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Additional Images

Here you can find all the images used throughout the online exhibit to supplement the featured items. These images do not come from scans of the…

Georg Solti, annotated score for Hector Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique

This annotated copy of Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique was owned by Sir Georg Solti, and chronicles 19 groups of performances dating from 1959-1992.…

Copy of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, The Marriage of Figaro

An early manuscript copy in several hands of Mozart's 1786 opera Le Nozze di Figaro (the unusual misspelling “nozzi” on the cover is repeated on the…

Lithograph portrait of Maria Malibran and Laure Cinti-Damoreau; Maria Malibran, "Au bord de la mer"

French soprano Laure Cinti-Damoreau (1801-1863) and Spanish mezzo-soprano Maria Malibran (1808-1836),two of opera’s most admired bel canto singers of…

Broadway Melody of 1940, draft screenplay and dialogue cutting continuity

Shown here are documents from the beginning and end of production of the MGM musical Broadway Melody of 1940: a draft screenplay with revisions…

M. le comte de la Cépède, La poétique de la musique

La poétique de la musique, a 700-plus page treatise on aesthetics by French naturalist and amateur composer Bernard Germain de la Cépède, was first…

Fred Ho, Warrior Sisters: The New Adventures of African and Asian Womyn Warriors

Chinese-American composer, baritone saxophonist, activist, and Marxist Fred Ho's avant-garde jazz opera Warrior Sisters (1998), written with…

Lauryn Hill, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill

This vinyl record of Lauryn Hill's legendary 1998 album The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill is part of Classic Crates, a collaboration between the Hiphop…

Lou Harrison, Gending Alexander

American composer Lou Harrison's Gending Alexander, a work for Javanese gamelan ensemble, was first performed April 22-24, 1981 at the University of…

Boston punk/rock cassette tapes, recorded by Arthur Freedman

In the late 1970s, Arthur Freedman (b. 1957) began to record in the clubs of Boston, Cambridge, and Somerville. The resulting collection comprises…