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Box 1

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Contains 17 Results:

Performances, circa 1950-1971

 Series — Box: 1
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The collection primarily spans Shaffer's time as a student at the Curtis Institute of Music through her international career as the first female flute soloist. Included are personal diaries, correspondence, photographs, performance reviews, and scrapbooks compiled by Shaffer. It also contains items related to William Kincaid, Shaffer's teacher at Curtis and lifelong friend.

Dates: circa 1950-1971

Curtis Institute of Music, 1943-1950

 Series — Box: 1
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The collection primarily spans Shaffer's time as a student at the Curtis Institute of Music through her international career as the first female flute soloist. Included are personal diaries, correspondence, photographs, performance reviews, and scrapbooks compiled by Shaffer. It also contains items related to William Kincaid, Shaffer's teacher at Curtis and lifelong friend.

Dates: 1943-1950

Diaries, 1935-1947

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The collection primarily spans Shaffer's time as a student at the Curtis Institute of Music through her international career as the first female flute soloist. Included are personal diaries, correspondence, photographs, performance reviews, and scrapbooks compiled by Shaffer. It also contains items related to William Kincaid, Shaffer's teacher at Curtis and lifelong friend.

Dates: 1935-1947

Kincaid death and tribute material, 1967-1971

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The collection primarily spans Shaffer's time as a student at the Curtis Institute of Music through her international career as the first female flute soloist. Included are personal diaries, correspondence, photographs, performance reviews, and scrapbooks compiled by Shaffer. It also contains items related to William Kincaid, Shaffer's teacher at Curtis and lifelong friend.

Dates: 1967-1971

Clippings album

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 15 - 17
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The collection primarily spans Shaffer's time as a student at the Curtis Institute of Music through her international career as the first female flute soloist. Included are personal diaries, correspondence, photographs, performance reviews, and scrapbooks compiled by Shaffer. It also contains items related to William Kincaid, Shaffer's teacher at Curtis and lifelong friend.

Dates: circa 1950-1971

Recordings

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 13
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The collection primarily spans Shaffer's time as a student at the Curtis Institute of Music through her international career as the first female flute soloist. Included are personal diaries, correspondence, photographs, performance reviews, and scrapbooks compiled by Shaffer. It also contains items related to William Kincaid, Shaffer's teacher at Curtis and lifelong friend.

Dates: circa 1950-1971

International reviews

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 14
Scope and Contents

International reviews from Tel Aviv; Naples; Vienna; Paris; London; Turin; Strasbourg; Germany; Milan; Genoa; Lausanne; Monte Carlo; Lisbon

Dates: circa 1950-1971

Practice notebooks, 1944-1951

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 5 - 6
Scope and Contents These (4) notebooks were kept by Shaffer during her lessons with William Kincaid both while at Curtis and after. They contain insight into Kincaid's teaching methodologies on, among other topics, intonation, finger position, breathing technique, phrasing, rhythm, tonguing, and syncopation. They also provide Shaffer's and Kincaid's notes on her playing of specific pieces including the Concerto no. 1 in G Major (Mozart), Fantasie (Faure), Suite in A Minor (Telemann), Sonata for Flute and...
Dates: 1944-1951

Recital and performance programs, 1946-1947

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents

Also includes commencement program

Dates: 1946-1947

Grade cards, 1944-1947

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The collection primarily spans Shaffer's time as a student at the Curtis Institute of Music through her international career as the first female flute soloist. Included are personal diaries, correspondence, photographs, performance reviews, and scrapbooks compiled by Shaffer. It also contains items related to William Kincaid, Shaffer's teacher at Curtis and lifelong friend.

Dates: 1944-1947