A dog leash has been stapled and adhered to this music book titled Waltzes by 25 Contemporary Composers for piano, published by C. F. Peters Corporation; it has handwritten notes regarding playing times. A post-it note had indicated the book's use in association with Babbitt's "Who Cares if you Listen?"

Scope and Contents Typewritten excerpt of an essay titled "Who Cares if You Listen" by Milton Babbitt with handwritten notes.  A photocopy of a post-it note reads, "Babbitt essay excerpted as voiceover."

Scope and Contents This piano-vocal score is titled "A Song Built from Fire" by Richard Cameron-Wolfe and contains handwritten notes. The notes include a translation on the back page of the Catalan text and lyrics regarding the appearance of a flame-and-smoke breathing serpent.

Photocopies, from the Music Library of The University of Richmond, of pages from the musical work for solo voice titled Stripsody by Cathy Berberian (1966) with comic graphics by Roberto Zamarin. Claudia Stevens' handwritten notes are on some pages and some of the comic strip panels are taped to cardboard.

Scope and Contents Typewritten letter signed by composer Carlton Gamer to Claudia Stevens thanking her for performances of his work and in response to her request to write music and text for her solo performance work. He mentions the enclosure of a photocopied older piece of his ["Aria da Capo"] for her use and he expresses his openness to future collaboration.

Scope and Contents Photocopied cover page of "Aria da Capo" by Carlton Gamer.

Scope and Contents Single typewritten page of text for Part I and Part II of "Aria da Capo" by Ilka Suarez and Carlton Gamer, citing original words and choreography by Ilka Suarez (1952) and words and music by Carlton Gamer (1952, revised 1986).

Scope and Contents Three pages of musical revisions and text for "Aria da Capo" by Carlton Gamer, which had been described on a post-it note as "revised for Stevens' performance."

Handwritten letter from Carlton Gamer to Claudia Stevens regarding enclosed revisions and corrections for "Aria da Capo."

Scope and Contents Piano-vocal score titled "Mon Ami: Ariette variee a chanter-jouer pour pianiste femme ou enfant" (1976) by Betsy Jolas, on which handwritten notes by Claudia Stevens describe it as "one of a very few pieces around actually composed for a self ac.[accompanied] singer."

Scope and Contents 1952 score of "Aria da Capo" by Carlton Gamer with handwritten revisions and text made in 1986 for Claudia Stevens' performance. Part I and Part II comprise 21 numbered pages.

Handwritten letter from Elaine Barkin of Hollywood, CA, to Claudia Stevens discussing enclosed musical sketches.

Letter from Elaine Barkin to Claudia Stevens regarding enclosed musical revisions and cassette tape.

Scope and Contents Musical sketches and text for a "Vocal Voice Piece" by Elaine Barkin that were enclosed with Elaine Barkin's letters, with handwritten notes.

Scope and Contents Music-vocal score titled "Parlor Music for Claudia Stevens" by Elaine Barkin, with typewritten text and handwritten production notes.

Signed typewritten letter from Elaine Barkin to Claudia Stevens regarding her reaction and concerns for Claudia's revisions and interpretive treatment of the music-vocal piece created by Elaine Barkin. Tape recording of the performance by Claudia Stevens are mentioned in the letter.

Postcard, postmarked from Van Nuys. CA, on April 18, 1986, from Elaine Barkin to Claudia Stevens following her trip to Australia and Fiji, requesting another tape and Claudia's plans for the collaborative piece.

This is another copy or version, on larger paper, of the collaborative music-vocal score by Elaine Barkin for Claudia Stevens, with handwritten notes.

Program for Claudia Stevens' first inclusion of performance art in a music recital (as indicated on a handwritten post-it note), with F. Gerard Errante on Clarinet, at The Wiliamsburg Regional Library and presented by The College of William and Mary Department of Music. Selections include pieces composed by Edward Miller, Carlton Gamer, F. Gerard Errante, Johannes Brahms, and others.

Photocopied news article, by cindy Gricus in Style Weekly, previewing Claudia Stevens' October 7, 1986, solo performance at Flood Zone.

Scope and Contents Postcard for "An Evening of Performance Art with Multi-media Artist Claudia Stevens" at Flood Zone in Richmond, Va. for Open Stage Nite, Stevens' "debut as 'performance artist'."

Two photocopies of a review of Stevens' October 7, 1986, performance at Flood Zone, by Aloma Denise Alber, in the Richmond Times-Dispatch.

Scope and Contents Two photocopies of a review of Claudia Stevens' "performance artist ... one-woman show" on October 7, 1986, by Liz Vantrease in The Richmond News Leader.

Scope and Contents Two programs on yellow paper (one has checkmarks) for  presentation of Claudia Stevens' first season of "Panoply" at Hampden-Sydney College on November 3, 1986.

Letter from James C. Kidd to Claudia Stevens thanking her for the November 3 performance at Hampden-Sydney College and for speaking to his Fine Arts students.