The Mel Powell papers, 1942-1991 (inclusive).

Arel, Bülent, 1919-1990

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Moldenhauer, Hans, 1906-1987

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Hans Moldenhauer was born in Mainz, Germany, on December 13, 1906 and died in November 1987 in Spokane, Washington. He completed five years of study of music under Hans Rosbaud at the Mainz Municipal College of Music. In 1918 he immigrated to the United States, where he settled in Spokane, Washington. After serving in the United States Army he returned to Spokane and was Whitworth College’s first student under the G. I. Bill and earned a bachelor’s degree in music in 194...

Ussachevsky, Vladimir, 1911-1990

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Composer. From the description of Reminiscences of Vladimir Ussachevsky : oral history, 1978. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309735377 BIOGHIST REQUIRED Vladimir Ussachevsky was born in 1911 in the Russian province of Outer Manchuria, where his father was serving as a career officer in the Russian Army. Ussachevsky's mother performed and gave lessons on the piano, and she became her son's first teacher, initiating his musical ...

Greissle, Felix, 1894-1982.

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Viennese-born music editor and educator who was a composition student and son-in-law of Schoenberg. From the description of Interview conducted by Oliver Daniel and revised by Felix Greissle, August 1977 [sound recording]. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155861376 ...

Stockhausen, Karlheinz, 1928-2007

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Epithet: composer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000787.0x0000ee ...

Xenakis, Iannis

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Manager of the Symphonic and Opera Department at Boosey and Hawkes. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : Bloomington, Ind., 6 May 1968, to M. [Charles] Brück, 1968 May 6. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270899887 b. May 29, 1922; d. February 4, 2001. From the description of Artist file : miscellaneous uncataloged material. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122363558 Epithet: composer British Library Archives and ...

Kagel, Mauricio

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German composer, film maker, and playwright of Argentine birth. From the description of Typewritten letter signed, dated : Cologne, 28 October 1972, to Joan Peyser, 1972 Oct. 28. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270992564 Epithet: composer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000787.0x0000d9 ...

Foss, Lukas

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Lukas Foss (b. Aug. 15, 1922, in Berlin; d. Feb. 1, 2009, in New York City) was an American composer, conductor, pianist, and educator. From the description of Lukas Foss papers, circa 1926-2000 (bulk 1936-1995). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71130018 Composed 1955-58. First performance Pittsburgh, 24 October 1958, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, William Steinberg conductor.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Symphony of chorales : for orchestra : ...

Allen, Steve, 1921-2000

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A radio and television performer, actor, composer, pianist, and singer. From the description of [Papers] / Steve Allen. 1956-1973. (Bowling Green State University). WorldCat record id: 14228108 Renowned American comedian, composer, lyricist, musician, television pioneer, performer, and author. From the description of Steve Allen papers, 1951-2000. (Scottsdale Public Library). WorldCat record id: 49244609 Steve Allen (1921-2000), comedian, co...

Helps, Robert

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American pianist, teacher, and composer. From the description of Interview conducted by Oliver Daniel, Oct. 10, 1977 [sound recording]. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155862453 American pianist and compuser. Robert Helps (1928-2001) studied under Abby Whiteside, piano, and Roger Sessions, composition. Helps served as professor of piano at the New England Conservatory, the San Francisco Conservatory, Princeton University, St...

Wilder, Isabel, 1900-1995

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Nixon, Marni

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Marni Nixon, known as the singing voice of the stars, is best known for her dubbing work in motion pictures. Born in California, she is an accomplished singer who has sung opera and classical music as well as appearing on Broadway. Her dubbing credits include the singing voice of Maria in the motion picture West Side Story for Natalie Wood, the singing voice of Anna in The King and I for Deborah Kerr, and the singing voice of Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady for Audrey He...

Dahl, Ingolf, 1912-1970

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Gaburo, Kenneth

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Varèse, Edgard, 1883-1965

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American composer of French origin; compositions of the 1920s used rhythmic complexity, atonality and themes not based on harmonic progression. He was interested in electric instruments and composed pieces with sounds on tape. From the description of Autograph letters to François Bernouard, 1907-1926. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754872672 American composer of French origin; compositions of the 1920s used rhythmic complexity, atonality and themes not based on harmonic pro...

Lemmon, Jack

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Actor. From the description of Reminiscences of Jack Lemmon :koral history, 1959. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 86131655 ...

Wykes, Robert

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Composed 1951. First performance Austin, Texas, 23 March 1953, Southwestern Symposium of Contemporary Music, Clifton Williams conductor.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Concert overture / Robert Wykes. 1951. (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 57559337 ...

Bailey, Pearl

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Pearl Bailey (1918-1990) was an African-American actress and singer. In films she was known chiefly for two roles: Maria in "Porgy and Bess"(1959) and Frankie in "Carmen Jones,"(1954) as well as her starring role on Broadway in an all-black cast version of "Hello Dolly." During World War II, Bailey toured with the USO, performing for American troops. Beginning in 1946 she was a top attraction in nightclubs, variety houses and television programs in the United States and Britain. At age 67, in 19...

Allanbrook, Douglas

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Cousins, Norman.

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American editor of the "Saturday Review of Literature" from 1940-1977. From the description of Typed letter signed : New York, to Edward Wagenknecht, 1960 May 25. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270868047 Editor, journalist. From the description of Reminiscences of Norman Cousins : oral history, 1974. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122376635 From the description of Reminiscences of Norman Cousins : lecture, 1959. (Colum...

Subotnick, Morton

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Morton Subotnick's incidental music for Berthold Brecht's play Caucasian chalk circle was written for the Repertory Theatre of Lincoln Center production at the Vivian Beaumont Theatre which premièred on March 24, 1966 and ran for 100 performances. The production was directed by Herbert Blau and Jules Irving. Stacy Keach, Brock Peters and Priscilla Pointer were members of the cast. From the description of [Music for the Caucasian chalk circle / Morton Subotnick]. [1966] (New York Pub...

Nilsson, Bo

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Taub, Robert Martin, 1947-

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Beardslee, Bethany

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Gish, Lillian, 1893-1993

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Actress, director. From the description of Reminiscences of Lillian Gish : oral history, 1978. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309742647 Actress. From the description of Papers of Lillian Gish, 1920-1978. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71130921 Actress whose career spanned the silent film era till the 1980's. From the description of Papers, 1919-1997. (Bowling Green State University). WorldCat record id: 392...

Previn, André, 1929-

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American conductor, pianist, and composer of German birth. From the description of Autograph note signed, dated : [s.l., 26 January 1968], to Ray Pitts [1968, Jan. 26]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270952249 Conductor, composer, pianist. From the description of Interview conducted by Dick Cavett, Apr. 27, 1978 [sound recording]. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155861658 ...

Stoltzman, Richard

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Turetzky, Bertram, 1933-

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Valenti, Fernando

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Kirkpatrick, Ralph

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American harpsichordist. From the description of The Ralph Kirkpatrick papers, 1911-1977 (inclusive). (Yale University). WorldCat record id: 702162167 ...

Harth, Sidney

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Wilder, Thornton, 1897-1975

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Thornton Wilder (1897-1975), novelist and playwright. From the description of Thornton Wilder collection, 1918-1983. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82555916 From the description of Thornton Wilder collection, 1918-1983. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702165470 Thornton Wilder was an American playwright, novelist, and essayist. From the description of Thornton Wilder collection of papers, 1926-1975 bulk (1926-1967). (New York Public Library). WorldCat rec...

Mekeel, Joyce

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Joyce Mekeel. (b. New Haven, CT, 6 July 1931; d. Watertown (?) MA, 29 December 1997). American composer, harpsichordist, anthropologist, assistant professor. She studied at the Longy School of Music in Cambridge, MA (1952-1955); with Nadia Boulanger at the Conservatoire National de Musique in Paris (1955-57); at Yale University, receiving a B. M. in 1959 and a M.M. in theory and composition in 1960; and at Boston University, receiving a Ph.D. in 1983. Her other teachers included Earl Kim (compos...

Scott, Martha, 1914-2003

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Stein, Leonard

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American musicologist born in 1916, Stein was pianist and conductor who performed widely in Los Angeles during the 1960's. He was an adjunct professor at the University of Southern California and a former head of the Schoenberg Institute. From the description of Leonard Stein collection of musical scores, 1954-1969. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 80271526 Leonard Stein was born in 1916. He was a teaching and personal assistant to Arnold Schoenberg from 1939 ...

Schuller, Robert H. (Robert Harold), 1926-

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Schuller graduated from Hope College in 1947 and Western Theological Seminary in 1950. In 1955 he started a drive-in Church at an old concession stand in California. His brand of possibility thinking became very popular, allowing him to begin a weekly, nationally televised religious program entitled the "Hour of Power" and to build the architecturally impressive Crystal Cathedral. From the description of Papers, 1955-1984. (Joint Archive of Holland, History Research Center). WorldCat...

Lee, Peggy, 1920-2002

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Ladd, Diane, 1932-....

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Balliett, Whitney.

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Whitney Balliett was esteemed jazz critic. He graduated from Cornell in 1951, and went on to write for The New Yorker. For nearly 50 years, he contributed to the publication with over 550 articles, and many more unsigned. He is known for his non-technical approach to criticism, using artful adjectives and vivid verbs to frame the music. His writing was more poetry than anything, and reading it, one will find metaphors and synesthetic synopses understandable by even the most uninformed music list...

Adler, Samuel, 1928-...

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American composer, conductor, and teacher. From the description of Typewritten letter signed, dated : Rochester, N.Y., 11 December 1969, to Joseph Chouinard, 1969 Dec. 11. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270905934 ...

Reisenberg, Nadia

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Pianist, chamber musician and teacher. Ms. Reisenberg studied with Leonid Nikolayev, Alexander Lambert and Josef Hofmann. She concertized extensively and is known for her legendary performances of all twenty-seven Mozart concertos played in consecutive weekly broadcasts with Alfred Wallenstein and the WOR Mutual Radio Symphony Orchestra. She gave the New York premiere of the Rimsky-Korsakov piano concerto and the first performance of Vincent d'Indy's Symphony on a French...

Perlis, Vivian.

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Aaron Copland (1900-1990) ranks among the most widely respected of all American composers. Born in Brooklyn to a Russian Jewish family, Copland studied with Rubin Goldmark in New York and Nadia Boulanger in France. His music, which drew upon sources as disparate as jazz, neoclassicism, folk music, and serialism, helped establish an American musical vocabulary, and his most popular works, such as Appalachian Spring and Fanfare for the Common Man, have reached audiences far beyond the...

Feldman, Morton, 1926-1987

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Composer Morton Feldman (1926-1987) was best known for his association with the New York School of experimentalist musicians, including composers John Cage, Christian Wolff, and Earle Brown, and pianist David Tudor. In addition to composing approximately 150 works, Feldman also wrote more than three dozen articles about various aspects of music and art. Feldman was a member of the music department faculty at the State University of New York at Buffalo from 1972-1987. During those years he served...

Gould, Morton

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Composed 1934. First performance Jan. 2, 1936, Philadelphia, at a concert for Youth, by the Philadelphia Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski conducting.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Chorale and fugue in jazz / by Morton Gould. [19--?]. (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 51998771 American composer, conductor, arranger, and pianist (b. Dec. 10, 1913 in New York; d. Feb. 21,1996 in Orlando, Florida). From the description of Morton G...

Sperry, Paul

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Meyer, Leonard B.

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Meyer was born in 1918. Meyer studied at Columbia University, graduating with a B.A. in Philosophy and an M.A. in Music in 1948. He earned a Ph.D. in the History of Culture in 1954 at the University of Chicago. He was professor of music at the University of Chicago from 1946 to 1974 and professor of music and the humanities at the University of Pennsylvania beginning in 1975. He became professor emeritus at Pennsylvania in 1988. He died in 2007. From the description of Leonard B. Mey...

Toch, Ernst

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A native of Vienna, Toch emigrated to Great Britain in 1933 and shortly later to the U.S. After the war he stayed in Europe for a time and then returned to the U.S. in 1952. Lilly Toch (née Zwack) was Ernst's wife; they married in 1916. Ernst and Lilly appear to have been good friends of Alma Mahler. From the description of Correspondence to Alma Mahler, 1948-1963. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155864622 Austrian composer, pianist, and teacher, n...

Goode, Richard

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Dello Joio, Norman

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Composed 1949. First performance La Jolla, California, 21 August 1949, Musical Arts Society, Nicolai Sokoloff conductor.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of New York profiles : a suite for orchestra / Norman Dello Joio. 1949. (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 45207262 Composed 1945. First performance Pittsburgh, 4 January 1946, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner conductor.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description ...

Babbitt, Milton, 1916-2011

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Composer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Princeton, N.J., to Mr. [James] Fuld, [1983 Dec. 30?]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270911546 American composer. From the description of Autogrpaph letters signed (6), dated Princeton, N.J., [ca. 1977, 1987, and n.d.], to Joan Peyser, [ca. 1977, 1987, and n.d.]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270991916 ...

Machlis, Joseph, 1906-1998

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Powell, Melanie

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American composer and jazz pianist. From the description of The Mel Powell papers, 1942-1991 (inclusive). (Yale University). WorldCat record id: 702152843 American composer and teacher. From the description of Typewritten letters signed (2), dated : [n.p.], 2 March 1984, and Sherman Oaks, Ca., 15 April 1996, to Joan Peyser, 1984 March 2. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270992658 ...

Burge, David, 1930-2013

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Williams, Joe, 1918-1999

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Bellson, Louis

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Louis Bellson, one of the great jazz drummers of all time, became famous in the 1950s for using two bass drums simultaneously. He was also well known for his intense 15-minute drum solos, which he demonstrated in his performances with the bands of Benny Goodman (1943 and 1946), Tommy Dorsey (1947-1949), and Harry James (1950-1951), and the Duke Ellington Orchestra. In addition to being able to drive a big band to exciting effect, Bellson can play very quietly with a trio with equal effectiveness...

Fennelly, Brian

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Henderson, Harold Gould

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Author and professor of Japanese art and culture. Born 1889; died 1974. From the description of Papers of Harold Gould Henderson, 1918-1955 (bulk 1937-1946). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83309910 Harold Gould Henderson (1889-1974) was an American author, teacher, translator, and anthologist of Japanese poetry. He taught the history of Japanese art at Columbia University, was president of the Society of Japanese Studies and the Japan Society from 1948 to 1952. In 1945 he se...

Vierk, Lois V.

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Nye, Louisa S.

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Ouellette, Fernand, 1930-

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Craft, Robert

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American conductor and writer on music. From the description of Typewritten letter signed, dated Gulf Stream, Fla., 1 November 1999, to Joan [Peyser], 1999 Nov. 1. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270992392 ...