Descriptive Summary
Northern Virginia Music Center at Reston collection
C0191
George Mason University. Libraries. Special Collections & Archives
English
3.5 linear feet
(9 boxes)
1967-1979
The Northern Virginia Music Center at Reston collection contains correspondence, articles, photographs, and 56 audiotape reels related to music center. Photographs include both images of performances as well as publicity shots of the musicians.
Meir, Robert C.
Related Materials
Special Collections and Archives also holds many other collections on Reston, Virginia.
Scope and Content
The Northern Virginia Music Center at Reston, established in 1967, saw its faculty and students conduct and participate in yearly summer camps and concert series until 1973, when the Center dissolved. This collection documents the Center, and is divided into two series.
Series 1, Music Center Papers, 1967-1979, consists of correspondence, programs, articles, and photographs documenting the Center and its performances. Funding, budget, board minutes, member mailings, photographs, and resumes of musicians visiting the Center constitute the bulk of the materials in series 1. The photographs include both images of performances as well as publicity shots of musicians. This series is arranged alphabetically by subject.
Series 2, Reston Recordings, is a collection of 56 audiotape reels containing Music Center performances by both faculty and students from 1969-1972. This series is arranged alphabetically by the name of the recorded performance.
Series 3 consists of digitized duplicates of the recordings in Series 2. There are audio discs of the recordings as well as digital files on an external drive. The arrangement follows that of Series.
Use Restrictions
There may be restrictions on use of the sound recordings.
Acquisition Information
This collection was donated by Loren Bruce of the Reston Historical Trust.
Access Restrictions
Only the digitized recordings are available for listening.
Processing Information
Processed in November 2011 by Kate Grauvogel. EAD markup completed in January, 2012 by Kate Grauvogel and Jordan Patty.
Historical Information
The Northern Virginia Music Center at Reston was established in 1967, and held its first summer camp for young musicians that same year. Initially, its founders aspired to develop the summer camp into a full-faculty, national summer music training program that would eventually become a year-round high school for the performing arts. Although it never developed into a high school, the Center did manage to draw 150 talented student enrollees who came not only from the Greater Washington area, but also from 30 states and a half dozen foreign countries. From 1969-1972, the Music Center faculty and students held regular concerts in Northern Virginia. In 1972, students and faculty traveled to Lausanne, Switzerland, to participate in a series of concerts. By the mid-1970s, the Music Center encountered budget problems, and many board members, including the president, Paul S. Frick, resigned and the Center gradually dissolved. The collection contains some materials from 1978 since some students and faculty from the Center later became associated with the Northern Virginia Youth Symphony Association.
Preferred Citation
Northern Virginia Music Center at Reston collection, C0191, Special Collections and Archives, George Mason University Libraries.
Arrangement
This collection is arranged by subject.
- Series 1: Music Center Papers, 1967-1979 (Boxes 1-2)
- Series 2: Reston Recordings, 1969-1972 (Boxes 2-6)
- Series 3: Digital Duplicates, 1969-1972 (Boxes 7-9)
Index Terms
Reston (Va.)
Subjects:
Music.
Document Types:
Live sound recordings.
Photographic prints.
Contents List
Series 1: Music Center Papers,
(1.5 boxes)
1967-1978
Series 1, Music Center Papers, 1967-1979, consists of correspondence, programs, articles, and photographs documenting the Center and its performances.
Budgets and Fundraising,
1
1
1968-1978
Concerts and Publicity,
1
2
1967-1973
Directories and Lists,
1
3
1960s-1970s
Head Shots of Musicians,
1
4
1960s-1970s
Heyde, Norma,
1
5
1967-1971
Letterhead,
1
6
undated
Member Correspondence,
1
7
1967-1978
Mission Statement,
1
8
1960s
Music Center Board,
1
9
1968-1978
Music Center By-laws and Amendments,
1
10
1968-1973
Music Center Pamphlets,
1
11
1967-1972
Music Center Photographs,
1
12
1970s
Ogg, Janette,
1
13
1960s
Persichetti, Vincent,
2
1
1960s
Pfohl, Henry,
2
2
1960s
Pfohl, James Christian,
2
3
1967-1968
Poliakine, David,
2
4
1970
Pollack, Daniel,
2
5
1960s
Reston Music Center Personnel Directory,
2
6
1967
The School Musician,
2
7
1978
Series 2: Reston Recordings,
(4.5 boxes)
1969-1972
Series 2, Reston Recordings, is a collection of 56 audiotape reels containing Music Center performances by both faculty and students.
Aaron Rosand,
2
8
July 14, 1972
Concert,
2
9
June 30, 1972
Concert in Tent,
2
10
1968
Concert in Tent,
3
1
1968
Concert on Plaza,
3
2
Undated
Concerto,
3
3
August 8, 1970
Eighth Concert,
3
4
July 16, 1969
Eleventh Concert,
3
5
July 16, 1971
Elijah-Reston Chorale,
3
6
May 1, 1970
Faculty Concert,
3
7
July 21, 1971
Faculty Concert,
3
8
July 19, 1972
Faculty Concert,
3
9
July 7, 1972
Faculty Concert,
3
10
July 12, 1972
Faculty Concert,
3
11
June 28, 1972
Faculty Concert,
3
12
July, 28 1972
Faculty Concert,
4
1
July 5, 1972
Faculty Concert,
4
2
July 26, 1972
Faculty Concert,
4
3
July 1, 1970
Faculty Concert,
4
4
July 14, 1970
Faculty Concert,
4
5
July 29, 1970
Faculty Concert,
4
6
July 8, 1970
Faculty Concert,
4
7
July 7, 1971
Final Concert,
4
8
August 4, 1972
First Baptist Church,
4
9
1969
First Concert,
4
10
June 29, 1971
Fourth Concert,
4
11
July 5, 1970
Handel-Messiah,
4
12
December, 1969
John Terry, Tenor,
4
13
July 21, 1972
Last Concert Before Trip to Switzerland,
5
1
July 22, 1971
Music Center at Reston Presents Handel's Messiah,
5
2
December 10, 1971
National Anthem,
5
3
August 3, 1969
National Cathedral,
5
4
August 12, 1972
National Cathedral,
5
5
July 6, 1972
New Town Concert,
5
6
October 17, 1971
New Town Concert,
5
7
October 23, 1970
Northern Virginia Music Center Orchestra,
5
8
August 8, 1970
Northern Virginia Music Center Orchestra,
5
9
July 24, 1970
Pfohl, Arizzi, Heyde,
5
10
July 26, 1970
Reston Chamber Orchestra,
5
11
April 17, 1970
Reston Chamber Orchestra,
5
12
March 19, 1971
Reston Chorale,
5
13
November 14, 1970
Reston Trio,
5
14
January 1, 1970
Second Concert,
6
1
July 2, 1971
Sixth Concert,
6
2
July 9, 1971
Student Concert,
6
3
July 8, 1972
Student Concert,
6
4
August 2, 1972
Student Concert,
6
5
July 29, 1972
Student Concert,
6
6
July 18, 1969
Student Concert,
6
7
August 5, 1970
Student Recital,
6
8
July 10, 1971
Sunday,
6
9
July 12, 1970
The Creation,
6
10
April 16, 1972
Twelfth Concert,
6
11
July 19, 1970
Twentieth Concert,
6
12
August 2, 1970
Twenty-sixth Concert,
6
13
August 9, 1970
Untitled Recording,
6
14
Undated
Series 3: Digital Duplicates,
1969-1972
(3 boxes)
This series consists of digital duplicates created in 2014 from the open reel tapes of the original concerts. The open reel audio was saved as MP3 and WAV and stored on nine compact discs and an external hard drive. Recordings are arranged in the same order as the recordings in Series 2.
Audio discs,
7
1969-1972
Audio discs,
8
1969-1972
Audio discs and external drive,
9
1969-1972