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Scope and Contents "An Evening with Madame F" included music developed in collaboration with Fred Cohen in 1989, text and performance concept by Claudia Stevens; the "preview" took place on April 9, 1989, at the College of William and Mary, followed by over 200 national presentations. This series includes photocopies of documents (news articles, correspondence, production-related items) located in Boatwright Library at the University of Richmond. This series also contains text, production notes, a list of production venues and dates, news articles and other write-ups, notices and announcements, programs, flyers, and posters.

Assorted Miscellaneous Works are materials from various works created by or collaborated on by Claudia Stevens including early works and collaborations. This series includes Stevens' first inclusion of performance art in a recital, with F. Gerard Errante, at The Wiliamsburg Regional Library and presented by The College of William and Mary Department of Music in March 24, 1986, and her debut as a performance or multidisciplinary artist at Flood Zone in Richmond in October 7, 1986. This series also includes a bound thesis, music, literary and musical sketches, published music books, correspondence, notes, scripts, articles, flyers, posters, programs, season brochures, and photographs.

Scope and Contents "A Table Before Me" is a one-act musical drama created in 1999 with text, music, staging, and performance concept by Claudia Stevens. This series includes script, flyers, posters, programs, news articles and reviews, and a list of performances.

A Very Large Mole (2009) is a short comic chamber opera for three male characters with music by Allen Shearer and original libretto by Claudia Stevens (after a Kafka short story) that premiered at Berkeley Art Center, October, 2009, and in San Francisco in the "Composers, Inc." concert series on October 19, 2009; the libretto is published in the poetry journal, Exquisite Corpse, summer, 2010. This series includes librettos, piano-vocal score, online journal publication printout, program, concert series brochure, and announcements. Digital content related to this series, the Berkeley Art Center Production of "A Very Large Mole," October 17, 2009, (Mss. 2009.601.001) is available in the Digital Archive at: http://hdl.handle.net/10288/13857

Scope and Contents "Lewis and Clark and Me" was created in 1997-1998, revised and retitled "Bird Woman, the Movie" in 2001 for the "Fast Forward" series of the Virginia Museum of Fine Art, and toured extensively through the touring program of the Virginia Commission for the Arts. Text, music, staging, and performance concept are by Claudia Stevens. This series includes scripts, notes, literary and musical sketches, production materials (including prop artifacts that have been removed and added to the Manuscripts Artifact Collection), programs, production and staging notes, program notes, news articles and reviews, posters, newsletters, correspondence, brochures, and crayon drawings by children who viewed performances.

Scope and Contents "Blue Lias" is a monodrama written in 2005-2006 by Clauda Stevens while in residence at Brandeis University as Visiting Scholar/Artist at the Women's Studies Research Center, with music by Allen Shearer, performance concept and staging by Claudia Stevens. Its first unstaged reading was at Cornell University in September 2005 and a west coast preview at California State University, Hayward, on January 15, 2007, followed by its world premiere at Rutgers University's Zimmerli Art Museum on March 25, 2007, then continuous presentation through 2010. This series includes scripts, season directories, posters, announcements, flyers, programs, and brochures.

The Carter-Sessions Papers is the correspondence of Claudia Stevens while she was preparing musical tributes to musicians and composers Elliot Carter (1908-2012) and Roger Sessions (1895-1985). This series includes: musical scores of various artists and their ideas for the performance of their pieces, biographical material of contributing artists along with reviews of some of their work, programs from several recitals performed by Claudia Stevens in 1983 and 1984, compact disc recordings of Claudia Stevens' tribute performances, and reel-to-reel recordings of concerts. A finding aid for this group of material (Acc. 2003.51) is available online at: http://scrc.swem.wm.edu/findingaids/39_2_C24_Carter__Robert.pdf

Scope and Contents "Circe's Pigs" is a one act chamber opera with libretto by Claudia Stevens and music by Allen Shearer. It is based on the Circe- Odyssey episode of Homer's Odyssey updated to the present. Collection contains libretto only. More material will be added to this subseries as the opera is completed and performed.

Scope and Contents Primarily concerns solo recitals, many of which took place at the College of William & Mary while others occurred around the United States. Included are perfomances as an undergraduate at Vassar College, in conservatory and graduate studies, at music festivals including Tanglewood, and numerous professional performances in Boston, New York, Washington, Switzerland, and throughout the United States. Some material has explanatory notes or translations when the material is not in English. Also included is material relating to Stevens' work as a choral conductor at Williams College and the University of Richmond, as well as on tour in Europe. There is also a monograph entitled "Masters and Mentors of the Piano: an account by Claudia Stevens of her piano study with major piano teachers and leading performing artists of the second half of the twentieth centery, 1966-1981," which provides background and context to this subseries. Artist teachers and musical mentors include Leon Fleisher, Leonard Shure, Arie Vardi, Aaron Copland, Malcolm Frager, Andre Watts, Gilbert Kalish, Miachel Tilson Thomas, Istvan Nadas, Martin Canin, Gunther Schuller, Louis Vosgerchian, Bernhard Abramowitsch, Barbara Shearer, David del Tredici, Charles Rosen, Joseph Silverstein, Gyorgi Ligeti, and a number of others. A digital copy is available in the W&M Digital Archive but is currently restricted to on-campus viewing only. There is also a list of Stevens' premiere performances, including dates and venues, of compositions by Shulamit Ran, Peter Lieberson, Virgil Thomson, Samuel Adler, David Diamond, Vivian Fine, Andrew Imbrie, Allen Shearer, and many others. Acc. 2013.033: Contains reel-to-reel audiotapes, audiocassette tapes, and a videocassette tape of varioius piano performances by Claudia Stevens from 1972-1990. Some of the performance venues include Harvard University, Carnegie Hall, National Public Radio, and the College of William and Mary. The accession also contains a recording of Schoenberg's "Pierrot Lunaire" in 1987, the only performance of the work at the College of William and Mary. This accession is itemized in the Manuscripts Audiovisual Collection