Miscellaneous music programs and composer biographies [manuscript], 1911-1912.

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Miscellaneous music programs and composer biographies [manuscript], 1911-1912.

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Includes undated biographies in English of composers Engelbert Humperdinck and Claude Debussy, each with a small black and white portrait. The Debussy biography is incomplete. Includes an undated handwritten list of composers and miscellaneous compositions (Bach, Mozart, Schubert, Schumann, etc.) on stationery with "The College Club, 40 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston" on the letterhead. Includes an April 6, (1912?), program for "A Recital of English, Scottish and Irish Folk Songs" by Oriska, Dorothy, and Rosalind [i.e. Rosalinde] Fuller, assisted by Mary Agnes Best, to be given in Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory of Music. The program includes a portrait of the Fullers. Includes 8 programs (excerpted from magazines?) for the Boston Opera House, Grand Opera, Season of 1911-1912 ("Boston Opera Company lessees"). The operas include Thais, Cavalleria Rusticana, Coppélia, Faust, Carmen, Germania, and Samson et Dalila. Casts and synopses of scenery are given for the operas. Includes an April 2, 1912, program for a recital by pianist Harold Bauer to be given at Symphony Hall. The program includes a portrait and biography of the pianist.

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