Francisco Ballet
Anatole Chujoy, Editor, Dance News
Jean Erdman, modern dancer
Eliot Feld, Director, American Ballet Company
Sherwin M. Goldman, American Ballet Theatre
Martha Graham Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance
Lincoln Kirstein, Ballet Society, Inc.
John Martin, Dance Critic, New York Times
Northeast Regional Ballet Festival (includes material concerning Balanchine and Kirstein)
Jean M. Riddell, President, National Ballet Society
E. Virginia Williams, Director, Boston Ballet Company
List of modern dance memos, 1958-61
List of ballet memos given to Sigmund Koch for field trip, 1965
Arts and Humanities, A - Z (5 folders), 1957-74
Includes material relating to:
Richard Cisek, on FF economic survey of the arts
Committee on Institutional Cooperation
Erich Gombrich, Warburg Institute
Frederick Jackson, Director, Committee on Institutional Cooperation
Charles James, fashion expert



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