COPLAND AARON Group of 32 items Signed or Signed and warmly

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COPLAND, AARON. Group of 32 items Signed, or Signed and warmly Inscribed, to Darold B. Morrison, including sheet music, concert programs, books, a long playing record, and a conducting baton used by him, but unsigned. Format and condition vary. Vp, [1985-87]

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Three pieces of printed sheet music, each Signed and Inscribed on the title-page or first page: "Four Piano Blues," "Rodeo: Ballet in One Act," and "Night Thoughts" Twenty concert programs, mostly for performances of the New York Philharmonic or Martha Graham Dance Company, each Signed, or Signed and Inscribed, mostly on the program schedule page. Some duplicates. 1984-86.
Signed and Inscribed books: Copland. What to Listen for in Music. With an Autograph Musical Quotation. 1986 Butterworth. The Music of Aaron Copland. 1987 Maritain. A Christian Looks at the Jewish Question. 1987 Andreyev. The Little Angel. 1985 Franklin. Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. 1985 Three copies: Copland and Perlis. Copland: 1900 through 1942. Two inscribed by both in 1985, the other by Copland, 1985.
Long playing record: Copland. Symphony No. 3 and Quiet City, Signed and Inscribed on the cover. Some fading to inscription, some curling to right edge. Deutsche Grammophon, 1986.
Conducting baton used by him. 18 inches, wooden shaft; framed. With a letter signed by Copland's assistant, David Walker, on August 23, 1989: "This is to confirm that a gift of one of Aaron Copland's conducting batons was made to Darold Morrison, and that his baton is indeed from Mr. Copland's collection and was used by him."