An important recent addition to the ICAMus Archive: rare scores of internationally renowned composers, notably Florence-born American composer Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895-1968), and a collector’s item related to Dutch-born American composer Richard Hageman (1881-1966) and his only opera Caponsacchi, completed in the early 1930s and produced by the Metropolitan Opera in 1937.

The items have been donated to ICAMus

by award-winning exhibition curator, archivist, and lecturer, Bill Doggett.

Thank you! 

The Center established a special partnership with Bill Doggett Productions in 2015. This much appreciated donation is related to American Music, and to European-born American composers of the 1900s, in perfect harmony with the ICAMus mission of promoting the diversity of American music in an international perspective. 

HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE DONATION OF BILL DOGGETT PRODUCTIONS TO THE ICAMus ARCHIVE ARE SHOWCASED IN THIS GALLERY: 

Program of Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, Season 1944-1945, Concerts of January 18 and January 25, 1945. The January 18 concert included two pieces by Dutch-born American composer Richard Hageman (1881-1966): Prelude to the Last Scene of “Caponsacchi” and Overture “In a Nutshell” (world première). The composer, who was an internationally renowned conductor, led the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra in his own two pieces, in a concert of Haydn, Bach, Dohnanyi and Lalo conducted by Alfred Wallenstein, with violinist Yehudi Menuhin performing as soloist in the Bach Concerto in E major and the Symphonie Espagnole by Lalo. The publication contains extensive program notes by Bruno David Ussher on the Hageman pieces (pp. 16-18). Hageman is best known for his exquisite songs and outstanding film music in Hollywood. This programs reveals the importance of Hageman's orchestral works as well.

A surprise inside the Los Angeles Philharmonic program. A newspaper clipping from the Los Angeles Times: the Music Review by Isabel Morse Jones, attached to the program notes! The person who attended the concert and read the review preserved the two items together. Fascinating memories of the American musical past.

Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, score of Fugue on the Name “Albert Schweitzer”, Opus 170, for Organ, composed in the United States and published in 1968 by McLaughlin & Reilly Co., Boston, edited by Frederick Tulan. The piece was first performed by Frederick Tulan in the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York City on August 6, 1967. In the US since 1939, when he emigrated with his family from his native city of Florence to escape the Racial Laws and persecution, prominent Jewish composer Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco became an American citizen and lived in the US for the rest of his life. He died in Beverly Hills in 1968. Castelnuovo-Tedesco composed his organ pieces in America, thinking of his faraway Florentine Synagogue.

Please view Emancipation Proclamation: The Journey To Freedom, an original film by Bill Doggett on the Negro Spiritual, launched on the ICAMus Website on October 3, 2015, and featured in our In Depth Archive. The film commemorates the Songs of African Americans in the struggle for freedom, the 150th Anniversary of the 13th Amendment, the Death of President Lincoln, and The End of The Civil War. View Bill Dogget’s film HERE.

To find out more about the numerous initiatives of Bill Doggett Productions – Lectures, Exhibitions, Advocacy of African-American Music and Musicians – we invite you to visit Bill Doggett’s Website.

LEARN HOW TO SUPPORT BILL DOGGETT’S PERFORMING ARTS AND HISTORY ARCHIVE. PLEASE CLICK HERE.