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The Leonard Burkat Papers, 1943-1981 (inclusive)

Title: The Leonard Burkat Papers 1943-1981 (inclusive)

Correspondence, music, and photographs by and about the American music librarian, critic, music administrator, recording executive, and program annotator Leonard Burkat (1919-1992)

ArchivalResource: 4 boxes (3 linear feet)

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/music.mss.0025 View

New York Philharmonic. Personnel records, [ca. 1870-1986]

Title: Personnel records, [ca. 1870-1986]

Contracts, correspondence, memoranda, press releases, portrait photographs, and printed material, ca. 1870s-1980s, relating to the Philharmonic-Symphony Society's arrangements with conductors and guest conductors, orchestra members, soloists, and composers including Samuel Barber, Milton Babbitt, Pierre Boulez, Guido Cantelli, Walter Damrosch, Wilhelm Furtwangler, Leopold Stokowski, Bruno Walter, Paul Hindemith, Henry Hadley, Andre Kostelanetz, Serge Koussevitsky, Efrem Kurtz, Willem Mengelberg, George Szell, Luigi Dallapiccola, Francis Poulenc, Dimitri Mitropoulos, Artur Rodzinski, Arturo Toscanini, Igor Stravinsky, Lukas Foss, Luciano Berio, Tōru Takemitsu, and Karlheinz Stockhausen. Also, Orchestra Managers' reports, ca. 1920s-1970s, containing data about attendance, salaries, overtime, and other matters; Orchestra Committee minutes, 1960s-1970s; and other documents relating to pensions, employee relations, and other matters.

ArchivalResource: ca. 50 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155513263 View

Bowman, Robert. Collection of music recordings from radio broadcasts [sound recording], 1952-1963.

Title: Collection of music recordings from radio broadcasts [sound recording], 1952-1963.

The collection consists of noncommercial recordings of radio broadcasts of primarily classical music.

ArchivalResource: 195 sound tape reels : analog, mono.173 sound tape reels : analog, mono.; 10 in.22 sound tape reels : analog, mono.; 7 in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122517562 View

Wave Hill, inc. Toscanini collection, 1914-[ca. 1955].

Title: Toscanini collection, 1914-[ca. 1955].

Collection includes complete set of Toscanini's commercial recordings, 1920-1954, as well as a large portion of his broadcasts with the NBC Symphony Orchestra, 1937-1954. Also, recordings of contemporaries of Toscanini, including Artur Nikisch, Willem Mengelberg, Felix Weingartner, Leopold Stokowski, Serge Koussevitzky, Bruno Walter, Wilhelm Furtwängler, Otto Klemperer, Erich Kleiber, and Guido Cantelli.

ArchivalResource: ca. 140 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155481510 View

The Toscanini Legacy papers, 1686-1993, 1800-1970

Title: The Toscanini Legacy papers 1686-1993 1800-1970

The Toscanini Legacy Scores contain scores and parts owned and used by Arturo Toscanini.

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http://archives.nypl.org/mus/20229 View

Bowman, Robert, 1925-. Robert Bowman collection of music recordings from radio broadcasts [sound recording], 1952-1963.

Title: Robert Bowman collection of music recordings from radio broadcasts [sound recording], 1952-1963.

The collection consists of noncommercial recordings of radio broadcasts of primarily classical music.

ArchivalResource: 195 sound tape reels : analog, mono.173 sound tape reels : analog, mono. ; 10 in.22 sound tape reels : analog, mono. ; 7 in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/84657028 View

New York Philharmonic collection of broadcast concerts [sound recording], 1934-1955

Title: New York Philharmonic collection of broadcast concerts [sound recording] 1934-1955

Orchestra based in New York, NY. The collection contains recordings taken off the air of concerts from 1934 through 1955. Included are recordings of concerts conducted by John Barbirolli, Guido Cantelli, Otto Klemperer, Efrem Kurtz, Hans Lange, Dmitri Mitropoulos, Artur Rodzinski, Igor Stravinsky, George Szell, and Bruno Walter.

ArchivalResource: 243 sound recordings

http://archives.nypl.org/rha/20460 View

Robert Bowman collection of music recordings from radio broadcasts [sound recording], 1952-1963

Title: Robert Bowman collection of music recordings from radio broadcasts [sound recording] 1952-1963

The collection consists of noncommercial recordings of radio broadcasts of primarily classical music. The largest portion of the collection consists of broadcast of The New York Philharmonic, with selected concerts from 1952-1963. Conductors of the New York Philharmonic concerts on these recordings include Franco Autori, Leonard Bernstein, Guido Cantelli, Dmitri Mitropoulos, Paul Paray, George Szell, and Bruno Walter. Guest soloists include Claudio Arrau, Robert Casadesus, Van Cliburn, Clifford Curzon, Rudolf Firkušný, Zino Francescatti, Jascha Heifetz, Myra Hess, Byron Janis, Martha Lipton, Artur Rubinstein, Irmgard Seefried, Rudolf Serkin, and Richard Tucker.

ArchivalResource: 195 sound tape reels

http://archives.nypl.org/rha/20506 View

New York Philharmonic. Collection of broadcast concerts [sound recording], 1934-1955.

Title: Collection of broadcast concerts [sound recording], 1934-1955.

The collection contains recordings taken off the air of concerts from 1934 through 1955.

ArchivalResource: 243 sound recordings : analog.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122687015 View

Stanford Music Broadcast Tapes Collection, 1951-1969

Title: Stanford Music Broadcast Tapes Collection 1951-1969

The Stanford Music Broadcast Tapes Collection consists of 172 open reel tapes of off-air recordings from 1951 to 1969, the majority of which are of broadcast performances by the NBC Symphony Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and the Metropolitan Opera.

ArchivalResource: 5 boxes; : 172 open reel tapes

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt1f59r4w1 View

Toscanini, Arturo, 1867-1957. The Toscanini Legacy papers, 1686-1993 (bulk 1800-1970).

Title: The Toscanini Legacy papers, 1686-1993 (bulk 1800-1970).

The Toscanini Legacy papers form a portion of the Toscanini Legacy housed at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. The other major portion, of sound recordings, is housed in NYPL's Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound. The papers in the Music Division consist of music scores and orchestral parts with and without markings by Arturo Toscanini and others (including composers in some instances), correspondence, photographs, programs, clippings, books, newspapers, brochures, periodicals, scrapbooks, and medical and financial records. Subjects include the various musical organizations in Europe and the United States with which Toscanini was associated, and his anti-Fascist activities. The hundreds of correspondents include family members, composers, performers, conductors, and music critics; as well as Italian exiles, and U.S. and Italian political figures.

ArchivalResource: 330 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/144652159 View

Jascha Heifetz Collection, 1911-1972

Title: Jascha Heifetz Collection 1911-1972

The collection contains primarily sound recordings of performances of Jascha Heifetz, but it also includes recordings of other artists, some of whom were collaborators with Heifetz, as well as one recording of his teacher, Leopold Auer. There are 920 10" and 12" sound discs, including test pressings, instantaneous discs and commercially released records. Most of the discs are 78 rpm recordings, but there are also a few 33 1/3 rpm discs. In addition to audio discs, the collection contains 1/4" magnetic tape recordings on 88 open reels. 61 of the tapes, made between December 14, 1954 and November 21, 1972, include date information on the boxes. 27 of the tapes are in boxes which are undated; however, recording dates for most of those tapes have been provided in the donor's inventory, which is also included in the collection.

ArchivalResource: 26 boxes (16.8 linear ft.):; 21 boxes of 10" and 12" sound discs (11.4 linear ft.); 5 boxes of 12" open reel tapes (5.4 linear ft.)

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt409nf2jz View