F. Charles Adler Papers An inventory of his papers at Syracuse University
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F. Charles Adler Papers

An inventory of his papers at Syracuse University

Finding aid created by: KM

Date: Apr 1991

Revision history: EAD file created (MRR) recordings added (BF) media inventory updated and digitization note added (IRP) location for adler_fc_078 added (IRP)

Overview of the Collection

Creator: Adler, F. Charles, (Frederick Charles), 1889-1959 Title: F. Charles Adler Papers Dates: 1787-1959 (bulk: 1936-1955) Quantity: 9 linear ft. Abstract: Correspondence; printed material, including articles, clippings, programs; and phonodiscs. A large part of the correspondence pertains to the organization and development of the Saratoga Spa Music Festival, predecessor of the Saratoga Performing Arts Center seasonal concert series. Writings include those of Adler and his wife, Hannah Moriarta Adler. Memorabilia includes financial material and an assortment of printed items, including clippings, programs, publicity, research material, and reviews. Programs include those relating to Adler’s work with the Federal Music Project (1936-1941). Recordings consist mostly of Saratoga Spa Music Festival recordings. Language: English Repository: Special Collections Research Center,

Syracuse University Libraries

222 Waverly Avenue

Syracuse, NY 13244-2010

https://library.syracuse.edu/special-collections-research-center

Biographical History

The F. Charles Adler Papers is a collection of materials, including correspondence, writings, and memorabilia, which reflects the conductor's career from 1936 through 1955. Born in London in 1889, Adler began his career in the United States as conductor of the New York Festival Orchestra, a component of the Federal Music Project which was sponsored by the Works Progress Administration. With his interest in contemporary musical compositions coupled with a belief that the most fertile ground for the growth of American music was outside the country's large cities, Adler founded the New York Chamber Orchestra in 1945, and shortly thereafter transferred his base of operations to Gansevoort, New York. Composed of selected members of the Philharmonic-Symphony Society of New York (later known as the New York Philharmonic), the New York Chamber Orchestra performed more than 40 new compositions at the Saratoga Spa Music Festival during the 1946-1947 seasons. Adler died in Vienna in 1959 at the age of 69.

Scope and Contents of the Collection

The Correspondence-Subject files (Boxes 1-13) contain both incoming and outgoing letters and related material, most of which was generated between 1936 and 1955, with composers, conductors, musicians and musicologists. Correspondence which is of greatest volume includes that with composers George Antheil, Will Gay Bottje, Charles Wakefield Cadman, Robert Casadesus, Avery Claflin, Henry Cowell, Norman Dello Joio, Arcady Dubensky, Vernon Duke, Isadore Freed, Anis Fuleihan, Vittorio Giannini, Eugene Goossens, Edward Burlingame Hill, Frederick Jacobi, Philip James, Werner Josten, Ernst Krenek, Otto Luening, Jacques de Menasce, Darius Milhaud, Douglas Moore, Paul Amadeus Pisk, Vittorio Rieti, Roger Sessions, Elie Siegmeister, Virgil Thomson, Ernst Toch, Burnet C. Tuthill, John W. Work, and Eric Zeisl; conductors Theodore Bloomfield, Dimitri Mitropolous, Alex North, and Leopold Stokowski; musicians Claire Coci, John Corigliano, Albert Elkus, Rudolf Kolisch, Boris Koutzen, Louis Krasner, Ray Lev, Eugene List, Carl Stern and John Wummer; and musicologists Oliver Daniel, Alfred Einstein, and H.C. Robbins Landon. The Correspondence-Subject files also contain a substantial amount of correspondence relating to the American Composers Alliance, the American-Soviet Music Society, the Bruckner Society of America Inc., the Philharmonic-Symphony Society of New York, the Saratoga Spa Music Festival, Inc., and the Society for the Publication of American Music, Inc. as well as that of a number of music publishers and recording studios, including Am-Rus Editions, Associated Music Publishers Inc., Boosey and Hawkes Inc., Elkan-Vogel Co., Carl Fischer, Inc., Edward B. Marks Music Corporation, Leeds Music Corporation, Music News, Inc., Sesac Inc., SPA Records (of which Adler was artistic director), Southern Music Publishing Company, Inc., Unicorn Records, and Vanguard Recording Society, Inc.

Memorabilia (Boxes 15-18) includes financial material and an assortment of printed items, including clippings, programs, publicity, research material, and reviews. The financial material is divided into Adler's personal expenses and bank transactions, and those relating to the Saratoga Spa Music Festival, Inc. Printed material includes various clippings and other items relating to Adler's sojourn in Austria in the early 1950s, his affiliation with the New York Chamber Orchestra, and miscellaneous personal notices. Programs include those relating to Adler's work with the Federal Music Project (1936-1941), concerts conducted by Adler in Germany, concerts for the Saratoga Spa Music Festival, and various miscellaneous concerts which Adler conducted as well as those with which he was not associated, but for which he received material. Publicity includes flyers and advance notices for miscellaneous concerts. Research material encompasses Adler's collection of clippings and articles pertaining to music, while reviews include those relating to Adler's career (1952-1953) as well as those of SPA Records. Memorabilia concludes with a selection of miscellaneous items, including articles, clippings, publicity and reviews which relate to the Saratoga Spa Music Festival.

Recordings (phonodiscs) include transcriptions (pressings made for distribution to radio stations) of the Saratoga Spa Music Festivals for 1937, 1946 and 1947 and an assortment of test pressings of SPA records. Although the ID numbers assigned to these items go up to adler_fc_090, there are in fact only 85 phonodiscs.

Writings (Box 14) include those of Adler, his wife Hannah Moriarta Adler, and a poem by an unidentified author, "Good Time Charlie On the Loose." Adler's writings include transcripts of an Open Forum discussion at Skidmore College between Adler and Frederick Schang, president of Columbia Artists Management, Inc., on the role of concert management in fostering an appreciation of music; program notes; miscellaneous manuscripts; and published material.

Arrangement of the Collection

Series are arranged in alphabetical order. Within each series, material is arranged alphabetically by topic or title.

Restrictions

Access Restrictions:

The majority of our archival and manuscript collections are housed offsite and require advanced notice for retrieval. Researchers are encouraged to contact us in advance concerning the collection material they wish to access for their research.

Access to audiovisual material requires advance notice to produce a use copy.

Use Restrictions:

Written permission must be obtained from SCRC and all relevant rights holders before publishing quotations, excerpts or images from any materials in this collection.

Related Material

Recordings from the collection have been digitized. Please contact the repository listed above for more information.

Subject Headings

Persons

Adler, F. Charles (Frederick Charles), 1889-1959.

Adler, Hannah Moriarta.

Corporate Bodies

Federal Music Project (U.S.)

Saratoga Spa Music Festival, Inc.

United States -- Work Projects Administration.

United States -- Works Progress Administration.

WNYC Festival Orchestra.

Subjects

Composers -- United States

Conductors (Music) -- United States

Music -- 20th century.

Music festivals -- New York (State)

Musicians -- United States.

Places

Saratoga Springs (N.Y.) -- History

Genres and Forms

78 rpm records.

Clippings (information artifacts)

Correspondence.

Lacquer discs.

Programs (documents)

Reviews (documents)

Sound recordings.

Occupations

Composers.

Conductors (Music)

Musicians.

Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

Preferred citation for this material is as follows:

F. Charles Adler Papers,

Special Collections Research Center,

Syracuse University Libraries

Acquisition Information

Gift of Hannah Moriarta Adler, 1972.

Table of Contents

Correspondence-subject files

Memorabilia

Recordings

Writings

Inventory

Note on alternate formats:

Recordings from the collection have been digitized. Please contact the repository listed above for more information.

Correspondence-subject files Box 1 A (1 folder) Box 1 Abbey, Denise Box 1 Adler, Clarence Box 1 Ahn, Eak Tai Box 1 Albany Institute of History and Art Box 1 American Automobile Association Box 1 American Composers Alliance (2 folders) Box 1 American Federation of Musicians Box 1 American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) Box 1 American-Soviet Music Society Box 1 Am-Rus Editions Box 1 Anderson, Florence See also DuPage, Richard Box 1 Anthiel, George (3 folders) Box 1 Aschner, Bernard Box 1 Associated Hospital Service of New York Box 2 Associated Music Publishers, Inc. (3 folders) Box 2 Audio-Scriptions, Inc. Box 2 B (1 folder) Box 2 Balogh, Erno Box 2 Barber, Samuel Bardos, Arthur A. See Rot-Weiss-Rot Box 2 Barrington-Coupe, W.H. Box 2 Barzun, Jacques Box 2 Beer-Walbrunn, Maria Behrendt, Lydia See Hoffman-Behrendt, Lydia Box 2 Benjamin, Edward B. Box 2 Bilotti, Anton Box 2 Blaukopf, Kurt Box 2 Bloomfield, Theodore Box 2 Bonner, Eugene MacDonald Box 2 Boosey and Hawkes, Inc. Box 2 Bosmans, Arthur Box 2 [Ed.] Bote and G. Bock Box 2 Bottje, Will Gay Box 2 Brand, Max Box 2 Brendel, Alfred Box 2 Broadcast Music, Inc. Box 2 Bruckner Society of America Box 2 Burdick, Lawrence & Moncsko Box 2 Bureau International de l'Edition Mecanique (BIEM) Box 2 C (1 folder) Box 2 Cadman, Charles Wakefield (2 folders) Box 2 Capitol Records Box 2 Carman, Harry J. (2 folders) Box 2 Carnegie Hall Box 3 Carpenter, John Alden Carragan, Howard See Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Box 3 Casadesus, Robert Box 3 Casella, Alfredo Box 3 Cesana, Otto Box 3 Chasins, Abram Box 3 Chavez, Carlos Box 3 [J.W.] Chestet, Ltd. Box 3 Christlieb, Don Box 3 Circle Blue Print Company Box 3 Claflin, Avery See also American Composers Alliance Box 3 Clayburgh, Alma Box 3 Cluett & Sons Box 3 Coci, Claire Cole, Lois Dwight See Whittlesey House Columbia Artists Management, Inc. See Columbia Concerts Inc. Box 3 Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc. Box 3 Columbia Concerts Inc. (2 folders) Box 3 Columbia Transcriptions Box 3 Committee for Netherlands Music Concert Management Arthur Judson, Inc. See Columbia Concerts Inc. Concert Program Magazines See Saratoga Spa Music Festival, Inc. Box 3 Constable, William George Box 3 Copland, Aaron Box 3 Corigliano, John Box 3 Cosden, Nell (Mrs. Joshua S,) Box 3 Cowell, Henry (2 folders) See also American Composers Alliance Box 3 D (1 folder) Daniel, Oliver See American Composers Alliance Box 3 De Angilis, Joseph Box 3 Dello Joio, Norman Box 3 Dembinsky, William Box 3 Dobyns, Cordelia (2 folders) Dowling, Walter See United States Foreign Service Box 3 Downes, Olin Box 3 Downs, Thomas McKean Box 3 Drucker, Vladimir Box 3 Dubensky, Arcady Box 3 Duke, Vernon Box 3 DuPage, Richard See also Anderson, Florence Box 4 Eastman School of Music Eddy, Spencer B. See Saratoga Spa and Music Festival, Inc. Box 4 Editions Salabert Box 4 Edson, Bernard Box 4 Effinger, Cecil Box 4 Einstein, Alfred Box 4 Elkan-Vogel Co. (4 folders) Box 4 Elkus, Albert Elmore, Cyrus B. See Saratoga Spa and Music Festival, Inc. Box 4 Encyclopedia Britannica Box 4 Endich, Sara Mae Box 4 Epstein, Lonny Box 4 Erskine, John Box 4 Etler, Alvin Box 4 Eureka Specialty Printing Co. Box 4 F (1 folder) Box 4 Fairchild, Henry Pratt Box 4 Farmer, Virginia Federal Music Project See Memorabilia: Printed Material: Programs Feist, Leonard See Mercury Music Corporation Box 4 [Carl] Fischer, Inc. Box 4 [Edwin H.] Fleischer Music Collection (Free Library of Pennsylvania) Box 4 Fox, Harry Fox, Norman A. See SPA Records Box 4 Francis, Muriel Box 4 Fraser, Morris & Co., Inc. Box 4 Freed, Isadore Box 4 Freedman, Elaine Box 4 Friedphil Realty Corp. Box 4 Fuleihan, Anis Box 5 G (1 folder) Box 5 Ganz, Rudolph Gaskins, Ben A. See Columbia Concerts Inc. Box 5 General Electric Company Box 5 Giannini, Vittorio (2 folders) Box 5 Girden, William M. Box 5 Glasounow, Alexander Box 5 Gold Star Recording Studios Goldberg & Wolff See Hays, Wolff, Schwabacher, Sklar and Epstein Box 5 Goossens, Eugene Box 5 Goss, Robert Box 5 Graf, Uta Box 5 Graham, Robert Box 5 Granetman, Lola Box 5 [H.W.] Gray Company Box 5 Greene, Winthrop S. Greissle, Felix See Edward B. Marks Music Corporation Grey, Robert G. See Bruckner Society of America Box 5 Guarnieri, Camargo Box 5 Guenther, Felix Box 5 Gutman, John Box 5 H (1 folder) Box 5 Haefner, Maria Box 5 Harris, Roy Box 5 The Hartford Times Box 5 Hays, Wolff, Schwabacher, Sklar & Epstein (3 folders) Box 5 Hayward, Dolores Box 5 Hendl, Walter Box 5 Hill, Edward Burlingame (3 folders) Box 5 Hindemith, Paul Box 5 Hoffman-Behrendt, Lydia Box 5 Huberman, Bronislaw Hubert, Dave L. See New Sound Box 5 I (1 folder) Box 6 J (1 folder) Box 6 Jacobi, Frederick (2 folders) Box 6 Jacobi, Irene Box 6 Jadeson, Walter J. and Annemarie (3 folders) Box 6 Jaffe, Herman James, C. Lindell See Unicorn Records Box 6 James, Philip (3 folders) Box 6 Johns, Louis Edgar Box 6 Johnson, Wright and Anne Box 6 Josten, Werner (2 folders) Judson, Arthur See Columbia Concerts Inc. Box 6 Juilliard School of Music Box 7 K (1 folder) Box 7 [Walter] Kaner Associates (2 folders) Box 7 Karlin, Henry Box 7 Katz, David Box 7 Kaye, Harold Keller, Harold See New York (State). Department of Commerce Box 7 Kenny, Margarita Box 7 Keresey, Howard W. Box 7 Kerr, Harrison Box 7 Kolisch, Rudolf Box 7 Korngold, Erich Wolfgang Kotschnig, Walter See United States. Department of State Box 7 Koussevitsky, Serge Box 7 Koutzen, Boris Box 7 Krasner, Louis Kmety, Violet See Zenith Radio Corporation Box 7 Krenek, Ernst (2 folders) Box 7 Krueger, Karl Box 7 Kurtz, Efrem Box 7 Kurzweil, Fredric Box 7 L (1 folder) Box 7 Landon, H.C. Robbins Box 7 Last, Siegmund Box 7 Lawner, Max Box 7 Leavitt. Max Box 7 Leeds Music Corporation Box 7 Lees, Benjamin Box 7 Legler, ? Box 7 Lehman, Herbert H. Box 7 Leighton & Nelson, Advertising Box 7 Lenchner, Paula Box 7 Lev, Ray Box 7 List, Eugene Box 7 Little, Paul Box 7 Loewenstein, Karl Box 7 Lopatnikoff, Nikolai Box 7 Luening, Otto See also American Composers Alliance Box 7 M (1 folder) Box 7 McDonald, Harl Macdonald, Robert M.S. See Rot-Weiss-Rot McKinney, Laurence See Saratoga Spa Music Festival, Inc. Box 7 Macmillan, Ernst Box 7 Mahler, Alma Box 8 Makower, Mary Box 8 [Alfred J.] Mapleson Box 8 [Edward B.] Marks Music Corporation (3 folders) Box 8 Martin Music Management Box 8 Marvin, Frederick Matfeld, Julius See Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc. Mathews, Elizabeth See Columbia Concerts Inc. Box 8 Meik, Siegfried Box 8 Menasce, Jacques de Box 8 Mercury Music Corporation Metropolitan Musical Bureau, Inc. See Columbia Concerts Inc. Box 8 Milhaud, Darius Box 8 Mitchell, Donald Box 8 Mitropolous, Dimitri Box 8 Moore, Douglas Box 8 Moore, Henry T. Box 8 Mundy, John Box 8 Music News, Inc. (3 folders) Box 8 Musical Courier Box 8 Musicraft Corporation Box 8 N (1 folder) Box 8 Nagy, Elmer Box 8 National Concert and Artists Corporation National Concert Magazines See Saratoga Spa Music Festival Inc. Box 8 National Music League, Inc. Box 8 National Poster Stamp Society Neuman, Herman See WNYC (radio station) New England Music Critics Symposium 1948 See The Hartford Times Box 8 New Sound Box 8 New York (State) Department of Commerce Box 8 New York Public Library Box 9 Newlin, Dika Box 9 Nola Recording Studios Box 9 Nola n & Twichell Advertising Agency, Inc. Box 9 North, Alex Box 9 Novik, Morris S. See also WNYC (radio station) Noyes, Pierrepont B. See Saratoga Spa Music Festival, Inc. Box 9 Nozzi, Michel Box 9 Oesterreichische Lehrmittelanstalt Box 9 O'Neil, Perry Box 9 Orkin, Ruth Box 9 Ornest, Naomi (2 folders) Box 9 Outhwaite, Gilbert B. Box 9 Ovanin, Nikola Leonard Box 9 Owen, Bessie Box 9 P (1 folder) Box 9 Pan American Union, Music Division Box 9 Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc. Box 9 Pauly, Rose Box 9 Peck, C.L. Box 9 Persichetti, Vincent Box 9 [C.F.] Peters Corporation Philharmonic-Symphony Society of New York See Van Praag, Maurice Box 9 Philosophical Library Box 9 Piket, Frederick Box 9 Pisk, Paul Amadeus (2 folders) Box 9 Pogany, Imre Box 9 Price, Vincent Box 9 Quasha, William H. Box 9 R (1 folder) Box 9 Radhuber, Guenther Box 9 Rathaus, Karol Box 9 Ratner, Leonard G. Box 9 Ravag Box 9 Read, Gardner Box 9 Record Hunter Box 9 Reichle, Elisabeth Box 9 Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Box 9 Renzi, Dorothy Box 9 Rieti, Vittorio Box 9 Roche, Emmeline Box 9 Rodzinski, Artur Box 9 Rosenberger, Walter E. Box 10 Rosenker, Michael Box 10 Rosenthal, Leon and Fanny J. Rosenwald, Hans See Music News, Inc. Box 10 Rot-Weiss-Rot See also United States Foreign Service Rothe, Friede F. See Tourel, Jennie Box 10 Roy, Klaus George Box 10 Rozsa, Miklos Box 10 Rubin, David W. Box 10 S (1 folder) Box 10 Saratoga Musical Union Box 10 Saratog Spa Music Festival, Inc. 1937-1951 (15 folders) See also Carman, Harry J., New York (State) Department of Commerce, Van Praag, Maurice Saratoga Springs Authority See Saratoga Spa Music Festival, Inc. Box 11 Sargent, Malcolm Saxton, Stanley See Saratoga Spa Music Festival, Inc. Box 11 [G.] Schirmer, Inc. Box 11 Schnabel, Artur Box 11 Schnabel, Helen Box 11 Schnabel, Karl Ulrich Box 11 Schnabel, Therese Box 11 [Artur] Schnabel Memorial Committee Box 11 Schollum, Robert Box 11 [B.] Schott's Sohne Box 11 Schuller, Arthur Box 11 Schuster, Joseph Box 11 Schwartz, Paul Scott, Tom See American Composers Alliance Box 11 Secunda, Sholom Seeger, Charles See Pan American Union, Music Division Box 11 Segal, Elizabeth Box 11 Sesac Inc. (2 folders) Box 11 Sessions, Roger Box 11 Shilkret, Arthur Box 11 Shilkret, Nathaniel Box 11 Shuman, Davis Box 11 Siegmeister, Elie Siena, Frank E.R. See Saratoga Spa Music Festival Inc. Box 11 Simmons, Mary Skornia, Harry J. See Rot-Weiss-Rot Box 11 Slade, John and Caroline Box 11 Sloss, M.C. (Mrs.) Society for the Publication of American Music, Inc. See James, Philip Society of Participating Artists, Inc. See SPA Records Box 11 Solomon, Carlton Z. Solomon, Maynard and Seymour See Vanguard Recording Society, Inc. Box 11 Sorrell, Lise Box 11 Southern Music Publishing Company, Inc. Box 11 Sowerby, Leo Box 11 SPA Records Box 11 Spain Travel Agency Spaulding, E. Wilder See United States Foreign Service Box 11 Stern, Carl Box 11 Stichting Donemus Box 11 [B.F.] Stevens & Brown Ltd. Box 11 Still, William Grant Box 11 Stillman-Kelley, Jessie Box 11 Stokowski, Leopold Box 11 Stueckgold, Grete Box 11 Sullivan, Frank Box 12 Sutermeister, Heinrich Box 12 Szell, George Box 12 T (1 folder) Box 12 Talbot, Ona B. Box 12 Tatham Stamp & Coin Company Taylor, Deems See American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers Box 12 [Alec] Templeton Terry, Milton See United States Foreign Service Thompson, Llewellyn E. See United States Foreign Service Box 12 Thomson, Virgil Box 12 Tidmarsh, Elmer A. (2 folders) Box 12 Toch, Ernest Box 12 Tourel, Jennie Box 12 Trimble, David Box 12 Tuthill, Burnet C. Box 12 U (1 folder) Box 12 Unicorn Records Box 12 United States Department of State Box 12 United States Foreign Service See also Rot-Weiss-Rot United States Work Projects Administration See Memorabilia: Printed Material: Programs - Federal Music Project (WPA) United States Work Progress Adminstration See Memorabilia: Printed Material: Programs - Federal Music Project (WPA) Box 12 Universal Edition A.G. Box 12 Van Gordon, Cyrena Box 12 Vanguard Recording Society, Inc. Box 12 Van Praag, Maurice (3 folders) Box 12 Vassar College Box 12 Vernon, Ashley Box 12 Vieland, Joseph Box 12 Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra Box 12 W (1 folder) Box 12 WGY (radio station) Box 12 WNYC (radio station) Box 12 WQXR (radio station) Box 12 Wagner, Joseph Frederick Box 12 Walleck, Oskar Box 12 Walter, Bruno Box 13 Waters, Patti Box 13 Webster, Frances Box 13 Weintraub, Eugene Werfel, Alma Mahler See Mahler, Alma Box 13 Werner, Vivian L. Box 13 White, Walter Box 13 Whithorne, Emerson Box 13 Whittlesey House Box 13 Wildgans, Friedrich Box 13 Williams, Alexander Box 13 Woolley, Monty (2 folders) Box 13 Work, John W. Box 13 Wummer, John and Mildred Box 13 Y (1 folder) Box 13 Young Men's Christian Association of Tahawus Box 13 Yugoslav Information Center Box 13 Zeisl, Eric Box 13 Zenith Radio Corporation Box 13 Zimbalist, Efrem Box 13 Unidentified

Memorabilia Financial Box 15 Personal (10 folders) Box 16 Saratoga Spa Music Festival, Inc. (3 folders) Box 16 Legal - Hannah Moriarta Adler Printed material Personal Box 16 Austria (3 folders) Box 16 New York Chamber Orchestra (2 folders) Box 16 Miscellaneous Programs Box 16 Federal Music Project (WPA) 1936-1941, undated (5 folders) Box 17 Germany (photostats) Box 17 Saratoga Spa Music Festival Inc. Box 17 Miscellaneous Publicity Box 17 Miscellaneous concerts Box 17 Research material (11 folders) Reviews Box 17 Personal 1952-1953 Box 17 SPA Records Box 17, 18 Miscellaneous (4 folders) Box 18 Printer's block - Adler image (conducting at Saratoga Spa Music Festival) Box 18 Saratoga Spa Music Festival (8 folders)

Recordings Although the assigned ID numbers go up to adler_fc_090, there are in fact only 85 phonodiscs. Note on alternate formats: Recordings from the collection have been digitized. Please contact the repository listed above for more information. Oversize 1 Beethoven: Triple concerto for violin, cello, and piano, side 7 undated (Lacquer disc) (ID#: adler_fc_017) Triple concerto in C major, Op 56, Lydia Hoffmann Behrendt, pianist, John Corigliano, violin, Carl Stern, cello. Oversize 1 Beethoven: Triple concerto for violin, cello, and piano, sides 1 and 2 undated (Lacquer disc) (ID#: adler_fc_019) Triple concerto in C major, Op 56, Lydia Hoffmann Behrendt, pianist, John Corigliano, violin, Carl Stern, cello. Oversize 1 Beethoven: Triple concerto for violin, cello, and piano, sides 3, 4, and 7 undated (Lacquer disc) (ID#: adler_fc_018) Triple concerto in C major, Op 56, Lydia Hoffmann Behrendt, pianist, John Corigliano, violin, Carl Stern, cello. Oversize 1 Beethoven: Triple concerto for violin, cello, and piano, sides 5 and 6 undated (Lacquer disc) (ID#: adler_fc_020) Triple concerto in C major, Op 56, Lydia Hoffmann Behrendt, pianist, John Corigliano, violin, Carl Stern, cello. Oversize 1 Brahms: Ballades, Anne Marie Spaeth 07/ 1952 (Lacquer disc) (ID#: adler_fc_087) Contains: Ballades Op 10 No. 1 in D minor; Op 10 No. 2 in D major; and Op 10 No. 4 in B major. Oversize 1 Bruckner: Adagio from string quintet, side 2, WNYC 03/21/1945 - transcribed by Dr. Felix Guenther, first performance (Lacquer disc) (ID#: adler_fc_016) Oversize 1 Bruckner: Adagio from string quintet, sides 1 and 3, WNYC 03/21/1945 - transcribed by Dr. Felix Guenther, first performance (Lacquer disc) (ID#: adler_fc_015) Oversize 1 Bruckner: Symphony No. 9, side 4 undated - Columbia test pressing (Vinyl record) (ID#: adler_fc_034) Oversize 1 Cadman: Dark Dancers of the Mardi Gras undated (Lacquer disc) (ID#: adler_fc_029) Side 1 and 2: Dark Dancers of the Mardi Gras, NY Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, John Barbirolli, conductor, Charles-Wakefield Cadman, piano. Oversize 1 Cadman: Dark Dancers of the Mardi Gras undated (Lacquer disc) (ID#: adler_fc_080) Dark Dancers of the Mardi Gras, NY Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, John Barbirolli, conductor, Charles-Wakefield Cadman, piano. Oversize 1 Charles Adler conducting WNYC Symphony Orchestra, sides 2 and 5, WNYC 10/26/1941 (Lacquer disc) (ID#: adler_fc_021) Side 2: I. Allegro vivace; Side 5: III. Menuetto. Allegretto Trio (cont.) IV. Finale. Molto allegro. Oversize 1 Charles Adler conducting WNYC Symphony Orchestra, sides 3 and 6, WNYC 10/26/1941 (Lacquer disc) (ID#: adler_fc_022) Side 3: I. Allegro vivace (conclusion); II. Andante cantabile; Side 6: IV. Finale. Molto allegro (cont.). Oversize 3 Gloria March; Leufer Fridli’s [?] undated (Lacquer disc) (ID#: adler_fc_090) Oversize 1 Haydn: Symphony No. 88, Charles Adler conducting concert orchestra, side 3, WNYC 06/19/1941 - Symphony No. 88 in G Major Largo (Lacquer disc) (ID#: adler_fc_009) Oversize 1 Haydn: Symphony No. 88, Charles Adler conducting concert orchestra, sides 2 and 5, WNYC 09/18/1937 (Lacquer disc) (ID#: adler_fc_004) Side 2: 1. Symphony No. 88 in G-Major, Adagio, Allegro (conclusion) 2. Symphony No. 88 in G-Major, Largo; Side 5: 1. Radio WPA announcement. Oversize 1 Haydn: Symphony No. 88, Charles Adler, conducting concert orchestra, sides 1 and 4, WNYC 06/19/1941 (Lacquer disc) (ID#: adler_fc_010) Side 1: Symphony No. 88 in G Major Adagio allegro; Side 4: Symphony No. 88 in G Major Allegro con spirito (conclusion). Oversize 1 Jacobi: Four dances from Prodigal Son, Alexander Smallens, conductor, side 1 and 3 08/04/1946 (Lacquer disc) (ID#: adler_fc_025) Oversize 1 Jacobi: Four dances from Prodigal Son, Alexander Smallens, conductor, side 2 09/04/1946 (Lacquer disc) (ID#: adler_fc_024) Oversize 1 Mozart: Symphony No. 41, Jupiter, Charles Adler conducting WNYC Symphony Orchestra, sides 1 and 4, WNYC 10/26/1941 (Lacquer disc) (ID#: adler_fc_023) Side 1: I. Allegro vivace; Side 4: II. Andante cantabile (cont.). Oversize 1 Saratoga Spa Music Festival, sides 1 and 2, WEAF 09/18/1937 (Lacquer disc) (ID#: adler_fc_013) Side 1 and 2: Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G Major Allegro, by Johann Bach. Oversize 1 Saratoga Spa Music Festival, sides 1 and 2, WJZ 09/11/1937 (Lacquer disc) (ID#: adler_fc_012) Side 1 and 2: Piano concerto for string orchestra and piano, by Anis Fuleihan; first performance of the piece. Oversize 1 Saratoga Spa Music Festival, sides 11 and 12, WEAF 09/18/1937 (Lacquer disc) (ID#: adler_fc_014) Side 11: Des Soeurs De Bilitis, from a poem by Pierre Louys, Edwina Eustis; Side 12: And already the minutes, based on poem "And already the minutes, the hours, the days" by Conrad Aiken, Edwina Eustis. Oversize 1 Saratoga Spa Music Festival, sides 3 and 4 , WEAF 09/18/1937 (Lacquer disc) (ID#: adler_fc_006) Side 3: 1. Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G Major I. Allegro (conclusion), II. Adagio, by Johann Bach; Side 4: 1. Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G Major III. Allegro (conclusion); 2. Dover Beach. Oversize 1 Saratoga Spa Music Festival, sides 3 and 4, WJZ 09/11/1937 (Lacquer disc) (ID#: adler_fc_005) Oversize 1 Saratoga Spa Music Festival, sides 5 and 6, WEAF 09/18/1937 (Lacquer disc) (ID#: adler_fc_003) Side 5 and 6: Dover Beach, by Samuel Barber, Edwina Eustis, contralto. Oversize 1 Saratoga Spa Music Festival, sides 5 and 6, WJZ 09/11/1937 (Lacquer disc) (ID#: adler_fc_008) Side 5 and 6: Piano concerto for string orchestra and piano, by Anis Fuleihan, first performance of the piece. Oversize 1 Saratoga Spa Music Festival, sides 7 and 8, WEAF 09/18/1937 (Lacquer disc) (ID#: adler_fc_002) Side 7 and 8: Suite of American Folk Tunes (cont.), by Charles Wakefield Cadman. Oversize 1 Saratoga Spa Music Festival, sides 7 and 8, WJZ 09/11/1937 (Lacquer disc) (ID#: adler_fc_007) Side 7 and 8: Pastorale, by Gian Carlo Menotti; with announcement. Oversize 1 Saratoga Spa Music Festival, sides 9 and 10, WEAF 09/18/1937 (Lacquer disc) (ID#: adler_fc_001) Side 9: Suite on American Folk Tunes, by Charles Wakefield Cadman; Dido's Lament, by Henry Purcell, Edwina Eustis, contralto; Side 10: Dido's Lament (cont.). Oversize 3 Shostakovich: Music to Hamlet, Pantomime March 03/21/1945 (Lacquer disc) (ID#: adler_fc_011) Side 1: Hamlet Suite, Op. 32a: VII. Musical Pantomime Allegro (conclusion); Hamlet Suite, Op. 32a: V. Fontinbras March. The recording was made in Mary Howard's recording studio. Mary Shipman Howard (1911–1976) was one of the earliest female recording engineers and recording studio owners. Oversize 1 SPA: Sassus, side 1 undated - Columbia test pressing (Vinyl record) (ID#: adler_fc_038) Oversize 1 SPA 20/22: Mahler: Symphony No. 3, 1st Movement, Pt. II undated - Columbia test pressing (Vinyl record) (ID#: adler_fc_043) Oversize 1 SPA 20/22: Mahler: Symphony No. 3, side 3 undated - Columbia test pressing (Vinyl record) (ID#: adler_fc_044) Oversize 1 SPA 20/22: Mahler: Symphony No. 3, side 4 undated - Columbia test pressing (Vinyl record) (ID#: adler_fc_045) Oversize 1 SPA 20/22: Mahler: Symphony No. 3, side 5 undated - Columbia test pressing (Vinyl record) (ID#: adler_fc_046) Oversize 2 SPA 20/22: Mahler: Sympohy No. 3, side 1 undated - Columbia test pressing (Vinyl record) (ID#: adler_fc_060) Oversize 2 SPA 32: Schonberg: Early Songs, side 1 undated - Columbia test pressing (Vinyl record) (ID#: adler_fc_064) Oversize 2 SPA 32: Schonberg: Early Songs, side 2 undated - Columbia test pressing (Vinyl record) (ID#: adler_fc_063) Oversize 1 SPA 40: d’Albert: Tiefland undated - Columbia test pressing (Vinyl record) (ID#: adler_fc_035) Oversize 1 SPA: [d’Albert]: Tiefland, side 5 undated - Columbia test pressing (Vinyl record) (ID#: adler_fc_036) Oversize 2 SPA: Beethoven: Piano Concerto, Op. 61, [side 2] undated - Columbia test pressing; note on sleeve: “Charlie: Note this is the fourth master we made on this side. C.” (Vinyl record) (ID#: adler_fc_068) Oversize 2 SPA: Beethoven: Piano Concerto, Op. 61, side 1 undated - Columbia test pressing (Vinyl record) (ID#: adler_fc_067) Oversize 1 SPA: Bruckner: Symphony No. 3, side 1 undated - Columbia test pressing (Vinyl record) (ID#: adler_fc_030) Oversize 1 SPA: Bruckner: Symphony No. 3, side 2 undated - Columbia test pressing (Vinyl record) (ID#: adler_fc_031) Oversize 1 SPA: Bruckner: Symphony No. 3, side 3 undated - Columbia test pressing (Vinyl record) (ID#: adler_fc_032) Oversize 1 SPA: Bruckner: Symphony No. 3, side 4 undated - Columbia test pressing (Vinyl record) (ID#: adler_fc_033) Oversize 1 SPA: Busoni, side 1 undated - Columbia test pressing (Vinyl record) (ID#: adler_fc_037) Oversize 2 SPA: Busoni, side 1 undated - Columbia test pressing (Vinyl record) (ID#: adler_fc_071) Oversize 2 SPA: Busoni, side 2 05/04/1954 - Columbia test pressing (Vinyl record) (ID#: adler_fc_070) Oversize 2 SPA: C. P. E. Bach: Piano Concerto in D undated - Columbia test pressing (Vinyl record) (ID#: adler_fc_048) Oversize 2 SPA: C. P. E. Bach: Trio [sonata] undated - Columbia test pressing (Vinyl record) (ID#: adler_fc_047) Oversize 2 SPA: de Falla: Master Peter’s Puppets undated - Columbia test pressing (Vinyl record) (ID#: adler_fc_058) Oversize 2 SPA: de Falla: Master Peter’s Puppets, side 2 undated - Columbia test pressing (Vinyl record) (ID#: adler_fc_055) Oversize 2 SPA: de Falla: Master Peter’s Puppets, side 2 undated - Columbia test pressing (Vinyl record) (ID#: adler_fc_057) Oversize 2 SPA: Denkmaler Der Tonkunst, Fuse, side 1 12/22/1953 - Columbia test pressing (Vinyl record) (ID#: adler_fc_078) Oversize 2 SPA: Denkmaler Der Tonkunst, Fuse, side 2 undated - Columbia test pressing (Vinyl record) (ID#: adler_fc_074) Oversize 2 SPA: Denkmaler Der Tonkunst, Tirolese, side 3 undated - Columbia test pressing (Vinyl record) (ID#: adler_fc_073) Oversize 2 SPA: Denkmaler Der Tonkunst, Tirolese, side 4 undated - Columbia test pressing (Vinyl record) (ID#: adler_fc_072) Oversize 2 SPA: J. J. Fux: Instrumental Music, side 1 undated - Columbia test pressing (Vinyl record) (ID#: adler_fc_077) Oversize 2 SPA: J. J. Fux Instrumental Music, side 1 undated - Columbia test pressing (Vinyl record) (ID#: adler_fc_069) Oversize 1 SPA: Janacek, side 1 undated - Columbia test pressing (Vinyl record) (ID#: adler_fc_026) Oversize 1 SPA: Janacek, side 2 undated - Columbia test pressing (Vinyl record) (ID#: adler_fc_027) Oversize 1 SPA: Lonny Epstein, side 1 undated - Columbia test pressing. (Vinyl record) (ID#: adler_fc_042) Oversize 1 SPA: Lonny Epstein, side 2 undated - Columbia test pressing (Vinyl record) (ID#: adler_fc_041) Oversize 2 SPA: Madrigal, side 2 undated - Columbia test pressing (Vinyl record) (ID#: adler_fc_056) Oversize 2 SPA: Malipiero: Poemi Asolani undated - Columbia test pressing. (Vinyl record) (ID#: adler_fc_054) Oversize 2 SPA: Quartet for Flute and Cello, side 2 undated - Columbia test pressing (Vinyl record) (ID#: adler_fc_052) Oversize 1 SPA: Sassus, side 1 undated - Columbia test pressing (Vinyl record) (ID#: adler_fc_038) Oversize 1 SPA: Schnabel Piano Concerto undated - Columbia test pressing (Vinyl record) (ID#: adler_fc_040) Oversize 2 SPA: Schubert Variations, side 1 undated - Columbia test pressing (Vinyl record) (ID#: adler_fc_051) Oversize 2 SPA: Schubert: Songs undated - Columbia test pressing (Vinyl record) (ID#: adler_fc_053) Oversize 2 SPA: Senlin, side 2 12/23/1953 - Columbia test pressing (Vinyl record) (ID#: adler_fc_075) Oversize 2 SPA: Senlin, side 2 undated - Columbia test pressing (Vinyl record) (ID#: adler_fc_076) Oversize 2 SPA: Strauss: [Sonata] Op. 5, Five Piano Pieces undated - Columbia test pressing (Vinyl record) (ID#: adler_fc_049) Oversize 2 SPA: Strauss: Sonata Op. 5, Op. 3 undated - Columbia test pressing (Vinyl record) (ID#: adler_fc_050) Oversize 1 SPA: Tartini: Concerto in A minor undated - Columbia test pressing (Vinyl record) (ID#: adler_fc_039) Oversize 2 SPA: W. Josten: Endymion undated - Columbia test pressing (Vinyl record) (ID#: adler_fc_059) Oversize 2 SPA: Werner Josten: Concerto Sacro, part 1 undated - Columbia test pressing (Vinyl record) (ID#: adler_fc_062) Oversize 2 SPA: Werner Josten: Concerto Sacro, part 2 undated - Columbia test pressing (Vinyl record) (ID#: adler_fc_061) Oversize 2 T. D.; Fugue undated - test pressing (Vinyl record) (ID#: adler_fc_088) Oversize 1 [Untitled disc] III, sides 1 and 2 undated - solo violin and orchestra, sounds modern 1930s? (Lacquer disc) (ID#: adler_fc_083) Oversize 1 [Untitled] undated (Lacquer disc) (ID#: adler_fc_028) Side 1: Spoken word in German, single speaker, recording of a speech at the occasion of Adler receiving the Arnold Schönberg Medal in Vienna. The speaker stresses Adler’s relationship to Vienna through his past working with/learning from Gustaf Mahler [calls Adler Mahler’s ‘famulus’]. The speaker also praises Adler’s music event organization at a Saratoga spa resort [Saratoga Springs?]. Synopsis translation by Sebastian Modrow; Side 2: Spoken word in German, two consecutive speakers, musical instruments can be heard in prep for performance at the end, perhaps pre concert speeches and intro. Reflects on the importance of Schönberg, who died 2 years earlier and in whose honor the medal is given out, for the Austrian music scene as a ‘symbol of idealism without concession, a symbol of a strict artistic pragmatism and purity’ which the speaker conveys to the new laureate as an obligation. Adler [?] thanks him and stresses that he has done and will do in the future a lot for modern music but stresses also that without an instrument there is no music and flatters his Vienna audience by stating that with their Vienna Symphony they posses one of the most precious instruments in the world. [Synopsis translation by Sebastian Modrow].