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Harpists -- United States

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 19 Collections and/or Records:

American Harp Society records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 8756
Scope and Contents Contains scrapbooks from 1969 to 2019 documenting the American Harp Society's activities, including conferences, summer institutes, competitions, concert artists, Anne Adams Awards, Lifetime Achievement Awards, Chapter of the Year Awards, the Board of Directors, and the 50th Anniversary Celebration in 2012. Scrapbooks contain photographs, programs, clippings from the American Harp Journal, and the 1969 by-laws and constitution. Also contains American Harp Society event programs from 2006 to...
Dates: approximately 1969-2022

Stanley Chaloupka papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 7801
Scope and Contents

Collection spans the years 1953-2002, and contains the correspondence of Stanley Chaloupka, programs from his performances including the performances with his wife, LP and 78 audio recordings of his music and other famous harpists, one VHS tape entitled "A conversation aith the Cousteaus," and pictures with glass frames.

Dates: 1952-2002

Eleanor Fell scores, manuscripts, and other materials

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 8310
Scope and Contents

Collection includes materials that resulted from Eleanor Fell's career as a profesisonal harpist. Materials are in the form of handwritten manuscripts, photocopied manuscripts, sheet music, photocopied sheet music, published works, a tape and CD's. There are correspondence between Eleanor and other harpists regarding Vanderbilt Music Company - her music publishing company. Also, there are a few pieces of music from members of Eleanor's family. Dates range from 1936-2011.

Dates: 1936-2012

Grace Follet papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 7875
Scope and Contents

contain vocal scores for women's voices, vocal scores for mixed choirs, course booklets pertaining to harp instruction, research notes on the history and structure of harp, American Harp Society (AHS) conference booklets, programs and brochures of Follet and other prominent harpists, correspondence, two indexes and two appendixes to the AHS sound recording repository. Collection spans the dates 1927-1985, with publication dates ranging 1889-1959.

Dates: 1889-1985

Catherine Gotthoffer papers

 Collection — Carton 1
Identifier: MSS 7794
Scope and Contents

Collection contains materials collected by Catherine Gotthoffer ranging from approximately 1964 to 1995. Materials include promotional photographs of Catherine as well as other prominent harpists, documents related to Marcel Grandjany, video recordings of the Grandjany video project, newsletters from Lyon and Healy in addition to the American Harp Society (AHS), and various handbooks and policy documents from AHS.

Dates: approximately 1964-1995

Christa Grix papers

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MSS 8393
Scope and Contents

This collection includes a photograph of the attendees, and Christa's presentation notes from the 1995 American Harp Society Midcentral Regional Mini-Conference in Monticello, Illinois. Her presentation was called Fine-Tuning Your Harp Career. This collection is currently incomplete. Christa intends on adding more installments to her papers regarding her career as a harpist. Dated 1995.

Dates: 1995

Elizabeth Meriwether Huntley papers

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: MSS 7839
Scope and Contents

Collection contains materials collected by Elizabeth Huntley. Items range from approximately 1996 to 2001. It includes concert, conference, and competition programs, photographs, and other documents.

Dates: approximately 1996-2001

Lucile Jennings papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 7788
Scope and Contents

This collection includes correspondence, harp music, music programs, and photographs that belonged to Lucile Jennings spanning the years 1974-2005.

Dates: approximately 1974-2005

Susann McDonald papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 7818
Scope and Contents

This collection contains materials collected by Susann McDonald ranging from approximately 1937 to 1999. It includes photographs, press materials, World Harp Congress minutes, and other harp related documents.

Dates: approximately 1937-1997

Sylvia Meyer papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 7764
Scope and Contents

The collection contains letters, newspaper clippings, photographs, books, articles, concert programs, correspondence, and World Harp Congress harp publications collected by Sylvia Meyer throughout her career as a harpist. Approximate dates range from 1930 to 2001. The items are associated with the American Harp Society. It also contains directories, notes, and certificates regarding members of the American Harp Society.

Dates: approximately 1930-2001