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| Lawrence D. Stewart, 1917-2007 (continued) | |||||||||||||
| Business Files, 1924-2005 (continued) | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 210/7 | Pleschette, Marjorie, 1994-1998 | ||||||||||||
| Note: Regarding the last will and testament of Mabel Schirmer | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 210/8 | Popular Music That Will Live Forever, 1961 | ||||||||||||
| Note: Album produced by The Reader's Digest, RCA Custom Records Division | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 210/9 | Renn, Donald S., 1984 | ||||||||||||
| Note: Regarding access and duplication of Gershwin / Schillinger notebooks at the Library of Congress | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 210/10-11 | Research: clippings and articles, circa 1930-2000 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 210/12 | Rhapsody in Blue (film), 1938, 1941, 1966 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 210/13 | Reilly, Walter, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 582/10 | Rose Gershwin Testamentary Trust: Final Distribution, 1984 June 30 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 210/14 | Rosenthal, Dorothy B. and Daniel B. Botkin, 1924, 1993, 1998 | ||||||||||||
| Note: Regarding donation to the Library of Congress | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 210/15 | A Salute to the American Guild of Authors and Composers, 1991 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 210/16 | Leonard Saxe Papers, 2000 | ||||||||||||
| Inventory | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 210/17 | 'S Wonderful, 'S Marvelous, 'S Gershwin, 1971 | ||||||||||||
| Note: TV Special produced by Joseph Cates | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 501/40-41 | Sheet music, 1932-1968 | ||||||||||||
| Note: Inscribed by Ira Gershwin to Lawrence D. Stewart | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 210/18 | Swift, Kay, 1934, 1937 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 210/19 | Tirana, Rosamond Walling, 1947, 1959, 1990, 1998, and undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 210/20 | Trips to New York, 1959, 1968 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 210/21-22 | University of California, Los Angeles, 1936-1941, 1952-1955 | ||||||||||||
| Note: Regarding the school anthem "Strike up the Band for UCLA" | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 210/23 | University of Maryland, College Park, 1966 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 210/24 | Weber, Katherine, 1998 | ||||||||||||
| Includes: Lawrence D. Stewart's notes on David Alfaro Siqueiros' portrait of George Gershwin in a Concert Hall, dated March 11, 1959 | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 210/25 | Who Cares?, 1957, 1970 | ||||||||||||
| Ballet by George Balanchine; music by George Gershwin | |||||||||||||
| Writings by Lawrence D. Stewart, 1950-1997 | |||||||||||||
| This subseries contains Stewart's drafts and notes for articles, essays, liner notes, and other writings pertaining to George and/or Ira Gershwin. | |||||||||||||
| Arranged alphabetically by subject. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 210/26 | Album notes for Verve Records, 1959-1960 | ||||||||||||
| Includes: Correspondence regarding multiple albums; reviews | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 210/27 | Album notes for Walden Records: Ira Lyrics II, 1955 November 25 | ||||||||||||
| Note: Unproduced | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 210/28 | Album notes for Westminster Records: Gershwin: Porgy and Bess / Grofé Grand Canyon Suite, 1959 | ||||||||||||
| Includes: Correspondence; notes | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 211/1 | Biography of George and Ira Gershwin, 1995 August 21 | ||||||||||||
| Note: From Catalog of the American Musical | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 211/2 | Biography of Ira Gershwin, circa 1963 | ||||||||||||
| Note: For Who's Who in American Theatre | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 211/3 | Biographical timeline for Ira Gershwin, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 211/4 | Essay describing layout of 1021 N. Roxbury Drive, undated | ||||||||||||
| Note: References slide numbers | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 211/5 | Essay on Leo Robin and the Sweet Fellows Society, undated | ||||||||||||
| Outline | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 211/6 | George Gershwin, American Composer, 1950 January 6 | ||||||||||||
| Note: Two-minute entertaining speech for graduation lunch | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 211/7 | Gershwin Writes an Opera (Porgy and Bess), undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 211/8-10 | L'Envoi to Lyrics on Several Occasions, 1996-1997 | ||||||||||||
| Includes: Draft of new preface by John Guare | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 211/11-14 | The Gershwin Years, 1956-1972, 1989-1996, and undated | ||||||||||||
| Coauthored by Edward Jablonski | |||||||||||||
| Notes for revisions; bibliography; correspondence with publishers | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 211/15 to 212/1-2 | The Gershwins: Words Upon Music, 1959 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 212/3 | Ira and Leonore Gershwin: The Happy Amalgam of Opposite Natures, 1997 May | ||||||||||||
| Note: For the dedication of the Ira and Leonore Gershwin Theatre, San Francisco | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 212/4-5 | Ira Gershwin and "The Man That Got Away," 1997 | ||||||||||||
| Note: Article in the DLB Yearbook | |||||||||||||
| Includes: Letter and note from Harold Arlen regarding "The Man that Got Away" | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 212/6 | Journal, 1952 November 9 - 1953 May 10 | ||||||||||||
| Transcription | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 212/7 | Journal entries regarding the Gershwins, 1954-1956, 1967-1968, 1995 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 212/8 | Miscellaneous essay outlines, 1995, 1997, and undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 212/9 | NBC Radio Series "Biography in Sound," 1955 August 25 | ||||||||||||
| Note: Used by Ira Gershwin during his appearance on the program "The Serious George Gershwin," recorded on August 26 | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 212/10 | Notes and observations on Porgy and Bess, 1977-1978 and undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 212/11-13 | Notes on the Gershwins, 1955-1961, 1966-1972 and undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 212/14 | The Numbered Manuscripts of Unlyricized Tunes and Ira's Role in Their Existence, 1997 November 5 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 212/15 | Program notes on "Concerto in F", undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 212/16 | Regarding Mabel, 1994 | ||||||||||||
| Includes: Letter from Mabel Schirmer; brief essays by Annie Murphy, John Pleshette, and Mary Willis | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 212/17 | Rhetorical Figures of Speech, undated | ||||||||||||
| Laid in: Lawrence Stewart note, 1997 | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 213/1 | Something about Leonore, 1995 and undated | ||||||||||||
| Note: Article written for the Library of Congress | |||||||||||||
| Writings by Others, 1917-2007 | |||||||||||||
| This subseries predominantly contains Ira’s holograph and typescript sketches for unpublished short essays and lyric revisions, as well as his early published essays. A variety of pieces by other authors are also included. | |||||||||||||
| Arranged alphabetically by author and therein by title. | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 213/2 | Bykov, V. "Anna Strunsky's Parcel," 1965 | ||||||||||||
| Note: Published Russian article with English translation | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 213/3 | Calhern, Louis. "The Thirty-Five Tiles of Ira Gershwin," 1967 November 8 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 213/4 | Du Brow, Rick. UPI News Feature on Ira Gershwin, 1959 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 213/5 | Furia, Philip. "Ira Gershwin: The Art of the Lyricist," 1995 | ||||||||||||
| Note: Includes Lawrence D. Stewart's notes | |||||||||||||
| Gershwin, Ira | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 213/6 | 1928 Diary, 1928, 1997 | ||||||||||||
| Transcription annotated by Lawrence D. Stewart | |||||||||||||
| Includes: Book proposal | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 213/7 | An American in Paris, 1951? | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 213/8 | Andre Kostelanetz and a Gathering of Gershwiniana, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 213/9 | Audubon (Last Half), 1917 November 28 | ||||||||||||
| Note: Published in the New York Clipper | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 213/10 | Book of Knowledge, 1963 | ||||||||||||
| Note: Short biography of George Gershwin, written for a biographical encyclopedia | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 213/11 | California, Here I Came, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 213/12 | Canadian Broadcast, 1960 December 12 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 213/13 | Essay on Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya, 1940, 1958, 1965 | ||||||||||||
| Includes: Correspondence with Kurt Weill | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 213/14 | Foreward to Porgy and Bess (Columbia Masterworks), 1951 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 213/15 | Four Scores (and Seven Years Ago), undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 213/16 | Hamilton (Last Half), 1918 February 6 | ||||||||||||
| Note: Published in the New York Clipper | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 213/17 | How to Write Lyrics, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 213/18 | I Met Myself (as told to Hilda Black), undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 213/19 | Justification of his role in George Gershwin's career, 1952 | ||||||||||||
| Includes: Lawrence D. Stewart's notes from 1997 | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 213/20 | Miscellaneous notes and prose sketches, 1961-1966 and undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 213/21 | Music is Music, 1938-1939 | ||||||||||||
| Note: Unpublished, written for the Torrance High School Yearbook | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 213/22 | My Brother, 1937-1938 | ||||||||||||
| Note: Opening of essay for Merle Armitage's collection of essays on George Gershwin | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 213/23 | Notes on his childhood, 1958 September 15 | ||||||||||||
| Note: Compiled for Horace Sutton of The Saturday Review | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 213/24 | Notes on Gershwin manuscripts, 1960 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 213/25 | A P.S. 20 Connection, undated | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 213/26 | Porgy and Bess, 1967 | ||||||||||||
| Note: Libretto, annotated by Ira Gershwin | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 213/27 | Revised lyrics for "I Must Write a Song," 1997 | ||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 213/28 | Troubles of a Lyricist Told by One Who's Had to 'Fit Words' to Many a Tune, 1925 August 16 | ||||||||||||
| Note: Published in The World | |||||||||||||
| BOX-FOLDER 213/29 | Words and Music, 1930 November 9 | ||||||||||||
| Note: Published in The New York Times | |||||||||||||
| Green, Benny | |||||||||||||
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