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American Ballet Theatre Exhibit: High Noon Lecture and Gallery Talk

Posted by: Cait Miller

The following is a guest post from Victoria Phillips, Lecturer in History, Department of History and the Donald and Vera Blinken European Institute, Columbia University in the City of New York. Victoria Phillips will give two presentations about the Music Division’s current exhibit, American Ballet Theatre: Touring the Globe for 75 years, consisting of a …

Posted in: Dance, Guest bloggers, Special Collections

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AMERICAN BAYREUTH: The 1914 Peterborough Festival

Posted by: Cait Miller

The following is a guest post from Senior Music Reference Specialist Robin Rausch. For five days in August in 1914, thousands of people descended on the tiny village of Peterborough, New Hampshire to attend the fifth summer festival of music and drama produced by the Edward MacDowell Memorial Association.  Inaugurated in 1910, these annual festivals …

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