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| BOX 21-23, 39, 43 MAPCASE 3 | Professional Papers, 1929-1992 | ||||||||||||
| Books, catalogs, programs, writings, and personal papers collected by Horton and Eng are included in this series. The majority of the series consists of writings and notes from Horton on various aspects of dance and writings by Eng on various aspects of Horton's work. There is a transcript of an unpublished interview conducted with Bella Lewitzky describing her early career with Horton. A file of programs contains ephemera likely collected by Horton and Eng and does not include any work created by Horton or the Dance Theater. Personal papers consist of auto and home insurance documentation, reference letters recommending Horton, and a file with material on his death and burial. | |||||||||||||
| Arranged by material type. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 21/7 | Auto insurance, 1948-1960 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 21/8 | Book lists, 1938, 1941 and undated | ||||||||||||
| Books | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 39/8 | Album del IV centenario Guadalupano, 1938 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 21/9 | Design in the Theatre, 1927 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 21/10 | Música y Danza, 1943 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 21/11 | New Mexico Indians, 1948 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 21/12 | Catalogs, 1938-1969 and undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 21/14 | Guild memberships (Horton), 1942, 1953 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 21/13 | Home insurance, agreements, and financial documents, 1938-1958 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 21/17 | Periodicals, 1935-1936, 1958-1967 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 22/1, 43/9 | Programs, 1927-1984 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 21/15 | Reference letters (Horton), 1947 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 21/16 | Vital records and estate (Horton), 1943-1953 | ||||||||||||
| Writings by Frank Eng | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 22/2 | Dance Perspectives article and early research, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 22/3 | Lester Horton, American dance pioneer, circa 1966 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 22/4 | Memoirs of a man of displeasure, circa 1966 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 22/5 | Notebooks, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 22/6-7 | Notes, 1957-1959 and undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 22/8 | Rivers and Streams, part 1, 1974 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 23/1 | Rivers and Streams, part 2, circa 1980 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 23/2 | Miscellaneous manuscripts, 1971 and undated | ||||||||||||
| Writings about Lester Horton | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 23/3 | Lester Horton: Modern dance pioneer, 1977 | ||||||||||||
| By Larry Warren | |||||||||||||
| Book | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 23/4 | Published articles, 1937, 1948, 1954-1978, 1992 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 23/5 | Unpublished interview with Bella Lewitzky, 1967 | ||||||||||||
| Writings by Lester Horton | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 23/6 | Articles and notes, 1929-1947 and undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 23/7 | Choreographic Service notes, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 23/8-9 | Notebooks, undated | ||||||||||||
| MAPCASE-DRAWER 3/4 | Unidentified drawing, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX 23-24, 40-41, 43, 45 | Photographs, circa 1935-1994 | ||||||||||||
| This series consists of formal portraits and snapshots of dancers and other individuals associated with the Dance Theater. Group photographs are organized under Dance Theater Company, and images from the opening night of Choreo '50 are filed together. Some folders contain photographic negatives of existing prints. Also included in this series are two photographic metal print plates, one of which features Leila Goldoni and the other Don Martin. Photographs of specific productions are organized under Individual Works within Production Files. Images of classes and children's performances are arranged under Education Files. | |||||||||||||
| Arranged alphabetically by subject. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 23/10 | Album, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 40/8 | Bishop, Leigh, circa 1954 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 23/11 | Brunswick, Liz, 1956 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 40/9 | Covacevicia, Nick, circa 1955 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 23/12, 40/10-11 | Dance Theater Company, 1937-1953, circa 1955 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 24/1 | Dance Theater, opening of Choreo '50, 1950 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 24/2 | de Lavallade, Carmen, 1950, 1967 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 40/12 | de Lavallade, Yvonne, circa 1954 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 24/3 | Ellington, Duke, 1952 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 24/4 | Eng, Frank, 1953, 1994 and undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 24/5 | Finch, Constance, circa 1948 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 24/6 | Foster, Suzanne, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 40/13 | Gernreich, Rudi, 1949 and undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 24/7 | Goldoni, Leila, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX 41 | Goldoni, Leila, undated | ||||||||||||
| Photographic metal printing plate | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 24/8 | Hanayagi, Tokuyae, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 24/9 | Hill, Jack, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 24/10, 40/14, 45/20 | Horton, Lester, circa 1935-1953 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 24/11 | Johnson, Janice, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 24/12 | Johnson, Suzanne, 1954 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 40/15 | Kadden, Diane, circa 1954 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 24/13 | Katz, Gita, circa 1954 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 24/14 | Kawasumi, Nana, circa 1955 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 24/15 | Koerner, Martha, circa 1954 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 24/16 | Lewitzky, Bella, 1937-1950 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 24/17 | Limiou, Jeanna, circa 1955 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 24/18 | Maldonado, Larry, 1954-1955 | ||||||||||||
| BOX 41 | Martin, Don, undated | ||||||||||||
| Photographic metal printing plate | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 24/19 | Maracci, Carmelita, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 45/21 | Mitchell, James, circa 1945 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 24/20 | Orans, Sandra, 1949 and undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 24/21 | Ratcliff, Carl, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 24/22 | Salkin, Jeri, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 24/23 | Silver, Lilyan, circa 1954 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 24/24 | Trisler, Joyce, circa 1954 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 24/25 | Truitte, James, 1954 and undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 43/10 | Van Cleve, Kita, circa 1937 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 24/26 | Unidentified individuals, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 24/27 | Unidentified miscellaneous, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX 24-33, 44, 46 | Music, 1918-1959 | ||||||||||||
| Contains music composed for or collected by Horton and the Dance Theater company. Composers with significant representation in this series include Judith Hamilton, Lou Harrison, Pérez Prado, Gertrude Rivers Robinson, Milton Rosen, and Heitor Villa-Lobos. Several folders consist of percussion orchestrations for an unidentified version of Horton's Salome. This series also contains a manuscript score for Alvin Ailey's According to St. Francis by Gershon Kingsley. | |||||||||||||
| Arranged alphabetically by composer and title therein. | |||||||||||||
| Abel, Simon | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 26/1 | Lysistrata, undated | ||||||||||||
| Manuscript sketches | |||||||||||||
| Adams, Robert M. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 26/2 | A Lost Soul in Outer Space, op. 7, no. 1, 1946 | ||||||||||||
| Printed score for piano | |||||||||||||
| Albeniz, Isaac | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 26/3 | Seguidilla, 1-2, undated | ||||||||||||
| Copyist scores for piano | |||||||||||||
| Antheil, George | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 26/4 | Suite for the Piano, 1942 | ||||||||||||
| Printed score for piano | |||||||||||||
| Arlen, Harold and Ted Koehler | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 24/28 | Get Happy - Fox Trot, 1930 | ||||||||||||
| Printed parts | |||||||||||||
| Barnet, Charlie | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 26/5 | Redskin Rumba, 1945 | ||||||||||||
| Printed conductor score and parts | |||||||||||||
| Basie, Count | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 26/6 | Jumpin' at the Woodside, 1938 | ||||||||||||
| Printed violin 1 part | |||||||||||||
| Benjamin, Bennie and George Weiss | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 24/29 | I'll Never Be Free, 1950 | ||||||||||||
| Printed parts | |||||||||||||
| Brown, Nacio Herb | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 24/30 | Temptation, 1946 | ||||||||||||
| Lyrics by Arthur Freed; arranged by Marke Winsten | |||||||||||||
| Printed parts | |||||||||||||
| Cano, Eddie | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 26/7 | Ican, 1954 | ||||||||||||
| Printed score for piano | |||||||||||||
| Clar, Arden | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 24/31 | Similau, 1948 | ||||||||||||
| English lyrics by Harry Coleman; Spanish lyrics by Leopoldo Gonzalez; arranged by Sy Oliver | |||||||||||||
| Printed parts | |||||||||||||
| Cooper, Bob | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 44/1 | Salome, undated | ||||||||||||
| Maunscript full score | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 26/8 | Salome, undated | ||||||||||||
| Copyist parts | |||||||||||||
| Covington, Audrée | |||||||||||||
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