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The Composition Forum (also referred to as the Composers Forum) was a regularly scheduled event that featured prominent guest composers and performers. The records included here were created and maintained by School of Music faculty member Anthony Vazzana, who coordinated the Forum. They consist primarily of letters of invitation, audio recordings, videos, programs, newspaper clippings, and biographical information for the composers and performers invited to the Forum.

Scope and Content From the Series: The papers in this series were created and collected by Ralph E. Rush, professor of music education at USC and conductor of the Junior High School Orchestra at ISOMATA, the Idyllwild School of Music and the Arts, from 1956-1963. The majority of these papers documents Rush's work at Idyllwild, and contain concert programs; Rush's Junior High School Orchestra, Band, and Chorus files; copies of "ISOMATAN" (the summer camp's newsletter); photographs; brochures and general information about the...