Exhibits
The Ross Hastings Project
Collection
This is a very preliminary inventory of his works. It does not include correspondence, scrapbooks, and other materials that were added to the collection later.
Ross Hastings conducting
Manuscripts and Scores
Key to abbreviations:
- cs conductor's score
- pp performance parts
- ms manuscript
ms "Manhattan Beach Music Letter to the Don." To "DSG" [Don George], 28.Au.1990 [by Timothy Breoge?].
ms Timothy Breoge letter to Don George, 28.Au.1990.
ms Bob Margolis letter to Earl Benson, 30.Se.1980.
cs, ms "Battle Pavone." Arr. by Bob Margolis; letter form Bob Margolis, 2.De.1980.
cs, ms "Mercury Variations." Margolis. Note attached.
pp, ms "Big Apple" and "Mercury Variations." Margolis. Notes attached.
cs "Five English Sketches." Margolis; modified copy.
pp "Rhapsody on Four Notes." Ross Hastings; cornet part.
cs, pp, ms "Verset and Prayer." Verdi, from "Forza del Destino;" arr. by Ross Hastings; unpublished; dated 17.Je.1981.
pp, cs "Symphony for Band." Ross Hastings; parts (1 in manuscript); notes by Ross Hastings attached to flute part. Handwritten dedication by Ross Hastings.
pp "Joy of Christmas." Ross Hastings. Choral parts in ms (2 copies) with photocopied letter bound in front by Ross Hastings.
ms "Concerto da Camara for Clarinet and Strings." Ross Hastings. Composed while living in New York. Also premiere program 22.Nv.1963.
ms "Little Christmas Suite." Trad. English. Arr Ross Hastings; undated; labeled "master."
ms "Prelude and Farándola." Ross Hastings; author's name whited out on full score; manuscripts of full score for tuba and band and reduction for tuba and piano; labeled "master."
cs, ms "The King's Prayer." From "Lohengrin" (Wagner). Arr. by Ross Hastings; a copy but with ms title page; spare parts.
pp, ms? "Episodes for Band." Ross Hastings (ms or annotated copy plus parts).
ms Note on notebook paper by Hastings' daughter, Verdi Morley.
ms, cs "Sonatina Concertante." Ross Hastings, 16 Mar.1960. Copy with ms title page. "Ross Hastings" (?) whited out.
ms "For those in Peril on this Sea." Navy hymn. Arr. by Ross Hastings?
ms "Sonatina for Band." Unore D. Cinque. In Ross Hastings's handwriting (Ross Hastings pseudonym?).
ms "Three Miniatures for Quintet." Ross Hastings. Rough ms draft (unfinished?).
ms "Serenade Humoresque." Ross Hastings, 17.Ap.1953 (unfinished), started one piece, turned page upside down and reused.
ms "Swinglet." Ross Hastings, ms draft, inscribe "to the bleatin kid [Romie Taylor] from the mad genius." "Betty Taylor" written at top of ms. Dated 17.De.1939.
ms "Omaggio all' Hemolia." Ross Hastings, inscribed "for Don McDonald."
ms "Ave Maria." From "Otello." Arr. for oragan by Ross Hastings; also with an unidentified fragment.
ms "Sonatina"for piano. Ross Hastings. During his New York days; earlier name (pseudonym?) whited out and replaced by "Ross Hastings."
ms "Easter Fanfare for Three Trumpets." Ross Hastings.
cs "Episodes for Band." Ross Hastings.
ms "Fanfare, Song and Scherzo." Rees Meir (Ross Hastings pseudonym?).
Recordings and Miscellaneous
Reel-to-reel tapes, 31 reels, which include such Ross Hastings compositions as:
- "Woodwind Quintets"
- "Ballad in White"
- "Lullaby"
- "Let Freedom Sing"
- "German Village Band"
- "Episodes for Band"
- "Sinfonia Brevis"
- "Impressions"
- "Rhapsody on Four Notes"
- "Sonatina for Hazs"
- "Tripoli" by Angelo D'Anna and reconstructed by RH.
- Also Warner Pub, Alfred Pub, M. Willson, etc.
The San Francisco Orchestra (book)
