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Arthur Lange scores, 1907-1950

Title: Arthur Lange scores 1907-1950

ArchivalResource: ca. 200 items of music

http://archives.nypl.org/mus/19994 View

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer. 1860 - 1985. Orientation Films. 1942 - 1949. The Battle of Russia

Title: Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer. 1860 - 1985. Orientation Films. 1942 - 1949. The Battle of Russia

This motion picture film examines the war in Russia, 1941-1943. Reel 1 dramatizes Russia's military history. Alexander Nevsky defeats the German knights in 1242. The Swedes are defeated in 1704 in a cavalry battle at Poltava. French troops retreat from Moscow in 1812. Kaiser Wilhelm inspects troops on the Eastern front in 1917. Reel 2 shows mine operations, agricultural scenes, oil fields, and manufacturing scenes. People of many ethnic groups present native dances. Civilian and military units parade in Moscow. Maksim Litvinoff asks the League of Nations to aid Ethiopia in 1935. Reel 3 maps Axis expansion into eastern Europe. Hungarian, Rumanian, and Bulgarian troops parade prior to Nazi occupation. Footage shows puppet leaders Admiral Miklos von Nagybanya Horthy, General Ion Antonescu, King Michael of Romania and King Boris of Bulgaria. Adolf Hitler and Generals Wilheim Keitel and Alfred Jodl meet. Nazis march through Hungarian cities. Yugoslavian cities are bombed and Greece is occupied. Tanks roll from Russian assembly lines and troops are inducted. German panzer divisions invade Russia in June 1941. Reel 4 maps the German advance in 1941 and analyzes Russian strategy. Hitler makes a victory speech in October. Footage shows intense street fighting in Sevastopol. Russians of all ages are mobilized. In Reel 5, houses, factories, and a large dam in the Ukraine are burned or dynamited before the advancing Nazis. Guerilla units draw arms and then dynamite Nazi installations. Joseph Stalin, Vyacheslav Molotov, and other leaders pose. Red troops parade in Moscow in Dec. 1941. In Reel 6, citizens pray in churches on Christmas Day. Russian tanks, cavalry units, and ski troops advance beneath air support. Villages are liberated and refugees return. In Reel 7, dead and tortured Russian civilians are found. Footage shows prewar Leningrad. Barricades are erected. The city is intensively bombed. In Reel 8, the city is besieged. Women remove rubble from streets. Defenses are manned. Food is rationed. Shell manufacture continues. Supplies are brought in by truck, tractor, and railroad across frozen Lake Ladoga. Winter snows blanket the city. Nazi planes bomb trucks on the lake. The spring thaw arrives. Children play in the sunshine. German prisoners enter the city. Reel 9 maps the battle for the Caucasus and the Crimea. Stalingrad is bombarded from the air by artillery and house-to-house fighting is shown. Reel 10 maps the Russian encirclement of Nazis at Stalingrad. Marshal Nikolai Voronoff confers with his aides. The encircling Red armies meet in Dec. 1942. Flamethrowers, rockets, and artillery are used to force the surrender of remnants of 22 Nazi divisions. The final scene maps Russian gains and cites statistics on Nazi losses thus far in the campaign.

DigitalArchivalResource: 1 motion picture film on 9 film reels

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/36071 View

Epstein, Dave A. Dave A. Epstein papers, 1929-1970.

Title: Dave A. Epstein papers, 1929-1970.

Collection contains materials concerning Dave Epstein's clients and public relations activities, including correspondence, newspaper and magazine clippings, publicity photographs, and press releases. The collection also includes some administrative and personal files, as well as scripts and phonograph records created by Epstein's clients, and a scrapbook of director Frank Tuttle.

ArchivalResource: 48.03 cubic ft. (49 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/72675583 View

Pimen Tyomkin papers, 1939-1995

Title: Pimen Tyomkin papers 1939-1995

The Pimen Tyomkin Papers consist mainly of music scores created or arranged by the composer, a nephew of Dimitri Tiompkin, encompassing the period in which he was actively working in the Soviet Union, from 1939 to 1972.

ArchivalResource: 24.6 linear feet; 45 boxes

http://archives.nypl.org/mus/20341 View

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer. 1860 - 1985. Orientation Films. 1942 - 1949. Divide and Conquer

Title: Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer. 1860 - 1985. Orientation Films. 1942 - 1949. Divide and Conquer

This motion picture film focuses on the German military offensive, 1939-1940. In Reel 1, Adolf Hitler, in the Reichstag, pledges peace on Oct. 6, 1939; Panzer units roll across Denmark; armored, naval, and air power strikes Norway and Germans parade in Oslo. In Reel 2, British troops land in Norway, German planes attack ships evacuating the British, Ferdinand Foch inspects French troops in 1917 and Paris is defended by the "taxicab" army. In Reel 3, French troops man the Maginot Line in 1940, there is an analysis of the weakness of French morale and a dramatization of German propaganda. Footage also shows the French defensive strategy, Nazi airborne troops landing at Rotterdam, and armored columns racing across Holland. Reel 4 chronicles the Dutch surrender, but Rotterdam is reduced to ruins by bombing. Footage shows Panzer units invading Belgium and taking an Albert Canal fort, and advancing Allied columns are impeded by fleeing refugees. Reel 5 shows Panzer units, preceded by engineers, breaking through the Ardennes Forest, crossing the Meuse River, and taking the Sedan. Also included in an analysis of the operation. In Reel 6, Allied troops are evacuated at Dunkirk, Winston Churchill inspects the survivors, Italian troops invade France, President Franklin Roosevelt deplores the action, and Benito Mussolini speaks. General Henri Philippe Petain, Pierre Laval, Adolf Hitler and Hermann Goring are shown as the French surrender is signed. Hitler tours Paris and Generals Charles de Gaulle and Henri Giraud inspect free French units in North Africa.

DigitalArchivalResource: 1 motion picture film on 6 film reels

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/36069 View

Dave A. Epstein papers, 1929-1970

Title: Dave A. Epstein papers 1929-1970

Papers of Dave A. Epstein, a Hollywood publicist in the 1930s -1960s.

ArchivalResource: 48.03 cubic ft. (49 boxes)

http://rmoa.unm.edu/docviewer.php?docId=wyu-ah10859.xml View

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

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer. 1860 - 1985. Orientation Films. 1942 - 1949. Prelude to War

Title: Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer. 1860 - 1985. Orientation Films. 1942 - 1949. Prelude to War

This motion picture film explores the background of World War II. Reel 1 shows the bombing of Pearl Harbor, London air raids, cavalry and tank battles in Russia, and Panzer and Luftwaffe operations in western Europe. Footage also shows Fascists in Italy and Nazis in Germany as they riot and parade. In Reel 2, Emperor Hirohito inspects Japanese troops. Footage also shows military demonstrations in the Axis countries, their legislatures in session, German slave labor, Alfred Rosenberg's denunciation of the church in Germany and reenactments of political assassinations. In Reel 3, Axis school children receive political indoctrination, Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg hands the 1929 Peace Pact to President Hoover, and U.S. citizens state isolationist views. Footage also shows Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) and Works Projects Administration (WPA) workers constructing a road. Reel 4 contrasts play of U.S. children with military games of Nazi children and diagrams territorial ambitions of the Axis. The reel contains footage of Adolf Hitler, Hermann Goring, Rudolph Hess, and Joseph Goebbels. In Reel 5, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto speaks of Japanese desires, troops parade in Berlin, Japanese troops advance in Manchuria, Secretary of State Henry Stimson denounces the Manchurian action and Japanese delegates leave a League of Nations meeting. In Reel 6, Japanese troops land at Shanghai, Chiang Kai-shek leads a parade in China, the Italians invade Ethiopia, Haile Selassie asks the League of Nations to intervene in Ethiopia, and President Franklin Roosevelt denounces the Italian action.

DigitalArchivalResource: 1 motion picture film on 6 film reels

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/36067 View

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer. 1860 - 1985. Orientation Films. 1942 - 1949. The Battle of Britain

Title: Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer. 1860 - 1985. Orientation Films. 1942 - 1949. The Battle of Britain

This motion picture film focuses on the British defense against German aerial warfare, August-December, 1940. It emphasizes the courage of the people and the skill of the Royal Air Force (RAF.) Reel 1 explains Adolf Hitler's plan for invading England after gaining air superiority. It shows Hitler in Paris and German troops ready for the invasion, Britons setting up defenses, training for civilian defense and manning machines. Reel 2 shows invasion defense training; citizens greeting Winston Churchill; and German planes bombing British convoys, coastal fortifications and airfields. RAF pilots man planes and down Germans. An English pilot is rescued in the Channel. In Reel 3, industrial cities are bombed but continue production. In September, the attacks are turned to London, to crush the spirit of the people. Children are sent from the city. Reel 4 consists mostly of activities during air raids. Footage shows damage and air raid shelters, scarred London landmarks, and General Hermann Goring. Reel 5 emphasizes the determination of the British people; citizens comment on the raids. English planes bomb a German target. Coventry is flattened in retaliation. Reel 6 records the London bombing on Christmas Eve, causing the largest fire in recorded history. Water is pumped from the Thames.

DigitalArchivalResource: 1 motion picture film on 6 film reels

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/36070 View

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer. 1860 - 1985. Orientation Films. 1942 - 1949. The Nazis Strike

Title: Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer. 1860 - 1985. Orientation Films. 1942 - 1949. The Nazis Strike

This motion picture film covers the growth of German aggression, 1934-1940. Contains many animated maps explaining German tactics and many views of Adolf Hitler making speeches and in conferences. Reel 1 shows a large Nazi rally and Axis-inspired riots in Belgium and France. Also shows a Nazi rally in Madison Square Garden. Included is footage of Joachim von Ribbentrop and Fritz Kuhn. Reel 2 shows the mobilization of industry and manpower, including paratroop training. Footage shows the Rhineland invaded and the Siegfried Line constructed and manned. In Reel 3, Germany captures Austria and Czechoslovakia, and footage shows Neville Chamberlain and Edouard Daladier at the Munich Conference; Chamberlain reports on the talks. Footage also shows President Eduard Benes. In Reel 4, the Polish campaign begins. Shown are scenes of Luftwaffe activities and of comparative German and Polish military strength. The reel includes views of the Moscow Conference. In Reel 5, Warsaw is besieged and captured, and masses of Polish soldiers are captured. Footage shows the suffering of Polish citizens, Russia capturing East Poland, and British planes bombing German ships in the Kiel Canal.

ArchivalResource: 1 motion picture film on 5 film reels

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/36068 View

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer. 1860 - 1985. Orientation Films. 1942 - 1949. The Battle of China

Title: Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer. 1860 - 1985. Orientation Films. 1942 - 1949. The Battle of China

This motion picture film explores Japanese aggression. In Reel 1, Japanese planes bomb Shanghai; citizens flee. Describes Chinese development of the compass, printing, astronomy, gunpowder, and porcelain. The reel shows views of the Gobi Desert, sampans, and types of architecture and statuary. Japanese artillery fires and cavalry advances. The reel also describes Japanese plans for world conquest; contrasts Japanese unity with Chinese disunity. Footage also shows Emperor Hirohito. Reel 2 shows Sun Yat-sen and uprisings against the Manchu dynasty. Students go abroad. Hospitals, highways, schools, and factories are constructed. Children play at school. Emperor Hirohito reviews Japanese troops; tanks roll down a street. The reel shows a Japanese munitions factory, a Japanese fleet at sea, troops marching, the Army occupying Manchuria, views of the League of Nations as the action is condemned, the Great Wall of China, the puppet premier Pu-Yi, Japanese attacking Chinese at Marco Polo Bridge in 1937, and Chiang Kai-shek. Reel 3 shows street and harbor scenes in Shanghai, the bombing and naval bombardment of the city, street fighting, and the city's capture by Japanese units. Japanese troops advance toward Nanking. The gunboat Panay is bombed in the Yangtze. The reel also shows fighting in and around Nanking. In Reel 4, the battle continues. Footage describes Japanese atrocities during the rape of Nanking and shows dead and injured civilians. Chinese demonstrate against Japan. Chiang Kai-shek speaks. Hordes of Chinese emigrate to the West carrying their belongings with them. Reel 5 shows the establishment of the new Chinese capitol at Chungking. Air raid shelters are dug; the city is bombed. The reel shows an underground factory, fires being fought, recruits for the Chinese Army, the "Flying Tigers" taking off, and Japanese units occupying the Chinese coast. In Reel 6, coolies repair and expand the Burma Road by hand; trucks move over it. Dikes on the Yellow River are blown up to stem a Japanese offensive on Chengchow. Guerrillas ambush a Japanese patrol. Japanese planes attack Pearl Harbor. Footage shows the Japanese high command. In Reel 7, Japanese units advance against Changsha, their supply lines are cut forcing their withdrawal, and the Chinese infantry advances. Footage shows Generals Douglas MacArthur and Joseph Stilwell. Madame Chiang Kai-shek addresses the U.S. Congress. The Ledo Road is constructed; transport planes fly over "the Hump." The "Flying Tigers" bomb Japanese airfields in China.

DigitalArchivalResource: 1 motion picture film on 7 film reels

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/36072 View

Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer. 1860 - 1985. Orientation Films. 1942 - 1949. War Comes to America

Title: Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer. 1860 - 1985. Orientation Films. 1942 - 1949. War Comes to America

This motion picture film examines world events that pulled the U.S. into World War II. Reel 1 dramatizes the early settling of the U.S., the signing of the Declaration of Independence, and a winter at Valley Forge. It explains the colonists' thirst for independence. Reel 2 dramatizes later European migrations to the U.S. stressing the strength brought to the U.S. by her immigrants. It shows luxury items (cars, radios, etc.) which contribute to U.S. life. It also depicts educational facilities, recreational activities (including many sport scenes), and prohibition era scenes. In Reel 3, U.S. troops man trenches in France in 1917. Crowds in New York City celebrate the armistice. Secretary of State Henry Stimson denounces Japan's march into Manchuria. Shows the Bonus March on Washington, D.C., and breadlines in the 1930s. Adolf Hitler watches a military display in Berlin. Haile Selassie visits the front in Ethiopia in 1935. Senator Hiram Johnson speaks for the Neutrality Act of 1935. German planes bomb cities, and street fights flare during the Spanish Civil War. Shanghai is bombed in 1937. Gallup polls find U.S. citizens isolationists. In Reel 4, Emperor Hirohito inspects Japanese troops. Representative Andrew J. May urges arming before the House Military Affairs Committee. Secretary of the Navy Charles Edison asks the Naval Affairs Committee for funds. Maps illustrate Nazi conquests of 1939. Hitler ridicules President Roosevelt's peace proposal before the Reichstag. Warsaw is bombed. French artillery on the Maginot Line fires. President Franklin Roosevelt requests Congress to amend neutrality laws. Senators Gerald P. Nye and Elbert D. Thomas voice opposing views. The Gallup poll finds citizens united to amend the laws. In Reel 5, Dean Acheson sums up arms embargo legislation. Maps illustrate Nazi aggression in Western Europe. Refugees clog French roads and FDR denounces Italy's entry into the war. Hitler, Hermann Goring, and Admiral Karl Doenitz, receive the French surrender; Nazis parade through Paris. Secretary of State Cordell Hull asks for hemispheric solidarity at Havana in 1940. FDR asks Congress for military funds and National Guard units, and Edward R. Murrow reports during a London air raid. In Reel 6, Axis powers sign the Berlin Pact in 1940. Mussolini and Hitler report to their people; Charles Lindbergh pleads isolationism; Wendell Willkie asks for aid to England. The Gallup poll echoes this view; FDR speaks to Congress on lend-lease. Lend-lease material is unloaded at several ports. In Reel 7, Stimson and Wendell Willkie ask that merchant ships be armed. Saburo Kurusu meets Secretary of State Hull in Washington, D.C. Hull sums up Japan's conditions for peace. Pearl Harbor is attacked. Draftees are inducted.

DigitalArchivalResource: 1 motion picture film on 7 film reels

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/36073 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

Bookspan, Martin. WQXR great artists series, 1949-1983 (inclusive).

Title: WQXR great artists series, 1949-1983 (inclusive).

Robert Sherman was the host of Great Artists, a program on WQXR, the radio station of The New York Times. Oral History, American Music subsequently acquired the master tapes of these broadcasts, which include limited interview material and long segments of pre-recorded music. The spoken interview material in each broadcast relates directly to the featured musical works.

ArchivalResource: 3 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702165464 View

Tiomkin, Dimitri, 1894-1979. The green leaves of summer / music by Dimitri Tiomkin ; lyric by Paul Francis Webster ; orig. version and arrangement by W. Kasura.

Title: The green leaves of summer / music by Dimitri Tiomkin ; lyric by Paul Francis Webster ; orig. version and arrangement by W. Kasura. 1960-[1992]

ArchivalResource: 2 scores.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/27327234 View

Lange, Arthur, 1889-1959. [Selections] / Arthur Lange.

Title: [Selections] / Arthur Lange. 1907-1950.

ArchivalResource: ca. 200 items of music ; 49 cm. or smaller.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/24937389 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

Tyomkin, Pimen. Pimen Tyomkin papers, 1939-1995.

Title: Pimen Tyomkin papers, 1939-1995.

The Pimen Tyomkin Papers consist mainly of scores encompassing the period in which the composer was actively working in the Soviet Union, from 1939 to 1972.

ArchivalResource: 24.6 linear feet (45 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/85216840 View

Steiner, Max, 1888-1971. Lost Horizon : phonograph disks, 1935-1937.

Title: Lost Horizon : phonograph disks, 1935-1937.

12 phonograph disks of motion picture music, "Lost Horizon" (10 disks), "The Informer" (1 disk), "She" (1 disk).

ArchivalResource: .2 lf.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/51603907 View

Tiomkin, Dimitri. High noon [music] / by Dimitri Tiomkin ; arr. by Michael Hurst.

Title: High noon [music] / by Dimitri Tiomkin ; arr. by Michael Hurst. [196-?]

ArchivalResource: 1 ms. score (21 p.) ; 36 cm. + 26 ms. parts.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/224712218 View