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Serge Prokofiev Archive, 1917-2012

294 linear feet
Serge Prokofiev (1891–1953) was a Russian and Soviet composer, pianist and conductor, and seminal figure in the history of twentieth-century music. The Serge Prokofiev Archive (SPA) contains 58 original music manuscripts and over 10,000 letters and documents primarily from 1918-1936, the years Prokofiev spent in the West. The SPA also includes an expansive collection of music manuscript copies, published scores, concert programs, scholarly books and articles, photographs, and audio and video material, making it the premier research collection for studying Prokofiev's life, work and legacy.
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Douglas Moore papers, 1883-2018, bulk 1907-1969

45 linear feet
Douglas Stuart Moore (1893-1969) was an American composer, educator, and author. His best known works include the operas The Devil and Daniel Webster (1937-1939), The Ballad of Baby Doe (1953-1956), and Giants in the Earth (1949-1950), which won the Pulitzer Prize for Music in 1951. The papers include clippings, correspondence, course and lecture materials, librettos, photographs, programs, publicity materials, recordings, and scores.
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Ulysses Kay papers, 1894-2017, bulk 1938-1995

55.25 linear feet
Ulysses Kay (1917-1995) was a noted twentieth-century American composer. The collection includes audio reels, biographical materials, correspondence, diaries, phonograph records, photographs, programs, and scores.
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New York City Opera records, 1924-2019, bulk 1965-1991

214 linear feet
New York City Opera (NYCO) was famously dubbed "The People's Opera" by Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia at its founding in 1943. The Opera company's mission is to inspire audiences with innovative and theatrically compelling opera at an affordable price. This collection documents the artistic productions and the daily administrative functions and operations attest to the mission of the company. The materials in this collection consist of administrative and financial records, production files, stage guides, scores, correspondence, programs, photographs, posters, scenery plans, memorabilia, printed materials, and audio and video recordings, dating from 1924 to 2019, with its bulk dating from 1965 to 1991.
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Silverlake : a winter's tale ; selections of Weill's incidental music, 1980 2 phonograph records Box 224

Silverlake : a winter's tale ; selections of Weill's incidental music, 1980

Commercially produced. By Kurt Weill; Hugh Wheeler; Georg Kaiser; Lys Symonette; Julius Rudel; Joel Grey; William Neill; Elisabeth Hynes; New York City Opera Orchestra. Publisher: New York, N.Y Nonesuch Records [1980] ℗1980.

  1. Series X: Audio-Visual, 1944-2013
  2. Subseries X.1: Phonograph Records, 1944-1986
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Desmond Heeley papers, 1884-2018, bulk 1946-2016

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Two-time Tony-award winner Desmond Heeley (1931-2016) was a British-American costume and set designer who worked primarily in theater, ballet, and opera. His productions have graced the stages of major theaters in the United Kingdom, Canada, the United States, Australia, and Europe, including the Royal Opera House, the Metropolitan Opera, Houston Ballet, the National Ballet of Canada, Australian Ballet, and the Stratford Festival in Ontario. This collection contains Heeley's sketches and designs, along with production documents, photographs, correspondence, audio recordings, and other memorabilia relating to his life and work.
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Peter Schickele Papers, 1874-2013, bulk 1955-2013

56.5 linear feet
Peter Schickele (1935-2024) was an American composer, music educator, and satirist. He was best known for his comedy pieces composed by the fictional character P.D.Q. Bach. The collection contains manuscript and engraved scores and parts, sketches, revised and annotated copies of Schickele's work. In addition, the collection contains scripts of dramatic pieces or spoken introductions, correspondence, and memorabilia.
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Jerome Moross papers, 1924-2018

70.25 linear feet

Correspondence, manuscript music scores, copies of scores, playscripts, scenarios, watercolor drawings and other stage designs, contracts, legal papers, programs, clippings and other printed materials, microfilms, records, tape recordings, and photographs. Among Moross's work are the musical play, "The Golden Apple"(1954), dance music for "Ballet Ballads"(1945) and for "Frankie and Johnny"(1938), the film score for "The Big Country"(1958) and for "The Cardinal"(1963), and his Symphony No. 1 (1943). There are some financial papers and production records for the staging of his works. Among the cataloged correspondents are Aaron Copland, Agnes George De Mille, Ned Rorem, Virgil Thomson, and Thornton Wilder.

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Petr Vasil'evich Danil'chenko Memoirs, 1949-1958

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Typescript memoir by P. V. Danil'chenko entitled "Moi vospominaniia o Velikom Kniaze Konstantine Konstantinoviche: k predstoiashchemu v 1958 godu stoletiiu so dnia ego rozhdeniia" (40 pages typescript). The memoir concerns cultural evenings organized by the Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich in the Izmaĭlovskii Guard Regiment and the 1914 production of the Grand Duke's play "Tsar' Iudeiskii" at the Court Theater in the Hermitage, for which Glazunov composed incidental music.

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