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Musicians.

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:

Associated Actors and Artists Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 5267
Abstract

Consist primarily of reports and supporting research materials collected for a study on the proposed merger of several performers' unions affiliated with the Associated Actors and Artistes of America. The unions were: Actors' Equity Association (AEA); American Federation of Radio Artists (AFRA); American Guild of Variety Artists (AGVA); Television Authority (TVA); American Guild of Musical Artists (AGMA); and Chorus Equity Association (CEA).

Dates: 1940-1952

David Scheinbaum hip hop photographs

 Collection
Identifier: 8137
Abstract

Several hundred photographs of Hip Hop artists and musicians, taken primarily during their performances in Albuquerque, NM between 2001 and 2012, along with some additional shows at venues in Oakland and Los Angeles, California.

Dates: 2001 - 2020

Great composers and musicians collection

 Collection — Bound manuscript 1++: [Barcode: 31924083687057]
Identifier: 4674
Abstract Autographs, brief music manuscripts, and/or portraits of famous and lesser-known Western European and American composers and performers, including Beethoven, Berlioz, Brahms, Busoni, Elgar, Gounod, Grieg, Handel, Haydn, Liszt, MacDowell, Mendelssohn, Meyerbeer, Mozart, Paderewski, Paganini, Rossini, Anton Rubinstein, Saint-Saëns, Sarasate, Schubert, Sibelius, Richard Strauss, Tchaikovsky, Toscanini, Verdi, Wagner, Weber, and Hugo Wolf. The bound volume includes autographs, manuscript...
Dates: 1780 - 1910

Harold William Thompson papers

 Collection
Identifier: 14-12-649
Abstract Correspondence with Louis C. Jones of the New York State Historical Association, and with Benjamin A. Botkin, Carl Carmer, Walter Edmonds, Ruth Rubin, Pete Seeger, and others contributing to or interested in the Quarterly, concerning its founding. Also, drafts, copies, and galley proofs of articles for the Quarterly; and hymns listed by composer compiled by Thompson while organist and choirmaster of the First Presbyterian Church, Albany. Also, a tape recording of ceremonies at a testimonial...
Dates: 1942-1955.

John Kirkpatrick papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065183331]
Identifier: 14-20-1146
Scope and content

Personal and professional correspondence of Kirkpatrick concerning concerts and recitals and individual musical works; concert programs; Cornell Friends of Music correspondence and other material, including much on music students receiving financial awards; correspondence of Donald J. Grout, a Cornell music professor and department chairman; and a photograph of Kirkpatrick.

Dates: 1951-1965.

Marie Powers papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 3466
Scope and content

Scrapbooks; photograph album; photographs of Marie Powers in starring roles, autographed photographs of co-stars, personal photographs, and some negatives; bronze medallion; books, including one autographed by Helen Hayes; broadsides; playbills; programs; correspondence; clippings; and articles.

Dates: 1933-1965.

Rock Music Catering papers

 Collection
Identifier: 8592
Abstract

Collection consists of invoice books, ledger books, and 82 file folders documenting backstage catering for performers ranging across many musical genres: rock 'n roll, punk, heavy metal, R&B, Jazz, and country.

Dates: 1982-1985.

S. Marian Pratt letters

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065201265]
Identifier: 3707
Scope and content Includes letters (1929-1936) in English, French, and Italian from Perry Cornell Dechert (later known as Pierre François Cornell-Dechert) to Selma Marian Urband (later Mrs. Willis W. Pratt), mainly dating before 1933 and concerning Dechert's friends and travels in France while he was studying at the Université de Delaware (Section d'Etudes a l'Etranger) and the Sorbonne and later teaching at the Collège de Normandie; two letters (1929) from Perry Cornell Dechert to Edith Cornell Dechert,...
Dates: 1929-1957.