Neighborhood Playhouse scores, 1919-1931.

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Neighborhood Playhouse scores, 1919-1931.

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The Neighborhood Playhouse scores collection consists of musical scores, mostly original manuscripts, but also including some reproductions and printed music, probably written for dances performed at the Neighborhood Playhouse. Several of the works are composed or arranged by Ernest Bloch, Louis Horst, and Kurt Schindler. Of particular note are Adventures of Ola (Olle) arranged by Louis Horst (1931), Kolyada: A Russian Folk Scene arranged from the collection of Kurt Schindler by Louis Horst, and Quatuor a Cordes (1919) by Ernest Bloch. There are also a number of pages of typed and handwritten lyrics, as well as typed excerpts of reviews of works not included in the collection.

1 linear ft. (1 box)

New York Public Library System, NYPL

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SNAC Resource ID: 7778787

New York Public Library System, NYPL

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Bloch, Ernest, 1880-1959

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Composer, violinist, conductor, and photographer Ernest Bloch was born on July 24, 1880, in Geneva, Switzerland. In 1894 he began the study of music theory and composition with Emile Jacques-Dalcroze at the Geneva Conservatory of Music, who advised him to continue violin instruction under Louis Etienne-Reyer at the same institution. He studied violin under Franz SchoĢˆrg of the Royal Conservatory of Music, Belgium, in 1896, and composition in Frankfurt under Ivan Knorr from 1899 to 1901, whereupo...

Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre

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Horst, Louis

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Neighborhood Playhouse (New York, N.Y.)

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The Neighborhood Playhouse was founded in 1915 by Alice and Irene Lewisohn, as part of the Henry Street Settlement. Many early twentieth-century modern dancers and artists found a professional home at the Neighborhood Playhouse, including composers Ernest Bloch, Kurt Schindler, and Louis Horst, who also worked with Martha Graham. Other notables whose works were produced at the Neighborhood Playhouse include Agnes de Mille, Laura Elliott, Doris Humphrey and Charles Weidman. The Neighborhood Playh...

Schindler, Kurt

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Kurt Schindler, a composer, conductor, and folksong musicologist, was born in Berlin in 1882 and died in New York City in 1935. He founded the organization which became the Schola Cantorum of New York. From the description of Papers, 1882-1946. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122580695 American composer and conductor of German birth. From the description of Autograph letters signed (2) : [New York], to Mr. and Mrs. [Harry Harkness] Flagler, [n.d., ...