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Sloss, M. C. Sloss music collection, 1811-1947.

Title: Sloss music collection, 1811-1947.

Autograph letters (primarily to Mrs. Sloss) from musicians, singers, composers, and conductors. Also postcards, autographs and a few photographs.

ArchivalResource: 1 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122447876 View

Bori, Lucrezia, 1887-1960. Autograph letters signed (6), dated : New York, 1932-37, to Mr. & Mrs. Harry Harkness Flagler, 1932-1937.

Title: Autograph letters signed (6), dated : New York, 1932-37, to Mr. & Mrs. Harry Harkness Flagler, 1932-1937.

Of a social nature, thanking them for flowers, for a contribution, apologizing for not remembering a dinner invitation, etc.

ArchivalResource: 6 items (14 p., with one envelope) ; (16mo and obl. 32mo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270673035 View

Autograph collection.

Title: Autograph collection.

Includes autographs, memorabilia, correspondence, archives, etc.

ArchivalResource: .25 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/22419761 View

Bori, Lucrezia. Lucrezia Bori photograph, 1933.

Title: Lucrezia Bori photograph, 1933.

Photograph of Bori accepting the key to the city of San Francisco, November 28, 1933, with Giulio Gatti-Casagga. Autographed by Bori.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder ; 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/435456502 View

Sembrich, Marcella, 1858-1935. Marcella Sembrich collection, 1790-1988 (bulk 1885-1930).

Title: Marcella Sembrich collection, 1790-1988 (bulk 1885-1930).

The correspondence, papers, posters, and programs in this collection represent the career and activities of Marcella Sembrich and her family from 1851 to 1988. The collection consists of an extensive amount of correspondence with the leading musical figures of the day; posters, concert advertisements and programs from Sembrich (and other) performances throughout her career; and memorabilia including an autograph album with signatures and drawings of famous musicians and others. Series IX "Photographs" also includes some 15-20 original graphic art works among its 2284 items. Subjects include Sembrich, places she lived, places she performed, and people with whom she performed. The sheet music and musical scores (Series X) are currently being processed.

ArchivalResource: ca. 75 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122486438 View

Bori, Lucrezia, 1887-1960. Letter, 1933 May 13, New York, to Library Staff, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich.

Title: Letter, 1933 May 13, New York, to Library Staff, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich.

Expresses thanks for contribution to the Committee for Saving the Metropolitan Opera.

ArchivalResource: 1 p. Typescript signed.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34370423 View

Rosa Ponselle collection of performances, recorded interviews, and films, 1926-1987

Title: Rosa Ponselle collection of performances, recorded interviews, and films 1926-1987

The collection contains commercial and noncommercial sound recordings and noncommercial films and videos collected by Rosa Ponselle from 1926 to 1981, covering her career and retirement; recordings of memorial tributes to Ponselle were added to the collection from 1982 to 1987.

ArchivalResource:

http://archives.nypl.org/rha/20472 View

John Eldon Thayer collection of motion picture memorabilia, 1916-1979.

Title: John Eldon Thayer collection of motion picture memorabilia, 1916-1979.

Collection of twentieth century motion picture memorabilia collected by John Eldon Thayer.

ArchivalResource: 59 boxes (35 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou02025/catalog View

Edward Johnson Collection. Correspondence to Edward Johnson from Lucrezia Bori.

Title: Correspondence to Edward Johnson from Lucrezia Bori. 1933, 1944.

ArchivalResource: 1 file.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/627796854 View

Ruby Mercer Collection (University of Guelph). Collection of slides and photographs of Edward Johnson in various operatic roles and of opera houses; photographs of E. Johnson, family, associates, and various landmarks in Italy.

Title: Collection of slides and photographs of Edward Johnson in various operatic roles and of opera houses; photographs of E. Johnson, family, associates, and various landmarks in Italy. 1900- 1970.

ArchivalResource: 2 files, 115 slides, 49 photographs (chiefly b&w), 2 col. postcards.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/627564607 View

Ramsay, Janet, 1888-1940. Speech, [ca. 1940].

Title: Speech, [ca. 1940].

Concerns artistry and her double career in music and literature. As examples of the musical life, she mentions David Mannes, John Powell, and her own piano teaching. On the literary side, she discusses an article she wrote about Lucrezia Bori.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (5 leaves)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/16400265 View

The Love Family Papers, 1850-1960 (inclusive)

Title: The Love Family Papers 1850-1960 (inclusive)

Letters to Lucy Prindle Love and Helen Love Scranton, as well as clippings, photographs, and other items

ArchivalResource: 11 boxes (3 linear feet)

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/music.mss.0001 View

Greenway, Lauder. Opera and recital collection [sound recording], 1901-1972.

Title: Opera and recital collection [sound recording], 1901-1972.

The collection contains both commercial and noncommercial discs of opera from the beginning of this century to the mid-1970's on acetate air-check discs, 78 rpm shellacs, cylinders, and a scattering of LP's.

ArchivalResource: 9770 sound recordings.8892 sound discs : analog, mono, 78 rpm.682 sound discs : analog, mono, 33 rpm, acetate.196 sound cylinders : mono.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122682570 View

Bori, Lucrezia, 1887-1960. Signature, dated : [n.p., n.d.], [n.d.].

Title: Signature, dated : [n.p., n.d.], [n.d.].

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; 5.5 x 10 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270967444 View

Horowitz, Vladimir, 1903-1989. The papers of Vladimir and Wanda Toscanini Horowitz, 1784-1991 (inclusive).

Title: The papers of Vladimir and Wanda Toscanini Horowitz, 1784-1991 (inclusive).

The Papers of Vladimir and Wanda Toscanini Horowitz document the lives of the legendary pianist and his wife through the Horowitzes' correspondence with family members, performers, composers, agents, and recording companies. The Papers also contain a large number of photographs, as well as many musical scores from Horowitz's library. In addition, the Papers contain clippings, scrapbooks, financial records, miscellaneous materials, and a number of items related to Horowitz's father-in-law, Arturo Toscanini.

ArchivalResource: 69 linear ft. (164 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702150358 View

Bori, Lucrezia, 1887-1960. Letter, 1933 May 1, New York to Mr. Rugg.

Title: Letter, 1933 May 1, New York to Mr. Rugg.

Acknowledges, on behalf of Committee for saving the Metropolitan Opera, Rugg's contribution.

ArchivalResource: 1 leaf. 27 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/6987788 View

Love family. The Love family papers, 1850-1960 (inclusive).

Title: The Love family papers, 1850-1960 (inclusive).

The Love Family Papers consist primarily of letters to Lucy Prindle Love and Helen Love Scranton. Helen Scranton was secretary for many years to Franz Kneisel, and later she served as secretary to both the Society of the Friends of Music and the Beethoven Association of New York. The correspondence includes letters from composers, conductors, instrumentalists, singers, and critics. The Papers also contain newspaper clippings, photographs, and miscellaneous items.

ArchivalResource: 3 linear ft. (11 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702162011 View

Lucrezia Bori collection, [19--?-ongoing].

Title: Lucrezia Bori collection, [19--?-ongoing].

Collection contains clipping, misc., photograph, program and publicity files.

ArchivalResource: 5 folders.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/430358401 View

Spalding, Albert, 1888-1953. Autograph letters signed (2) and typewritten letter signed, dated : New York, Jan. 28 1933 and 7 December 1935, and Great Barrington (Mass.), [n.d.], to Mrs. Melbert B. Cary, Jr., and to Mr. and Mrs. Cary, 1933 Jan. 28, 1935 Dec. 7, and n.d.

Title: Autograph letters signed (2) and typewritten letter signed, dated : New York, Jan. 28 1933 and 7 December 1935, and Great Barrington (Mass.), [n.d.], to Mrs. Melbert B. Cary, Jr., and to Mr. and Mrs. Cary, 1933 Jan. 28, 1935 Dec. 7, and n.d.

Saying what a valuable man [Leon] Barzin is--"Such a fine musician and he does his work con amore"--, discussing a dinner for Mrs. Astor, mentioning Jascha Heifetz, Miss Bori, [Walter] Damrosch, Schelling, Tibbett, saying that he hopes to play for the Orchestral Association, etc.; with an engraved card acknowledging an expression of sympathy, with an autograph note: "deeply touched, dear Mary, by your letter."

ArchivalResource: 3 items (5 p., with one envelope.) ; various sizes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270669940 View

Cooper, Betty Miller,. Betty Miller Cooper photograph collection, [1932-1986].

Title: Betty Miller Cooper photograph collection, [1932-1986].

This collection consists of photographs of Kurt Herbert Adler, Licia Albanese, Lorenzo Alvary, Salvatore Baccaloni, Michael Bartlett, Frances Bible, Jussi Björling, Artur Bodansky, Karl Boehm, Margit Bokor, Ray Bolger, Dino Borgioli, Lucrezia Bori, Inge Borkh, Paul Breisach, John Brownlee, Rosanna Carteri, George Cehanovsky, Sona Cervena, Carlo Felice Cillario, Renato Cioni, Ina Claire, Fausto Cleva, Norman Cordon, Mary Costa, Richard Crooks, Irene Dalis, Mario Del Monaco, Alessio Di Paolis, Otto Edelman, Elfego Esparaza, Geraint Evans, Kirsten Flagstad, Alfredo Gandolfi, Leyla Gencer, Nicolai Ghaiurov, Dusolina Giannini, Tito Gobbi, Reri Grist, Gertrude Grob-Prandl, Helen Hayes, Raoul Jobin, Gwyneth Jones, James King, Alexander Kipnis, Dorothy Kirsten, Sandor Konya, Andre Kostelanetz, Alfredo Kraus, Josef Krips, Evelyn Lear, Lotte Lehmann, Erich Leinsdorf, Raymond Leppard, Brenda Lewis, Emanuel List, Pilar Lorengar, Leopold Ludwig, Rene Maison, Mary Martin, Giovanni Martinelli, Carla Martinis, James McCracken, Terry McEwen, Lauritz Melchior, Jolanda Meneguzzer, Gaetano Merola, Nan Merriman, Kirsten Meyer, Robert and Betty Miller, Francesco Molinari-Prandelli, Pierre Monteux, Claudia Muzio, Birgit Nilsson, Jarmila Novotna, Gennaro Papi, Luciano Pavarotti, Jan Peerce, Jean Perisson, Irra Petina, Jeannette Pilou, Ezio Pinza, Lily Pons, Giacinto Prandelli, Leontyne Price, Fritz Reiner, Regina Resnik, Elisabeth Rethberg, Stella Roman, Nicola Rossi-Lemeni, Rosalind Russell, Leonie Rysenek, Bidu Sayao, Kenneth Schermerhorn, Tito Schipa, Paul Schoeffer, Fredrich Schorr, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Renata Scotto, Tullio Serafin, Beverly Sills, Giulietta Simionato, Horst Stein, William Steinberg, Rise Stevens, Thomas Stewart, Rita Streich, Otmar Suitner, Joan Sutherland, Gladys Swarthout, Ferruccio Tagliavini, Italo Tajo, Renata Tebaldi, David Thaw, Blanche Thebom, Jess Thomas, Lawrence Tibbett, Arturo Toscanini, Giorgio Tozzi, Richard Tucker, Claramae Turner, Roberto Turrini, Valentina, Cesare Valletti, Jon Vickers, Leonard Warren. The photographs were given to Betty Miller Cooper and Robert Watt Miller.

ArchivalResource: 2.3 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/430356952 View

Marcella Sembrich papers, 1790-1988, 1885-1930

Title: Marcella Sembrich papers 1790-1988 1885-1930

Marcella Sembrich was a Polish born coloratura soprano who sang leading roles in European and American opera during her highly successful career. From 1898 to 1909 she was a regular member of the Metropolitan Opera Company, New York. She continued performing as a concert singer after her retirement from the operatic stage. Sembrich also became an instructor of singing at the Curtis Institute of Music and the Juilliard School of Music, becoming mentor to many pupils who later became famous in their own right. The correspondence, papers, posters, and programs in this collection represent the career and activities of Marcella Sembrich and her family from 1851 to 1988. The collection consists of an extensive amount of correspondence with the leading musical figures of the day; posters, concert advertisements and programs from Sembrich (and other) performances throughout her career; and memorabilia including an autograph album with signatures and drawings of famous musicians and others. Series IX "Photographs" also includes some 15-20 original graphic art works among its 2284 items. Subjects include Sembrich, places she lived, places she performed, and people with whom she performed. The sheet music and musical scores (Series X) are currently being processed.

ArchivalResource: 75

http://archives.nypl.org/mus/20137 View

The Papers of Vladimir and Wanda Toscanini Horowitz., 1784-1991

Title: The Papers of Vladimir and Wanda Toscanini Horowitz. 1784-1991

Correspondence and other papers, photographs, and additional materials by and about the Russian-American pianist Vladimir Horowitz (1903-1989) and his wife Wanda Toscanini Horowitz (1907-1998)

ArchivalResource: 164 boxes (69 linear ft.)

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/music.mss.0055 View

Scrapbook on theater and opera, 1901-1915.

Title: Scrapbook on theater and opera, 1901-1915.

Volumes of clippings, programs, and autographed photographs. Includes material on Geraldine Farrar, Lucrezia Bori, Claudia Muzio, Louise Edvina, Billie Burke, Maude Adams, Arturo Toscanini, and Ethel Barrymore,

ArchivalResource: 4 v. : ill., ports. ; 26 x 32 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/430366255 View