Frances Sharf Fink letters from various correspondents, 1924-1963.

Handy, W. C., 1873-1958

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6wj3h4j (person)

W. C. Handy, also known as William Christopher Handy (born Florence, Alabama, November 16, 1873-died March 25, 1958, New York, New York), known as the "Father of the Blues," is credited with helping popularize blues music. In 1896, he joined W. A. Mahara's Minstrels, as its trumpeter-bandleader and began a theatrical production that featured African American music. In the early 1900s, he started writing his own music with the first published commercial blues song "Memphis Blues," which became a ...

Gershwin, George, 1898-1937

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6204wfj (person)

George Gershwin was a composer and pianist; his best-known works are Rhapsody in Blue (1924), An American in Paris (1928), "I Got Rhythm" (1930), and the opera Porgy and Bess (1935), which included the hit "Summertime". Gershwin moved to Hollywood and composed numerous film scores. He died in 1937 of a malignant brain tumor....

Cowell, Henry, 1897-1965

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6p37pnh (person)

Composed 1916-18. The original ms. had a pencilled-in note saying: "This is the only copy anywhere." See note from Mrs. Cowell 19 Nov. 1959: "The first symphony is a student work, and I hope earnestly for it not to be performed." This is a facsimile of the composer's holograph score, according to Bill Lichtenwanger.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Symphony in B minor / Henry Cowell. 1918. (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 45207014 Compo...

Mencken, H.L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w66f6jc0 (person)

Henry Louis "H. L." Mencken (September 12, 1880 - January 29, 1956), was an American journalist, essayist, magazine editor, satirist, acerbic critic of American life and culture, and a student of American English. Mencken, known as the "Sage of Baltimore", is regarded as one of the most influential American writers and prose stylists of the first half of the 20th century. Mencken worked as a reporter and drama critic for the Baltimore Morning Herald from 1899 to 1906. From 190...

Smith, Moses, 1901-1964

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w60c69js (person)

Moses Smith was the brother of Joseph Smith (1805-1844), founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints. From the description of Moses Smith deposition, 1843 (Detroit Public Library). WorldCat record id: 401789411 For information on Arthur, see an encyclopedia. No information is available on the other men. From the description of Land patent, 1885. (Clarke Historical Library). WorldCat record id: 44138209 ...

Slonimsky, Nicolas, 1894-1995

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6pz573t (person)

Composed 1933. First performance Hollywood Bowl, 13 July 1933, the composer conducting.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Fragment of chorus from "Orestes" of Euripides : from a conjectural version (400 B.C.) / arranged by Nicolas Slonimsky. [19--] (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 54759973 Movements 1-6 and 8 originally composed 1928 in Studies in Black and White for piano. Transcribed and Valse added, 1941. First performance Buenos Aire...

Prokofiev, Sergei

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6jm284v (person)

Prokofiev was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor. From the description of Letters : to Fatima Hanoum Samoilenko and Boris Nikolaevich Samoilenko, 1919-1936. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612846006 Sergey Prokofiev (1891-1953), Russian composer. From the description of Letters to Ephraim F. Gottlieb, 1920-1940. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38477994 Sergey Prokofiev was a Russian composer. From the description of Postcard ...

Macdougall, H. C. (Hamilton Crawford), 1858-1945

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6641rph (person)

Nathan H Fink

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6j24fgn (person)

Nicolas Slonimsky

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6vr7n6c (person)

Naranjo, Tomás

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6jf8fz7 (person)

Slonimsky, Nicolas, 1894-1995

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6pz573t (person)

Composed 1933. First performance Hollywood Bowl, 13 July 1933, the composer conducting.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Fragment of chorus from "Orestes" of Euripides : from a conjectural version (400 B.C.) / arranged by Nicolas Slonimsky. [19--] (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 54759973 Movements 1-6 and 8 originally composed 1928 in Studies in Black and White for piano. Transcribed and Valse added, 1941. First performance Buenos Aire...

Fink, Frances Sharf

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6bg5hs5 (person)

Frances Sharf Fink, an author, has written on art and been an editor at the Jewish Advocate. Her husband, Nathan H. Fink, was a dentist in Boston, Mass. From the description of Letters from various correspondents, 1924-1963. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122609262 From the guide to the Frances Sharf Fink letters from various correspondents, 1924-1963., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) ...

Adlow, Dorothy, 1901-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6h84skw (person)

New York Public Library

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6fp1w8g (corporateBody)

The New York Pubic Library purchased Arthur A. Schomburg's collection of books, pamphlets, prints and photographs in 1926 with funds from the Carnegie Corporation and housed at the 135th Street Branch Library of The New York Public Library. L. Hollingsworth Wood was appointed in 1925 by the Board of Trustees of The New York Public Library to purchase and provide guidelines for the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature. Members of the Advisory Committee of the Arthur A. Schomburg Collection, i...

Piller, Boaz.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6mj1jv4 (person)

Terral, Rufus, 1904-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w65578sc (person)

Isaac Goldberg

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w64g5hbg (person)

LaRocca, D. James.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6kb7rp8 (person)

Barbara Kaylie

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6rk8mdc (person)

Brooks, Van Wyck, 1886-1963

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6w66nqh (person)

American author and critic. From the description of Typed letter signed : Westport, Ct., to Stark Young, 1937 Apr. 10. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270874884 Van Wyck Brooks was an author and educator, known for his study of, and influence on, American culture. After graduating from Harvard, he sought a literary career in New York and London, writing chiefly for magazines. While teaching at Stanford he developed his first books of criticism, leading up to his first signifi...

Electra Slonimsky

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6t003st (person)

Kussevitskii, Sergiei Aleksandrovich, 1874-1951

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w67b805q (person)

Fink, Frances Sharf

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6bg5hs5 (person)

Frances Sharf Fink, an author, has written on art and been an editor at the Jewish Advocate. Her husband, Nathan H. Fink, was a dentist in Boston, Mass. From the description of Letters from various correspondents, 1924-1963. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 122609262 From the guide to the Frances Sharf Fink letters from various correspondents, 1924-1963., (Houghton Library, Harvard College Library, Harvard University) ...

H. L. Mencken.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w63k7qpx (person)

Dodd & Mead

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6f252vg (corporateBody)

Goldberg, Isaac, 1887-1938

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6x37qq0 (person)

Isaac Goldberg (1887-1938) was an American author, critic and editor. He was literary editor at the American Freeman from 1923 to 1932 and music reviewer for American Mercury from 1930 to 1932. He also was a founder and editor of Panorama and an editor of The Reviewer. His works included biographies, books on literature and the theatre, and translations of novels, plays and criticism from Yiddish as well as major European languages. From the guide to the Isaac Goldberg papers, 1919-1...

Abe Haskell

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w62m10p0 (person)

Haskell, Abe.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w64s222g (person)

Motherwell, Hiram, 1888-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6847bbz (person)

Raskin, Joseph

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w64475p4 (person)

Goldberg, Isaac, 1887-1938

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6x37qq0 (person)

Isaac Goldberg (1887-1938) was an American author, critic and editor. He was literary editor at the American Freeman from 1923 to 1932 and music reviewer for American Mercury from 1930 to 1932. He also was a founder and editor of Panorama and an editor of The Reviewer. His works included biographies, books on literature and the theatre, and translations of novels, plays and criticism from Yiddish as well as major European languages. From the guide to the Isaac Goldberg papers, 1919-1...

Hale, Philip, 1854-1934

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w62v31cj (person)

American music critic. From the description of Letter, 1929 Nov. 24, Boston, to Perry Walton, Boston. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 184904183 From the description of Philip Hale letter to William M. Payne [manuscript], 1896 December 28. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 741779873 Philip Hale studied organ and piano as a boy, graduated from Yale University (A.B., 1876) and then apprenticed in a law office in Albany, N.Y., passing the New York Ba...

Dorothy Adlow.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6mj1rt5 (person)

Corwin, Emil

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w66541w0 (person)