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Scope and Contents
The Irwin and Lillian Freundlich Collection contains papers, photographs, and recordings relating to the lives and careers of pianists/educators Irwin and Lillian Freundlich. Irwin Freundlich was a renowned educator and pianist, teaching at the Juilliard School for over 40 years and giving frequent master classes at Bennington College in Vermont. Lillian Freundlich was a respected member of the Peabody Conservatory faculty, and also taught at the Juilliard Summer School, Oberlin,...
Dates:
1909 - 1997; Majority of material found within 1938 - 1991
Scope and Contents
The Irwin Gage Collection contains recordings, scores, and papers pertaining to the life and career of renowned collaborative pianist, Irwin Gage. Irwin Gage was a lieder specialist, accompanying many of the greatest singers of his day, such as Jessye Norman and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. Gage was also an educator, teaching song interpration classes in Zurich and Saarbrücken for many years. Expand the menus below for additional information.
Dates:
1963 - 2016
Collection
0360-SCPA-HEILNER
Abstract
Irwin Heilner (b. New York City, May 8, 1908; d. January 18, 1991) was an American composer of contemporary art music. During the 1930s, Heilner was a member of the Young Composers’ Group, founded by the composer Elie Siegmeister, which met regularly at the home of Aaron Copland. In 1932, Heilner briefly studied with Nadia Boulanger. He also studied with Roger Sessions and Rubin Goldmark. Heilner earned a BS and MA in music and a MS in Library Service from Columbia University. His...
Dates:
1931-1985
Abstract
Joseph Seeman Iseman (1916-2006) was actively involved with all the public television enterprises in the greater New York City area from 1954 to 1980. In 1954, Iseman became involved with Metropolitan Educational Television Association Inc. (META) through his law partner and friend Mr. Rifkind, and within a few weeks, he was voted Chair of META. He also became the legal advisor for the Fund for the Advancement of Education. Iseman became outside counsel to the Educational Broadcasting...
Dates:
1948-1986 and undated; Majority of material found within 1962-1973
Abstract
An experimental composer, Ivan Wyschnegradsky (1893-1979) wrote many pieces on quarter tones and other microtones. The collection consists of 3.75 Linear Feet of concert programs, correspondence, articles, journals, books, recordings, and scores related to Wyschnegradsky’s career, performances of his work after his death, and his relationships with his close friends and colleagues, including John Dierks, Mildred Couper, and his wife, Lucille Gayden.
Dates:
1937-1991; Majority of material found within 1972-1979
Abstract
A plant pathologist and teacher for the state of Maryland and the Maryland Agricultural College, Norton (1872-1966) was also a writer for numerous magazines, newspapers, bulletins, and newsletters. His papers include biographical as well as professional materials and focus on the publishing aspects of his career. The collection also includes Norton's reports as State Plant Pathologist.
Dates:
1895-1959; Majority of material found within 1895-1906
Abstract
The Jack Wainwright scrapbook collection contains five scrapbooks of materials, mostly relating to school band contests in which Wainwright was involved between 1923 and 1926, as well as photographs pertaining to his career.
Dates:
1914-1926; Majority of material found within 1923-1926
Abstract
Jacklin Bolton Stopp (1926-2022) was an American musicologist and scholar of nineteenth-century American music who wrote several papers on the history of the secular cantata in the United States. Stopp’s papers include her professional subject files and correspondence, as well as her collection of nineteenth-century music serials. Also included are collected ephemera from about 1860 to 1940, such as sheet music catalogs, musical advertisements, and specimen pages.
Dates:
1860-2000; Majority of material found within 1860-1980
Abstract
Author, educator, dancer/choreographer and master gardener Faith Reyher Jackson was born in New York City in 1919 to author Ferdinand Reyher (1890-1967) and author and women's rights activist Rebecca Hourwich Reyher (1898-1985). Jackson attended Bennington College in Bennington, Vermont, where she studied under Martha Hill and Martha Graham, graduating with a degree in dance and the arts in 1939. Jackson pioneered a program in dance education at the Academy of the Washington Ballet, where...
Dates:
1918-2009; Majority of material found within 1935-2007
Abstract
Laura Riding Jackson (1901-1991) was an American poet, critic, and editor. She was closely associated with the Fugitive group, a cluster of American Southern writers centered at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee, which included John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, and Robert Penn Warren. She had a long partnership with Robert Graves; together they co-founded the Seizin Press, published several volumes of poetry, and co-edited the literary journal Epilogue....
Dates:
1938-1966
