Hidden in Plain Sight: Musical Treasures in the Penn Library Curated by Marjorie Hassen Otto E. Albrecht Music Library University of Pennsylvania

Leopold Stokowski Collection Ralph Vaughan Williams, 1872-1958 Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis London: J. Curwen, 1921 Score marked by Leopold Stokowski Ralph Vaughan Williams, 1872-1958 Typed Letter Signed to Leopold Stokowski 24 September 1952 In: Leopold Stokowski Collection of Scores Ms. Coll. 350, Box 227 The Leopold Stokowski Collection of Scores includes over 900 scores and sets of parts marked by the conductor for performance. He typically treated his scores as scrapbooks, pasting in postcards, photos, related texts, and letters. Stokowski's curiosity about the Tallis theme on which Vaughan Williams had based his Fantasia led him to query the composer about its provenance. Vaughan Williams response is preserved in the conductor's score of the work.

Table of Contents Introduction Manuscript Collections: Institutions Manuscript Collections: Individuals Sheet Music Images Conducting Scores Music Manuscripts: 15th-18th Centuries Music Manuscripts: 19th & 20th Centuries Landmarks of Music Theory

Leopold Stokowski, 1882-1977
Audition Records, ca. 1966
In: Leopold Stokowski Papers
Ms. Coll. 381, Box 10

During his tenure as conductor of the American Symphony Orchestra, from 1962 to 1972, Leopold Stokowski held daily auditions in his apartment as he search for the most talented young musicians he could find. He maintained records of these sessions, indicating his impressions of the audition and the suitability of each performer for a position in the Orchestra. Exhibited here are two pages from Stokowski's binder that date from the mid-1960s.