The Alice M. Ditson Fund > Performers' Committee for 20th Century Music
The Performers’ Committee for Twentieth Century Music
Program, April 1977
Columbia University Archives, Rare Book and Manuscript Library
The first Performers’ Committee for Twentieth Century Music concerts were retrospectives on chamber works of Leno Kirchner and Henry Cowell, respectively. The long and notable list of composers whose works were featured in other retrospective concerts presented by the Performers’ Committee included Anton Webern, Stefan Wolpe, Arnold Schoenberg, Claude Debussy, Béla Bartók, Charles Ives, Luigi Dallapiccola, Alban Berg, Igor Stravinsky, Paul Hindemith, Elliott Carter, Scott Joplin, Darius Milhaud, Roger Sessions, John Cage, Edgard Varèse, Aaron Copland, Erik Satie, Ruth Crawford Seeger, Maurice Ravel, Luciano Berio, Carl Ruggles, Milton Babbitt, Percy Grainger, and Dmitri Shostakovich.
The Performers’ Committee for Twentieth Century Music
Program, Béla Bartók Retrospective Concert, April 16, 1969
Columbia University Archives, Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Notable on this program is the diagram giving Bartók's preferred arrangement of the instruments for performances of his "Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion" (1937) with his notes for the performers.