Audio and visual recordings, 1918-1985.

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Audio and visual recordings, 1918-1985.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155501138

Audio recordings of Shubert musicals produced by radio station WGN (Chicago) for programs "Chicago Theatre of the Air" and "The Railroad Hour;" some recordings of "Celanese Hour" and "Texaco Star Theatre." Also, sound effects, individual songs, and interviews with Mrs. John Shubert, 1949-1954. Script readings and musical numbers submitted to Shubert Office by authors or agents, 1983-1985; radio and television comercials advertising Broadway shows in Shubert houses, 1980s; recordings of the New York University Musical Theatre Project, 1984-1985. Also, collection of piano rolls, manufactured by Duo-Art, The Aeolian Company, and Q.R.S. Autograph Word Roll of fox trots, waltzes, one-steps, ballads, and songs, 1918-1920, 1928.

ca. 325 items.

eng,

fin,

New York State Historical Documents Inventory

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 6877868

New York State Historical Documents Inventory

Related Entities

There are 7 Entities related to this resource.

Duo Art (Firm)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6m952f2 (corporateBody)

WGN (Radio station : Chicago, Ill.)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6n060cx (corporateBody)

Q.R.S. Autograph Word Roll (Firm)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6w1400r (corporateBody)

New York University. Musical Theatre Project.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6vt6jd4 (corporateBody)

Aeolian Company

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6w99b4b (corporateBody)

The Skinner Organ Company was established in Boston in 1902 by Ernest M. Skinner, and was incorporated in 1919 with Arthur Hudson Marks as the primary share holder. On January 2, 1932, the firm merged with the Aeolian Company to become the Aeolian-Skinner Organ Company. The firm reorganized in 1970 and moved to Randolph, Massachusetts, and was bankrupt by 1974. The Skinner and the Aeolian-Skinner Organ Companies were the two leading American organ-building firms of the first two-thirds of the tw...

Shubert, Kerttu Helena

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6kh1cbp (person)

Shubert Organization (New York, N.Y.),

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6w71c41 (corporateBody)