Ruth Page collection, 1944-1960.

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Ruth Page collection, 1944-1960.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/71056542

This collection consists primarily of the correspondence of American dancer, choreographer, and company director Ruth Page and her first husband attorney Thomas Fisher, along with programs and clippings highlighting Page's career. The collection spans the years 1944 to 1960. The correspondence includes personal letters, contracts, telegrams, and postal cards between Page, Fisher, and French composer Remi Gassman regarding the creation and production of Page's ballet Billy Sunday. Other correspondence includes material from Gassman's wife, Marthe, ballet producer, S. J. Denham, composer Howard Hanson, and others. The collection documents Page's performances of her ballets Frankie and Johnny, The Bells, Billy Sunday, and Scrapbook, which were performed in the United States and France between 1946 and 1950. Clippings in the collection consist of several reviews of Page's works by well-known critics of the time.

1 linear ft. (1 box, ca. 150 items)

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SNAC Resource ID: 8072994

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Page, Ruth

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6gk070x (person)

Ruth Page, American dancer, choreographer, and director of ballet companies, was born in 1899, the daughter of a physician in Indiana. Her dance studies began with local teachers in Indianapolis. Like many a young girl, she was inspired by seeing Anna Pavlova perform, and actually did perform with the legendary dancer's troupe during a tour to South America in 1918. Her training continued in Chicago with Adolph Bolm who created The Birthday of the Infanta for her, dancing the role with Bolm's Ba...

Gassmann, Remi

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w64f4bnq (person)

Fisher, Thomas Hart

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6z041z0 (person)

Denham, S. J.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w61g372w (person)

Gassmann, Marthe

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6hq6m47 (person)

Hanson, Howard, 1896-1981

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6bk1f67 (person)

Composed 1921.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Concerto : for organ, strings and harp, op. 22, no. 3 / Howard Hanson. [19--] (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 52170318 Composed for the Chopin Centennial, UNESCO, Paris 1949.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Pastorale for solo oboe, strings and harp / Howard Hanson. c1949. (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 52170353 American compos...