Box and Folder Listing

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Series 1: ScoresSeries 2: Oversized scoresSeries 3: Published works by Simon BucharoffSeries 4: Libretti and other writingsSeries 5: Correspondence and papersSeries 6: Photographs, clippings, and publicitySeries 7: Works by other authors and composersSeries 8: Isadore BuchhalterSeries 9: RealiaSeries 10: Documentation from the University of Houston

• Series 1: Scores

  • Box 1 Request Reading Room Access

    Barcode 290486.

    • Folder 1: All Free Men Unite Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Piano and voice. 4 pages, holograph.

    • Folder 2: America, America: Land of Peace and Freedom! Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Piano and vocal. ASCAP. 6 pages.

    • Folder 3: America: Symphonic Poem, 1927 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      72 pages of music + 1 page insert, in pencil. "Sketch completed Aug. 23, 1927."

    • Folder 4: Arabesque Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      For piano. Six pages.

    • Folder 5: Arioso from the opera Jewel. Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Tenor and orchestra. 7 pages, 6 copies. 2 extra cover pages, and pp. 2-3.

    • Folder 6: Before the Dawn Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Voice and piano. 7 pages. Words by Minny M.H. Ayers, music by Simon Bucharoff.

    • Folder 7: Cantos a la Santa Cruz Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Four songs for piano or organ and voice, ditto copy of typed explanation of background story: 1. Adoro te Santa Cruz [incipit title]; 2. Oh Jesus crucificado [incipit title]; 3. Alabanzas; 4. Bendita Sea. Six pages of music.

    • Folder 8: Cast Your Vote for F.D.R. Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Piano and vocals. ASCAP. 4 pages.

    • Folder 9: The Combat Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Two separate works with same title. 1. Allegro moderato (agitato), 7 pages. 2. Allegro, 8 pages.

    • Folder 10: Come Along, Sweetheart Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Piano and voice. 8 pages. ASCAP.

    • Folder 11: Come On, Neighbors Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Piano and voice. 5 pages. ASCAP.

    • Folder 12: Come On, Neighbors Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Piano and voice. 8 pages, holograph.

    • Folder 13: Concert Impromptu for Piano Solo, 1945 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      8 pages, 4 copies. ASCAP. Copyright date supplied in ink on first copy.

    • Folder 14: Country Dance Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Piano. 3 pages.

    • Folder 15: Danse Grotesque, 1943 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      For piano. 6 pages, 3 copies.

    • Folder 16: Danse Grotesque, undated Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Piano. 7 pages, 4 copies.

    • Folder 17: Danse Russe, 1943 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Piano. 8 pages.

    • Folder 18: Danse Russe, undated Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Piano. 7 pages.

    • Folder 19: Danse Russe, undated Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Orchestra. 21 pages.

    • Folder 20: Danse Russe, 1943 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Violin and piano. Version 1 of 2. Score, 13 pages; violin part, 7 pages. Some water damage and pages stuck together where inserts were taped over existing music.

  • Box 2 Request Reading Room Access

    Barcode 280029.

    • Folder 1: Danse Russe, 1943 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      5 copies of score, 5 copies of violin part. Violin and piano. Extended ossia part for violin. Violin part, 7 pages; score; 14 pages.

    • Folder 2: Danse Russe, undated Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Violin and piano. Score, 12 pages; violin part, 4 pages.

    • Folder 3: Drama of Exile, 1911 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      "For chorus, soli and orchestra by Simon Buchhalter. Mrs. E.B. Browning. Words adapted from original by Georgiana Freeman Meloy. Score for two pianos, finished June 23 1911." Bound, 117 pages. Looseleaf pages with lyrics enclosed, titled "Satan's Apology."

    • Folder 4: A Dramatic Satire for Strings in One Movement, 1926 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Violins I,II, II, Viola, Cello, Bass. Page 2: "This composition is a satire on musical things in general and expresses the conflict between the old and the new, leaving the rest to the imagination! - Author." "Completed in Menaggio, Italy. 1926." Bound, 111 pages.

    • Folder 5: Dream of Love for Piano, 1943 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      7 pages. Note in pencil on p. 7 (transcribed as found): "M.B. The pedalling is most important in this piece. The sustaining middle pedal is indicated by o while other pedalling is left to the skill and knowledge of the pianist."

    • Folder 6: Dream of Love for Piano, 1943 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      5 pages of music. No pedaling indicated, unlike adjacent item (above).

    • Folder 7: Dream of Love for Piano, undated Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      8 pages, 6 copies.

  • Box 3 Request Reading Room Access

    Barcode 280025.

    • Folder 1: Fanfare to The Four Freedoms, 1943 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      One page. Six copies.Three trumpets, cymbals, snare drum, bass drum, timpani.

    • Folder 2: Fantastic Overture, 1919 December - 1920 February Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Bound orchestral score, 85 pages.

    • Folder 3: Fantastic Overture Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      "Piano score reduced by composer." 20 pages. "Not to be used for public purposes."

    • Folder 4: Finale from Freedom on the March Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      ASCAP. 2 copies, 53 pages. For narrator, baritone, mixed chorus and orchestra.Insert pages and text of "O Ye Peoples and Nations" enclosed in first copy. Additional holograph copies of pp. 16-53.

    • Folder 5: The Four Freedoms, 1943 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      8 pages, pencil.

    • Folder 6: The Four Freedoms, 1943 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Negative copies of published version. Two copies (one apparently complete, one incomplete). 6 leaves, numbered 2-7.

    • Folder 7: The Four Freedoms Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Solo voice with male chorus and orchestra. Score, solo, male chorus, flute 1 & 2, oboe 1 & 2, clarinet 1 & 2, violin A (2 copies), violin B (2 copies), viola, cello, bass.

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    Barcode 280028.

    • Folder 1: The Four Freedoms, 1943 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Reduced piano-vocal score. 8 pages. 26 copies.

    • Folder 2: Four Tone Poems for Orchestra Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Manuscript score. 127 pages.

    • Folder 3: Four Tone Poems for Orchestra Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      To Dr. Willem Mengelberg. Photostat copy of manuscript. 131 pages.

    • Folder 4: Four Tone Poems Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Percussion part, 8 pages. Movements: I. Reflections in the Water; II. Doubt; III. Drunk; IV. Joy Sardonic.

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    Barcode 280032.

    • Folder 1: Freedom on the March Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      "Notations of procedure." Two partial conductor's scores, autograph in pencil. One has 3 pages, the other 19. File also includes typed lyrics to "March of Freedom" and "Modern Version of 'The Sermon on the Mount' : Parable of Nothin' and Somethin'" (2 copies, one dated 1947), two handwritten sheets of lyrics, bass clar. part for "The Four Freedoms."

    • Folder 2: Hymn to the Virgin Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      From Sakhara. Piano-vocal. Two sets of title pages (2 copies each); score, 2 pages of music. Holograph copy and regular paper copy.

    • Folder 3: I Love God, 1944 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Voice with piano or organ. 8 pages.

    • Folder 4: Intermezzo (Love's Regret) Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Piano, 3 pages.

    • Folder 5: Intermezzo (Love's Regret) Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Piano. 5 pages.

    • Folder 6: Introduction Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Possibly from Scene de Ballet. Violin I and II parts, one page each, holograph.

    • Folder 7: Israel's Lament, 1946 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      "On a theme from the opera Jewel." For violin and piano. Two copies of violin part (4 pages each). One full copy of score (10 pages), pages 2, 3, 4 from alternate copy of score.

    • Folder 8: Italian Serenade, 1945 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Piano. 8 pages, 5 copies (1 holograph copy). Date supplied in ink on first copy.

    • Folder 9: Italian Serenade, 1946 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Violin and piano. Score (10 pages, 2 copies), and part (4 pages).

    • Folder 10: Italian Serenade, undated Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      For baritone ("with or without ensemble") and piano. No lyrics, but vocables written in score. 10 pages.

    • Folder 11: Jerusalem!, 1930 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Title "Onward" crossed out. Piano and vocals, 15 pages. "Based on Psalms 22, 35, 107, 114, 116, 117, 119, 126, 127, 130. Completed Nov. 7 1930"

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    Barcode 290484.

    • Folder 1: Jerusalem! City of Light and Peace Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      "Cantate for double chorus and piano or organ." "Based on Psalms 22, 35, 107, 114, 116, 117, 119, 126, 127, 130" [later page adds Ps. 92, 95, 98, 103, I. Chron. 29:11-13].  "Specially composed and dedicated to Margarete Dessoff and The Dessoff Choirs"; "Arranged for soprano, mezzo or alto, tenor, baritone or bass." Score, 88 pages.

    • Folder 2: Jerusalem! City of Light and Peace Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Cantate for soprano, alto, tenor, bass and solo for tenor. "Based on Psalms 22, 35, 107, 114, 116, 117, 119, 126, 127, 130." "Tenor solo from I. Chron 29: 11-13, Psalms 42, 95, 98, 103." "Piano or organ can be substituted until orchestral score is prepared."

    • Folder 3: Jewel Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Folder 1 of 4 folders containing holographic copies, some pages missing.

    • Folder 4: Jewel Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Folder 2 of 4 folders containing holographic copies, some pages missing.

    • Folder 5: Jewel Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Folder 3 of 4 folders containing holographic copies, some pages missing.

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    Barcode 280030.

    • Folder 1: Jewel Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Last of 4 folders containing holographic copies, some pages missing.

    • Folder 2: Jewel's Love Plea Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Piano-vocal score of work for tenor and orchestra.. 11 pages, 4 copies, extra copy of cover sheet and pp. 4-11.

    • Folder 3: Lament Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      From the opera Jewel. Arranged for violin, cello, and piano. 3 copies of violin part (4 pages each), 3 copies of cello part (4 pages each), 5 copies of piano part (12 pages each, some replacement pages taped over pages of first two copies). ASCAP.

    • Folder 4: Lord, Hear My Voice Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Soprano or tenor with organ, 8 pages.

    • Folder 5: Love's Pangs Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      For tenor; orchestral score. Aria: "To take again the little hand in mine."

    • Folder 6: March of the Four Freedoms, 1946 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      "To the United Nations." For voice and piano, 11 pages. ASCAP.

    • Folder 7: March of the Four Freedoms, 1946 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      "To the United Nations"; for male chorus and orchestra. 25 pages, 3 copies.

    • Folder 8: Naebody Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Voice and piano, 4 pages. 4 copies. Lyrics by Robert Burns, music by Simon Bucharoff. ASCAP.

    • Folder 9: Notes on Chinese Music Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      5 leaves, sketches and prose.

    • Folder 10: On the Road to Victory Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Voice and piano. 8 pages, 2 copies. One bears the pseudonym "Victor Jensimon."

      Accompanying envelope marked "Burn this in case of sudden death."

  • Box 8 Request Reading Room Access

    Barcode 290489.

    • Folder 1: O Conquering Love Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Reduced piano-vocal score. 9 pages, 4 copies; partial holograph page, holograph title page.

    • Folder 2: Overture to A Drama of Exile Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Signed as Simon Buchhalter. "Part II for piano score [,] 2 pianos." 17 pages.

    • Folder 3: O Ye Peoples and Nations! Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      From Freedom on the March. For baritone and orchestra. Piano-vocal score, 8 pages; 3 copies.

    • Folder 4: Parable of Nothin' and Somethin' Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Condensed orchestral score, in pencil. 11 leaves; staff paper with some sketches on reverse side.

    • Folder 5: Parable of Nothin' and Somethin' Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      For baritone and orchestra with narrator and chorus.From Freedom on the March. 31 pages. Lyrics enclosed in one copy.

    • Folder 6: Parable of Nothin' and Somethin', 1947 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      For baritone and piano. 2 copies, 17 pages.

    • Folder 7: Parable of Nothin' and Somethin', 1947 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      For baritone and piano. 15 pages, 3 copies. Revised lyrics pasted over original ones.

    • Folder 8: The Passing Caravan (In the Desert), 1930 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      For piano. 8 pages.

    • Folder 9: Poem for Piano, 1945 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      8 pages, 4 copies. Date added in ink on one copy.

    • Folder 10: Poor Lubin, 1945 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      "For high voice" and piano. 4 pages; 6 copies (one negative, one holograph). Text by Matthew Prior (1664-1721).

  • Box 9 Request Reading Room Access

    Barcode 290481.

    • Folder 1: The Rainy Day Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Text by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. By Simon Buchhalter. For voice and piano. 3 pages, brittle.

    • Folder 2: The Raising of Sakahra Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Bound; Volume 1, Act I. 2 copies.

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    Barcode 280033.

    • Item 1: The Raising of Sakahra Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Bound; Volume 2, Acts II-III. 2 copies.

  • Box 11 Request Reading Room Access

    Barcode 290485.

    • Folder 1: The Raising of Sakahra: Act II and Scene de Ballet Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Photostats found in original package from Studio Blue Print Company, Hollywood. Original arrangement retained.

    • Folder 2: The Raising of Sakahra Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Act III, photostat copy. Accompanies Series 2, Box 8.

    • Folder 3: Rejoice, and Be Exceeding Glad! Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      For high voice and organ. 12 pages, 4 copies (one copy has revised introduction taped onto page). "Text from Matt. 5:12, John 14:2, Matt. 5:3-10, John 14:27."

    • Folder 4: Rejoicing, I Laugh and Laugh and Laugh! Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Ballad for baritone with piano or orchestra. 22 pages, 2 copies.

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    Barcode 290491.

    • Folder 1: Religioso Dramatico Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Piano-conductor score, 8 pages.

    • Folder 2: The Revellers, 1945 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      For piano. 8 pages, 5 copies. Dated added in ink on one copy.

    • Folder 3: Reverie for Violin and Piano, 1943 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      5 violin parts (4 pages), 5 scores (8 pages). Violin parts dated 1943.

    • Folder 4: Romantic Tale, 1945 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      For piano. 8 pages, 5 copies. Date added in ink on one copy.

    • Folder 5: Sakahra, 1918 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Volume 1: Acts I and II.

    • Folder 6: Sakahra, 1918 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Volume 2: Acts III and IV.

  • Box 13 Request Reading Room Access

    Barcode 290488.

    • Folder 1: Sakahra Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      French translation by A.G.H. Spiers.

    • Folder 2: Sakahra, 1923 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Piano score, inscribed to Bucharoff's wife, Jeanette, dated January 8, 1924.

      Handle with caution: severe red rot on binding.

  • Box 14 Request Reading Room Access

    Barcode 290482.

    • Folder 1: Sakahra, 1923 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Piano reduction, inscribed to sister, Minna, dated January 18, 1924.

    • Folder 2: Sakahra, 1923 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Piano reduction, with annotations in pencil.

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    Barcode 290483.

    • Folder 1: Sakahra Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Reduced-size copy of orchestral score, Volume I-1.

    • Folder 2: Sakahra Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Reduced-size copy of orchestral score, Volume I-2.

    • Folder 3: Sakahra Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Reduced-size copy of orchestral score, Volume II-1.

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    Barcode 280026.

    • Folder 1: Sakahra Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Reduced-size copy of orchestral score, Volume II-2.

    • Folder 2: Sakahra Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Reduced-size copy of orchestral score, Volume III.

    • Folder 3: Sakahra Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Unidentified, pages 144-149; assorted half-pages and inserts either from Sakahra or The Raising of Sakahra.

    • Folder 4: Sakahra's Prayer, from The Raising of Sakahra Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      For soprano and piano, 8 pages. 5 copies. Holograph copy of cover page, first page, and last page.

    • Folder 5: Salute to a Free World Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Bound copy.

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    Barcode 290490.

    • Folder 1: Salute to a Free World, 1945 September Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      "Dedicated to the memory of Franklin Delano Roosevelt." Holograph copy.

    • Folder 2: Sammy Lad, My Sammy, 1943 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      For voice and piano. 7 pages of music.

    • Folder 3: Satan's Apology and Revenge Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      For baritone and orchestra. 25 pages of music, plus several additional, possibly related.

    • Folder 4: Scene de Ballet from the opera Sakahra Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Partial reduced score, holograph.

    • Folder 5: Sketches Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      File includes: Excerpts of spirituals, sketches in pencil on hotel stationery regarding "Eagle Dance," lyrics in transliterated Hebrew (possibly Yiddish or Ladino) on reverse side of C.L. Fritzsche edition of "Das Lied zur Seelen-Feier."

    • Folder 6: Song of the Nightingale, 1946 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      For unspecified voice or instrument and piano. 11 pages.

    • Folder 7: Song of the Nightingale, 1946 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      "Scene ensemble." 14 pages.

    • Folder 8: Song of the Nightingale, 1946 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      For soprano and piano. 11 pages.

    • Folder 9: Song of the Nightingale, 1946 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      For mezzo-soprano and piano. 8 pages.

    • Folder 10: Song of the Nightingale, 1946 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      For tenor and piano. 7 pages.

    • Folder 11: Song of the Nightingale, 1946 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      For baritone and piano. 10 pages, 2 copies.

    • Folder 12: Song of the Nightingale, 1946 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      For baritone and piano. 11 pages.

    • Folder 13: Soul of Mine, Do Not Question Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      For voice and piano. 4 pages, 6 copies. English text by Simon Bucharoff, German text by Hans Hopfen.

    • Folder 14: The Southern Nightingale, 1947 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      "Waltz scene for soprano with or without ballet and chorus." Score for voice and piano. 14 pages, 3 copies, additional title page and p. 7 in holograph.

    • Folder 15: The Southern Nightingale, undated Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      "Waltz scene for soprano with or without ballet and chorus." Score for voice and piano. 15 pages, 5 copies.

    • Folder 16: Themes of Nations Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      "Official national songs." Excerpts of national anthems and patriotic songs. 5 pages of music.

    • Folder 17: Thine, O Lord, Is the Greatness and Power Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      For high voice and organ. 10 pages, 3 copies (one holograph). "Text from I Chron. 29: 11-13, Ps. 95: 1, Ps 103: 2-5."

    • Folder 18: This Commercial Theme Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      For voice, sound effects, and piano, 3 page. "Commercial Theme for Dr. Ross's Food for Pets."

      "This music is from the Drinking Song of the opera The Raising of Sakahra by Simon Bucharoff."

    • Folder 19: Trost Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      For voice and piano, 10 pages. Text by Wilhelm Jordan.

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    Barcode 290487.

    • Folder 1: The Trumpeter's Death Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      "Fantasy for orchestra and piano." 107 pages, reduced for 2 pianos. Complete, bound.

    • Folder 2: The Trumpeter's Death Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Partial holograph copy, approx. pp. 17-107. Some areas apparently revised on adjacent item.

    • Folder 3: Twenty-Four Preludes for the Juvenile Pianist, 1945 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      "To Brother Isador." 29 pages, 3 copies. Date written in ink on one copy.

    • Folder 4: Uncle Sam, Be Prepared! Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      For voice and piano. 4 pages.

    • Folder 5: Valse Romantique for piano, 1943 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      7 pages, with revisions marked.

    • Folder 6: Valse Romantique for piano, 1943 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      8 pages.

    • Folder 7: Valse Romantique for piano, undated Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      8 pages, 5 copies (one holograph).

  • Box 19 Request Reading Room Access

    Barcode 280031.

    • Folder 1: The Wanderer's Song, 1929 January 3 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Completed in New York. Photostat copy in Sakahra binder.

    • Folder 2: The Wanderer's Song Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      "Piano and full score. Revised for orchestra." Instrumentation: violin, viola, cello, C trumpet, horn, piano. 78 pages.

    • Folder 3: The Wanderer's Song Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      "Symphonic Poem for Orchestra." Autograph parts for violin I and II, viola, cello, bass.

    • Folder 4: The Wanderer's Song Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Parts for violin 1, violin 2, viola, violoncello, and bass.

    • Folder 5: The Wanderer's Song Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Violin part, distinct from that of Folder 4.

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    Barcode 280024.

    • Folder 1: Wand'ring Child of God Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      For voice and piano. 8 pages, 5 copies. Dedicated to wife, Jeanette.

    • Folder 2: You Are My Sunrise Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Music by Bucharoff, lyrics by Elizabeth McCabe Gilmore.  For voice and piano. 7 pages, 2 copies.

    • Folder 3: "To Be Revised and Destroyed" Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      • Item 1: Romanza für Cello Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

        By Buchhalter. For piano and cello, 6 pages of music.

      • Item 2: Notturno Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

        By Buchhalter. For voice and piano. Text by Maximilian Bern [sp?]. 4 pages.

      • Item 3: Somewhere - Sometime Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

        By Simon Buchhalter. Text by Laura Rountree Smith.

      • Item 4: The Infantry Song Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

        "By American Eagle." Voice and piano. "For voices and piano or band," 6 pages of music.

      • Item 5: The Infantry Song Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

        By Bucharoff. Bucharoff. "By American Eagle." For voice and piano or band, 8 pages of music.

      • Item 6: The Color Bearer! Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

        Bucharoff. For voices and piano or band. Text by Elizabeth Reynolds. "Russian by birth, American citizen by naturalization." For low voice and piano. 8 pages of music.

      • Item 7: King of the Sea and I Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

        By Buchhalter. Voice and piano. Text by Chas. M. (H?) LaTourette. 11 pages.

      • Item 8: Chorus of Norwegian Sailors from The Flying Dutchman Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

        By Richard Wagner, arranged by Bucharoff "for mixed voices." 7 pages.

      • Item 9: Auf Wiedersehen! Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

        From The Blue Paradise, by Edmund Eysler, Sigmund Romberg, and Herbert Reynolds. "Part Song for Mixed Voices." 8 pages of music.

      • Item 10: Farewell Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

        By Buchhalter. Voice and piano. Text by C. Kingsley. 4 pages of music.

      • Item 11: Arabesque for piano or orchestra Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

        By Bucharoff. 6 pages of music.

      • Item 12: In the Desert (or The Passing Caravan) Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

        By Bucharoff. For piano, 7 pages of music.

      • Item 13: The Singers : for Soprano, Alt. Tenor, Bass, or Baritone Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

        By Bucharoff. Text by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. 16 pages of music.

      • Item 14: Four Aphorisms : for Soprano, alto, tenor, bass or baritone Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

        By Bucharoff. Text by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. 12 pages of music.

      • Item 15: Beware! For Soprano, alto, tenor, bass or baritone Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

        By Bucharoff. Text by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. 6 pages of music.

      • Item 16: Moods (Silhouette) Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

        By Bucharoff. For piano, 8 pages of music.

      • Item 17: Nocturne Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

        By Buchhalter. 5 pages of music.

      • Item 18: Romanze for piano Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

        By Buchhalter. 4 pages.

      • Item 19: Elegy for piano Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

        By Buchhalter, 7 pages.

      • Item 20: Mazurka for piano Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

        By Buchhalter, 6 pages.

      • Item 21: For a Picture of Watteau : "A Fantasy" Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

        By Buchhalter. Voice and piano. Text by Arthur Symons. 5 pages of music.

      • Item 22: The Lark! Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

        By Bucharoff. Voice and piano. "Music after Chopin. Text after Shelley." 12 pages of music.

      • Item 23: Music by Buchhalter, text by Byron. For voice and piano, 9 pages of music. Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      • Item 24: The Golden Fish! Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

        Music by Bucharoff, text by George Arnold (1834-1865). For voice and piano, 7 pages of music.

      • Item 25: Longing! Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

        By Bucharoff. Voice and piano. "Music after Chopin." 8 pages of music.

      • Item 26: Now Is Come Salvation! Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

        By Bucharoff. For voice and organ, 7 pages of music.

      • Item 27: Adam, Where Art Thou? Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

        By Bucharoff. For voice and organ, 18 pages of music.

      • Item 28: Comfort Ye! Comfort Ye! Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

        By Bucharoff. For voice and organ, 14 pages of music.

      • Item 29: The Volga Boat Song Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

        Russian folk melody arranged by Bucharoff, English text by Sadie A. Frank. Part song for mixed voices, 7 pages of music.

      • Item 30: Silence Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

        Music by Bucharoff, text by Sarah Teasdale. 6 pages of music.

      • Item 31: Esmeralda (Recit. And Aria) Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

        Music by Buchhalter, text by Victor Hugo. For mezzo-soprano, 12 pages of music.

    • Folder 4: "In Case of Sudden Death, Burn This" Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      "Satan's Apology and Other Item[s] : Check or destroy"

      • Item 1: Satan's Apology Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      • Item 2: Unidentified Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

        Possibly related to Satan's Apology. Reduced score with vocal line.

      • Item 3: Flowers of Parnassus for Orchestra Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      • Item 4: Unidentified sketch Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

        For piano, 4 pages.

      • Item 5: Unidentified Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

        Page 2, possibly related to Satan's Apology.

      • Item 6: Unidentified Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

        Pages 3-12, possibly related to Satan's Apology.

    • Folder 5: Unidentified items Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

• Series 2: Oversized scores

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    Barcode 280023.

    • Folder 1: Carnaval Bohème Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

    • Folder 2: Carnival for Orchestra Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

    • Folder 3: The Exiles : Symphonic Poem for Orchestra, 1919 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Completed in New York City.

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    Barcode 290497.

    • Folder 1: Fantasy : For Orchestra and Piano Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Also "Symphonic Phantasy." " To the memory of Max Raymond." Includes narrative.

    • Folder 2: The Four Freedoms Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

    • Folder 3: The Four Freedoms, cont'd. Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

    • Folder 4: Four Tone Poems Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Two manuscript copies.

    • Folder 5: Four Tone Poems Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Negative photocopy. Dedicated to Dr. Willem Mengelberg. Movements: I. Reflections in the Water. II. Drunk. III. Doubt. IV. Joy Sardonic

    • Folder 6: Four Tone Poems Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Bound manuscript copy.

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    Barcode 280019.

    • Folder 1: Jewel Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Act 1.

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    Barcode 280017.

    • Folder 1: Jewel Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Act 2.

    • Folder 2: Jewel Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Act 3.

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    Barcode 290495.

    • Folder 1: Jewel Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Various pages.

    • Folder 2: Moses: Rhapsodic Variations for Orchestra Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

    • Folder 3: Our Country, 1927 November 10 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Finished in New York.

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    Barcode 290496.

    • Folder 1: O Ye Peoples and Nations Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      From Freedom on the March.

    • Folder 2: Parable of Nothin' and Somethin' Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Two copies. Larger copy has several alternate pages.

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    Barcode 290498.

    • Folder 1: Prelude: Ecstacy of Love for Orchestra Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Found in binding labeled for Sakahra.

    • Folder 2: Prelude from the opera A Lover's Knot Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

    • Folder 3: Prologue Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

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    Barcode 290499.

    • Folder 1: The Raising of Sakahra Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Photostat, manuscript of Act I.

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    Barcode 280021.

    • Folder 1: The Raising of Sakahra Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Act II.

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    Barcode 280020.

    • Folder 1: The Raising of Sakahra Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Act III.

    • Folder 2: Rejoicing, I Laugh and Laugh and Laugh! Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

    • Folder 3: Salute to a Free World Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Found with Two Orchestral Variations. Note, possibly from Elizabeth Buchhalter, says Bucharoff tried to dedicate it to Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

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    Barcode 280018.

    • Folder 1: Sakahra - Act III - Death Scene Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Bound, marked "Remove after new version."

    • Folder 2: Scene de Ballet from the opera Sakahra Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Partial score.

    • Folder 3: Scene de Ballet from the opera Sakahra Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Several looseleaf score pages, including title page.

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    Barcode 280022.

    • Folder 1: Symphonic Phantasy, 1926 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Part 1 of 2. Photostatic copy with extensive introductory notes. Also spelled "Fantasy" within same copy. Begun in Salzburg, Germany, in June of 1924, finished in Menaggio, Italy, 1926. Dedicated to Mr. Max Raymond.

      Biographical / Historical Note: "Based upon Rainer Maria Rilke's poem Die Wiese von Liebe und Tod der Cornets Christoph Rilke."

      Bucharoff's writings indicate he had fled to Italy due to political unrest in Germany.

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    Barcode 290492.

    • Folder 1: Symphonic Phantasy, cont'd Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Part 2 of 2. Continues Box 12, Item 1.

    • Folder 2: The Trumpeter's Death Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

    • Folder 3: Two Orchestral Versions Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      1.) Das Sterbe-glöcklein [sic]. Melody by Franz Schubert, transcribed by Franz Liszt.

      2.) Capriccio. By Ferdinand David, transcribed by Franz Liszt.

    • Folder 4: Valse Brillante Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

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    Barcode 290493.

    • Folder 1: Waltz from A Lovers' Knot Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

    • Folder 2: The Wanderer's Song, 1940 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Biographical / Historical Note: First completed in New York, 1929, revised in Hollywood, 1940.

    • Folder 3: Unidentified Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Pages 61-135, on beige Schirmer paper. Possibly from a version of Jewel.

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    Barcode 290494.

    • Item 1: Empty binding Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

• Series 3: Published works by Simon Bucharoff

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    Barcode 400714.

    • Folder 1: The Four Freedoms, 1943 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      For voice and piano. 6 pages of music, 7 copies. Publisher not named on this set of copies, but address given (1515 N. Vine St., Hollywood) matches that of Pacific Music Sales on adjacent item by same title.

    • Folder 2: The Four Freedoms, 1943 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      6 pages of music, 58 copies. Hollywood: Pacific Music Sales. First copy inscribed from Bucharoff "To Elizabeth + Isadore with very best wishes."

    • Folder 3: Go Thy Way, Forgetting, 1920 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      For high voice and piano. Words by Isabel Buckingham, music by Simon Bucharoff. New York: Carl Fischer. 7 pages. "To John O'Sullivan."

    • Folder 4: A Lovers' Knot : an opera in one act, 1916 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Vocal-piano score, 139 pages. 2 copies. Libretto by Cora Bennett-Stephenson. Music by Simon Buchhalter [crossed out with "Bucharoff" written below on both copies]. New York: G. Schirmer.

      Biographical / Historical Note: From second page: First performance at the Auditorium Theater, Chicago, January 15, 1916.

      Cast of Characters: Sylvia: Myrna Sharlow; Beatrice: Augusta Lenska; Walter: George Hamlin; Edward: Graham Marr.

      Conductor: Marcel Charlier.

      Staged by Désiré Defrère.

    • Folder 5: Sakahra, 1924 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Libretto in German. Music by Simon Bucharoff, text by Isabel Buckingham; German text by Rudolf Lothar. Leipzig: Steingräber-Verlag.

    • Folder 6: Sakahra, 1923 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Piano score with German and English text, 292 pages. Libretto by Isabel Buckingham, translated into German by Rudolf Lothar; music by Simon Bucharoff. Inscribed from Bucharoff "To brother Isadore and sister Elizabeth with my love + best wishes," dated December 12, 1923. Leipzig: Steingräber-Verlag. Dedicated to Mr. Max Klee.

    • Folder 7: Sechs Lieder = Six Songs, 1924 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      1. Heart! Heart! (Herz! Herz!) - text by Elizabeth Reynolds, dedicated by Bucharoff "to my wife"

      2. Lieb Seelchen, laß das Fragen (Prithe ask not, dearest)  - text by Hans Hopfen

      3. Erinnerung (Remembrance) - text by Otto von Leixner

      4. Winged Thoughts (Beflügelte Gedanken) - text by Elizabeth Reynolds

      5. Star of Gold (Der goldne Sterne) - text by Elizabeth Reynolds

      6. Mir träumte einst ein schöner Traum (One Night I Dreamed) - text by Friedrich Bodenstedt.

      35 pages, 5 copies. Leipzig: Steingräber-Verlag.

    • Folder 8: Vier Tonstücke : für Klavier zweihändig, 1924 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      1. Überlegung (Reflection)

      2. Trunken (Drunk)

      3. Zweifel (Doubt)

      4. Freude (Joy)

      31 pages, copies. Leipzig: Steingräber-Verlag.

• Series 4: Libretti and other writings

  • Box 1 Request Reading Room Access

    Barcode 400710.

    • Folder 1: Addio: Opera in One Act Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Script.  Music by Simon Bucharoff, libretto by Sadie A. Frank. Based on the drama "Addio" by Stark Young. Typescript, annotated in ink. In file labeled "compositions to be looked at and destroyed."

    • Folder 2: The Dictator's Downfall: Finale from the Opera Jewel: The Indestructible Man Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Two copies of script "for concert, television, or musical short."

    • Folder 3: The Dictator's Downfall Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      "Concert version. Adaptable for screen musical short." Portfolio also includes two copies of synopsis of the opera Jewel.

    • Folder 4: Freedom on the March Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Three copies of single-page synopsis. Six copies of 3-page synopsis (one heavily annotated).One copy of text to "Parable of Nothin' and Somethin'," mentioned in synopsis. Five unbound copies of script, extra title page. Two copies in portfolios. One sheet of handwritten notes.

    • Folder 5: The Great Love Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      "Musical romance for stage and screen. Adapted from Simon Bucharoff's Opera Addio." Two bound copies of script. One complete looseleaf copy, second partial copy. Extra title and cast pages.

    • Folder 6: I Laugh and Laugh Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Two typescript copies. "Musical short for screen and television. For baritone and declamation with orchestra."

    • Folder 7: Jewel Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Typescript, heavily edited in ink. 72 pages, some possibly missing.

    • Folder 8: Jewel: The Indestructible Man Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      15-page script. "Drama with music adapted from the opera Jewel​ for screen production."

    • Folder 9: Jewel: The Indestructible Man Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      16-page script, 2 copies. "Drama with music adapted from the opera Jewel for screen production."

    • Folder 10: Jewel: The Indestructible Man Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      24-page script "for stage, screen, and television."

    • Folder 11: Jewel: The Indestructible Man, 1924 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      64-page script. "Mystical and Miracle Opera in a Prologue and Three Acts. Text and music by Simon Bucharoff. Based on German material by Rudolf Lothar and translated into English by Charles Henry Meltzer."

    • Folder 12: Jewel: The Indestructible Man, 1924 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      65-page script. "Mystical and Miracle Opera in a Prologue and Three Acts."

    • Folder 13: Jewel: The Indestructible Man Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      94-page script. "Music drama," "for stage, screen, and television." Three copies: two in folder (and one incomplete copy), one in adjacent three-ring binder. Two of three copies contain the note on title page: "This libretto was first conceived and sketched in 1924."

    • Folder 14: Jewel and related works Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Loose pages from Jewel and derivative works (The Dictator's Downfall, Freedom on the March, etc.).

    • Folder 15: The March of Freedom Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      See also: Freedom on the March for similar contents. File includes handwritten notes on major historical figures, events, and eras, five copies of  synopses entitled both "Freedom on the March" and "The March of Freedom," three copies of foreword to "The March of Freedom," three copies of "Parable of Nothin' and Somethin'" (title mentioned in file as enclosure) seven copies of lyrics to "The March of Freedom," "dedicated to the United Nations."

    • Folder 16: Parable of Nothin' and Somethin' Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Variously titled "The Modern Spiritual," "The 1947 Spiritual," and "Modern Version of the 'Sermon on the Mount'." 11 copies.

    • Folder 17: The Raising of Sakahra Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      73 pages, 2 copies. "A complete revision of the original Opera score SAKAHRA, music by Simon Bucharoff and libretto by Isabel Buckingham."

    • Folder 18: The Raising of Sakahra Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      78 pages.  "A complete revision of the original Opera score SAKAHRA, music by Simon Bucharoff and libretto by Isabel Buckingham."

    • Folder 19: The Raising of Sakahra Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Synopses and loose pages. 2-page synopsis (two copies), 6-page synopsis, loose papers.

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    Barcode 400713.

    • Folder 1: Rejoicing, I Laugh and Laugh and Laugh! Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Three 2-page copies of lyrics, two extra copies of second page, instrumentation.

    • Folder 2: Sakahra Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Nine copies of 2-page synopsis; "argument" synopsis in English with different ending (labeled "Sakahra," but may be for The Raising of Sakahra); synopsis in German, "Notizen für Sakahra" (four pages, missing page 3); three copies of instrumentation list.

    • Folder 3: Sakahra: Grand Opera in Three Acts Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Libretto in English by Isabel Buckingham. Annotations, corrections in Bucharoff's hand. "Copyrighted March 31 1927 by Simon Bucharoff. Exclusive rights owned by Simon Bucharoff. Premiere, Nov. 8 1924. Frankfort [sic], Germany.

    • Folder 4: Notes for Sakahra Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      One page, typed, in English. Impressions of local cultures, practices, and scenes in North Africa.

    • Folder 5: "Sakahra. (French Text.)" Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      "Opera in quatre actes. Livret de Isabel Buckingham. Traduction française de A.G.H. Spiers. Musique de Simon Buchhalter [crossed out, "Bucharoff" written above]." "Copyrighted by Isabel Buckingham." 5-page "argument" (synopsis) in English enclosed.

    • Folder 6: Regie-Buch - Sakahra Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      German text, apparently of "Argument" enclosed in Folder 23, and libretto.

    • Folder 7: Sakahra (Textliche Inhaltsangabe) Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      "Grosse Oper in Vier Akten." Libretto in German. Translator not identified.

    • Folder 8: Sakahra Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Page 59, last page of libretto; Sakahra's character apparently named Tabara here. See also: Series 4, Box 2, Folder 27.

    • Folder 9: Salute to a Free World, 1945 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      "Symphonic poem for orchestra and mixed chorus." "Dedicated to the memory of Franklin Delano Roosevelt." 4 pages of text, 7 copies.

    • Folder 10: Sammy Lad, My Sammy!, 1943 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      One page of lyrics, 2 copies.

    • Folder 11: Die Seele Israels, 1924 February Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      "Oper in Drei Aufzügen, mit Einem Vorspiel." "Deutscher Text von Rudolf Lothar." "Deutsch Vollentet und ins Englishen übertragen von Charles Henry Meltzer." "Musik von Simon Bucharoff."

    • Folder 12: The Soul of Israel, 1924 February Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Two copies of English translation of libretto. Original German text by Rudolf Lothar, "completed and revised in German and adapted in English by Charles Henry Meltzer." Music by Simon Bucharoff.

    • Folder 13: The Southern Nightingale Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      "Musical romance for stage and screen." "This romance is based upon the opera A Lover's Knot by Simon Bucharoff, originally produced by the Chicago Opera Company under Cleofonte Campanini."

    • Folder 14: The Voice Speaks Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Two title pages on first copy. First title page: "Musical short in color for screen and television." "For baritone or declamation with orchestra." Second title page: "Television musical short, in color, or as cartoon." "For baritone and orchestra." See also: "O Ye Peoples and Nations." Second, partial (unfinished?) copy in blue portfolio.

    • Folder 15: "Brief description of The Wanderer's Song." Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      One page, manuscript.

    • Folder 16: The Wastrel: Comic-Opera in Three Acts Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Music by Simon Bucharoff, libretto by Sadie A. Frank. "Adapted for screen production." 10 typescript pages, synopsis.

    • Folder 17: The Wastrel: Opera in 3 Acts Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Music by Simon Bucharoff, libretto by Sadie A. Frank. "This libretto is adapted from Philip Massinger's drama entitled A New Way to Pay Old Debts." 70 pages, 2 copies.

    • Folder 18: The Wastrel: Opera in 3 Acts Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Music by Simon Bucharoff, libretto by Sadie A. Frank. "This libretto is adapted from Philip Massinger's drama entitled A New Way to Pay Old Debts." 73 pages.

    • Folder 19: You Are My Sunrise Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      One page of lyrics. Lyrics by Elizabeth McCabe Gilmore.

    • Folder 20: Beyond the Border, 1949 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Non-musical work. "A practical application of ontology - The true state of man's being!" 37 pages, three typescript copies. Differing tables of contents between copies and description of "chapters to follow" indicate a work in progress.

    • Folder 21: The Miracle Piano Book Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Cover page only, manuscript. Likely an early title of The Modern Pianist's Textbook.

    • Folder 22: The Modern Pianist's Text Book, 1931 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      "A complete, concise, practical and indispensable manual for the modern pianist. Teacher and student."

      Published by the Allegro Musical Art League of America, Inc.

      Bound copy monogramed to L.L. Buchhalter.

    • Folder 23: Single page of manuscript, likely for Modern Pianist's Textbook Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

    • Folder 24: What Future Awaits the American Composer of Opera and Symphony? Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      6-page article with accompanying cover letter to Mr. Richard Drake Saunders, editor-in-chief of the Bureau of Musical Research, Inc., dated May 19, 1947.

    • Folder 25: "The Wisdomites" - Introduction Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Single page from larger work.

    • Folder 26: The Wisdomites Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      366 pages. An allegorical play intended as moral and metaphysical instruction.

    • Folder 27: Various handwritten lyrics Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      One item on reverse of page 58 of a Sakahra libretto (see also: Series 4, Box 2, Folder 8), in which Sakahra's "rightful name" is Tabara.

• Series 5: Correspondence and papers

  • Sub-Series 1: General correspondence

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      Barcode 400736.

      • Folder 1: General correspondence, 1912-1929 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      • Folder 2: General correspondence, 1930-1935 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      • Folder 3: General correspondence, 1943-1955 November 18 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

        Correspondence up to the point of Bucharoff's death on November 24, 1955.

      • Folder 4: General correspondence, undated Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

        Includes letter from Charles Wakefield Cadman (ca. 1930s), and endorsement of Bucharoff's piano method book by Erich Korngold.

      • Folder 5: General correspondence, 1955 November 25 - 1977 July 18 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

        Correspondence continued by Bucharoff's estate, primarily by his sister-in-law, Elizabeth Buchhalter.

  • Sub-Series 2: Dispute with publishers in Germany

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      Barcode 400737.

      • Folder 1: Dispute with publishers, 1924-1929 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      • Folder 2: Dispute with publishers, 1930-1938 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      • Folder 3: Dispute with publishers, 1943-1949 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      • Folder 4: Dispute with publishers / War Claims Act, 1950-1955 November 16 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

        Continuation of dispute and attempts to receive restitution under the War Claims Act of 1948 until Bucharoff's death.

      • Folder 5: War Claims / Bucharoff estate, 1955-1958 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      • Folder 6: War Claims / Bucharoff estate, 1964-1979 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      • Folder 7: War Claims / Bucharoff estate, undated Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

  • Sub-Series 3: Correspondence with specific parties

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      Barcode 400739.

      • Folder 1: 20th Century Fox Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      • Folder 2: Allegro Musical Art League Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      • Folder 3: Associated Music Publishers Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      • Folder 4: Metropolitan Opera Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      • Folder 5: Padovano, John Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      • Folder 6: G. Schirmer, Inc. Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      • Folder 7: Professional organizations, 1929 - 1955 February Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

        ASCAP, Songwriters Protective Association, American Federation of Musicians, and others.

      • Folder 8: Professional organizations cont'd., 1955 December - undated Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

  • Sub-Series 4: Personal documents

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      Barcode 400738.

      • Folder 1: Vital statistics and records Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      • Folder 2: Will and estate-related documents Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      • Folder 3: Pay stubs and receipts Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      • Folder 4: Copyright and related documents Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      • Folder 5: Chemistry / pharmacology textbook from Bucharoff's youth, 1893 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

        Surawicz, S. Asymmetrische Amylverbindungen und ihre Beziehungen zum Fuselalkohol. Stamped "Simon Buchhalter, New York City."

  • Sub-Series 5: Miscellaneous and uncategorized

    Assorted envelopes, Chicago Symphony schedule, small slips of paper, and other items.

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      Barcode 85019.

• Series 6: Photographs, clippings, and publicity

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    Barcode 85021.

    • Folder 1: Biographical and promotional materials Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

    • Folder 2: Sakahra materials Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

    • Folder 3: Sakahra photo prints Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

    • Folder 4: Carnegie Hall materials, 1928 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      From the performance of Bucharoff's works under Willem Mengelberg at Carnegie Hall.

    • Folder 5: Brochure: "Simon Bucharoff: Master Musician" Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Promotes Bucharoff's work as a teacher, lecturer, and composer. Los Angeles address written on one copy.

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    Barcode 85018.

    • Folder 1: Other promotional materials and programs Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Includes the program from the performance at the Hollywood Bowl of Bucharoff's Scene de Ballet from Sakahra.

    • Folder 2: Clippings - General Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

    • Folder 3: Clippings for "Wisdomites" Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Clippings of significant and illustrative episodes in Bucharoff's life and world events, apparently compiled while preparing The Wisdomites (See Series 4, Box 2, Folders 40-41.)

    • Folder 4: Clippings for "Wisdomites" continued Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

    • Folder 5: Photographs Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

• Series 7: Works by other authors and composers

  Dates suggest some materials may have belonged to Isadore and Elisabeth Buchhalter or their heirs.

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    Barcode 85022.

    • Folder 1: Prominent Women of Illinois : 1885-1932, 1932 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Published by the Illinois Women's Press Association; features Elizabeth Buchhalter on page 73. Small poem booklet "To My Wife Elizabeth" [from Isadore] enclosed in front cover. Three photos found in book: Medill High School, "Dean of Chicago College of Music" [presumably Isadore at far right], and a family photo.

    • Folder 2: Neunzig Jahre in Glaube, Kampf und Sieg : ein Menschen- und Heldenbild unseres deutschen Kaisers., 1887 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      By Oskar Meding, edited by Carl Hallberger. Stuttgart und Leipzig: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt.

      In exceptionally good condition.

      Note enclosed in Bucharoff's hand: "as background for picture suggested by Simon Bucharoff. Title of picture: Blood and Tears vs. Years of Wars -- which? Other ideas which will make it a picture of outstanding value as if may stop a third world war."

    • Folder 3: Galston Studienbuch, 1910 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      In German; "Detailed commentary on the performance of selected piano works by Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt and Brahms" available in its entirety through Archive.org and the University of Toronto.

    • Folder 4: ASCAP Biographical Dictionary, 1952 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Hardcover, 636 pages. Edited by Daniel I. McNamara. Entry on Bucharoff on p. 63.

    • Folder 5: Encore - by A.D. Weinthrop, 1937 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      "Christmas of Nineteen Hundred Thirty-Seven." Dedicated to Weinthrop's daughter, Florence.

    • Folder 6: George Gershwin, 1938 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      "Edited and designed by Merle Armitage." New York: Longmans Green & Co.

    • Folder 7: G.F. Handel: Messiah Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Vocal score, edited by J.M. Coopersmith. New York: Carl Fischer, Inc., 1947. N1057.

    • Folder 8: Bach: Inventions in 2 & 3 Parts Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Herausgegeben von Czerny, Gripenkerl und Roitzsch. Leipzig: C.F. Peters. 8275.

    • Folder 9: R. Strauss: Burleske D-moll für Pianoforte und Orchester Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Cover only. Ochesterstimmen. Edition Steingräber. 404c.

    • Folder 10: Sun-Kissed Roses, 1912 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      By Nat Johnson, arr. Harry L. Alvord. For piano. 2 copies. Chicago: F.J.A. Forster Music Pub.

    • Folder 11: J.N. Hummel: Sonaten und Stücke für Pianoforte Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Herausgegeben von Louis Köhler und F.A. Roitzsch. Leipzig: C.F. Peters. 6332.

    • Folder 12: Single page from Bote & Bock publication Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Advertisement for collections of Mozart's works, likely separated from a larger work.

    • Folder 13: Fugue (A moll) de J. Seb. Bach Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Exécutée aux Concerts par F. Liszt. Berlin: Ad. Mt. Schlesinger. S. 2662 (A 5).

    • Folder 14: A. Loeschhorn: Discours D'Amour. Nocturne, Op. 27 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Brittle. Berlin: Ed. Bote et. G. Bock. B. & B. 3560.

    • Folder 15: Haydn: Trio No. 4 en Mi. Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      [Mainz]: B. Schott's Söhne. 20213.

    • Folder 16: Raff: Suite pour Piano, D moll, Op. 91 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Cover only. Edition peters, No. 1161.

    • Folder 17: F. Chopin: Scherzo in B-flat minor, Op. 31 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Edited by Robert Waterman Stevens. The University Society, Inc. 893-23-CB.

    • Folder 18: Blank "practice record" grid Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      "Copyright 1919, National Academy of Music."

    • Folder 19: R. Casadesus: Cadenzas to Haydn Concerto in D Major; Cadenza to Beethoven Concerto in C Minor (Op. 37), 1945 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Philadelphia: Elkan-Vogel Co. Haydn work enclosed in Beethoven work.

    • Folder 20: J.S. Bach: Ouverture aus der 29sten Kirchen-Cantate Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Übertragen von Camille Saint-Saëns. Leipzig: J. Rieter-Biedermann. 269a.

    • Folder 21: Paul Miners Piano Accordion Scales, 1956 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      "For 120 bass accordion." Chicago: M.M. Cole Publishing Company.

  • Box 2 Request Reading Room Access

    Barcode 85024.

    • Folder 1: Creation and Conservation: a Guide for Parents and Instructors by A.B. de Sousa Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

    • Folder 2: G. C. Schürmann: Claudius' aria from Ludovicus Pius Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Stapled photocopy of printed version; photocopy of manuscript arranged for soprano, oboe, and piano by R. Richards.

    • Folder 3: C.W. Gluck: Meleagro's Aria from La Corona Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Stapled photocopy of manuscript arrangement for soprano, oboe, and piano by R. Richards.

    • Folder 4: Clarinda Harriss and Elaine Erickson: 1. Debate: Mortar and Pestle, for mezzo-soprano and tape Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      4 pages of music. Transcribed in Bucharoff's hand [?]

    • Folder 5: Ballet No. 3 by Ray Heindorf, recording July 16 '39 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Single manuscript page of excerpts.

    • Folder 6: Barry Schrader / Ted Hughes: Moon-Whales and Other Moon-Songs : for Soprano and Tape Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Spiral-bound copy of manuscript.

    • Folder 7: Reza Vali: Eight Persian Folk Songs (Set No. 4) for voice and piano Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Spiral-bound copy of manuscript.

    • Folder 8: Reza Vali: Folk Songs (set Nr. 8 A) for voice and chamber ensemble Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

    • Folder 9: Reza Vali: Folk Songs (set Nr. 10) for voice and chamber orchestra Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

    • Folder 10: Judith Shatin: Songs of Anna Akhmatova Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Translation by Sharon Leiter. For mezzo-soprano, flute, B-flat clarinet, violin, violoncello, and piano. New York: American Composers Alliance.

    • Folder 11: Judith Shatin: Wedding Song Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Text by Christopher Marlowe. For soprano and B-flat clarinet.

    • Folder 12: Van Appledorn: Freedom of Youth, 1986 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      For voice and Yamaha DX7 Synth. Spiral-bound copy of manuscript.

    • Folder 13: Ruth Crawford [Seeger]: 3 Songs on Poems by Carl Sandburg Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Rat Riddles, Prayers of Steel, In Tall Grass. Photocopies of scores, some parts, and performance instructions.

    • Folder 14: Jan Swafford: Shore Lines : songs on poems of Denise Levertov for soprano and flute Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Spiral-bound copy of manuscript.

    • Folder 15: Binder: Songs by Beth Anderson Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Post-It note in binder dated 1992: "Betty said to send you songs." Refers to résumé sent with songs.

    • Folder 16: Ayers: Sand Child Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      "Text adapted from Tahar ben Jelloun." Photocopy in binder.

    • Folder 17: Lydia Ayers and Isabelle Ganz Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Cover letter from Ayers to Ganz, concert proposal, Sand Child and workshop program by Ayers, photo of unidentified woman (likely either Ganz or Ayers).

    • Folder 18: Résumé from composer, ca. 1987 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

• Series 8: Isadore Buchhalter

  Barcode 85203.

  • Box 1 Request Reading Room Access

    • Folder 1: Buchhalter School of Piano Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Promotional document for Isadore Buchhalter's piano school, "Kimball Building at the southwest corner of Wabash Avenue and Jackson Boulevard Chicago, U.S.A." One full copy, 16 pages with photos of Buchhalter and other teaching staff, including Arthur Dunham, Gwendoline Proctor, Ida Neel, Helen Burnett Koch, Fannie Laskin, Laurence Henri, Esther Halpert, Evelyn Bild, and Alva Byron. Additional copy of cover only.

    • Folder 2: Metal printing plates for "The Night Is Bewitching Love", 1913 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Words by Laura Rountree Smith; music by Isadore Buchhalter.

    • Folder 3: The Night is Bewitching Love Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Copy, partial photostat negative copy, and brittle cover page. Version apparently re-arranged for instrumental part (violin?) and piano.

    • Folder 4: Program: A Bach Festival : Commemorating the 250th anniversary of the birth of Johann Sebastian Bach, 1935 May 5, 12 Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Isadore Buchhalter, director.

    • Folder 5: Romance for Violin and Piano Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Manuscript with piano fingerings and other annotations added in pencil. 9 pages of music.

    • Folder 6: Steinway News, 1959 April Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Four copies. Brief article and photo of Isadore Buchhalter.

  • Box 2: Piano Scales by Isadore L. Buchhalter, 1947 Request Reading Room Access

    48 pages. 31 copies.

    Barcode 85023.

• Series 9: Realia

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    Barcode 707194.

    • Item 1: Banner / sash Request Reading Room Access Request Duplication Services

      Satin, loop with knot in center, trailing banners, one white, one red. Three small American flags affixed to knot.

      White side: gold lettering: Dem genialen Komponisten S. Bucharoff : Julius Rothschild & Frau

      Red side: gold lettering: Uraufführung [premiere] Sakahra 8 Nov. 1924.

• Series 10: Documentation from the University of Houston

  • Box 1 Request Reading Room Access

    Barcode 85020.