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Alexander Smallens papers

Title: Alexander Smallens papers, ca. 1900-1970.
Author: Smallens, Alexander, 1889-1972.

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Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Series VIII	Moving image	Supervised use	JPB 89-88 Series VIII	Performing Arts Research Collections - Music
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Series VII	Moving image	Supervised use	JPB 89-88 Series VII	Performing Arts Research Collections - Music
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Series VI, folder 6 - 11	Moving image	Supervised use	JPB 89-88 Series VI, folder 6 - 11	Performing Arts Research Collections - Music
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Series VI, folder 48 - 52 (+)	Moving image	Supervised use	JPB 89-88 Series VI, folder 48 - 52 (+)	Performing Arts Research Collections - Music
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Series VI, folder 36 - 47 (+)	Moving image	Supervised use	JPB 89-88 Series VI, folder 36 - 47 (+)	Performing Arts Research Collections - Music
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Series VI, folder 35D - 35F	Moving image	Supervised use	JPB 89-88 Series VI, folder 35D - 35F	Performing Arts Research Collections - Music
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Series VI, folder 34 - 35C	Moving image	Supervised use	JPB 89-88 Series VI, folder 34 - 35C	Performing Arts Research Collections - Music
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Series VI, folder 21 - 33	Moving image	Supervised use	JPB 89-88 Series VI, folder 21 - 33	Performing Arts Research Collections - Music
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Series VI, folder 12 - 20	Moving image	Supervised use	JPB 89-88 Series VI, folder 12 - 20	Performing Arts Research Collections - Music
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Series VI, folder 1 - 5	Moving image	Supervised use	JPB 89-88 Series VI, folder 1 - 5	Performing Arts Research Collections - Music
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Series V, folder 7 - 9	Moving image	Supervised use	JPB 89-88 Series V, folder 7 - 9	Performing Arts Research Collections - Music
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Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Series III, folder 62 - 194	Moving image	Supervised use	JPB 89-88 Series III, folder 62 - 194	Performing Arts Research Collections - Music
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Series III, folder 195 - 221 (+)	Moving image	Supervised use	JPB 89-88 Series III, folder 195 - 221 (+)	Performing Arts Research Collections - Music
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Series III, folder 1 - 61	Moving image	Supervised use	JPB 89-88 Series III, folder 1 - 61	Performing Arts Research Collections - Music
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Series II, folder 13 - 26	Moving image	Supervised use	JPB 89-88 Series II, folder 13 - 26	Performing Arts Research Collections - Music
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Series II, folder 1 - 12	Moving image	Supervised use	JPB 89-88 Series II, folder 1 - 12	Performing Arts Research Collections - Music
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Series I, folder 51 - 68	Moving image	Supervised use	JPB 89-88 Series I, folder 51 - 68	Performing Arts Research Collections - Music
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Series I, folder 26 - 50	Moving image	Supervised use	JPB 89-88 Series I, folder 26 - 50	Performing Arts Research Collections - Music
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Series I, folder 1 - 25	Moving image	Supervised use	JPB 89-88 Series I, folder 1 - 25	Performing Arts Research Collections - Music

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ca. 6 cu. ft.

Summary

Papers relating to Smallens' career as a conductor include correspondence, programs and flyers, photographs, clippings, complete issues of Broun's Nutmeg 1939 May 27-Sept. 30, and musical scores including arrangements by Smallens and scores with performance markings. Some scores have also been cataloged separately in the Scores file. Correspondents include Marc Blitzstein, Frederick Jacobi, and Leopold Stokowski (each represented by 20 or more letters); George Antheil, Norman Bel Geddes, Alfredo Casella, Aaron Copland, Henry Cowell, Olin Downes, Ira Gershwin, Morton Gould, Werner Josten, Darius Milhaud, Serge Prokofieff, Pitts Sanborn, William Schuman, Roger Sessions, Virgil Thomson, Eugen Zador, and Maria Gay Zenatello (each represented by 5 or more letters); and many other composers and conductors; there is 1 letter from Anton Webern. Series III has been cataloged separately in the VIM file as Photographs in the Alexander Smallens papers.

Uniform Title

Broun's Nutmeg.

Subjects

Genre/Form

Clippings.
Correspondence.
Newspapers.
Portrait photographs.
Programs.
Scores.
Photographic prints.

Biography (note)

Alexander Smallens was a Russian-born American conductor. He accompanied the Anna Pavlova Ballet Company on a tour to South America (1915-1916) and worked on the staffs of the Boston Opera, Chicago Opera, Philadelphia Opera, and Philadelphia Orchestra. From 1947 to 1950 he was music director of Radio City Music Hall, New York. For many summers he conducted concerts at Lewisohn Stadium, New York. He conducted the premiere of Gershwin's Porgy and Bess in Boston in 1935 and later took it on tour in the United States and Europe.

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Processing Action (note)

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Call Number

JPB 89-88

OCLC

NYPW90-A2

Author

Smallens, Alexander, 1889-1972.

Title

Alexander Smallens papers, ca. 1900-1970.

Biography

Alexander Smallens was a Russian-born American conductor. He accompanied the Anna Pavlova Ballet Company on a tour to South America (1915-1916) and worked on the staffs of the Boston Opera, Chicago Opera, Philadelphia Opera, and Philadelphia Orchestra. From 1947 to 1950 he was music director of Radio City Music Hall, New York. For many summers he conducted concerts at Lewisohn Stadium, New York. He conducted the premiere of Gershwin's Porgy and Bess in Boston in 1935 and later took it on tour in the United States and Europe.

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Occupation

Conductors (Music).

Added Author

Antheil, George, 1900-1959.

Blitzstein, Marc.

Casella, Alfredo, 1883-1947.

Copland, Aaron, 1900-1990.

Downes, Olin, 1886-1955.

Gay, Maria, 1879-1943.

Geddes, Norman Bel, 1893-1958.

Gershwin, Ira, 1896-1983.

Gould, Morton, 1913-1996.

Jacobi, Frederick, 1891-1952.

Josten, Werner, 1885-1963.

Milhaud, Darius, 1892-1974.

Prokofiev, Sergey, 1891-1953.

Sanborn, Pitts, 1879-1941.

Schuman, William, 1910-1992.

Sessions, Roger, 1896-1985.

Stokowski, Leopold, 1882-1977.

Thomson, Virgil, 1896-1989.

Webern, Anton, 1883-1945.

Zádor, Eugene, 1894-1977.

Added Title

Broun's Nutmeg.

Research Call Number

JPB 89-88

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