Found matches for Perry Brass in 439 collections.

Ellis Kohs was a composer of classical music. He is well known for his opera Amerika based upon the Franz Kafka novel by the same name. Kohs began his teaching career in 1946 with posts at the Kansas City Conservatory, the College of the Pacific and Stanford University. In 1950 he joined the faculty of the University of Southern California, teaching there for 38 years. Kohs was the author of several music theory textbooks. less

Vincent Persichetti, American composer, educator and author, studied the piano with Olga Samaroff and composition with Paul Nordoff at the Philadelphia Conservatory, and conducting with Fritz Reiner at the Curtis Institute. In 1941 he was appointed to teach at the Philadelphia Conservatory, and in 1947 he joined the faculty of the Juilliard School. From 1952 he also served as Editorial Director for Elkan-Vogel. In 1961, Persichetti’s Twentieth Century Harmony: Creative Aspects and Practice was published by W.W. Norton and was immediately viewed as the definitive book on modern compositional techniques. Over the course of his career, he received commissions from the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Louisville Philharmonic Society, the Naumberg Foundation, the Samaroff Foundation, the Serge Koussevitzky Music Foundation, the American Guild of Organists, universities and individual performers. less

Norman Dello Joio is a pianist, organist, educator and a Pulitzer Prize winning composer. The collection contains materials related to his work; including business related correspondence (from individuals and institutes), personal papers (financial, biographical, some photographs, speeches and writings), performance files (programs and other related items), musical scores, clippings, ephemera, and scrapbooks. less

The Martin Kalmanoff Papers document the career of an American composer of operas, musicals, choral works, religious services and popular song. The papers consist of scores, correspondence, financial and business papers, writings, notes, concert programs, photographs and media clippings. less

The Cyma Rubin papers document the producer's two Broadway productions: a revival of No, No, Nanette (1971), and an original musical, Doctor Jazz (1975). They contain scores, correspondence, production files, business records, publicity material, and photographs. less

Eric Siday, violinist and composer, was a leader in the field of mass communication during the 1950s and 1960s, as major radio and television stations enthusiastically embraced his packages of electronically treated musical sounds to identify their services and to promote specific products. His papers, music scores, and tapes in this collection document his application of music to the arena of marketing. less

Perry Brass, author and playwright, was born (Sept. 15, 1947) in Savannah, Georgia. He attended high school there and afterwards studied fine arts (for one year) at the University of Georgia. From 1965 to 1968 he was employed in the advertising field in New York City. During the early 1970's while a student at New York University he became active in the struggle for gay rights. He wrote numerous articles for the gay press. Some of his poems were also published in Come Out!: Selections from the Radical Gay Liberation Newspaper (N.Y., Times Change Press, c1970). The Perry Brass papers (1968-circa 1974) consist of a private journal (1971-1972); literary and college notebooks; scripts of his poems and miscellaneous writings; and a few photographs, sketches and drawings. less

Lawrence David Mass, a co-founder of the Gay Men's Health Crisis, is a physician and writer living in New York City. The collection contains personal and professional correspondence, 1966-1995, notes, drafts, outlines, and published copies of his books, essays, and reviews, topical files, personal press clippings, photographs, audio and videotapes, and ephemera reflecting Mass's work as a writer and gay activist. less

The Perry family was primarily from Kingston, Rhode Island. Collection consists of correspondence, broadside advertisements, leaflets, patents received, and materials relating to mowers, binders and other farm implements invented by members of the Perry family. less

The bulk of the Pettis Perry Papers documents Perry's involvement in the Communist Party, especially his tenure in New York, from 1948 to 1955, as Secretary of the Negro Commission, Chairman of the Farm Commission, and Alternate Member of the Executive Commmittee, and his membership on the Southern California District Board upon his return to California in 1957. The papers comprise Perry's writings, assorted speeches, reports, memoranda, and letters from correspondents including Claude Lightfoot, Eugene Dennis, and Eslanda Robeson discussing various pertinent subjects such as party meetings, anti-colonial movements and the African-American community. Letters to his family during his incarceration in federal prison discussed current events such as the Emmett Till trial, colonialism, and the civil rights movement. Also included in the collection is biographical information as well as Perry's opening closing statements and motions from his trial. less

Perry G. Childs (1779-1835) was a New York state senator and a member of the Council of Appointment of the State of New York representing the Western District from 1819 to 1822. He practiced law in Cazenovia, N.Y. Collection consists of letters and petitions, 1811-1834, received by Childs as a state senator and member of the Council of Appointment. Topics include appointments to local offices in Western New York and New York City, and state and local political and legislative matters. Also, lists of appointees and nominees, 1821-1822, and notebook, 1822. less

This collection consists of two contemporary copies of letters written by Naval Commander Oliver Hazard Perry to General William Henry Harrison during the War of 1812. The September 10, 1813, letter describes the state of Perry's naval engagement: "We have met the enemy and they are ours." The September 11, 1813, letter contains a request for a prisoner guard less

Manuscript fogery, in an unknown hand, of a letter from Lord Byron to James Perry, editor of the Morning Chronicle. Undated; watermark of "BASTED MILL / 1819." Creation date of forgery undetermined, but the letter was listed in the Walter M. Mill catalog of November 1899. Reads in full: "My dear Sir, I think Mr. Lambert is right. Some inconvenience might certainly arise from any other mode than that now proposed by me; but there can be none in making the expenses a joint concern; and to this I cheerfully agree. With best wishes for your health happiness, believe me to remain, my dear Sir, most sincerely yours, N. Byron.". less

Seamanship provides detailed instructions in handling a sailing vessel, including preparing the vessel for sailing, handling of the ship in various winds, anchoring, responding to fire or loss of sails or masts, instructions for stripping the ship, and many other details. 103 pages less

The collection documents the gay liberation movement in New York City and America from the 1950s to the 1980s. Included are records of the Gay Activists Alliance, the Gay Alliance of Brooklyn, Gay Switchboard of New York, the Mattachine Society Inc. of New York, and records of miscellaneous organizations including Christopher Street That New Magazine, Inc., and the periodicals Gaysweek, and New York Native. Personal papers include papers of Lockett Ford Ballard, Jr., Arthur Bell, Billy Wilder Blackwell, Perry Brass, Robert Clement, Don Jackson, Walter Porczak, and Sam Staggs. There are also miscellaneous records of IGIC, including correspondence, minutes, memoranda, photographs of gay rights demonstrations, scripts of plays by gay writers, and printed ephemera issued by gay, lesbian and AIDS organizations in the United States. less

Joe Reisman was a producer and arranger at RCA Victor and Roulette Records from the 1950s to the 1970s; he worked independently into the mid-1980s. His scores and papers document his work on behalf of such artists as Henry Mancini, Patti Page, Sarah Vaughan, Perry Como, and for his own albums and soundtracks. less

Minnie Hall Murphy, the mother of Antoinette Perry (1888-1946), actress and director for whom the Tony Awards were named, wrote this narrative on the westward journey of her mother, Mary Hill Nevin Hall, Perry's grandmother, who travelled from Michigan to Colorado in 1858 as part of the Pike's Peak or Bust expedition. This third person narrative covers the journey west and life in Colorado in the 1860s as Murphy imagines her mother experienced it. The focus is on personal family matters. less

The Isadora Bennett Collection covers a thirty-two year span, 1940-72. During this time, she and associates Richard Pleasant and Donald Duncan handled the public relations accounts for dance artists around the world. The bulk of the Collection was generated between 1950-65. less

Account book kept by Russell Sackett for his farm in Connecticut between 1808 and 1834. Includes records for the cost of labor (plowing, planting, threshing, butchering, mowing, chopping wood, digging potatoes, skinning cows, etc.) and costs of farm products (apples, potatoes, cider, vinegar, etc.). Book also includes genealogical data for the Sackett family and for the family of Mary Brass, who married Russell Sackett less

Bernard Peyton (1826-1906) of Charlottesville, Virginia and San Francisco, California, was an American businessman and entrepreneur. Bernard Peyton letters, 1856 June-1857 April, in typescript carbon copy, consist of eighteen letters written mostly from Russia to his wife Estelle at the Peyton family plantation, Farmington, near Charlottesville, Virginia. The letters relate to Peyton's two journeys to Russia and his plans to establish American commerce on the Amur River in Siberia. He describes voyages; his travels in Europe, Russia and Siberia; his activities in St. Petersburg and Moscow; his journey by sled from Moscow to Irkutsk with another American, Perry McDonough Collins; and a trip to Kyakhta to observe Russian-Chinese border trade. Peyton returned to Virginia for a brief visit in the Fall of 1856; his letters also refer to his wife's concerns over his absence, and to family matters at Farmington, including brief mention of the slaves there. less

The Tony Randall papers contain correspondence, awards and clippings about his career from 1957-1981. Most of the material relates to films of the 1950s and 1960s. Titles included are: THE MATING GAME, THE BRASS BOTTLE, THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN, LOVER COME BACK and THE SEVEN FACES OF DR. LAO. There is also correspondence regarding the television series LOVE, SIDNEY. There is no information about the television program THE ODD COUPLE for which he won an Emmy Award. less