Goodman, Benny, 1909-1986

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Correspondence, music, and photographs by and about the American music librarian, critic, music administrator, recording executive, and program annotator Leonard Burkat (1919-1992)

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The collection is comprised of recorded interviews with and/or about Benny Goodman, compiled by D. Russell Connor.

Abstract: The John L. De Forest Papers contain forty volumes of typescript diaries, 1935-2000, many with newspaper clippings and other related materials laid in. Diaries include entries relating to jazz musician and family friend Benny Goodman; Yiddish author Sholem Asch, for whom De Forest worked as a secretary in the 1940s; political associate John Davis Lodge, governor of Connecticut, 1951-1955; and Dutch historian and journalist Hendrik Willem Van Loon. The collection also includes typescript...

Interview Location:

New York, NY

Interview Location:

New York, NY

Abstract:

Musical arrangements, correspondence and other papers, photographs, and additional materials relating to Benny Goodman (1909-1986), the clarinetist and band leader. At present, this register consist of scores and/or parts to musical arrangements written for Goodman's band, as well as sound and video recordings and film content. Unprocessed materials in the Papers include: photographs; programs and scrapbooks; and miscellaneous items.

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Music, correspondence and other papers, photographs, and additional materials by and about the German composer Paul Hindemith (1895-1963).

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The Frederick and Rose Plaut Papers consist mainly of photographs taken by the German-American recording engineer and photographer Frederick Plaut (1907-1985). Correspondence and other papers relating to Plaut and his wife are also included.

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Music, correspondence and other papers, photographs, art works, and additional materials by and about the American musical theater composer Harold Rome (1908-1993)