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Scope and content: Scrapbook compiled by Joseph R. Citti (1912-2003). The scrapbook documents his time working as a performer in 1933. The scrapbook, which is not in chronological order, contains mostly loose undated newspaper clippings about and reviews of a production called the Gaieties of 1933. Also included is a 1933 cast roster on Belmont Theater letterhead, two blank Actor's Equality Diplomas, contest rules, a completed entry form and a damaged...
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Scope and content: Print, manuscript, and photographic materials document Nashville programs at a variety of local venues (primarily the Ryman Auditorium) between 1892 and 2002, with concentration on the years between 1945 and 1994. Materials include news clippings and reviews, ticket stubs, souvenir programs, publicity and news photos, correspondence, and personal appearance contracts between venues and performers. While most of the documented...
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Scope and Content: This collection includes 35 audio-recorded interviews created in 2015 by the National Trust for Historic Preservation in partnership with the Music Industry Coalition and the Nashville Public Library. The time periods covered within the interviews range from the 1940s to 2015. Each interview has a transcript, and most have indexes.
Primary topics addressed in the interviews include: individuals' stories of how they got started...
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Scope and content: Papers of Cynthia Maddux, documenting her personal life; her dance education in Nashville, Tenn. with instructor Albertine Maxwell; her international career as a professional dancer in the 1970s and its sudden end; and her struggles with mental illness in the years that followed. Among the dancers documented in this collection are: Jose Molina; Luis Montero; Nala Najan; La Meri; Luis Rivera; Madame Sahomi Tachibana; Bhaskar; and...
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Scope and content: This collection documents the many recitals, performances, and musical revues co-produced in Nashville by Sarah Jeter and Louise Smith between 1927 and 1940 in the course of their affiliation with Ward-Belmont, the Studio of Dancing, the School of Dancing of the Nashville Conservatory of Music, and the Dance Center. Also documented is information about their schools, their teaching, and performances by their students, as well as...
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