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BARBARA HAWS
Archivist/Historian
Barbara Haws has been the Archivist and Historian of the New York Philharmonic since 1984. Ms. Haws, who has a master's degree in history from New York University, has lectured extensively about the Philharmonic's past, and has curated major exhibitions at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts (1992), the London Barbican (2000), and the Cologne Philharmonie (1998). In the fall of 2003 she mounted the largest multimedia exhibition on the Philharmonic's history, which opened at the UBS Art Gallery and has since moved to Avery Fisher Hall. In addition to giving pre-concert talks at the New York Philharmonic, Ms. Haws has lectured at Bard College, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Grolier Club.
In 1995 Barbara Haws became the Executive Producer of the Philharmonic's Special Editions record label, which has released award-winning and Grammy-nominated CD collections, including the 12-CD set, The Mahler Broadcasts:1948-1982; the 10-CD set, Bernstein LIVE (released October 2000); and the first new recording in 20 years of Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd: Live at the New York Philharmonic. In 1999 she was elected to the Board of Governors of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Science.
Ms. Haws has been an archival consultant to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the Leonard Bernstein Estate, and has been a project archivist for the Bowery Savings Bank, the Jackie Robinson Papers, and Trinity Church. She has served as president of the Archivist Round Table of Metropolitan New York, is a founder of New York Archives Week, and chairs the Board Archives Committee of the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
Barbara Haws, along with Burton Bernstein, is the author of Leonard Bernstein: American Original, published in September 2008 by Harper Collins. Currently, she is leading the effort to digitize 1.3 million pages of archival material, funded by the Leon Levy Foundation, to be made available over the Internet in 2012.
