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The emergence of the Black performing musician in the American symphony orchestra [microform] / by John Armstead Taylor.

Microform

1976.

1976

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberSc Micro F-10747 3 fichesItem locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference
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Twenty-seven major American symphony orchestras; a history and analysis of their repertoires, seasons 1842-43 through 1969-70.

Book/Text

Bloomington, Indiana University Studies; [distributed by Indiana University Press, 1973]

1973

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberJNE 73-23Item locationOffsite
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Schools and symphony orchestras; a summary of selected youth concert activities.

Book/Text

[Washington] U. S. Office of Education; [for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U. S. Govt. Print. Off., 1971]

1971

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberJNE 73-21Item locationOffsite

A community symphony handbook, by Robert T. Taylor [microform].

Microform

Butte, Mont., Allegro Press [c1972]

1972

0 resources

Wage scales and conditions in the symphony orchestras, 1973-74 season.

Book/Text

[New York? 1974]

1974

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberJNG 75-63Item locationOffsite

The Professional symphony orchestra in the United States / [compiled] by George Seltzer.

Book/Text

Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press, 1975.

1975

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberJND 76-27Item locationOffsite

The Community symphony orchestra; how to organize and develop it. Foreword by Antonio Modarelli.

Book/Text

[Charleston, W. Va. American Symphony Orchestra League [1952]

1952

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberJND 78-11Item locationOffsite

The minor symphony orchestra in the United States / by Paul B. Affelder.

Manuscript

1939.

1939

1 item

Available online

Full text available via HathiTrust
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FormatManuscriptCall numberJNF 80-12Item locationOffsite

The American symphony orchestra. Edited by Henry Swoboda.

Book/Text

New York, Basic Books, [1967]

1967

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberJND 81-55Item locationOffsite

Symphony orchestras of the United States : selected profiles / edited by Robert R. Craven.

Book/Text

Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, c1986.

1986

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberJNE 86-10Item locationOffsite

Upbeat.

Book/Text

Washington, DC : American Symphony Orchestra League, Youth Orchestra Division

1984-2000

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberJMM 16-20 v. 1-16 (Fall 1984-Mar./Apr. 2000) (Inc.)Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Music

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The Participation of Blacks in professional orchestras : survey and study / by the American Symphony Orchestra League.

Book/Text

Washington (777 14th St., N.W., Suite 500, Washington 20005) : The League, 1990.

1990

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc F 92-307Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Orchestra repertoire report.

Book/Text

Washington, D.C. : American Symphony Orchestra League, 1991-

1992-present

2 items

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FormatBook/TextCall numberJMM 93-5 1996-97Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Music

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FormatBook/TextCall numberJMM 93-5 1992-93Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Music

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Harmony : forum of the Symphony Orchestra Institute.

Book/Text

Deerfield, Ill. : The Institute, c1995-

1995-2003

4 items

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FormatBook/TextCall numberJML 96-11 14-16 (Apr. 2002-Oct. 2003)Item locationOffsite
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FormatBook/TextCall numberJML 96-11 10-13 (2000-2001)Item locationOffsite
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FormatBook/TextCall numberJML 96-11 6-9 (1998-1999)Item locationOffsite
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Working with the music director : a handbook for board members, executive directors, and music directors / with essays by Marin Alsop ... [et al.].

Book/Text

Washington, DC (777 14th St., NW, Suite 500, Washington 20005-3201) : American Symphony Orchestra League, 1994.

1994

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberJME 97-775Item locationOffsite

Improving the orchestra's revenue position : practical tactics and general strategies / Arthur C. Brooks.

Book/Text

Evanston, Ill. : Symphony Orchestra Institute, c1997.

1997

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberJMD 99-415Item locationOffsite

Trends in musical taste, by John H. Mueller [and] Kate Hevner.

Book/Text

Bloomington, Ind., Indiana university [1942]

1942

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall number*M (Mueller, J. H. Trends in musical taste)Item locationOffsite

The American symphony orchestra; a social history of musical taste.

Book/Text

Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1951.

1951

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall number*MFBR (U.S.) (Mueller, J. H. American symphony orchestra)Item locationOffsite

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The American symphony orchestra.

Book/Text

[s.l.] : Voice of America, 1967.

1967

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall number*MFIB (U.S.) (Voice of America (Radio program). American symphony orchestra)Item locationOffsite

Report of study on governing boards of symphony orchestras [by] Helen M. Thompson, executive secretary.

Book/Text

Charleston, W. Va. [1958]

1958

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall number*MFSB (U.S.) (American Symphony Orchestra League. Report of study on governing boards of symphony orchestras)Item locationOffsite

America's symphony orchestras, and how they are supported, by Margaret Grant and Herman S. Hettinger.

Book/Text

New York, W. W. Norton & company, inc. [1940]

1940

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall number*MFSB (U.S.) (Grant, M. America's symphony orchestras)Item locationOffsite

BMI orchestral program survey.

Book/Text

[New York, Broadcast Music, inc.]

unknown-present

5 items

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FormatBook/TextCall number*MFIB (U.S.) (BMI orchestral program survey) 1969/70Item locationOffsite

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FormatBook/TextCall number*MFIB (U.S.) (BMI orchestral program survey) 1967-1968/1969-1970Item locationOffsite

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FormatBook/TextCall number*MFIB (U.S.) (BMI orchestral program survey) 1966/67Item locationOffsite

How to organize and produce a radiothon : a manual / prepared by the American Symphony Orchestra League, in consultation with Henry Fogel.

Book/Text

Washington, D.C. : The League, c1985.

1985

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall number*LE 12-793Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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City Symphony Orchestra of New York records, 1927-1971.

Archival Mix

1927-1971

8 items

Collection information

Finding aid

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FormatArchival MixCall numberJPB 03-16 Box 8Item locationOffsite
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FormatArchival MixCall numberJPB 03-16 Box 7Item locationOffsite

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FormatArchival MixCall numberJPB 03-16 Box 6Item locationOffsite

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Dean Dixon papers, 1939-1979 (bulk 1950-1976).

Archival Mix

1939-1979

12 items

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FormatArchival MixCall numberSc MG 324 Box 12Item locationOffsite

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FormatArchival MixCall numberSc MG 324 Box 11Item locationOffsite

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FormatArchival MixCall numberSc MG 324 Box 10Item locationOffsite

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America's concertmasters / by Anne Mischakoff Heiles.

Book/Text

Sterling Heights, Mich. : Harmonie Park Press, 2007.

2007

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberJNF 08-52Item locationOffsite

Good music for a free people : the Germania Musical Society in nineteenth-century America / Nancy Newman.

Book/Text

Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2010.

2010

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatTextCall numberJNE 11-96Item locationOffsite

Dean Dixon photograph collection [graphic].

Picture

[193-?]-[197-]

197-197

3 items

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatPictureCall numberSc Photo Dean Dixon CollectionItem locationSchomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

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FormatPictureCall numberSc Photo Dean Dixon CollectionItem locationSchomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

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FormatPictureCall numberSc Photo Dean Dixon CollectionItem locationSchomburg Center - Photographs & Prints

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Arts, markets, and governments : a study in cultural policy analysis / Arthur C. Brooks.

Book/Text

Santa Monica, Calif. : RAND, 1998.

1998

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberJBF 12-441Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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Subsidy makes sense : a description of the present plight of music and the musicians in the United States and a look at Federal subsidy as a means of improving the situation / by Hope Stoddard.

Book/Text

[Place of publication not identified] : [American Federation of Musicians], [1961]

1961

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberJNC 16-25Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Music

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Harmony [electronic resource] : forum of the Symphony Orchestra Institute.

Web Resource

Deerfield, Ill. : The Institute

1995-2003

2 resources

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The North Carolina symphony : a history / Joe A. Mobley and John W. Lambert ; foreword by Roy C. Dicks.

Book/Text

Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2019]

2019

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberJNE 19-145Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Music

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Orpheus in the New World; the symphony orchestra as an American cultural institution.

Book/Text

W. W. Norton, [c1973]

1973

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall number785 HItem locationOffsite

Dean Dixon audio and moving image collection.

Musical recording

1999]

1939-1979

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatMusical recordingCall numberSc MIRS Dixon 1999-34Item locationSchomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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Tales from the symphony : perspectives from African American musicians / Robert Lee Watt.

Book/Text

Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, [2024]

2024

2 items

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc E 25-404Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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FormatBook/TextCall numberJME 24-432Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Music

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Policies & procedures of orchestra governing boards : a survey and study by the American Symphony Orchestra League / [project director, Lorri Ward ; with assistance from Lisa Clifford and others].

Book/Text

Washington (777 14th St., N.W., Suite 500, Washington 20005) : The League, [1991], ©1991.

1991-1991

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberML1211 .P64 1991Item locationOff-site