1988– 1996 Archive of Dr. Lynn Gumert, music therapist, composer, educator.

A rich archive tracing a modern-day composer-therapist’s early creative career…

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Forty-eight total items. Archive of Dr. Lynn Gumert, a music therapist, composer, educator, and PhD candidate at Drexel University. Active since 2019, they teach at Rowan University and supervise clinical practicum students from multiple institutions. Their compositions have been performed internationally, and they’ve received commissions across vocal and instrumental genres. Gumert has led community arts initiatives, including bilingual music programs and The Lullaby Project, and served in leadership roles with AMTA and IAWM. They direct Zorzal Music Ensemble and present on Latin American music history.

Inventory

A. Five letters by Lynn Gumert to correspondent: 4 ALsS and 1 TLS, ca. 1996. In aggregate, 13 pages.

B. Nineteen typed poems and song lyrics by Lynn Gumert, undated, 26pp. Three of the poems were used as lyrics for Gumert’s The Night Lies Poised (see below).

C. Eleven printed music scores for compositions by Lynn Gumert, includes one duplicate, 1988–1994. In aggregate, 336 pages. All are inscribed by Gumert. Compositions comprise: He Nacido Con Voz (lyrics by Sappho, Emily Dickinson, Bella Akhmadulina, and Elsa Tío); Kriobolos (Sacrifice) (two copies including the conductor’s annotated copy from the first reading of the piece); Maror; Porphyry; Prisms; Stepping Westward (lyrics by Denise Levertov); That night, that year Of now done darkness (lyrics by Gerard Manley Hopkins); The Night Lies Poised (lyrics by Gumert; with pencil annotations to musical score); Todavía Cantan; and When You Wake.

D. Seven printed music scores for compositions by Lynn Gumert using the pseudonym Lynn E. Ripka, 1988, In aggregate, 114 pages. Compositions comprise: Chiaroscuros; Circle Game; Conversation; Grendel Dancing; Love Songs; Syzygia; and Words will Bite, A Song Cycle (lyrics by William Carlos Williams).

E. Five items: program, printed program notes, and printed performance song lyrics for concerts and recitals by Lynn Gumert, ca. 1991–1992. In aggregate, 17 pages.

F. Student research paper by Lynn Gumert entitled “Women Composers: The Concepts of Genius and Gender,” submitted for the class Gender and the Word (F736); undated, 44 pages.

A comprehensive archive documenting the creative and intellectual development of a composer and therapist.

Price: $450.00