"Be glad then, America" opera production records, 1974-1976.

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"Be glad then, America" opera production records, 1974-1976.

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The "Be glad then, America records" document the opera's production for the national bicentennial in 1976. Items include correspondence, music scores, minutes, schedules, cast and crew information, artwork, publicity, audiovisual, scrapbooks, financial and legal materials.

3.39 cubic feet + 264 audio-visual materials and scrapbooks.

Pennsylvania State University Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 7295411

Pennsylvania State University Libraries

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Pennsylvania State University. Institute for the Arts and Humanistic Studies

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In 1976, the Institute for the Arts and Humanistic Studies sponsored the production of the original opera "Be glad then, America" to commemorate America's bicentennial. The opera incorporated a chorus of two hundred Penn State choir students, professional opera singers from the Metropolitan Opera, popular folk singer Odetta, and Penn State's ROTC students as soldiers. The production was planned by Stanley Weintraub and William Allison, the Institute's Director and Associate Director at that time...

La Montaine, John

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