Santa-Barbara based Music Academy of the West, is a summer training program for pre-professional musicians. The archive contains institutional records of the academy from its founding in 1947 to the present.
The collection consists of administrative files including administrative files such as director's minutes, documentation (programs, etc) of all summer festival concerts, as well as recordings of concerts from concerts from the 1960s through the early 2000s.
For a description and inventory of the collection, consult the finding guide in the Online Archive of California (OAC).
For more information on the collection or assistance in using the materials, please contact Special Collections staff at special@library.ucsb.edu.
