Thomas Merton Center

Manuscripts in Sub-Section D.3:

Niles-Merton song cycles

Item 1 - 

First Lines:  John Jacob Niles; Folk Singer was 87

Sub-Type:  Published material

Draft:  

Copy Type:  Xerograph of printed material

Date:  March 03, 1980

Number of pages:  1

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  Copy of obituary from The New York Times.

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 8

Item 2 - John Jacob Niles

First Lines:  John Jacob Niles, the Kentucky folklorist and folk singer, died March 1, 1980, at the age of 87

Sub-Type:  Published material

Draft:  

Copy Type:  Printed material

Date:  no-month no-day, 1981

Number of pages:  2

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  Article within full issue of The Merton Seasonal, Vol. 6, No. 1 (Winter-Spring 1981), with a memorial to John Jacob Niles and a list of pieces with the Niles-Merton Song Cycle.

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 8

Item 3 - Niles-Merton Song Cycle

First Lines:  Jacqueline Roberts, Soprano Nancy Field, Accompanist Recorded in Lexington, Kentucky, 1980

Sub-Type:  Miscellaneous

Draft:  

Copy Type:  Mimeograph

Date:  no-month no-day, 1980

Number of pages:  16

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  Copy of program for recording by Equus Sound of Lexington, Kentucky. Includes text of Merton's poems. 2 copies.

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 8

Item 4 - The Niles Merton Song Cycle

First Lines:  The Niles-Merton Song Cycle is a collaboration of two eminent Kentuckians, poet Thomas Merton and

Sub-Type:  Miscellaneous

Draft:  

Copy Type:  Xerograph of printed material

Date:  November 26, 1968

Number of pages:  7

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  Copy of program for performance at Memorial Hall at University of Kentucky. Includes text of Merton's poems and cover caligraphy.

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 8

Item 5 - The Niles-Merton Cycle

First Lines:  The Niles-Merton Song Cycle is a collaboration of two eminent Kentuckians, poet Thomas Merton and

Sub-Type:  Published material

Draft:  

Copy Type:  Printed material

Date:  November 10, 1968

Number of pages:  9

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  2 copies. Program from the world premiere of the Niles-Merton Cycle, performed in Knights Hall at Bellarmine-Ursuline College (Louisville) with texts of Merton's poems. 2 copies.

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 8

Item 6 - Transylvania College presents An Evening of Christmas Music with John Jacob Niles

First Lines:  PROGRAM EXSULTATE JUSTI IN DOMINO Ludovico Viadana

Sub-Type:  Miscellaneous

Draft:  

Copy Type:  Printed material

Date:  December 03, 1967

Number of pages:  1

Additional authors/contributors:  

Language:  English

Notes:  Program for concert of music composed by John Jacob Niles and others, including the Niles-Merton Songs.

Location:  Archive - File Cabinet 8