BYU Library - Special Collections

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Contains conference and summer institute programs for the American Harp Society. Materials dated 2006 to 2019.

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Twelve placards featuring American Harp Society founding board members, one poster announcing the Ruth Wickersham Papalia Memorial Scholarship, one poster announcing Karen Lindquist’s Lifetime Achievement Award on June 22, 2022, and one poster announcing the AHS 60th anniversary in 2022 and signed by numerous attendees. Materials dated approximately 2020 to 2022.

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The series contains records of the American Harp Society. Materials include concert programs, awards, notes, member directories, and certificates, 1956-1996.

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Contains scrapbooks kept by the American Harp Society from 1969 to 2022. Scrapbooks contain photographs with captions, clippings, conference, institute and concert programs, pages from the society's journal reporting on conferences, concerts, and society updates.

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This series contains materials associated with Vanderbilt Music Company. This is the publishing company started by Eleanor Fell. Materials include correspondence, publishing agreements, published works, and Fell's drafts of her published works. Most of the materials include Eleanor or are regarding her work. Other people mentioned are: Reinhardt Elster, Jack Nebergall, Vince Scuderi, Jen Elliott, Cheryl Swack, and Jerry Lesniak. Dates are approximately 1985-2000.

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Contains notes from Ellis Schuman pertaining to the collection. Also contains photographs of Alberto Salvi, a biography of Ellis Schuman, several programs from Alberto Salvi concerts and events and a photocopied article about Alberto Salvi. Date range 1940-2000.

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Contains a graduate thesis titled Alice Chalifoux: The Legacy by Anastasia Natasha Pike. Thesis submitted to the faculty of the graduate school of the University of Maryland, College Park in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts. Materials dated 2003.

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This subseries contains materials gathered by Ellis Schuman about Mildred Dilling, Harpo Marx and Marie Ludwig. Dates Range 1970-2005.

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This series contains works collected by Ellis Schuman by other various composers. Dates range 1940-2006.

Scope and Contents Contains photographs of Ellis Schuman and other harpists including Alice Chalifoux, Douglas Rioth, Roslyn Rensch, Marcella Decray, Lynne Wainwright Palmer, Derek Bell, Edward Druzinsky, Mildred Dilling, Henriette Renie, Marcel Grandjany, Salvatore Mario de Stefano, Alberto Salvi and Maria Ludwig. Many of the photographs are autographed and labeled. Also contains a photocopy of a print from the private collection of Ellis Schuman that was used on the cover of the American Harp Journal in...