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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.

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

Jan Peerce collection of sound recordings, 1932-1983

Title: Jan Peerce collection of sound recordings 1932-1983

The collection contains non-commercial recordings of live and recorded performances and interviews of Jan Peerce spanning the years 1938-1983. The collection also features performers such as: singers Zinka Milanov, Roberta Peters, Leonard Warren, Cesare Siepi, Robert Merrill, Lawrence Tibbett, Virginia Raye and Viola Philo ; conductors Arturo Toscanini, Fausto Cleva, Harry Horlick and David Rubinoff ; and interviewers Ed Sullivan, Johnny Carson and Mike Douglas. Radio and television (audio only) programs included are: The A & P Gypsies, Radio City Music Hall On the Air, Carnegie Hall, The Chevrolet Hour, The Ed Sullivan Show, The Mike Douglas Show, and The Tonight Show. Works featured are selections from operas such as "La boheme," "I pagliacci," "Don Giovanni," "Cavalleria Rusticana," "La traviata," "Lucia di Lammermoor" and "Rigoletto" ; musicals such as "Fiddler on the Roof" ; and songs by Handel and Schubert, among others.

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http://archives.nypl.org/rha/20483 View

Robert Benney research materials, 1926-1978

Title: Robert Benney research materials 1926-1978

The Robert Benney research materials include photographs, clippings, posters, playbills, and ephemera relating to his career as a portraitist of stage and screen personalities. The bulk of the material spans 1926 to 1947, and consists of photographs, and clippings of Benney's work depicting New York stage performers in their roles. Many photographs and clippings depict entire stage scenes, and, in addition to stage actors, there are photographs and clippings of musicians, dancers, comics, and radio personalities, and a small number of items relating to films of the period.

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http://archives.nypl.org/the/21610 View

Schubert, Franz, 1797-1828. Fantaisie pour le pianoforte [microform] / composée et dediée à monsieur Emm. Noble de Liebenberg de Zsittin par François Schubert mpria.

Title: Fantaisie pour le pianoforte [microform] / composée et dediée à monsieur Emm. Noble de Liebenberg de Zsittin par François Schubert mpria. Nov., 1822.

ArchivalResource: [1] l., [24] p. of ms. music ; 24 x 31 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80735257 View

The Moldenhauer Archives at Harvard University: Correspondence, literary manuscripts, sound recordings, and other material, 1873-2001.

Title: The Moldenhauer Archives at Harvard University: Correspondence, literary manuscripts, sound recordings, and other material, 1873-2001.

This collection is a portion of the Archives relating to 20th-century music, collected by the German-American musicologist, Hans Moldenhauer.

ArchivalResource: 59 boxes, 9 cartons (not end-processed) (50 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01954/catalog View

Joseph Schillinger collection of noncommercial recordings, 1937-1943

Title: Joseph Schillinger collection of noncommercial recordings 1937-1943

These noncommercial acetate disc recordings were collected by Schillinger, and in many instances recorded by him as well. Works by Schillinger in the collection include many of his piano compositions and improvisations. Other composers prominently represented include Will Bradley, Carmine Coppola, Henry Cowell, Clarence Cox, Rosalino De Maria, Belle Fenstock, Edwin Gerschefski, George Gershwin, Lyn Murray, and Lazar Weiner.

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http://archives.nypl.org/rha/20470 View

Berlin, Irving, 1888-1989. Berlin ragtime medley / [music composed by Irving Berlin ; arranged by] Frank J. Black.

Title: Berlin ragtime medley / [music composed by Irving Berlin ; arranged by] Frank J. Black. [between 1930 and 1940?]

ArchivalResource: [7] p. of ms. music ; 31 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/694110373 View