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Scrapbooks of the Vernon Duke Collection. |
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Arranged chronologically. |
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BOX 137 |
1921-1935 ;
Ballet: Zephyr & Flora ; Symphony in F Major, Boston Symphony ; Symphony #2
; Garrick Gaieties ; Walk a
Little Faster ; Ziegfeld Follies 1934 ;
Ballet: Jardin Public |
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Contains: photographs, clippings, progams,
letters & telegrams (including ones from: Nabakov, Stokowski, John
Latouche, Ira Gershwin, Adre Gide, Cecil Beaton, Yip Harburg, Kay Swift, George
Gershwin, Monty Wooley, Imogene Coca, Tamara Geva, Johnny Green, Larry Hart,
Serge Prokofieff, Albertina Rasch, Sol Hurock, Wallingford Riegger),
documents |
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BOX 138 |
1936
[1937] |
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Clippings on: Ziegfeld
Follies 1936 ; Jardin Public (new
version), The Show is On, Ballet: Field Day ; Duke
hired to complete Gershwin score for: Goldwym Follies of
1938 ; Duke as pallbearer at George Gershwin's funeral ; performance
of 2 Duke Symphonies in Paris ; articles by Duke ; plans for a musical Serena Blandish
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Contains: photographs, clippings, programs,
letters & telegrams (including ones from: Josephine Baker, Noel Coward,
Moss Hart, George and Ira Gershwin, Serge Prokofieff, Gene Buck, Paul
Bowles) |
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BOX 138 |
Society
[1938] |
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Clippings |
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BOX 139 |
1938 -
Hi-Lo Concerts ; End of St. Petersburg ; 1939 - Keep Off the Grass ; 1942 -
Lady Comes Across ; '43 & '44 |
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Clipppings on: Plans to musicalize "The Orchid"
to be called Carousel ; High - Low Concerts ;
premiere of Duke's "Dedicaces" for pianoforte, orchestra and soprano obligato
in Boston ; premiere of "The End of St. Petersburg" at Carnegie Hall ; tributes
to Jack Robbins ; plans for musical to be titled Little
Joe (which later became Cabin in the
Sky) ; performance of Symphony No. 1, in F major at Carnegie Hall ;
ballet "Keep Off the Grass" ; Midnight Frolics ;
plans to write musical score for adaptation of Much
Ado... ; musical The Lady Comes Across ;
musical Banjo Eyes ; Cello Concerto ; musical
Dancing in the Streets (closed out of town)
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Letter from George Abbott |
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BOX 139 |
Cabin in
the Sky 1940[-1943] |
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Clippings, programs, etc. from: Cabin in the Sky ; It Happens
On Ice
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Telegrams from: Cole Porter, Ethel Waters, Mary
Lee and Douglas Fairbanks and Jack Whiting |
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BOX 140 |
'41-'42 ;
Cabin [in the Sky] ; Banjo Eyes
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Clippings, programs, etc., from: Cabin in the Sky, national tour ; collaboration
between Vernon Duke and John Latouche ; Banjo Eyes
; The Lady Comes Across
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Letters from: Howard Dietz, John Latouche, and
others |
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BOX 140 |
1943[-1944]
; Jackpot ; Cabin [in the
Sky] (movie) |
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Clippings, programs, etc. from: Jackpot ; premiere of Violin Concerto in G minor,
Boston Symphony, Conducted by Serge Koussevitzky 3/18/43 ; film version of
Cabin in the Sky, Ted Fetter lawsuit for
interests in "Taking A Chance On Love" ; announcements of upcoming Dancing in the Streets ; premiere of Ballade for
Strings and Piano with Timpani obligato, New York Times Hall, 2/21/44 (and
subsequent concerts) |
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BOX 140 |
Tas and Spars ; 1943 |
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Loose clippings in folder |
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BOX 141 |
Tars and Spars ; Sadie
Thompson ; 1st Violin Concerto ; [1944] |
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Clippings, programs etc., from: Tars and Spars ; New York premiere of Concerto for
Violin and Orchestra ; Jackpot ; Sadie Thompson
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BOX 141 |
1942-1944-1948-1949 [1950] ; Banjo Eyes - Eddie
Cantor ; Violin Sonata premiere ; Society for Forgotten Music (American
founding) ; Cello Sonata ; Yado Festival - 1950 ; Dean Dixon ; Bal des
Blanchisseuses ; x-tra pages in back |
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Clippings, programs, etc. from: premiere of "Ode
to the Milky Way" conducted by Bernstein 11/46 ; 4/48 VD returns from a year in
Paris, including a production of Ballet The Washerwomen's
Ball ; 6/5/48 VD sails for Paris to meet with Society for Forgotten
Music, will work on score for musical 24 Milord d'Arsouille, and a proposed
series of French and American exchange radio concerts ; plans for He and She ; premiere of Violin Sonata in D ; N.Y.
premiere of Cello Concerto with Dean Dixon conducting ; Sweet Dreams ; plans for French musical Carnival ; broadcasts in France of: Cantat "Paris Aller et Retour"
and Symphony No. 3, 1948 ; "Paintings by Famous Amateurs" 11/7/49 including
submission by Duke ; eighth Yaddo Music Period includes Duke's "Shropshire
Lad", 1950 |
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BOX 142 |
1946-1947
; French ballet performances "Le Bal des Blanchisseuses" ; Symphony #3 -
Brussels performance ; x-tra pages in back |
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Clippings, programs, etc. from: radio premiere of
Cello Concerto, conducted by Bernard Herrmann, 9/14/47 ; Les Ballets des
Champs-Elysees production of Le Bal Des Blanchisseuses (Ball of Laundresses),
later toured in London and in the U.S. ; Ogden Nash's Musical Zoo ; Dancing in the Streets, Boston 1943 ; telegram from
Ogden Nash ; 2 letters from Boris Kochno |
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BOX 142 |
[1948-49]
'50 & '52 |
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Clippings, programs, etc. from: Sweet Dreams, retitled He and
She ; John Murray Anderson's Almanac ;
Le Bal des Blachusseuses U.S. premiere ; Society for Forgotten Music recitial
at Carl Fischer Concert Hall, VD accompanies baritone Joseph Bell ; plans for
Casey Jones ; plans for Wedding Day ; Atalntic Records hires VD to direct a new series of
recordings of undeservedly neglected classical works ; plans for "Ballet
Entr'acte" ; musical "Portrait of New York" ; "This Is My Beloved" recording ;
"Ode to the Milky Way" ; premiere of "Three Caprices ; She's Working Her Way Through College ; recordings of "April in
Paris" ; April in Paris ; Two's Company
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BOX 142 |
'50's '51
& '52 ; Wedding Day
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Clippings, programs, etc. from: VD moves to
Westwood, California 3/5/51 ; Wedding Day ; Casey Jones ; VD shelves Wedding Day and John Murray Anderson's
Almanac to do score for Casey Jones ;
She's Working Her Way Through College ; April in Paris ; plans for The
Five O'clock Girl ; "Roses and Champagne" ; Bette Davis to star in
Two's Company ; plans for revival of Cabin in the Sky
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BOX 143 |
1952 ;
Two's Company, Bette Davis show ; x-tra pages
in back |
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Clippings on plans for production, rehearsals and
out-of-town tryouts |
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BOX 143 |
1952 ;
Two's Company, Bette Davis ; 1953 |
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Opening night telegrams, including ones from: Yul
Brynner and Jerry Robbins ; Opening night notes from: Bette Davis and Milton
Rosenstock ; Reviews and clippings ; VD autobiography "April in Paris" sold to
Little Brown ; VD commissioned by Roland Petit to write new ballet score ; VD
score M'Lord optioned by Edwin Lester ; April in Paris ; Entr'Acte , ballet with George Balanchine ; At
Home With Ethel Waters
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BOX 144 |
1954[1955][1957] ; Dilly ; Dean Dixon - Violin
Concerto |
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Clippings on : plans for Dilly ; The Golden Apple (because of
Latouche) ; performances of VD's violin concerto in Europe ; American premiere
of The Washerwoman's Ball ; plans for a musical
version of Moliere's Bourgeois Gentilhomme ;
recording of VD's score for ballet "Souvenir De Monte Carlo" ; performances and
publication of VD's "C-Major Quartet" ; decision to go by one name -- Vernon
Duke ; score for Time Remembered ; recording of
"Souvenir De Monte Carlo" ; plans for musical Paris After
Dark
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BOX 145 |
1955-56-57
; "Passport to Paris" ; 3rd Symphony ; Littlest
Review ; Latouche "Obit" |
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Clippings on: publication of "Passport to Paris" ;
April in Paris ; US premiere of 3rd Symphony ;
plans for Dilly ; letter from Alfred A. Knopf ;
Bobby Short recording ; VD being sought to write screenplay and score for first
film production of Mary Pickford's newly formed movie company ; NBC-TV
negotiating for rights to three unproduced VD musicals ; production and
recording of The Littlest Revue
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BOX 145 |
'62 &
'63 ; Zenda, etc. |
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Clippings on: San Francisco Civic Light Opera
production of Zenda ; opening night telegrams and
notes ; publication of VD's "Listen Here!" |
