Tibor Serly letters to Henry Pleasants
Scope and Contents
Handwritten and typed letters by Tibor Serly to his close friend Henry Pleasants. The letters mostly deal with personal and music matters such as Serly's career as a composer, music teacher, conductor, writer of musical articles, and violinist. Serly describes his collaborations and professional involvement with such notable figures as Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, Louis Zukofsky, Bela Bartok, Zoltan Kodaly, Pietro Mascagni, Arturo Toscanini, Leopold Stokowski, Samuel Barber, Igor Stravinsky, Pierre Monteux, and Marian Anderson. Serly covers the role of the Works Progress Administration in American music life. He also discusses the rise of Nazism in Europe and its effect on the musical life there.
Dates
- 1931-1951
Creator
- Serly, Tibor (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Open for public research.
Conditions Governing Use
It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain any necessary copyright clearances. Permission to publish material from Letters from Tibor Serly to Henry Pleasants must be obtained from the Supervisor of Reference Services and/or the L. Tom Perry Special Collections Board of Curators.
Biographical History
Composer, conductor, and instrumentalist.
Extent
65 items (118 leaves)
Language of Materials
English
Appraisal
Utah and the American West and LDS cultural, social, and religious history (20th century Western and Mormon Manuscripts collection development policy, 5.VII, 2007).
General
Mss. (handwritten and typed).
- Anderson, Marian, 1897-1993
- Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences
- Barber, Samuel, 1910-1981
- Bartok, Bela, 1881-1945
- Composers -- Biography
- Conductors (Music) -- Biography
- Kodály, Zoltán, 1882-1967
- Letters
- Mascagni, Pietro, 1863-1945
- Monteux, Pierre, 1875-1964
- Music
- National socialism and music -- History
- Pleasants, Henry
- Poets -- Biography
- Pound, Ezra, 1885-1972
- Serly, Tibor
- Stokowski, Leopold, 1882-1977
- Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971
- Toscanini, Arturo, 1867-1957
- Williams, William Carlos, 1883-1963
- Zukofsky, Louis, 1904-1978
- Title
- Register of Tibor Serly letters to Henry Pleasants
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Morgan Crockett
- Date
- 2010 Aug 11
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English in Latin script.
Repository Details
Part of the L. Tom Perry Special Collections Repository
1130 HBLL
Brigham Young University
Provo Utah 84602 United States