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Music, 1920-2016 (continued)
Music by Suesse (continued)
BOX-FOLDER 19/10-12 Unidentified, undated
Sketches and fragments
BOX-FOLDER 28/5-6, 29/5 Unidentified, undated
Sketches
BOX-FOLDER 30/4 Unidentified lyric sheets, undated
Other Music
This subseries includes arrangements that Suesse made for the piano duo Vera Brodsky and Harold Triggs. Brodsky and Triggs performed these two-piano arrangements of popular songs on the WJZ radio show True Ghost Stories from 1935 to 1936. This series also includes orchestration notes and harmony and counterpoint exercises from her studies with Nadia Boulanger.
Arranged alphabetically by composition title or folder title.
Arrangements for Vera Brodsky and Harold Triggs, 1935?-1936?
BOX-FOLDER 20/1 About a Quarter to Nine, undated
Two manuscript scores for two pianos
BOX-FOLDER 20/2 Alice Blue Gown, undated
Holograph and manuscript scores for two pianos
BOX-FOLDER 20/3 Carioca, undated
Three holograph scores for two pianos
BOX-FOLDER 20/4 Dodging a Divorcee, undated
Holograph and manuscript scores for two pianos
BOX-FOLDER 20/5 Fare Thee Well, Annabelle, undated
Holograph and copyist scores for two pianos
BOX-FOLDER 20/6 Fun to Be Fooled, undated
Holograph and manuscript scores for two pianos
BOX-FOLDER 20/7 Hands Across the Table, undated
Holograph and manuscript scores for two pianos
BOX-FOLDER 20/8 I Get a Kick Out of You, undated
Holograph and manuscript scores for two pianos
BOX-FOLDER 20/9 I Got Rhythm, undated
Holograph and manuscript scores for two pianos
BOX-FOLDER 20/10 I Won't Dance, undated
Holograph and manuscript scores for two pianos
BOX-FOLDER 20/11 Isle of Capri, undated
Holograph and copyist scores for two pianos
BOX-FOLDER 20/12 The Last Roundup, undated
Holograph and manuscript scores for two pianos
BOX-FOLDER 20/13 Liza (All the Clouds'll Roll Away), undated
Holograph and manuscript scores for two pianos
BOX-FOLDER 20/14 Lovely to Look At, undated
Holograph and copyist scores for two pianos
BOX-FOLDER 20/15 She Didn't Say Yes, undated
Holograph and manuscript scores for two pianos
BOX-FOLDER 20/16 She's a Latin from Manhattan, undated
Holograph and copyist scores for two pianos
BOX-FOLDER 20/17 Signature (Van Heusen Broadcasts), undated
Two holograph and two manuscript scores for two pianos
BOX-FOLDER 20/18 Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, undated
Two holograph scores and one manuscript score for two pianos
BOX-FOLDER 20/19 Sophisticated Lady, undated
Holograph and copyist scores for two pianos
BOX-FOLDER 20/20 Star Duet, undated
Holograph and manuscript scores for two pianos; sketches
BOX-FOLDER 21/1 The Truth of Your Hand, undated
Holograph and manuscript scores for two pianos
BOX-FOLDER 21/2 We Love (Signature), undated
Holograph and manuscript scores for two pianos
BOX-FOLDER 21/3 When Day Is Done, undated
Holograph and manuscript scores for two pianos
BOX-FOLDER 21/4 Melodie triste, undated
By Michael Manouso
Holograph score for piano
BOX-FOLDER 30/9 Song index cards, undated
Note: Incipits of melody lines, chords, and/or lyrics
Studies with Nadia Boulanger
BOX-FOLDER 31/3 Counterpoint book, undated
BOX-FOLDER 21/5 Exercise book: Book 9, undated
Bound notebook with sketches
BOX-FOLDER 21/6 Harmonic exercises, undated
Sketches
BOX-FOLDER 31/4 Harmony Course, undated
BOX 21, 31-39, 50 Project Files, 1936-1985
This series encompasses Suesse’s produced and unproduced plays and musicals, as well as a television show, concerts, and compositions dating from 1936 to 1985. Items include scripts, notes, lead sheets, lyric sheets, programs, correspondence, clippings, and holograph music. The series contains a significant amount of materials related to The Seven Year Itch (1952), including numerous sketches for Suesse’s incidental music. Other significant productions include, among others, her composition Young Man with a Harp, which Casper Reardon premiered with the Philadelphia Orchestra in 1939; Come Play With Me (1959), a musical for which Suesse wrote the music and lyrics; and her concert at Carnegie Hall in 1974. Also included here are souvenir programs from Billy Rose’s revues, for which Suesse composed music during the 1930s and 1940s, such as Aquacade, Casa Mañana, Diamond Horseshoes, and Venus on the Halfshell. These materials lend insight into Suesse’s lesser-known works, including Fly Away Home, Josephine, Length of Our Days, Mister Sycamore, and Nemesis.
Arranged alphabetically by title.
BOX-FOLDER 31/6-7 Another April, 1951, 1979, and undated
Scripts; correspondence; notes
The Ascanians
see Starbright
BOX-FOLDER 31/8 Autumn Rose, undated
Script
BOX-FOLDER 31/9 to 32/1 The Bentleys, undated
Scripts; notes
BOX-FOLDER 50/1-8 Billy Rose Revues, 1936-1949 and undated
Souvenir programs; clippings; photograph of Casa Mañana (1937)
Contents: Aquacade; Casa Mañana; Diamond Horseshoes; Frontier Fiesta; The Last Frontier; The Toast of the Town; Venus on the Halfshell
BOX-FOLDER 32/2 Bless Your Little Heart, undated
Scripts; clippings
BOX-FOLDER 32/3-6 Carnegie Hall concert, 1974-1975
Correspondence; publicity material; clippings; programs; notes
BOX-FOLDER 32/7 Circus Story, undated
List of characters; notes
BOX-FOLDER 21/7, 33/1-4 Come Play with Me, 1943, 1954-1959, and undated
Holograph piano-vocal scores; holograph lead sheets; sketches; lyric sheets; script (incomplete); clippings; programs
BOX-FOLDER 33/5 Crazy with the Heat, 1940, 1951, 1990
Lyric sheets; programs; clippings
BOX-FOLDER 33/6 Duet, undated
Scripts
BOX-FOLDER 33/7 Father and His Grasshopper, undated
Title page
BOX-FOLDER 33/8 to 34/1 Fly Away Home, 1958-1964 and undated
Scripts (original and revised); holograph lead sheets; correspondence; notes
BOX-FOLDER 34/2 The Girl from Sardi's, undated
Holograph lead sheets; lyric sheets; correspondence; clippings; notes
BOX-FOLDER 34/3 Isadora, undated
Synopsis; notes
BOX-FOLDER 34/4 It Takes All Kinds, undated
Synopsis
BOX-FOLDER 34/5-8, 50/9 Josephine, 1984 and undated
Script; notes; sketches; lyric sheets; clippings
BOX-FOLDER 34/9 Keep Talking, undated
Proposal for a television show
BOX-FOLDER 34/10 The Last Leaf, undated
Synopsis
BOX-FOLDER 34/11-14 Length of Our Days, 1967-1968 and undated
Scripts; holograph lead sheets; lyric sheets; correspondence; notes
BOX-FOLDER 35/1-3 Little White Lie, 1954 and undated
Scripts (original and revised); notes
BOX-FOLDER 35/4-5 The Man Who Sold the Eiffel Tower, 1966 and undated
Scripts; holograph lead sheets; lyric sheets; correspondence; notes
BOX-FOLDER 35/6 A Matter of Principles, undated
Synopsis
BOX-FOLDER 35/7 Miscellaneous, undated
Holograph lead sheets; lists of song titles; clippings; notes
BOX-FOLDER 35/8 Miscellaneous songs, 1960-1963 and undated
Lyric sheets; notes
Contents: Come Live with Me and Be My Love; Hurry Home; I Know the Blues; I'll Get Him Yet; In Praise of Tourists; It's All in the Name of Love; Neither Rain nor Snow; Someone to Come Home To; Summer Love; That's What I'm Like Without You; The Weather in My Heart
BOX-FOLDER 35/9 to 36/3, 50/10 Mister Sycamore, 1937, 1941, 1961-1976, 1981-1987, and undated
Script; holograph piano-vocal scores; holograph lead sheets; sketches; lyric sheets; business papers; clippings; notes
BOX-FOLDER 36/4 Mrs. Mooney, 1965 and undated
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