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Descriptive Summary of the Collection
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Inventory of the Robert Marsh Papers, 1949-1986
Machine-readable finding aid encoded by Shannon Yule, 2007. ©2007. |
Descriptive Summary of the Collection |
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| Creator | Marsh, Robert C. (Robert Charles) |
| Title | Robert Marsh Papers |
| Dates | 1949-1986 |
| Extent | 4.4 linear feet. (1 box, 3 oversize boxes) |
| Abstract | Correspondence, scrapbooks, and record reviews of Chicago music critic and author, Robert Marsh. |
| Language | Materials are in English. |
| Repository | Newberry Library, Roger and Julie Baskes Department of Special Collections |
| Collection Call Number | Midwest MS Marsh |
| Collection Stack Location | 3a 28 2 |
Administrative Information
Cite As
Robert Marsh Papers, The Newberry Library, Chicago.
Provenance
Gift of Robert Marsh, 1985-1997.
Processed by
Shannon Yule, 2007.
Acknowledgements
This inventory was created with the generous support of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this inventory do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Access
The Robert Marsh Papers are open for research in the Special Collections Reading Room; 1 box at a time (Priority III).
Ownership and Literary Rights
The Robert Marsh Papers are the physical property of the Newberry Library. Copyright may belong to the authors or their legal heirs or assigns. For permission to publish or reproduce any materials from this collection, contact the Roger and Julie Baskes Department of Special Collections.
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Biography of Robert Marsh
Chicago music critic and author.
Robert Charles Marsh was born in Columbus, Ohio, in 1924. He graduated from Northwestern University with degrees in journalism and philosophy, later receiving his doctorate from Harvard. He continued his studies, taking courses on music and philosophy at Cornell, the University of Chicago, Oxford and Cambridge. Marsh taught at Northwestern University and the University of Chicago between the years of 1947 and 1968 on a full-time or adjunct basis.
In 1956, Marsh succeeded Felix Borowski as music critic for the Chicago Sun-Times. He retained this position until his retirement in 1991. In addition to Marsh’s work with the Sun-Times, he was also a contributing classical record reviewer for High Fidelity Magazine between 1954 and 1980.
Marsh was a prolific author, writing works on Arturo Toscanini, the Cleveland Orchestra, and James Levine among others. When Marsh died he was nearly finished with a meticulous chronicle of opera in Chicago that he had been working on for over 20 years. Norman Pellegrini completed the work and published it in 2006.
Marsh won a Peabody Award for Broadcasting for his WFMT series on Igor Stravinsky, a collaborative effort with Chicago Daily News music critic, Karen Monson.
Marsh died in 2002 at the age of 77 after a long battle with cancer of the esophagus. He was survived by his wife Anne Noren Marsh and son James MacArgain Marsh.
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Scope and Content of the Collection
This collection contains significant correspondence mainly from the 1950s and 1960s with Cleveland Orchestra conductor George Szell, conductor and Chicago Symphony Orchestra music director Artur Rodzinski, composer and pianist Alexander Tcherepnin, and journalist and NBC anchor John Chancellor.
Additionally, the collection includes large scrapbook pages containing newspaper clippings of Marsh’s reviews and columns, some correspondence, other clippings collected for personal interest, and memorabilia collected from 1969-1978.
Also included are Marsh’s classical record reviews from High Fidelity Magazine and his corrected unbound copy of The Cleveland Orchestra.
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Arrangement
Materials are arranged alphabetically by type of document.
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Selected Search Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the Newberry Library's public catalog. Researchers desiring additional materials on a particular topic should search the catalog using these headings.
Names
- Szell, George, 1897-1970
- Chancellor, John, 1927 July 14-
- Marsh, Robert C. (Robert Charles)
- Rodzinski, Artur, 1892-1958
- Tcherepnin, Alexander, 1899-1977
Subjects
- Chicago sun-times
- Correspondence -- 1951-2000
- Journalists -- Illinois -- Chicago
- Manuscripts, American -- Illinois -- Chicago
- Music critics -- Illinois -- Chicago
- Newspapers -- Sections, columns, etc. -- Reviews
- Scrapbooks -- 1951-2000
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| Box | Folder | Contents | |||||||||
| 1 | 1 | Correspondence - Chancellor, John (incoming only), 1949-1956, 1986 | |||||||||
| 1 | 2 | Correspondence - Rodzinski, Artur (also includes correspondence with Westminster Recording Co., Herman Scherchen, and Haline Rodzinski), 1954-1967 | |||||||||
| 1 | 3 | Correspondence - Szell, George (also includes correspondence with his asst., Margaret Glove), 1961-1967 | |||||||||
| 1 | 4 | Correspondence - Szell, George (also includes correspondence with Margaret Glove and Helene Szell). 1968-1970 | |||||||||
| 1 | 5 | Correspondence - Tcherepnin, Alexander, 1957-1962 | |||||||||
| 1 | 6 | Correspondence - Tcherepnin, Alexander, 1963-1970 | |||||||||
| 1 | 7 | Scrapbook (see oversize box 1), Jan. - Jun. 1969 | |||||||||
| 1 | 8 | Scrapbook (see oversize box 1), Jul. - Dec. 1969 | |||||||||
| 1 | 9 | Scrapbook (see oversize box 1), Jan. - Jun. 1970 | |||||||||
| 1 | 10 | Scrapbook (see oversize box 1), Jul. - Dec. 1970 | |||||||||
| 1 | 11 | Scrapbook (see oversize box 1), Jan. - Jun. 1971 | |||||||||
| 1 | 12 | Scrapbook (see oversize box 1), Jul. - Dec. 1971 | |||||||||
| 1 | 13 | Scrapbook (see oversize box 1), Jan. - Jun. 1972 | |||||||||
| 1 | 14 | Scrapbook (see oversize box 1), Jul. - Dec. 1972 | |||||||||
| 1 | 15 | Scrapbook (see oversize box 2), Jan. - Jun. 1973 | |||||||||
| 1 | 16 | Scrapbook (see oversize box 2), Jul. - Dec. 1973 | |||||||||
| 1 | 17 | Scrapbook (see oversize box 2), Jan. - Jun. 1974 | |||||||||
| 1 | 18 | Scrapbook (see oversize box 2), Jul. - Dec. 1974 | |||||||||
| 1 | 19 | Scrapbook (see oversize box 2), Jan. - Jun. 1975 | |||||||||
| 1 | 20 | Scrapbook (see oversize box 2), Jul. - Dec. 1975 | |||||||||
| 1 | 21 | Scrapbook (see oversize box 3), Jan. - Jun. 1976 | |||||||||
| 1 | 22 | Scrapbook (see oversize box 3), Jul. - Dec. 1976 | |||||||||
| 1 | 23 | Scrapbook (see oversize box 3), Jan. - Jun. 1977 | |||||||||
| 1 | 24 | Scrapbook (see oversize box 3), Jul. - Dec. 1977 | |||||||||
| 1 | 25 | Scrapbook (see oversize box 3), Jan. - Apr. 1978 | |||||||||
| 1 | 26 | Scrapbook (see oversize box 3), May - Aug. 1978 | |||||||||
| 1 | 27 | Works - The Cleveland Orchestra (unbound sheets, author's corrected copy), 1967 | |||||||||
| 1 | 28 | Works - Records Reviews in High Fidelity Magazine, 1956-1958 | |||||||||
| 1 | 29 | Works - Records Reviews in High Fidelity Magazine, 1969-1973 | |||||||||
| 1 | 30 | Works - Records Reviews in High Fidelity Magazine, 1976, 1978, 1980 | |||||||||