Alix Williamson papers, 1918-2001 (bulk 1939-2006)

New York Grand Opera.

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Juilliard string quartet

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Kraus, Lili, 1903-1986

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Little Orchestra Society

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Thomas Scherman (1917-1979) was the director of the Little Orchestra Society, which he had just recently founded, earlier in the same year, in New York City. He was the son of Harry Scherman (1887-1969), the founder of the Book of the Month Club, and Harry's wife Bernadine. The Scherman family had a friendly relationship with Alma Mahler; Harry and Bernadine Scherman had first become acquainted with Alma in Vienna. From the description of Correspondence to Alma Mahler, 1947. (Univers...

Simon, Stephen, 1937-2013

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Slenczynska, Ruth, 1925-

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Ruth Slenczynska (born January 15, 1925, Sacramento, California), American pianist with Polish roots. Her Polish father, Joseph Slenczynski (Józef Ślenczyński), was a violinist. Pushed by her father and starting at age three, Slenczynska was forced to practice the piano relentlessly. When she was four, she began her piano studies in Europe, later studying with Artur Schnabel, Egon Petri, Alfred Cortot, Josef Hofmann, and Sergei Rachmaninoff. She played her debut in Berlin at age six and made her...

Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.

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Robin Hood Dell orchestra of Philadelphia

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Aston Magna Foundation for Music

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Established in 1972 by Albert Fuller and Lee Elman, the Aston Magna Foundation for Music was created to serve as a center for the study and performance of seventeenth and eighteenth century music. The original site of the Foundation in Great Barrington, Massachusetts was the former summer home of the violinist Albert Spalding. Although the Foundation faced some initial problems with the local community over turning the property, which was located in a primarily residenti...

Williamson, Alix.

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Alix B. Williamson (1916-2001) was one of New York City's prominent publicists for classical music from the 1940s through the 1990s. A graduate of Hunter College, Williamson worked briefly as a reporter, then joined the leading public relations firm of Constance Hope Associates, where she handled the accounts of notable opera singers, such as Lotte Lehmann, Lauritz Melchoir, and Lily Pons. This phase of her career included a large amount of ghostwriting, both under the n...