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Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound
The Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound of The New York Public Library is one of the richest resources of recorded sound in the world. The Archives' extraordinary holdings cover virtually every aspect of recorded sound—from Mozart to Maria Callas to Motown, from symphonic works to presidential speeches, from radio dramas to television specials.
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Chained to a dream
Lionel Mapleson with Edison Home Phonograph and extra large horn, probably at the Metropolitan Opera House
Victor Armenian Records catalog
Cover of a record catalog for Columbia Syrian Arabic Records
Window displays
Window displays
Window displays
That's my cup blues
On the picket line
Piney woods money mama
Ivory commercial
Evviva la Francia / Frieda Hempel
I Pagliacci. Prologo
Chimmie and Maggie at the table d'hote dinner
They always pick on me
Village orchestra
On San Francisco Bay / Gertrude Hoffmann
I never knew I loved you 'till you said good-bye / Ellis
The Mapleson Cylinders
Window displays
"A Pretty Easter Display"
"An Operatic Season Window" and "Boating Window"
Il pleut bergere
Treasures of the Music Division
Leonard Cohen
Collections in the Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Audio materials
720 items
Margaret Carson audio-visual materials
201 items
Leida Snow collection of audio interviews and reports on theater, culture and arts
126 items
Music from Germany (Radio program)
125 items
Lewis Archibald collection of recorded interviews
92 items
Tom Scott audio collection
86 items
The Bell Telephone Hour collection of sound recordings
65 items
The March of Time collection
47 items
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts lecture/concert series
43 items
General Audio Collection
42 items
Arthur Bell Collection of Recorded Interviews, 1970-1980
40 items
Interviews for the book "They're playing our song"
40 items
Mitch Miller collection of audio and moving image
36 items
Edison album
31 items
Collection of audio interviews about Bobby Clark
27 items
New Music for Young Ensembles recordings
27 items
New Music Quarterly recordings
23 items
First National Congress on Women in Music recordings
22 items
ASCAP sponsored radio interviews with musicians and composers collection
21 items
Katharine Hepburn audiovisual materials
19 items
Ross Lee Finney collection : sound and video recordings,1938-1986
18 items
New York Shakespeare Festival recordings collection
17 items
Eric Siday collection of sound recordings
16 items
Philip Sterling research materials on Bert Williams collection of sound recordings
16 items
Regina Resnik sound recordings materials
15 items
Yellow Springs Institute Audio/Visual Collection
13 items
George Antheil Collecton of Sound Recordings
12 items
The Voice of the Victor
12 items
Germany Today (Radio program)
12 items
National Orchestral Association collection of rehearsal and concert recordings, 1938-1968
10 items
Henry Cowell collection of noncommercial recordings
9 items
Jan Peerce collection of sound recordings,1932-1983
9 items
Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound clipping files
8 items
Collegiate Chorale collection of performance recordings
8 items
George Avakian and Anahid Ajemian audio collection
7 items
Lawrence and Lee collection of broadcast recordings
6 items
Martin Worman audiovisual collection
6 items
Carolyn Leigh papers and sound recordings, 1944-1985
5 items
Little Orchestra Society concert recordings collection
5 items
Hugo Weisgall collection of noncommercial recordings
5 items
Jacob Druckman collection of noncommercial sound recordings
4 items
Oratorio Society of New York
4 items
The Toscanini Legacy collection of sound recordings
3 items
The Sonora bell
3 items
Behind the scenes in music (Radio program)
3 items
Edison white wax cylinders collection
3 items
Rosalyn Tureck collection of sound recordings
3 items
A. F. R. Lawrence papers
2 items
Record company catalogs and ephemera collection
2 items
New York Philharmonic collection of broadcast concerts 1934-1955
2 items
Anna Balos collection of non-commercial recordings
2 items
Teiji Itō collection of noncommercial recordings
2 items
Lionel Mapleson with Edison Home Phonograph and extra large horn, probably at the Metropolitan Opera House
1 item
Chained to a dream
1 item
Alexander Scourby collection
1 item
That's my cup blues
1 item
Henry Sylvern collection of noncommercial recordings,1941-1958
1 item
Sociedad Fonográfica Española Cylinder Recordings
1 item
On the picket line: We shall not be moved
1 item
Luther Sies collection
1 item
Piney woods money mama: Low down mojo blues
1 item
The Mapleson cylinders
1 item
Wynton Marsalis: playing through the changes
1 item
Signature, Interview with Pearl Bailey
1 item
Polish music history: [compilation of television programs]
1 item
Seth Bingham collection of sound recordings
1 item
Lincoln Center 25th anniversary: in-house presentation
1 item
Leonard Bernstein in Salzau, 1987: international conductor's competition and master course
1 item
Kamernyĭ Orkestr Akademicheskogo Teatra opery i baleta goroda Kazani: ko︠n︡tsert
1 item
Catalogue of Standard New Jersey Records: for the Edison Phonograph
1 item
Lioret cylinders
1 item
A.F.R. Lawrence collection of historical spoken word
1 item
American International Music Fund. Recording Guarantee Project
1 item
Bluestime Power Hour videos
1 item
Equity Library Theatre collection of performance recordings
1 item
Benedict Stambler Memorial Archive of Jewish Music and Theatre
1 item