Research Catalog

Title

Neighborhood Playhouse scores, 1919-1931.

Author

Neighborhood Playhouse (New York, N.Y.)

Supplementary Content

Finding Aid

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Details

Additional Authors

• Bloch, Ernest, 1880-1959.
• Horst, Louis.
• Schindler, Kurt, 1882-1935.
• Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre.

Description

1 linear ft. (1 box)

Summary

The Neighborhood Playhouse scores collection consists of musical scores, mostly original manuscripts, but also including some reproductions and printed music, probably written for dances performed at the Neighborhood Playhouse. Several of the works are composed or arranged by Ernest Bloch, Louis Horst, and Kurt Schindler. Of particular note are Adventures of Ola (Olle) arranged by Louis Horst (1931), Kolyada: A Russian Folk Scene arranged from the collection of Kurt Schindler by Louis Horst, and Quatuor a Cordes (1919) by Ernest Bloch. There are also a number of pages of typed and handwritten lyrics, as well as typed excerpts of reviews of works not included in the collection.

Subjects

• Scores
• Neighborhood Playhouse (New York, N.Y.)
• Music and dance
• Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre

Genre/Form

Scores.

Location of Other Archival Materials (note)

• The Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts holds related material, the Neighborhood Playhouse scenarios, 1914-1931 ((S) *MGZMD 104). The Manuscripts Division holds the archival records of the Neighborhood Playhouse, MssColl 2112.

Biography (note)

• The Neighborhood Playhouse was founded in 1915 by Alice and Irene Lewisohn, as part of the Henry Street Settlement. Many early twentieth-century modern dancers and artists found a professional home at the Neighborhood Playhouse, including composers Ernest Bloch, Kurt Schindler, and Louis Horst, who also worked with Martha Graham. Other notables whose works were produced at the Neighborhood Playhouse include Agnes de Mille, Laura Elliott, Doris Humphrey and Charles Weidman. The Neighborhood Playhouse Theatre closed in 1927 and the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre was founded in 1928 by the Lewisohn sisters in association with Rita Wallach Morgenthau.

Indexes/Finding Aids (note)

• Finding aid available in repository and on internet.

Call Number

JPB 04-40

OCLC

NYPG05-A10016

Author

Neighborhood Playhouse (New York, N.Y.)

Title

Neighborhood Playhouse scores, 1919-1931.

Biography

The Neighborhood Playhouse was founded in 1915 by Alice and Irene Lewisohn, as part of the Henry Street Settlement. Many early twentieth-century modern dancers and artists found a professional home at the Neighborhood Playhouse, including composers Ernest Bloch, Kurt Schindler, and Louis Horst, who also worked with Martha Graham. Other notables whose works were produced at the Neighborhood Playhouse include Agnes de Mille, Laura Elliott, Doris Humphrey and Charles Weidman. The Neighborhood Playhouse Theatre closed in 1927 and the Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre was founded in 1928 by the Lewisohn sisters in association with Rita Wallach Morgenthau.

Location of Other Archival Materials

The Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts holds related material, the Neighborhood Playhouse scenarios, 1914-1931 ((S) *MGZMD 104). The Manuscripts Division holds the archival records of the Neighborhood Playhouse, MssColl 2112.

Indexes

Finding aid available in repository and on internet.

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Finding Aid

Added Author

Bloch, Ernest, 1880-1959.

Horst, Louis.

Schindler, Kurt, 1882-1935.

Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre.

Research Call Number

JPB 04-40