American Ballet Caravan music scores, 1935-1947

Scope and Content Note

The American Ballet Caravan Music Scores consist of materials collected and/or commissioned by Lincoln Kirstein before and during Ballet Caravan's tour of Latin America in 1941. Most of the scores show extensive conducting marks, corrections or emendations, paste-overs, annotations, or laid-in sections. Parts are often signed by the musician who performed them. Not all sets of parts are complete. The scores included in this collection match the inventory of scores that was created upon receipt at the Library of Congress in 1944.