Manuscripts

Music Critics

Description: Approx. 10 items. Letters, memos, press releases. Subjects include: long memo from W. to Otis Chandler on possible candidates for LAT music critic; other correspondence on this subject mentioning Martin Bernheimer, Howard Klein, and LAT Entertainment Editor Charles Champlin; three press releases from The Cleveland Orchestra, dates 1960-62; etc.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1963 - 1965
Call number: mssLAT
Creator: Los Angeles Times (Firm)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: The Los Angeles Times,
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.
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Employees - Bernheimer, Martin

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5 items: memo, 6/24/1965, from Nick Williams to Otis Chandler, happily announces that Martin Bernheimer has been hired as Times [classical] Music Critic; (attached to previous item) 2-pp. bio by Charles Champlin of Bernheimer, dated 6/19/1965;official LAT Biography for Martin Bernheimer, prepared ca. 1971; original of "ASCAP Deems Taylor Award," presented to Martin Bernheimer and LAT, 3/12/1974 ; two portrait photos of Bernheimer.

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Klein, Herb

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9 items: collection of LAT news stories and other material related to Herbert Klein, Director of Communications for the Nixon administration between 1/1969 and 6/1973. Notable items: 5-pp. copy of "Biography of Herbert George Klein," with 11/6/1972 date stamped on it, and note "Library--pls file for Klein biography" handwritten ; LAT news story copy, 6/6/1973, "Klein quits as press director" ; LAT news story copy, 10/17/1974, "Klein supports Ford's giving Nixon a pardon."

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Employees - Klein, Jeffrey

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2 items: 2-pp. LAT bio on Jeffrey S. Klein, 3/1990; invitation (w/ envelope) for a testimonial dinner honoring Klein, given by the Anti-Defamation League, San Fernando Valley Division, 11/3/1994. In 1994, Klein was President, LAT Valley and Ventura County Editions.

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Theaters - Music Center of Los Angeles County

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Approx. 40 items: selected clips from LAT, Downtown News, Time (magazine), various brochures and booklets. Notable items: 10-pp. report from (LAT staffer) Ed Ainsworth to "Mrs. [Dorothy] Chandler," 12/9/1957, "Civic Auditorium Memorandum" ; brochure, (8/1963?) "An invitation to become a founder of The Music Center - a living memorial to peace" ; brochure, "Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra - The Music Center...1964-1965 Inaugural Season" ; cover & article tear sheets, Time, 12/18/1964, story on The Music Center and Dorothy Chandler ; souvenir booklet, The Music Center, 1968 ; 2 copies of booklet, LA Edition - Fall/Winter 1984, with articles on The Music Center and on Dorothy Chandler ; LAT tear sheets, 5/10/1987, Calendar cover story, "The Music Center - What lies ahead?"

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Employees - Champlin, Charles

Manuscripts

4 items: Film review, LAT, 12/28/1975, (with note attached), of "Lucky Lady," by Charles Champlin; clipping, 11/8/1980, "Film reviewer Champlin named Times Book Critic," attached to two photocopies of same.

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Employees - Seidenbaum, Art

Manuscripts

8 items: copy of 1964 LAT ad featuring photo of Seidenbaum, and caption "he offers you an aisle seat on the performance of tomorrow"; copy of NYT (?) review of Seidenbaum's book, "This is California - please keep out" (1975); article copy, Santa Barbara News Press, 5/3/1975, "Seidenbaum personifies 'California Runaways' "; single-sheet Biography from the Los Angeles Times, "Art Seidenbaum," 10/1976; ; LAT Biography, 2/ 1985 (plus another Biography version; LAT obit clip, 7/26/1990, "Art Seidenbaum - Times Columnist, writer and editor"; LAT clip, 7/26/1990, "An appreciation - Enduring memories of longtime colleague Art Seidenbaum" by Charles Champlin.

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