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Archive: December 2013 (2 Posts)

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Dear Major Bowes: Letters from the Amateur Hour Collection

Posted by: Cait Miller

Are you a fan of American Idol? Remember the Gong Show? Major Bowes’ Original Amateur Hour was the granddaddy of today’s top amateur talent shows. During its radio heyday in the mid-1930s, thousands of hopefuls traveled to New York City to audition, competing for a handful of slots on the weekly broadcast. Along with the …

Posted in: Special Collections

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The Belle Brown Collection: An American Opera Student at the Turn of the 20th Century

Posted by: Cait Miller

The Music Division’s archival collections feature the archives and personal papers of some of the most significant and influential artists and figures in music history, particularly 20th-century composers, conductors, scholars, and publishers. When researchers and performers think of the Music Division’s archival collections, names like Leonard Bernstein, George and Ira Gershwin, Aaron Copland, Serge Koussevitzky, …

Posted in: Special Collections, Women in Music