Kent State University Libraries and Media Services.(NOTES FOR NOTES)

Kent State University Libraries and Media Services announces the receipt of two major gifts in support of music and its planned Performing Arts Library. The John Mack Estate has given to Kent State the music collection of Mr. Mack, the late principal oboist of the Cleveland Orchestra, faculty member of the Cleveland Institute of Music, and founding faculty member of Kent/Blossom Music. The John Mack Music Collection at Kent State University comprises approximately 800 items, ranging from oboe methods to chamber music to compositions dedicated to Mr. Mack. A highlight of the collection is Mr. Mack's copies of materials for the Oboe Concerto by Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, commissioned by his students for his twenty-fifth anniversary with the Cleveland Orchestra. Most materials in the collection will circulate and be available through interlibrary loan with the understanding that Mr. Mack's ...