Robert Freeman
Biographical Sketch | Scope | Provenance | Access & Copyright | Container List
Physical description: The Robert Freeman collection consists of approximately 5 lin. ft. (five record cartons), organized into ten series. The collection is comprised of paper files and a few photographs.
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Biographical Sketch: Robert Freeman received his undergraduate degree in music at Harvard in 1957, concurrently completing a diploma in piano at the Longy School and studying during the summers of 1955 and 1956 with Artur Balsam and Rudolf Serkin. After a year in Europe on one of Harvard's Sheldon Traveling Fellowships, he earned MFA and PhD degrees in musicology at Princeton, where he joined the faculty in 1963. He served as assistant and associate professor at MIT during the period 1968-73, and in the fall of 1972 was appointed director of the Eastman School of Music, which he led from 1972 to 1996. Appointed president of the New England Conservatory in 1996, he moved to the University of Texas at Austin in 2000 as Dean of the College of Fine Arts, a position from which he stepped down in the fall of 2006. A Steinway artist since the mid 1970s, Freeman has performed as pianist in the United States, Canada, and Europe, and has recorded with colleagues both at Eastman and at UT. His honors include two years as a Fulbright fellow to Vienna, 1960-62; a Martha Baird Rockefeller grant in 1962-63; the Civic Medal of Rochester, New York, awarded in connection with his work on downtown revitalization; and an honorary DMA from Hamilton College. He has published on a variety of topics in 18th-century music history and on the history and future of the education of musicians. He has served on advisory councils for music and the arts at Harvard, MIT, Yale, Princeton, Howard, Middlebury, and Vanderbilt, and is a member of the boards of the Austin Symphony, the Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation, and the National Center for Human Performance at the Texas Medical Center in Houston. He chairs the board of the Institute for Music and Brain Science at Harvard-Massachusetts General Hospital. At the University of Texas he holds the Susan Menefee Ragan Regents Professorship in Fine Arts.
Source: Butler School of Music website (Accessed 30 April 2008).
Scope and Content Note: This collection is organized into ten series:
1) Correspondence/Memoranda - organized by year, alphabetically within each year. Additionally, there are two sub-series under Series I: Ia. Memoranda (to the NEC Community, and personal memoranda) ; and Ib Student Correspondence
2) Academic Department Files - organized alphabetically by department name, and chronologically within each department folder. A few individual faculty files are included with their respective department files.
3) Administrative Department Files - organized alphabetically by department name, and chronologically within each department folder.
4) Preparatory/Continuing Education Records
5) Board of Trustees Records - correspondence / memoranda relating to the Board of Trustees, organized according to recipient.
6) Committee Records - primarily consists of materials from committees initiated by President Freeman
9) Writings/Biographical Information
10) External Files - arranged alphabetically by name of external organization
Provenance: This collection was generated by Robert Freeman during his tenure as President of NEC from 1997-1999. After Freeman's presidency, these materials were transferred from the President’s Office to the NEC Archives.
Access: Access to the Freeman Collection is granted by the Archivist or Director of Libraries. Appointments must be scheduled in advance. There are restrictions pertaining to this collection as determined by the Director of Libraries and the Office of the President.
Copyright: All copyrights to this collection belong to the New England Conservatory. Permission to publish materials from this collection is granted by the Director of Libraries. This collection should be cited as: RG 1.10: Robert Freeman Collection, President, 1997-1999. New England Conservatory Archives, Boston, MA.
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Series I : General Correspondence
Box 1 - Folder 1
Correspondence A, 1997
Box 1 - Folder 2
Correspondence B, 1997
Box 1 - Folder 3
Correspondence C, 1997
Box 1 - Folder 4
Correspondence D, 1997
Box 1 - Folder 5
Correspondence E, 1997
Box 1 - Folder 6
Correspondence F, 1997
Box 1 - Folder 7
Correspondence G, 1997
Box 1 - Folder 8
Correspondence H, 1997
Box 1 - Folder 9
Correspondence I-J, 1997
Box 1 - Folder 10
Correspondence K, 1997
Box 1 - Folder 11
Correspondence L, 1997
Box 1 - Folder 12
Correspondence M, 1997
Box 1 - Folder 13
Correspondence N, 1997
Box 1 - Folder 14
Correspondence O, 1997
Box 1 - Folder 15
Correspondence P, 1997
Box 1 - Folder 16
Correspondence R, 1997
Box 1 - Folder 17
Correspondence S, 1997
Box 1 - Folder 18
Correspondence T, 1997
Box 1 - Folder 19
Correspondence U-V, 1997
Box 1 - Folder 20
Correspondence W, 1997
Box 1 - Folder 21
Correspondence Y, 1997
Box 1 - Folder 22
Correspondence A, 1998
Box 1 - Folder 23
Correspondence B, 1998
Box 1 - Folder 24
Correspondence C, 1998
Box 1 - Folder 25
Correspondence D, 1998
Box 1 - Folder 26
Correspondence E, 1998
Box 1 - Folder 27
Correspondence F, 1998
Box 1 - Folder 28
Correspondence G, 1998
Box 1 - Folder 29
Correspondence H, 1998
Box 1 - Folder 30
Correspondence I-J, 1998
Box 1 - Folder 31
Correspondence K, 1998
Box 1 - Folder 32
Correspondence L, 1998
Box 1 - Folder 33
Correspondence M, 1998
Box 1 - Folder 34
Correspondence N, 1998
Box 1 - Folder 35
Correspondence O-P, 1998
Box 1 - Folder 36
Correspondence R, 1998
Box 1 - Folder 37
Correspondence S, 1998
Box 1 - Folder 38
Correspondence T-U, 1998
Box 1 - Folder 39
Correspondence V-W, 1998
Box 1 - Folder 40
Correspondence Y-Z, 1998
Box 2 - Folder 1
Correspondence, A-F, 1999
Box 2 - Folder 2
Correspondence, G-N, 1999
Box 2 - Folder 3
Correspondence, P-Z, 1999
Series Ia - Memoranda
Box 2 - Folder 4
Memoranda, to NEC Community, 1996-1997
Box 2 - Folder 5
Memoranda, to NEC Community, 1998
Box 2 - Folder 6
Memoranda, to NEC Community, 1999
Box 2 - Folder 7
Memoranda, Personal file, 1997-1999
Series Ib – Student Correspondence
Box 2 - Folder 8
Student correspondence, General, A-H, 1996-1997
Box 2 - Folder 9
Student correspondence, General, L-Z, and petitions, 1997
Box 2 - Folder 10
Student correspondence, General, A-N, 1998-99
Box 2 - Folder 11
Student correspondence, General, P-Z, and petitions, 1998-1999
Box 2 - Folders 12 - 20
Student correspondence, Individual students
Series II- Academic Department Files
Box 2 – Folder 21
Brass and Percussion
Box 2 – Folder 22
Chamber Music
Box 2 – Folder 23
Chorus
Box 2 – Folder 24
Composition
Box 2 – Folder 25
Contemporary Improvisation
Box 2 – Folder 26
Guitar / Eliot Fisk, faculty
Box 2 – Folder 27
Jazz/Improvisation
Box 2 – Folder 28
Liberal Arts
Box 2 – Folder 29
Music Education
Box 2 – Folder 30
Music History
Box 2 – Folder 31
Music History – Faculty – Helen Greenwald
Box 2 – Folder 32
Music History - Faculty – Anne Hallmark
Box 2 – Folder 33
Music History – Faculty – Robert Labaree
Box 2 – Folder 34
Opera
Box 2 – Folder 35
Orchestra
Box 2 – Folder 36
Organ
Box 2 – Folder 37
Piano
Box 2 – Folder 38
Piano, Faculty – Gabriel Chodos
Box 2 – Folder 39
Piano, Faculty - Veronica Jochum von Moltke
Box 2 – Folder 40
Piano, Faculty – Russell Sherman
Box 2 – Folder 41
Piano, Faculty – Patricia Zander
Box 2 – Folder 42
Strings
Box 2 – Folder 43
Theory (Graduate)
Box 2 – Folder 44
Theory (Graduate), Faculty, Patricia Zander
Box 2 – Folder 45
Theory (Undergraduate)
Box 2 – Folder 46
Thelonious Monk Institute, 1996-1997
Box 2 – Folder 47
Thelonious Monk Institute, 1998-1999
Box 2 – Folder 48
Voice
Box 2 – Folder 49
Winds
Series III – Administrative Departments
Box 2 - Folder 50
Admissions, 1997
Box 2 – Folder 51
Admissions, 1998
Box 2 – Folder 52
Alumni Relations
Box 2 – Folder 53
Building Operations
Box 2 – Folder 54
Career Services
Box 2 – Folder 55
Dean of Students
Box 2 – Folder 56
Development, 1997
Box 2 – Folder 57
Development, 1998-1999
Box 2 – Folder 58
Finance and Administration
Box 2 – Folder 59
Financial Aid
Box 2 – Folder 60
Human Resources
Box 2 – Folder 61
Institutional Advancement, Ron Schiller
Box 2 – Folder 62
Libraries
Box 2 – Folder 63
Performance Services
Box 2 – Folder 64
President’s Office - Budget
Box 2 – Folder 65
President’s Office – Fund
Box 2 – Folder 66
President’s Office – Staff
Box 3 – Folder 1
Provost’s Office
Box 3 – Folder 2
Public Relations
Box 3 – Folder 3
Residence Life
Box 3 – Folder 4
Registrar
Series IV - Preparatory/Continuing Education Division
Box 3 – Folder 5
Preparatory / Continuing Ed.
Box 3 – Folder 6
Preparatory / Continuing Ed – Larry Scripp
Series V - Board of Trustees and Overseers
Box 3 - Folder 7
Correspondence with Board of Trustees Chair, 1997
Box 3 – Folder 8
Correspondence with Chairman, January – July 1998
Box 3 – Folder 9
Correspondence with Chairman, August – December 1998
Box 3 – Folder 10
Correspondence with Chairman, 1999
Box 3 – Folder 11
Memoranda to members of the Board
Box 3 – Folder 12
Memoranda to full Board of Trustees and Overseers
Box 3 – Folder 13
General Committee records
Box 3 – Folder 14
Artist/Teacher/Scholar Committee
Box 3 – Folder 15
Audience Development Committee
Box 3 – Folder 16
Calendar Schedule Committee
Box 3 – Folder 17
Faculty Issues Committee
Box 3 – Folder 18
Faculty Segmentation Committee
Box 3 – Folder 19
Repertory and Curriculum Committee- College
Box 3 – Folder 20
Repertory and Curriculum Committee – Preparatory Division
Box 3 – Folder 21
Vocational and Avocational Committee
Box 3 – Folder 22
Diversity Committee – Paul Robeson Tribute
Box 3 – Folder 23
Division Heads
Box 3 – Folder 24
Strategic Planning Committee-Long Range
Box 3 – Folder 25
Undergraduate Curriculum Committee
Box 3 – Folder 26
Freeman’s Inauguration
Box 3 – Folder 27
Salon 222
Series VIII – NEC Projects/Subject files
Box 3 – Folder 28
Consultants – Human Resources Management
Box 3 – Folder 29
Boston Consulting Group Study
Box 3 – Folder 30
Consultants – Capitol Associates – Federal Fundraising Initiatives
Box 3 – Folder 31
Boston Music Education Collaborative (BMEC), Fall 1996-1997
Box 3 – Folder 32
BMEC, 1998-1999
Box 3 – Folder 33
Five Year Plan
Box 3 – Folder 34
Five Year Plan
Box 3 – Folder 35
From the Top
Box 3 – Folder 36
Huntington Brass Quintet
Box 3 – Folder 37
Gunther Schuller recordings
Box 3 – Folder 38
Walnut Hill
Box 3 - Folder 39
Tourjee photo
Series IX – Speeches/Writings/ Biographical Information
Box 3 – Folder 40
NEC Speeches/ Interviews for NEC Publications
Box 3 – Folder 41
Articles/Interviews for non-NEC publications
Box 3 – Folder 42
Letters to the Editor
Box 3 – Folder 43
Biographical Information
Box 3 – Folder 44
Speeches/articles (from time at Eastman)
Box 3 – Folder 45
Photographs
Box 3 – Folder 46
External files, General, A-B
Box 3 – Folder 47
External files, General, C-H
Box 3 – Folder 48
External files, General, I-N
Box 3 – Folder 49
External files, General, P-Z
Box 3 – Folder 50
American Classical Music Hall of Fame
Box 3 – Folder 51
American Festival for the Arts
Box 3 – Folder 52
American Symphony Orchestra League, 1997-1998
Box 3 – Folder 53
Anderson Quartet, 1997-98
Box 3 – Folder 54
BankBoston Celebrity Series
Box 3 – Folder 55
Board of Higher Education, 1997-1998
Box 3 – Folder 56
Boston (2000)
Box 3 – Folder 57
Boston Classical Orchestra
Box 3 – Folder 58
Boston Conservatory of Music
Box 3 – Folder 59
Boston – Fenway Program, 1997
Box 3 – Folder 60
Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP), 1997-1999
Box 3 – Folder 61
Boston Public Library, 1997-1998
Box 3 – Folder 62
Boston Skyline Records, 1996-1998
Box 3 – Folder 63
Boston Symphony Orchestra / Pops, 1996-1997
Box 3 – Folder 64
Boston Symphony Orchestra, 1998-1999
Box 3 – Folder 65
Bregenz Festival, 1998-1999
Box 3 – Folder 66
Zakhar Bron, 1997-1998
Box 4 - Folder 1
Chamber Music America, 1997-98
Box 4 – Folder 2
City on a Hill, annual reports, 1996-99
Box 4 – Folder 3
City on a Hill, correspondence, 1997-1998
Box 4 – Folder 4
College Music Society, 1997-1998
Box 4 – Folder 5
Cultural and Scientific Director’s Group
Box 4 – Folder 6
Curtis Institute of Music
Box 4 – Folder 7
Europe Trip File, October 1998
Box 4 – Folder 8
Fenway Alliance, 1997
Box 4 – Folder 9
Fenway Alliance, Muddy River – Restoration and Action Plan, 1997
Box 4 – Folder 10
Fenway Alliance, Planning Report, 1997
Box 4 – Folder 11
Fenway Alliance, 1998
Box 4 – Folder 12
Fenway Alliance, 1999
Box 4 – Folder 13
Gasteig
Box 4 – Folder 14
Guildhall School of Music and Drama – Ian Horsbrugh
Box 4 – Folder 15
Handel and Haydn Society
Box 4 – Folder 16
Harvard University – Miscellaneous, 1996-1999
Box 4 – Folder 17
Hochschule fur Musik (Freiburg)
Box 4 – Folder 18
Hochschule fur Musik (Vienna)
Box 4 – Folder 19
INK (Institut fur Internationales Kulturmanagement (E. Heintz)
Box 4 – Folder 20
University of Iowa (The Seashore Symposium)
Box 4 – Folder 21
Japanese Consulate
Box 4 – Folder 22
Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression
Box 4 – Folder 23
Melvin Kaplan Inc.
Box 4 – Folder 24
Senator Edward Kennedy (much of the correspondence deals with the Young Performances series)
Box 4 – Folder 25
John F. Kennedy – Harbison Commission
Box 4 – Folder 26
Killington Music Festival
Box 4 – Folder 27
Kodaly Center of America
Box 4 – Folder 28
Kumho Group
Box 4 – Folder 29
Kunitachi College of Music (Bin Ebisawa)
Box 4 – Folder 30
Legal Seafoods
Box 4 – Folder 31
Massachusetts, Commonwealth of
Box 4 – Folder 32
Millenium Tavern Club – Jubilee 2000
Box 4 – Folder 33
John J. Moakley, U.S. Representative
Box 4 – Folder 34
Museum of Fine Arts
Box 4 – Folder 35
The Music and Science Information Computer Archive (MUSICA)
Box 4 – Folder 36
National Association of Schools of Music (NASM), 1996-1997
Box 4 – Folder 37
NASM, January - August 1998
Box 4 – Folder 38
NASM, September- December 1998
Box 4 – Folder 39
NASM, 1999
Box 4 – Folder 40
National Endowment for the Arts (NEA)
Box 4 – Folder 41
National Endowment for the Humanities
Box 4 – Folder 42
National Public Radio
Box 4 – Folder 43
New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC)
Box 4 – Folder 44
New England Board of Higher Education (NEBHE)
Box 4 – Folder 45
New World Symphony
Box 4 – Folder 46
New York String Quartet
Box 4 – Folder 47
Northeastern University
Box 4 – Folder 48
Oxford trip, March 1997
Box 4 – Folder 49
Paris Conservatory
Box 4 – Folder 50
Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity
Box 4 – Folder 51
ProArts, 1998
Box 4 – Folder 52
Project STEP
Box 4 – Folder 53
Red Sox
Box 4 – Folder 54
Sachsen Institute
Box 4 – Folder 55
Salzburg Seminar
Box 4 – Folder 56
Gunther Schuller, 1997-1999
Box 4 – Folder 57
Seven Springs Conference, 1997-99
Box 4 – Folder 58
Seven Springs Questionnaire
Box 4 – Folder 59
Catherine Filene Shouse Foundation
Box 4 – Folder 60
Sibelius Academy
Box 4 – Folder 61
Hon. Louise Slaughter
Box 4 – Folder 62
Gerald Slavet, Taste of Passover
Box 4 – Folder 63
South Shore Conservatory
Box 4 – Folder 64
Triple Helix
Box 4 – Folder 65
James Undercofler (Eastman)
Box 4 – Folder 66
UCLA
Box 4 – Folder 67
US Department of Education
Box 5 - Folder 1
US Government (General)
Box 5 – Folder 2
Nancy Uscher
Box 5 – Folder 3
Vienna trip – Dresden, Gorlitz, Bregenz – May, 1998
Box 5 – Folder 4
WBUR
Box 5 – Folder 5
WCRB
Box 5 – Folder 6
WGBH, 1996 - June, 1998
Box 5 – Folder 7
WGBH, July 1998- March 1999
Box 5 – Folder 8
WGBH Educational Foundation
Box 5 – Folder 9
Wellesley College
Box 5 – Folder 10
Wuhan Conservatory of Music
Box 5 – Folder 11
Young Audiences
Box 5 – Folder 12
YMCA