Peter Yates papers | WorldCat.org (original) (raw)

Summary:Mostly correspondence and drafts of writings (articles, short stories, poems, books, and program text) by Yates. The collection also includes programs and pamphlets documenting Yates's public lectures, broadcasts, and concert productions; miscellaneous notes by Yates on a variety of subjects; copy books of Mrs. Frances Mullen Yates; typescripts of poems by Peyton Houston; and copies of musical scores of composers Ingolf Dahl, Lou Harrison, Charles Ives, and J.S. Bach. Significant correspondents include composers John Cage, Lou Harrison, Charles Ives, Ernst Krenek, Harry Partch, Roger Reynolds, Arnold Schoenberg, Virgil Thomson, pianist John Kirkpatrick, and poets Ronald Johnson, Marianne Moore, Lorine Niedecker, Kenneth Patchen, Kenneth Rexroth, Carl Sandburg, and Karl Shapiro