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Musicians -- Utah -- History

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:

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

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

William F. Hanson photographs

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197232592367]
Identifier: MSS 5983
Scope and Contents

This collection contains 65 photographs and 102 negatives (and prints from those negatives) from William F. Hanson. Most of the photographs and negatives are duplicates of material found in the William F. Hanson Papers (MSS 229) and the William F. Hanson Collection (MSS 3340). The images are mainly of Indian opera productions composed by Hanson and of the Ute Indians of Colorado and Utah, as well as several photographs of William F. Hanson himself.

Dates: approximately 1913-1962

L.D.S. Church academies music departments, 1905-1921

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197232490315]
Identifier: MSS 650
Scope and Contents

Handwritten reminiscences. The date of its composition is uncertain. Driggs writes about his teaching activities in the music departments of several academies owned and operated by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Utah, Idaho, Colorado, and Arizona. He also relates his experiences as a student at Brigham Young University.

Dates: approximately 1950

Lotta Van Buren correspondence and manuscript, 1955-1960

 Series
Identifier: MSS 5 Series 1
Scope and Contents

The two folders contain letters regarding rare instruments, personal letters, a manuscript, and notes for a biography.

Dates: 1955-1960

Lotta Van Buren research notes, lectures, and memorabilia, 1896-1938

 Series
Identifier: MSS 5 Series 2
Scope and Contents

Ten folders of sheet music, one folder of lectures and a book, one folder of expenses, and one folder of memorabilia.

Dates: 1896-1938

Charles John Thomas scrapbook

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31197230217918]
Identifier: MSS 1730
Scope and Contents

Scrapbook of newspaper clippings. The items were pasted into a printed book. The materials are clippings from Utah newspapers relating to Thomas' music career.

Dates: 1869-1901

Lotta Van Buren papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS 5
Abstract

This collection contains sheet music, newspaper clippings, research notes, recital programs, lectures, and correspondence. The items largely relate to Lotta Van Buren activities in restoring old musical instruments and in teaching about music history and theory.

Dates: 1896-1960