Music

The Heifetz Collection features recordings by the violinist and a rare unpublished recording by Leopold Auer.

The Mario Ancona Collection includes photographs, memorabilia, sound recordings, and more related to Ancona's career.

Tenor Mario Chamlee sang at the leading opera houses in the United States and abroad. His wife Ruth was a soprano and noted singing teacher.

This is the personal collection of Theodore Fagan, United Nations translator, author, and music collector.

Open reel tape recordings made by documentary filmmaker, photographer, ethnographer, and historian Richard Sterling Finnie.

The Kronos Quartet has donated part of its collection of chamber music to the Music Library. Some scores are integrated into the general scores collection but can be identified in SearchWorks by doing a subject search for "kronos quartet collection." A large part of the collection has been inventoried and is stored off site; please allow 2-3 business days for these items to be paged and delivered to the Music Library. These items can be searched in the Kronos Quartet database.

The Schmidt Collection contains primarily photocopies of original and transcribed music for lute gathered from a variety of libraries and archival repositories. These materials are not represented in SearchWorks, and are available for in-house use only.

This collection is located in storage and may be viewed on-site only. Photocopying is not permitted. To obtain copies, please contact the institution owning the original work. Please allow 2-3 business days for items to be paged and delivered to the Music Library.

George Antheil was born on July 8, 1900 in Trenton, New Jersey. He studied briefly with Constantin von Sternberg and Ernest Bloch. In 1922, he traveled to Europe to pursue a career as a concert pianist, performing many of his own works such as Mechanisms, Airplane Sonata, and Sonata Sauvage. The riots that his music caused contributed to the composer's growing notoriety. In Berlin he met Stravinsky, who exerted the single most important influence on his compositional style.

Florence Underwood studied with Darius Milhaud at Mills College in the 1940s. In February of 1953, her composition, The Hopi Indian Legend, was premiered by the San Diego Philharmonic Orchestra. Several of her compositions were performed by local orchestras, and she also composed original music for amateur theater groups in the San Francisco Bay and Portland, Oregon areas. She taught piano and composition privately and at Multnomah College in Portland. 

Riverwalk Jazz: Live At The Landing educated and entertained public radio listeners with a program devoted to celebrating traditional jazz and popular music of the pre-war era.

Files of the organizational departments of the Ambassador Auditorium as well as audio and video recordings.

The Donald Pippin Collection consists primarily of Pippin's English translations of opera librettos available as pdf files.

The Blanche Thebom Collection consists of scores, correspondence, publicity, production notes, and media from the mezzo-soprano's post-Met career as teacher and director.

The James Schwabacher Collection consists of sound recordings, correspondence, scores, scrapbooks, clippings, programs, teaching material and other papers from San Francisco philanthropist and lyric tenor James Schwabacher.

The Ken Ackerman Collection consists of broadcast recordings of live jazz performances from the 1950s and 60s, captured at various clubs in San Francisco, particularly Club Hangover.

Papers and recordings from American conductor and composer Gerhard Samuel (1924-2008), particularly from his years conducting the Oakland Symphony, Minneapolis Symphony, and University of Cincinnati Philharmonia Orchestra.

White perceptions of African American as portrayed in the cover illustrations of sheet music.

Includes manuscripts of musical compositions, and correspondence (1924-1973)

The collection includes correspondence (1835-1897), financial papers, musical compositions, and other papers.

The Jack Lund Collection contains personal papers of Jack Lund, an avid classical music collector, as well as numerous newspaper and magazine clippings, photographs, and music books.

Denis Condon (1933-2012) trained at the Sydney Conservatory and became a music teacher and educator. He developed an interest in the reproducing player piano when his father purchased an Ampico piano when Denis was fifteen. Over the next sixty years he amassed a collection of over 7500 piano rolls and ten instruments. From his home he hosted social evenings every two months where rolls were played for the assembled guests.