Recordings include Fifty Million Frenchmen, Babes in Arms<\/em> (both for New World Records), the complete Show Boat<\/em> (for Angel-EMI), Love Lives On<\/em> (The New York City Gay Men\u2019s Chorus), Unsung Sondheim<\/em>, the Lost in Boston<\/em> series (for Varese Sarabande), and solo albums for Jason Graae, Liz Callaway, Judy Kuhn, and Rebecca Luker. For city Center\u2019s Encores!, he has provided editorial work and\/or additional orchestrations for Call Me Madam<\/em>, The Boys from Syracuse<\/em>, and Pal Joey<\/em> (all recorded by DRG.) His choral arrangements for Leonard Bernstein\u2019s \u201cDream With Me <\/em>and \u201cThe Wrong Note Rag<\/em>\u201d are published by Boosey & Hawkes. His own choral music is published by Yelton Rhodes Music of Los Angeles.<\/p>\n The manuscript portion of the collection predominantly contains pieces written for the New York City Gay Men\u2019s Choir. There are several holiday selections as well as medleys of pop culture tunes. The show manuscripts include The Brain from Planet X, Finnian\u2019s Rainbow, Babes in Toyland, <\/em>and several other shows.<\/p>\n Musical score – manuscript of Dearest Enemy<\/em><\/p>\n Personal materials include a wide range of correspondence and contracts related to Mr. Moore\u2019s work in the music industry. There is a section of documents related to Mr. Moore\u2019s affiliation with the American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers (ASCAP).\u00a0\u00a0 Additional items of interest include report cards and diplomas from kindergarten through his master\u2019s degree, and family photos.\u00a0 The collection includes thousands of playbills and programs from various productions that Mr. Moore has attended.<\/p>\n The printed music collection includes hundreds of popular songs from the 1900\u2019s forward. Well-known artists include Leonard Bernstein, George and Ira Gershwin, Cole Porter, the Beatles, and Henry Purcell. While the bulk of the manuscripts are in Special Collections, many of the books and media are held in the Amos Music Library.<\/p>\n Some of the latest donations include full productions of Roberta<\/em> and Dearest Enemy<\/em> from draft to performance. Some unpublished materials including the musical theatre Libretti<\/em>, like the original 1934 Anything Goes<\/em>, the full score of Mr. Moore\u2019s Cole Porter musical Jubilee<\/em>, a script for Bernstein’s CANDIDE<\/em> that Mr. Moore proposed production for the Middletown Lyric Theatre.<\/p>\n Complete production of Dearest Enemy<\/em><\/p>\n Thanks to a great staff in Special Collections and Archives who sorted, organized, housed for preservation and created a finding aid for Mr. Moore\u2019s collection and a wonderful article in the winter 2015 edition of The Miamian<\/a> and subsequent emails from his friends seems to have also benefited the Libraries by his donations to his Alma Mater.<\/p>\n This October Mr. Moore will be visiting Miami University and he will be in Hamilton on October 7, 2015 as a guest\u00a0speaker at the Michael Colligan History Project<\/a> (colliganproject.org) with his\u00a0presentation “Everyone Want To \u00a0Be Sondheim.”<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Since 2008 researchers of music and theatre have benefited from the generous donations of Mr. Larry Moore, a Miami University alumnus 68, MA 70. Mr. Moore, a New York-based freelance arranger and orchestrator, has been praised by the New York…<\/span><\/p>\n![\"dearest](\"http:\/\/spec.lib.miamioh.edu\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/dearest-enemy-manuscript-.jpg\")
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