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Curtis Institute of Music - alumni

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 260 Collections and/or Records:

Elaine Shaffer collection (MSS 68)

 Collection
Identifier: MSS68
Scope and Contents

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: Majority of material found in 1943 - 1973

Eleanor Lipkin papers (MSS 69)

 Collection
Identifier: MSS69
Dates: 1930-1995

Eleanor Sokoloff materials (MSS73)

 Collection
Identifier: MSS73
Dates: circa 1934-circa 2010

Ellen Faull collection (MSS 78)

 Collection
Identifier: MSS78
Dates: c. 1940-2008

Gama Gilbert materials (MSS 76)

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MSS76
Abstract

This collection consists of a hardbound scrapbook of music reviews that Gama Gilbert (1906-1940) wrote for the New York Times, and a celebratory copy of the score of Beethoven's op. 18 string quartets (Peters edition).

Dates: 1931; 1938-1940

Harry Ben Gronsky collection (MSS 74)

 Collection
Identifier: MSS74
Scope and Contents

(2) South Pasadena HS yearbooks (1927-1928); (2) Curtis Catalogues (1928-1930); photograph of HBG with Zimbalist, Philip Frank and one other; inscribed photograph of Efrem Zimbalist; (4) composition books; (1) counterpoint workbook; homemade violin history scrapbook; court transcript, Smith v. Zimbalist

Dates: 1925-1931

Joseph de Pasquale collection

 Collection
Identifier: JDP
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of orchestral parts for viola, bowed and annotated by Joseph de Pasquale as well as a small collection of non-commercial recordings from the 1940s-50s.

Dates: 1919 - 2015

Letters from Samuel Barber to Sheppard Lehnhoff, 1941-1942

 File — Box 1: [Barcode: 31234000389229], Folder: 14
Scope and Contents

(2) letters from Barber to his old friend, violist Sheppard Lehnhoff. The first, dated December 1941, regards Barber trying to get a copy of his 'Serenade' for Lehnhoff. The second, dated March 1942, critiques the latter's performance of one of his works (unnamed).

Dates: 1941-1942