Manuscripts
Music & Drama
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Music & Art:
Manuscripts
Volume of bound programs (mainly orchestra performances). Includes: Radio City Music Hall (New York, N.Y.) ; All-American Youth Orchestra ; Philadelphia Orchestra ; Pasadena Playhouse ; California Federation of Music Clubs; Salzburg Opera Guild; Hollywood (Calif.) ; Santa Monica (Calif.) ; San Francisco (Calif.) ; New York (N.Y.). Radio City Music Hall, Leopold Stokowski, All-American Youth Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, Salzburg Opera Guild, Cabrilowitsch Memorial Concert, Clark Memorial Concert, Goodman Bowl Concert, Festival of Arts, Pasadena Playhouse, Paderewski Moscow, Cathedral Choir, Calif. Fed. of Music Clubs, v. 7.
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Press clippings
Manuscripts
Includes materials relating to the Music Opera Co., Hollywood Bowl, and Gallo Opera Co.
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Sheet music
Manuscripts
Includes music titled: Our Los Angeles, a song of the southland by Dick Dixon and Shelley Roane Vier; and Los Angeles, 1932 Olympic March Song. Also includes a small piece of leather signed by John Philip Sousa in 1911 with hand drawn musical notes.
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The Kellogg-Haines Singing Party: Introducing Scenes from English and Comic Opera in Costume
Manuscripts
Volume of bound souvenir programs and lectures for performances managed by the Great Western Lyceum and Musical Bureau. Locations include: Salt Lake City (Utah) ; Los Angeles (Calif.) ; Portland (Or.).
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Lynden Ellsworth Behymer papers
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This collection contains business correspondence and papers of California impresario L. E. Behymer, who played a leading part in the musical development of the Southwest. He was the founder of the Los Angeles Symphony Orchestra and its manager for 20 years. Included in the papers are account books, agreements and contracts, box office receipts, etc. The collection consists of letters, documents (including 32 volumes of accounts, agreements, and box office receipts) and manuscripts related to Lynden E. Behymer and various California musical and theatrical organizations. There are also plays, prompt books, and music. Over 2400 pieces of correspondence include large sections devoted to the California Opera Company, the Chicago Opera Company, and the Mission Play. This collection also includes approximately 3,000 photographs of performers and performances. Volumes begin to contain *Now that handwritten letters are popping up, it is important to note a few things. Generally the letters are written on hotel stationary (either from the area or out of the area). The letters are usually written by the actors/actresses to the manager of the theatre. Sometimes there will be a letter describing when play companies will arrive and by which way they are traveling. Some are small sheets containing stage directions Includes 7 account books dating from 1888-1945, 2 advance sales volumes, bound agreements, one volume of bank checks for 1936, 19 bound box office receipt volumes, 1892-1916 Playbills, programs, including programs of the Auditorium, the Los Angeles Symphony Orchestra, etc. Includes manuscript prompt books for Helena Modjeska. Some of the programs from theaters unrelated to Behymer were requested by him. Especially in July1939, he began asking various "little theaters" to send him literature.
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Y. 11 letters and 15 printed materials
Manuscripts
Subjects include: Teenage pregnancy (LCSH); Yamashiro Restaurant (Hollywood, Calif.); Yucca Inn (Yucca Valley, Calif.); Yuma (Ariz.) (LCSH); Drinking of alcoholic beverages--Social aspects (LCSH); Conflict of generations (LCSH); Youngblood, Jack, 1950- (LCSH); High Desert Playhouse Guild; Youth Ethics (LCSH)
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