Edith Evans Braun collection
- Title
- Edith Evans Braun collection, 1916-1976.
- Supplementary content
- Author
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| Status | Container | Format | Access | Call number | Item location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Status Available by appointment at Performing Arts Research Collections - Music | ContainerBox 1 | FormatMixed material | AccessSupervised use | Call numberJPB 91-96 Box 1 | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Music |
| Status Available by appointment at Performing Arts Research Collections - Music | ContainerBox 2 | FormatMixed material | AccessSupervised use | Call numberJPB 91-96 Box 2 | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Music |
| Status Available by appointment at Performing Arts Research Collections - Music | ContainerBox 3 | FormatMixed material | AccessSupervised use | Call numberJPB 91-96 Box 3 | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Music |
| Status Available by appointment at Performing Arts Research Collections - Music | ContainerBox 4 | FormatMixed material | AccessSupervised use | Call numberJPB 91-96 Box 4 | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Music |
| Status Available by appointment at Performing Arts Research Collections - Music | ContainerBox 5 | FormatMixed material | AccessSupervised use | Call numberJPB 91-96 Box 5 | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Music |
| Status Available by appointment at Performing Arts Research Collections - Music | ContainerBox 6 | FormatMixed material | AccessSupervised use | Call numberJPB 91-96 Box 6 | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Music |
Details
- Additional authors
- Description
- ca. 3 linear ft.
- Summary
- The papers and scores in the collection represent the observations and activities of Edith Evans Braun in the American musical scene from 1916 to 1962. The collection consists of Braun's diary of her 1916 tour with contralto Ernestine Schumann-Heink; her memoirs of frequent interactions with composers Gian Carlo Menotti, Samuel Barber, and Deems Taylor; correspondence from Barber, Menotti, Taylor, Josef Hofmann, Efrem Zimbalist, and Lee Hoiby: also three letters from Braun to her mother. There are four manuscript music sketches of works by Taylor and Barber, and a number of signed and dedicated published scores by the same composers.
- Subject
- Letters
- Hofmann, Josef, 1876-1957
- Musical sketches
- Schumann-Heink, Ernestine, 1861-1936
- Musical scores
- Composers > United States
- Diaries
- Menotti, Gian Carlo, 1911-2007
- Music > United States
- Braun, Edith Evans, 1887-1976
- Memoirs
- Photoprints
- Taylor, Deems, 1885-1966
- Zimbalist, Efrem
- Zimbalist, Mary Louise Curtis Bok, 1876-1970
- Barber, Samuel, 1910-1981
- Genre/Form
- Diaries.
- Memoirs.
- Musical scores.
- Letters.
- Photoprints.
- Call number
- JPB 91-96
- Source (note)
- Middleton, Polly
- Biography (note)
- Edith Evans Braun, 1887-1976, a pianist, was a close friend of Mary Louise Curtis Bok Zimbalist and with her became friend and patroness to composers such as Samuel Barber, Gian Carlo Menotti, and Deems Taylor.
- Indexes/finding aids (note)
- Finding aid available in repository.
- Processing action (note)
- Processed
- Author
- Braun, Edith Evans, 1887-1976.
- Title
- Edith Evans Braun collection, 1916-1976.
- Biography
- Edith Evans Braun, 1887-1976, a pianist, was a close friend of Mary Louise Curtis Bok Zimbalist and with her became friend and patroness to composers such as Samuel Barber, Gian Carlo Menotti, and Deems Taylor.
- Indexes
- Finding aid available in repository.
- Connect to:
- Added author
- Barber, Samuel, 1910-1981.
- Menotti, Gian Carlo, 1911-2007.
- Hofmann, Josef, 1876-1957.
- Taylor, Deems, 1885-1966.
- Zimbalist, Efrem.
- Research call number
- JPB 91-96