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Joint Army and Navy Committee on Welfare and Recreation, Sub-Committee on Music Papers, 1941-1946

Title: Joint Army and Navy Committee on Welfare and Recreation, Sub-Committee on Music Papers 1941-1946

The collection represents the working papers of the sub-committee: correspondence from members to, among others, Aaron Copland, Leonard Feist, Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern, Erich Leinsdorf, Alan Lomax, and Walter Toscanini; song book pamphlets ("Army Hit Kits"), sheet music; non-music publications; and administrative papers.

ArchivalResource: circa 10,000 items; 45 boxes; 18 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu005002 View

Alberta Masiello papers, 1894-1990

Title: Alberta Masiello papers 1894-1990

The papers of Alberta Masiello document her career as an opera vocal coach, as well as her early performing years. A significant portion of the collection, however, is a record of the opera careers of her grandfather and mother - Giuseppe and Giuseppina La Puma.

ArchivalResource: 4.5 linear feet; 12 boxes

http://archives.nypl.org/mus/20291 View

Flagstad, Kirsten, 1895-1962. Autograph letters signed (43) and autograph postcard signed, dated or postmarked : New York, Houston, London, Oslo, Kristiansand, San Francisco, and Phoenix, 1951-1962, to Nancy Hamilton, 1951-1962.

Title: Autograph letters signed (43) and autograph postcard signed, dated or postmarked : New York, Houston, London, Oslo, Kristiansand, San Francisco, and Phoenix, 1951-1962, to Nancy Hamilton, 1951-1962.

Mostly of a social nature, arranging visits, acknowledging presents, reporting on her health, recording sessions--"I have been 2 weeks in Vienna recording 'Fricka' in 'Rheingold'"--, career--"when I glance through the clippings I realize that I must have been a pretty good singer and actress as well"--, retirement--"I am happy, unbelievably happy my career is over and it ended gloriously in spite of my cold feelings. I was not moved for a second not even at the last tone!"--, her administration of the Norwegian State Opera, mentioning Mahler's Kindertotenlieder and Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen, Brahms's Vier ernste Gesänge, [Wagner's] Flying Dutchman directed by Wieland Wagner, [Weber's] Freischütz, [Johann] Strauss's Night in Venice, [Eugen d'Albert's] Tiefland, [Verdi's] Otello, [Shaw's] Major Barbara, Mozart's Haffner Symphony, asking for 6 jars of Heinz olives, green and with stones--"They are for my martinis"--, enclosing (present) lists of books by Trollope--"I like him more and more"--, mentioning Katherine Cornell and Guthrie McClintic, the Howard Lindsays, Caryl Beckwith, Set Svanholm, Tore Segelcke, Anton Raabe, Abbey Simon, Max Lorenz, Edwin [McArthur], Ulf Wengård, Paul Nordoff, Paol Reumert, Ivor Newton, and others, etc.; one of the letters has notes written by Reggie and Helen Allen.

ArchivalResource: 47 items (69 p., with 37 envelopes) ; various sizes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270577408 View

Ruby Mercer Collection. Transcripts of taped interviews on Edward Johnson by people, L-R.

Title: Transcripts of taped interviews on Edward Johnson by people, L-R. 1971.

ArchivalResource: 1 file.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/627550123 View

Masiello, Alberta. Alberta Masiello papers, 1894-1990.

Title: Alberta Masiello papers, 1894-1990.

The Alberta Masiello papers Masiello's personal correspondence and clippings, photographs and scrapbooks pertaining to the careers of her grandfather, Guiseppe La Puma and mother Giuseppina La Puma.

ArchivalResource: 4.5 linear ft. (12 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/84113257 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

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

McArthur, Edwin. M 1563 Edwin McArthur Diary, 1917-1918; 1981.

Title: M 1563 Edwin McArthur Diary, 1917-1918; 1981.

Diary of Edwin McArthur.

ArchivalResource:

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/755722795 View

McArthur, Edwin. Correspondence with Marian Anderson, 1969.

Title: Correspondence with Marian Anderson, 1969.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 l.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63559690 View

White mss., 1932-1969

Title: White mss., 1932-1969

Collection consists of the correspondence, writings, and memorabilia of critic, editor, and writer William Anthony Parker (W.A.P.) White, 1911-1968.

ArchivalResource: 30,000 items

http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/findingaids/view?doc.view=entire_text&docId=InU-Li-VAC2076 View