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Montemezzi, Italo, 1875-1952. Autograph letter signed, dated : Milan, 14 April 1931, to [Bruno] Zirato, 1931 Apr. 14.

Title: Autograph letter signed, dated : Milan, 14 April 1931, to [Bruno] Zirato, 1931 Apr. 14.

Thanking him for news and a clipping, saying that he is sure [Rosa] Ponselle will interpret the role of Zoraima well and will be vocally perfect, etc.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; (8mo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270900762 View

Ponselle, Rosa, 1897-1981. Letters to Kenneth C. Miller and other papers, ca. 1922-1925.

Title: Letters to Kenneth C. Miller and other papers, ca. 1922-1925.

19 ALS (many signed "Mel") and 1 greeting card from Rosa Ponselle to Ken Miller ; 1 ALS to "Kenneth, Rosa & Edith" from Stuart Ross [?] ; 4 photographs of Rosa Ponselle (2 inscribed to "Ken") ; 1 photograph of Rosa Ponselle and Ken Miller; 1 photograph of "Langworthy's KU Footwarmers" including K. Miller, violin; program, [1922] Nov. 30, of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra with Rosa Ponselle as guest soloist.

ArchivalResource: 27 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/144652348 View

Secrist, John, 1918-1958. Papers from the John Secrist Jr. collection, 1919-1973 (bulk 1949-1958).

Title: Papers from the John Secrist Jr. collection, 1919-1973 (bulk 1949-1958).

These papers comprise a small part of the John Secrist Jr. Collection of nearly 1,700 operatic recordings acquired by John Secrist and donated to the Library of Congress in 1963. Strengths of the recorded sound collection include large runs of Enrico Caruso and Rosa Ponselle recordings; the collection is further distinguished by being in near-mint condition. Portions of the papers describe and index the Secrist recordings, while the discographic and photographic materials provide information on the artists whose work he collected.

ArchivalResource: 5.75 linear feet (18 boxes, approximately 5,037 items)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/320523996 View

Ussher, Bruno David. Bruno David Ussher collection of photographs, 1892-1957 (bulk 1922-1935).

Title: Bruno David Ussher collection of photographs, 1892-1957 (bulk 1922-1935).

Photographs of musicians and music celebrties given to Ussher in the 1920s and 1930s. Many are autographed and inscribed. Also included is a score by Edward MacDowell.

ArchivalResource: 1 linear ft. (1 box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/700521295 View

Smith, Susie May. Susie May Smith oral history, 1985.

Title: Susie May Smith oral history, 1985.

Tape and transcript of an interview with Miss Smith conducted by Naomi Tsuzuki Ewing, March 11, 1985. Subjects include her early life in Ithaca, New York; areas in and around Ithaca, including Taughannock Falls, Six Mile Creek, Ithaca Falls, Forest Home, Beebe Lake, and Cayuga Lake; sledding near the East Ithaca Station; horse-drawn fire equipment; Lake Forest College, 1926; Clifton Springs, New York; Wells College and Aurora, New York; Cornell University buildings, including Risley, Morse, Goldwin Smith, Willard Straight, and Bailey Halls, as well as Sage House, Uris Library, Schuyler House, and Sage Chapel; the Cornell infirmary; neighborhoods bordering on the Cornell campus; Cornell musical events; dogs on campus; and a fire at the Engineering School. Individuals discussed include Dr. Martin B. Tinker and his sons Martin and Alfred, Dr. Arthur Eames, Irene Castle, George Louis Coleman, Pastor Herbert Moore, Louis Agassiz Fuertes and his daughter, Mary Boynton, Professor Liberty Hyde Bailey, Professor Oscar D. von Engeln, Professor Albert B. Faust, Dr. James K. Wilson, Hendrik W. Van Loon and his family, and performing artists Schuman Heick, Rosa Ponselle, and Rachmaninoff.

ArchivalResource: 40 p. transcript.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/64075150 View

Ponselle, Rosa, 1897-1981. Correspondence from Eugene Ormandy, 1976.

Title: Correspondence from Eugene Ormandy, 1976.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (3 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63643564 View

Letters to Kenneth C. Miller and other papers, ca. 1922-1925

Title: Letters to Kenneth C. Miller and other papers ca. 1922-1925

Rosa Ponselle was an American soprano. Kenneth Miller was a violinist who lived in Lawrence, Kansas. 19 ALS (many signed "Mel") and 1 greeting card from Rosa Ponselle to Ken Miller ; 1 ALS to "Kenneth, Rosa & Edith" from Stuart Ross [?] ; 4 photographs of Rosa Ponselle (2 inscribed to "Ken") ; 1 photograph of Rosa Ponselle and Ken Miller; 1 photograph of "Langworthy's KU Footwarmers" including K. Miller, violin; program, [1922] Nov. 30, of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra with Rosa Ponselle as guest soloist.

ArchivalResource: 27 items

http://archives.nypl.org/mus/20210 View

Rosa Ponselle papers, ca. 1911-1981

Title: Rosa Ponselle papers ca. 1911-1981

The Rosa Ponselle Papers document the career of one of the most noted 20th century American soprano opera singers, and covers her beginnings in vaudeville, her Metropolitan Opera career (1918-1937), her teaching activities, her adminstrative involvement with musical life in Baltimore, and her retirement. Also included is material concerning her sister Carmela Ponselle (1892-1977).

ArchivalResource:

http://archives.nypl.org/mus/20095 View

1907-1983. Papers. Series I. Correspondence

Title: 1907-1983. Papers. Series I. Correspondence

Includes correspondence, with various enclosures (clippings, photographs, financial or legal documents, script proposals, etc.), from Miss Swanson's family, friends, business associates, acquaintances, and fans, spanning many notables from numerous fields of endeavor. As many relationships overlapped personal, career, business, and other interests, this series should by no means be regarded as purely personal correspondence. The earliest correspondence in the collection is from her family. Most 1920s and 1930s correspondence is film related and located in Series II., Career, especially in the United Artists subseries. The 1940s are most prominently represented in the Multiprises, Inc. subseries of Series III., Business Interests. Among the correspondents are: Roy E. Aitken, Michelle Farmer Amon, Kenneth Anger, Robert Balzer, Tallulah Bankhead, Richard Barthelmess, Earl Blackwell, Virginia Bowker, Charles Brackett, Lewis L. Bredin, Harry A. Bruno, Carol Burnett, George Bush, Francis X. Bushman, Richard E. Byrd, Walter Byron, James Cagney, Eddie Cantor, Carol Channing, Maurice Chevalier, Henri Coanda, Ronald Colman, Noel Coward, Fleur Cowles, Joan Crawford, George Cukor, Michael Curtiz, Gloria Daly, Raymond W. Daum, William M. Davey, Marion Davies, Cecil B. DeMille, Indira Devi, Thomas E. Dewey, Theodore Dreiser, William Dufty, Alan Dwan, Nelson Eddy, David Edstrom, Mamie Doud Eisenhower, Harlan Ellison, Douglas Fairbanks, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Michael Farmer, José Ferrer, Hy Gardner, George, Duke of Kent, George Gershwin, Margaret Ghika, Lillian Gish, Hubert de Givenchy, Elinor Glyn, Edmund Goulding, Gladys Griffith, Alec Guinness, Edmund Gwenn, Forrest Halsey, Oscar Hammerstein II, Helen Hayes, Edith Head, William Randolph Hearst, Ethel Helmsing, Katharine Hepburn, Conrad Hilton, Prince Franz Hohenlohe, Bob Hope, Hedda Hopper, Edward Everett Horton, L. Ron Hubbard, René Hubert, William Bradford Huie, George S. Kaufman, Edward Moore Kennedy, Harold J. Kennedy, John F. Kennedy, Joseph P. Kennedy, Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, Jean Kerr, Ed Koch, Kathryn Kuhlman, Michio Kushi, Henri de La Falaise, Henri Langlois, Beatrice LaPlante, Rod LaRocque, Jesse L. Lasky, Evelyn Laye, Vivien Leigh, Mervyn LeRoy, Clare Boothe Luce, Joel McCrea, Roddy McDowall, Frances Norton Manning, Arlette Marchal, Stanley Marcus, Frances Marion, Gene Markey, Herbert Marshall, James Michener, Marshall Neilan, David Niven, Richard M. Nixon, Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier, Louella Parsons, Mary Pickford, ZaSu Pitts, Rosa Ponselle, Harold Prince, Ram Gopal, Ronald Reagan, Ginger Rogers, Eleanor Roosevelt, Adela Rogers St. Johns, Elsa Schiaparelli, Gustave Schirmer, David O. Selznick, Joseph Sharfshin, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, R. Lawrence Siegel, Herbert K. Somborn, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward Steichen, Preston Sturges, Ed Sullivan, Joseph Patrick Swanson, Joseph Theodore Swanson, Bess Truman, Valentina, Erich Von Stroheim, Raoul Walsh, Barbara Walters, LeRoy P. ("Sport") Ward, Clifton Webb, Orson Welles, Dan Werlé, Billy Wilder, Lois Wilson, Walter Winchell, Sam Wood, Adelaide Woodruff, Florenz Ziegfeld, Adolph Zukor, and others. Among some of the more intriguing pieces of correspondence are: a letter from a twelve year old John F. Kennedy, thanking Miss Swanson for a Christmas present; a signed, self-caricature note from George Gershwin; René Hubert's voluminous, illustrated correspondence; early papers of Herbert K. Somborn's company, Equity Pictures; and a series of mail from Kenneth Anger, which arose from a lawsuit involving his book Hollywood Babylon. There is relatively little correspondence with Joseph P. Kennedy; most of it is found in Series II., Career, and it is generally characterized by business dealings. Also included is a large group of fan mail, and fans' addresses kept on index cards, with carbons of responses, or notations that photographs or letters were sent, or perhaps a phone call was made.

ArchivalResource: 85 boxes (35 linear feet).

https://search.lib.utexas.edu/permalink/01UTAU_INST/be14ds/alma991024011069706011 View

Papers from the John Secrist Jr. Collection, 1919-1973, 1949-1958

Title: Papers from the John Secrist Jr.Collection, 1919-1973 1949-1958

Papers, including discographicand photographic materials, included in the John Secrist Jr. Collection ofnearly 1,700 operatic sound recordings.

ArchivalResource: 5.75 linear feet (18 boxes)

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mbrsrs/eadmbrs.rs006001 View

Fickénscher, Arthur, 1871-1954. Papers of Arthur Fickénscher, 1895-1995.

Title: Papers of Arthur Fickénscher, 1895-1995.

The largest portion of the papers consists of originals and copies of almost all of Fickénscher's music. The remaining portion contains correspondence and professional and personal papers. Fickénscher's compositions include manuscripts, master sheets and prints of musical scores for orchestral works; orchestra with voice and chorus, particularly "Aucassin and Nicolete," "The chamber blue," and "The land east of the sun"; chamber music, particularly "Quintet," and "Willowwood"; choral works; organ works; sacred music including selections from the Episcopal Order of Communion, 1945; settings for University of Virginia college songs; and concert songs for voice and piano including "Acht Deutche Volkslieder Aum Konzertvortrag." Professional and personal papers include a catalog of his work by William W. Jones and a biographical article by Gordon Rumson; memorabilia from concert performances of Fickénscher and his wife, Edith; business records of McIntire concerts at the University of Virginia, 1919-1939 which include copies of contracts with Pablo Casals, Amelita Galli-Curci, Jascha Heifetz, Fritz Kreisler, Yehudi Menuhin, and Rosa Ponselle; family memorabilia including photographs; reviews; clippings; and a variety of material concerning his invention of the Polytone. There is also an autographed copy of Peter Van de Kamp's "Lullaby," and a 33 1/3 recording of Fickénscher's setting of Rossetti's "Willowwood." Correspondents include Howald T. Bailey, Alfred V. Frankenstein, Arditha F. Fickénscher, Edith C. Fickénscher, Max Friedländer, Percy Grainger, Edwin Hughes, Walter E. Koons, Quinto Maganini, Robert S. Pace, and Karl Wecker.

ArchivalResource: 2,000 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/55225026 View

Ponselle, Rosa, 1897-1981. Rosa and Carmela Ponselle Music Collection, 1940-1975.

Title: Rosa and Carmela Ponselle Music Collection, 1940-1975.

Contains published and ms. songs by various composers ; includes a small number of works for piano, and chamber music.

ArchivalResource: 0.31 cubic feet (1 box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/465212945 View

Rosa Ponselle [microform] : a collection of 17 scrapbooks, news clippings, photographs, 1911-Dec. 1935.

Title: Rosa Ponselle [microform] : a collection of 17 scrapbooks, news clippings, photographs, 1911-Dec. 1935. 1911-1935.

ArchivalResource: 17 v. : ill.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/24826172 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

Charles A. Sink autographed photograph collection, 1894-1972

Title: Charles A. Sink autographed photograph collection 1894-1972

Charles A. Sink was president of University Musical Society. Photographs (mainly autographed portraits) of musical performers, many of whom appeared in performances of the University Musical Society.

ArchivalResource: ca. 568 photographs (in 6 boxes)

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/b/bhlead/umich-bhl-9817?rgn=main;view=text 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

Bruno David Ussher collection of photographs, Bulk, 1922-1935, 1892-1957

Title: Bruno David Ussher collection of photographs Bulk, 1922-1935 1892-1957

Celebrity photographs (classical music and films) autographed to Ussher in the 1930s; Ussher was a musicologist/music critic.

ArchivalResource: 1.0 Linear feet; 1 box

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt8s20398c View

England, George Allan, 1877-1936. Woodstock Historical society collection, [18--]-[ongoing].

Title: Woodstock Historical society collection, [18--]-[ongoing].

Files and notebooks, including unpublished histories of the Town of Woodstock by local historian, Ruby C. Emery; town reports; high school yearbooks; materials relating to the village of Bryant Pond; published histories of local towns and villages; books on Maine and New England, antiques, and other subjects; biographies of British and American statesmen; cookbooks; photographs of schools, the opera house, livery, blacksmith shop, hotel, mineral spring, mills, quarry, and other local landmarks; portraits and landscape paintings; antiques; political memorabilia including letters from Ronald Reagan and George Bush and invitation to the wedding of Sen. Olympia Snow and Gov. John R. McKernan; and other materials. Also includes newspaper articles relating to Episcopal Bishop Frederick Kinsman and Capt. John Dearborn, local mill owner, who served with Adm. David G. Farragut and became master of the Charlestown, Mass., Navy Yard; books of historian William Berry Lapham; and furniture, memorabilia, and exhibits relating to the village of South Woodstock, including memorabilia concerning its first business, Andrews Funeral Home and the operation of a nearby casket factory.

ArchivalResource: ca. 50 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70958192 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

Ponselle, Rosa, 1897-1981. Papers, ca. 1911-1981.

Title: Papers, ca. 1911-1981.

Photographs, clippings, correspondence, scrapbooks, and miscellaneous materials documenting the career of Rosa Ponselle and of her sister Carmela. 17 scrapbooks about Rosa Ponselle and 4 scrapbooks about Carmela Ponselle have been microfilmed. Sound recordings and motion pictures have been transferred to the Rodgers & Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound.

ArchivalResource: ca. 40 cu. ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122576040 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

Villella, Tom. Correspondence to Eugene Ormandy, 1976.

Title: Correspondence to Eugene Ormandy, 1976.

Regarding Rosa Ponselle.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 leaf).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63644036 View

Ponselle, Rosa, 1897-1981. 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: 613 sound recordings + 26 film reels + 50 videocassettes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86164288 View

Autograph collection.

Title: Autograph collection.

Includes autographs, memorabilia, correspondence, archives, etc.

ArchivalResource: .25 linear ft.

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