Bruce Hungerford Collection

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Bruce Hungerford Collection

1880-1986

https://www.lib.umd.edu/ipam/collections/bruce-hungerford

Correspondence, sound recordings and transcripts, scrapbooks, pencil and ink sketches, and articles. Correspondence, ca. 950 items, comprises the bulk of the collection. Principal correspondents include members of Hungerford's family, personal friends Thomas and Sylvia Lipton, and Myra Hess. Sound recordings include Hungerford's Vanguard recordings, as well as other analog discs, tape reels, and acetate discs of his performances. Also present are ca. twenty hours of sound tape reels, some with transcripts, of scholarship lessons with Carl Friedberg. Correspondence, scrapbooks, and sketches include materials pertaining both to Hungerford's music career and to his work in paleontology and Egyptology.

approximately 21.00 linear feet

University of Maryland (College Park, Md.). Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 7340678

University of Maryland (College Park, Md.). Libraries

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Lipton, Sylvia.

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Hungerford, Bruce

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Pianist. Born in 1922 in Korumburra, Victoria, Australia, Bruce Hungerford studied in Sydney with Ignaz Friedman and in the U.S. with Ernest Hutcheson and Olga Samaroff. He was a student and friend of Myra Hess, who introduced him to Carl Friedberg. In 1950, Hungerford won the first annual Carl Friedberg Alumni Association Scholarship, through which he had twenty-five lessons with Friedberg. Hungerford began his performing career in 1958 in Europe; in 1967 he moved to th...

Friedberg, Carl, 1872-1955

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A pianist and teacher, Carl Friedberg (1872-1955) was an active performer throughout his career. He gave many solo recitals, concerts with leading orchestras, and chamber music concerts with a variety of ensembles throughout the United States and Europe. Friedberg also was a teacher at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt, Germany and at the Institute for Musical Arts, which later became the Juilliard School....

Lipton, Thomas.

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Hess, Myra

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English pianist. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : New York Apr. 25 1932, to Mrs. Melbert Brinckerhoff [i.e. Mary Flagler] Cary, 1932 Apr. 25. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270666224 Epithet: DBE, pianist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000496.0x00028c ...