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Carnegie Corporation of New York, Series III: Grant Records, 1911-1994

1500 linear feet

The Corporation awards grants to nonprofit organizations and institutions for projects that are broadly educational in nature and that show promise of having national or international impact. Certain appropriations are made for activities, such as Corporation-led initiatives that are administered by the foundation's officers. The trustees set the overall policies of the foundation and have final authority to approve all grants above $50,000 recommended by the program staff. Grants of $25,000 or less, called discretionary grants, are made upon the approval of the president and are reported to the board; larger discretionary grants, those between $25,000 and $50,000, are also reviewed by a Corporation-wide group, which makes recommendations to the president. (from Program Guidelines 2003-2004 (http://www.carnegie.org/sub/program/areas.html))

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Arthur Mitchell Collection, 1800s-2021, bulk 1934-2019

107 linear feet
Arthur Mitchell (1934-2018) was an American ballet dancer, choreographer, and founder and director of the Dance Theatre of Harlem. This collection contains materials related to his career as a dancer with the New York City Ballet, and his later professional work with the Dance Theatre of Harlem and others. The collection includes administrative records, appointment books, correspondence, invitations, notes, notebooks, photographs, posters, programs, and audio and video recordings.
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New York Choreographic Institute--Spring Session, 2011 March 11 1 DVDs Box 117, Item 113

Composer- Gity Razaz Choreographer- Robert Binet; Composer- Michael Ippolito, Choreographer- Joseph
Morrissey; Composer- Michael Gilbertson, Choreographer- David Morse; Dancers: Students of the School of

Composer- Gity Razaz Choreographer- Robert Binet; Composer- Michael Ippolito, Choreographer- Joseph Morrissey; Composer- Michael Gilbertson, Choreographer- David Morse; Dancers: Students of the School of American Ballet; Musicians: Students of The Julliard School

  1. Series: Recordings, 1953-2018
  2. Subseries: Video Recordings, 1953-2018
  3. Subseries: CDs and DVDs, 1956-2018
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New York City Opera records, 1924-2019, bulk 1965-1991

214 linear feet
New York City Opera (NYCO) was famously dubbed "The People's Opera" by Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia at its founding in 1943. The Opera company's mission is to inspire audiences with innovative and theatrically compelling opera at an affordable price. This collection documents the artistic productions and the daily administrative functions and operations attest to the mission of the company. The materials in this collection consist of administrative and financial records, production files, stage guides, scores, correspondence, programs, photographs, posters, scenery plans, memorabilia, printed materials, and audio and video recordings, dating from 1924 to 2019, with its bulk dating from 1965 to 1991.
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VOX Showcasing American Composers

VOX Showcasing American Composers
American Composers" ("VOX" was added to the title in 2002, "Contemporary American Opera Lab" added in 20 I
use a full opera orchestra, allowing composers and listeners to hear bow the music really sounded. The

In 1999, the New York City Opera Company began a series of opera readings called "Showcasing American Composers" ("VOX" was added to the title in 2002, "Contemporary American Opera Lab" added in 20 I 0). Such workshop productions had been common in the opera world, but this was the first to first to use a full opera orchestra, allowing composers and listeners to hear bow the music really sounded. The public was invited, at no cost, but audiences were small in the early year. In 2006, VOX moved to NYU's Skirball Center for the Performing Arts. By this time, VOX had attained a considerable reputation in the opera world, and representatives from many companies swelled the audience. Skirball Center was an ideal site: a modem theater with excellent facilities and 950 seats, now well filled. In later years, a $25 "consignment" for tickets was instituted to contain audience size. Six operas were presented on each of two days (Saturday and Sunday) rehearsals were no longer open to the public, and each opera received 30 minutes rather than 45. Those changes made it more difficult to appreciate an unknown work. To counter that, videos of composers and librettists helped prepare the audience for what it was about to experience.

  1. Series XI: James North Addition, 1974-2018

Coloratura Soprano Eileen Di Tullio, undated 1 phonograph records Box 225

A1: Bel Raggio Lusinghier (Semiramide) Composed By – Rossini*
A2: Care Selve (Atalanta) Composed By – Handel*
A3: Ach, Ich Liebte (Die Entführung Aus Dem Serail) Composed By – Mozart*

Commercially produced. "Recorded during performance, Town Hall, New York City." "Management: Eleanor Morrison, 327 Centra Park West, N.Y.C."

  1. Series X: Audio-Visual, 1944-2013
  2. Subseries X.1: Phonograph Records, 1944-1986
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Juma Sultan papers, 1960s-1990s

20 linear feet

The Juma Sultan papers includes a large collection of performances from the loft era in New York City, a significant but under-documented period of jazz history. The recordings collection of circa 430 items, spanning the period from 1965-1975 (on open reel and cassette) contains unique, unreleased concert recordings, with the exception of a small amount of the collection included in the box set of Aboriginal Music Society recordings, Father of Origin (Eremite records, 2011). The recordings document not only the music of Sultan's own groups, such as the Aboriginal Music Society, but also a wide variety of recordings of other bands at Studio We, at other loft spaces in Lower Manhattan (e.g., Studio Rivbea, Artist House, the Ladies Fort, and Ali's Alley), as well as in Woodstock.

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Barnard Center for Research on Women Feminist Ephemera Collection, 1906-2014, bulk [Bulk:1975-2001]

51.08 Linear Feet
This collection contains 1700+ folders of feminist ephemera collected by the Barnard Center for Research on Women on topics such as women, gender, activism, labor, sexuality, healthcare, marriage, psychology, development, and law.
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Joseph Elliott Slater papers, 1929-1996, bulk 1940-1996

29.5 linear feet
Joseph Elliot Slater was an American economist, internationalist and intellectual entrepreneur born in 1922. He died in 2002 of Parkinson's disease. Over the course of his lifetime, Slater was involved in a number of corporations, institutes, and government committees. From 1944-1954 he held a number of crucial post-war positions related to the denazification of Germany and the Allied High Commission. Throughout the twentieth century he worked as an economist and director of international affairs at a number of corporations including Creole Petroleum, the Ford Foundation and Volvo North America. While at the Ford Foundation Slater went on two details to work for the Executive Branch; first, as the Secretary for President Eisenhower's Commision on Foreign Assistance (the Draper Committee), and second, as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Education and Cultural Affairs during the Kennedy administration. Slater served as the President and the CEO of the Salk Institute from 1967-1972 and held the same positions at the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies from 1969-1986. After leaving the Aspen Institute, Slater served as the Chairman of the John J. McCloy International Center. In the final decade of his life Slater served as a trustee and member of the board of directors for a number of organizations related to education, science, the arts, and foreign relations. The material in this collection includes files and items from all of these eras of Slater's professional life. While much of this collection is related to Slater's various professional roles, there are personal files interspersed throughout the collection.
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F. C. Schang visiting cards collection, 1800-1982

6 linear feet

Collection of visiting cards of musical artists (composers, vocalists, conductors, etc.) and authors, presidents, and other celebrities of the 19th and 20th centuries, most bearing handwritten messages. There are also photographs and other memorabilia.

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Columbia University Press records, 1893-2000s, bulk 1923-2000s

752 linear feet

This collection contains the correspondence, editorial files and office files of the Columbia University Press, primarily from its reorganization in 1923 by Frederick Coykendall to the present.

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RBML Office Files, 1917-2022

176.26 linear feet
This collection contains the administrative records of the Rare Book and Manuscript Library, from its days as the Department of Special Collections to the present.
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Alvin Singleton papers, 1952-2021

9.22 Linear Feet
Composer Alvin Singleton was born on December 28, 1940 in Brooklyn, New York. He has composed music for theatre, orchestra, solo instruments, and a variety of chamber ensembles. The collection includes primarily musical scores, as well as audio recordings, clippings and other biographical materials, correspondence, photographs, programs, scrapbooks.
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