Allied Arts Corp. (Chicago, Ill.). Records, 1930-1970.
25 cubic ft.
Clippings, artist correspondence, box office records, concert programs, and photographs of the Allied Arts Corporation. Known as Zelzer Management until 1948, Allied Arts Corporation was run by Harry and Sarah Zelzer and was responsible for bringing many important musicians, dancers and other performing artists to Chicago.
Subjects: Arts; Dance; Music; Theater
Call Number: Midwest MS Allied Arts
Collection Stack Location: 3a 57 3-6
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
American Opera Society of Chicago. Records, 1920-1990.
5 cubic ft.
Formed in 1921 by Chicago social leader Edith Rockefeller McCormick and composer Elinor Everest Freer to promote music, the American Opera Society of Chicago commissioned the translation of 23 operas in English. In its later incarnation it became a support group providing scholarships to rising opera stars. The collection includes several boxes and six albums of clippings, performance announcements, photos, member lists, meeting minutes and programs.
Subjects: Clubs and Organizations; Music
Call Number: Midwest MS American Opera
Collection Stack Location: 4 Link
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Arts Club of Chicago. Records, 1892-1995.
92.5 cubic ft.
Incorporated in 1916, the Arts Club was developed with objectives of maintaining a clubhouse in Chicago that provided galleries and exhibition facilities to foster high standards of art and develop the arts community. Records include clippings, correspondence, exhibition flyers, photographs, and other miscellaneous material relating to the Arts Club of Chicago.
Subjects: Arts; Clubs and Organizations; Music; Theater
Call Number: Midwest MS Arts Club (formerly Ar)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 36 6-12
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Bloomfield-Zeisler, Fannie, 1863-1927. Fannie Bloomfield-Zeisler and Sigmund Zeisler papers, 1869-1981.
3 cubic ft.
Correspondence to and from pianist Fannie Bloomfield-Zeisler, Sigmund Zeisler, their sons Ernest, Leonard and Paul, and relatives and friends; also, miscellaneous material relating to Fannie Bloomfield-Zeisler's life and musical career, including a biography of Fannie Zeisler written by her husband Sigmund; works of Sigmund Zeisler relating to his legal career and involvement in the Haymarket riots of 1886; also assorted memorabilia of Fannie Zeisler and the Zeisler family, photographs of the Zeislers and a few celebrities; and nine artifacts.
Subjects: Music; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Zeisler (formerly Ze)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 44 7
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog .
Inventory: Online.
Borowski, Felix, 1872-1956. Papers, 1841-1995, bulk 1896-1956.
7 cubic ft.
Correspondence, writings, photographs, clippings scrapbooks, sound recordings, and some biographical material documenting the life of Felix Borowski, Chicago composer, musicologist, critic for the Chicago Evening Post and Herald, and music bibliographer for the Newberry Library. The papers include letters from prominent American and European composers such as Mili Balakirev, Edvard Grieg, Paul Hindemith, John Alden Carpenter, and John Philip Sousa. There is also a substantial body of love letters written between Felix and his 2nd wife, Elsa (Kanne) Borowski.
Subjects: Journalism; Music
Call Number: Midwest MS Borowski
Collection Stack Location: 3a 37 4
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Borroff, Edith, 1925-. Papers, 1940-1990.
40 cubic ft.
Writings, musical compositions, correspondence, research materials, and lectures of Edith Borroff, musicologist and composer. A teacher at a number of colleges and universities, Borroff researched music education, American music, French chamber music, and contemporary music. The collection also includes artifacts and memorabilia, genealogical information, photographs, and miscellanea.
Subjects: Music; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Borroff
Collection Stack Location: 3a 37 6-8
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Brown, Genevieve. Genevieve and Grace Brown papers, 1918-1930.
1 cubic ft.
Photographs, programs, postcards, letters home, scrapbook, and travel souvenirs from around the world of two sisters who were "all girl" band members during the 1920's. Genevieve and Grace Brown performed with Harry Waiman and His Debutantes and with The Ingenues, "Girl's Orchestra of 20 College Beauties," which became a feature of Ziegfield's Follies in 1927. Also a 1918 World War I diary and letter home of Corporal McA Brown who served with the American Expeditionary Force in the trenches in France.
Subjects: Music; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Brown G
Collection Stack Location: 4 Link
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Brown, Howard Mayer. Papers, 1940-1990.
100 cubic ft.
Research materials, writings, notebooks, correspondence, performance music and realia of Howard Mayer Brown, musicologist and editor. A University of Chicago professor and editor of editions and series of Renaissance music, Brown was also a great collector of libretti, musical instruments, and books on music, many of which are also available at the Newberry.
Subjects: Music
Call Number: Midwest MS Brown H
Collection Stack Location: 1a Link; 3a Link
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Bulkley, Caroline Kemper. Papers, 1870-1938.
1 folder.
A few pieces of manuscript music by Caroline Bulkley of Shreveport, La., plus a miscellaneous collection of poems presumed to be used as lyrics for future compositions.
Subjects: Music
Call Number: Midwest MS 107
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 3
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Carpenter, John Alden, 1876-1951. Papers, 1890-1964, bulk 1900-1950.
2 cubic ft.
Correspondence, mostly incoming, to American composer John Alden Carpenter, wife Rue W. Carpenter and daughter Genevieve; also material relating to Carpenter's works; a miscellany of personal records; and a collection of photographs, many of them of well-known musicians.
Subjects: Music; Photographs; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Carpenter (formerly Car)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 37 1
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog .
Inventory: Online.
Cassidy, Claudia. Papers, ca. 1880-1996, bulk 1930-1985.
16 cubic ft. (42 boxes)
Articles and reviews, correspondence, broadcast scripts, photographs, and clippings of the Chicago Tribune performing arts critic from 1942 to 1965. Cassidy wrote her influential "On the Aisle" column for the Tribune, then wrote freelance criticism and hosted a weekly program of arts criticism for WFMT, helping to shape the course of music, theater, and dance in Chicago.
Subjects: Dance; Journalism; Music; Theater; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Cassidy
Collection Stack Location: 3a 38 1-2
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Chapin, Nathaniel Gates, 1817-1893. Collection of photographs and portraits of eminent musicians, ca. 1890.
136 photographs
Photographs and portraits of uniform size, that have been inset and mounted on cardboard. A biographical sketch of the subject of the portrait appears in manuscript on the mounting.
Subjects: Music; Photographs
Call Number: Case V 25.185
Collection Stack Location: 3a 6 7
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog .
Chicago Businessmen's Orchestra. Records, 1941-1962.
0.1 cubic ft.
Correspondence, clippings, and programs of this orchestra composed of men (and later women) working in Chicago business firms. The orchestra was active from 1923 into the 1980s. Correspondents include Percy Grainger, Edward L. Ryerson, Frederick Stock, and Rafael Kubelik.
Subjects: Business; Clubs and Organizations; Music
Call Number: Midwest MS 154
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Manuscript Card Catalog.
Catalog cards for selected items: Manuscript Card Catalog.
Summary and photocopies of catalog cards: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Chicago Chamber Music Society. Records, 1957-1999.
1 cubic ft.
Bylaws, membership lists, programs, tickets and some financial and fundraising materials of the Chicago Chamber Music Society, a non-profit organization dedicated to furthering chamber music in Chicago. Also Xerox copy of Dan Tucker's original score, "Up in Rootabaga County," commissioned by the Society for the millennium celebration, and also performed Feb. 14, 2007, at the Newberry Library. Also cassette tape copy of the Sept. 28, 1999, performance at Preston Bradley Hall, and a photocopy of the Carl Sandburg poem "More Rootabagas" that formed the lyrics of the piece.
Subjects: Clubs and Organizations; Music
Call Number: Midwest MS Chicago Chamber
Collection Stack Location: 3a 28 2
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Chicago Children's Choir. Records, 1950-1990.
97 cubic ft.
Administrative files, promotional materials, photographs, clippings, audio tapes, information on personnel and singers, etc. Founded in 1956 by the Reverend Christopher Moore, and through 1980 an activity of Hyde Park's First Unitarian Society of Chicago, the CCC grew into an independent music-education program-one of the largest in the country. Moore's personal papers are also included in the collection.
Subjects: Clubs and Organizations; Music
Call Number: Midwest MS Chicago Children's
Collection Stack Location: 3a 32 1-8
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Chicago Opera Association. Records, 1916-1924.
1 folder
Correspondence and contracts mostly relating to singer Amerlita Galli-Curci and Cleofonte Campanini, General Director of the Chicago Opera Association. Also two leases between the Chicago Civic Opera Co. and the Auditorium Theatre.
Subjects: Clubs and Organizations; Music
Call Number: Midwest MS 9
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 3
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Chicago Opera Theater. Records, 1975-1978.
0.5 cubic ft. (1 flat box)
Founded in 1974 as the Chicago Opera Studio, the organization's goal was to provide high quality opera productions in English and designed for contemporary tastes using younger Chicago singers and musicians. Records include budgets, proposals, notes, invitations, brochures, programs, and window posters.
Subjects: Clubs and Organizations; Music
Call Number: Midwest MS Chicago Opera.
Collection Stack Location: 3a 23 2
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Collins, Edward Joseph, 1889-1951. Papers, 1899-1951.
5 cubic ft.
Clippings, programs, artifacts, sheet music, photographs, and recordings of this Chicago composer, pianist, and music teacher. Collins, a pupil of Rudolph Ganz, was assistant conductor of the Bayreuth Festival in Germany, on the faculty at Chicago Musical College and later the American Conservatory of Music, and a prize-winning composer of symphonic works, piano concerti, chamber music, and songs. Recordings of his works and his performances are present in various formats.
Subjects: Music
Call Number: Midwest MS Collins
Collection Stack Location: 3a 24 3; 3a 24 14; 3a 35 4
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
De Lamarter, Eric, 1880-1953. Papers, 1904-1971.
1 cubic ft.
Music manuscripts, correspondence, photographs, clippings, programs, and performance tapes of this Chicago musician. De Lamarter was associate conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra under Frederick Stock; a music critic for a number of Chicago newspapers; organist and choirmaster of 4th Presbyterian Church and other churches; and a respected composer of symphonic, chamber, vocal, and service music.
Subjects: Music
Call Number: Midwest MS De Lamarter (formerly Dl)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 38 10
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Manuscript Card Catalog, NUCMC 80-158.
Dufau, Jenny. Papers, 1913-1917.
0.2 cubic ft.
Love letters written during World War I from an Italian in Florence, Italy, to French opera singer Jenny Dufau living in Chicago. Also, brief correspondence concerning Dufau's passport, a note from a New York opera company, and three photographs of musicians.
Subjects: Music, Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Dufau
Collection Stack Location: 3a 38 13
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Eichheim, Henry, 1870-1942. Papers, 1904-1939.
3 cubic ft.
Manuscript music, programs, and memorabilia of this composer, violinist, and conductor. Eichheim was a violinist in the Boston Symphony Orchestra for 22 years, after which he traveled extensively in Asia. His compositions are heavily influenced by Asian music and daily life, and he was a pioneer in the use of Asian instruments in Western music.
Subjects: Music
Call Number: MS VM 3 .E34 (for music MS); Midwest MS 142
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog (for music MS).
Collection-level catalog record: Manuscript Card Catalog (for both music and programs).
Inventory: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Epstein, Dena. Root & Cady research collection, 1858-19--.
2 cubic ft.
Correspondence, clippings, documents, and card files. From 1858 to 1871 Root & Cady was Chicago's leading music publisher, remembered nationally for publishing the patriotic songs of George Frederick Root, Henry Clay Work, and others during the Civil War. Compiled by music scholar Dena J. Epstein, the material provides information on songs, composers, and competing firms. Also included are publication lists for Boston publishers absorbed by Root & Cady, such as Henry Tolman, Russell & Richardson, and G. P. Reed.
Subjects: Business; Civil War; Music
Call Number: Midwest MS Epstein
Collection Stack Location: 3a 42 2
Finding Aids:
Summary: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Estevez, George. Papers, 1968-1998.
0.5 cubic ft.
Clippings, correspondence, flyers, photographs, and programs of George Estevez, founder and director of the Choral Ensemble of Chicago. Originally called the Chicago Chamber Choir and founded at the Jane Addams Hull House Center, the choir later moved to St. Paul's United Church of Christ and remains a volunteer organization using professional musicians as needed. Material on Ruth Page, Mary Gehr, Rudolph Ganz, Claudia Cassidy, Richard Christiansen, and many others is present.
Subjects: Music
Call Number: Midwest MS Estevez
Collection Stack Location: 3a 44 10
Finding Aids:
Summary: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Farrar, Geraldine, 1882-1967. Memorabilia, 1902-1963.
0.1 cubic ft.
Correspondence, postcards, and clippings documenting the friendship of Farrar with Mrs. Theodore (Pauline) Moritz. Farrar was a soprano for American Metropolitan Opera, famous for her beauty and clear vocal tone; she also starred in three motion pictures. The printed "Photo-Drama Edition" of one of these, Carmen, has been removed from this collection and separately cataloged.
Subjects: Music; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS 132
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 3
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Online.
Fine Arts Quartet Foundation. Records, 1960-1990.
2 cubic ft.
Business-related and informational files for this string quartet. The Fine Arts Quartet was founded in Chicago in 1946; the quartet has recorded many programs for public television and radio, and continues to perform around the world. Its members are artists-in-residence at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
Subjects: Music
Call Number: Midwest MS Fine Arts
Collection Stack Location:
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Fischer, Irwin, 1903-1977. Papers, 1928-1976.
28 cubic ft.
Manuscript music and writings, correspondence, recordings, clippings, programs, and correspondence of this Chicago composer, conductor, and organist. Fischer was organist for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and other institutions and composed songs, orchestral works, and a variety of other formats. The collection includes a great deal of correspondence with Edith Borroff, and also contains scrapbooks, photographs, diaries, and memorabilia.
Subjects: Music; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Fischer
Collection Stack Location: 3a 39 13-14
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Ganz, Rudolph, 1877-1972. Papers, 1877-1977.
25 cubic ft.
Works, incoming and family correspondence, clippings, photographs, programs, artifacts, and miscellanea of this pianist, composer, conductor, and educator. Ganz was conductor of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra in the 1920s and continued to conduct various orchestras while directing the Chicago Musical College from 1929 to 1954. He was also a prolific composer of piano pieces, songs, and other works. His correspondence includes letters from many prominent musical figures.
Subjects: Music
Call Number: Midwest MS Ganze (formerly Ga)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 23 2; 3a 39 7-8
Finding Aids:
Summary and Inventory (partial): Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Authors of letters: Database of Names in Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Germania Club (Chicago, Ill.). Scrapbook, 1921-1931.
1 cubic ft.
Abstract: A large scrapbook containing material on the activities of this music-appreciation club for German-Americans. Chartered in 1869 with possible origins in the organization of a choir to sing at President Lincoln's lying-in-state in Chicago, the Germania Club became a meeting place for Chicago's German elite. The name was changed to the Lincoln Club during World War I and changed back in 1921.
Subjects: Clubs and Organizations; Music
Call Number: Case +V 208 .326
Collection Stack Location: 3a 15 11: ITEM TOO FRAGILE TO PAGE, USE FILM
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Gleason, Frederic Grant, 1848-1903. Papers, 1852-1908.
40 cubic ft.
Composer, musician, music critic for the Chicago Tribune (1887-1891) and other newspapers, and director of Chicago Auditorium concerts. Papers include correspondence, diaries, sketch books, scrapbooks, programs, clippings, literary manuscripts, photographs, and other memorabilia, providing a valuable portrait of Chicago's late-19th-century musical world. Correspondents include Fanny Bloomfield Ziesler, Charles Gounod, Edvard Grieg, Gustav Mahler, Johann Strauss, Giuseppe Verdi, and many others.
Subjects: Journalism; Music
Call number: Midwest MS Gleason (formerly Gl)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 39 4-6
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Articles: Peters, Aileen: Analysis of the Frederic Grant Gleason Collection... fV 29 .3372 and 4A 4009 (2 copies).
Gordon, Edward. Papers, 1957-1997.
1 cubic ft.
Clippings, correspondence, pamphlets, photographs, and programs of this Chicago pianist and music administrator. Gordon was a child prodigy-performing with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at age eight-and renowned concert pianist before directing the Grant Park summer concerts and the Ravinia Festival (from 1968-1990). See the Ravinia Festival collection for additional material related to Gordon.
Subjects: Music
Call Number: Midwest MS Gordon
Collection Stack Location: 3a 44 10
Finding Aids:
Summary: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Grimm, C. Hugo (Carl Hugo), 1890-1978. Papers, 1890-1951.
2 cubic ft.
Organist, composer, and teacher of composition at the Cincinnati Conservatory. Grimm wrote symphonies, songs, organ pieces, and many other works. The collection consists mainly of typewritten and manuscript treatises on topics in musical composition.
Subjects: Music
Call Number: Midwest MS Grimm
Collection Stack Location: 3a 30 2
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
H.T. FitzSimons Company, Inc. Records, 1920-1950.
9 cubic ft.
Manuscript and printed music and some miscellanea of this Chicago music publisher, along with the papers of Rossetter G. Cole, a prolific Chicago composer. Cole bequeathed his papers to Harry T. FitzSimons; his manuscript and printed music, writings, clippings, programs, miscellanea, and collections of calling cards, postcards, and autographs make up a large portion of this collection. A small amount of Harry FitzSimons' correspondence is also present. The FitzSimons Co. was purchased in 1983 by the Fred Bock Music Companies.
Subjects: Business; Music
Call Number: Midwest MS FitzSimons
Collection Stack Location: 3a 39 11-12
Finding Aids:
Summary and Inventory: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Hadley, Henry Kimball, 1871-1937. Programs and Posters, 1919-1938.
0.1 cubic ft.
Programs and posters of performances by conductor Henry Kimball Hadley and his wife, soprano Inez Barbour, dating from Barbour's 1919 Aeolian Hall recital to a memorial concert for Hadley in 1938.
Subjects: Music; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS 133
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 3
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Online.
Hager, Mina. Papers, 1892-1977, bulk 1920-1970.
2 cubic ft.
Correspondence, works, photographs, clippings, programs, manuscript music, recordings, and memorabilia of this concert singer. Hager, a mezzo-soprano, sang with the Chicago Opera Company and had a fruitful working relationship with the composer John Alden Carpenter; correspondence between the two, and some of Carpenter's songs in manuscript (or photostat), are present in this collection. The works include an incomplete autobiography. Recordings include reel-to-reel tapes and vinyl records.
Subjects: Music; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Hager
Collection Stack Location: 3a 39 8
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Harrison, Theodore, 1876-1965. Memorabilia, 1932-1947.
49 items (6 folders).
Theodore Harrison was a concert baritone, as well as a faculty member at the American Conservatory of Music, conductor of the Adult Chorus of the Hull-House Music School, and director of the choir at First Congregational Church of Evanston. The collection contains programs and clippings, publicity, and recordings of the Hull-House Chorus, as well as items about singers Nancy Carr and Barre Hill.
Subjects: Music
Call Number: Midwest MS 134
Collection Stack Location: 3A 35 3
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Hart, Philip, 1914-. Papers, 1973-1974.
0.1 cubic ft.
Small collection of letters and other materials about Theodore Thomas, founding music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra collected by Philip Hart, a music historian and former assistant manager of the CSO.
Subjects: Music
Call Number: Midwest MS 135
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 3
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Online.
Hoaré, Henry Royal. Papers, 1882-1959.
0.1 cubic ft.
Manuscript and printed music, a photograph, and miscellaneous documents of this Chicago violinist, composer, and educator. Hoaré published numerous violin method books in addition to violin sonatas and concertos, and was the head of the violin division at the Chicago Fine Arts Conservatory of Music.
Subjects: Music
Call Number: Midwest MS Hoaré
Collection Stack Location: 3a 40 6
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Manuscript Card Catalog.
Summary: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Just, Robert H. Music Manuscripts, ca. 1900-1943.
1 cubic ft.
Music manuscripts of Robert H. Just, German-American composer, violinist, and educator. Weidig was born in Berlin in 1875 and emigrated with his family to Chicago in 1885, where he studied violin at the Chicago Musical College. He taught at the Quincy (Ill.) Music Conservatory, The Chicago Conservatory, and the Metropolitan Conservatory in Chicago, as well as in Memphis Tennessee, and Wichita Kansas. Among his solo instrument, chamber, symphonic, and vocal works is a series of "Nine Songs of Sappho," set to the poetry of John Myers O'Hara.
Subjects: Music
Call Number: Midwest MS Just
Collection Stack Location: 3 39 14
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Kincaid, Dean. Papers, 1982-ca. 2000.
1 folder.
Copies of correspondence and documents relating to Dean Kincaid's dismissal from teaching at the American Conservatory of Music in Chicago in 1983. Also includes a history of the Conservatory.
Subjects: Music
Call Number: Midwest MS 105
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 3
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Lardner, Ring, 1885-1933. Papers, 1885-1982.
6.5 cubic ft.
American journalist and humorist author of short stories, plays, and song lyrics, who began his career as a sports reporter and wrote for a number of Chicago newspapers. Lardner's papers include courtship correspondence, letters (1907-1910) from Lardner to his Niles, Mich., friend, Wilma A. Johnson, and letters to the Lardner children and Abbott family members. Also correspondence from magazine editors and friends, copies of published short stories; typescripts of plays, song lyrics, and unpublished musical comedies, photographs, and newsclippings.
Subjects: Literature; Journalism; Music; Theater; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Lardner (formerly Lar)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 40 12-13
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Lévy, Heniot. Papers, 1879-1946.
0.1 cubic ft.
Music manuscripts and some additional material for this Chicago pianist, composer, and educator. Lévy taught at the American Conservatory in Chicago and composed vocal music, orchestral works, and works for piano, organ, and string quartet. The collection also includes two photographs and an opera synopsis by Hazel Johnson.
Subjects: Music
Call Number: Midwest MS Lévy
Collection Stack Location: 3a 41 12
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Manuscript Card Catalog.
Inventory: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Madlener, Elaine. Papers, 1916-1966, bulk 1944-1965.
1.5 cubic ft.
Research material for a biography of conductor Herbert von Karajan and material on autograph collecting gathered by Elaine Madlener, Chicago philanthropist and socialite. Material related to Madlener's Grant Hospital committee work for two benefit performances by Karajan in 1955 and 1965, and manuscripts by British author Charles Langbridge Morgan.
Subjects: Literature; Music; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Madlener (formerly Mad)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 41 5
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Online.
Marsh, Robert C. (Robert Charles). Papers, 1949-1986.
4 cubic ft. (4 boxes)
Music scholar and Chicago Sun-Times classical music critic for over thirty years. Marsh chronicled a golden age for classical music in Chicago, including the tenures of Fritz Reiner and Georg Solti at the CSO and the Lyric Opera in its infancy. The collection includes correspondence with George Szell, John Chancellor, and Alexander Tcherepnin, record reviews, and scrapbooks.
Subjects: Journalism; Music
Call Number: Midwest MS Marsh
Collection Stack Location: 3a 28 2
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Oakley, Horace Sweeney. Papers, 1880-1929.
6 cubic ft.
Incoming and outgoing correspondence, works, photographs, diaries, clippings, and other mementos of this Chicago lawyer and philanthropist. Oakley was Deputy Commissioner of the American Red Cross mission to Greece in 1918-19 and was also involved in the creation of the American School of Classical Studies in Athens. He was also a trustee of the Orchestral Association of Chicago, the Civic Music Association, and the Newberry Library. Correspondents include Jane Addams, Walter Damrosch, Robert Lovett, Potter Palmer, Lessing Rosenthal, Ralph F. Seymour, Frederick Stock, Walter Strong, and Mrs. Theodore Thomas, plus a file on the Wayfarers vocal group.
Subjects: Music; Newberry Library
Call Number: Midwest MS Oakley (formerly Oak)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 41 2-3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Manuscript Card Catalog and NUCMC 67-1963.
Catalog cards: Manuscript Card Catalog.
Summary and photocopies of catalog cards: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Selected authors of letters: Database of Names in Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Orland, Henry, 1918-. Papers, 1913-2000.
1.5 cubic ft.
Music manuscripts, reel-to-reel tapes, radio scripts, correspondence, clippings, and programs of this Midwestern composer, critic, educator, and conductor. Orland was a literary and music critic for the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and the musicology journal Music and Man; he also served as program director for Northwestern University's radio station, WNUR, and for the program "Facets of Music" for KFUO in St. Louis (tapes of which appear in the collection). His compositions include symphonies, concertos, songs, and other works.
Subjects: Journalism; Music
Call Number: Midwest MS Orland (formerly Orl)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 23 2; 3a 41 1
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Manuscript Card Catalog.
Ott, Bertha. Papers, 1915-1930.
1 cubic ft.
Business papers (including box office records), photographs, correspondence, programs and other materials of this Chicago concert impresario. Ott was secretary to the impresario F. Wight Neumann for 20 years; she continued his work after his death in 1924, managing concerts at the Auditorium, Playhouse, and a variety of other venues. Correspondence primarily regards Neumann's death and Ott's assumption of the job. Season announcements and some sheet music are also present.
Subjects: Music; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Ott
Collection Stack Location: 3a 30 12
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Otterström, Thorvald, 1868-1942. Papers, 1926-1952.
0.2 cubic ft.
Manuscript, photostat, and printed music, correspondence, programs, and photographs of this Danish-born Chicago composer. Otterström was a prolific composer and arranger who worked in a variety of styles, including African-American and Native American songs. The correspondence is from Otterström to Mrs. Albert Heller on topics of mutual interest. Another collection of Otterström's musical manuscripts is cataloged separately.
Subjects: Music
Call Number: Midwest MS Otterström
Collection Stack Location: 3a 41 2
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Manuscript Card Catalog.
Summary: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Pearson, Edward Hagelin. Papers, 1899-1973.
0.5 cubic ft.
Writings and research materials of this music historian. Focused on American opera in the early 1900s, the bulk of the collection concerns the soprano Edith Mason, with some material on composer Hamilton Forrest and soprano Mabel Garrison. Research materials include clippings, photographs and illustrations, correspondence, programs, and other documents.
Subjects: Music; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Pearson
Collection Stack Location: 3a 44 9
Finding Aids:
Summary: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Performing Arts Chicago. Records, 1960-2000.
99 cubic ft.
First known (in 1959) as the Fine Arts Music Foundation, and later as Chamber Music Chicago, the group changed its name to Performing Arts Chicago to reflect a diversification of programming. Programming, performance, and financial files of the organization.
Subjects: Clubs and Organizations; Dance; Music
Call Number: Midwest MS Performing Arts
Collection Stack Location: 3a 23 13-14; 3a 49 5-7; 3a elevator bay
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Peterson, Zika. Papers, 1940-1990.
1.5 cubic ft.
Treasurer's records of the Chicago Chamber Music Society, and yearbooks, correspondence, yearbooks and other materials of the Fortnightly Club of Chicago, and other miscellaneous Chicago club material.
Subjects: Clubs and Organizations; Music; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Peterson Z
Collection Stack Location: 3a 24 12
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Ravinia Festival Association. Records, 1903-1993.
11 cubic ft.
Correspondence, photographs, reports, and publicity relating to the Ravinia Festival, a summer music festival held at Ravinia Park in Highland Park, Illinois, since 1904 (non-continuous). The collection consists mainly of public relations materials, including scrapbooks, news clippings, historical summaries and recollections, publications files, and photographs. There is also season planning documentation for scattered years: contracts, correspondence, and reports relating to planning the repertoire and the hiring of guest artists for a particular season. The remainder of the collection includes a few founding documents and scattered files about Ravinia Park and the building and renovation of its facilities; some development and fundraising campaigns records; and some correspondence by and relating to Ravinia staff and trustees.
Subjects: Clubs and Organizations; Music
Call Number: Midwest MS Ravinia
Collection Stack Location: 3a 51 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Renison, Herbert. Papers, 1920-1940.
7 cubic ft.
Correspondence, programs, clippings, photographs, memorabilia, printed music, financian and other records of this pianist and music educator. Renison was born in Argentina and studied at the Buenos Aires Conservatory before settling in Chicago. He was an instructor at the Sherwood Music School and active in the Society of American Musicians, and files related to both organizations are included in the papers. Also included are two tape recordings and a framed, autographed photograph of Fanny Bloomfield-Zeisler.
Subjects: Music
Call Number: Midwest MS Renison
Collection Stack Location: 3a 24 3
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Robuck, Lola Carter. Papers, ca. 1930-1970.
1 cubic ft.
Correspondence, clippings, programs, photographs, and memorabilia of a Chicago pianist and poet. Robuck was active in many arts clubs in Chicago and, later, in Los Angeles, including the Chicago Musical Arts Club (which she founded), the Chicago Women's Club, the Poets Forum, the Women's Club of Hollywood, and others. Programs, documents, and correspondence regarding these organizations are included in the collection. Also included are memorabilia and sheet music of Chicago composers B. Bristow Owsley and Rudolph Ganz, and material on singer Belle Forbes Cutter.
Subjects: Clubs and Organizations; Music; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Robuck
Collection Stack Location: 3a 30 6
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Roe, Ethel M. Scrapbook, 1885-1889.
0.2 cubic ft.
Scrapbook begun by Ethel M. Roe while a young music student at Mt. Carroll Seminary. Roe graduated in 1888, and moved on to Miss Gordon's School, possibly in Philadelphia. Includes mementoes of her education, together with concert and theater programs mainly from New York City, but also from Boston and Philadelphia. Also includes quite a few programs and clippings relating to William H. Sherwood, founder of the Sherwood Conservatory in Chicago.
Subjects: Music; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS 143
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 3
Finding Aids:
Summary: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Root & Cady Research Collection, 1858-19--: SEE Epstein, Dena
Ryder, Theodora Sturkow, 1876-. Papers, 1890-1962.
6 cubic ft.
Chicago composer, concert pianist, and teacher who was an important figure in the city's musical scene from the late 19th century into the 1940s. Her papers include her diaries (including full descriptions of the World's Columbian Exposition), letters, musical compositions, programs, photographs, scrapbooks, recordings, and other materials.
Subjects: Music; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Sturkow Ryder
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 13
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Saar, Louis Victor, 1868-1937. Papers, 1868-1937.4 cubic ft.
Manuscript and printed music, correspondence, programs, photographs, and other memorabilia of this music educator and composer. Saar was head of the music theory department at Chicago Musical College from 1917 to 1934 and also taught at other Midwestern music schools. His compositions include songs, choral works, violin and piano pieces, and orchestral works.
Subjects: Music
Call Number: Midwest MS Saar (formerly Sa)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 28 1
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Sayers, Lionel. Papers, 1856-1980.
15 cubic ft.
Correspondence, photographs, manuscript and printed music, programs and much other material of this Chicago Symphony Orchestra librarian and composer. Sayers was born in London and studied at the Royal College of Music before moving to Chicago in 1920, where he became a percussionist for the CSO under Frederick Stock before a promotion to librarian. His papers include a wealth of information on the CSO and prominent figures such as Eric De Lamarter, Stock, Theodore Thomas and many others; also included are Sayers' collection of opera librettos and advertisements from 1856 to 1880, financial records, and a large amount of family correspondence and memorabilia.
Subjects: Family; Music
Call Number: Midwest MS Sayers
Collection Stack Location: 3a 42 3
Finding Aids:
Authors of letters and documents, and subjects of photographs: Database of Names in Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Sorrenti, Peter G. Carmen Sorrenti memorabilia, 1960-1978.
1 folder
Articles, programs, and miscellaneous material, including two photographic portraits, of conductor Carmen Sorrenti.
Subjects: Music
Call Number: Midwest MS 35
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 3
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Sowerby, Leo, 1895-1968. Papers, 1912-1968.
1 cubic ft.
Manuscript and printed music, programs, clippings, some correspondence, and miscellanea of this composer and musician. Sowerby was a composition teacher at Chicago's American Conservatory, and organist and choirmaster at the Episcopal Cathedral of St. James for many years. He is known largely for his church music compositions, but worked in many musical genres. The collection also contains two recordings on vinyl record of Sowerby's compositions.
Subjects: Music
Call Number: Midwest MS Sowerby
Collection Stack Location: 3a 30 1
Finding Aids:
Partial collection-level catalog record: Manuscript Card Catalog.
Partial summary: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Springer, Morris. Papers, 1910-1930.
0.2 cubic ft.
Research files on opera compiled by Morris Springer. The bulk of the material is on Arthur Endreze, Chicago-born baritone, and Reynaldo Hahn, French composer and conductor. The files include correspondence, clippings, photographs, programs, and other material.
Subjects: Music
Call Number: Midwest MS Springer
Collection Stack Location: 3a 23 2
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Stock, Frederick August, 1872-1942. Papers, 1904-1940.
0.2 cubic ft.
Incoming correspondence to Frederick A. Stock, second conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Of the sixty items, twenty are written in German, several in French, and one in Italian from Ottorino Respighi to a person named "Rossi." Included among the more interesting pieces are letters from Nadia Boulanger, Percy Grainger and Walter Damrosch, and postcards with their photos from Wilhelm Backhaus and Wanda Landowska. Also, a letter in German from Theodore Thomas written in 1904; and a letter from Rose Fay Thomas written in 1905, which describes Thomas's burial and also gives her directive for the maintenance of her husband's musical scores. Other correspondents include John Alden Carpenter, Pablo Casals, Gregor Piatagorsky, Georg Schumann, John Philip Sousa, and Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler.
Subjects: Music
Call Number: Midwest MS Stock (formerly St)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 42 7; VAULT 47 4
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Sudler, Louis C. (Louis Courtenay), 1903-1992. Papers, ca. 1940-1980.
28 cubic ft.
Recordings, correspondence, informational files, photographs, memorabilia, music, and other papers of this Chicago real estate magnate, philanthropist, and concert baritone. Sudler was a benefactor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, serving as board president and Chairman of the Board. He also hosted WGN's Artists Showcase television program. His papers include a great deal of information on the CSO and the Orchestral Association, especially the European tours of the 1970s. Also included are scrapbooks, programs, financial records, information on some prominent Chicago buildings, and many miscellaneous files.
Subjects: Music
Call Number: Midwest MS Sudler
Collection Stack Location: 3a 28 5-6
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Theater programs, ca. 1755-present, bulk 1870-present.
25 cubic ft.
Programs, playbills, and scrapbooks for theatrical productions, including music recitals, opera, some motion pictures, and other spectacles in addition to drama. Programs from Chicago, New York City, and England make up a large portion of the collection, but there are examples from theaters across the United States and Europe.
Subjects: Music; Theater
Call Number: Midwest MS Theater
Collection Stack Location: 3 35 2-4
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Thomas, Theodore, 1835-1905. Papers, 1852-1926.
2 cubic ft.
Correspondence, mainly incoming, of Theodore Thomas, the first conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and his wife Rose Fay Thomas; photographs of musicians; and a small collection of miscellaneous material relating to the Thomases, such as a scrapbook, programs, short articles, notes and memorabilia, and inventories of the contents of the Thomases' libraries. Thomas' sizeable collection of music scores, books about music, and program scrapbooks are cataloged separately.
Subjects: Music; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Thomas (formerly Th)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 43 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog .
Inventory: Online.
Trimmer, Charles McKendree. Scrapbook, 1860-1889.
0.2 cubic ft.
Music teacher, choral director and composer. Scrapbook containing correspondence, programs, clippings, advertisements relating to Trimmer's education at the Northwestern Normal Academy of Music in Bloomington, Illinois, 1865-1868, his posts as a principal at the Musical Institute at Normal, Illinois, and at various teaching and principal positions, institutes, and concerts in Illinois (including Chicago). Trimmer apparently lived many years in Chicago.
Subjects: Music
Call Number: Midwest MS Trimmer
Collection Stack Location: 3a 24 15
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Valentine, May L. Opera photograph collection, ca. 1910-1972.
1 cubic ft. (1 box and 1 oversize folder)
Photographs collected by May Valentine, Chicago Lyric Opera librarian and chorus conductor. The photographs include portraits of many opera singers, composers, and other figures, and shots of operatic performance. Many are inscribed to Ms. Valentine.
Subjects: Music; Photographs
Call Number: Midwest MS Valentine
Collection Stack Location: 3a 43 1
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Warner, Philip, 1901-. Papers, 1920-1970.
1 cubic ft.
Manuscript and printed music and programs of Philip Warner, Chicago composer, pianist, and teacher. Warner was well known for his performances on the radio and also taught piano and music theory at a number of music schools. In addition, he taught music composition at Northwestern University.
Subjects: Music
Call Number: Midwest MS Warner
Collection Stack Location: 3a 28 1
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Weidig, Adolf, 1867-1931. Music manuscripts, 1900-1930.
6 cubic ft.
Music manuscripts of Adolf Weidig, German-American composer, conductor, violinist and educator. Weidig was born in Hamburg, Germany, and emigrated to Chicago, where he taught at and then directed the American Conservatory. He composed in a variety of forms, including orchestral works and string quartets. Some music not apparently composed by Weidig is also present in the collection.
Subjects: Music
Call Number: Midwest MS Weidig
Collection Stack Location: 3 39 13-14
Finding Aids:
Catalog record: Main Card Catalog.
Westervelt, Louise St. John. Collection of theatrical and musical photographs, 1869-1930, bulk 1870-1891.
0.5 cubic ft.
Collection of photographs, mainly cabinet photographs but also a few cartes de visite and gelatin prints, of international musical and theatrical performers of the nineteenth century, all dated before 1900 with the exception of a photograph of the dancer Ruth Page taken in 1930. Also includes photographs of Sarah Bernhardt, Edwin Booth, Lilli Lehmann, Anton Rubinstein and Theodore Thomas.
Subjects: Music; Photographs; Theater
Call Number: Midwest MS Westervelt
Collection Stack Location: 3a 44 2
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Wilding-White, Raymond, 1922-. Papers, 1940-1990.
25 cubic ft.
Manuscript and printed music, recordings, clippings, programs, and other papers of this composer and teacher. Wilding-White taught at several institutions in New England and the Midwest before coming to DePaul University in 1967. He was a prolific composer, especially of dramatic works (ballet, opera, etc.) and experimental music, and also published articles on music theory. Some correspondence, family papers, notebooks and written works are also present; recordings are mostly reel-to-reel tapes with some CDs.
Subjects: Music
Call Number: Midwest MS Wilding-White
Collection Stack Location: 3a 57 10-11
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Ziehn, Bernhard, 1845-1912. Papers, ca. 1880-1950.
1.5 cubic ft.
Manuscript and printed music, correspondence, writings, clippings, photographs, and memorabilia of this Chicago music theorist, teacher, and critic. The German-born Ziehn taught such notables as Grace Chadbourne and John Alden Carpenter and also wrote textbooks on harmony and composition; he was known for his original and unorthodox musical views. Music includes Ziehn's own works in addition to works of other composers, often with Ziehn's manuscript notes. Correspondence includes letters regarding Ziehn from Julius Gold to Mrs. Albert Heller, a former pupil of Ziehn, and other secondary correspondence regarding Ziehn, in addition to his own correspondence.
Subjects: Music
Call Number: Midwest MS Ziehn
Collection Stack Location: 3a 44 7
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog card (partial): Manuscript Card Catalog.
Summary (partial): Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
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