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    Lisa C. Arkin collection on Bronislava Nijinska's Polish Ballet Catalog Record Only The collection contains research by Lisa C. Arkin, investigating the inaugural year of the Polish Ballet when dancer, choreographer, and teacher Bronislava Nijinska (1891-1972) served as the company's artistic director. Material types include articles, clippings, correspondence, drafts, notes, photographs, prints, programs, slides, and writings. The Research Files series contains articles, clippings, notes, photographs, programs, prints, and slides. Among Arkin's notes are interviews she conducted...
    • Contributor: Nijinska, Irina - Raetz, Gibbs S. - Arkin, Lisa C. - Davis, Janet Rowson - Dokoudovsky, Vladimir
    • Date: 1932
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    Adolph Bolm collection, Catalog Record Only The collection documents Bolm's career both in Russia and the United States with various companies, including Ballets Russes de Serge Diaghilev, Ballet Intime, Adolph Bolm Ballet, Chicago Civic Opera, San Francisco Opera, and Ballet Theatre. It contains photographs, including many of Bolm in costume for various dance roles and with Tamara Karsavina, his frequent partner from the Ballets Russes. There is a large amount...
    • Contributor: Bolm, Adolph
    • Date: 1895
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    Serge Lifar collection on Serge Diaghilev,
    Serge Diaghilev/Serge Lifar collection, Catalog Record Only     This collection is comprised in large part of printed music, widely representing 18th century Italian and 19th century Russian operatic music. It includes rare pre-revolutionary editions of Russian folk songs, annotated performance scores of Stravinsky, Mussorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Gounod, Cimarosa. Non-musical materials include three letters from S. Prokofiev to S. Diaghilev, rare editions of books on music, literature and theater, libretti and synopses, souvenir books...
    • Contributor: Diaghilev, Serge - Prokofiev, Sergey - Lifar, Serge
    • Date: 1750
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    Alice Eversman and Elena de Sayn papers,
    Alice Eversman and Elena De Sayn collection Catalog Record Only     The collection includes personal and business correspondence, scrapbooks about Eversman, de Sayn, and others, writings, printed music, photographs, programs, subject files, and biographical information. The Correspondence series holds letters to and from Eversman and de Sayn and their personal and professional contacts, including performers, composers, critics, and government officials. The Scrapbooks series contains several volumes on various topics, including musicians Amy Beach and Andrés...
    • Contributor: Cui, César - De Sayn, Elena - Eversman, Alice
    • Date: 1862
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    Serge Grigoriev / Ballets Russes archive, Catalog Record Only The Serge Grigoriev / Ballets Russes Archive is comprised of materials that document Sergeĭ Grigorʹev's career as a dancer and régisseur (rehearsal director) for the Ballets Russes de Serge Diaghilev and for Col. W. de Basil's Ballets Russes de Monte Carlo. It consists primarily of photographs, photograph albums, and notes and manuscript drafts for Grigorʹev's book S.P. Diaghilev i ego 'Russkii Balet,' 1909-1929, which...
    • Contributor: Ballets Russes - Grigorʹev, S. L. (Sergeĭ Leonidovich)
    • Date: 1909
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    Serge Koussevitzky archive,
    Koussevitzky archive Catalog Record Only     The archive includes correspondence, personal and business papers, photographs, writings, clippings, scrapbooks, programs, and other materials which serve as a record of Koussevitzky's life and career, and document some of the most significant aspects of twentieth-century music. Through Koussevitzky's work as a conductor and publisher, and his efforts to commission new musical works, he maintained deep ties with many of the finest composers and...
    • Contributor: Koussevitzky, Olga - Koussevitzky, Serge - Naumov, Aleksandr Nikolaevich - Serge Koussevitzky Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 1880
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    Boris Koutzen collection, Catalog Record Only The collection contains printed and photocopied manuscript music scores, negative photostats and microfilm of holograph music, correspondence, clippings, writings, books, pamphlets, periodicals, programs, photographs, manuscript articles, typewritten journals, printed biographical sketches, bound and unbound scrapbooks, and a printed catalog of Koutzen's compositions. It also includes correspondence and music belonging to his daughter, Nadia Koutzen. The Biographical Materials series consists of manuscript lists and printed...
    • Contributor: Koutzen, Boris - Koutzen, Nadia
    • Date: 1889
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    Houston L. Maples family collection on Russian theatre, opera, and ballet,
    Houston Maples Bolshoi Theatre Opera and Ballet materials Catalog Record Only     The collection includes photographs, programs, and writings pertaining to dance and opera, particularly in the immediate post-war period in the Soviet Union. The Bolshoi Theatre and Kirov Ballet (then Leningradskiĭ gosudarstvennyĭ akademicheskiĭ teatr opery i baleta imeni S.M. Kirova, now known as Mariinsky Ballet) are well-represented. The Photographs series and the Programs series include traditional Bolshoi productions of Marius Petipa's choreographies, such as Don...
    • Contributor: Maples, Houston L.
    • Date: 1940
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    Nikolay Karlovich Medtner papers, Catalog Record Only The collection documents Medtner's personal life and career. The Correspondence series contains family correspondence, primarily among Medtner, brother Ėmiliĭ, and wife Anna; and general correspondence to and from many individuals, including Sergei and Nataliya Rachmaninoff, Leon and Olga Conus, Sophia Aleksandrovna Satina, Konstantin Klimov, Madeleine Laliberté (Mrs. Albert Laliberté), Bernard and Cecile Pinsonneault, Abbé J.G. Turcotte, Sadhu Singh Dhami, Issay Dobrowen, Marcel Dupré, Aleksandr...
    • Contributor: Medtner, Nikolay Karlovich
    • Date: 1826
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    Bronislava Nijinska collection, Catalog Record - Electronic Resource Available Collection contains business papers, choreographic notes, correspondence, personal papers, photographs, posters, programs, scrapbooks, theatrical designs, and writings. There is a significant amount of material on her brother, dancer and choreographer Vaslav Nijinsky, as well as companies she worked with including the Ballets de Madame Ida Rubinstein, Ballets Russes de Serge Diaghilev, and the companies founded by the Marquis de Cuevas. The Choreographic Works series...
    • Contributor: Chaliapin, Fyodor Ivanovich - Ashton, Frederick - Royal Opera House (London, England) - Petipa, Marius - Dolin, Anton - Exter, Alexandra - Chagall, Marc - Stravinsky, Igor - Reinhardt, Max - Nijinsky, Romola De Pulszky ... Chaliapin, Fyodor Ivanovich - Ashton, Frederick - Royal Opera House (London, England) - Petipa, Marius - Dolin, Anton - Exter, Alexandra - Chagall, Marc - Stravinsky, Igor - Reinhardt, Max - Nijinsky, Romola De Pulszky - Pavlova, Anna - Nijinska, Bronislava - Annenkov, I︠u︡ri - Larionov, Mikhail Fedorovich - Goncharova, Natalii︠a︡ Sergeevna - Vertès, Marcel - Kirsta, Georg - Cuevas, George De - Jacob's Pillow - Raetz, Gibbs S. - Nijinska, Irina - Teatro Colón (Buenos Aires, Argentina) - Singaevsky, Nicholas - Poulenc, Francis - Diaghilev, Serge - Rubinstein, Ida
    • Date: 1740
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    Sergei Rachmaninoff archive, Catalog Record Only The Sergei Rachmaninoff Archive contains material related to his life and career after he and his family left Russia in 1917 to establish themselves in the United States. Of particular importance are Rachmaninoff's holograph music manuscript scores and sketches, representing his compositional process and creative thought during the last half of his life. These scores include not only manuscript and published scores of Rachmaninoff's...
    • Contributor: Satina, Sophia - Rachmaninoff, Sergei - Rachmaninoff, Natalie - Bertensson, Sergei
    • Date: 1872
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    John J. Wayne Collection on Ida Rubinstein, Catalog Record Only The Ida Rubinstein collection includes original items purchased by John Wayne; research material, such as photographs and programs, that Wayne duplicated from other repositories; and original materials obtained by Wayne from Rubinstein's last personal secretary, Lina Koll-Ollivier. The latter category includes correspondence, music manuscripts, libretti, clippings, business and personal papers, and some photographs. The collection contains correspondence from some of the most notable cultural...
    • Contributor: Sauguet, Henri - Claudel, Paul - Wayne, John J. - Fauré, Gabriel - Valéry, Paul - Rubinstein, Ida - Honegger, Arthur
    • Date: 1909
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    Seeger family collection, Catalog Record Only The Seeger Family Collection documents the lives and careers of pioneering musicologist Charles Louis Seeger (CLS); his second wife, modernist composer Ruth Crawford Seeger; their eldest daughter, folksinger and songwriter Peggy Seeger; and her husband, playwright, singer, and songwriter Ewan MacColl through their music manuscripts, personal and professional papers, and correspondence. The collection also includes papers relating to the Crawford family and materials associated...
    • Contributor: Seeger, Charles - Seeger, Peggy - Seeger, Ruth Crawford - Crawford, Clark - Maccoll, Ewan
    • Date: 1846
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    Hans Spialek papers, Catalog Record Only The collection includes Spialek's compositions and arrangements as well as music owned by him and his wife Dora Boshoer, personal and professional correspondence, photographs, programs, and clippings. The Music series includes scores, sketches, and parts for compositions and orchestrations by Spialek, as well as music by others that he and Boshoer possessed. Most unannotated, printed music by others owned by Spialek has been removed...
    • Contributor: Bennett, Robert Russell - Rodgers, Richard - Porter, Cole - Spialek, Hans - Boshoer, Dora - Rose, Billy - Fiedler, Arthur
    • Date: 1895
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    Leopold Stokowski materials,
    Leopold Stokowski collection Catalog Record Only     The collection contains manuscript scores of Stokowski's transcriptions of the works of J. S. Bach and M. Mussorgsky, his correspondence with prominent composers, including J. Sibelius and C. Orff, and A. Schoenberg's self-portrait Vision (1910) presented as a gift to Stokowski. The Music series consists of Stokowski's transcriptions of works by Johann Sebastian Bach and Modest Mussorgsky, including two transcriptions Stokowski created for Walt...
    • Contributor: Stokowski, Leopold - Bach, Johann Sebastian - Mussorgsky, Modest Petrovich
    • Date: 1910
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    Robert Craft collection on Igor Stravinsky,
    Stravinsky/Craft collection, | Igor Stravinsky / Robert Craft collection, Catalog Record Only     The collection consists of music by composer and conductor Igor Stravinsky, primarily scores and parts in the form of publisher proofs, ozalid copies, or other photo reproductions. Most items are annotated by Stravinsky with his corrections, conducting markings, or both. Some parts contain annotations by performers. The bulk of the music dates from the middle of Stravinsky's neoclassical period in the 1940s and his...
    • Contributor: Craft, Robert - Stravinsky, Igor
    • Date: 1912
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    George Zoritch collection, Catalog Record Only The bulk of the George Zoritch collection consists of photographs (most of them reprints), augmented by several periodicals, programs, clippings, and articles documenting his life and career. The Photographs series includes his performances in ballets such as Afternoon of a Faun, Le Spectre de la rose, among many others, with a number of the century's greatest dancers, including Alexandra Danilova, Alicia Markova, Mia Slavenska,...
    • Contributor: Zoritch, George
    • Date: 1914
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    Typescript letter from Sergei Rachmaninoff, Dresden, Germany, to Aleksandr Valentinovich Amfiteatrov Signed in ink by Rachmaninoff. The material described in this catalog record is located in the Music Division, Library of Congress. Title devised by cataloger. Typescript. Written in response to A. Amfiteatrov's inquiry regarding the publishing house "Tair" owned by S. Rachmaninoff and his daughters, Tatyana and Irina. Purchase; Heineman Fund; 1975. In Russian; German and English translations in folder.
    • Contributor: Rachmaninoff, Sergei - Amfiteatrov, Aleksandr
    • Date: 1927

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    Papers of Victor Babin,
    Victor Babin papers Catalog Record Only     The collection primarily consists of correspondence, but also contains programs, photographs, clippings and other material relating to various aspects of Babin's life and career. A large portion of material relates to Babin's concerts for the U. S. Army during World War II. Letters from Babin during World War II are chiefly V-mail. Correspondents include his wife and musical partner Vitya (Vronsky) Babin, Leonard Bernstein,...
    • Contributor: Babin, Victor
    • Date: 1933
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    Igor Stravinsky family correspondence,
    Stravinsky family correspondence Catalog Record Only     The collection contains letters, telegrams, postcards, and visiting cards primarily from Igor Stravinsky to Soulima Stravinsky written in period of transition for the family. Stravinsky moved to the United States in 1939, and Soulima and his family followed in 1948, eventually settling in Illinois.
    • Contributor: Strawinsky, Théodore - Stravinsky, Igor
    • Date: 1930
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    Autograph letter from Serge Lifar, Paris, France, to Boris [Kochno], Holograph, signed. Title devised by cataloger. In Russian. In ink. Inquires about B. Kochno's plans for the coming year 1962; discusses his recent trip to the Soviet Union that included visiting Kyïv; compains about the current situation in the Opéra national de Paris; informs his friend about Y. Chauviré move to Berlin to join T. Gsovsky. Writing on page 1 and on page 1...
    • Contributor: Kochno, Boris - Lifar, Serge
    • Date: 1961

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    Eugene C. Krylow collection, Catalog Record Only The collection, consisting of 3000 music manuscripts and 12000 pieces of printed music, contains works by Krylow as well as arrangements and editions by other composers. It also includes four boxes of Russian Orthodox liturgical music. The printed music, with Russian texts, includes works by Rimsky-Korsakov, Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, Mussorgsky, Borodin, Glinka, Wagner, Saint-Saëns, and Delibes. In addition, the collection contains Krylow family papers and...
    • Contributor: Krylow, Eugene Constantine - Glinka, M. I. (Mikhail Ivanovich) - Mussorgsky, Modest Petrovich - Borodin, Aleksandr Porfirʹevich - Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolay - Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich - Prokofiev, Sergey
    • Date: 1920
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    David J. Grunes collection, Catalog Record Only Contains printed music in Cyrillic.
    • Contributor: Grunes, David J.
    • Date: 1933
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    Alexander and Oxana Siloti papers, Catalog Record Only The collection contains programs for Alexander Siloti's first ten seasons with Symphony Concerts in St. Petersburg, materials from the Rachmaninoff Archives from the Estate of Miss Satin, photographs and negatives related to the Rachmaninoff Archives, picture album related to Alexander Siloti. Also included are an internal letter about a small collection of 12 letters related to Alexander Siloti and a score Symphony no. 9...
    • Contributor: Beethoven, Ludwig Van - Siloti, Alexander - Siloti, Oxana
    • Date: 1898
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    Kurt Schindler papers, Catalog Record Only The collection consists primarily of printed and manuscript music scores, along with some handwritten notes in Russian and English that may have been used by the New York Schola Cantorum.
    • Contributor: Schindler, Kurt
    • Date: 1889