Stephen D. Tuttle papers [manuscript], 1940-1965

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Stephen D. Tuttle papers [manuscript], 1940-1965

The papers concern Tuttle's activities as a member of the Music Dept. at the University of Virginia, including correspondence, programs and photographs pertaining to the Virginia Celebrity Concerts, 1945-1950, which featured Zino Francescatti, Robert Casadesus, Helen Traubel, the Robert Shaw Chorale and the Philadelphia Orchestra. The collection also contain thirty musical scores arranged by Tuttle for a proposed book by Helen Bullock on Jefferson and music; correspondence with Archibald T. Davison and William Weedon relating to the 1950 Page Barbour Lecture; a manuscript compositon "A Carol for Christmas; and letters from E. H. Fellowes, Hans Kindler, Karl Kreuger, Jan LaRue, Denis Stevens and John Cook Wyllie. The collection also contains a printed program for the concert in dedication of the Stephen Davidson Tuttle Memorial Harpsichord, signed by Randall Thompson and others; a copy of Tuttle's dissertation on William Byrd, an illustrated concert program for "La Serenade" with cover sketch by Christian Bérard; and some Chinese chops.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6958923

University of Virginia. Library

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University of Virginia Professor of Music; composer. From the description of Stephen D. Tuttle papers [manuscript], 1940-1965 (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 191748981 Composer and one-time member of the University of Virginia's Music Department faculty. From the description of Musical compositions of Stephen Davidson Tuttle [manuscript], n.d. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647995414 From the description of Musical compositio...

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Kindler, Hans, 1892-1949

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Weedon, William Stone, 1908-1984.

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Krueger, Karl, 1894-1979

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Bérard, Christian, 1902-1949

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Bullock, Helen Duprey, 1904-1995

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Bullock, author and historian, has been a senior editor and historian for the National Trust for Historic Preservation since 1950 and has written and lectured on early American cookery. She has a B.A. in history from the University of California at Berkeley, 1925, joined the Research Department of Colonial Williamsburg in 1929, worked at the University of Virginia Library (1939-1941), and at the Library of Congress (1941-1950). From the description of Papers, 1953-1975 (inclusive). (...

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Traubel, Helen

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