Alice Esty accompanied by Celius Dougherty (The Colony Club), 1944 March 30

File — Box: 12

Identifier: MC038/03

Staff Only

Scope and Content Note

From the Series:

Consists of original programs from recitals given by Alice Esty and others between 1942 and 1998. The programs are mostly from concerts given at Carnegie Recital Hall. Each program lists the music presented and the composer, as well as acknowledgements to those accompanying Esty in concert. Many of Esty's performances included commissioned works based on poetry. Her concerts were tributes to their talents, as well as to the talent of the composer who created the "song cycles." This series also contains programs for other performers as well as various art exhibitions and theater performances.

Dates

1944 March 30

Access Restrictions

Some original letters in the Correspondence series are restricted and cannot be consulted without the permission of the Director of Archives and Special Collections. Reference photocopies have been substituted in the main files for research purposes.

While Alice Esty commissioned both composers and writers for many of the scores included in the collection, the copyright of these materials is retained by the composers and the writers, and is not owned by Bates College. Some of these works remain unpublished and, therefore, under the Copyright Law (U.S. Code, Title 17), particularly Section 107, which allows for "fair use" of a copyrighted work, may be given more protection by the courts than published materials. Permission to publish must be obtained by the researcher from the artists themselves or the artists' estates. In addition to publication rights, other exclusive rights, including the right to perform any of the music in public and the right to record music represented in the scores, is retained by the composers and the writers. Bates College does not own and cannot grant these rights. For letters in the collection, copyright and literary rights are owned by the author of the letter or by that author's estate.