Composers -- Illinois -- Chicago
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Lionel Sayers papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Sayers
Abstract
Correspondence, photographs, manuscript and printed music, programs and much other material of this Chicago Symphony Orchestra librarian and composer. Sayers was born in London and studied at the Royal College of Music before moving to Chicago in 1920, where he became a percussionist for the CSO under Frederick Stock before a promotion to librarian. His papers include a wealth of information on the CSO and prominent figures such as Eric De Lamarter, Stock, Theodore Thomas and many others;...
Dates:
1856-1980