Letters from various correspondents, 1924-1963.

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Letters from various correspondents, 1924-1963.

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Chiefly contains personal letters to the Finks, especially from musicologist and pianist, Nicolas Slonimsky, and author, critic, and editor, Isaac Goldberg. Also includes some letters to Goldberg concerning his writings (which included work on music, Spanish, Portuguese, and Yiddish literature), H.L. Mencken, George Gershwin and others; a notebook and sheet music by Slonimsky; a memorial to Goldberg; and photographs and clippings of Frances Fink, Goldberg, Mencken, and Slonimsky.

1 box (.5 linear ft.)

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Goldberg, Isaac, 1887-1938

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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...

Fink, Nathan H.

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Fink, Frances Sharf

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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) ...

Slonimsky, Nicolas, 1894-1995

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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, Nathan N.,

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