Christopher Cox papers 1927-1990 1966-1990

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Christopher Cox papers 1927-1990 1966-1990

The Christopher Cox Papers consists of the writings,correspondence files, and personal papers of the editor, author, actor,director, and producer Christopher Cox, and of his partner, the art historianWilliam Olander.

47 boxes (incl. 2 oversize boxes); 20.73 linear feet

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Yonemoto, Norman

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Cox family.

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Stein, Gertrude, 1874-1946

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Gertrude Stein (b. February 3, 1874, Allegheny, PA-d. July 27, 1946, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France) was an American novelist, poet, playwright, and art collector. She moved to Paris and acquired a love for modern painting. Stein began building a personal collection of major artists, many of whom became her friends and formed the core of her regular salons. In 1907, as Stein was struggling to establish herself as a writer, she met Alice Babette Toklas, a fellow American who had come to P...

McClatchy, J.D., 1945-

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J. D. McClatchy (1945-) is an American poet, literary critic, and opera librettist. He teaches in the English department at Yale University and serves as editor of the Yale Review. From the description of J. D. McClatchy papers, 1940-2006. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702158116 J. D. McClatchy was born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, in 1945. He was educated at Georgetown and Yale, from which he received his Ph.D. in 1974. He has published several books of poetry, including Ha...

Dowell, Coleman

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Bradford Morrow is an American novelist, essayist, poet, editor, and writer of short fiction. He was born on April 8, 1951, in Baltimore, Maryland, and grew up in Littleton, Colorado. In 1968 he was awarded an American Field Service scholarship to finish his senior year of high school as a foreign exchange student at the Liceo Scientifico in Cuneo, Italy. In 1972 he received his Bachelor of Arts degree (summa cum laude) from the University of Colorado, Boulder. After doing graduate ...

Joseph Jefferson Theatre Company

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Toklas, Alice B., 1877-1967

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Toklas was a writer and companion to Gertrude Stein. From the guide to the Alice B. Toklas letters to William Alfred, 1951-1961., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) Biographical Note Alice B. Toklas (1877-1967) was an author and the life partner of Gertrude Stein. Don Frank is the son of one of Toklas' childhood friends. After his service in the armed forces, he met Toklas in Europe. ...

Busby, Gerald

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Grosser, Maurice, 1903-1986

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Painter, designer, critic, writer; New York, N.Y. From the description of Maurice Grosser papers, [undated] and 1919-1983. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122502399 ...

Yonemoto, Norman

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Olander, William

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Morris, George, 1943-

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Nabokov, Nicolas, 1903-1978

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Beginning in 1934, Lincoln Kirstein put efforts towards producing a ballet entitled Tom, inspired by Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's cabin. Kirstein first commisioned a libretto from poet E.E. Cummings and music from Virgil Thompson. These initial efforts, however, were rejected by choreographer George Balanchine. The following year, Kirstein comissioned set and costume designs from Ben Shahn and a new score from Nicolas Nabokov, working with both artists, as well as Balan...

Cox, Christopher, 1949-1990

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Christopher Cox, an editor, author, actor, and producer, was born Howard Raymond Cox Jr., on August 27, 1949, in Gadsden, Alabama. He attended the University of Alabama in Birmingham for two years, and then moved to New York to pursue a career in the theatre. During the 1970s, he performed in Off-Broadway shows, wrote plays and stories, and was director of the New Play Series and the Writers Workshop at the Joseph Jefferson Theatre Company between 1974 and 1976; he also was employed...

Yonemoto, Bruce

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Cox family.

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Copland, Aaron, 1900-1990

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Aaron Copland (1900-1990) was an American composer. During the years 1964 and 1965 Copland wrote, conducted, narrated, and hosted a series of twelve television programs entitled Music in the 20s = Music in the Twenties. The transcripts described in this collection were transcribed from filmed interviews recorded live at the WGBH studios in Boston, Mass. between 1964 Nov. 11 and 1965 Jan. 26. These unedited, preliminary tape recordings later formed the basis of the series...

Thomson, Virgil

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The hymn is How Firm a Foundation, words and music commonly ascribed to Robert Keene. The melody is also called Geard. Also quoted Yes, Jesus Loves Me and For He's A Jolly Good Fellow. Composed 1926-28. First performance New York, 22 February 1945, New York Philharmonic, the composer conducting.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Symphony on a hymn tune / Virgil Thomson. [19--] (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 56078995 Composer. ...

White, Edmund, 1940-....

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Violet Quill (Group of writers).

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Corn, Alfred, 1943-....

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Alfred Corn (b. 1943) is an American poet and writer. From the description of Alfred Corn papers, 1961-2007. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702158155 Alfred Corn (1943-), poet and teacher. From the description of Alfred Corn writings, 1978-1992. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702191773 ...