Louis Calabro Papers

The Louis Calabro Papers contain records from a composer at Bennington College from 1955-1991. The series are audio materials, awards, grants, and fellowships, Bennington College/teaching files, clippings, compositions, correspondence, performances, and personal papers. The audio materials include vinyl records and magnetic tape reels of recordings of performances of Calabro’s pieces and others' works. The awards, grants, and fellowships series contains correspondence, applications, and contracts relating to various accolades and grants Calabro applied for and/or received. The Bennington College/teaching files series contains papers from the music division at Bennington College and interactions Calabro had with students and fellow faculty members. Clippings include various articles and magazines, including reviews, publicity, and pieces that quote Calabro. The compositions series comprises the bulk of the collection; it contains sheet music of Calabro’s musical compositions. There are onionskins, which are handwritten transparents from which copies were made; there are also pencil scores and printed, copied, or computer generated scores. Correspondence includes communications with publishers, performers, other composers, and people interested in buying music. The performances series contains programs and publicity from performances of Calabro’s music at Bennington College, by the Sage City Symphony and Vermont Symphony Orchestra, and various others. The personal papers series includes various materials from Calabro’s personal life, unrelated to his professional pursuits, including correspondence, writings, performances of other people’s works, and clippings.