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Ebenezer Beesley papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1745
Scope and Contents
Mormon hymn books, musical scores, newspaper clippings, a short autobiography, a biography, and letters. Also included is a photostat copy of a handwritten list of passangers on the William Tapscott in 1859. The Mormons on the ship later formed the George Rowley handcart company which emigrated to Utah in 1859. Also included is a typescript of a diary by an unnamed person describing the journey to Utah with the Rowley company. This is transcription from the Journal History of the Church...
Dates:
1863-1950
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Emma Lucy Gates Bowen papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 3
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, concert programs, music scores, and miscellaneous items. Includes correspondence of Bowen when she was in Germany as an opera singer from 1898 to 1914 and later when she was a voice and music teacher in Salt Lake City, Utah. Also included are letters from her husband, Albert E. Bowen from 1897 to 1923 and Lucy's agent, Catherine A. Bowman. Some of the materials relate to the Lucy Gates Opera Company.
Dates:
1896-1950
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Richard Condie papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 7767
Scope and Contents
This collection includes press clippings from national and local publications highlighting events in Condie's career, especially in relation to the Mormon Tabernacle Choir; photographs, books, and scores annotated and marked by Condie during performance or study; and other personal materials such as a typescript of an oral history given by Condie, circa 1950-1970.
Dates:
approximately 1950-1970
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Robert Cundick papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS 7780
Scope and Contents
Collection contains scores and other material contain multiple computer-printed scores and sets of parts, manuscript scores and sets of parts, photocopies of published scores, and onionskin copies of Cundick's musical works. Multiple, variable copies exist for a single piece. Also included are correspondence and select CD and DVD recordings of his music, of both professionally-recorded and non-commercial varieties. The materials in this collection span from 1948 to 2013.
Dates:
1948-2013
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Lowell M. Durham papers
Series
Identifier: MSS 8150
Scope and Contents
Contains sheet music, drafts, and clippings by Durham. Includes sheet music for his pieces, as well as compositions by composer Crawford Gates. Collection also contains several materials related to Durham's book on Maurice Abravanel, his research as well on Mormon musicians, and many newspaper and magazine clippings with news on the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Utah Symphony, and music programs at the University of Utah. Some personal papers are also included, such as notes, personal report cards,...
Dates:
1920-1994
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
William F. Hanson papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 299
Scope and Contents
Indian opera productions composed by Hanson, musical scores, research material, and scrapbooks and photos based on ceremonies and music of the Ute Indians of Colorado and Utah. Operas included are: "Sun Dance," produced in New York City, 1938, "Bear Dance," and "The Bleeding Heart," a white man's fantasy of an imaginary Indian people who lived at the base of Mount Timpanogos in Utah.
Dates:
1913-1962
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Seldon N. Heaps collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1235
Overview
Personal correspondence, music manuscript workbooks, notebooks, minor and major compositions, arrangements, and recordings. The materials document much of Heaps' music career and personal life.
Dates:
1919-1963
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Edith Jones Olson oral history
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS SC 913
Scope and Contents
Autobiography; transcripts of interviews by her grandson, Jeffrey K. Olson; and the original cassette tapes of the interviews. Edith was born at Castle Gate, Utah and lived most of her life in Price, Utah. She played the piano and organ at numerous church services for all denominations and at the movies before the advent of sound. She taught music during WW II, was appointed director of the Carbon County Centennial Arts Committee, and was chosen the First Lady of the Year in Price.
Dates:
approximately 1970s
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Leroy J. Robertson scores and other material
Collection
Identifier: MSS 7768
Scope and Contents
Collection consists of published scores with accompanying manuscripts and/or photocopies of many of Robertson's works, as well as computer-burned sound recordings and a typewritten draft copy of Wilson's book, "Leroy Robertson: Music Giant from the Rockies," with annotations, circa 1930-2007.
Dates:
approximately 1930-2007
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
Margaret Summerhays papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 1415
Abstract
Collection includes brief biographical writings, scrapbooks, correspondence, teaching materials, a sampling of financial records and memorabilia.
Dates:
1879-1973
Found in:
L. Tom Perry Special Collections
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