Box 4

The Alexander Kouguell Papers chronicle Alexander Kouguell's (1920-2022) personal life, career, and 68-year tenure at Queens College. The collection contains personal, performance, and academic records as well as photographic, audio, and music manuscripts. A noted cellist, Kouguell's papers detail his career as a performer, an educator, and provide researchers cultural snapshots of the greater New York area's orchestral scene throughout the 20th century.

This series includes programs, flyers, ephemera, and schedules of the performances associated with Alexander Kouguell. Programs include Kouguell's performances as a member of the Bennington Chamber Soloists, the Musica Aeterna Orchestra, the Clarion Music Society of New York, the Silver Mine Quartet, and the New York Chamber Soloists. Many of the prorgams include performances of Arkadie Kouguell's compositions, as well as notes and additional program performers.

Kouguell's Bennington Chamber Music subseries include flyers and ephemera that detail his involvement with the Bennington Chamber Music summer conference held yearly in Bennington, Vermont (now held in Hamilton, New York).

Kouguell's Additional Performances subseries includes programs, flyers, and ephemera describing additional performances that Kouguell would participate in throughout the New York State area. Among these are performances for the Scarsdale New Choral Society and the Free Synagogue of Flushing.