Bill Park Collection, 1927-2000
By Maristella Feustle
Collection Overview
| Title: |
Bill Park Collection, 1927-2000 |
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| ID: | 06/ 097 |
| Primary Creator: | Park, Bill (1935-2020) |
| Extent: | 60.0 Boxes |
| Subjects: | |
| Languages: | English |
Scope and Contents of the Materials
The collection consists of nearly sixty boxes of materials related to various major opera singers, including Rosa Ponselle, Jeanette MacDonald, and Lily Pons, among others.Biographical Note
Subject/Index Terms
Access Information
Access Restrictions:
Access to this collection is provided by appointment only. Please contact the Music Library for more information.
Use Restrictions:
Reproduction and publication of materials in this collection are subject to the policies of the UNT Music Library. Copyright restrictions may apply.
Physical Access Note:
Collection is housed in the UNT Music Library and in remote storage. Advance notice for use is required. Please contact the Music Library for further information.
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Administrative Information
| Repository: | Music Library |
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| Accruals: | 2017 February 17. |
| Acquisition Source: | Bill Park |
| Acquisition Method: | Gift. |
| Processing Information: | Eleven boxes received prior to 2017 have been processed.. |
| Finding Aid Revision History: | June 4, 2018. |
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Box and Folder Listing
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Series 1
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Box 1: Lily Pons, 1930 December - 1931 June
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Box 2: Lily Pons, 1931 June - 1932 May
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Box 3: Lily Pons, 1932 May - 1933 April
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Box 4: Lily Pons, 1937 May - 1939 June
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Box 5: Amelita Galli-Curci
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Box 6: Eleanor Steber - Silver Tone
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Box 7: Various materials, including Patrice Munsel, Eleanor Steber, Roberta Peters and Zinka Milanov newsletters
Met Opera Season books, annual report, and centennial funds (1959-1995); BMG classics and Toscanini Collection folders; Milanov - Bel Canto + May 1968 issue of Le Grand Baton; Patrice Munsel; Roberta Peters - Peters Parade and Intermezzo; Metropolitan Opera Dallas Programs; Great Recordings of the Century booklets; assorted other opera programs (includes San Francisco, San Antonio, Fort Worth Opera, Dallas Symphony); Massenet Newsletters, July 1988-January 1993; small Lily Pons scrapbook in box, November 1927-1930; Publicity newspaper, other newsprint material (brittle). -
Box 8: Golden Comet, 1950 Fall - 2000 Winter
Box also contains several issues of Le Petit Comet, and discographical information. -
Box 9: Jeanette MacDonald; Rosa Ponselle
MacDonald: Photos, performance programs, issues of Le Petit Comet; Ponselle: Binders: scrapbooks, research, discography, correspondence, material for biography of Ponselle by James A. Drake, Clemson University. -
Box 10: Rosa Ponselle
James A. Drake and Rosa Ponselle: The Autobiography of Rosa Ponselle, Garden City: Doubleday, 1980 (4 copies, bound typescripts with comments, correspondence enclosed, with discography by Bill Park); James A. Drake: Rosa Ponselle: A Profile in Perspective (partial manuscript submitted to Amadeus Press); James A. Drake: An Authorized Biography of Rosa Ponselle with Foreword by Luciano Pavarotti, discography by William Park, September 1978. -
Box 11: Jeanette MacDonald; other books and publications
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Item 1: Box: Edward Baron Turk, Hollywood Diva: A Biography of Jeanette MacDonald, 1996
Typed manuscript. Barcode 713093. -
Item 2: 100 Hungarian Songs
Budapest: Rozsavolgyi & Co., 1935. Previously belonged to Grace Moore; includes concert program. Plate number R. &. T. 4930. -
Item 3: Nimbus Records, Prima Voce catalog
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Item 4: The American Record Guide: An Independent Journal of Opinion, 1972 December
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Item 5: Golden Years Magazine: The Magazine for Fantastic Floridians over 50, 1987 April
Cover story: Roberta Peters. -
Item 6: Opera Monthly, 1991 March
Cover story: Leonie Rysanek. -
Item 7: Program book: The Hong Kong Chinese Orchestra, 25th season, 2001-2002
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Item 8: Musical Echoes, 1964 January - March
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Item 9: Musical Echoes - final edition, Jeanette MacDonald memorial issue, 1965 March
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Item 10: Hollywood Studio Magazine, 1977 November
Cover Story: "America's Favorites: Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy." -
Item 11: Mac/Eddy Today, Issue 14, 1981 February
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Item 12: The Merry Widow "souvenir album" songbook, 1944
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Item 13: The Great Instrumentalists in Historic Photographs: 274 Portraits from 1850 to 1950, edited by James Camner., 1980
New York: Dover. ISBN 9780486239071. -
Item 14: Mary Ellis Peltz - Behind the Golden Curtain: The story of the Metropolitan Opera: 1883 to 1950, 1950
New York: Farrar Strauss and Company. -
Item 15: Robert Turnbull: The Opera Gazetteer, 1988
New York: Rizzoli. ISBN 0847807274. -
Item 16: F.C. Schang: Visiting Cards of Violinists, 1985
New York: Joseph Patelson Music House, third printing. -
Item 17: Joan Peyse - Bernstein: A Biography, 1987
New York: Beech Tree Books / William Morrow. -
Item 18: Henry Pleasants - The Great Singers, 1966
New York: Simon and Schuster. SBN 671-20612-5. -
Item 19: Rupert Christiansen - Prima Donna: A History, 1986
New York: Penguin Books. ISBN 9780140083781.
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Series 2: February 2017 accrual
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