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These papers document Elian's life and career as a harp soloist from the 1910s onward, her year as a musician in Hollywood studio orchestras (1926-1954), and significantly her marriage (1936-1946) to film composer Max Steiner. Also covered is Elian's concert career as a member of symphony orchestras and ballet companies as well as soloist appearing worldwide (1950-1986).

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12 phonograph disks of motion picture music, "Lost Horizon" (10 disks), "The Informer" (1 disk), "She" (1 disk).

Scope and Contents Contains publications produced by or with the Max Steiner Music Society, and other publications collected by the Society that feature Max Steiner or his film music composition work. Also contains records of society activities, such as photographs, letters, articles used in society publications, and sound recordings of Max Steiner music on audiocassette, phonograph record, and audiotape, some of which was distributed by the society as part of a music catalog. Collection also contains material...

Scope and Contents The Republic Pictures Music Archives is a valuable research tool for the study of music composed and recorded for motion pictures by a studio operating during the 1930s, 40s, and 50s. It is also useful in examining the works at Republic of film composers such as Max Steiner, Elmer Bernstein, Victor Young, Nathan Scott, William Lava, and Mort Glickman. The more than one thousand boxes of piano-conductor scores and parts, together with more than seven thousand recordings comprise a nearly...

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Interviews and correspondence with Ken Darby and Hugo Friedhofer.

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Recording on digital audio tape transferred in 1999 from original elements of Max Steiner's score for the film This Is Cinerama (1952).

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Personal; music; awards; scrap books; film music, sketches, scores, and recordings; general music; and photographs. The materials relate to Steiner's life and his numerous musical compositions. 6 wine glasses, 1 cigarette case that once belonged to Max Steiner. Audio cassette of an interview between Leonetta Stein and Wesly Carlson, 14 June 1981. Materials dated 1880-1981.

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34 cards and letters, 28 photographs sent to Tokunaga from the Steiners.

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27 digital audio tapes containing studio recording sessions for Max Steiner music to the following films: "The FBI Story," "Battle Cry," "Darby's Rangers," "A Summer Place," "The Ice Palace," "The McConnell Story," "Parrish," "A Majority of One," "Cash McCall," "Band of Angels," "The Dark at the Top of the Stairs." Also included are: "A Distant Trumpet," "The FBI Story," "Darby's Rangers," and "The Hanging Tree."