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Sitwell, Edith Louisa, Dame, 1887-1964

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Edith Sitwell was born on September 7, 1887 in Scarborough, England to Sir George Reresby Sitwell, fourth Baronet, and Lady Ida Emily Augusta Denison. In 1913, one of her earliest poems, “Drowned Suns”, was published in The Daily Mirror. Three years later, Sitwell began editing Wheels, an anthology of new verse that sparked controversy among conservative critics. In the 1920s, Sitwell and her two brothers, Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell, became known for their avant-garde literary work. Sitwell ...

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

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The main building of the Metropolitan Museum of Art is located at 1000 Fifth Avenue, New York, N.Y. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, a new art reference library, named the Thomas J. Watson Library, was designed by the architectural firm of Brown, Lawford and Forbes in consultation with the Museum. Severud-Elstad-Krueger were the structural engineers; Krey and Hunt were the mechanical engineers. The Library formally opened Jan. 26, 1965. It occupies three floors: the two lower floors comprise s...

Cornell, Katharine, 1893-1974

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Katharine Cornell was born on February 16, 1893, in Berlin, where her father, Peter Cortelyou Cornell, a distant relation of Cornell University founder Ezra Cornell, was studying medicine. Later in 1893, Peter Cornell and his wife Alice Gardner Plimpton returned to their native city, Buffalo, New York with their daughter, Katharine. Her father practiced medicine in Buffalo, for several years, but he found his time and interest increasingly taken up with the family hobby. His father, S. Douglas C...

Auric, Georges, 1899-1983

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French composer. From the description of Autograph letters signed (2), dated : Paris, 23 June 1925, and [London], 23 June 1926, to Mme [Louise] Alvar, 1925, 23 June and 1926, 23 June. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270680749 From the description of [Les fâcheux. Album leaf] : autograph manuscript, 1925 June 05. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270561533 From the description of [La concurrence] : autograph manuscript, 1931. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270561528 ...

Menuhin, Diana

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Epithet: wife of Sir Y Menuhin British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000622.0x00031b ...

Fiedler, Arthur, 1894-1979

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Arthur Fiedler (December 17, 1894 – July 10, 1979) was an American conductor known for his association with the Boston Symphony and Boston Pops orchestras. With a combination of musicianship and showmanship, he made the Boston Pops one of the best-known orchestras in the United States. Fiedler was sometimes criticized for over-popularizing music, particularly when adapting popular songs or editing portions of the classical repertoire, but he kept performances informal and sometimes self-mocking ...

Houghton Library

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In 1938 Keyes D. Metcalf, Librarian of Harvard College and Director of the Harvard University Library (1937-1955), proposed a separate library building for rare books and manuscripts. Through the generosity of Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., Harvard Class of 1929, Harvard became the first American university to construct a separate research facility for the housing and study of rare books and manuscripts. The Houghton Library, dedicated and opened in 1942, won major architectural awards and became a mo...

National Broadcasting Company

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The National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is an American English-language commercial broadcast television and radio network owned by Comcast. The network is headquartered at 30 Rockefeller Plaza in New York City, with additional major offices near Los Angeles (at 10 Universal City Plaza), and Chicago (at the NBC Tower). NBC is one of the Big Three television networks, and is sometimes referred to as the "Peacock Network", in reference to its stylized peacock logo, introduced in 1956 to promote the...

Lunt, Alfred, 1892-1977

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Alfred Davis Lunt Jr. (August 12, 1892 – August 3, 1977) was an American stage director and actor who had a long-time professional partnership with his wife, actress Lynn Fontanne. Broadway's Lunt-Fontanne Theatre was named for them. Lunt received two Tony Awards, an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor for 1931's The Guardsman and an Emmy Award for the Hallmark Hall of Fame's production of The Magnificent Yankee. Lunt was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1892 to Alfred D. Lunt and Harriet ...

Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971

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Russian born composer and conductor. From the description of Audio materials [sound recording]. 1931-1965. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 40723194 Igor Stravinsky was a Russian composer. From the description of Sketchbook, [1917?]. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122465769 Stravinsky's opera The Rake's Progress, set to the libretto by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman, was inspired by William Hogarth's series of paintings. Stravinsky had wan...

Tchelitchew, Pavel, 1898-1957

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Russian-born painter, set designer, and costume designer, Pavel Tchelitchew emigrated in 1920. He lived in Berlin (1921-23) and Paris (1923-34) before moving to New York, where he lived with his partner Charles Henri Ford. He became a United States citizen in 1952 and died in Grottaferrata, Italy in 1957. Tchelitchew's early painting was abstract in style, described as Constructivist and Futurist and influenced by his study with Aleksandra Ekster in Kiev. After emigrating to Paris ...

Struss, Karl, 1886-1981

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Struss (1886-1981) was a cinematographer for over fifty years. He graduated from Columbia University in 1912, worked as a photographer for several years, and developed the Struss soft-focus lens. In 1919, Struss went to Hollywood, where he worked for Cecil B. DeMille for three years and in 1925 he went to Rome to film "Ben Hur." He won the first Oscar for cinematography for "Sunrise" in 1927 and received Oscar nominations for "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" (1932) and "Limelight" (1950). Other Struss ...

Dora Koch.

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Dolin, Anton, 1904-1983

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Anton Dolin (1904-1983) was an English ballet dancer, teacher and choreographer. He started his career with Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes in 1921 and became one of the principal dancers for the company. Later, together with another Ballets Russes dancer Alicia Markova, he established Markova-Dolin Ballet. Dolin was instrumental in establishing London Festival Ballet (later English National Ballet). He also ocassionally appeared on stage as an actor. From the guide to the Anton Dol...

Primm, John

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Macdonald, Nesta

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Nesta Macdonald (1914- ) is a historian of Russian ballet From the guide to the Nesta Macdonald collection, 1881-1994, (GB 206 Leeds University Library) ...

French composer. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : Paris, 4 Nov. 1935, to [Comte Etienne de Beaumont], 1935 Nov. 4. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270668793 From the description of "Henri Sauguet / Musique pour / L'épervier / Film de Marcel L'Herbier. / Partition d'orchestre / 1933" : autograph manuscript, 1933. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270569167 Henri Sauguet, French composer. For two pianos. Composed 1932. ...

New York Public Library

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The New York Pubic Library purchased Arthur A. Schomburg's collection of books, pamphlets, prints and photographs in 1926 with funds from the Carnegie Corporation and housed at the 135th Street Branch Library of The New York Public Library. L. Hollingsworth Wood was appointed in 1925 by the Board of Trustees of The New York Public Library to purchase and provide guidelines for the Schomburg Collection of Negro Literature. Members of the Advisory Committee of the Arthur A. Schomburg Collection, i...

Clarke, Mary, 1923-....

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Epithet: of East Claydon British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001476.0x0001c1 ...

Rothschild, Howard D. 1907-1989

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Howard D. Rothschild (d. 1989) was an artist and a major American collector of artwork related to Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. He developed a passion for the Ballets Russes after Waslaw Nijinsky withdrew from a performance during the company's tour of America in 1916 attended by Rothschild when a child. The collection was amassed by purchase and by gift from the dancers and artists with whom Rothschild developed friendships. Serge Diaghilev (1872-1929) was a Russian...

Windham, Donald

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Donald Windham, author, born in Atlanta, Georgia, resided mainly in New York (N.Y.). Sandy Campbell, actor, publisher, and former editor of "The New Yorker. From the description of Donald Windham and Sandy Campbell papers, [ca. 1940-1987]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38476245 American writer. From the description of Photographs of Windham, 1988. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 51091394 Born in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1920, Donald Windham le...

Fruhauf, Aline, 1909-1978

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Caricaturist and lithographer. Date of birth also given as 1907. From the description of Aline Fruhauf papers, 1926-1976. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82988032 ...

Oenslager, Donald, 1902-1975

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Donald Mitchell Oenslager was born on March 7, 1902, in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Following graduation from Harvard University in 1923, he was an instructor in scenic design at Middlebury College, Vermont. In 1925, his former Harvard instructor, George Pierce Baker, appointed him to the faculty of the Department of Drama of the Yale School of Fine Arts. Oenslager taught design at Yale until his retirement in 1970. While at Yale, he designed sets for over 250 plays, operas, ballets, and musicals ...

Yale university. Library

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Eli Whitney was born in Westborough, Massachusetts in 1765. Even as a child he showed an aptitude for mechanical work, repairing violins and taking on other mechanical work as it presented itself. Whitney set up shop making nails and when the demand for nails declined, he changed his business to manufacture hat pins, a commodity with increasing demand. Whitney eventually enrolled at Yale College in May 1789, and graduated three years later. He intended to further his education and become a lawye...

Dougherty, John

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Resident of Displain, Cook County, Illinois. From the guide to the John Dougherty letter, 1839, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) ...

Kochno, Boris

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Boris Kochno, 1904-1990, was a close friend of Serge Diaghliev, serving as his secretary until the latter's death in 1929. From the guide to the Fonds Kochno [microform], ca. 1911-1929, (The New York Public Library. Jerome Robbins Dance Division.) ...

De Chirico, Giorgio, 1888-1978

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Italian painter. From the description of Assortimento di verita (essay), ca. 1950. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81610064 Greek-born Italian painter. From the description of Assortimento di verità : autograph manuscript signed, [after 1943]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270870147 ...

Robbins, Jerome

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American dancer, choreographer, and ballet master. From the description of Jerome Robbins scrapbooks [microform]. 1937-1985. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81722948 From the description of Jerome Robbins scrapbooks. 1986-1990. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79096064 American ballet dancer and choreographer primarily associated with American Ballet Theatre in the 1940s and the New York City Ballet since 1949; also, theatrical director and choreographer whose producti...

Danilova, Alexandra, 1907-1997

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Ballerina and dance educator Aleksandra Dionisyevna Danilova (1903-1907) was born in Petergof, Russia. In 1911, she began studying dance at the Russian Imperial Ballet School in Leningrad. There she met George Balanchine, with whom she would maintain a life-long friendship. In 1920, Danilova danced with the Maryinsky Ballet. She joined Balanchine's Soviet State Dancers for a tour of Western Europe in 1924. In December of that year, Sergey Diaghilev brought both her and Balanchine into his acclai...

Buckle, Richard

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Epithet: ballet critic British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000758.0x0001ca ...

Prof. Penta

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Allyousha.

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Ellis, Mary (Mary Jo)

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Epithet: actress British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000564.0x0000fd ...

Raoul Dufy

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Ballets russes

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The Ballets russes, founded by Serge Diaghilev in Paris in 1909, toured Spain and Portugal in 1917-1918, performing in Lisbon in December, 1918. From the description of Payroll for Ballets russes performances in Portugal, 1918 Dec. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702162736 From the description of Payroll for Ballets russes performances in Portugal, 1918 Dec. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82981905 ...

Dance Mart

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Musée Rodin

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Williams, Peter

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Epithet: DD, Archdeacon of Merioneth British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000212.0x0003d9 ...

Sotheby & Co

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Steegmuller, Francis, 1906-1994

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Francis Steegmuller was a biographer of French literary figures such as Cocteau, Apollinaire and Flaubert. He also translated French literature. From the description of Letters from Douglas Cooper, 1966-1997. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 78011580 Alfred Kazin was an American essayist, literary critic, and historian. From the guide to the Alfred Kazin collection of papers, 1933-1990, 1933-1978, (The New York Public Library. Henry W. and Albert A...

Magriel, Paul

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Paul D. Magriel (1906-1990) was an art collector from New York, N.Y. From the description of Oral history interview with Paul D. Magriel, 1970 Nov. 12-25 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 495596677 Art collector; New York, N.Y.; d. 1990. From the description of Oral history interview with Paul D. Magriel, 1970 Nov. 12-Nov. 25 [sound recording]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81875312 Art collector, New York, N.Y. From the desc...

Elman, Mischa

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American violinist of Russian birth. From the description of Autograph letter signed and typewritten letter signed, dated : New York, 24 November and 16 December 1915, to [Harry Harkness] Flagler, 1915 Nov. 24. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270566179 From the description of Typewritten letter signed, dated : New York, 18 April 1931, to William van den Burg, 1931 Apr. 18. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270874462 ...

Le Gallienne, Eva, 1899-1991

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British-born actress, director, and producer. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Westport, Conn., to Edward Wagenknecht, 1967 Feb. 4. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270864535 Eva Le Gallienne (1899-1991) was an actress, producer, director, translator, teacher and writer. From the description of Eva Le Gallienne, prop letters from Camille, n.d. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122517244 From the guide to the Eva Le Gallienne, ...

Bolm, Adolf, 1894-1951.

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Amata Grassi was born in New York on June 1, 1894. Originally named Anna Beatrice Koch she chose her stage name after her mother, Caroline Grasse (1837-1917). Amata Grassi began her dancing career with Anna Pavlova in 1917. In the following year, while touring in Buenos Aires, she met her future first husband, Chester Hale (Chamberlin). Soon after they left the famous dancer to form their own company. She also danced with the Adolph Bolm Ballet Intime and the Chicago Opera Co., toured in vaudevi...

Keynes, Milo.

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Epithet: nephew of J M Keynes British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001039.0x00032a ...

Léon Bakst

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Roland, Browse, and Delbanco

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Henry M. Roland and Gustav Delbanco were founding partners of the London firm of Roland and Delbanco from 1930 until 1945, at which time Lilian Browse joined the firm. Roland and Delbanco apparently retired ca. 1970. Browse continued the firm with Will Darby until 1974. From the description of Stock books, 1930-1977. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 79019494 ...

Mark Smith.

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Slater, Jas. H. (James Harvey), 1826-1899

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A gold miner turned teacher, James Harvey Slater came to Marysville (later Corvallis) Oregon from the California gold fields in 1850. From the guide to the James Harvey Slater papers, 1851-1977, (Oregon Historical Society Research Library) A gold miner turned teacher, James Harvey Slater came to Marysville (later Corvallis) Oregon from the California gold fields in 1850. He took a law degree while also teaching school, and in 1854 was appointed clerk...

Peer, Betty

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Grant, Duncan, 1885-1978

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English painter. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Gordon Square [London], to E. McKnight Kauffer, 1926 Jan. 15. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269568682 Scottish designer. From the description of Postcard and autograph letter signed with initials : Wissett Lodge and 46, Gordon Square, to John Maynard Keynes, 1916 Apr. 3-ca. 1920 Feb. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 269599197 Artist and member of the Bloomsbury Group. From the ...

Doubrovska, Felia, 1896-1981

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Russian-American dancer and teacher. From the description of Papers, ca. 1919-1981. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122576181 Felia Doubrovska (Felizata Dlouzhnevska, Dluzhnevska), 1896-1981,was born in Russia and was trained at the Imperial Ballet School in St. Petersburg, graduating in 1913. She then joined the Maryinsky Ballet . In 1920 she left for Europe and danced with Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, where George Balanchine created roles for her...

Larionov, Mikhail Fedorovich, 1881-1964

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Russian-born artist and stage designer, who co-founded the avant-garde Rayonist movement with Natalia Goncharova, in 1910. The couple relocated to Paris in 1914 and became primary designers for Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. From the description of Letter, signed : Monte-Carlo, Monaco, to Natalia Goncharova, 30 April 1921. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 68916791 ...

Alliousha

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Farrar, Geraldine

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American soprano. From the description of Autograph note signed, dated : [n.p.], 1961, to [Joseph Chouinard?], 1961. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270913139 From the description of Autograph letters signed (2), dated : Ridgefield, Conn., 31 January 1934 and New York [n.d., 1934], to H[arry] H[arkness] Flagler, 1934 Jan. 31 and [n.d. 1934]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270576719 From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : Ridgefield, Conn., 28 August ...

Lehmann, Lotte

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German soprano, later naturalized American. From the description of Autograph letter signed, dated : [New York Jan. 21 1947], to Mrs. [Dannie] Heineman, 1947 Jan. 21. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270667231 From the description of Typewritten letter signed, dated : Santa Barbara, Ca. Nov. 15 1968, to Tom [i.e. Thomas Carr Howe], 1968 Nov. 15. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270667232 ...

Benois, Alexandre, 1870-1960

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Russian stage designer, director, and art historian. From the description of Autograph postcard signed, dated : [Paris, 12 December 1933], to M.D. Calvocoressi in London, [1933 Dec. 12]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270873163 ...

Van Vechten, Carl, 1880-1964

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Carl Van Vechten was an American novelist, critic, essayist, book collector, and photographer. From the description of Carl Van Vechten collection of papers, 1922-1964. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122455166 From the guide to the Carl Van Vechten collection of papers, 1911-1964, (The New York Public Library. Henry W. and Albert A. Berg Collection of English and American Literature.) Carl van Vechten (1880-1964) was an American photographer, writer,...

Covent Garden Theatre

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Thomas Harris, John Philip Kemble and others proprietors of the New Theatre Royal called Covent Garden Theatre. From the description of Grant for 85 years from Covent Garden Theatre to George Raikes of Cornhill, Esq. [manuscript], 1809 September 18. (Folger Shakespeare Library). WorldCat record id: 281643481 The Covent Garden Theatre was built by John Rich in London in 1732. Also known as the Royal Opera House. From the description of Documents concerning finance...

Verdak, George

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George Verdak (1923-1993) was a ballet dancer who became director of the Butler Ballet. George Verdak was born in Chicago, where he attended the Art Institute. He then chose dance as a career and joined the Chicago Ballet Repertory Company, where he performed original works by Massine and Nijinska. After a period in Hollywood films, Verdak joined the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo and remained with the company until 1952. After a stint of private teaching and work with the ...

Rothschild, Howard D.

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Howard D. Rothschild (d. 1989) was an artist and an art collector. From the description of Howard D. Rothschild papers, 1921-1989. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 612840274 Howard D. Rothschild (d. 1989) was an artist and a major collector of art work related to Serge Diaghilev 's Ballets Russes. His fascination with Ballets Russes began in 1915 when as a child he attended one of the company's performances in New York. Over the years he became a close friend and an anonymous ...

Lopokova, Lydia, 1892-1981

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Russian ballerina who left Russia to dance with Diagileva's Ballets Russes. She married Randolfo Barrochi (div. 1925) and subsequently married John Maynard Keynes in 1925. She danced with various English companies and was partly responsible for the creation of English national dance companies. From the description of [Letters] / Lydia Keynes. (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 259483946 ...

Benois, Alexandre, 1870-1960

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Tcherepnin, Alexander, 1899-1977

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Composed 1938. First performance Paris, 17 April 1940.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Suite géorgienne / Alexandre Tcherepnine. [19--] (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 54314154 Commissioned by John Sebastian. Composed 1953. First performance Venice, 11 September 1956, Orchestra di Teatro Fenice, Fabien Sevitzky conductor, John Sebastian soloist. Dedicated to John Sebastian.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description o...

Sokolova, Lydia, 1896-1974

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Lydia Sokolova (1896-1974) was born in Wanstead, as Hilda Tansley Munnings on 4 March 1896. She trained at the Stedman's Academy in London and with Anna Pavlova, Michael Mordkin and Pavlova’s great character dancer and pedagogue, Aleksander Shireyev. Later she studied with Enrico Cecchetti and Nicolas Legat. After touring in the USA with the All-Star Imperial Russian Ballet (1911-12) she danced in London and Europe with Theodore Kosloff’s Imperial Russian Ballet. In 1913 she joined ...

Herlihy, James Leo.

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James Leo Herlihy’s stories about the underside of American culture, told through the experiences of those outside of the mainstream, have garnered their author comparisons with Sherwood Anderson. Herlihy was born in Detroit, Michigan, on February 27, 1927. After leaving high school, he enlisted in the Navy in 1945, receiving his overseas orders just two days before the end of World War II. From 1947–48, with money from the G.I. Bill, Herlihy attended Black Mountain ...

Le Clercq, Tanaquil

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Tanaquil Le Clercq was born in 1929 and began dance training at age seven with Mikhail Mordkin, and in 1941 at the School of American Ballet. She was a member of Ballet Society in 1946 and New York City Ballet in 1948 and was a featured dancer in works by George Balanchine and Jerome Robbins. She was married to Balanchine from 1952-1969. While touring with New York City Ballet in 1956 she contracted polio which ended her dance career. She later became a published author with The ballet cook book...

Kirstein, Lincoln, 1907-1996

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American ballet director, writer, and dance historian, 1907-1995. Lincoln Kirstein was born in Rochester, NY, educated at Harvard (B.A. 1929, M.A. 1930). He married Fidelma Cadmus, sister of artist, Paul Cadmus, in 1941 and served in the U.S. Army 1943-45. He co-founded School of American Ballet with George Balanchine and Edward M.M. Warburg in 1934. Participated in the founding and/or direction of American Ballet in 1935, Ballet Caravan 1936-41, Ballet Society in 1946, and became general direct...

Rieti, Vittorio, 1898-1994

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Commissioned by the Louisville Philharmonic Society under a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation. Composed 1953. First performance Louisville, 16 October 1954, The Louisville Orchestra, Robert Whitney conductor. Dedicated to the Louisville Orchestra.--Cf. Fleisher Collection. From the description of Introduzione e gioco delle ore / Vittorio Rieti. [1953] (Franklin & Marshall College). WorldCat record id: 53472383 Originally composed as Chess Serenade, suite for two pian...

Balanchine, George

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Ballet dancer and ballet and theater choreographer; the major ballet figure in the twentieth century. From the description of Correspondence and contracts, 1949-1966. (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 122533853 George Balanchine (1904-1983) was a Russian-American dancer and choreographer. In 1921 he graduated from the Theatre School in Petrograd. He left Russia in 1924, and the same year he was engaged by Serge Diaghilev as a choreographer for his company Ballet...

Goncharova, Natalii︠a︡ Sergeevna, 1881-1962

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Russian avant-garde painter and designer for Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. From the description of Costume design, 1914? (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 758880073 Natalii︠a︡ Sergeevna Goncharova attended the Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture (1901-1909), where she studied sculpture. Goncharova was one of the organizers of the first Jack of Diamonds exhibition (1910) and of the later Donkey Tail exhibition (1912), among others. In 1914...

Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)

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Organization founded in 1768. In 1870 it took over the annual Old Masters exhibitions from the British Institution. From the description of Papers, 1827-1907. (Getty Research Institute). WorldCat record id: 79626129 ...

Allousha

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Joffrey Ballet

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Collecting area: Records created by the Joffrey Ballet, the Joffrey II, the American Ballet Center, and Robert Joffrey; also records documenting ballet repertory. From the description of Repository description. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155511433 Founded in 1956, the Joffrey Ballet is one of the premiere ballet companies in the United States. From the description of Playbills and souvenir programs, 1959-1986. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155476097 ...

Serge Lifar

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Howard D. Rothschild papers, 1921-1989. - View Resource (original) (raw)

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