Morley, Ruth
Billy Rose Theatre Division | *T-Mss 1998-024
38 linear feet (70 boxes)
The Ruth Morley Papers document the career of Ruth Morley, costume designer for theater, opera, motion pictures and television. The materials date from 1940-1990 (bulk years 1925-2005) and include production materials such as costume plots and...
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The Ruth Morley Papers document the career of Ruth Morley, costume designer for theater, opera, motion pictures and television. The materials date from 1940-1990 (bulk years 1925-2005) and include production materials such as costume plots and notes, sketches, and swatches; production notes, schedules, and contact lists; costume and research photographs and slides; correspondence, contracts and financial records, as well as a substantial number of scripts. The collection also includes professional papers such as correspondence, coursework and lecture notes, research materials, and theatrical vendor brochures. There are no personal papers in this collection.
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Maltby, Richard, 1914-1991
Music Division | JPB 12-11
32.6 linear feet (123 boxes)
The Richard Maltby Sr. papers hold scores, correspondence, business papers, photographs, clippings, and scrapbooks. The vast majority of the collection consists of scores and parts for arrangements and compositions by Maltby as well as by his...
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The Richard Maltby Sr. papers hold scores, correspondence, business papers, photographs, clippings, and scrapbooks. The vast majority of the collection consists of scores and parts for arrangements and compositions by Maltby as well as by his staff arrangers (primarily Al Muller and Red Bone), most of which are for jazz big band.
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International Society for Contemporary Music
Music Division | JPB 11-5
7.98 linear feet (20 boxes)
The League of Composers / International Society for Contemporary Music records contain the papers of the League's co-founder and first Executive Director, Claire Raphael Reis; the records of both the League of Composers and the United States...
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The League of Composers / International Society for Contemporary Music records contain the papers of the League's co-founder and first Executive Director, Claire Raphael Reis; the records of both the League of Composers and the United States section of the ISCM before their 1954 merger; and the post-1954 records of the combined League/ISCM.
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Kirchner, Leon
Music Division | JPB 11-14
12.72 linear feet (40 boxes)
The Leon Kirchner papers document the career of the composer, conductor and pianist from the 1950s to the early 2000s. They include scores and sketches, correspondence with important musical figures, writings, programs, clippings, photographs and...
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The Leon Kirchner papers document the career of the composer, conductor and pianist from the 1950s to the early 2000s. They include scores and sketches, correspondence with important musical figures, writings, programs, clippings, photographs and posters.
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Johnson-Liff Associates
Billy Rose Theatre Division | *T-Mss 2003-011
30 linear feet (71 boxes)
Johnson-Liff Associates was a casting agency, founded by Geoffrey Johnson and Vincent Liff in 1975, and dissolved in 2002. This collection contains office records, such as audition notes, casting ideas, headshots, resumes and submissions relating...
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Johnson-Liff Associates was a casting agency, founded by Geoffrey Johnson and Vincent Liff in 1975, and dissolved in 2002. This collection contains office records, such as audition notes, casting ideas, headshots, resumes and submissions relating to films, television programs and theatrical productions cast by Johnson-Liff Associates.
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José Limón Dance Foundation
Jerome Robbins Dance Division | (S) *MGZMD 154
37 linear feet (88 boxes)
The collection contains financial records, administrative records and general office records. There are no personal materials in the collection. There are no photographs in the collection.
Segal, Lore Groszmann
Manuscripts and Archives Division | MssCol 18766
15.3 linear feet (38 boxes)
Lore Segal is a New York based novelist and children's book author. A daughter of Austrian Jews, Segal escaped Nazi occupied Vienna on the first Kindertransport in 1939. This collection contains letters and documents of her family in Austria and...
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Lore Segal is a New York based novelist and children's book author. A daughter of Austrian Jews, Segal escaped Nazi occupied Vienna on the first Kindertransport in 1939. This collection contains letters and documents of her family in Austria and England during World War II, and their emigration to the Dominican Republic and the United States; letters to Segal from throughout her life; letters from Segal as a young girl and documenting her time at Yaddo; and literary manuscripts documenting her novels, children's books, short stories and other writings. Also present are letters and writings of her husband, literary editor David Segal.
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Composers Recordings, Inc.
Music Division | JPB 07-2
14.8 linear feet (36 boxes)
The Composers Recordings, Inc. Records contain recording project files, correspondence, business and financial papers and photographs documenting the history of the record label devoted to contemporary American music.
Composers' Forum (U.S.)
Music Division | JPB 12-01
11 linear feet (27 boxes)
The records of the Composers' Forum document the history of the organization from 1935 to 2002. They hold correspondence, concert programs, press releases, clippings, grant applications and other development files, board meeting minutes and...
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The records of the Composers' Forum document the history of the organization from 1935 to 2002. They hold correspondence, concert programs, press releases, clippings, grant applications and other development files, board meeting minutes and correspondence, photographs, membership files, concert production files, concert discussion transcripts, historical essays and scrapbooks.
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Proulx, Annie
Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature | Berg Coll Proulx MSS 1935-2010
178 linear feet (356 manuscript boxes), 3715 megabytes (2478 computer files)
Annie Proulx is a novelist, short fiction writer, historian, and essayist. She was born in Norwich, Connecticut, in 1935, to Lois Nellie Gill Proulx, a painter and amateur naturalist, and George N. Proulx, the vice-president of a textile mill. Her...
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Annie Proulx is a novelist, short fiction writer, historian, and essayist. She was born in Norwich, Connecticut, in 1935, to Lois Nellie Gill Proulx, a painter and amateur naturalist, and George N. Proulx, the vice-president of a textile mill. Her first collection of short fiction, Heart Songs and Other Stories, was published in 1988. In 1990, she completed her debut novel, Postcards, for which she won the 1993 PEN / Faulkner Award for Fiction. Her second novel, The Shipping News, won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Irish Times International Fiction Prize, and the Heartland Award for Fiction. Accordion Crimes, her third novel, was published in 1996. In 1997, she was awarded the Dos Passos Prize for Literature. In 1998, her story “Brokeback Mountain” won the National Magazine Award, The New Yorker Award for fiction, and the O. Henry Prize. It was adapted, in 2005, for a Paramount Pictures film by Larry McMurtry and Dianna Ossana, and was directed by Ang Lee. Her second collection of short fiction, Close Range: Wyoming Stories, was published in 1999; the lead story, “The Half-Skinned Steer,” was selected by John Updike for the Best American Stories of the Century (1999). In 2000, Proulx’s short story collection Close Range: Wyoming Stories won The New Yorker Award for fiction. Her fourth novel, That Old Ace in the Hole, was published in 2002. This was followed by two collections of short stories: Bad Dirt: Wyoming Stories 2 (2004) and Fine Just the Way It Is: Wyoming Stories 3 (2008). In 2008, she also published and edited Red Desert: A History of a Place, a collection of 38 essays of which she wrote 10. Bird Cloud: A Memoir, was published in 2011, and is named for the painstakingly designed and hand-crafted home she had built for herself in Wyoming, on a 640-acre nature preserve through which runs the North Platte River. Organized into 23 series: Series 1: Writings by Annie Proulx ; Series 2: Artwork by Annie Proulx ; Series 3: Correspondence ; Series 4: Research ; Series 5: Other Projects Series 6: Works by Others ; Series 7: Photographs ; Series 8: Genealogical Papers ; Series 9: Personal Records ; Series 10: Address Books and Monthly Planners ; Series 11: Ephemera ; Series 12: Material related to the estate of Lois Gill Proulx ; Series 13: Publisher’s Artwork and Promotional Material ; Series 14: Material Related to Scheduled Literary Events ; Series 15: Awards ; Series 16: Property Records ; Series 17: Publishing and Other Contracts ; Series 18: Miscellaneous Printed ; Series 19: Electronic Records ; Series 20: Audio Cassettes, VHS, DVDs, CDs ; Series 21: Restricted Material ; Series 22: Realia ; Series 23: Financial Papers.
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Dessoff Choirs
Music Division | JPB 13-01
12.38 linear feet (32 boxes)
The Dessoff Choirs is a Manhattan-based amateur choral group founded by Margarete Dessoff. The choirs encompass both a symphonic choir and a chamber choir, and perform a broad repertory of classical music from Renaissance to contemporary...
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The Dessoff Choirs is a Manhattan-based amateur choral group founded by Margarete Dessoff. The choirs encompass both a symphonic choir and a chamber choir, and perform a broad repertory of classical music from Renaissance to contemporary compositions. This collection documents the choirs' administrative activities and performance history through administrative files, correspondence, financial records, programs, and scrapbooks.
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American Place Theatre (Organization)
Billy Rose Theatre Division | *T-Mss 2002-025
124.55 linear feet (305 boxes)
The American Place Theatre is a not-for-profit theater founded in 1963 in New York City to aid in the advancement of learning in all aspects of the dramatic arts, including the development and advancement in writing, direction, and production of...
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The American Place Theatre is a not-for-profit theater founded in 1963 in New York City to aid in the advancement of learning in all aspects of the dramatic arts, including the development and advancement in writing, direction, and production of plays. The American Place Theatre Company records document almost five decades of theatrical work produced by the American Place Theatre and the administrative activities of the theater. The bulk of the collection consists of production files that span from 1963 until the 2008-2009 season. The records also contain administrative files that represent the day-to-day operations of the American Place Theatre, minutes of the board of trustees, extensive correspondence of Director Wynn Handman, scripts, and posters.
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Auster, Paul, 1947-
Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature | Berg Coll MSS Auster archive
47 linear feet (113 manuscript boxes)
The archive contains material related to the publication of four novels and one unpublished novel written by Auster during the period 1999-2005; material related to the publication of volumes of collected poetry, novels, and prose published in the...
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The archive contains material related to the publication of four novels and one unpublished novel written by Auster during the period 1999-2005; material related to the publication of volumes of collected poetry, novels, and prose published in the period 1999-2006; and material related to the genesis of five film projects: the HBO project "I Thought My Father Was God," based on Auster's collection of reminiscences published in 2001; "In the Country of Last Things," based on Auster's novel published in 1987; and "Lulu on the Bridge." Also present are materials related to four nonfiction works, an illustrated fiction project ("Auggie Wren's Christmas Story," first published in 1990); contributions, prefaces, interviews from the period 2000-2005, and material related to reissues of translations completed mostly during the 1970s but published 2002-2005. Additional material includes promotional artwork; programs featuring Paul Auster; and public remarks made by Auster and those introducing him at these events. Also present is material written by others, including creative adaptations of Auster's work and scholarly analyses of his work. The archive is rich in both incoming and outgoing correspondence, and includes letters to and from writers and friends, agents and publishers, as well as translators, readers, students, and organizations. Writers and recipients of correspondence include Pedro Almodóvar, Russell Banks, William Corbett, Don DeLillo, Jonathan Safran Foer, Jonathan Lethem, Sam Messer, Michael Ondaatje, Ron Padgett, Claude Royet-Journoud, and others.
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Baryshnikov, Mikhail, 1948-
Jerome Robbins Dance Division | (S) *MGZMD 302
13.09 linear feet (34 boxes); 745.9 mb (245 computer files)
Mikhail Baryshnikov (1948- ) is a Russian-American dancer, choreographer and actor. The Mikhail Baryshnikov Archive holds awards, choreographer files, contracts, correspondence, photographs, press clippings, programs, scripts, and other materials...
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Mikhail Baryshnikov (1948- ) is a Russian-American dancer, choreographer and actor. The Mikhail Baryshnikov Archive holds awards, choreographer files, contracts, correspondence, photographs, press clippings, programs, scripts, and other materials documenting Baryshnikov's 40-plus year career.
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Avakian, George
Music Division | JPB 14-28
46.83 linear feet (118 boxes, 6 oversized folders); 112.82 mb (33 computer files)
George Mesrop Avakian (born 1919) is an American music producer, artist manager, writer, and educator best known for his work with artists such as Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, John Cage, Alan Hovhaness, Keith Jarrett, Sonny...
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George Mesrop Avakian (born 1919) is an American music producer, artist manager, writer, and educator best known for his work with artists such as Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, John Cage, Alan Hovhaness, Keith Jarrett, Sonny Rollins, his wife Anahid Ajemian, and many other musicians and composers. Violinist Anahid Ajemian (born 1924) specialized in performing new music as a soloist; with her sister, the pianist Maro Ajemian (1921-1978); and with the Composers String Quartet. The George Avakian and Anahid Ajemian papers (1908-2013) document the careers and lives of the producer and violinist through personal and professional correspondence; published and unpublished writings and speeches; contracts and other business papers; scores; clippings; photographs; awards; posters; and visual art. The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence, writings, and photographs illustrating George Avakian's career as a recording producer and artist manager.
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Somlyo, Roy A.
Billy Rose Theatre Division | *T-Mss 1998-029
57.54 linear feet (137 boxes)
Roy Somlyo (1925-2009) was an American theater and television producer and manager. The Roy Somlyo papers contain production files for plays and musicals produced by Somlyo, as well as the Tony Awards, on which he worked from 1967 to 2003, and the...
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Roy Somlyo (1925-2009) was an American theater and television producer and manager. The Roy Somlyo papers contain production files for plays and musicals produced by Somlyo, as well as the Tony Awards, on which he worked from 1967 to 2003, and the Drama Desk Awards, on which he worked from from 2004 to 2007.
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Cleveland Quartet
Music Division | JPB 16-04
11.55 linear feet (28 boxes)
The Cleveland String Quartet records, dating from 1965 to 2001, document the formation and evolution of the ensemble; its performances, recordings, tours, and other activities; and its critical reception. They also evidence the careers of Paul and...
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The Cleveland String Quartet records, dating from 1965 to 2001, document the formation and evolution of the ensemble; its performances, recordings, tours, and other activities; and its critical reception. They also evidence the careers of Paul and Martha Strongin Katz. They hold correspondence; contracts; itineraries; photographs; publicity files; contracts; repertoire lists; programs; clippings; management files; and datebooks.
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Dorian Wind Quintet
Music Division | JPB 16-05
10.62 linear feet (12 boxes, 19 volumes); 2.14 gb (497 computer files)
The Dorian Wind Quintet is one of the longest continually-active chamber music groups in the world. The Dorian Wind Quintet records (1954-2012) document the first four decades of the group's existence through programs; scrapbooks; sound...
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The Dorian Wind Quintet is one of the longest continually-active chamber music groups in the world. The Dorian Wind Quintet records (1954-2012) document the first four decades of the group's existence through programs; scrapbooks; sound recordings; photographs; clippings; subject, touring, and management files; datebooks; files of the Dorian Wind Quintet Foundation; and posters. The largest components of the collection are sound recordings and programs.
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Symphony Space (Firm)
Music Division | JPB 16-16
80.34 linear feet (132 boxes, 28 volumes); 14.69 gb (9421 computer files)
Symphony Space, founded in 1978, is a multidisciplinary performing arts center located on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City. The Symphony Space records (1978-2016) document the history, operation, and programming activity of the...
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Symphony Space, founded in 1978, is a multidisciplinary performing arts center located on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City. The Symphony Space records (1978-2016) document the history, operation, and programming activity of the organization through Administrative Files, Programming Files, and Photographs.
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Lucie, Lawrence
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division | Sc MG 764
15.7 linear feet (54 boxes)
Lawrence "Larry" Lucie (1907-2009) was a jazz guitarist and music educator. His papers, dating from 1927 to 2004 (bulk 1948-2004), primarily document his pedagogy, his recording and publishing companies, and the career of his wife, guitarist,...
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Lawrence "Larry" Lucie (1907-2009) was a jazz guitarist and music educator. His papers, dating from 1927 to 2004 (bulk 1948-2004), primarily document his pedagogy, his recording and publishing companies, and the career of his wife, guitarist, bassist and vocalist Nora Lee King (1909-1995). The collection holds teaching material, business records, biographies, interviews, letters, photographs, and scores.
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Grauer, Rhoda
Jerome Robbins Dance Division | (S) *MGZMD 443
10.22 linear feet (26 boxes, 1 oversized folder)
Rhoda Grauer (born in 1944) is a pioneering producer of dance on television. She is widely known for her 1993 documentary series
DANCING, which explored the meaning of dance in world culture. Her papers date from 1965 to...
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Rhoda Grauer (born in 1944) is a pioneering producer of dance on television. She is widely known for her 1993 documentary series
DANCING, which explored the meaning of dance in world culture. Her papers date from 1965 to 1994, and trace the development of her career as a producer in the performing arts, the creation of
DANCING, and her work with Twyla Tharp, Jerome Robbins, and American Ballet Theatre.
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Jeffrey Richards Associates
Billy Rose Theatre Division | *T-Mss 1995-011
11.76 linear feet (28 boxes)
Jeffrey Richards Associates is a New York City-based theatrical press agency and production office founded in 1977 by press agent and producer Jeffrey Richards. The records contain press materials for the Broadway and Off-Broadway shows that the...
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Jeffrey Richards Associates is a New York City-based theatrical press agency and production office founded in 1977 by press agent and producer Jeffrey Richards. The records contain press materials for the Broadway and Off-Broadway shows that the agency represented from 1976 to 1994 and, to a lesser degree, the agency's shifted focus from publicity to production in the mid-1990s.
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Minot, Anna
Billy Rose Theatre Division | *T-Mss 2012-064
6.69 linear feet (17 boxes, 1 oversized folder)
Anna Minot Warren (1918-2007) was a stage, screen, and television actress who performed under her maiden name, Anna Minot. Joseph Warren (1916-1993) was a stage, screen, and television actor. Both were self-described "journeyman actors." The...
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Anna Minot Warren (1918-2007) was a stage, screen, and television actress who performed under her maiden name, Anna Minot. Joseph Warren (1916-1993) was a stage, screen, and television actor. Both were self-described "journeyman actors." The collection (1931-2006) contains material related to their acting careers. The papers contain production files, photographs, posters, scrapbooks, scripts, and a sound recording. There is also a small amount of files related to Minot's work as a professional reader for the Theatre Guild and the Play of the Month Guild.
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Amram, David
Music Division | JPB 14-29
74.92 linear feet (114 boxes, 33 volumes, 3 oversized folders, 2 tubes)
David Amram (born 1930) is an American composer, conductor, and multi-instrumentalist active in classical, jazz, and folk music. The David Amram papers, dating from 1937 to 2011, most strongly represent his career path from the 1950s through the...
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David Amram (born 1930) is an American composer, conductor, and multi-instrumentalist active in classical, jazz, and folk music. The David Amram papers, dating from 1937 to 2011, most strongly represent his career path from the 1950s through the early 2000s, documenting his compositions, performances, conducting, writings, and business matters. They also evidence Amram's relationships with musicians and writers, including Jack Kerouac and other "Beat generation" figures.
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Teibel, Irving
Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound | *L (Special) 18-4
4.83 linear feet (13 containers)
Irving Teibel (1938-2010) was a sound engineer and photographer, best known for his field recordings of natural sounds which he released as the
Environments series of long-playing records on his own Syntonic Research...
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Irving Teibel (1938-2010) was a sound engineer and photographer, best known for his field recordings of natural sounds which he released as the
Environments series of long-playing records on his own Syntonic Research Inc. label. Teibel's papers, dating from the 1950s to 2011, document his work as a sound engineer, business owner, and photographer/designer. They consist of audio recordings, the files of Syntonic Research Inc., and Teibel's photography and designs.
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Applebaum, Stan, 1922-
Music Division | JPB 19-01
6.54 linear feet (25 containers, 1 volume)
Stanley Applebaum (1922-2019) was an arranger and composer who was highly active in the New York City popular and commercial music industry from the 1940s to the early 2000s. Among his clients were Skitch Henderson, the New York Pops, Ben E. King,...
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Stanley Applebaum (1922-2019) was an arranger and composer who was highly active in the New York City popular and commercial music industry from the 1940s to the early 2000s. Among his clients were Skitch Henderson, the New York Pops, Ben E. King, Neil Sedaka, and the Broadway musical
Raggedy Ann. Applebaum papers, which date from 1940 to 2007, are comprised primarily of scores for his arrangements, orchestrations, compositions, and commercial advertising; and sound recordings of his music for radio and television advertising. Business letters and contracts are also present.
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Cunningham, Merce
Jerome Robbins Dance Division | (S) *MGZMD 196
43 linear feet (84 boxes)
Merce Cunningham (1919-2009) was a choreographer. He started his career as a dancer with Martha Graham's company, and then left to start his own company. The company, which was created over 60 years ago, is now closed. The collection brings...
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Merce Cunningham (1919-2009) was a choreographer. He started his career as a dancer with Martha Graham's company, and then left to start his own company. The company, which was created over 60 years ago, is now closed. The collection brings together material about the workings of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. The papers contain financial materials, grant applications, correspondence, administrative material, programs, photographs and production notes. There is no personal material.
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