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Scope and Content From the Series: Series contains video recordings of performances, rehearsals, workshops, public service announcements, commercials, workshops, and repertoire selections from the Bella Lewitzky Dance Company and other dance groups and speeches, interviews, discussions, workshops, and demonstrations by its founder and others. The dates of the materials range from the mid-1960s until the Company’s closing in 1997, and are recorded in a variety of formats, including 8mm reel-to-reel film, more recent...

Scope and Content From the Collection: This collection originally consisted of 193 binders created by Robert Richardson. The contents have been removed from the binders and foldered; however, the folders retain the original order and titles of the binders. This collection provides information about Southern California's stage theaters, theater companies (including those in San Diego), and actors. Most files consist of newspaper clippings printed from the microfilm of local papers and industry publications on a specific topic...

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This collection contains the papers of Armenian-American composer and musician Ara Sevanian (1915-2011). Materials include musical scores and parts and audiovisual recordings including VHS tapes and sound records of Sevananian's music and performances. There is also correspondence between Sevanian and his family and friends dating from 1947, clippings, performance programs, copyright files, a 1989 diary, and three publications. Much of the family correspondence is in Armenian.

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This collection contains the papers of Armenian-American composer and musician Ara Sevanian (1915-2011). Materials include musical scores and parts and audiovisual recordings including VHS tapes and sound records of Sevananian's music and performances. There is also correspondence between Sevanian and his family and friends dating from 1947, clippings, performance programs, copyright files, a 1989 diary, and three publications. Much of the family correspondence is in Armenian.

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

This collection contains the papers of Armenian-American composer and musician Ara Sevanian (1915-2011). Materials include musical scores and parts and audiovisual recordings including VHS tapes and sound records of Sevananian's music and performances. There is also correspondence between Sevanian and his family and friends dating from 1947, clippings, performance programs, copyright files, a 1989 diary, and three publications. Much of the family correspondence is in Armenian.

Scope and Content Music roll by Play-Rite Music Rolls, Inc. Songs include:1. I'm All Alone Tonight, One-Step.2. Cotton Picker's Picnic Day, Fox Trot.3. Nena Waltz.4. General Pershing, March Two-Step.5. When the Kaiser Does the Goose Step to a Good Old American Rag, Rag.6. Water Nymph, One-Step.7. Texas Never Seemed So Far Away, Rag.8. Clarinet Blues.9. Texas Foxtrot.10. The Aero...

Scope and Content From the Collection: The collection consists predominantly of theater, cabaret, opera, and movie programs, 1929-1937, from European German-speaking countries along with a small number from New York City and Prague, Czechoslovakia. The largest number is from Berlin, but other German towns, as well as Vienna and Zurich, are represented. Also included is a small number of German film magazines. The programs reflect cultural life in both the last years of the Weimar Republic and the early years of Nazi...

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Series contains audiocassette tapes of performances choreographed by Rudy Perez as well as of music used by Perez in his works.

Scope and Content From the Collection: The collection consists chiefly of materials which Armond Fields used or created during the course of his research into American vaudeville and early theatre. There are copies of photographs and a few originals of some of the stars about whom he wrote, as well as other material related to the Vaudeville era: sheet music, theatre programs, newspapers, etc. Also included in the collection are all Fields' research notes for his many books as well as the drafts of the manuscripts. In...

Scope and Content From the Sub-Series: Sub-series contains the files of the Company's main office. These files include the Company's financial records, including tax returns, budgets and contracts; files on the members of the Company's Board of Trustees, as well as minutes from the Board's meeting; files on the corporations, foundations and individuals involved with the Company's development efforts; and files on the Company's applications for grants from Los Angeles County, the city of Los Angeles and the National Endowment...