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Broadway Melody of 1940, draft screenplay and dialogue cutting continuityShown here are documents from the beginning and end of production of the MGM musical Broadway Melody of 1940: a draft screenplay with revisions…
![](https://treasures.harvardmusiclib.share.library.harvard.edu/files/fullsize/3c94488a358fac3016072838f038d88d.jpg "Two photocopies of Carter's manuscript leadsheet for "Myra"")
Benny Carter, "Myra"The Harvard Jazz Band commissioned this piece from saxophonist Benny Carter in honor of Myra Mayman, director of Harvard’s Office for the Arts from…
![](https://treasures.harvardmusiclib.share.library.harvard.edu/files/fullsize/42be04c3f0cd36a924c5e7c95d4bb87e.jpg "Manuscript score for four saxophones for "Stormy Weather"")
Duke Ellington, arrangement of Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler's "Stormy Weather"This score for "Stormy Weather," in Ellington’s hand, notates the saxophone section accompaniment to the soloists' melody line. This arrangement, one…
Fred Ho, Warrior Sisters: The New Adventures of African and Asian Womyn WarriorsChinese-American composer, baritone saxophonist, activist, and Marxist Fred Ho's avant-garde jazz opera Warrior Sisters (1998), written with…