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Collection
Identifier: MS-MUS-026
Scope and Contents
The Keepers Music Collection contains 416 pieces of 19th century American popular sheet music, grouped by the lithographers of the front covers.
Dates:
1830 - 1890
Record Group
Identifier: RG-14-410
Abstract
This collection contains recorded music and other records of Ketzev, a Jewish student a cappella group at Johns Hopkins University founded in 1997.
Dates:
approximately 2000, 2015-2022
Record Group
Identifier: RG-14-450
Abstract
This collection constists of records created by Kranti, a South Asian fusion a cappella group at Johns Hopkins University.
Dates:
2006, 2015-2022
Scope and Contents
Manuscript diary belonging to Pauline Massicott. Contains very few pieces of music, however, there are several poems and letters within the volume.
Dates:
circa 1850
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-0004
Abstract
The most sought-after soprano of the 1920s and 1930s, Rosa Ponselle (née Rosa Ponzillo, 1897–1981) began her musical career in a vaudeville act with her sister Carmela Ponselle. Upon hearing Rosa Ponselle for the first time, Enrico Caruso took her under his wing and they appeared on the Metropolitan Opera stage together in La Forza del Destino and La Juive. She would go on to sing the title role in the Metropolitan's revival...
Dates:
1907 - 2013; Majority of material found within 1918-1938
Collection
Identifier: MS-MUS-001
Collection
Identifier: MS-0193
Abstract
Lester S. Levy was a music historian and sheet music collector. His music papers contain correspondence, speeches, printed material, and bills related to his collecting activities.
Dates:
1933-1983
Collection
Identifier: PIMS-0019
Abstract
Louis Lombard was a violinist, composer, and conductor who founded the Utica (N.Y.) Conservatory of Music in 1889 and led an orchestra at his estate in Switzerland in the early twentieth century. The Louis Lombard papers contain published scores of Lombard's music for piano, voice, chamber ensemble, and orchestra, and personal and professional documents such as newspaper clippings, correspondence, and concert programs. Notable correspondents include Jules Massenet, John Philip Sousa, Ella...
Dates:
1861 - 1948
Collection
Identifier: PIMS-0084
Abstract
Lucille Tingle Masson (1901-1989) was a music teacher, organist, and choirmaster who earned degrees from the Johns Hopkins University and the Peabody Conservatory. The collection contains Masson's master's thesis, "The Musical Heritage of the Protestant Episcopal Church" (1954), and notes from her music theory classes at the Peabody Conservatory.
Dates:
approximately 1951-1954
