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Auditorium Theater programs

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Auditorium
Abstract

Programs and other materials for events taking place in the early years at Chicago's Auditorium Theater. Envisioned as a world-class theater and opera house by Chicago impresario Ferdinand Peck, the Adler and Sullivan-designed Auditorium opened in 1889 on the corner of Congress and Michigan Avenue.

Dates: 1888-1938

Blinc Publishing ephemera collection

 Collection
Identifier: Case Wing folio-Z232-B65 B55-1997
Abstract

23 items produced by Blinc Publishing between 1997 and 2015. Includes promotional posters, letterpress prints, compact discs, and other printed ephemera.

Dates: 1997-2015

Chicago advertising cards

 Collection
Identifier: Case Wing-ZC 3-166
Abstract

Advertising cards issued by product manufacturers and retail stores. Geographic areas covered include primarily Chicago, Illinois with a small number from Minnesota and Nebraska.

Dates: 1880-1899

Chicago Chamber Music Society records

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Chicago-Chamber
Abstract Bylaws, membership lists, minutes, clippings, scrapbooks, 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 includes photocopy of Dan Tucker's original score, "Up in Rootabaga County" commissioned by the society for the 2000 millennium celebration, cassette tape of September 28, 1999 performance of piece at Preston Bradley Hall, and a photocopy of the Carl...
Dates: 1941-2018

Chicago Chamber Musicians records

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Chicago Chamber 2
Abstract Chicago organization founded in 1986 by musicians Larry Combs, Joseph Genualdi, Deborah Sobol, and Gail Williams for the purpose of building an internationally recognized institution devoted to the study and performance of chamber music by string and wood instruments. Records include minutes, financial and fundraising papers, season records, photographs, press clippings, awards, and files relating to the Centennial celebration, general program files, special program files (children's and...
Dates: 1986-2014

Chicago Children's Choir records

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-CCChoir
Abstract

Records of the Chicago Children’s Choir, now known as Uniting Voices Chicago, documenting the Choir’s history, programs, operations, and growth since its founding by Christopher Moore in 1956 at the First Unitarian Church of Chicago. Includes administrative files, publicity materials, performance and tour records, information about staff and singers, photographs, and audiovisual recordings.

Dates: 1944-2008; Majority of material found within 1956-1998

Chicago City Ballet records

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Identifier: Dance-MS-CCB
Abstract

Administrative, promotional, and audiovisual records of the Chicago City Ballet, founded by prima ballerina Maria Tallchief in 1980. The successor of the Lyric Opera Ballet, this resident ballet company toured and performed in Chicago and throughout the United States until dissolving in 1987. Also includes photographs and musical scores.

Dates: 1924-2001; Majority of material found within 1980-1987

Chicago Dance and Music Alliance records

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Identifier: Dance-MS-CDAMA
Abstract

Records of the Chicago Dance Coalition, the Chicago Music Alliance, and the merged Chicago Dance and Music Alliance. Includes administrative, financial, and photographic materials as well as audiovisual and digital data items.

Dates: 1980-2005; Majority of material found within 1983 - 2000

Claudia Cassidy papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Cassidy
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1880s-1996; Majority of material found within 1930-1985

Dean Badolato Papers

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Identifier: Dance-MS-Badolato
Abstract

Materials related to Dean Badolato, a choreographer and director born and raised in the Chicagoland area. Includes clippings, letters, photographs, programs, VHS tapes, and artifacts.

Dates: 1959-1999; Majority of material found within 1960 - 1986

Dena Epstein Root & Cady Research Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Epstein
Abstract

Research notes and other materials concerning the firm of Root & Cady, a Chicago based music publishing firm that operated from 1858-1871, collected by Dena Epstein. Also includes information on other 19th century music publishers and composers.

Dates: 1843-1987; Majority of material found within 1858 - 1871

Dorothy Hild papers

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Identifier: Dance-MS-Hild
Abstract Former Director of Entertainment at the Edgewater Beach Hotel in Chicago and founder of the dance troupe Africana Dancers. Papers include correspondence, clippings, financial information, photographs, publicity, sheet music for her productions and dance numbers at the Edgewater Beach Hotel as well as the auto and fair shows Dorothy Hild directed under the auspices of Barnes - Carruthers, and files from her instruction at various YMCA and YWCA locations in Chicago. Additionally, the papers...
Dates: 1847-1984; Majority of material found within 1929-1980

Edith Borroff papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Borroff
Abstract

Musicologist, Composer, Author, Professor, Pianist, Vocalist, and Lecturer, Edith Borroff lived from 1925 to 2019, boasting a career that spanned at least 7 books and over 60 compositions.

Dates: 1800-2016; Majority of material found within 1960-1999

Elaine Madlener papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Madlener
Abstract

Research material for a biography of 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.

Dates: 1916-1966; Majority of material found within 1944-1965

Elvira Sheridan Badger papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Badger
Abstract Six personal diaries and one diary fragment kept by Elvira Cecelia Sheridan Badger of Kentucky and Illinois, spanning the years 1859 through 1903. Also popular antebellum piano music compiled and bound for Badger before her marriage. Facsimile of notebook kept by Alpheus Shreve Badger about his move to Chicago and the subsequent freedom of his slaves in 1852. Diary entries concern the daily lives of a well-to-do family, including their 1861 move to Chicago, Illinois. Sentiment in Kentucky...
Dates: 1859-approximately 1930; Majority of material found within 1859-1878

Felix Borowski Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Borowski
Abstract Correspondence, writings, photographs, sound recordings, clippings scrapbooks, 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,...
Dates: 1841-1995; Majority of material found within 1896 - 1956

Frederic Grant Gleason papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Gleason
Abstract 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 Fannie Bloomfield-Zeisler, Charles Gounod, Edvard Grieg, Gustav Mahler, Jules Massenet, Johann Strauss, Giuseppe...
Dates: 1852-1908

Frederick A. Stock Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Stock
Abstract

Incoming correspondence to Frederick A. Stock, second conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Also photographs of Stock rehearsing at Interlochen Music Camp, early 1940s.

Dates: 1904-1940s

Germania Club scrap book

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Identifier: Case-+V-208-326
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.

Dates: 1921-1931

Hamilton Forrest papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Forrest
Abstract

Correspondence, music and lyrics (including scripts with stage directions), newspaper clippings, photographs, and programs pertaining to Hamilton Forrest, a 20th-century composer known for his arrangements of American folksongs, most notably “He’s Got the Whole Word in His Hands.”

Dates: 1940-1951

Heniot Lévy papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Lévy
Abstract

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.

Dates: 1879-1946

Henry Orland papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Orland
Abstract 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...
Dates: 1913-2000

Irwin Fischer Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Fischer
Abstract

Irwin Fischer (1903-1977), composer, professor, conductor, and musician. Enjoyed a long career teaching at the American Conservatory of Music in Chicago, Illinois. Also worked as an organist for the Chicago Symphonic Orchestra and various churches, a conductor for the National Youth Symphony, South Side Symphony, and West Suburban Symphony. Known primarily for scores such as the Hungarian Set (Pearly Bouquet) and Symphony I.

Dates: 1903-1992; Majority of material found within 1940 - 1977

James Francis Driscoll collection of American sheet music

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Identifier: Driscoll
Abstract The James Francis Driscoll collection of American sheet music, amassed by engineer and organist J. Francis Driscoll (1875-1959), is one of the largest and most representative collections of its kind. The approximated 80,000 pieces of sheet music and related material were arranged into sections by Driscoll himself, and reflect his collecting interests and preferences. Some of the music is arranged according to imprint information (i.e. American imprints, publishers’ imprints, illustrated...
Dates: approximately 1770s-1959

Jane Richardson Hanks Kiowa papers

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Identifier: Ayer-Modern-MS-Hanks
Abstract

Correspondence, field notes, and writings of anthropologist Jane Richardson Hanks, mainly documenting her 1935 graduate student field work with the Kiowa Indians in Oklahoma.

Dates: 1935-1968; Majority of material found within 1935-1940

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Beach, Amy, 1867-1944 2
Chicago Civic Opera (Chicago, Ill.) 2
Chicago Opera Ballet 2
Fischer, Irwin, 1903-1977 2
Fischer, Marion H. 2
Karajan, Herbert von 2
MacDowell, Edward, 1860-1908 2
Manuscript Society (U.S.) 2
Massenet, Jules, 1842-1912 2
Paderewski, Ignace Jan, 1860-1941 2
Page, Ruth, 1899-1991 2
Rodzinski, Artur, 1892-1958 2
Saint-Gaudens, Augustus, 1848-1907 2
Saint-Saëns, Camille, 1835-1921 2
Schumann-Heink, Ernestine, 1861-1936 2
Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing), 1900-1965 2
Stone, Bentley 2
Stone-Camryn School of Ballet 2
Strauss, Johann, 1825-1899 2
Strauss, Richard, 1864-1949 2
Szell, George, 1897-1970 2
Thomas, Rose Fay, 1852-1929 2
Wagner, Richard, 1813-1883 2
Walter, Bruno, 1876-1962 2
Adams, Milward, 1857-1923 1
Africana Dancers 1
Albanese, Licia 1
Allyn, Angela 1
American Academy of Music 1
American Theatre Wing 1
Anderson, Marian, 1897-1993 1
Apollo Musical Club of Chicago 1
Arliss, George, 1868-1946 1
Auditorium Theater (Chicago, Ill.). Conservatory of Music and Dramatic Art 1
Backhaus, Wilhelm, 1884-1969 1
Badger family 1
Badger, Alpheus C. 1
Badger, Alpheus Shreve 1
Badger, Elvira Cecelia Sheridan, 1832-1911 1
Badolato, Bill 1
Badolato, Dean 1
Balaban & Katz 1
Balakirev, Miliĭ Alekseevich, 1837-1910 1
Balanchine, George 1
Barnes-Carruthers 1
Barrymore, John, 1882-1942 1
Bascom, William Russell 1
Bergersen, Baldwin, 1914-2000 1
Berliner Philharmoniker 1
Bernhardt, Sarah, 1844-1923 1
Blinc Publishing 1
Bloomfield-Zeisler, Fannie, 1863-1927 1
Board of Music Trade of the United States of America 1
Bolger, Ray 1
Bolm, Adolph, 1884-1951 1
Borowski, Elsa 1
Borowski, Felix, 1872-1956 1
Borroff, Marie 1
Boulanger, Nadia 1
Braden, Donna 1
Brahms, Johannes, 1833-1897 1
Brewer, Joseph, 1938-1988 1
Briggs, Clare A., 1875-1930 1
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Burnham, Daniel Hudson, 1846-1912 1
Busoni, Ferruccio, 1866-1924 1
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Callas, Maria, 1923-1977 1
Calvé, Emma, 1858-1942 1
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Candy Manufacturing Co. 1
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Chadwick, G. W. (George Whitefield), 1854-1931 1
Chalif, Louis H. (Louis Harvey), 1876-1948 1
Chancellor, John, 1927-1996 1
Chaplin, Charlie, 1889-1977 1
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Chicago Ballet 1
Chicago Chamber Music Society 1
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