Mordecai Bauman Papers 1926-2006

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Mordecai Bauman Papers 1926-2006

Mordecai Bauman (1912-2007) was a singer, music educator, concert promoter, and progressive activist. The collection contains correspondence, photographs, ephemera and other materials documenting his association with notables including Marc Blitzstein, Hanns Eisler, and Mrs. Charles Ives, concerts, including benefits for progressive causes, his recording career, his educational work at Brooklyn College and the Bread and Roses Cultural Project, and his documentary, The Stations of Bach.

3.75 linear feet; in 3 record cartons and 2 manuscript boxes.

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Eisler, Hanns

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Composed 1932. First performance by the British Broadcasting Corp. Orchestra, London, March 1935, Ernest Ansermet conducting.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Kleine Sinfonie No. 1 : for orchestra, op. 29 / Hanns Eisler. [19--]. (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 51733565 Hanns Eisler (1898-1962) was a German composer. His family moved to Vienna in 1902, and Eisler grew up and studied there, most notably with Arnold Schoenberg in the earl...

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Grossman, Victor, 1928-....

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American-Soviet Musical Society.

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Blitzstein, Marc

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Indian Hill Music Camp (Stockbridge, Mass.)

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Mordecai Bauman (1912-) has had a long and varied musical career as a singer and recording artist, a music administrator, educator and producer, much of which occurred in the context of progressive and labor movement cultural activity during the 1930s and 1940s, and he was personally and professionally associated with Hanns Eisler and Marc Blitzstein. Born in the Bronx, New York, Bauman received degrees from the Julliard School of Music (1934), Columbia University (B.A., 1935), and Case Western ...

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