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Music & the Performing Arts

Edited by Executive producer David Hall, disc edition produced by David Hamilton and Tom Owen

The first recordings of opera from the stage of the Metropolitan Opera, restored on six 33 rpm records from the 1900-1904 cylinders in the Library's Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound; with an illustrated 72-page booklet of musical biographies and texts performed.

Available from the Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, 40 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY 10023-7498

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Published by New York Public Library, 1985.

Johannes Brahms, introduction by Walter Frisch

A facsimile of the original manuscript of Brahms's great work for contralto, men's chorus, and orchestra, with an introduction documenting its place in the composer's life and work. The original manuscript of this musical setting of a text by Goethe is in the Library's Music Division.

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76 pages, 44 facsimile pages. Published by New York Public Library, 1983.

Edited by Vera Brodsky Lawrence

The first complete works of a black composer to be published, making use of the original illustrated sheet music covers, including rags, songs, and the complete piano-vocal score of the opera Treemonisha.

Vol. I: Works for Piano
1982, 327 pages, $40.00, ISBN 0-87104-275-4

Vol. II: Works for Voice (out of stock indefinitely)
1982, 341 pages, $40.00, ISBN 0-87104-276-2

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668 pages. Published by New York Public Library, 1982.

The Love Story of Isadora Duncan and Gordon Craig Told Through Letters Image

Edited by Francis Steegmuller

The intriguing love story of two major figures in the performing arts, told through the letters of the great dancer Isadora Duncan to the innovative stage designer Gordon Craig, with interleaved biographical commentary by noted biographer Francis Steegmuller.

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399 pages, b/w illustrations throughout. Published by New York Public Library, 1974.

Lillian Moore

An elegant commentary by a major dance historian accompanying reproductions of early dance illustrations in the Library's Dance Collection, primarily from its Cia Fornaroli and Lincoln Kirstein collections.

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86 pages, 95 b/w illustrations, 1 color plate. Published by New York Public Library, 1965.

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