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Farrar, Geraldine, 1882-1967. Geraldine Farrar collection, 1895-1943 (bulk 1898-1939).

Title: Geraldine Farrar collection, 1895-1943 (bulk 1898-1939).

The collection consists of Farrar's personal papers relating to her life and career, and includes scrapbooks and clippings, correspondence, and photographs. The music materials contain sketches, autograph manuscripts, and printed music composed or edited by Farrar. In addition, the collection contains biographical materials, including several drafts of her autobiography Such sweet compulsion; Farrar's writings, including various lectures she gave; contracts, chiefly from the Metropolitan Opera and Goldwyn Pictures Corporation; radio scripts; concert programs that span her career; awards; and other miscellaneous items. The correspondence includes letters from Crown Prince Wilhem and Crown Princess Cecilie of Germany, the American producer David Belasco, Farrar's voice coach Lilli Lehmann and close friends Daisy Humphries and Ruth A. Businger. Among the notable correspondents are Teresa Carreño, Enrico Caruso, Gustave Charpentier, Cecil B. DeMille, Paul Dukas, Henry T. Finck, Henry Hadley, Reynaldo Hahn, Engelbert Humperdinck, Rockwell Kent, Fritz Kreisler, Jules Massenet, Lily Pons, Giacomo Puccini, Sergei Rachmaninoff and Arturo Toscanini.

ArchivalResource: around 25,000 items (58 boxes, 17 linear feet).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/71056517 View

Meltzer, Charles Henry, 1853-1936. Charles Henry Meltzer papers, 1839-1940.

Title: Charles Henry Meltzer papers, 1839-1940.

Collection contains correspondence (1839-1928), clippings, and a typescript transcription of Meltzer's biography taken from the National Cyclopedia of American Biography (1938). Letters and notes to Meltzer include a letter (1928 Aug. 3) from George Gershwin regarding Gershwin's taste in opera, a picture postcard (n.d) from G. Charpentier, a letter (n.d) from C.C. Chaminade (with an autographed photo) regarding a visit to the United States, and a letter (1916 April 14) from Edward Elgar concerning a libretto entitled "The Garden of Allah." Other correspondents are Alphonse Daudet, J. Massenet, Puccini, and E. Wolf-Ferrari. Correspondence also includes a letter (1839 Dec. 14) in German from Felix Mendelssohn to F. Tretbar. Clippings concern Charles Henry Meltzer, Vernon Weston, and the donation of the Meltzer papers to the College of Charleston. Collection includes typewritten transcripts and translations of foreign language letters.

ArchivalResource: 13 folders.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/31740853 View

Charpentier, Gustave, 1860-1956. Autograph letter signed, dated : [n.p., Paris?, 1888-89?], to an unidentified recipient, 1888-89?.

Title: Autograph letter signed, dated : [n.p., Paris?, 1888-89?], to an unidentified recipient, 1888-89?.

Discussing a rehearsal schedule.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (3 p.) ; (24mo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270564301 View

Charpentier, Gustave, 1860-1956. Autograph note signed on his visiting card, dated : [Paris], February 1932, to M. and Mme. Baillez, 1932 Feb.

Title: Autograph note signed on his visiting card, dated : [Paris], February 1932, to M. and Mme. Baillez, 1932 Feb.

Saying "En souvenir de la représentation de 'Louise' à Nantes."

ArchivalResource: 1 item (1 p.) ; (oblong 64mo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270873241 View

Charpentier, Gustave, 1860-1956. Louise : a musical romance / by Gustave Charpentier ; orchestration [by] Alexander Skavenna.

Title: Louise : a musical romance / by Gustave Charpentier ; orchestration [by] Alexander Skavenna. [19--?]

ArchivalResource: 1 ms. violin conductor part ([1] p.) + 10 ms. parts ; 32 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/39476902 View

Amy Lowell autograph collection, 1523-1930. Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron, 1800-1859. Autograph manuscript letter (signed) to [Mary] Berry; Bourges, 1843 September 1.

Title: Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron, 1800-1859. Autograph manuscript letter (signed) to [Mary] Berry; Bourges, 1843 September 1.

Autograph letters and manuscripts of authors, artists, and others collected by the American poet Amy Lowell.

ArchivalResource: 10 boxes (4 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01636/catalog View

Debussy, Claude, 1862-1918. Autograph letters signed (2), dated : [Paris], 24 July 1907 and 5 May 1910, to [Gabriel] Mourey, 1907 July 24.

Title: Autograph letters signed (2), dated : [Paris], 24 July 1907 and 5 May 1910, to [Gabriel] Mourey, 1907 July 24.

Welcoming him back to France, declining an invitation, asking if at some later date he will lunch with Debussy and Charpentier, thanking him for something and asking how he finds the time--"Quand à moi, je croupie présentement dans les usines du néant ..."

ArchivalResource: 2 items (2 p.) ; (8vo and 16mo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270565582 View

Charpentier, Gustave, 1860-1956. Correspondence to Gustav Mahler and Alma Mahler, 1903-1954.

Title: Correspondence to Gustav Mahler and Alma Mahler, 1903-1954.

Includes 4 postcards addressed to Gustav Mahler and 1 condolence telegram to Alma Mahler upon the death of Gustav Mahler.

ArchivalResource: 8 items (10 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155863079 View

Sisson, Jack. [A night of opera] [sound recording] : [Music Building, Tuesday, April 4, 1972, 7:30 p.m. / Jack Sisson, producer ; Jess Webster, coordinator].

Title: [A night of opera] [sound recording] : [Music Building, Tuesday, April 4, 1972, 7:30 p.m. / Jack Sisson, producer ; Jess Webster, coordinator]. [1972]

ArchivalResource: 1 sound tape reel (ca. 75 min.) : analog, 3 3/4 ips, mono. ; 7 in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/60339115 View

Blockx, Jan, 1851-1912. Rare libretto collection. Roll 2, 41-73, Blockx - Delibes [microform] / Lila Acheson Wallace Library, Juilliard School.

Title: Rare libretto collection. Roll 2, 41-73, Blockx - Delibes [microform] / Lila Acheson Wallace Library, Juilliard School. 1854-1929.

ArchivalResource: 33 items (on 1 micofilm reel)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/309825527 View

Frederick R. Koch collection, 1640-1983

Title: Frederick R. Koch collection, 1640-1983.

The Frederick R. Koch Collection consists of musical, literary, and historical materials collected by Frederick R. Koch, principally through purchases at public auctions, 1979-1986. Including individual items, concentrations of related materials, and several extensive archives, the collection is a broad and deep resource for study of the lives and works of a range of composers, authors, and other historical figures. Most materials are music manuscripts, literary manuscripts, drawings, and correspondence of European, English, and American composers, authors, and artists. Also present are historical manuscripts, photographs, albums, and other papers. While the contents of the collection span the seventeenth to twentieth centuries, most date from the nineteenth to early twentieth centuries, with particular strengths in French, Italian, German, and British music, French literature, and British art.

ArchivalResource: 64.12 linear feet (362 boxes) + 4 broadside folders.

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.frkoch View

Sympathy letters for victims of the Messina and Reggio earthquakes, 1908-1911.

Title: Sympathy letters for victims of the Messina and Reggio earthquakes, 1908-1911.

Album containing letters, poems and music sent in sympathy after theearthquakes at Messina and Reggio in December 1908.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (.1 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01840/catalog View

Philadelphia Orchestra. Transcription of WFLN radio broadcast [sound recording], 1968 March 25.

Title: Transcription of WFLN radio broadcast [sound recording], 1968 March 25.

ArchivalResource: 2 sound discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/85223008 View

Charpentier, Gustave, 1860-1956. Louise [microform] / Charpentier.

Title: Louise [microform] / Charpentier. [between 1893 and 1931]

ArchivalResource: 15 ms. parts ; 24-35 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/43388532 View

Geraldine Farrar Collection, 1895-1943, (bulk 1898-1939)

Title: Geraldine Farrar Collection 1895-1943 (bulk 1898-1939)

Geraldine Farrar was an American opera singer and film actress. The collection consists of Farrar's personal papers relating to her life and career, including correspondence, scrapbooks and clippings, photographs and music materials containing sketches, autograph manuscripts, and printed music composed or edited by Farrar. In addition, the collection contains biographical materials, Farrar's writings, contracts, radio scripts, concert programs, awards and other miscellaneous items.

ArchivalResource: circa 25,000 items; 58 boxes; 17 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu007004 View

Althouse, C. Irvin. Trade catalogs of entertainment, 1874-1939.

Title: Trade catalogs of entertainment, 1874-1939.

Catalogs and pamphlets on magic and ventriloquism, programs from theatrical, musical and circus performances, and other ephemera relating to entertainment.

ArchivalResource: 71 items (1 box) : ill.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/221781619 View

Glenn Dillard Gunn Collection, 1874-1961, (bulk 1910-1961)

Title: Glenn Dillard Gunn Collection 1874-1961 (bulk 1910-1961)

Primarily correspondence from, among others, Ferruccio Busoni, Teresa Careño, Percy Grainger, and Moriz Rosenthal. Also photographs, many with autograph inscriptions including those of Claude Debussy, Victor Herbert, and John McCormack. Music is represented by manuscripts and autographed presentation scores (printed). The ramainder consists of miscellaneous personal papers, programs, and clippings.

ArchivalResource: circa 750 items; 14 boxes; 4.5 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu002001 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

Burns, Jodi, 1983-. An evening at the opera [sound recording]

Title: An evening at the opera [sound recording] 2008.

ArchivalResource: 2 sound discs (87:08) : digital, stereo. ; 4 3/4 in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/519577940 View

Charpentier, Gustave, 1860-1956. Autograph letter signed, dated : [n.p., Paris?], 21 September 1926, to an unidentified recipient, 1926 Sept. 21.

Title: Autograph letter signed, dated : [n.p., Paris?], 21 September 1926, to an unidentified recipient, 1926 Sept. 21.

Sending a list of persons whom he wishes to thank for their hommage: M. Herriot, Mme Juliette Massenet, Paul Vidal, Paul Léon, A. Bruneau, A. Bloch, Reynaldo Hahn, Leborne, Ch. Levadé, A. Bachelet, M. d'Olonne, Henry Février, Georges Hüe, Ch. Silver, Henri Cain, Tiersot, Jacques Huegel, Louis Schneider, Pierre Lalo, etc., etc.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.) ; (8vo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270564312 View

Frederick R. Koch collection, 1640-1983

Title: Frederick R. Koch collection, 1640-1983.

The Frederick R. Koch Collection consists of musical, literary, and historical materials collected by Frederick R. Koch, principally through purchases at public auctions, 1979-1986. Including individual items, concentrations of related materials, and several extensive archives, the collection is a broad and deep resource for study of the lives and works of a range of composers, authors, and other historical figures. Most materials are music manuscripts, literary manuscripts, drawings, and correspondence of European, English, and American composers, authors, and artists. Also present are historical manuscripts, photographs, albums, and other papers. While the contents of the collection span the seventeenth to twentieth centuries, most date from the nineteenth to early twentieth centuries, with particular strengths in French, Italian, German, and British music, French literature, and British art.

ArchivalResource: 64.12 linear feet (362 boxes) + 4 broadside folders.

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.frkoch View

Charpentier, Gustave, 1860-1956. Autograph letter signed, dated : [n.p., Paris], 24 November 1921, to an unidentified friend, 1921 Nov. 24.

Title: Autograph letter signed, dated : [n.p., Paris], 24 November 1921, to an unidentified friend, 1921 Nov. 24.

Saying there will be a celebration of the catherinette of the Mimi Pinson at the Palais d'Orsay the next day, mentioning Mme Kuffer and the Gillet family, etc.

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

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270564308 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

Gustave Charpentier collection, [19--?-ongoing].

Title: Gustave Charpentier collection, [19--?-ongoing].

Collection contains clipping file.

ArchivalResource: 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/430359337 View

The Libretto Collection, 1850-1940

Title: The Libretto Collection 1850-1940

Published opera librettos

ArchivalResource: 3 boxes (1.5 linear feet)

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/music.misc.0302 View

Marguerite Noël Willaume Coudet autograph album, 1903-1921.

Title: Marguerite Noël Willaume Coudet autograph album, 1903-1921.

Autograph album of early twentieth-century writers and poets, collected by Marguerite Noël Willaume Coudet.

ArchivalResource: 1 volume (.1 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00654/catalog View

Charpentier, Gustave, 1860-1956. Impressions d'Italie[. Harp] / Gustave Charpentier.

Title: Impressions d'Italie[. Harp] / Gustave Charpentier. [19--]

ArchivalResource: 2 folded sheets (8 p.) of music ; 34 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/26506727 View

Letters received, 1912 Sept. 8 - 1912 Dec. 13

Title: Letters received 1912 Sept. 8 - 1912 Dec. 13

This collection contains responses to Auerbach's questionnaire concerning whether Richard Wagner's opera Parsifal should be performed outside of Bayreuth.

ArchivalResource:

http://archives.nypl.org/mus/20130 View

Charpentier, Gustave, 1860-1956. Chant d'Apothèose / poème de Victor Hugo et / M St Georges de Bouhélier.

Title: Chant d'Apothèose / poème de Victor Hugo et / M St Georges de Bouhélier. [1902]

ArchivalResource: 23, 14 p. of ms. music ; 34.5 x 27 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270904866 View

Charpentier, Gustave, 1860-1956. Napoli [microform] : from Impressions of Italy / G. Charpentier.

Title: Napoli [microform] : from Impressions of Italy / G. Charpentier. [19--]

ArchivalResource: 1 ms. score (66 p. of music) ; 34 cm. + 39 ms. parts ; 35 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/40443176 View

General Collection manuscript music miscellany, [ca. 1600-ongoing]

Title: General Collection manuscript music miscellany [ca. 1600-ongoing]

Single manuscripts and small groups of manuscripts relating to music. Materials are grouped under name headings. Within each name heading, materials are organized in three subgroups: Music, Correspondence, and Other Papers.

ArchivalResource: Linear Feet: ongoing; Total Boxes: ongoing; Other storage formats: oversize, bound volumes

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.genmusmisc 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

Albi Rosenthal collection of letters between composers and music publishers, 1704-1966.

Title: Albi Rosenthal collection of letters between composers and music publishers, 1704-1966.

Collection of 18th, 19th, and 20th-century autograph manuscript letters between composers and music publishers, collected by music antiquarian Albi Rosenthal from the early 1970s through about 2002.

ArchivalResource: 3 boxes (1.5 linear feet)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou00368/catalog View

Saint-Saëns, Camille, 1835-1921. [The Faculty Quartet] [sound recording] : [Central State College, Department of Music, Grand Ballroom C, Tuesday, April 16, 1968, 8:15 p.m.].

Title: [The Faculty Quartet] [sound recording] : [Central State College, Department of Music, Grand Ballroom C, Tuesday, April 16, 1968, 8:15 p.m.]. [1968]

ArchivalResource: 1 sound tape reel (ca. 45 min.) : analog, 7 1/2 ips, mono. ; 7 in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/50102307 View

Charpentier, Gustave, 1860-1956. Louise [microform] / Charpentier ; arr. P. Buys.

Title: Louise [microform] / Charpentier ; arr. P. Buys. [between 1912 and 1931]

ArchivalResource: 17 ms. parts ; 33-37 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/43388538 View

Charpentier, Gustave, 1860-1956. Autograph letter signed, dated : [n.p., Paris?], 7 February 1900, to an unidentified friend, 1900 Feb. 7.

Title: Autograph letter signed, dated : [n.p., Paris?], 7 February 1900, to an unidentified friend, 1900 Feb. 7.

Saying that the Opéra Comique is stingy with its secretariat, that the author has not said anything, and that he made the troublesome experiment.

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

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270564305 View

Leoncavallo, Ruggero, 1857-1919. Autograph letter signed : [n.p.], to [Gustave] Charpentier.

Title: Autograph letter signed : [n.p.], to [Gustave] Charpentier.

Sending regrets that illness prevented him from visiting Charpentier and paying respects to the newly married couple.

ArchivalResource: 1 item (2 p.) ; (12mo)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/270667285 View

Strauss, Richard, 1864-1949. Correspondence to Gustav and Alma Mahler, 1911-1939.

Title: Correspondence to Gustav and Alma Mahler, 1911-1939.

1 letter from Strauss to Gustav Mahler shortly before Mahler's death, in 1911, includes mention of Strauss's preparing to perform Mahler's third symphony that year in Berlin. 1 item is a photographic copy of a condolence telegram, upon Mahler's death. 1 item is a letter dated 1939, in which Strauss explains why he cannot grant Alma permission to publish his letters to Mahler. Also included is a montage of various condolence telegrams upon Mahler's death (photocopies), with Strauss's forming the principal part.

ArchivalResource: 3 items (6 leaves).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155864563 View

National Orchestral Association collection of rehearsal and concert recordings [sound recording], 1938-1968

Title: National Orchestral Association collection of rehearsal and concert recordings [sound recording] 1938-1968

The collection consists of recordings of concerts and rehearsals of the National Ochestral Association between the years 1938 and 1968. The collection also includes intermission features with various soloists.

ArchivalResource: 26 linear ft. sound discs; 322 sound tape reels

http://archives.nypl.org/rha/20444 View

Auerbach, Alfred, b. 1873. Letters received, 1912 Sept. 8 - 1912 Dec. 13.

Title: Letters received, 1912 Sept. 8 - 1912 Dec. 13.

ArchivalResource: .1 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122466237 View

Vol. IV (ff. 246). A-H.includes:f. 2 Henry Ainley, Manager, St. James's Theatre: Letter to P. Pitt: 1930.ff. 4, 5 Effie Maria Albanesi, alias 'Effie Adelaide Rowlands': Letters to P. Pitt: 1911.f. 6b Max Aldenhoven: Letter to P. Pitt: 1913.: Ge...

Title: Vol. IV (ff. 246). A-H.includes:f. 2 Henry Ainley, Manager, St. James's Theatre: Letter to P. Pitt: 1930.ff. 4, 5 Effie Maria Albanesi, alias 'Effie Adelaide Rowlands': Letters to P. Pitt: 1911.f. 6b Max Aldenhoven: Letter to P. Pitt: 1913.: Ge... Unspecified

ArchivalResource: 1 item

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