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Walter Brenner Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0088
Scope and Contents
The Walter Brenner Collection, housed in the Dr. Kenneth J. LaBudde Department of Special Collections, was donated in the early 1970s to the University of Missouri-Kansas City by Brenner’s spouse, Meta Rika Brenner. The collection is divided into three series: Manuscript Music Scores, Published Music Scores, and Miscellaneous Documents and Ephemera. Manuscript scores form the heart of the collection and date from 1930-1967, with the majority composed between 1941 and 1960. As Brenner was a...
Dates:
1923 - 1973
McLean Family Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0151
Scope and Contents
The McLean Family Collection was acquired in April 2009 as a gift from Martha McLean Simpson, daughter of Minnie and Lawrence McLean. The collection contains both personal information about the McLean Family as well as material relating to the McLean Band Shop in downtown Kansas City, Missouri. The band shop was patronized by many local and well-known visiting musicians. There are photographs of such celebrities as Benny Goodman, Tex Beneke and Sammy Kaye. Hal McLean, Lawrence McLean’s older...
Dates:
1855 - 1949
Allan Bell Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0138
Scope and Contents
The Allan Bell Collection was purchased by LaBudde Special Collections from Nancy Rooks in September 2008. The collection originally was acquired from Allan Bell by Ron Rooks, Nancy’s late husband and owner of Music Exchange record store in Kansas City, Missouri. Material chronicles from 1961 to 1976 Bell’s theatrical and music agency America’s Best Attractions (ABA) situated in North Kansas City, with the majority of material concentrated between 1965 and 1973. Divided into five series...
Dates:
1950 - 1998
John Garrity Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0317
Scope and Contents
The John Garrity Collection contains correspondences, legal and business documents, handwritten and typed music, promotional material, newspaper clippings, and photographs related to Garrity and his publishing company Wyandotte Music. Emphasis is on materials from the 1970s.
Collection also includes recordings from journalist, John Garrity, music from Kansas City and folk music from San Francisco in which Garrity was involved.
Dates:
1936 - 2016
Virgil Thomson Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0076
Scope and Contents
The Virgil Thomson Collection in the LaBudde Special Collections is one of two locations which house the Virgil Thomson’s Papers. The bulk of Thomson’s Papers is located at the Irving S. Gilmore Music Library at Yale University. The collection located at UMKC was a gift of John Obetz, originally given to the UMKC Conservatory of Music Library, formerly located in Grant Hall. The collection contains portions of Thomson’s career and personal life. Correspondence between Thomson,...
Dates:
1875 - 1984
Carroll Lewis Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0272
Scope and Contents
The Carroll Lewis Collection was gifted to LaBudde Special Collections by Paul Smith in April 2015.The bulk of the collection consists of handwritten music manuscripts composed and/or arranged by Lewis. Rounding out the collection are miscellaneous items such as photographs, awards, publications and scrapbooks.Addendum I was gifted to LaBudde Special Collections by Paul Smith. This addendum contains miscellaneous photocopies of various materials pertaining to Carroll Lewis’...
Dates:
1959 - 2006
Stuart MacKay Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0172
Scope and Contents
The Stuart MacKay Collection was gifted to the LaBudde Department of Special Collections in May 2010. The collection consists primarily of jazz and classical music arrangements by John Saunders for MacKay’s woodwind quintet and band. These manuscripts are undated and unpublished. Included also are copies of two published MacKay compositions, fake books, bassoon and woodwind scores, a theory textbook, and some promotional material and personal papers. Inclusive dates are 1938-1986.
Dates:
1938 - 1986
Grand Emporium Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0038
Scope and Contents
The Grand Emporium Collection was donated to Miller Nichols Library, University of Missouri-Kansas City, in Summer 2004 by Roger Naber and C. Herb Palmer, co-owners of the Grand Emporium (along with George Myers).Housed in LaBudde Special Collections, the manuscript collection primarily chronicles from 1985-2004 the venerable Kansas City nightclub at 3832 Main Street and consists of approximately 15,000 flyers, handbills, and posters; 4,000 photographs, negatives, and slides;...
Dates:
1969 - 2007
O. T. Honey National Guard Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0063
Scope and Contents
The content is from 1940-1952 and includes presidential addresses by Harry S Truman and F.D.R. as well as recordings of the 140th Infantry Band conducted by Lt. O.T. Honey. The paper materials of this collection are housed at the Missouri State Archives as the O.T. Honey National Guard Collection (MS172).
Dates:
1941 - 1952
Gregory Hermon Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0409
Scope and Contents
Collection consists of 45 RPM discs and audiocassette tapes of country music collected by Gregory Hermon.
Dates:
1960s-2000
Cora Davis Sanders Music Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0174
Scope and Contents
The Cora Davis Sanders Music Collection was a gift of Joy and Arden Sanders in June 2010. The collection consists of a series of piano lessons accessed through correspondence with the American College of Music in Kansas City, Missouri. Included are lessons along with recitation blanks, which were tests that were taken by the pupil and returned to the school for grading. Although the materials themselves are not dated, postmarks on the mailers indicate the year 1925.
Dates:
undated
Fred Calland Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0074
Scope and Contents
The Fred Calland Collection was donated to the Miller Nichols Library at the University of Missouri-Kansas City by Calland’s sister, Ann Calland, in 2000. The manuscript collection is housed in LaBudde Special Collections and holds material related to Calland’s radio career and is divided into seven series: biographical/personal, correspondence, radio material, opera material, opera programs, miscellaneous and photographs. The audiovisual collection is housed in the Marr Sound Archives and...
Dates:
1899 - 1995
Dave E. Dexter Jr. Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0021
Scope and Contents
The Dave E. Dexter, Jr. Collection was gifted to the UMKC Libraries by Dave Dexter prior to his death in 1990.Housed in LaBudde Special Collections, the manuscripts collection includes correspondence, writings and photographs. Dexter's correspondence with Capitol Record executives and other individuals provide pertinent information concerning the recording industry. His prolific writings are reflected in numerous formats from record liner notes to typed drafts and published works,...
Dates:
1926 - 1988
Gerald Kemner Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0068
Scope and Contents
The Gerald Kemner Collection was gifted to the UMKC Miller Nichols Library in 2003.The collection encompasses the compositional, professional, and personal life of Kemner, who taught Composition at the UMKC Conservatory for many years. In addition to a comprehensive assembly of Kemner’s musical compositions, you will also find Teaching Materials, Programs, Correspondence, Newspaper Clippings, and Miscellaneous items.Addendum I was gifted to the UMKC Miller Nichols Library in...
Dates:
1953 - 1993
Frederick "Fritz" Swischer Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0156
Scope and Contents
The Frederick “Fritz” R. Swischer Collection was donated to the UMKC Libraries in 2001. The materials had been acquired from Swischer by Chuck Haddix, Kansas City jazz exponent, radio host, and Curator of the Marr Sound Archives at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, for use as research material in writing Haddix’s book Kansas City Jazz: From Ragtime to Bebop – A History, co-authored with Frank Driggs (Oxford University Press, 2005).Swischer’s research, culminating in the...
Dates:
1934 - 2004
Bob Cowan Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0296
Scope and Contents
The Robert Cowan Collection was donated to the LaBudde Special Collections at UMKC Miller Nichols Library by Cowan himself in June of 2016. Cowan was an avid performer of the jazz trombone, and this collection chiefly consists of scores and parts to arrangements of jazz standards. There are twenty five pencil manuscript full scores in the collection, and sets of parts (although some are incomplete) to around sixty pieces. The works are not Cowan’s own, but included in the collection are,...
Dates:
c. 1940s
Lotte Lehmann Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0030
Scope and Contents
Contains recordings of opera performances, studio sessions, and interviews of soprano, Lotte Lehmann.
Dates:
1938 - 1960
Amy Cheney Beach Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0089
Scope and Contents
The Amy Cheney Beach Collection, housed in the Dr. Kenneth J. LaBudde Department of Special Collections, was purchased from the MacDowell Colony by the University of Missouri-Kansas City in the early 1970s. The collection consists of over 30 manuscript scores and over 60 published scores of original compositions by Beach. Also included is a handwritten correspondence from Beach to the Toledo Times Company.The manuscript scores include dated (1872-1933) and undated works. Many of...
Dates:
1872 - 1943
Olin James Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0100
Scope and Contents
The collection consist of audio recordings of classical music, swing music, home recordings, and Army calls.
Dates:
1939 - 1958
Paul Elias Taylor Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0049
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of oral history recordings of Kansas City blues musicians conducted by Paul Elias Taylor in 1999.
Dates:
1999
Hans Christian Feil Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0122
Scope and Contents
Recordings of Hans Christian Feil, a Kansas City composer, director, and organists.
Dates:
1942 - 1951
MacDowell Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0009
Scope and Contents
The MacDowell Collection (formerly MacDowell Colony Collection) was purchased from the artist residency and workshop and is housed in LaBudde Special Collections, UMKC Miller Nichols Library. Broken down into four series, the collection consists of compositions and arrangements by a variety of musical artists. The first series contains manuscript music material arranged by composer/arranger last name. The second series contains material by arranger P. Hans Flath. The third series contains...
Dates:
1845 - 1965
Karl Kratz Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0227
Scope and Contents
The Karl Kratz Collection contains documents and memorabilia from the life and career of Kratz, who spent time in Kansas City with the Kansas City Civic Ballet Company and at the Conservatory of Music and Dance. Materials from both Germany and America offer a glimpse into dance history both here and overseas. Including documents such as biographical information, correspondence, newspaper clippings and instructional texts, as well as programs, periodicals, photographs, and a scrapbook that...
Dates:
1923 - 1985
Kerry Strayer Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0311
Scope and Contents
The Kerry Strayer collection was a gift to the University Libraries in October 2016 from Strayer’s wife, Gailyn. The collection is comprised of jazz arrangements for ensembles of varying size and instrumentation, with many pieces arranged by Strayer himself. There are also a handful of original compositions by Strayer, such as “Jeru Blue” and “KAS’s Blues.” In this collection, there are arrangements for the Polycurrents ensemble; jazz quartet, quintet, and sextet; Kerry Strayer and the New...
Dates:
1943 - 2012
Solita Palmer Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS-0051
Scope and Contents
The Solita Palmer Collection is archived at the UMKC Miller Nichols Library.Housed in LaBudde Special Collections, the manuscript materials contain correspondence, biographies, band music, manuscript scores, miscellaneous, published music, newspaper clippings, and photographs related to the composer.Housed in the Marr Sound Archives, the audiovisual materials consist of test pressings and demos of songs written by Solita Palmer and Emerson Yorke. Included are several...
Dates:
1892 - 1988
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