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Collection
Identifier: PIMS-0037
Abstract
Adele Meade was a teacher and violinist in the Baltimore area. Her papers include photographs, a scrapbook, and personal papers primarily relating to her teaching career.
Dates:
1905 - 1965
Collection
Identifier: PIMS-0017
Abstract
The Claudia B. Didier scrapbooks contain clippings dealing with Baltimore-area concerts and musicians.
Dates:
1909 - 1982
Collection
Identifier: PIMS-0055
Abstract
Elsa Baklor was a coloratura soprano and music educator who taught at the Peabody Conservatory and privately in the mid-twentieth century. Her collection of five scrapbooks contain clippings, photographs, and concert programs related to her career as a performer and teacher.
Dates:
1924-1977
Collection
Identifier: PIMS-0072
Abstract
Enrico Caruso (1873-1921) was one of the most popular operatic tenors of his era. After beginning his career in his native Italy, Caruso immigrated to the United States and became a star at the Metropolitan Opera. His papers include manuscript and published scores belonging to Caruso, photographs, correspondence, scrapbooks and clippings about his career, caricatures and other artwork, recordings, and ephemera.
Dates:
1906 - 1921
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: PIMS-0134
Abstract
The Frank B. Cahn scrapbooks, 1910-1948, contain preservation copies of two scrapbooks assembled by Cahn, a Baltimore-area financier and amateur violinist. The volume labeled "Theatre Record and Scrapbook" contains programs and clippings from mostly chamber music and symphony orchestra concerts, from approximately 1910 to 1948, from Baltimore and other places. Includes programs from the Flonzaley and Kneisel Quartets and from concerts at the Peabody Institute.The volume labeled...
Dates:
1910-1948
Collection
Identifier: PIMS-0048
Abstract
Joseph Schillinger was a theorist and composer famous for developing the Schillinger System, a method of deconstructing music using geometric phase relationships. The collection contains correspondence, recordings, scrapbooks, photographs, artwork, manuscript scores, and other documents related to his professional and personal life.
Dates:
1901-1996
Collection
Identifier: PIMS-0081
Abstract
Pianist, conductor, and teacher Leon Fleisher (1928-2020) had a career in music stretching more than 70 years, including nearly 50 years as a faculty member of the Peabody Conservatory of Music. After making his debut at age 16 with Pierre Monteux conducting, Fleisher toured internationally as a soloist until a neurological condition caused him to lose the full use of his right hand. After three decades of focusing on performing the piano repertoire for the left hand, conducting various...
Dates:
1875 - 2021
Collection
Identifier: PIMS-0059
Abstract
Reginald Stewart was a Scottish-born conductor and pianist who served as direcctor of the Peabody Institute from 1941 to 1959 and music director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra from 1942 to 1952. His papers include scrapbooks, correspondence, photographs, and recordings related to his career.
Dates:
1911-1984
Collection
Identifier: PIMS-0092
Abstract
William Rush Dunton, Jr., was an occupational therapist and psychiatrist who was an instructor for the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine from 1903 to 1942. Dunton was also a music lover and amateur percussionist who performed in several ensembles in the Baltimore area, including the Doctors’ Orchestra of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland, the Clifton Orchestra, and the Johns Hopkins Orchestra. In addition, he collected materials related to musical activities in...
Dates:
1912 - 1936
