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F-E F, 1963-1979, bulk 1971-1975, 1980-1989, undated

 File — Box: 47, Folder: 47
Identifier: 0039_PER_Pian_Series_1_Subseries_47_Folder_47
-Handel’s “Messiah”. Idyllwild Town Crier. Dec. 15. 1983. Page 17 (Note 2)

-Soloists picked for seventh annual ‘Messiah’ production next month. Idyllwild Town Crier. Nov. 24, 1983. Page 8 (Note 2)

-Letter from Ellen Koskoff to Rulan Chao Pian. July 25, 1983. Typescript, signed (photocopy) with handwritten notes. On requesting advice on the review of Colin Mackerras’ book: The performing arts in contemporary china (1981) (Note 2)

-Memo from Peter Frost to Pian. February 16, 1984. Typescript (photocopy), signed. On replying the letter dated February 14 (Note 2)

-Chinese films. Harvard Film Archive. Typescript (photocopy). Program leaflet (Note 2)

-Letter from Rulan Chao Pian to T. Jefferson Kline. April 6, 1984. Typescript, signed (carbon copy). Recommendation letter for Ron Egan to apply the teaching position (Note 1)

-Memo from Ellen Widmer to R. Pian. 1 sheet. Holograph. On George’s exam schedule (Note 1) (Note 2)

-Letter from T. Jefferson Kline to Rulan Chao Pian. May 10, 1984. Typescript (photocopy), signed. On thanking the letter on behalf of Ron Egan (Note 2)

-Memo from El to Rulan. May 28, 1984. 1 sheet. Holograph (Note 2)

-Fletcher, Eminent Central Asia expert, dies. Harvard gazette. June 29, 1984. Page 3 (Note 2)

-A service of thanksgiving for the life of Joseph Francis Fletcher. October 12, 1984. Typescript (photocopy). Service schedules (Note 2)

-Card from Robert Shenton to members of the faculty and staff. September 24, 1984. Typescript (photocopy). On the memorial service for Joseph Francis Fletcher (Note 2)

-Letter to Rulan C. Pian. Jan 10, 1985. 1 sheet (incomplete). Holograph. On the booklet of Chwang Tsan Chang about “the Romanization and 注音符號 of the Chinese characters” (Note 2)

-1987-88 Fulbright Scholar Program. Typescript (photocopy). Introductory leaflet (Note 2)

-馮光宇致趙教授信函。手稿1葉。關於近況及國劇錄影帶。有手寫筆記 (Note 1) (Note 2)

-小明致大表姨、表姨夫信函。5. 29。手稿1葉。關於到波事頓開會的行程及計劃到美進修事宜 (Note 1) (Note 2)

-Letter from Weihua Fu to Rulan Chao Pian. 5/17/86. 1 sheet. Holograph. On the application for admittance to Harvard University (Note 2)

-”China night”. East-West Fusion Theatre. Typescript (photocopy). Invitation card for the performances on Saturday, July 26 & Sunday, 27. With handwritten Chinese letter from 馮光宇 to 趙教授 (Note 1) (Note 2)

-East-West arts festival, October 11th, 1986. East-West Fusion Theatre. Typescript (photocopy). Program leaflet (Note 2)

-An evening celebrating China: two Chinese operas in English and Chinese produced by East-West Fusion theatre with guest artists Kuang-Yu Fong and Sun Yuen Bing from Taiwan, and the Yeh Yu Chinese Opera Group of New York City. Typescript (photocopy). Program leaflet (Note 2)

-Directions to the Center for East-West Studies. Typescript (photocopy). With a map of New York City (Note 2)

-Letter from Rulan Chao Pian to Chris Fairchild. March 4, 1987. Typescript, signed (carbon copy). On sending contact persons information for getting some musical materials for the Chang exhibition

-Letter to Pian. March 20, 1987. Typescript, signed. Thank you notes (Note 2)

-Letter from Wei-Tsu Fan to Rulan Pian. March 19, 1987. Typescript (photocopy), signed with handwritten notes. On informing the schedule of 1987/88 zheng (Chinese zither) recital tour. Attached with professional data (Note 1) (Note 2)

-Two recommendation letters for Fan Wei-Tsu. Includes:

 1) Written by Theodore Karp M. March 2, 1987. Typescript, signed (photocopy) (Note 1) (Note 2)

 2) Written by Jack M. Pernecky. February 5, 1987. Typescript, signed (photocopy) (Note 1) (Note 2)

-Receipt from Fuji Color Service Co., Ltd. to Rulan Chao Pian. Photocopy. Ref.no: 8-A6453 (Note 2)

-Letter from John K. Fairbank to Rulan Pian. August 19, 1963. Typescript, signed with handwritten notes. On scheduling a lecture of Chinese music on October 25 (Note 2)

-Letter from Tse to Iris. July 29, 1971. 1 sheet. Holograph (Note 2)

-Letter to teacher. 26 June 1968. On recent updates. Attached with a list of title on Chinese musical works (Note 1) (Note 2)

-Letter from Elling. 8 February 1972. Typescript (photocopy), signed with handwritten Chinese notes. On asking advices on some questions about Chinese languages (Note 2)

-The interjective aria. Photocopy. 1 score. 5-line staff notation. “From The repertory of T’an Hsin-p’ei, vol. 1, Peking, 1959”. With duplicate copy (Note 2)

-Letter from Rulan Chao Pian to Peter Fritsch. April 3, 1972. Typescript, signed (carbon copy). On sending the transcriptions for the opera which Lisa Lu sang for the recording. With duplicate copies (Note 1)

-Letter from Jeory & Peter Fritsch to Pian. Typescript, signed. On sending the short aria and tape of the opera for the musical notations (Note 1) (Note 2)

-Letter from Rulan Chao Pian to Peter Fritsch. 16, 1972. Typescript, signed (carbon copy). On the tape record and transcriptions of Lisa Lu (Note 1)

-Letter to Ferguson. Typescript with handwritten corrections and notes. Thank you notes (Note 2)

-Letter from Henry Ferguson to Rulan Pian. April 5, 1972. Typescript (photocopy), signed. On the record of Kathakali music entitled “Dance music of India” (Note 2)

-Receipt from Inter Culture Association to Rulan Pian. April 5, 1972. Typescript (carbon copy). “Festivals of India” (Note 2)

-Aerogram from W. Eberhard to Rulan Pian. Oct. 9, 1972. Typescript, signed with handwritten notes. On the tape of the dances during the Confucian ceremonies on Confucius’s birthday (Note 1) (Note 2)

-Memo from Rulan Pian to Margaret. Oct 24. 1 sheet. Holograph. On requesting the TV version and 35 mm film of all aspects of ceremony from Wolfram Eberhard (Note 1)

-Letter from Masa Fukui to Pian. September 14, 1972. Typescript, signed with handwritten notes. On requesting an appointment to discuss the interest area in contemporary Japanese piano music (Note 1) (Note 2)

-Letter from Masa Fukui to Pian. November 20, 1972. 2 sheets. Holograph. On thanking for the chance to meet with Kanazawa (Note 1) (Note 2)

-Letter from Rulan Chao Pian to Eberhard. Nov 28, 1972. Typescript, signed (carbon copy). On sending the check to bank and thanks for the films

-Letter from Shara J. Fidler to Pian. January 2, 1973. 2 sheets. Holograph. On requesting help in supplying the characters for Chinese words and names in her paper about Peking Opera (Note 1) (Note 2)

-Letter from Katherine B. Edsall to Pian. January 4th, 1973. Typescript, signed. On informing that Bushmen music record (enclosed with booklet) are on sale at the front desk (Note 2)

-Reminder of glossary for Pian’s paper (from notes). Typescript with handwritten Chinese (photocopy)

-Letter from Rulan Chao Pian to Sharon J, Fidler. April 18, 1973. Typescript (carbon copy) with handwritten notes. On replying her previous letter about the characters of Chinese words and names (Note 1)

-Letter from Sharon J. Fidler to Rulan Chao Pian. April 12, 1973. Typescript, signed. On the music-dram conference papers are nearing readiness for publication (Note 1) (Note 2)

-Memo from Dieter Christensen to Rulan Pian. March 9, 1973. Typescript, signed. On inviting to review for ethnomusicology: Kuo, Chang-yang. Chinese art song: a melodic analysis with introduction and abstract by Barbara B. Smith (1972). With a reply letter from Rulan Chao Pian to Christensen dated March 12, 1973 at the letter verso (Note 1) (Note 2)

-Letter from Rulan Chao Pian to Nicholas England. Feb 2, 1973. Typescript, signed (carbon copy). On asking for the permission to make some slides from the photographs in his thesis on Bushmen music

-Letter from Rulan Chao Pian to Margaretta Fulton. November 20, 1972. Typescript (carbon copy). On answering the letter about her manuscript and Crump’s comments

-Cable from Rulan Pian to Wolfram Eberhard. Typescript (photocopy). On requesting the TV version and 35 mm filsm of all aspects of ceremony

-Letter from Elliot Forbes to Rulan Chao Pian. April 19, 1973. Typescript, signed (photocopy). On thanking for the Tillman Fund (Note 2)

-Letter from Rulan Chao Pian to Henry Ferguson. Nov. 9, 1973. Typescript (carbon copy). On thanking for the Ramayana shadow puppet and planning to mail back

-Memo from Debbie to Pian. 7/10/74. Typescript with corrections. On Sister Elise wants to see you consult about a few thing regarding Chinese music (Note 2)

-Letter to Fulton. Typescript (photocopy) with handwritten notes. On discussing some interesting topics in musicology (Note 2)

-Letter from Margaretta Fulton to Rulan Chao Pian. October 16, 1973. Typescript, signed. On suggesting the press to explore the possibility of publishing a one-volume history of Chinese music that would serve as a text for ethnomusicologists and students of Chinese civilization as well as an introduction to Chinese music for the interested non-specialist (Note 2)

-Letter from Margaretta Fulton to Rulan Chao Pian. October 13, 1973. Typescript, signed. On evaluating the drum singing project (Note 2)

-Piano concert by Fou Tsong on November 9th, 1979. New England Life Hall. Typescript (photocopy). Program booklet (Note 2)

-Letter from Rulan to Elliot Forbes. March 6, 1975. Typescript (carbon copy). On recent updates

-Opening for an ethnomusicologist. January 8, 1980. Typescript (photocopy). Job recruitment. With duplicate copy (Note 2)

-傅吾康(Wolfgang Franke)教授伉儷七秩雙慶祝賀紀念冊徵文啓。發起人:沈慕羽,喬毅莊,劉果因,蘇瑩輝,熊遠賓,洪天賜。打字本 (Note 2)

-Letter from Liang Sizhuang(梁思莊)to Z.T. Fang. Typescript, signed (photocopy). On thanking for the donations to Beijing University (Note 2)

-Iris 致若憲信函。”1980”。手稿2張。關於各人的近況

-Letter from Iris M. Fanger to Pian. July 20, 1981. 1 sheet. Holograph. On thanking for the loan of the videotapes

-Letter from Iris M. Fanger to Pian. September 26, 1981. 1 sheet. Typescript, signed with handwritten notes. On requesting the videotapes of the Nureyev television program on the Diaghilev Ballets Russes

-Letter from Dea Friedland to Rulan Chao Pian. August 11, 1981. Typescript (photocopy), signed. On thanking the comments on chao Mei-pa’sA guide to Chinese music (Note 2)

-Memo from RCP to Boxter. Typescript with handwritten notes and corrections. On giving comments to Fou Ts’ong’s recital (Note 2)

-Letter from Elling O. Eide to Rulan C. Pian. 27 February, 1982. Typescript (photocopy), signed. With some handwritten Chinese. On questioning about the translation of 清平樂,清平調 and the meaning of 雙調 (Note 2)

-Letter from Rulan Chao Pian to Elling. March 22, 1982. Typescript, signed (carbon copy). On answering the questions about the term “mode” and “Shuang tiao”

-Letter from Sarah Allan to Pian. 9 February, 1977. Typescript, signed. On arranging the publication of “Myth and symbol in China: essays in honour of Wolfram Eberhard on his seventieth birthday (Note 2)

-Letter from A. Tillman Merritt to David Emerson. 17 December, 1982. Typescript, signed (photocopy). On raising money to publish a festschrift for Wolfram Eberhard (Note 2)

-楊新華致方志彤信函。80 年10月8日。手稿1葉。關於轉交梁思莊給方教授的信函 (Note 2)

-Letter from Egan to Pian. 12/16/83. Typescript, signed. On requesting a recommendation letter to apply a job in Columbia (Note 1) (Note 2). Attachment includes:

 1) Vita. Ronald C. Egan. Typescript (photocopy). With duplicate copy (Note 1) (Note 2)

-Letter from Rulan Chao Pian to C.T. Hsia. Dec 22, 1983. Typescript (carbon copy). Recommendation letter for Ronald Egan for the job application (Note 1)

-Poems on paintings: Su Shih and Huang T’ing-chien. Ronald C. Egan. Typescript (photocopy). Pages 413-451 (Note 2)

-Letter from William Feltz to SEM member. 1984. Typescript (photocopy), signed. On announcing that the 4th conference of the “International Decade of Research in Singing” will be held on July 23-27, 1984 (Note 2)

-Letter from Richard Elliots (Dick) to Iris Pian. 3 sheets. Holograph. On recent updates (Note 1) (Note 2)

-Letter from Rulan to Christoph. 1 sheet. Holograph. 3/21/88. On enquiring the possibility for the Music Dept. to pay for half of the honorarium of Fan Wei-tsu, who performed on the Chinese zither, zheng at Harvard last Friday (March 18) (Note 1)

-MIT Thursday noon chapel concert series presents. Wei-Tsu Fan, zheng (Chinese zither). March 17, 1988. Typescript (photocopy). Program notes (Note 2)

-Letter from Margaretta Fulton to Rulan Chao Pian. April 18, 1988. Typescript, signed. On the publication of Song dynasty musical sources and their interpretation (Note 2)

-Letter from Rulan Chao Pian to Margaretta Fulton. May 19, 1988. Typescript (carbon copy). On sending various works on Peking Opera and other personal information for references

-Letter from EL to Rulan. November 2nd. 1 sheet. Holograph. On thanking for giving set of publishers (Note 2)

-Letter from Tse to Iris. 10/6/88. 1 sheet. Holograph. Thank you note for the postcard (Note 2)

-Letter from Rulan Chao Pian to Peter Frost. Feb. 22, 1989. Typescript, signed (carbon copy). On the Chinese language program at Williams College

-1989 Thelma E. Goldberg concert, May 14. Typescript (photocopy) with handwritten notes. Program notes and schedule (Note 2)

-Memo from Francesca Forrest to Pian. 89. 8. 31. Typescript. On requesting to review a book on Cantonese Opera entitled as “Cantonese Opera: performance as creative process” for Harvard Journal of Asiatic Studies (Note 2)

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  • 1963-1979, bulk 1971-1975, 1980-1989, undated

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