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Neighborhood Playhouse scenarios

Title
Neighborhood Playhouse scenarios, 1914-1931.
Author
Neighborhood Playhouse (New York, N.Y.)
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Description
1 box (20 folders)
Summary
Primarily annotated typescripts (scenarios) and some choreographic notes from productions presented by and at the Neighborhood Playhouse between 1914 and 1931.
Alternative Title
  • Fleur and Blanchefleur.
  • Cassandra's wild wedding song.
  • The shadow garden of Shuteye Town.
  • La balteira
  • Kolayada : a Russian folk scene.
  • Adventures of Olle.
  • Troubadour songs.
  • Harusaki.
  • Kuan Yin.
  • Collection of annotated typescripts, 1914-1931.
  • Quatuor à cordes.
Subjects
Note
  • Folder 1: Adventures of Olle [or] Swedish folk scenes / arranged by Blanche Talmud ; music arranged by Louis Horst, 1931. Includes a page entitled Fetes in France.
  • Folder 1A: An Arab fantasia : four moods of daily ritual / by Alice and Irene Lewisohn (3 versions). Includes a copy of Essence of the Mohammeden East, written by Irene Lewisohn.
  • Folder 2: La balteira : a dance drama of the 13th century in three scenes / by Irene Lewisohn (2 versions)
  • Folder 3: La boutique fantasque : a pantomine ballet in two scenes ; music by Giacomo Rossini. 1919-1920.
  • Folder 4: A Burmese pwe / by Irene Lewisohn ; assisted in arrangement of dances by Blanche Talmud ; music by Henry Eichheim. Includes typed explanatory introduction. Performed March 16, 1928.
  • Folder 5: Cassandra's wild wedding song.
  • Folder 6: Chout, the story of a buffoon who played a trick on seven other buffoons : a ballet in six pictures / by Serge Prokofieff. 1923-1924 (3 versions)
  • Folder 7: Fleur and Blanchefleur (4 annotated versions)
  • Folder 8: Harusaki : Japanese New Year games / arranged by Blanche Talmud and Frances Brundage ; music arranged by Lily May Hyland.
  • Folder 9: Israel : a symphony for orchestra by Ernest Bloch. [Arranged for the stage by Irene Lewisohn and Nikolai Sokoloff.] Includes choreographic notes.
  • Folder 10: Kolayada : a Russian folk scene / arranged from coll. of Kurt Schindler [by] L. Horst (multiple versions)
  • Folder 11: Kuan Yin (fragment). Chinese and English text, 1925-1926.
  • Folder 12: Quatuor a cordes / by Ernest Bloch. Action interpretation, January 1931 (4 versions). Choreography by Doris Humphrey, Irene Lewisohn, and Charles Weidman.
  • Folder 13: Roumanian rhapsody / [by Georges] Enesco. Includes choreographic notes, stage designs, and cast information, 1929.
  • Folder 14: Salut au monde. 1921-1922 (2 versions)
  • Fodler 15: The shadow garden of Shuteye Town (proposed ballet for 1914)
  • Folder 16: Toccata and fugue in D minor / [by Johann Sebastian] Bach. Action interpretation, Feb. 1931 (2 versions). Includes notebook with choreographic notes for the Bloch quartet (no. 12) and Troubadour songs (no. 18) and stage scene drawings.
  • Folder 17: The toy box / [by] Claude Debussy [and] André Hellé. 1916-1917 (2 versions)
  • Folder 18: Troubadour songs.
  • Folder 19: [Miscellaneous music and dance directions] Includes notes for a diction class.
  • Folder 20: List of materials originally received, dated 4-9-79.
Source (note)
  • Neighborhood Playhouse
Biography (note)
  • The Neighborhood Playhouse, started in 1915 at the Henry Street Settlement by Irene and Alice Lewisohn, was the home to many early 20th century American modern dancers and artists, including Louis Horst, Martha Graham, Charles Weidman, Doris Humphrey et al.
Indexes/Finding Aids (note)
  • Collection guide available at Dance Division reference desk and on Internet.
Processing Action (note)
  • Cataloged
Call Number
(S) *MGZMD 104
OCLC
NYPY01-A2
Author
Neighborhood Playhouse (New York, N.Y.)
Title
Neighborhood Playhouse scenarios, 1914-1931.
Biography
The Neighborhood Playhouse, started in 1915 at the Henry Street Settlement by Irene and Alice Lewisohn, was the home to many early 20th century American modern dancers and artists, including Louis Horst, Martha Graham, Charles Weidman, Doris Humphrey et al.
Location of Other Archival Materials
Music scores from this collection are located in the Music Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. See: JPB 04-40.
Indexes
Collection guide available at Dance Division reference desk and on Internet.
Local Note
*MGZM-Res. New YN, Miscellaneous manuscripts and *MGTZ (Bloch quartet). Quatuor a cordes combined with this collection July 2007.
Former heading of *MGZM-Res. New YN: N eighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre.
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Added Title
Fleur and Blanchefleur.
Cassandra's wild wedding song.
The shadow garden of Shuteye Town.
La balteira
Kolayada : a Russian folk scene.
Adventures of Olle.
Troubadour songs.
Harusaki.
Kuan Yin.
Collection of annotated typescripts, 1914-1931.
Quatuor à cordes.
Research Call Number
(S) *MGZMD 104
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