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Creator
Neighborhood Playhouse (New York, N.Y.)
Call number
JPB 04-40
Physical description
1 linear foot (1 flat box 12" x 15")
Preferred Citation

Neighborhood Playhouse Scores, JPB 04-40. Music Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.

Repository
Music Division
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Scores and music for dance productions choreographed and performed at the Neighborhood Playhouse, New York City.

Biographical/historical information

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.

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.

Scope and arrangement

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 Adventures of Ola (Olle) arranged by Louis Horst (1931), Kolyada: A Russian Folk Scene arranged from the collection of Kurt Schindler by Louis Horst, and Quatuor a Cordes by Ernest Bloch (1919).

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.

Arrangement

The collection is arranged alphabetically by the title of the work.

Administrative information

Source of acquisition

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.

Processing information

Processed by Camille Croce Dee; Machine-readable finding aid created by Camille Croce Dee.

Related Material

Neighborhood Playhouse Scenarios, 1914-1931. The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Jerome Robbins Dance Division. Call number (S) *MGZMD 104. There are additional materials relating to the Neighborhood Playhouse listed in CATNYP.

Using the collection

Location

Music Division
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center
40 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY 10023-7498
Third Floor

Conditions Governing Use

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