Composer and head of the Music Department of the University of Massachusetts Amherst who received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1971. Includes materials relating to the development, performance, and publication of a number of Bezanson's compositions, including scores and parts for 46 of his 47 instrumental and vocal compositions, correspondence, programs and posters for performances of his works, papers relating to the development of the opera Golden Child, on which he collaborated with Paul Engle and which was performed on national television, score of the opera Stranger in Eden, with libretto by William A. Reardon, other papers, and one sound recording.

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