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Music -- Instruction and study -- California -- Los Angeles -- Archival resources

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Ingolf Dahl papers

 Collection
Identifier: 1001
Abstract The Ingolf Dahl papers contain the manuscripts, scores, and professional and personal papers of American composer and USC School of Music faculty member Ingolf Dahl (1912-1970). Dahl, one of USC's most distinguished faculty members, had a long and successful career in music both here in his adopted country and abroad. In 1938, Dahl immigrated to the U.S. and settled in Los Angeles where he found work as a composer and conductor for radio and film. In 1943, Dahl joined the faculty of USC. He...
Dates: 1928 - 1988; Majority of material found within 1940 - 1970

Ernest Kanitz papers

 Collection
Identifier: 0196
Abstract

Collection consists of the correspondence, music-related ephemera, musical scores, and recordings of émigré musician and former USC School of Music faculty member, Ernest Kanitz (1894-1978).

Dates: c.1890-2008

Paul Salamunovich papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 5311
Abstract A collection of scores used by Maestro Salamunovich as he conducted the St. Charles Borromeo Church Choir of North Hollywood, the Los Angeles Master Chorale, and other smaller ensembles. The collection also includes smaller amounts of Salamunovich's recordings, photographs, correspondence, awards, ephemera, and a few score manuscripts. Salamunovich taught at the USC Thornton School of Music as an adjunct professor of choral music and served as director of the USC Thornton Chamber Choir from...
Dates: 1950 - 2014

USC Thornton School of Music records

 Collection
Identifier: 0283
Abstract The University of Southern California's music school was officially established in 1884, and conferred its first degrees in 1885. The records document many of the activities of the School from the late 19th to the early 21st centuries. Included are the papers (generally incomplete) of some of the School's notable personnel, including Max Swarthout, Raymond Kendall, Ellis Kohs, Pauline Alderman, and Walter F. Skeele; records of academic activities; records of student and alumni...
Dates: 1897 - 2017; Modified: 2017-2019, 2021

Raymond Valencia Lopez papers

 Collection
Identifier: 0592
Abstract The Raymond Valencia Lopez papers consist of 30 boxes of books, 7 boxes of serials, and 46 boxes of archival material created and/or collected by Los Angeles educator, performer, and musicologist, Raymond Valencia Lopez (1921-2009). The focus of the collection is on Mexican and Latin American classical music, especially for piano, organ, and Tarahumara music and culture in Mexico. The collection also contains Valencia Lopez's correspondence with Latin American and Iberian musicologist Robert...
Dates: 1950 - 2012