Papers, 1884-1971

Koussevitzky, Olga, 1901-1978

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Olga Naumoff Koussevitzky was the widow of conductor Serge Koussevitzky. The pair married in 1947. Olga immigrated to America in 1929 to be secretary for the conductor and his wife, Natalie, who was her aunt. Seven years after the death of the aunt, the conductor married the niece....

Koussevitzky, Serge, 1874-1951

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Serge Koussevitzky was a Russian-born conductor, composer and double-bassist, known for his long tenure as music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra from 1924 to 1949. Koussevitzky's appointment as conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO) was the beginning of a golden era for the ensemble that would continue until 1949. Over that 25-year period, he built the ensemble's reputation into that of a leading American orchestra. ...

Boston Symphony Orchestra

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The Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO) is an American orchestra based in Boston. It is the second-oldest of the five major American symphony orchestras commonly referred to as the "Big Five". Founded by Henry Lee Higginson in 1881, the BSO performs most of its concerts at Boston's Symphony Hall and in the summer performs at Tanglewood....

Cronkhite, Bernice Brown, 1893-1983

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Bernice Brown Cronkhite was born in Calais, Maine in 1893 and after the death of her mother in 1896, was brought up with her older brother, by her father and aunt. She attended schools in Providence, Rhode Island and following graduation from high school taught school in Tiverton for one year. She attended Radcliffe, 1912-1916, because of its course offerings in government and law and received a "distant work" scholarship because she came from a city outside of Boston. While at Radcliffe for rea...

Boulanger, Nadia, 1887-1979

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French composer and music teacher. From the description of [Letter] 1977 October 27 [to] Dear Mr. Wilson 1977. (Bowling Green State University). WorldCat record id: 755584222 Nadia Boulanger (1887-1979) was a Parisian composer, music teacher and conductor. From the description of Nadia Boulanger American music scores, 1925-1937 and undated. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612769739 French composer and composition teacher. From the d...

Lowell, Amy, 1874-1925

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Amy Lowell (1874-1925) was born in Brookline, Massachusetts. Her brother, Abbot Lawrence Lowell, was president of Harvard University. At age 36, Lowell had her first poem published in the Atlantic Monthly. In 1912, her first book of poems, A dome of many colored glasses was published. She became associated with the Imagists poets when Ezra Pound, whom she had met on a trip to England, included one of her poems in his anthology, Des imagistes. Lowell wrote critical articles for periodicals in add...

MacDowell (Peterborough, N.H.)

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MacDowell is an artist's residency program in Peterborough, New Hampshire, United States, founded in 1907 by composer Edward MacDowell and his wife, pianist and philanthropist Marian MacDowell. Prior to July 2020, it was known as the MacDowell Colony (or simply "the Colony") but the Board of Directors voted to remove "Colony" from the name in an effort to remove "terminology with oppressive overtones". After Edward MacDowell died in 1908, Marian MacDowell established the artists' residency pr...

Bunting, Mary Ingraham, 1910-1998

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Mary Ingraham Bunting (July 10, 1910 – January 21, 1998) was an influential American college president; Time profiled her as the magazine's November 3, 1961, cover story. She became Radcliffe College's fifth president in 1960 and was responsible for fully integrating women into Harvard University. Bunting was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Henry A. and Mary Shotwell Ingraham; she was known as "Polly" to distinguish her from her mother. Her father was an attorney; her mother was the head of th...

Jordan, W. K. (Wilbur Kitchener), 1902-1980

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Wilbur Kitchener Jordan (also known as W. K. Jordan), (1902-1980) was an American historian, specializing in sixteenth and seventeenth century Britain. Raised in Lynnville, Indiana, Jordan received a bachelor's degree from Oakland City College in 1923, before earning a master's (1926) and doctoral (1931) degree from Harvard University. Jordan went on to become a leading historian of sixteenth and seventeenth century England, accruing many honors, and producing books, including Men of Substanc...

Comstock, Ada Louise, 1876-1973

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Ada Louise Comstock (December 11, 1876 – December 12, 1973) was an American women's education pioneer. She served as the first dean of women at the University of Minnesota and later as the first full-time president of Radcliffe College. Ada Louise Comstock was born on December 11, 1876, in Moorhead, Minnesota, to Solomon Gilman Comstock, an attorney, and Sarah Ball Comstock. Her father recognized her capabilities and potential and set about to cultivate them by encouraging an early and sound ...

McCormick, Katharine Dexter, 1876-1967

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Katharine Dexter McCormick (August 27, 1875 – December 28, 1967) was a U.S. suffragist, philanthropist and, after her husband's death, heir to a substantial part of the McCormick family fortune. She funded most of the research necessary to develop the first birth control pill. Katharine Dexter was born on August 27, 1875, in Dexter, Michigan, in her grandparents' mansion, Gordon Hall, and grew up in Chicago where her father, Wirt Dexter, was a prominent lawyer. Following the early death of he...

Jacobs, Sophia Yarnall, 1902-1993

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Sophia Yarnall Jacobs, civic worker, was born in Haverford, Pennsylvania, in 1902 and was educated at the Baldwin School and at Bryn Mawr, 1919-1921 (x'21), and married Reginald Robert Jacobs in 1921 (divorced in 1937). Jacobs wrote frequently for women's magazines and the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin's woman's pages, 1932-1939. During World War II she managed the Philadelphia Orchestra Club and later was the Promotion Manager for the orchestra. After the war she served as Secreta...

Hull, Josephine, 1877-1957

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Marie Josephine Hull (née Sherwood; January 3, 1877 – March 12, 1957) was an American stage and film actress who also was a director of plays. She had a successful 50-year career on stage while taking some of her better known roles to film. She won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the movie Harvey (1950), a role she originally played on the Broadway stage. She was sometimes credited as Josephine Sherwood. Hull was born January 3, 1877, in Newtonville, Massachusetts, one of fou...

Ormandy, Eugene

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Epithet: conductor British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000699.0x0001db Conductor; Music Director of the Philadelphia Orchestra, 1938-1980. From the description of Oral history conducted by Herbert Kupferberg, October 1969. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 213481085 From the description of Oral history conducted by Herbert Kupferberg, October 1969. (University of Pennsyl...

Bernstein, Leonard, 1918-1990

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Leonard Bernstein (August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990) was among the most important conductors of the second half of the 20th Century and also the first American conductor to receive international acclaim. His best-known work is the Broadway musical West Side Story; other works include three symphonies, Chichester Psalms, Serenade after Plato's "Symposium", the original score for the film On the Waterfront, and theater works including On the Town, Wonderful Town, Candide, and his MASS. Bernstei...

Thompson, Randall, 1899-1984

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Randall Thompson (1899-1984) was an American composer of three symphonies and numerous vocal works, noted for his choral work. He was a 1920 graduate of Harvard University. He became assistant professor of music and choir director at Wellesley College, received a doctorate in music from the University of Rochester's Eastman School of Music, and taught at the Curtis Institute of Music (serving as its director, 1941-1942), the University of Virginia, and Harvard University....

Sherman, Mildred Percival, 1898-1961.

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Davison, Archibald T. (Archibald Thompson), 1883-1961

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Epithet: alias Bodkin British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000213.0x0002d1 Davison graduated from Harvard (A.B., 1906) and taught music at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Archibald Thompson Davison, 1887-1979 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76973043 Musicologist Epithet: Professor of Music, Harvard University British Library ...

Dickson, Harry Ellis

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Cabot, Hugh, 1905-1967

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Thomson, Virgil, 1896-

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Virgil Thomson was born in Kansas City, Missouri on November 25, 1896. As a boy, he took lessons in piano and organ, and soon found work as a church organist. He attended public schools and then Kansas City Polytechnic Institute, a junior college. In 1917 he enlisted in the Army, but World War I came to an end before he could be sent to Europe. After his discharge from the military, Thomson attended Harvard, where he sang in the Glee Club and studied with Edward Burlinga...

Sarton, May, 1912-1995

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By Source, Fair use, Link May Sarton (May 3, 1912-July 16, 1995), poet and novelist, was born Elanore Marie Sarton in Wondelgem, Belgium, the daughter of George Sarton, a noted historian of science, and Eleanor Mabel Elwes, an English portrait painter and designer. Sarton moved with her parents to England, and in 1916 the family immigrated to the United States. All three became naturalized Americans in 1924, by which time Sarton's name had been Americanized to Eleanor May. Sart...

Boult, Adrian Cedric, 1889-

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MacDowell, Marian, 1857-1956

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Philanthropist, musician, and cofounder of the MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, N.H. Born Marian Griswold Nevins; married composer Edward MacDowell (1861-1908) in 1884. From the description of Marian MacDowell papers, 1876-1969 (bulk 1908-1938). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70979848 Biographical Note 1857, Nov. 22 Born, New York, N.Y. ...

Wilder, Amos N. (Amos Niven), 1895-1993

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Amos N. Wilder was a pastor, poet, teacher, and theologian. He was ordained in 1926 as a Congregational minister, and was the Hollis Professor of Divinity at Harvard University from 1956-1963. From the description of Amos Niven Wilder Papers, 1923-1982. (Harvard University, Divinity School Library). WorldCat record id: 664618230 Wilder taught theology at Harvard. From the description of Papers of Amos N. Wilder, 1954-1968 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldC...

Schelling, Ernest

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Composed originally for string quartet and published by Carl Fischer. This arrangement 1936. First performance Philadelphia, 26 February 1936, Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia and Composers' Laboratory, Isadore Freed conductor.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Tarantella : for chamber orchestra / Ernest Schelling. [1943?] (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 54616029 American pianist, conductor, and composer. From the descripti...

McCord, David Thompson Watson, 1897-1997

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David Thompson Watson McCord (1897-1997), noted poet and essayist, was graduated from Harvard College in 1921. He earned a masters degree in 1922, and in 1956 he was awarded Harvard's first honorary doctorate of humane letters. Well-known for his literary and humorous approach to fundraising, McCord served as Executive Director of the Harvard Fund from 1925 until his retirement in 1962 and was editor of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin from 1940 to 1946. From the description of Papers of ...

Piston, Walter, 1894-

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Park, Rosemary

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Rosemary Park served as President of Barnard College from 1962-1967. An educator and administrator, she held a Ph.D. in German from the University of Cologne. Prior to her arrival at Barnard, she was taught at Connecticut College (1935-1947), becoming academic dean and President (1947-1962). Under Park, Barnard greatly expanded classroom and student residential space; including the Millicent McIntosh Center (1969), Plimpton Hall (1968) and Helen Goodhart Hall (1969). She expanded the Barnard alu...

Blackall, Dorothy (Brewer), ca 1890-1949

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Low, Juliette Gordon, 1860-1927

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Juliette Gordon Low, also known as Daisy, (b. Oct. 31, 1860, Savannah, Ga.-d Jan. 17, 1927, Savannah, Ga.) was the founder of the Girl Scouts of America. She was the daughter of William and Eleanor Gordon of Savannah. She married William Mackay Low in 1886. She founded the Girl Scouts in 1912. She died in Savannah in 1927 and is buried in Laurel Grove Cemetery....

Daniels family

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Damrosch, Walter, 1862-1950

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Walter Johannes Damrosch (1862-1950) was a German-born conductor and composer in the U.S. From the description of Walter Damrosch presentation volume, 1928. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122517384 From the guide to the Walter Damrosch presentation volume, 1928, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) American conductor and composer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : New York, to "My dear and heaven sent Isadora ...

Briggs, Le Baron Russell, 1885-1934

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Taubman, Hyman Henry, 1907-

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Morse, Samuel Finley Brown, 1885-1969.

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Radcliffe College

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Vocational short courses and institutes were initiated by the Radcliffe Appointment Bureau to train students for careers after graduation. Among these courses were: the Institute on Historical and Archival Management, 1954-1960; Communications for the Volunteer, 1965-1968; Summer Secretarial Course, 1935-1955, and the Radcliffe Publishing Course (formerly Publishing Procedures Course), 1947-, which continues to offer a six-week summer course in publishing. From the description of Rad...

Wilder, Thornton, 1897-

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Wessell, Nils Yngve

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President of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. From the description of Correspondence to Johan Thorsten Sellin, 1971. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 243854189 ...

Ullian, Frieda Silbert, 1900-

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Woodworth, G. Wallace

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Woodworth graduated from Harvard in 1924 and taught music at Harvard. From the description of Papers of George Wallace Woodworth, 193?-1969 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 76973226 ...

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...

Hill, Edward Burlingame

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Composed 1931. First performance, Boston, 25 April 1932, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Serge Koussevitzky conductor, Jesús María Sanromá soloist.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Concertino in one movement for piano and orchestra, op. 36 / by Edward Burlingame Hill. 1931. (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 52297708 Composed 1916-17. First performance, New York, 17 February 1918, New York Symphonic Society, Walter Damrosch conductor.--Cf. ...

Park, Marion Edwards, 1875-1960

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Marion Edwards Park was the President of Bryn Mawr College. From the description of Letter to Horace Howard Furness, Jr., 1927. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155884555 ...

Coes, Mary

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Wilder, Isabel

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Epithet: sister of Thornton Wilder British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000496.0x00021c ...

Pusey, Anne (Woodward)

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Sousa, John Philip, 1854-1932

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John Philip Sousa (November 6, 1854 – March 6, 1932) was an American composer and conductor of the late Romantic era known primarily for American military marches. He is known as "The March King" or the "American March King", to distinguish him from his British counterpart Kenneth J. Alford who is also known as "The March King". Among his best-known marches are "The Stars and Stripes Forever" (National March of the United States of America), "Semper Fidelis" (official march of the United States...

Beach, H.H.A. Mrs

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Dedicated to Madame Teresa Carreño. First performance Music Hall, Boston, 6 April 1900, Boston Symphony, William Gericke conductor, the composer as soloist.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Concerto : for pianoforte and orchestra, op. 45 / by Mrs. H.H.A. Beach. [19--?] (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 43256910 American composer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [n.p., London?, n.d.], to Stanley K. Faye at t...

Kerby-Miller, Wilma Anderson, 1897- ,

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Wilma Anderson Kerby-Miller was born in Rockford, Illinois. She attended Rockford College (A.B., English and Math, 1924) and the University of Chicago (A.M. 1928, Ph.D. 1938). In 1931, she married Charles Kerby-Miller. She worked as a teacher in Michigan and Sweden, and was lecturer at Wellesley College from 1939 to 1941. In 1942 she was Dean of Freshman and Chairman of the Board of Admissions at Wellesley. In 1946 Kerby-Miller became the first Dean of Instruction at Radcliffe College, and a par...

Solomon, Barbara Miller

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Conrad, Adrienne (Rich), 1929-

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Morse, Frances Rollins, 1850-1928

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A social work volunteer, Morse helped establish Associated Charities of Boston and was associated with the School of Social Work at Simmons College. From the description of Papers, 1831-1929 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232006748 Frances Rollins Morse (1850-1928) was the daughter of Samuel Tapley and Harriet Jackson (Lee) Morse. She was very active in the field of social work. She helped establish Associated Charities of Boston and was associated wi...

Cannon, Cornelia James, 1876-

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Cornelia James was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, and graduated from Radcliffe College in 1899. In 1901, she married Walter Bradford Cannon. She was an early birth control advocate, serving as president of the Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts, and was a published author. From the description of Play, 1929. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232009689 ...

Carter, Morris, 1877-1965.

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Carter was assistant director of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston (1919-1924) and director (1924-1954) From the description of Papers, 1920-1963 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232006949 ...

Daniels, Mabel W. (Mabel Wheeler), 1878-1971

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Composed 1934. First performance Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra, Harrisburg, PA, Feb. 19, 1935, George King Raudenbush conductor.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Pirates' island, op. 34, no. 2 / Mabel Daniels. [19--?]. (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 43917644 Composer (B.A. Radcliffe College, 1900), Wheeler studied music in Boston and Munich, was director of music at Bradford Academy, 1911-1913, and Simmons College, 1913-1918, and then...

Hall, Susan, 1859-1943

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Educator; sometimes wrote under pseudonym Susan Hall. From the description of Papers, 1894-1954 (bulk 1898-1904). (Simmons College). WorldCat record id: 28418519 ...

Jordan, Frances Ruml, 1899-1980.

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Frances Ruml Jordan attended Radcliffe College as a graduate student in economics (A.M., 1930). She married historian W.K. Jordan in 1930. She then served as Assistant Dean (1930-1934) and Dean of the College (1934-1939). W.K. Jordan was president of Radcliffe College from 1943 to 1960. From the description of Oral history interview with Frances Ruml Jordan, 1973 February 21. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232009678 ...