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Dublin Core
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Title
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Historic Buffalo Theater and Music Programs
Description
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<p>Fifty selected programs from the Grosvenor Room’s performing arts collections, featuring theatre, music, and dance productions. These programs are a representative sample of the entertainment available to Buffalo audiences from 1816 to 1951, and include local talent as well as internationally renowned performers. The featured items are from the following two collections:</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration:underline;">Theater Programs, 1816 - current</span></p>
<p>Programs, playbills, and cast lists from theatrical venues in Buffalo, NY and vicinity. The bulk of the collection is from 1890 to 1950 and includes drama, comedy, vaudeville, minstrel, and musical theater productions held at more than 70 theaters. Traveling productions featured famous performers of every era, such as Edwin Booth, Maude Adams, John Barrymore, Rosalind Russell, Orson Welles, and Katharine Hepburn. Local ensembles and theater companies also document a vibrant entertainment community in Buffalo, including homegrown talent Katharine Cornell, dubbed "The First Lady of the Theatre” during her illustrious career.</p>
<p><span style="text-decoration:underline;">Music & Dance Programs, 1847 - current</span></p>
<p>Programs, playbills, and cast lists of music and dance performances in Buffalo, NY and vicinity. The bulk of the collection is from 1860 to 1930 and includes performances of dance, opera, musical comedy, orchestras, chamber music, choirs, and instrumental ensembles. The majority of the programs are from music performances, and many venues hosted famous musicians and composers including Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Jenny Lind, Geraldine Farrar, Maurice Ravel, Walter Damrosch, Gustave Mahler, Lily Pons, and Serge Rachmaninoff. Buffalo also hosted opera companies, orchestras, and symphonies from New York City, Boston, Chicago, and Pittsburgh. Early Buffalo orchestras and singing societies, including the Buffalo Orpheus and Chromatic Club, are documented in this collection, as are the music halls, theatres, social clubs, museums, and other venues that hosted national and international performers.</p>
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Subject
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Theater programs -- New York (State) -- Buffalo.
Concert programs -- New York (State) -- Buffalo.
Contributor
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Grosvenor Room of the B&ECPL
Text
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Title
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The Star-Wagon
Creator
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Erlanger Theatre (Buffalo, N.Y.)
Description
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Movie stars Lillian Gish and Burgess Meredith performed in this theatrical production directed by Guthrie McClintic, actress Katharine Cornell's husband. The Erlanger theatre, a successful venue in the 1930s, hosted many talents of stage and screen.
Contributor
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Anderson, Maxwell, 1888-1959
Gish, Lillian, 1893-1993
Meredith, Burgess, 1907-1997
Collins, Russell, 1897-1965
Bissell, Whit, 1909-1996
McClintic, Guthrie, 1893-1961
Date
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1937-09-16
Publisher
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Buffalo & Erie County Public Library (Publisher of digital)
Rights
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Digital image copyright 2019 by the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library. Images in this collection are not to be used for any commercial purposes without the expressed written permission of the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library. Users of this website are free to utilize material from this collection for non-commercial and educational purposes.
Relation
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Digital Collections of the B&ECPL
Type
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Text
Source
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Buffalo Theater and Music Program Collection
Subject
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Theater programs -- New York (State) -- Buffalo.
Coverage
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Mid-Twentieth Century (1925-1975)
Language
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eng
Format
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image/jpeg