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

Scope and Contents Contains American Harp Society membership forms and promotions, correspondence pertaining to the donation, an article of the American Harp Journal from Summer 1981, and correspondence with the American Harp Journal. Also contains a photocopy of a certificate from the American Harp Society, a copy of the Constitution and By-Laws of the Chicago Chapter, chapter reports from the Chicago Chapter, and correspondence from Schuman's years as president of the Chicago Chapter. Also includes programs...

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Contains a list of scores that were included in the donation, a list of Schuman's Lyon and Healy publications, biography of Schuman, articles reviewing works by Schuman, and two volumes of the American Harp Journal featuring articles about or by Ellis Schuman. Materials date from 1969-2014.

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Contains a list of scores that were included in the donation, a list of Schuman's Lyon and Healy publications, biography of Schuman, articles reviewing works by Schuman, and two volumes of the American Harp Journal featuring articles about or by Ellis Schuman. Materials date from 2000-2014.

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Contains photographs of Ellis Schuman and his classes at the Chicago Musical College of Roosevelt University. Also contains correspondence from the dean of the college, Lyon and Healy promotional materials, list of faculty, promotional materials about the harp program and newsletters of the musical college. Materials date 1981-1984.

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...

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.