Research Catalog

Title

Katrina Castles papers, ca. 1932-1956.

Author

Castles, Katrina.

Supplementary Content

Finding Aid

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Details

Additional Authors

• Flagstad, Kirsten, 1895-1962.
• Glanville-Hicks, Peggy.
• Lehmann, Lotte.
• Schumann, Elisabeth.

Description

.3 cu. ft.

Summary

Contains Miss Castles' correspondence, programs, clippings, photographs, and business papers. Includes letters and portraits from Lotte Lehmann as well as notes from Elisabeth Schumann, Kirsten Flagstad, and Colin McPhee. Also includes scores, photographs, and programs of Peggy Glanville-Hicks; an insurance policy showing Castles as the beneficiary of Glanville-Hicks; a photograph of Fritz Hart; and scores by Bax and Vaughan Williams.

Subjects

• Clippings
• Scores
• Contracts
• Portrait photographs
• Lehmann, Lotte
• Mezzo-sopranos
• Composers
• Castles, Katrina
• Programs
• Correspondence
• Photographic prints
• Drawings
• Glanville-Hicks, Peggy

Genre/Form

• Clippings.
• Contracts.
• Correspondence.
• Photographic prints.
• Drawings.
• Portrait photographs.
• Programs.
• Scores.

Source (note)

• Lyons, Mary E. (Mrs. Edward F.)

Biography (note)

• Katrina Castles (Mrs. Michael Schwab), formerly Kathleen Castles, and also known as Katherine Castles, was an Australian mezzo-soprano Lieder singer, a protege of Mme. Lotte Lehmann, and the childhood friend of Australian-American composer Peggy Glanville-Hicks. Her career was cut short by two bouts of cancer.

Processing Action (note)

• Accessioned

Call Number

JPB 97-1

OCLC

NYPW96-A174

Author

Castles, Katrina.

Title

Katrina Castles papers, ca. 1932-1956.

Biography

Katrina Castles (Mrs. Michael Schwab), formerly Kathleen Castles, and also known as Katherine Castles, was an Australian mezzo-soprano Lieder singer, a protege of Mme. Lotte Lehmann, and the childhood friend of Australian-American composer Peggy Glanville-Hicks. Her career was cut short by two bouts of cancer.

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Occupation

Composers.

Mezzo-sopranos.

Added Author

Flagstad, Kirsten, 1895-1962.

Glanville-Hicks, Peggy.

Lehmann, Lotte.

Schumann, Elisabeth.

Research Call Number

JPB 97-1