Neighborhood Playhouse scores

id
4479
origination
Neighborhood Playhouse (New York, N.Y.)
date statement
1919-1931
key date
1919
identifier (local_mss)
20316
org unit
Music Division
call number
JPB 04-40
b-number
b16087017
total components
18
total series
1
max depth
3
boost queries
(none)
component layout
Default Layout
Extended MARC Fields
false
Extended Navigation
false
created
2013-04-01 15:05:03 UTC
updated
2026-05-27 13:43:55 UTC
status note
(missing)
Display Aeon link
true

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physdesc
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unitid
{"value"=>"JPB 04-40", "type"=>"local_call"}
{"value"=>"20316", "type"=>"local_mss"}
unitdate
{"value"=>"1919-1931", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1919/1931"}
date_inclusive_start
1919
date_inclusive_end
1931
keydate
1919
unittitle
{"value"=>"Neighborhood Playhouse scores"}
repository
{"value"=>"<span class=\"corpname\">The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.</span> <span class=\"subarea\">Music Division.</span> <div class=\"address\"><span class=\"addressline\">New York, New York</span></div>"}
abstract
{"value"=>"Scores and music for dance productions choreographed and performed at the Neighborhood Playhouse, New York City."}
prefercite
{"value"=>"Neighborhood Playhouse scores, JPB 04-40. Music Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts"}
origination
{"value"=>"Neighborhood Playhouse (New York, N.Y.)", "type"=>"corpname"}
bioghist
{"value"=>"<p> The Neighborhood Playhouse was founded in 1915 by Alice and Irene Lewisohn, as part of the Henry Street Settlement. Many early 20th century modern dancers and artists found a professional home at the Neighborhood Playhouse, including composers Ernest Bloch, Kurt Schindler, and Louis Horst, who also worked with Martha Graham. Other notables whose works were produced at the Neighborhood Playhouse include Agnes de Mille, Laura Elliott, Doris Humphrey and Charles Weidman.</p> <p>The Neighborhood Playhouse Theatre closed in 1927 and the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre was founded in 1928 by the Lewisohn sisters in association with Rita Wallach Morgenthau.</p>"}
scopecontent
{"value"=>"<p> This collection consists of musical scores, mostly original manuscripts, but also including some reproductions and printed music, probably written for dances performed at the Neighborhood Playhouse. Several of the works are composed or arranged by Ernest Bloch, Louis Horst, and Kurt Schindler. Of particular note are <span class=\"title\">Adventures of Ola (Olle)</span> arranged by Louis Horst (1931), <span class=\"title\">Kolyada: A Russian Folk Scene</span> arranged from the collection of Kurt Schindler by Louis Horst, and <span class=\"title\">Quatuor a Cordes</span> by Ernest Bloch (1919).</p> <p> There are also a number of pages of typed and handwritten lyrics, as well as typed excerpts of reviews of works not included in the collection.</p>"}
arrangement
{"value"=>"<p>The collection is arranged alphabetically by the title of the work.</p>"}
acqinfo
{"value"=>"<p> The Neighborhood Playhouse Scores were separated to the Music Division from a collection of dance scenarios donated to the Jerome Robbins Dance Division in 1979.</p>"}
userestrict
{"value"=>"<p>For permission to publish, contact the Chief, Music Division.</p>"}
relatedmaterial
{"value"=>"<p> Neighborhood Playhouse Scenarios, 1914-1931. The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Jerome Robbins Dance Division. Call number *MGZMD 104. There are additional materials relating to the Neighborhood Playhouse listed in CATNYP.</p>"}
note
{"value"=>"<p>The Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts holds related material, the Neighborhood Playhouse scenarios, 1914-1931 (*MGZMD 104)</p>", "encodinganalog"=>"500"}
processinfo
{"value"=>"<p>Processed by Camille Croce Dee; Machine-readable finding aid created by Camille Croce Dee.</p>"}
extent_statement
1 linear foot (1 flat box 12" x 15")
date_start
1919
date_end
1931

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