John Stewart Papers, 1916-1991 (MSS 614)

Restrictions: Original sound recordings are restricted. Listening copies may be available for researchers.

Extent: 5.6 Linear feet (15 archives boxes)

The papers of John Stewart, author, musician and UCSD Muir College provost (1965-1987) contain the research materials for his book about composer Ernst Krenek titled Ernst Krenek: The Man and His Music (1991), including typescript drafts; notes describing correspondence, essays, and articles about Krenek; chronologies; and a series of reel-to-reel audiorecordings of interviews with Krenek by Stewart. Also included are drafts of writings, teaching materials, and correspondence with colleagues including Ernst Krenek.

John Lincoln Stewart was born January 24, 1917 in Alton, Illinois, and grew up in Granville and Dwight, Ontario. He graduated from Dennison College with a double major in English and Music and received his doctorate in English literature at Ohio State University. He served in World War II in the Army Signal Corps. He taught English at UCLA and Dartmouth before joining UCSD, publishing The Burden of Time: The Fugitives and Agrarians, a history of the Nashville literary groups of the 1920s and 1930s.

Stewart came to UCSD in 1964 to take the lead in establishing arts departments on campus. In 1965 he was appointed Provost of Second College, named for the environmentalist, nature writer, and Sierra Club founder John Muir. He took a leading role in planning Muir campus as an ensemble of buildings, courtyards, and open spaces. Because his position at UCSD allowed him to focus on teaching and research, he concentrated on his interests in the achievements of Austrian-American composer Ernst Krenek. Beginning in the 1970s, no comprehensive biography had been written about Krenek, so Stewart interviewed the composer, studied the musicial scores, and traveled to Vienna to gather research materials. He published Ernst Krenek: The Man and His Music in 1991.

For years Stewart taught "The Wilderness and Human Values," at Muir College which culminated in a week-long hike led by Stewart in the Sierra Nevada mountains. During the 21 years he served as Provost, he also founded a faculty jazz group, "The Moldy Figs," in which he played both slide trombone and flugle horn.

On the occasion of Muir college's 30th anniversary in 1998, Muir Commons, the center of student life on the campus, was re-dedicated as Stewart Commons in his honor.

Stewart died August 31, 2007 in Oakland, California.

The John Stewart papers reflect the research endeavors by Stewart, as an author and scholar of humanities. The bulk of the collection documents extensive research on the career of composer Ernst Krenek for the biography Ernst Krenek: The Man and His Music (1991). Materials include notes and translations on correspondence, works of Krenek, and typescript drafts. Other elements of the collection include teaching materials and writings by Stewart.

The papers are arranged in five series: 1) CORRESPONDENCE, 2) ERNST KRENEK: THE MAN AND HIS MUSIC, 3) WRITINGS BY STEWART, 4) TEACHING MATERIALS, and 5) MISCELLANEOUS.

Publication rights are held by the creator of the collection.

Container List

CORRESPONDENCE

Scope and Content of Series

Series 1) CORRESPONDENCE: This series contains letters from colleagues and friends regarding personal and scholarly activities from 1971-1996. Notable correspondents include Ernst Krenek and author Friedrich Saathen. Also included are letters concerning the production of Ernst Krenek's musical works.

Box 1 Folder 1
American Music Teacher , 1975-1985
Box 1 Folder 2
Krenek, Ernst, 1972-1991
Box 1 Folder 3
Life of Orestes , 1973-1984
Box 1 Folder 4
Powell, Anthony, 1961
Box 1 Folder 5
What Price Confidence , 1973-1975
Box 1 Folder 6-10
Chronological, 1971-1996

ERNST KRENEK: THE MAN AND HIS MUSIC

Scope and Content of Series

Series 2) ERNST KRENEK: THE MAN AND HIS MUSIC: The bulk of the second series contains the research materials collected for the publication of the Ernst Krenek biography. The series is divided into four subseries: A) Research Materials, B) Miscellaneous, C) Audiorecording, and D) Typescript Drafts.

The files collect and document inclusive notes on Krenek's correspondence with family and colleagues, musical works, and writings written by and about the composer. The series also contains miscellaneous research guides and lists, book publication related materials, reel-to-reel audiorecordings of interviews conducted by Stewart with Krenek.

The book materials also include the typescript drafts and page proofs for chapters 1-12, written between 1986-1991.

Research Materials

Notes on correspondence

Box 2 Folder 1
Adorno, Theodor Wiesengrund, 1929-1964
Box 2 Folder 2
Cizek, Emanuela Josefa Auguste, 1950-1964
Box 2 Folder 3
Fischer-Dieskau, Dietrich, 1970-1972
Box 2 Folder 5
Krenek, Ernst Josef, Sr
Box 2 Folder 6
Miscellaneous universities, 1942-1943
Box 2 Folder 7
Moehn, Heinz, 1961
Box 2 Folder 8-10
1938-1966

Notes on writings by Krenek

Box 2 Folder 11
Darsteller in der Opera , 1925
Box 2 Folder 12
Mechanisierung der Musik? , 1925
Box 2 Folder 13
Minor program notes for Staatstheatercassel , 1925
Box 2 Folder 14
Musik im Schauspiel , November, 1925
Box 2 Folder 15
Über die Operette , December, 1925
Box 2 Folder 16
Die Revue , 1925-1926
Box 2 Folder 17
Beurteilung des Theaters , March, 1926
Box 2 Folder 18
Orpheus und Eurydice , May, 1926
Box 2 Folder 19
Der Triumph der Empfinsamkeit , May, 1926
Box 2 Folder 20
Das Theater als Bildungsanstalt , 1926-1927
Box 2 Folder 21
Das Dekorative Element in Theater , December, 1926
Box 2 Folder 22
Kunst und Sport , June, 1927
Box 2 Folder 23
Mechnisierung der Kunst , 1927
Box 2 Folder 24
Die Opernkomposition , 1927
Box 2 Folder 25
Der Opernstoff , April, 1927
Box 2 Folder 26
Der Operntext , 1927
Box 2 Folder 27
Über den Geschmack , 1927
Box 2 Folder 28
Über die Technische Ausfuhrung meiner Oper 'Jonny Spielt Auf' , 1927
Box 2 Folder 29
Über die Beziehungen von Oper und Schauspiel , 1927
Box 2 Folder 30
Zum Beschluss , 1927
Box 2 Folder 31
Various early stage notes and comments on Jonny Spielt auf , 1927-1928
Box 2 Folder 32
Meine Drei Einakter , 1928
Box 2 Folder 33
Freiheit und Technik , 1929
Box 2 Folder 34
Zu Meinen Orchesterwerken op. 43, 54, 58, 1929
Box 2 Folder 35
Banalitäten , 1930
Box 2 Folder 36-37
Commentary on Leben des Orest , 1930
Box 2 Folder 38
Fortshritt und Reaktion , 1930
Box 2 Folder 39
Aus Briefen einer Osterreichischen Freundes , 1930-1931
Box 2 Folder 40
Zur Frage des Textuerstehen in der Oper , 1931
Box 2 Folder 41
Die Erneuerung Offenbach's durch Karl Kraus , 1931-1932
Box 2 Folder 42
Musikalische Mobilwachung , 1932
Box 2 Folder 43
Was es im Tonfilm immer noch gibt , 1932
Box 2 Folder 44
Commentary on Karl V , 1933
Box 2 Folder 45
Krenek's bibliography for Karl V prepared , 1933
Box 2 Folder 46
Arnold Schonberg , 1934
Box 2 Folder 47
Austria , 1934
Box 2 Folder 48
Experience with the Twelve Tone System , 1934
Box 2 Folder 49
Konservativ und Radical , 1934
Box 3 Folder 1
Webern's Weiner Konzerte , 1934
Box 3 Folder 2
Bruno Walter Spricht von den Moralischen , 1935
Box 3 Folder 3
Fragen des Volkmusik , 1935
Box 3 Folder 4
Kunstlerische und Wissenschaftliche Geschitchtes Betrachtung , 1935
Box 3 Folder 5
Zwischen "Blubo" unde "Asphalt" , 1935
Box 3 Folder 6
Journal of the Composing of Symeon , 1935-1936
Box 3 Folder 7
Music related to Karl V , 1935-1938
Box 3 Folder 8
Analysis of Karl V written for Barcelona, 1936
Box 3 Folder 9
Die Musikalischen System der Nachtkriegzeit , 1936
Box 3 Folder 10
Music and Mathematics , 1936
Box 3 Folder 11
Remembering Karl Kraus , 1936
Box 3 Folder 12
Was Erwanter der Komponist von der Musikziehung , 1936
Box 3 Folder 12
Zu Rilkes Zehnten Todestag , 1936
Box 3 Folder 13
Auf dem Wasser zu Singen , 1937
Box 3 Folder 14
Die Drei Mantel der Anton K. , 1937-1938
Amerikanische Stadtebilder
Box 3 Folder 16
12 Tone Technique and Modal Music - From Diary, 1940
Box 3 Folder 17
Inspiration in Music , 1943
Box 3 Folder 18
Comments on Fifth Piano Sonata , 1952
Box 3 Folder 19
Roving Composer in Western Germany , 1952
Box 3 Folder 20
Sinn and Unsinn der Modernen Musik , 1955
Box 3 Folder 21
Notes for the Princeton seminar, 1959
Box 3 Folder 22
Komponist und Horer , 1960
Box 3 Folder 23
Hol' der Henker eure beiden Hauser , 1964
Box 3 Folder 24
Preamble to Prose Dramen Verse, 1965
Box 3 Folder 25
UCSD Lectures, 1970-1972
Box 3 Folder 26
Ernst Krenek im Gesprach mit seinem Zweiten ich, 1973
Box 3 Folder 27
Krenek on singing contemporary music, 1982

Notes on musical works by Krenek

Librettos

Box 3 Folder 28
Der Sprung über den Schatten (The Leap Over the Shadow), Op. 17, 1923
Box 3 Folder 29
Orpheus und Eurydike - Kokoschka text, 1927
Box 3 Folder 30
Orpheus und Eurydike - Revisions and translations, 1927
Box 3 Folder 31
Four Songs and Old Poets, Op. 53, 1927
Box 3 Folder 32
Durch die Nacht - Words by Karl Kraus, Op. 67, 1930-1931
Box 3 Folder 33
17th Century Poems related to Gesänge des Spæten Jahres, Op. 71, 1931
Box 3 Folder 34
Gesänges des Späten Jahres, Op. 71, 1931
Box 4 Folder 1
Karl V - English libretto, 1933
Box 4 Folder 2
Ausgerechnet und Verspielt (Computed and Confounded), Op. 179, 1961
Box 4 Folder 3
Chrysomallos (Der Goldene Bock; The Golden Ram), Op. 186, 1963
Box 4 Folder 4
Glauben und Wissen, Op. 194 - German text, translation, and notes, 1966
Box 4 Folder 5
Sardakai - English translation with corrections, 1969
Box 4 Folder 6
Der Zauberspiegel - Corrections, 1975

Scores

Box 4 Folder 7
Symeon der Stylit, Op. 77, 1935-1936

Includes composing notes.

Box 4 Folder 8
Symphonic Elegy, Op. 105, 1946

Includes concert review.

Box 4 Folder 9
Sonata for Piano, No. 4, Op. 114, 1948
Box 4 Folder 10
Twenty Miniatures for Piano, Op. 139, 1953-1954
Box 4 Folder 11
Flaschenpost von Paradies, Op. 217, 1972-1973

Notes on musical programs and reviews

Box 4 Folder 12
Die Zwingburg (The Stronghold), Op. 14, 1922

Includes notes on program.

Box 4 Folder 13
Der Sprung über den Schatten (The Leap Over the Shadow), Op. 17
Box 4 Folder 14
Orpheus and Eurydike , 1926-1974
Box 4 Folder 15
Mammon , 1927
Box 4 Folder 16
Johnny Spielt Auf , 1928-1980
Box 4 Folder 17
Leben des Orest , 1930-1975
Box 4 Folder 18
Pallas Athene Weint (Pallas Athene Weeps), 1955
Box 4 Folder 19
Sestina, Op. 161, 1957
Box 4 Folder 20
Chrysolmallas (Der Golden Bock; The Golden Ram), 1964
Box 4 Folder 21
Quintina über die Fünfvokale , 1965

1973 performance.

Box 4 Folder 22
Krenek - Events surrounding Muir Fellowship, 1968
Box 4 Folder 23
Sardakai, Op. 206, 1968-1969

1970 performance.

Box 4 Folder 24
Orga-Nastro, Op. 212, for organ and tape, 1971

1980 recording.

Box 5 Folder 1
Events surrounding Krenek's 75th year, 1975
Box 5 Folder 2
UCSD Krenek Tribute, 1978
Box 5 Folder 3
UCSB Krenek Festival, 1979
Box 5 Folder 4
UCSD Krenek Festival, 1979
Box 5 Folder 5
Krenek's 80th Birthday events, 1980
Box 5 Folder 6
Arc of Life, 1981
Box 5 Folder 7
Schubert - Krenek Recital, 1984
Box 5 Folder 8
85th Birthday Celebration, 1985
Box 5 Folder 9
Video program on Krenek, 1988
Box 5 Folder 10
Miscellaneous programs and reviews

Writings on Krenek

Box 5 Folder 11
Drew. "On Medea" at Darmstaadt, 1954
Box 5 Folder 12
Jeffrey, Charles. "Composer and his Interpreter: The Relationship between Ernst Krenek and Glenn Gould"
Box 5 Folder 13
Neuwirth, Gosta. "Remarks on Some Later Works of Ernst Krenek", 1980
Box 5 Folder 14
Regenhardt, Joanne. "Genius Personified", 1990

Zenck, Claudia

Box 5 Folder 15
"12 Piano Variations," Op. 79, 1977
Box 5 Folder 16
Notes on 6th Quartet
Box 5 Folder 17
"On Krenek and the Kranichsteiner Musikinstitut", 1980
Box 5 Folder 18
"On Krenek from 1928-1934"
Box 5 Folder 19
"On Sestina"
Box 5 Folder 20
Zenck, Martin. "The Uncontemporaries of the New - The Eighth String Quartet of Ernst Krenek", 1984

Notes and articles about Krenek

Box 5 Folder 21
Analysis of the text of Spätlese
Box 5 Folder 22
Between Two Cultures
Box 5 Folder 23
Dissembler in the Works of Ernst Krenek
Box 5 Folder 24
Dissembler in the Works of Ernst Krenek
Box 5 Folder 25
Essay on Krenek for Grove
Box 5 Folder 26
Harmony and Dissonance in Spätlese
Box 5 Folder 27
Intro to Krenek's Music
Box 5 Folder 28
Krenek and Adorno
Box 6 Folder 1
Krenek as an essayist, 1980
Box 6 Folder 2
Krenek as teacher
Box 6 Folder 3
Krenek in America, 1990
Box 6 Folder 4
Krenek's letters
Box 6 Folder 5
Krenek's manuscripts
Box 6 Folder 6
Listening notes
Box 6 Folder 7
Masks of Ernst Krenek
Box 6 Folder 8
Remarks at Krenek Festival in Palm Springs, 1975
Box 6 Folder 9
Talk on Schubert and Krenek, 1984
Box 6 Folder 10
Schubert, Krenek, und Webern, 1984
Box 6 Folder 11
Notes on Symeon
Box 6 Folder 12
University as Patron, 1988
Box 6 Folder 13
Untitled biographical sketch of Krenek for Goethe Institute
Box 6 Folder 14
Women in the Operas of Ernst Krenek

Research guides and lists

Box 6 Folder 15
Annotated bibliography of the Writings of Ernst Krenek, 1976

Including books, essays, reviews, articles, lectures. Contribution written, edited and co-authored by Ernst Krenek from 1925-1974. Written by William W. Chase.

Box 6 Folder 16
Audiorecordings at UCSD Library
Box 6 Folder 17
Bibliography of published writings, 1955
Box 6 Folder 18
Chart showing types of Krenek essays
Box 6 Folder 19
Chronology of American years, 1937-1973
Box 6 Folder 20
Chronology of avant garde music, 1945
Box 6 Folder 21
Krenek historical chronology, 1900-1988
Box 6 Folder 22
Krenek manuscripts in the Library of Congress, 1966
Box 6 Folder 23
Krenek materials in the Moldenauer Archives
Box 6 Folder 24
List of Krenek's important writings, 1978
Box 6 Folder 25
Outline of life, 1920-1965
Box 6 Folder 26
Preliminary catalogue of the musical and literary works by Ernst Krenek, 1978
Box 6 Folder 27
Provisional discography (compiled by Joan Allen Smith) - Ernst Krenek, 1979
Box 6 Folder 28
Ratings of Krenek works
Box 6 Folder 29
Reviews from the Friedrich Saathen papers
Box 7 Folder 1
Selected bibliography of writings by and about Ernst Krenek with a discography
Box 7 Folder 2
Texts in programs - A locater
Box 7 Folder 3
Travel itineraries, 1937-1980

Miscellaneous

Box 7 Folder 4
Book contract, November 27, 1972
Box 7 Folder 5
"Ernst Krenek: An Intellectual Biography" - Book description, 1988

Photographs

Box 7 Folder 6
Career biographical. Includes production and portraits
Box 7 Folder 7
Early biographical. Includes photographs of Krenek as a child, family, and early career
Box 7 Folder 8
Other composers and contemporaries
Box 7 Folder 9
Project funding, 1975

Audiorecordings

Box 8 Folder 1
Interviews with Ernst Krenek by John Stewart. Includes 7.5" reel-to-reel tape copies from audio cassettes, reels 1-14
Box 9 Folder 1
Interviews with Ernst Krenek by John Stewart. Includes 7.5" reel-to-reel tape copies from audio cassettes, reels 13-24

Typescript Drafts

Box 10 Folder 1
Foreward, 1979
Box 10 Folder 2
Prologue, 1979
Box 10 Folder 3-14
Chapters 1-12 with edits, 1979
Box 10 Folder 15
Epilogue, 1979

Various drafts

Box 10 Folder 16-20
Prologue & chapters 1-4, 1986
Box 11 Folder 1-5
Chapters 5-8 & Prologue notes, 1986
Box 11 Folder 6
Additional corrections, 1987-1988
Box 11 Folder 7-10
Chapters 1-12, 1989
Box 12 Folder 1
Chapter 13, 1989
Box 12 Folder 2-6
Page proofs, 1991

WRITINGS BY STEWART

Scope and Content of Series

Series 3) WRITINGS BY STEWART: This series contains typescript drafts for published and unpublished manuscripts authored by Stewart including his book The Burden of Time: The Fugitive and Agrarians (1965), a biography of two literary groups that originated in Nashville, TN who, in the early 1920s, had a strong influence on American letters focusing on the writing of John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, and Robert Penn Warren. The series is arranged alphabetically.

Box 13 Folder 1
"Achievement of Robert Penn Warren", South Atlantic Quarterly, Volume 47, Number 4, October, 1948
Box 13 Folder 2
"Breaking the Mold" - Commencement address, Denison University, Ohio, 1933
Box 13 Folder 3
Burden of Time: Fugitives and Agrarians (1965) - Correspondence, 1956-1987
Box 13 Folder 4
Burden of Time: Fugitives and Agrarians (1965) - Book reviews, 1965-1967
Box 13 Folder 5
Burden of Time: Fugitives and Agrarians (1965) - "The Fugitive's Return" - Chapter 5 - Typescript draft
Box 13 Folder 6
"Ernst Krenek" - Chapter 2 - Typescript
Box 13 Folder 7
Few Thoughts on the Arts at UCSD, 1964
Box 13 Folder 8
"Poetry of George Villiers, Second Duke of Buckingham" - Thesis submitted for Masters of Arts, Ohio State University, 1939
Box 13 Folder 9
"Premises of Phrase Structures and Total Centering in the Music of Claude Debussy and Analyses of Selected Works - Chapter 5 - Typescript draft
Box 13 Folder 10
"Robert Penn Warren and the Knot of History", Journal of English Literary History, Volume 26, Number 1, March, 1959
Box 13 Folder 11
Role of the Hopkins Center in Liberal Education at Dartmouth College
Box 14 Folder 1
Talk on Yeats and His Poetry on Old Age - Notes
Box 14 Folder 2
"Wilderness and Human Values" - David Marc Belkin preface, 1984
Box 14 Folder 3
Writing by and about Robert Penn Warren

TEACHING MATERIALS

Scope and Content of Series

Series 4) TEACHING MATERIALS: The teaching materials span Stewart's career as a lecturer from Dartmouth College to UCSD, as the creator of the Muir College course "The Wilderness and Human Values". Arranged alphabetically, the files include lecture notes, syllabi, and class materials.

Box 14 Folder 4
Art of Fiction - Literature 414, Spring, 1991
Box 14 Folder 5-6
Contemporary Issues - "The Wilderness and Human Values", Spring, 1989
Box 14 Folder 7
Dartmouth College - English 64 - Class materials, 1959-1960
Box 14 Folder 8
English Literature 126 - Modern Fiction, Winter, 1974
Box 14 Folder 9
Seminar on William Faulkner - Literature 252, Spring, 1972
Box 14 Folder 10
"Theory of Literature" - Guest lecture, Wesleyan University, 1962

MISCELLANEOUS

Scope and Content of Series

Series 5) MISCELLANEOUS: Included in this series are various subject files including photographs of John Stewart, clippings, and an audiocassette recording of a lecture for the UCSD Friends of Music.

Box 15 Folder 1
Calendar, 1964
Box 15 Folder 2
Lecture on modern music - Friends of Music - Audiocassette, 90 minutes, January 22, 1990

Restrictions Apply

Box 15 Folder 3
Memorial for Ernst Krenek, 1900-1991 - Program, February 9, 1992
Box 15 Folder 4
Merrill Moore - Subject clippings
Box 15 Folder 5
Photograph - John Stewart, Vienna, 1984
Box 15 Folder 6
Staying Active: Wellness After Sixty - Voice-over script, August 13, 1984
Box 15 Folder 7
To-do list, 1977-1992