Arnold Arnstein collection of musical scores. [ca. 1950-1989]

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Arnold Arnstein collection of musical scores. [ca. 1950-1989]

The Arnold Arnstein Collection contains music that was found in Arnold Arnstein's office when he died in 1989.

10 linear feet (40 boxes)

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SNAC Resource ID: 7674021

New York Public Library System, NYPL

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Strouse, Charles

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Composer of "Put on a happy face" and many other songs from scores of shows. From the description of Autograph note on music paper, signed : [n.p.], [196-?]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270910499 Annie 2 opened for previews at the Kennedy Center's Opera House, Washington, D.C., Dec.22, 1989. It closed in early Jan., 1990, when the producers decided it would need further development before resuming performances. It was not produced again until 1993 with the title Annie War...

Arnstein, Arnold.

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Arnold Arnstein was a leading music copyist based in New York City. In 1925 he began to work for Paramount Publix Corporation as a music copyist. By 1932 he was able to set up his own office on west 72nd Street in New York City which he used until his death. Over the course of fifty-seven years, he was the copyist for Gian Carlo Menotti, Samuel Barber, Leonard Bernstein, Virgil Thomson, Charles Strouse, and many other leading as well as less well-known composers. From th...