The collection contains theatrical ephemera for a 1928 London-based run of "Funny Face," including a framed lobby card, accounting sheet, and playbill, as well as other miscellaneous programs and sheet music.
Collection consists of drafts of Will Friedwald’s book A biographical dictionary of jazz and popular singers. Includes draft notes. A large collection of music recordings were donated along with the papers; they have since been catalogued and removed from the collection. A complete listing of recordings is available in the finding aid.
The collection contains 21 pieces of memorabilia given to Tony: certificates of appreciation, correspondence from Governor Nixon and President Eisenhower and other items.
The collection consists of unauthenticated autographs of Alec Wilder, Leroy Anderson, Manning Sherwin, Paul Whiteman, Ferde Grofe, and John Philip Sousa.
Three Paige boxes and two flat boxes of newspaper clippings, correspondence, music, and manuscripts. A2018-023 originally consisted of eight (8) scrapbooks.
Approximately 200 original arrangements created by various arrangers for the singing duo Sandler & Young, who performed internationally from 1963-1982. Most arrangements include a master score, vocal parts, and various instrument parts. The collection also includes a few news clippings.
The collection was received in two show trunks consisting of numerous instrument books. One folder is marked 5/19/86, indicating that the collection was used on or around that date, although a brief google search indicates no easily-accessible record of a show on that date, this does not positively disprove that there was a show on that date.
Collection consists of correspondence between Friml and Dailey Paskman, as well as contracts and one handwritten composition of “Loveliest of the Lovely.”
The collection consists of photos, recordings, posters, letters, and publicity material documenting the careers of The Andrews Sisters including 78s, 45s, LPs, CDs, photographs, posters, lobby cards, magazines, and miscellaneous research materials. It also includes to a lesser extent similar materials pertaining to Georgia Gibbs and Rose Murphy.
The collection contains 18 Soviet-era x-ray film recordings of jazz music obtained during Richard Judy's exchange studies in Moscow from 1958-1959. Songs include "Begin the Beguine," "To A Wild Rose," "We Just Couldn't Say Goodbye" and others by various artists.
The collections consists of seven 8x10 photos, two letters, and one page of telegrams and check copies. The photos include Liberace, Cole Porter, and Steve Allen, with unidentified individuals.
The collection consists of approximately 1500 unpublished musical arrangements used by Richard Himber with his bands and orchestras. In most cases the arranger is not known.