The Rosenthal Archives of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)

The Rosenthal Archives of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (Brenda Nelson-Strauss, Director) has recently completed a preservation and access project funded by a $107,350 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. During the course of the three-year project, over 15,000 items were cataloged including corporate records, photographs, moving images, special collections, oral histories, and selected non-commercial sound recordings. Several music collections were also cataloged, including nearly 100 scores marked by Fritz Reiner, 130 original compositions and arrangements by Frederick Stock, and over 200 music manuscripts from the Theodore Thomas Library. Among the Thomas manuscripts are works by William Henry Fry, John Knowles Paine, Harry Rowe Shelley, ...