The Northern Virginia Music Center at Reston collection contains correspondence, articles, photographs, and 56 audiotape reels
related to music center. Photographs include both images of performances as well as publicity shots of the musicians.
The Northern Virginia Music Center at Reston was established in 1967, and held its first summer camp for young musicians that
same year. Initially, its founders aspired to develop the summer camp into a full-faculty, national summer music training
program that would eventually become a year-round high school for the performing arts. Although it never developed into a
high school, the Center did manage to draw 150 talented student enrollees who came not only from the Greater Washington area,
but also from 30 states and a half dozen foreign countries. From 1969-1972, the Music Center faculty and students held regular
concerts in Northern Virginia. In 1972, students and faculty traveled to Lausanne, Switzerland, to participate in a series
of concerts. By the mid-1970s, the Music Center encountered budget problems, and many board members, including the president,
Paul S. Frick, resigned and the Center gradually dissolved. The collection contains some materials from 1978 since some students
and faculty from the Center later became associated with the Northern Virginia Youth Symphony Association.
The Northern Virginia Music Center at Reston, established in 1967, saw its faculty and students conduct and participate in
yearly summer camps and concert series until 1973, when the Center dissolved. This collection documents the Center, and is
divided into two series.
Series 1, Music Center Papers, 1967-1979, consists of correspondence, programs, articles, and photographs documenting the
Center and its performances. Funding, budget, board minutes, member mailings, photographs, and resumes of musicians visiting
the Center constitute the bulk of the materials in series 1. The photographs include both images of performances as well as
publicity shots of musicians. This series is arranged alphabetically by subject.
Series 2, Reston Recordings, is a collection of 56 audiotape reels containing Music Center performances by both faculty and
students from 1969-1972. This series is arranged alphabetically by the name of the recorded performance.
Series 3 consists of digitized duplicates of the recordings in Series 2. There are audio discs of the recordings as well as
digital files on an external drive. The arrangement follows that of Series.
Series 1: Music Center Papers, 1967-1979 (Boxes 1-2)
Series 2: Reston Recordings, 1969-1972 (Boxes 2-6)
Series 3: Digital Duplicates, 1969-1972 (Boxes 7-9)
This series consists of digital duplicates created in 2014 from the open reel tapes of the original concerts. The open reel
audio was saved as MP3 and WAV and stored on nine compact discs and an external hard drive. Recordings are arranged in the
same order as the recordings in Series 2.
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