This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Santo Domingo collection. Many volumes in the Santo Domingo Collection are about fine art, some exploring the limits of social acceptability whereas others recount more commonly seen art. Symbolists and Decadents by John Christian gives an interesting and thorough examination of Read More
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Reconstructing Gallenberg
Wonderful news: my predecessor as Ward Music Cataloger here at Houghton, Morris S. Levy, has just published a modern edition of the full score to Furio Camillo, one of the manuscript Wenzel Robert von Gallenberg ballets in the Ward Collection, which Morris researched under the auspices of a Houghton Visiting Fellowship. He has been working Read More
Printing press ephemera
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items from the newly acquired Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. Poltroon Press put out the volume Pshaw! 1975-2005 : 30 Years of Poltroonery to “celebrate thirty years of existence.” Poltroon is a small press from Berkely, California that is still printing today. The volume includes some of their Read More
The Glass Menagerie at 70
Today marks the 70th anniversary of the Broadway debut of The Glass Menagerie, a production which would launch Tennessee Williams’ career and set him onto a trajectory wherein any discussion of the greatest American playwright would include his name. The Harvard Theatre Collection has been acquiring significant holdings related to Williams’ productions since the 1940s, Read More
It’s the drapery, stupid!
It’s been a loooong winter here in Cambridge. I don’t know, perhaps that is why when this particular waltz crossed my desk, the cover leapt out at me. The lithography and chromolithography of the 1840s and 50s sheet music covers can be simply breathtaking: I’m continually astonished by their sophistication and technical complexity. In this Read More