Subseries 3 - Letters

50 cm of textual records

Subseries consists of ingoing and outgoing correspondence, including general personal and professional correspondence (including correspondence with orchestras and universities), correspondence pertaining to the Brighton Festival and Virgil's Dream premiere (1967), correspondence with Carl Fischer (1970s-1980s), responses from composers-in-residence (1977, 1987), correspondence relating to Colgrass' Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP workshops), letters of professional importance, correspondence relating to his book My Lessons with Kumi, and correspondence from "well-known" people.

The latter (as identified by Colgrass) include: Pegeen Albig, Samuel Baron, Robert B. Browne, assistant to Leonard Bernstein, Elaine Bonazzi, Benjamin Boretz, Henry Brant, John Cage, Helen Carter, Elliott Carter, Norma Clark, Cyril Clemens, Artur Cohn, Aaron Copland, Norman Cousins (editor, Saturday Review), George Crumb, Peter Maxwell Davies, Harry Ellis Dickson, John Duffy, Frederick Fennell, Lukas Foss, Gerald Freund, Paul Fromm, Jimmy Giuffre, Philip Glass, Alexander Goehr, Morton Gould, Cyril Harris, Lorin Hollander, Karel Husa, President Lyndon B. Johnson, Walter Kerr, Coretta Scott King (Mrs. Martin Luther King, Jr.), Alison Knowles, Lee Konitz, Erich Leinsdorf, Erich Leinsdorf, Rolf Liebermann, Norman Lloyd, Marya Mannes (author and editor of The Reporter), Jackson Martindell, Peter Mennin, Hans Moldenhauer, Oskar Morawetz, Eugene Ormandy, Al Payson, Seymour Peck, Vincent Persichetti, Harold Pinter, David Reck, Jerome Robbins, George Rochberg, Julius Rudel, Winthrop Sargeant, Kenneth Schermerhorn, Harold C. Schonberg, Gunther Schuller, Paul Scofield (actor), Maria Sentivany, Roger Sessions, Gerald Shang, Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, Harold Spivacke, Kurt Stone, Igor Stravinsky, Virgil Thomson, Francis Thorne, George Trautwein, Fredric Waldman, Ben Weber, and Carol Wincenc.

General correspondence arranged chronologically by decade. Correspondence with "significant" individuals separated out by Michael Colgrass.