Neighborhood Playhouse scenarios

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physdesc

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unitid

{"value"=>"*MGZMD 104", "type"=>"local_call"}

{"value"=>"19770", "type"=>"local_mss"}

unitdate

{"value"=>"1914-1931", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1914/1931"}

unittitle

{"value"=>"Neighborhood Playhouse scenarios"}

repository

{"value"=>"The <span class=\"corpname\">New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.</span> <span class=\"subarea\">Jerome Robbins Dance Division</span> <div class=\"address\"> <span class=\"addressline\">New York, New York</span></div>"}

abstract

{"value"=>"The collection consists of scenarios (notes, scripts, and action interpretations) for approximately 20 works between 1914 and 1931."}

prefercite

{"value"=>"Neighborhood Playhouse scenarios, *MGZMD 104. Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts"}

origination

{"value"=>"Neighborhood Playhouse (New York, N.Y.)", "type"=>"corpname"}

bioghist

{"value"=>"<p>In 1905 Irene and Alice Lewisohn began classes and club work at the Henry Street Settlement House in New York. While at the Settlement House they also began to present performances featuring dance and drama. In 1915, the sisters opened the Neighborhood Playhouse on the corner of Grand and Pitt Streets, where they offered training in dance and drama to children and teens. Irene Lewisohn oversaw the dance training and production, with the assistance of Blanche Talmud, while Alice Lewisohn led the dramatic work.</p> <p>In 1928 the Neighborhood Playhouse became the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theater. Martha Graham and Louis Horst were put in charge of the dance department, while Irene Lewisohn continued to administer the program.</p> <p>Throughout her time at the Neighborhood Playhouse, Irene Lewisohn actively produced and wrote action interpretations for “orchestral dramas,” or expressive movement pieces set to musical compositions. She also wrote and helped in the staging of various ballets, pageants, and festival performances. Some of this work is documented in this collection of scenarios.</p>"}

scopecontent

{"value"=>"<p>The collection consists of scenarios (notes, scripts, and action interpretations) for approximately 20 works between 1914 and 1931.|||Language: English, Chinese.</p>"}

acqinfo

{"value"=>"<p>Transfer. Music Division. Received: 1979?</p>"}

date_inclusive_start

1914

date_inclusive_end

1931

arrangement

{"value"=>"Typescripts of productions choreographed and performed at the Neighborhood Playhouse, arranged alphabetically by production title"}

relatedmaterial

{"value"=>"<p>Music scores from this collection are located in the Music Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. See: JPB 04-40</p>"}

note

{"value"=>"<p>Folder 1: Adventures of Olle [or] Swedish folk scenes / arranged by Blanche Talmud ; music arranged by Louis Horst, 1931. Includes a page entitled Fetes in France</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"500"}

{"value"=>"<p>Folder 1A: An Arab fantasia : four moods of daily ritual / by Alice and Irene Lewisohn (3 versions). Includes a copy of Essence of the Mohammeden East, written by Irene Lewisohn</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"500"}

{"value"=>"<p>Folder 2: La balteira : a dance drama of the 13th century in three scenes / by Irene Lewisohn (2 versions)</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"500"}

{"value"=>"<p>Folder 3: La boutique fantasque : a pantomine ballet in two scenes ; music by Giacomo Rossini. 1919-1920</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"500"}

{"value"=>"<p>Folder 4: A Burmese pwe / by Irene Lewisohn ; assisted in arrangement of dances by Blanche Talmud ; music by Henry Eichheim. Includes typed explanatory introduction. Performed March 16, 1928</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"500"}

{"value"=>"<p>Folder 5: Cassandra's wild wedding song</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"500"}

{"value"=>"<p>Folder 6: Chout, the story of a buffoon who played a trick on seven other buffoons : a ballet in six pictures / by Serge Prokofieff. 1923-1924 (3 versions)</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"500"}

{"value"=>"<p>Folder 7: Fleur and Blanchefleur (4 annotated versions)</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"500"}

{"value"=>"<p>Folder 8: Harusaki : Japanese New Year games / arranged by Blanche Talmud and Frances Brundage ; music arranged by Lily May Hyland</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"500"}

{"value"=>"<p>Folder 9: Israel : a symphony for orchestra by Ernest Bloch. [Arranged for the stage by Irene Lewisohn and Nikolai Sokoloff.] Includes choreographic notes</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"500"}

{"value"=>"<p>Folder 10: Kolayada : a Russian folk scene / arranged from coll. of Kurt Schindler [by] L. Horst (multiple versions)</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"500"}

{"value"=>"<p>Folder 11: Kuan Yin (fragment). Chinese and English text, 1925-1926</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"500"}

{"value"=>"<p>Folder 12: Quatuor a cordes / by Ernest Bloch. Action interpretation, January 1931 (4 versions). Choreography by Doris Humphrey, Irene Lewisohn, and Charles Weidman</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"500"}

{"value"=>"<p>Folder 13: Roumanian rhapsody / [by Georges] Enesco. Includes choreographic notes, stage designs, and cast information, 1929</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"500"}

{"value"=>"<p>Folder 14: Salut au monde. 1921-1922 (2 versions)</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"500"}

{"value"=>"<p>Fodler 15: The shadow garden of Shuteye Town (proposed ballet for 1914)</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"500"}

{"value"=>"<p>Folder 16: Toccata and fugue in D minor / [by Johann Sebastian] Bach. Action interpretation, Feb. 1931 (2 versions). Includes notebook with choreographic notes for the Bloch quartet (no. 12) and Troubadour songs (no. 18) and stage scene drawings</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"500"}

{"value"=>"<p>Folder 17: The toy box / [by] Claude Debussy [and] André Hellé. 1916-1917 (2 versions)</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"500"}

{"value"=>"<p>Folder 18: Troubadour songs</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"500"}

{"value"=>"<p>Folder 19: [Miscellaneous music and dance directions] Includes notes for a diction class</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"500"}

{"value"=>"<p>Folder 20: List of materials originally received, dated 4-9-79</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"500"}

keydate

1914

langmaterial

{"value"=>"English"}

processinfo

{"value"=>"<p>Processed by Naomi Jackson.</p>"}

extent_statement

1 Flat Box

date_start

1914

date_end

1931

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