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The University of Pennsylvania Libraries have acquired the papers and memorabilia of songwriter and Penn alumnus Ray Evans (1915-2007) and his wife, Wyn, through a gift from The Ray & Wyn Ritchie Evans Foundation. The foundation will also fund the two-year appointment of a project cataloger who will integrate the materials into the libraries' collections. Evans and his songwriting partner Jay Livingston (1915-2001) met while students at Penn in 1934. The duo won three Academy Awards for best original song. In 1948, they won for "Buttons and Bows," written for the movie The Paleface. They won their second Oscar for "Mona Lisa," from the movie Captain Carey, U.S.A. (1950). The third was for "Que Sera Sera," from The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956). They also wrote the popular Christmas song "Silver Bells," and theme songs for television shows, such as Bonanza and Mr. Ed.

Already home to the papers of several well-known figures in music— including Eugene Ormandy, Leopold Stokowski, and Marian Anderson— Penn's Rare Book & Manuscript Library will serve as the repository for the study and appreciation of Evans and his work.

For more information, contact Penn's curator of manuscripts, Nancy Shawcross, shawcros@pobox.upenn.edu.

Richard Griscom
Otto E. Albrecht Music Library University of Pennsylvania

The Music Library at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, celebrated its seventy-fifth anniversary on 20 October 2011 with the opening of an exhibition entitled Curating Sound: 75 Years of Music Collections at UNC Chapel Hill (open through 30 January 2012). The exhibition featured treasures from the Music Library, Southern Folklife Collection, and the Southern Historical Collection, including manuscripts, incunabla, Renaissance editions, rare sound recordings, photographs, posters, and musical instruments (including Andy Griffith's guitar). The UNC Friends of the Library sponsored the opening reception, and members of the UNC Library staff hosted the annual meeting of the Southeast Chapter of MLA (20-22 October 2011).

Philip Vandermeer
University of North Carolina Music Library [End Page 556]

The University of Iowa Music Library announces that the recordings of the Stradivari Quartet are now available for streaming directly at http://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/strad. The quartet was a faculty quartet at the University of Iowa, in Iowa City, Iowa. As a newly restructured ensemble in 1960, they were self-named The Iowa String Quartet. In 1967 the quartet received on loan from the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, a set of instruments made by Antonio Stradivari known as the "Paganini" Strads. During the five years the quartet performed on these instruments, the quartet's name was changed to Stradivari Quartet, a name that they retained until the quartet disbanded in 1996. The recordings in this digital collection include many of the performances and most of the works performed by the group. Among these are the American premiere of Milo Cipra's Quartet no. 5 (20 April 1983), the first recording of Robert Stewart's Quartet no. 5 (20 April 1988), and the world premiere of Linda Riddle Williams's Arcadia Quartet (17 October 1990). While the majority of the performances were on the University of Iowa campus, a limited number of performances at other venues are included. In addition to the recordings, the digital collection also includes a documentary film about the ensemble, originally produced by the University of Iowa Motion Picture Unit in 1969.

Joseph McKinley and Grace Fitzgerald
University of Iowa

The University of Hartford recently acquired the private collection of Jack Elliott (1927-2001), thanks to the generosity of Mrs. Bobbi Elliott. The collection contains scores and performance parts for symphonic jazz works by Hollywood composers and arrangers. Born Irwin Elliott Zucker, Elliott was a composer, conductor, music arranger, songwriter, and television producer. He graduated from The Hartt School at the University of Hartford, and studied composition with Isadore Freed, Bohuslav Martinů, and Lukas Foss. He worked as a jazz pianist in New York and Paris in the 1950s before moving to Los Angeles to be an arranger for Judy Garland's television show. He gained a reputation as one of Hollywood's premier composers and arrangers—providing music for, among others, Charlie's Angels...