The John Cage papers described here include manuscripts, interviews, fan mail, and ephemera. Other material, including clippings, gallery and exhibition catalogs, a collection of Cage's books and serials, posters, objects, exhibition and literary announcement postcards, and brochures from conferences and other organizations are also part of the unprocessed Cage papers.

Contains programs for musical performances held at Wesleyan University. Performers include Wesleyan and non-Wesleyan musicians.

The collection includes proposals, meeting minutes, memoranda, correspondence, and reports relating to the establishment of the ethnomusicology doctoral program. It also contains photographs and printed material relating to music performances by faculty, student groups, and visiting world music artists, including concert programs. Materials in the Concert Correspondence Files, Events Scrapbooks, and Programs and Records series have not been processed.

The materials in the Beatrice Witkin papers range from her earliest musical compositions to her major works.