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Performing Arts Collection: Music Collections
- Adams (Carlisle) Collection (PA Mss 23) Approximately 5,000 vocal 78rpm sound recordings.
- Arabic wax cylinders, ca. 1900 (PA Mss 42) Twenty-one commercial brown wax cylinder recordings, made in Damascus, Syria.
- Archive of Recorded Vocal Music (PA Mss 19) Approximately 18,000 vocal recordings from the first half of the 20th century.
- Baker (Darrell) Harry Lauder Collection (PA Mss 63) Collection of recordings, books, photographs and emphemera related to Scottish performer Sir Harry Lauder.
- Boucher (Anthony) Golden Voices (Radio program) (PA Mss 29) Master tapes of Boucher’s Pacifica radio program on opera.
- Clovis (Hall) Papers. (PA Mss 30) Archives of singer Hall Clovis, including manuscripts of commissioned works by Milhaud, Castelnuovo-Tedesco and others.
- Couper (Mildred) Papers (PA Mss 45) Papers and musical manuscripts of composer Mildred Couper including her quarter tone piano compositions.
- Diemer (Emma Lou) Papers (PA Mss 41) Papers of composer and UCSB faculty member Emma Lou Diemer. The collection includes her manuscript scores, business correspondence and royalty statements, programs, review and clippings.
- Eichheim (Henry) Papers (PA Mss 52) Papers of composer and organologist.
- Faulkner (Maurice) Papers (Fac Pap 35) Papers of professor of trumpet at UCSB.
- Freeman (Robert) Papers. (Fac Pap 36) Papers of UCSB Musicology faculty member.
- Fricker (Peter Racine) Papers, 1940s-1990 (PA Mss 17) Manuscripts and personal papers of British born composer and UCSB faculty member.
- Garcia (Adelina) Collection (CEMA Mss 23) Collection of Mexican-American romantic bolero singer.
- Geiringer (Bernice) Papers. (PA Mss 40) Personal papers of pianist and philanthropist Bernice Geiringer, second wife of musicologist Karl Geiringer.
- Geiringer (Karl) Oral History. (PA Mss 18) Oral history interview with the renowned musicologist.
- Geiringer (Karl) Papers (Fac Pap 46) Papers of Austrian musicologist and UCSB faculty member Karl Geiringer.
- Gillespie (John and Anna) research files for Notable twentieth-century pianists, 1900-1995 (PA Mss 68) Authors’ research files for biographical sourcebook on pianists.
- Goldshlak (Leon A.) Gilbert & Sullivan Collection (PA Mss 51) Extensive collection of books, recordings and memorabilia related to Gilbert & Sullivan.
- Guerrero (Lalo) Papers (CEMA 24) Papers of Mexican-American songwriter and performer.
- Headley (Hubert Klyne) Papers (PA Mss 76) Papers of composer Headly, including scores to Argentango and California Suite.
- Herrmann (Bernard) Papers, 1927-1977. (PA Mss 3) Manuscripts and personal papers of film composer noted for his scores to Hitchcock and Orson Welles films.
- James (Harry and Grace) Collection (PA Mss 5) Donated by Harry and Grace James to UC-Riverside and subsequently transferred to UCSB, the James collection contains approximately 15,000 recordings, including long runs of Victor and Columbia 78 rpm album sets.
- Kingsbaker (David L.) correspondence (PA Mss 73) Correspondence with musicians and bandleaders about the personnel of various 1920s and 1930s dance and jazz ensembles.
- Lehmann (Lotte) biography, typescript (PA Mss 48)
- Lehmann (Lotte) Collection. (PA Mss 2) Personal papers of Austrian born soprano noted for her interpretations of German Lieder and her roles in Strauss’ operas.
- Lehmann (Lotte) Photo Collection (PA Mss 34) Copies of photographs of soprano Lotte Lehmann during her performances at the Salzburg Festivals from 1926-1937, during her return to Austria in the 1960s, and other photos from the Bildarchiv und Portr�tsammlung der Österreichischen Nationalbibliothek Wien and the Max Reinhardt-Forschsungs und Gedenkstätte, Salzburg.
- Lucas (Johnny) Sound Recording Collection (PA 2001-007) Collection of jazz 78s of dixieland trumpeter Johnny Lucas (Firehouse Five), including unreleased acetate recordings.
- Menk (Anthony) Papers (PA Mss 77)
- Moran (William R.) Collection (PA Mss 57) Papers and collection of author and discographer William R. Moran.
- Music Academy of the West Recordings (PA Mss 65) Recordings of Music Academy of the West concerts, 1960-2001.
- Pedroza (Alma and Alfonse) Recordings (PA Mss 50) Acetate recordings of opera singers Alma and Alfonse Pedroza.
- Playman (Gordon) Papers (PA Mss 59) Papers of composer Gordon Playman, including manuscript scores and recordings.
- Rich (Blanche Browning) Collection (PA 2002-005, PA 2002-006) 1,400 Edison Blue Amberol cylinder recordings and 6,400 Edison Diamond Discs, all unplayed dealer stock.
- Santa Barbara Civic Light Opera Records (PA Mss 56) Records of Santa Barbara musical theater company.
- Santa Barbara Jazz Society records (PA Mss 71) Records of Santa Barbara organization dedicated to the appreciation of jazz music.Singher (Martial) Recordings, 1943-1980 (PA Mss 25) Recordings made by French baritone Singher who was on the faculty of the Music Academy of the West.
- Sober (Kurt) Papers, 1913-1920 (PA Mss 21) Papers of German-American conductor, pianist, accompanist and voice coach.
- Sound Recording Catalog Collection (PA Mss 26) Extensive collection of manufacturers’ catalogs, primarily from the 78 rpm era.
- Specht (Margaret) Correspondence (PA Mss 44)
- Stokowski (Leopold) Recordings, 1934-1940. (PA Mss 27) Stokowski’s personal collection of test pressings.
- Todd (Verne) Collection (PA Mss 1) Extensive collection of popular, classical, jazz and other sound recordings and related ephemera.
- Van der Voort (Antoni) Papers, 1930s-1952 (PA Mss 22) Manuscripts and personal papers of Santa Barbara composer and educator.
- Warren (Leonard) Collection (PA Mss 64) Papers and recordings of noted operatic baritone Leonard Warren.
- Williams (Frederick P.) Papers and Collection (PA Mss 72) Papers and collection of band historian and record collector Frederick P. Williams.