Manuscripts

Dramatic and Musical

Description: A volume of bound souvenir programs and sheet music. Also includes a 4th of July dinner menu (1927).
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1910-1927
Call number: mssBehymer
Creator: Behymer, Lynden Ellsworth(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Mrs. Lynden E. Behymer (Minetta Sparks), December 1948.; Gift of Mrs. Lynden E. Behymer (Minetta Sparks), June 1952.; Gift of California State University, Northridge, May 1976.; Gift of Music Center Operating Company, September 1993.; Gift of Arvonne Behymer Degenfelder, March 2015.

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Manuscripts

A volume of bound souvenir programs. Includes a biography on Behymer, a few souvenir programs inscribed to Behyemer, and sheet music. Theatres include: Philharmonic Auditorium, and the Honolulu Community Theatre. Includes programs for: Mei Lan-Fang, Padereswki, Marian Anderson (signed), Yehudi Menuhin, Mischa Elman, Enrico Caruso, Jeanette MacDonald's, Kirsten Flagstad, and others.

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Music, dance, and drama materials

Manuscripts

The series contains ephemera, catalogs, notes, and other materials pertaining to music, dance, drama, and other art related clubs that Behymer was either a member or supporter of. Also includes souvenir programs of performers, periodicals, prompt books, plays, poetry, librettos and sheet music.

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Music & Drama

Manuscripts

A volume of bound souvenir programs from the San Francisco Opera. Includes programs for: To Pavlowa, Peterborough Outdoor Players, Music for the Ballet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Julius Caesar, World Composer's, Lobero Theatre, Chaplin Gold Rush, N.Y. Opera News, and Hindu Music and Rhythm.

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Music & Drama. Dance and History

Manuscripts

A volume of bound programs and invitations. Includes an invitation to dinner with President William Howard Taft, a program from the unveiling of a presidential memorial in Washington D.C., a program for the Pasadena Tournament of Roses (1914), and a souvenir program from Munich. Also includes photographs from a dance recital.

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Opera Librettos: the Merry Monarch

Manuscripts

Volume with a souvenir booklet of lithographed images of opera houses and performers; programs John Robinson's King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, (1892), "The Merry Monarch Operatta" sheet music (1890), "The Lion Tamer comic opera" sheet music (1892), and sheet music for the opera "Paul Jones," and the February 1892 issue of the Engraver and Printer.

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Music and Drama Pageants

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A volume of bound souvenir programs. Theatres include: Grauman's Chinese Theatre, and The Country Playhouse.

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