Leyna Gabriele papers, 1940-2016

Caroline Bancroft, Silver Queen: The Fabulous Story of Baby Doe Tabor (Boulder: Johnson Publishing Company, 1971) [contains a handwritten annotation on the inside cover dated 1973]. Duane A. Smith, The Ballad of Baby Doe: "I Shall Walk Beside My Love" (Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2002) [contains a handwritten annotation on the inside cover dated 2006].

Includes: various photographs of Gabriele in recital and performance; a photograph of Gabriele with Douglas Moore [?]; photographs from the fiftieth-anniversary performance of The Ballad of Baby Doe at Central City Opera, which Gabriele attended.

Also includes some clippings sent in correspondence and printouts of emails.

Includes: a typed copy of a speech related to the performance; programs; clippings of articles about the performance.

From productions around the United States, including: programs, newspaper clippings, photographs, printouts of articles, brochures, advertisements, correspondence with "Doeheads," singers, critics, and opera companies. Opera companies represented among the memorabilia include: New York City Opera, Central City Opera, San Francisco Opera, Indiana University Opera Theater, Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, Connecticut Opera, Calgary Opera, Austin Lyric Opera, Washington Opera, Governor's School for the Arts. Also includes print material relating to various Douglas Moore memorial concerts. Also includes publications about the real Baby Doe Tabor and the Tabor Opera House. Includes a copy of Gabriele's address book. Some of this material was originally in a folder titled "Baby Doe Party."

Includes: travel planning documents; newspaper clippings about the anniversary; correspondence about gala events (with Central City Opera and the "Doeheads").

Includes: emails about publicity for the production; newspaper clippings about the production, Gabriele, and the "Doeheads"; a program and a brochure for the performance; travel planning documents and emails (with David Kanzeg).

Includes newspaper clippings about the opera and about Leyna Gabriele's performance. Includes production photographs and photographs of the cast and composer at events relating to the performance.

Includes brochures, programs, invitation letters, a seating map of the Town Hall, and a notebook containing a list of attendees and their seat allocations.

Venues or companies include: New York City Town Hall; Toledo Opera; Peabody Art Theater; Allied Concert Services; Mary Washington College of the University of Virginia; Bradford Civic Music Association; Castello di San Giusto; Charleston Symphony Orchestra; Fairmont Business and Professional Women's Club; Piazzetta Carlo Cattaneo; Masterworks Theater; Maggio Castagnolese; Clarksburg Opera Guild; Teatro di San Carlo; Interfaith Oratorio Society of Long Island; Central City Opera; Columbia University Composer's Forum; Finger Lakes Lyric Circus; Dayton Opera Association; Eighth Operalogue; Columbia University Collegium Musicum; The Women's Division of the State of Israel Bonds; Columbia University Opera Workshop; American Association of University Women; New School for Social Research; First Presbyterian Church of Fairmont; The Actors Studio; Clarskburg Opera Guild; Civic Music Association; Middle Georgia College; La Grange Mutual Concert Association; Takoma Park Baptist Church; Marshall School of Music and Drama; Fairmont State College; Concert Artists Guild; Georgetown College; Musicarnival; Carnegie Recital Hall; Cincinnati Summer Opera Festival. Works include: I Pagliacci; Idomeneo; Hamlet (Kagen); Don Pasquale; La Traviata; La bohème; Judas Maccabaeus; The Ballad of Baby Doe; Hello There!; Die Fledermaus; The Telephone; Der Schauspieldirektor; Polifem (Bononcini); Gianni Schicchi; Martha; Rosalinda. Includes some service sheets for Gabriele's church gigs. Includes some newspaper clippings about Chez Vito. Includes typewritten lists (of audition repertoire, concert repertoire) and other administrative documents relating to her concert career (itineraries, etc.).

Talent agencies include: Eric Semon Associates, National Artists Corporation, and Listin Music.

Some photographs are stained, burned, or silvering.

Original folders had additional labelling: "1. Hart School Music, Martha, Gianni Schicchi (1949), [unintelligible] (1952). 2. Don Pasquale, Lugano, Switzerland, Fernando [unintelligible] (1959). 3. La Traviata (First) [unintelligible] under directions of Ruby Marshall Scott (first voice teacher) with [unintelligible]. 4. Die Fledermaus [unintelligible] theater the [unintelligible], Rosalinda, [unintelligible] 1963" and "Musetta in La Bohème, Central City Colorado Opera, 1962. 1954 First Musetta New York City. Musetta in San Carlo Opera, [unintelligible] Naples, Italy."

For: Martha and Polifem; programs for Hansel und Gretel, The Gooseherd and the Goblin, Polifem, Gianni Schicchi, Martha, and An Evening of Modern Opera. Cast lists for various showcases.

Includes photographs of recitals (Gabriele and other singers), newspaper clippings, programs, correspondence, airline tickets, programs for Rosalinda, La Traviata, scrapbook pages of press clippings. For various local companies and venues.

Includes newspaper clippings, programs, correspondence, repertoire lists, notes. Locations include: Mary Washington College of the University of Virginia, Nutley (New Jersey), Milton Gerberer Zionist District (New York City), Columbia University Composers Forum, National Opera Club of America (New York City), Queen Elizabeth II (transatlantic ship), Concert Artists Guild (New York City), Town Hall (New York City), Civic Music Association (Bradford, Pennsylvania), Alfred Concert Series (Watertown, South Dakota), Boston Opera Group.

Includes press clippings announcing Gabriele's Fulbright award; programs (for Gabriele's concerts, including her opera debut in Milan); administrative documents (from the State Department, the American Commission of Cultural Exchange with Italy); course documents (for the Italian University for Foreigners); a ticket pass to La Scala; correspondence; application materials; travel documents; a full list of Fulbright awardees, 1950-1951.

From Italy, Switzerland, Germany, and the United States. Includes: La bohème at the Brooklyn Academy of Music; Martha at Clarksburg Opera; La bohème at Central City Opera; I Pagliacci in Toledo, Ohio; Hamlet at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore; Die Fledermaus at Lyric Circus in Skaneateles, New York; Die Fledermaus at the Cleveland Musicarnival; Don Pasquale in Clarksburg; Don Pasquale in Lugano, Switzerland; Hello Out There at Columbia University.

Includes correspondence with the American Symphony Orchestra League.

Includes a contract and correspondence with the Teatro di San Carlo.

With the Nassau County Department of Public Works at Salisbury Park. Includes photographs of Gabriele in Walt Witcover's production, press clippings, and a press release.

With the National Artists Corporation, Fingerlake Lyric Circus, Fairmont Concert Association, Toledo Opera Association, Dayton Opera Association, Civic Concert Service.

Includes a list of Gabriele's opera VCRs.

Relating to Gabriele and to other singers at the Clarksburg Opera Guild.

Includes a program for the event.

For: the Purchase Symphony Orchestra; SUNY Purchase faculty recital series; Columbia University Chorus; Interfaith Oratorio Society of Long Island; RMS Queen Elizabeth; Business and Professional Women's Club of Fairmont; Bryant Park Restoration Corporation.

Includes a complete issue of Opera News.

Includes an article about Baby Doe Tabor.

For soprano and piano. Text by Rabindranath Tagore. Ringbound ozalid score. Two copies.

Ozalid copies of handwritten scores. Works include: "Milly's Song" from scene 3 of the opera The Wings of the Dove by Douglas Moore (three copies); "Three Songs" for high voice, by Jack Beeson, texts by William Blake; "Against Idleness and Mischief and In Praise of Labor: a practice session for voice and piano for Leyna, Madga, Mari, Shirlee, and Teresa" by Jack Beeson, text by Isaak Watts; "Six Lyrics" for high voice and piano, by Jack Beeson; "Eldorado" for high voice and piano, by Jack Beeson, text by Edgar Allan Poe; "Five Arias from Solo Cantatas by Benedetto Marcello," edited and with figured bass realizations by John Edmonds; "My True-Love Hath My Heart" by Seymour Barab with text by Phillip Sidney; "Four Songs from Shakespeare's Tempest" by Roy Travis; "The Preachers" by Edmund Haines, text by Norman Nicholson; "Vocalise" by Edmund Haines; "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" by Vincent Persichetti.

Loose ozalid copies and some ringbound pages. Some are annotated. Pages were stored out of order and it is not clear if the entire score is present.

For soloists, women's chorus, orchestra, and organ. Ringbound ozalid handwritten score.

Libretto adapted from Shakespeare by Joseph Papp. Ringbound ozalid handwritten score. Some pages appear to be missing.

Spiralbound ozalid handwritten score. Includes some loose pages interleaved. Texts by John Donne and William Blake.

Ozalid copy. Texts by Richard Ringler.

Text by William Saroyan. Ringbound ozalid handwritten score and loose pages.

In a box titled "Baby Doe." In a bag titled "Baby Doe Film and DAT recordings."

The carton label "Radio Music" is crossed out.

The rest of the carton label reads: Paul Media, Don Pippo; L. Lehmann, Clidora; George Helden, Biondello; Kurt Westi, Calandrino; Gertraut Stocklassa, Chicchibio; Ilse Hollweg, Auretta; Munchen Chamber Orch. cond. by Gunther Weissenborn."

Track list includes: "Leyna, 8/62. Ignited, 3/64. 1. Manon, Adieu mon petit table. 2. Pagliacci, Baletta. 3. Catari, Cor ingrato. 4. I Could Have Danced All Night."

Carton labeled: "Not good: Use to retape."

Label on the back of the carton says "Opera. [illegible]."

Labels are loose inside cartons.

Track list: "1. Travis, Songs from The Tempest. 2. Scalinatella (2 versions with guitar). 3. Mattinata. 4. Adele's Song. 5. Summertime. 6. Hungarian Song."

Carton says: "Approx. 5 min."

Front cover of the case contains a picture of David Kanzeg standing delivering a speech at a podium titled "Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium" and captioned "D. Kanzeg speaking at the symposium." The back cover of the case contains a picture of Gabriele and two others captioned "Katherine McClelland of the CBC, Leyna Gabriele, Bill Richardson after the symposium."

Originally grouped together with a rubber band and a post-it note. Title variations include: "Audio CDs, Wolf + Strauss songs"; "L. Gabriele: Wolf and Strauss"; "Leyna Gabriele sings Wolf and Strauss"; "Love Lives: H. Wolf, Strauss."

Includes a post-it note: "Baby Doe, Central City, 2006."

Rest of the label reads "Baby Doe: Leyna Gabriele. Horace Tabor: Walter Cassel. Augusta Tabor: Frances Bible. William Jennings Bryan: Norman Treigle. Central City Opera, Central City, Colorado, July, 1965. Private recording made by Walter Cassel."

Back of label reads: "The Ballad of Baby Doe, by Douglas Moore and John LaTouche (Original Version). Recorded onstage during a performance of the 1956 World Premier [sic.] Production at The Central City Opera. Leyna Gabriele as Baby Doe. Frances Bible as Augusta Tabor. Walter Cassel as Horace Tabor. Conducted by Emerson Buckley. CD 1: Acts 1 and 2. CD 2: Acts 3 and 4. This recording is for private listening only. Do not reproduce, sell, or broadcast."

Back of label reads: "The Ballad of Baby Doe, by Douglas Moore and John LaTouche (Original Version). Recorded onstage during a performance of the 1956 World Premier [sic.] Production at The Central City Opera. Leyna Gabriele as Baby Doe. Frances Bible as Augusta Tabor. Walter Cassel as Horace Tabor. Conducted by Emerson Buckley. CD 1: Acts 1 and 2. CD 2: Acts 3 and 4. This recording is for private listening only. Do not reproduce, sell, or broadcast."

Includes post-it note: "Leyna 1961. Performance of Die Fledermaus as Rosalinda."

Includes post-it note: "The tracks are labeled incorrectly. These are Leyna's arias from The Ballad of Baby Doe."

Case is labeled: "A. Baby Doe, Act I. Götterdämmerung, Act II, Duet. Immolation. B. Siegfried: Final Duet"

Case is labeled: "Side 1: Baby Doe, Sc. 1 + 2. Baby Doe, Sc. 4."

Letters to Gabriele congratulating her on various performances, from various individuals and organizations. Includes some unrelated personal correspondence.

Loose onionskin pages, handwritten. Includes string, woodwind, and harpsichord parts.

Copies of handwritten parts.

Loose pages, photocopied. Annotated. Multiple copies.

Includes plot outlines, lists of musical numbers, budgetary documents, project descriptions, handwritten notes, character lists.

Typewritten, annotated in pencil.

Annotated published scores. Interleaved is an annotated flyer for the performance of L'oca del Cairo with Masterworks Laboratory Theater and a photocopy of the sheet music for a Mozart piano sonata.

Includes annotated flyers, correspondence, receipts, invoices, a photocopied extract of the score (with an annotated English translation), handwritten and typed notes, a copy of the essay "A Director's Guide to Play Analysis," and a flyer for the New York City Opera season 1989.

Spiralbound notebook. Some loose pages are interleaved.

Originally in a ringbinder. Some annotations (such as the English translation) are present in the scan, while others are marked on the pages in pencil. The pages appear to have been glued back to back.

Many notes are likely for Gabriele's classes at SUNY Purchase. There are some loose pages interleaved and some other material is stapled inside. Contains feedback for students on rehearsals or workshops of arias, scenes, or entire operas. Includes draft translations of sections of opera libretti. Includes some attendence registers. Includes notes on acting and singing technique. Many are labelled with the names of operas (Lucia Silla, Semiramide, Ernani, I Lombardi, Candide, Norma, Otello, Anna Bolena, Shepherd on the Rock, La fille du régiment, Julius Caesar). Other labels include: "Notes for Rehearsals"; "Work Materials for Teaching"; "Masterclasses and Symposiums"; "Opera Translations"; "MLT Volume 1." In a box titled "Teaching Materials."

Originally in a ringbinder. Includes rehearsal schedules, Gabriele's notes, personnel list,a hand-drawn set design, props list, annotated programs, and a photocopy of a 1969 score for Mozart's opera with an English translation by Basil Swift.

Notes and handouts for workshops with Peter Schlosser and Walt Witcover. Seemingly for Masterworks Laboratory Theater and for SUNY Purchase.

For Gabriele's courses and workshops at SUNY Purchase, including: the Fall 1979 scene workshop, "Acting Training for Singers," the summer workshop "The Serious as Popular and the Popular as Serious," "Opera Performance Workshop," "Performance Workshop for Opera, Musical Comedy, and Cabaret," "Singer's Performance Workshop or Acting Technique for Singers" (with Peter Schlosser), "Singers' Performance Workshop" (with Peter Schlosser), "Opera and Broadway Musical Workshop" (with Marie Traficante). Includes a press release from SUNY Purchase for Gabriele's 1985 "Opera Performance Workshop." Mostly typewritten documents (with pencil annotations) but also includes handwritten documents.

Includes annotated typewritten and handwritten drafts, correspondence with editors at High Fidelity and Opera News, biographical notes for Gabriele and Witcover.

Includes posters/flyers for her opera workshop and other related ephemera.

Includes a piece of correspondence from Walt [Witcover?].

Includes set designs, prop lists, personnel lists, cast lists, notebooks (spiralbound and legal pad) with Gabriele's directorial notes, other documents relating to the production. Also contains Gabriele's research into other productions of the opera and a copy of the original David Belasco play, Madame Butterfly: A Tragedy of Japan.

Includes rehearsal schedules, cast lists, set designs, Gabriele's notes, programs, annotated copies of the score, newspaper clippings, publicity headshots of the cast. Includes fundraising material for Giovanetti Opera, and the program for a benefit concert.

Includes a photocopy of the published Boosey and Hawkes German libretto and a typewritten English translation.

Some typewritten material is taped inside.

Annotated photocopy of the piano-vocal score of the opera, with typewritten stage directions stapled to the back of each page. Two copies: one bound, one loose.

English translation (by Steve Brown) is either written in ink onto photocopies of pages of the piano-vocal score or separately typewritten. Some pages are stapled together. Includes photocopies of articles about Verdi's dramatization.

Programs; photographs of the production; plot synopsis of the second act; a cast list; a typed script of the fourth act; correspondence.

Includes: an announcement for the founding of the workshop; a course description for their "Acting For Singers," "Method Acting For Singers," "Acting Techniques for Singers," and "Singers' Performance Workshop" classes (all taught by Gabriele); a history of the theater; an invitation to a "work in progress" session.

Includes a proposal for a lecture about the theater for the ATA Convention; an info packet containing a mission statement and photocopies of reviews; a bound photobook containing a history of the theater.

From Leyna Gabriele to the critic Alan Rich, who criticized MLT's production of The Gondeliers. From Walt Witcover to Christopher Hunt at SUNY Purchase, complaining about Peter Sellars' production of Cosi Fan Tutte. A resignation letter from Richard Moss addressed to Walt Witcover.

Flyers, mailouts, and press releases, typed. Includes announcments for opera scene showcases, "work in progress" sessions, open classes, and L'oca del Cairo (all taught or directed by Gabriele).

Benefit for Israel titled: "A Serving of Verse Garnished with Song and Story." Also includes a program, a press release, a flyer, a budget, a clipping of a review.

Labeled on the back with the name of the scene. Includes a press clipping.

Labeled on the back with the names of performers.

Includes budgetary documents, formal correspondence (with lawyers, donors, potential donors, politicians, critics, producers, Actors Equity), handwritten notes, directories (steering committee, board of directors), documents regarding venues (electriciy billing, a photocopy of a newspaper article), a program for the production of "Domestic Relations," an application to Arts Exposure '84, meeting minutes, information and review packets, official documents relating to charity registration. Additional folder labelling included: "MLT 1. Board of Directors Info. 2. Loans to MLT. 3. Contributions 74 + 75. 4. Financial Statements 75. 5. Statement of MLT aims and purpose. 6. Legal Documents" and "1. Articles. 2. Reviews. 3. Programs. 4. Letters. 5. Grant Proposal."

Mostly press clippings and press releases. For The Gondeliers, Barbouroche, La Traviata, Three Plays of the Sea, Mozart as Dramatist, A Serving of Verse, and others. Includes a full issue of Opera News containing an article about the troupe. Includes correspondence regarding a profile on Gabriele in the New York Post.

At Washington Crossing State Park, Southwark Theater Philadelphia, Princeton Area Chamber of Commerce. Includes: press clippings (about Gabriele's production and a competing production of the same opera at Eastman School of Music), info packets, correspondence (with reviewers and editors), programs, rehearsal schedules, cast lists. Includes full issues of some magazines.

Appointment letters and letters of reccomendation for the position.

Includes press releases, memoranda, press clippings, programs, rehearsal schedules, student enrollment lists, correspondence (with funders), publicity material, handwritten notes, budgetary material, funding applications, costume rental forms.

Two spiralbound notebooks. Some related documents are affixed or interleaved in the pages.

For a production of Bastien und Bastienne and various scene showcases. Includes correspondence, personnel lists, handwritten notes, programs, libretti, fundraising documents, rehearsal schedules, press releases.

Two spiralbound director's notebooks. Some related documents are affixed or interleaved in the pages. Includes notes on Gabriele's production of The Disappointment in Princeton.

For: The Abduction from the Seraglio with New York Repertory Orchestra; "An Evening at the Opera" at SUNY Purchase; Madama Butterfly at SUNY Purchase; The Magic Flute at Trinity Street Auditorium and the Museum of the City of New York; Ariadne auf Naxos at SUNY Purchase; "Friends of Music" at SUNY Purchase.

Most likely Purchase Opera Company's production of Madama Butterfly and a production of Hansel und Gretel.

From administrators at SUNY, Beverly Sills, audience members, cast members, friends.

This folder contains racist caricatures and other material demonstrating racial prejudice towards Japanese people and culture.

Mostly backstage and front-of-house photographs. This folder contains racist caricatures (including yellowface) and other material demonstrating racial prejudice towards Japanese people and culture.

Edition by Shirlee Emmons, Stanley Sonntag, Leyna Gabriele, Scotia W. MacRae. Typewritten scripts. Various drafts and fragments (many of which are annotated). Includes correspondence (with reviewers, publishers, collaborators) and news clippings.

With: Warner Brothers, the Mobil Foundation; Reader's Digest; Seagrams; Theodore Presser; American Bank Note; Texaco; IBM; Exxon; Shell; Xerox; Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance; Pepper, Hamilton and Scheetz; Shearman and Sterling. Mostly solicitation letters (from Gabriele) and rejection letters (from corporations).

Handwritten score. Loose onionskin pages in a cardboard folder.

Loose onionskin pages. Two handwritten scores. Includes some draft fragments.

Only the lid for the container was extant: the item has been rehoused with the lid included.

The date is crossed out.

The case is labeled "1/20/70, Mozart in Motion discussion."

The case is labeled "Lesson: Witcover-Gabriele, 17/28/89, La Traviata, Act III, Tape 1."

Includes post-it note: "Leyna sings: Wolf + Strauss Songs; Traviata excerpts; and Fulbright audition no ending (1949), 'Una voce poco fa'."

Labeled "Goose" on the back. This poster was likely set dressing for Gabriele's production of Mozart's L'oca del Cairo for Masterworks Laboratory Theater.

Starring Jerry Stiller, Nancy Ponder, and Georges Courteline. Artwork signed F.L. Gates.

Also includes a postcard for the restaurant, correspondence (with First Lady Pat Nixon, and with public relations consultants). Includes articles about Judy Garland, Lady Bird Johnson, President Richard Nixon, Placido Domingo, and other celebrity figures. Includes a typed copy of "The Chez Vito Story."

Of Gabriele, Vito Pisa, Chez Vito staff, and restaurant patrons. Includes photographs of notable guests, including Zsa-Zsa Gabor, Alex Cord, and Dame Joan Sutherland.

Includes some clippings of articles (original and photocopies) about Chez Vito.

Mainly letters from Vito Pisa, but also includes letters from other friends, family and acquaintances. Includes funeral service programs for members of the Pisa and Gabriele families.

Documents various aspects of Gabriele's marriage to Vito Pisa, including their vacations, family events, their wedding, their pets, their yacht (Chez Vito II). Includes two transparencies and one photo printed onto hard stock. This photograph depicts a party (possibly at Chez Vito) in which Gabriele and other white guests dressed in yellowface, wearing costumes and makeup that denigrate people of Japanese descent and appropriate Japanese culture. Remainder of the original label reads: "1954- (wedding celebrations with Vito); vacation pictures; summer 1959-1960 with Vito Pisa in Italy; Vito Pisa, 1000 Park Avenue Terrace."

The lamination of one passport has become sticky: a piece of acid-free paper has been folded around it to prevent further adhesion.

Documents relating to the valuation of various European jewels and antiques, a photocopy of Vito Pisa's will, and stock transferral certificates.

Parts (vocal and instrumental), vocal scores, lead sheets, and orchestral scores of various sizes. Mostly ozalid copyset scores. Many scores are annotated. Songs include: "Hungarian Medley"; "Musetta's Waltz"; "Laughing Song"; "I Could Have Danced All Night"; "Core'ngrato"; "Scalinatella"; "Fascination"; "Ou est tu, mon amour?"; "Estrellita"; "Ciribiribin"; "Don't Ever Say Goodbye"; "Crying in the Moon"; "Life on the Wicked Stage"; "Y al mirarte mi vida"; "No one but you"; "Comm' Facett' Mamm't' 'o"; "Dicitencello."

Cardboard menu showing hors d'oeuvres, potages, entrées, and desserts.

Handwritten date on carton: "OK Part, 1/4/68." Crossed out on carton: "Humble Oil and Refining Company. Esso Heating Oil, Winter 1968. Music to Keep Warm By. Produced by McCann-Brickson Inc. Houston, Texas, January 2, 1968."

Empty tape case; may have formerly contained Item 32.

Back of the label includes a photocopy of a long liner note and track list and the label: "c. Leyna Gabriele/Vito Records, 2000."

Printed label for Side 1 says: "Vito Records Ltd. A Night at 'Chez Vito.' Ciribiribin; Non ti scordar di me; Granada; Barcarolle; Dans mon coeur; O'Marinariello. Leyna Gabriele, soprano; Rose Marrone, mezzo-soprano; John Stamford, tenor; Warren Galjour, baritone; with the 'Chez Vito' Orchestra and Chorus. Recorded by Columbia Records." Printed label on Side 2 says: "Vito Records Ltd. A Night at 'Chez Vito.' La luz de la luna; Hora staccato; Core'ngrato; Funiculi-Funicula. Leyna Gabriele, soprano; Rose Marrone, mezzo-soprano; John Stamford, tenor; Warren Galjour, baritone; with the 'Chez Vito' Orchestra and Chorus. Recorded by Columbia Records."

Label for Side 1 reads: "Vito. Romance at Chez Vito. Chez Vito String Orchestra. Long Ago and Far Away; If You Go; I'll Take Romance; Secret Love; If; Love Affair; Love is a Many Splendored Thing. Vito Records Ltd. New York 22, N.Y." Label for Side 2 reads: "Vito. Romance at Chez Vito. Chez Vito String Orchestra. Serenata Sincera; Piscatore di Pusillipo; Valencia and Ca [sic.] C'est Paris; Autumn Leaves; Vurria; Voce' Notte; Das Alte Lied. Vito Records Ltd. New York 22, N.Y."

Programs and publicity for concerts by Gabriele's students in a range of educational venues (SUNY Purchase and a range of other universities), community venues (libraries, church halls), and commercial venues (recital halls, theaters), both in and out of New York City.

Chamber opera with a libretto by Roger Brucker and music by Gerald Humel. Ringbound rental score. Includes a letter from the rental agent.

Also includes a magazine clipping about her efforts.

Material relating to Gabriele's education at Fairmont State College and East Fairmont High School.

Typewritten, bound.

Blank postcards. Includes a few unrelated pieces of correspondence.

Includes a program for Gabriele's recital "Music at the Honors College."

Two copies.

Paperback. Published copy. Budapest: Fekete K Productions, 516 pages.

Publicity and press materials relating to operas, plays, recitals, musicals (which her friends are performing in), or to baby showers, birthday celebrations, weddings, and banquets. Includes notes that came with the clippings and the envelopes that they were held in.

Also includes a note removed from Item 103.

Includes a newspaper clipping about the death of two DiTosti family members.

To weddings, baby showers, birthday parties, banquets, balls, and other celebrations - sent by Gabriele's friends and colleagues.

Material sent to Gabriele from actor Nicholas Johnson about his one-man play The Death of a Faun about the last days of Nijinsky. Includes letters, programs, production photographs, and press clippings.

A one-man show by David Pownall starring Nicholas Johnson about the last days of Nijinsky.

This item was not originally stored in a case and has been rehoused.

Umatic tape. Text on label: "Please return to Joan Crawford"

Includes a post-it note: "Phillip Haley DVD, re. philosophy understanding evil documentary. Maya anseton first."

Includes a post-it note: "Mich said OK for Carole and I to figure out what to do with these (don't involve her)."

Includes a business card for Patty Pitrolo, Director of Major Gifts at Fairmont State University annotated "Photos to be Made."

The back of the label reads: "1. Meravigliosa Italia [21:35]: Selected pictures from throughout the entire trip, August 11-31, shown for 1.5 seconds each. Music: audio excerpts from video clips taken of the Bagnoli lower square concert, August 22, 2006. 2. Ristorante da Rina [02:15]: Selected pictures shown for 1 second each highlighting the spirit and generosity of Rina Vecchniarelli. Music: 'Dinner' from 'The Big Night' Movie Soundtrack. 3. La chiesa di Sant Egidio e Padre Luciano [4:36]: Selected pictures shown for 4 seconds each highlighting Padre Luciano, his church, and his little piece of heaven. Music: audio excerpts taken from the mass given by Padre Luciano on location August 14, 2006. 4. Sempre Italia [04:04]: Selected pictures shown at 4 seconds each, highlighting the entire trip, August 11-13, 2006. Music: 'Sempre Libre' [sic.] from 'La Traviata.' 5. Bagnoli [11:34]: Selected pictures shown at 4 seconds each, highlighting the town of Bagoli, it's [sic.] people, and the festivities during August 15-22, 2006. Music: audio excerpts from videos taken in and around Bagnoli from August 15-22, 2006. 6. Vernazza [06:45]: Video clips from and around the apartment terrace in Vernazza. 7. Video Clips [26:54]: Miscellaneous video clips from various times and places throughout the trip, August 11-31, 2006. Produced and recorded by Nero Productions, GlobalPhotoSolutions, Budapest, September 2006.

The back of the label reads: "Ben Di Tosti. Solo Jazz Piano, Volume 1. 1. S'Wonderful, 3:20. 2. Straight No Chaser, 3:41. 3. Poinciana, 5:49. 4. All The Things You Are, 3:12. 5. Doxy, 4:36. 6. The Way You Look Tonight, 5:16. 7. Midnight Sun, 4:32. 8. Billie's Bounce, 4:29. 9. Fur Elise, 4:14. 10. Days of Wine and Roses, 5:27. 11. My Secret Love, 8:01. 12. Con Te Partito, 6:01. 13. Easy Living, 3:33. 14. Encore: S'Wonderful ver 2, 4:48. Recorded at Barking Dog Studio, June 17, July 7 and 14, 1999. Engineer: Rob Strickland. Mastering: Arthur Alexander at Arteksound Studio, Burbank, Ca. Computer Specialist: Dave Weisman."

A piece of correspondence from "Dick" was found inside and moved to Box 21 Folder 1.

Label includes Greek lettering with transliteration. Label reads: "Columbia Records. Greek Popular Song. Mesa Stin Zall Tou Kraslou (T. Demetriades). Testo Demetriades meta tis orhistras tou." The lamination is damaged on this disk.

Opera by Jack Beeson and Kenward Elmslie. New York City Opera. Conducted by Anton Coppola. Starring: Brenda Lewis, Ellen Faull, Ann Elgar, Herbert Beattie, Richard Redericks, and Richard Krause. Desto Records. Includes liner notes with the libretto.