Papers, 1906-1988.

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Papers, 1906-1988.

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Correspondence, diaries and other writings, scrapbooks, photographs, memorabilia, scores, and recordings. The bulk of these papers are Dorothy Dushkin's, but a portion were generated by husband David Dushkin. Personal correspondence consists of letters received by the Dushkins from friends and professional associates, notably Jessie Lloyd O'Connor, Caroline Bedell Thomas and Nadia Boulanger. The bulk of the professional papers are scores which constitute Dushkin's major output as a composer.

9 linear ft. (15 boxes)

Smith College, Neilson Library

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Smith College, Neilson Library

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Boulanger, Nadia, 1887-1979

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French composer and music teacher. From the description of [Letter] 1977 October 27 [to] Dear Mr. Wilson 1977. (Bowling Green State University). WorldCat record id: 755584222 Nadia Boulanger (1887-1979) was a Parisian composer, music teacher and conductor. From the description of Nadia Boulanger American music scores, 1925-1937 and undated. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 612769739 French composer and composition teacher. From the d...

Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971

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Russian born composer and conductor. From the description of Audio materials [sound recording]. 1931-1965. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 40723194 Igor Stravinsky was a Russian composer. From the description of Sketchbook, [1917?]. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122465769 Stravinsky's opera The Rake's Progress, set to the libretto by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman, was inspired by William Hogarth's series of paintings. Stravinsky had wan...

Blitzstein, Marc

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Composer. From the description of Marc Blitzstein autograph letter to Eric Bentley, 1953 Apr. 11. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 366668199 From the description of Autograph page signed, dated : Berlin, 1927. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270911558 From the description of Marc Blitzstein autograph letter to Eric Bentley, 1951 Nov. 13. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 614998569 American composer. From the description of "Theater for the Cabaret." /...

Dushkin, Dorothy

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Composer and co-founder of music schools. Born Dorothy Brewster Smith, Chicago, 1903; graduated Smith College, 1925; studied composition with Nadia Boulanger, Paris; married David Dushkin, 1930; they had 4 children. Both taught music in Chicago, then together founded the Winnetka School of Musical Arts and Crafts in Winnetka, Illinois in 1932 and Kinhaven School of Music in Weston (VT), 1952. While teaching she composed works for a wide variety of ensembles, which have been performed throughout ...

Dushkin, David, 1898-1986

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O'Connor, Jessie Lloyd, 1904-

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Jessie Lloyd O'Connor piloting Volya , undated Jessie Lloyd, journalist and social activist, was born in Winnetka, Illinois on February 14, 1904, the daughter of William Bross Lloyd, writer and socialist, and Lola Maverick, pacifist and founder of the U.S. section of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF). O'Connor's grandfather was Henry Demarest Lloyd, muckraking journalist and author of Wealth Against Commonwealth (1894), an expose of Standard...

Thomas, Caroline Bedell

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Physician; Researcher; Professor. Caroline Cunningham Bedell was born in Ithaca, NY on 29 Nov 1904, the daughter of Mary Louise Crehore (Smith College 1892) and Frederick Bedell, a physics professor at Cornell University. She graduate summa cum laude from Smith College in 1925 and from Johns Hopkins Medical School in 1930. She married Dr. Henry Thomas (1891-1966) in 1934 and together they had three children, Henry III (b. 1935), Eleanor (b. 1939), and Mary (b. 1940). Car...

Dushkin, Samuel, 1891-1976

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American violinist of Polish birth. From the description of Autograph letters signed (4) : New York and Avon (France), 1923 [and n.d.], to [Harry Harkness Flagler], 1923 Feb. 22, 1923 Aug. 27 and n.d. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270566071 ...