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Johnny Green additional papers, 1923-1989.

Title: Johnny Green additional papers, 1923-1989.

Scores and papers of Americanconductor, arranger, and composer Johnny Green.

ArchivalResource: 104 containers (111 linearft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou02074/catalog View

The Bell Telephone Hour collection of sound recordings [sound recording], 1940-1968

Title: The Bell Telephone Hour collection of sound recordings [sound recording] 1940-1968

Weekly 30-minute NBC radio broadcasts, featuring classical and light classical music, which began on Apr. 29, 1940 and continued until 1958. In September, 1959, the Bell Telephone Hour made its television debut as a monthly musical special. It remained a regular television program until April 26, 1968. Library's holdings incomplete. Broadcasts chiefly originated from New York City, sponsored by the Bell Telephone Company (American Telephone and Telegraph). Each 30-minute program generally features a guest singer or instrumentalist, with the Bell Telephone Hour Orchestra, conducted by Donald Voorhees, and the Bell Telephone Hour Chorus. Frequent guest artists include Marian Anderson, Robert Casadesus, Nelson Eddy, Josef Hofmann, Fritz Kreisler, Oscar Levant, James Melton, Grace Moore, Ezio Pinza, Lily Pons, Bidú Sayão, Gladys Swarthout, John Charles Thomas, Helen Traubel, and Eileen Farrell. Chief announcer: Floyd Mack.

ArchivalResource: 1579 sound discs

http://archives.nypl.org/rha/20502 View

The Bell Telephone Hour collection of sound recordings [sound recording], 1940-1968

Title: The Bell Telephone Hour collection of sound recordings [sound recording] 1940-1968

Weekly 30-minute NBC radio broadcasts, featuring classical and light classical music, which began on Apr. 29, 1940 and continued until 1958. In September, 1959, the Bell Telephone Hour made its television debut as a monthly musical special. It remained a regular television program until April 26, 1968. Library's holdings incomplete. Broadcasts chiefly originated from New York City, sponsored by the Bell Telephone Company (American Telephone and Telegraph). Each 30-minute program generally features a guest singer or instrumentalist, with the Bell Telephone Hour Orchestra, conducted by Donald Voorhees, and the Bell Telephone Hour Chorus. Frequent guest artists include Marian Anderson, Robert Casadesus, Nelson Eddy, Josef Hofmann, Fritz Kreisler, Oscar Levant, James Melton, Grace Moore, Ezio Pinza, Lily Pons, Bidú Sayão, Gladys Swarthout, John Charles Thomas, Helen Traubel, and Eileen Farrell. Chief announcer: Floyd Mack.

ArchivalResource: 1579 sound discs

http://archives.nypl.org/rha/20502 View

Aróstegui Bolognini, Natalia. Papers 1913-1956.

Title: Papers 1913-1956.

The collection contains music scores from famous musicians such as Ernesto Lecuona and Gonzalo Roig, articles, pamphlets from the Sociedad Pro Arte Musical, and poems from writers such as Dulce María Loynaz.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (0.5 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/41282431 View

Lecuona, Ernesto, 1896-1963. "1 Tres Miniaturas / Campanilla / Bell-flower / Lecuona / 1943 / N.Y."

Title: "1 Tres Miniaturas / Campanilla / Bell-flower / Lecuona / 1943 / N.Y."

ArchivalResource: 2 p. ; 33.5 x 24 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270919828 View

Black, Ivan, d. 1979. Ivan Black papers, 1887-1979 (bulk 1937-1978)

Title: Ivan Black papers, 1887-1979 (bulk 1937-1978)

The Ivan Black papers are mostly made up of press releases and clippings from newspapers and magazines documenting the publicity work he did for his clients. Also included are promotional flyers, concert and stage programs, and correspondence. The correspondence is mainly with newspaper reporters and editors, or nightclub owners and managers, rather than with artists. The collection also contains a large section of photographs, which are mostly, but not all, publicity headshots, and a section of published stock musical arrangements for jazz big band with violins.

ArchivalResource: 22.5 linear feet (55 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/163934464 View

Johnny Green papers, 1920-1991.

Title: Johnny Green papers, 1920-1991.

Scores and papers of American conductor, arranger, and composer Johnny Green.

ArchivalResource: 307 boxes (150 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou02023/catalog View

Lecuona, Ernesto, 1896-1963. Malaguena [music] / Lecuona [and] Alberts ; arr. B. May.

Title: Malaguena [music] / Lecuona [and] Alberts ; arr. B. May. [1977?].

ArchivalResource: 1 ms. score (37 p.) ; 44 cm. + 21 ms. parts ; 36 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/271877846 View

Nicolas Slonimsky Collection, 1873-1997, (bulk 1920-1990)

Title: Nicolas Slonimsky Collection 1873-1997 (bulk 1920-1990)

Collection contains materials collected by Slonimsky throughout his lifetime that document his life and work as musicologist, composer, conductor, lecturer and author. Included are personal biographical materials; Slonimsky's writings (drafts, typescripts, reprints, etc.) of newspaper, periodical, journal, and magazine articles, record liner notes, radio broadcasts, and talks, published and unpublished; music composed by Slonimsky, manuscript and printed; concert programs; correspondence, among many others, with Henry Cowell, Alexandre Gretchaninoff, Roy Harris, Charles Ives, and Edgar Varèse; biographical materials on composers and performers mosly generated when Slonimsky was editing Baker's and The international cyclopedia; music collected by Slonimsky, manuscript and printed and multi-composer collections; among the manuscripts are many short holographic works and fragments; scrapbooks; and iconographical material, such as family photographs an those of composers and musicians from the former Soviet Union, as well as little known musicians from the United States and elsewhere.

ArchivalResource: circa 118,600 items; 354 boxes; 500 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu002011 View

Leo Reisman collection of sound recordings [sound recording], 1932-1948

Title: Leo Reisman collection of sound recordings [sound recording] 1932-1948

The Leo Reisman collection contains primarily private acetate disc recordings of Reisman's radio performances of the 1930's, as well as Reisman's personal collection of commercial 78 rpm discs. Included among the noncommercial recordings are extensive holdings of his Philip Morris Show and Schaefer's nine o'clock revue appearances. Less complete holdings for Lucky Strike's your hit parade are also included. The commercial disc collection is comprised mostly of Reisman's commercially released recordings, as well as a small number of other artists' recordings. All commercial discs have been assimilated into the general holdings of the archive, and can be located in the NYPL catalog.

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http://archives.nypl.org/rha/20451 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

Ivan Black papers, 1887-1979, 1937-1978

Title: Ivan Black papers 1887-1979 1937-1978

The Ivan Black Papers document Black’s work as a publicity agent on behalf of nightclubs, musicians and entertainers in New York from the 1940s to the 1970s. They include press releases, clippings, correspondence, photographs, promotional material and published music scores.

ArchivalResource: 22.8 linear feet; 55 boxes

http://archives.nypl.org/mus/20409 View