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Dr. Jackson R. Bryer is a Professor Emeritus of the University of Maryland’s Department of English, who has also worked with the Department of Theatre as an affiliate faculty member and literary advisor. The Jackson R. Bryer interviews collection covers the period from 1990 to 2004; the bulk of the materials date from 1991 to 1993, and 2002 to 2004. The collection consists of recorded interviews of notable playwrights, music theatre composers and lyricists, and performers.
Dates:
1990-2004; Majority of material found within 1991-1993 and 2002-2004
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Jacob Avshalomov (1919-2013) was an American composer, conductor, and educator. He was the son of Aaron Avshalomov, a notable composer and educator who conducted the Shanghai Municipal Orchestra. Jacob Avshalomov studied composition with Ernst Toch in Los Angeles and, later, with Aaron Copland. In 1943, Avshalomov graduated from the Eastman School of Music with a master’s degree. In addition to being a faculty member at Columbia University for a time, he conducted the Portland Youth...
Dates:
1942-2000; Majority of material found within 1993-1996
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Jacob M. Coopersmith (1903-1968) was an American musicologist, Handel scholar, performer, conductor, teacher, and music librarian. In 1932, Coopersmith completed his dissertation, "An Investigation of George Friedrich Händel's Orchestral Style," the first thematic catalogue of Handel's works, at Harvard. He published a critical edition of Handel's Messiah in 1947, incorporating all known variants of text and music. The Jacob M. Coopersmith...
Dates:
1709-1967; Majority of material found within 1930-1967
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James A. Keene (b. 1932) is a musician and music educator. He served as professor of music and chairman of the Music Departments at Western Illinois University and Mansfield State University. He additionally taught as a faculty member at the University of Vermont and Montana State University. The collection contains his research materials, works submitted by his students at Mansfield State University, and a comprehensive index of references Keene used in his research and publications on...
Dates:
1953 - 1985
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James W. Armsey (1918-2008) oversaw the formation of educational television for the Ford Foundation in the 1950s and 1960s. He was program director of the Foundation's Fund for Adult Education beginning in 1957 and worked on developing a group of noncommercial television stations as part of the Educational Television and Radio Center. He was also instrumental in the creation of educational station WNDT in 1961. The collection documents Armsey's career at the Ford Foundation.
Dates:
1992, undated; Majority of material found within 1992, undated
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James Bolle (1931-2019) was an American conductor and composer who was instrumental in founding numerous musical organizations, including the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra and the New Hampshire Symphony Orchestra. As a composer, his major works include the opera Oleum Canis, five sinfonias, four string quartets, concerti, orchestral works, songs and chamber music. The James Bolle papers includes materials relating to the festival Monadnock Music, press books, and notated music materials,...
Dates:
1950-2011; Majority of material found within 1950-2011
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James E. Moore (1929-2022) was professor emeritus at Northwestern University in music education and was former Director of Admissions for the School of Music. He was most known for his dissertation research (Ph.D. University of Michigan, 1968) on the National Band Contests from 1926 to 1931, organized by the National Association of Music, which is a significant contribution to music education research. Dr. Moore's research material encompass his collection, including a hardcopy and microfilm...
Dates:
1924-1970, undated; Majority of material found within 1926-1931
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James B. Felton (October 9, 1927-October 12, 1999), a Philadelphia-based music critic and composer, gathered the material in this collection in anticipation of a biography of Leopold Stokowski, which he did not complete. This collection covers the period of 1916 to 1971, with the bulk of the materials from 1968 to 1971. It primarily consists of photocopies of newspaper articles, certificates, and correspondence relating to Stokowski. The notebooks contain abstracts of recorded interviews...
Dates:
1916-1971; Majority of material found within 1968-1971
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The James J. Taylor collection of the Washington Area Performing Arts Video Archive (WAPAVA) documents a comprehensive range of theatre productions, nationally active local dance companies, and discussions featuring contemporary creative artists. Founded and sustained through the individual efforts of videographer Jim Taylor, WAPAVA began as a one-man-show on a small budget and now contains over a decade of performance practices and performing arts history in the Washington, DC area. By the...
Dates:
1981-Present; Majority of material found in 1995-Present
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Dr. James Long Fisher (1929-2003) was an American music educator and government official. The James L. Fisher collection consists of tune books, hymnals, education texts, and 343 scores related to children’s music education collected by Dr. Fisher. Also included in the collection are newspaper clippings, 19 RCA Victor record library for elementary school sets, and 17 LPs.
Dates:
undated
