VanderCook College of Music
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- Hubert E. Nutt
- Alfred Reed
- Roseanne K. Rosenthal
- VanderCook College Departmental Records
- VanderCook College Commencement Program Collection
- VanderCook College Concert and Recital Collection
- VanderCook College Photograph Collection
- VanderCook College Student Life Collection
- VanderCook College Student, Alumni and Faculty Papers
- Hale A. VanderCook
- Gilbert E. Wilson
- Paul Yoder
- Victor Zajec
H.E. Nutt Papers
See https://www.vandercook.edu/about-vandercook/faculty-administration/founders/ for biographical information.
The H.E. Nutt Collection consists of photographs,correspondence, teaching materials, concert programs, worksheets, scrap books and similar items dating from the early 1910s to 1981
Alfred Reed Papers
Alfred Reed (1921 – 2005) composed over 200 works for concert band, wind ensemble, orchestra, chorus, and chamber ensembles. He succeeded Frederick Fennell as conductor of the Miami University Wind Ensemble. He was elected to the American Bandmasters Association in 1974.
Series includes manuscript copies of “Viva Musica!” and “A Christmas Celebration of Songs and Carols.”
0.43 cubic feet (1 box)
Roseanne K. Rosenthal Papers
Dr. Roseanne Rosenthal was President of VanderCook College of Music from 1989 – 2004 and from 2017 – 2024. She is currently a member of the teaching faculty. See https://www.vandercook.edu/about-vandercook/faculty-administration/past-presidents/ for biographical information.
Series includes correspondence, accreditation materials, and her published research.
VanderCook College Commencement Photograph Collection
This is a collection of VanderCook commencement and class photographs (1929 – 1970) is hosted here: https://collections.carli.illinois.edu/digital/collection/vcm_com . Each year’s commencement program may also be found in the Concert and Recital Collection.
VanderCook College Concert and Recital Collection
This is a collection of audio and visual performances of VanderCook ensembles, including band, choir, and string ensembles. The collection also includes student seminars and recitals. Formats include cassette, CD, videotape, and DVD. Printed concert programs are also included. Recordings mostly represent 1990 through 2015.
The program collection can be searched here: https://sites.google.com/a/vandercook.edu/vcm-concerts-recitals/
VanderCook College Photograph Collection
The VanderCook College of Music Photograph Collection documents the college’s history through images of people and events. These include images of VanderCook faculty, staff and students, graduating classes, ensembles and classroom activities. The photos also document various junior and senior high school music ensembles directed by VanderCook personnel, summer camps and workshops. Also included are personal photographs of important individuals in the College’s history. The collection includes photographs separated out from the Office of Publications Collection.
Photographs are arranged into series according to decade (1920-1929, 1930-1939 and so forth). There are also series for groups of photographs with miscellaneous dates, as well as undated photographs. Additional series include the Midwest International Band and Orchestra Clinic photographs.
7.737 cubic feet (30 boxes)
VanderCook College Student Life Collection
This collection documents the history of student life and activities at VanderCook College of Music.
Series include photographs, course-related materials, publications and compositions, audiovisual materials, and student organizations.
1.305 cubic feet (5 boxes)
VanderCook College Student, Alumni and Faculty Papers
This collection contains the papers of individuals associated with VanderCook College of Music, particularly as these materials pertain to their activities while attending or teaching at the college.
Series include course materials, class projects, publications or compositions, student papers, alumni papers, and faculty papers. This collection includes materials of Forrest L. Buchtel, Sr., Michael Pendowski, Dennis Northway, Marc Jacoby, Harry Lemert, Stuart Baumann, George Stanley, Clifford P. Lillya, and George R. Borich.
2.329 cubic feet (10 boxes)
Gilbert Edwin Wilson Papers
Gilbert Edwin Wilson was born in Girard, Ohio on June 10, 1914. He received his B.S. in Education from Southeast Missouri State Teachers College in 1942 and his M.M.Ed. from VanderCook College of Music in 1949. He received his Doctor of Musical Arts degree from the Conservatory of Music, University of Missouri-Kansas City in 1969. His dissertation on Hale A. VanderCook was later published by VanderCook College of Music as “H.A. VanderCook the Teacher.” This is the definitive biography of VanderCook. Gilbert Wilson was a conductor of band, orchestra and choral organizations at both the high school and college levels. He was an assistant professor of instrumental music at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois and Associate Professor of Instrumental Music at Peru State College in Peru, Nebraska. He died on August 7, 2004 in Lincoln, Nebraska.
Series include: oral history interviews with Forrest L. Buchtel, Sr., Haskell Harr, Hubert E. Nutt, Joe Roberts, John H. Beckerman, Richard E. Brittain, Elver J. Fitchhorn, and others; personal correspondence; photographs.
0.819 cubic feet (2 boxes)
Paul V. Yoder Papers
Paul Van Buskirk Yoder was born in Tacoma, Washington on October 8, 1908. He received a Master of Music degree from Northwestern University and an Honorary Doctorate from the University of North Dakota. Yoder also completed coursework at VanderCook College of Music. He was regarded as the “Dean of American band composers,” composing over 1,500 original compositions and arrangements. He was also called the “father of bands” in Japan, and “America’s musical ambassador” for his international work as a conductor, adjudicator and clinician. His work with schools and band camps had a profound impact on the growth of the school band movement in America. He received hundreds of honors and awards throughout his career, which spanned more than sixty years. He was an Honorary Life Member and Past President of the American Bandmasters Association. He contributed more than 40 years of service to the Midwest International Band and Orchestra Clinic, including serving on its Board of Directors. He died in Hendersonville, North Carolina on April 4, 1990.
Series includes the manuscript for his composition “Haskell’s Rascals,” a snare drum trio with band accompaniment composed in tribute to Haskell Harr (published 1954 by Kjos Music).