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1	Title:	Carmela Caferelli Papers
	Creator:	Cafarelli, Carmela
	Dates:	1912-1976
	Abstract:	Carmela Cafarelli was an Italian-American opera star, founder of an opera company, and accomplished harpist from Cleveland, Ohio. Her father, Rocco Cafarelli, was a renowned Italian harpist who had immigrated to Cleveland in the 1880s, and was his daughter's earliest teacher. At the age of eight, she began study with master harpist Henry B. Fabiani in Cleveland. As a harpist, she toured the United States and abroad. She also became a solo harpist for the Cleveland Orchestra. Cafarelli studied voice with William Saal in Cleveland, and later attended the Conservatorie Santa Lucia and the Reale Accademia Filarmonica Romana in Italy, earning diplomas in both voice and harp. After her return to the United States in 1924, she undertook additional musical studies with Benjamino Gigli and Pietro Audisio of the New York Metropolitan Opera. In 1929, she returned to Cleveland, and in 1934, founded the Cafarelli Opera Company. This group toured throughout the United States and put on many charitable performances in Northeast Ohio. Cafarelli stopped performing in 1945, but continued to head her opera company and became a leading philanthropist and promoter of the arts in Cleveland. The collection consists of memoirs; family histories; notes; musical scores and manuscripts of compositions; an address book; correspondence; catalogues; student notebooks; poetry; scrapbooks containing newspaper clippings, reviews of performances, and articles; programs; and a travel journal. Included are musical compositions by Carmela Cafarelli; her father, Rocco Cafarelli; and her teacher, Henry B. Fabiani.
	Call #:	MS 4719
	Extent:	0.80 linear feet (3 containers)
	Subjects:	Cafarelli, Carmela. \| Cafarelli, Rocco. \| Fabiani, Henry B. \| Cafarelli Opera Company. \| Women -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Musicians -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Women musicians -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Opera companies -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Opera -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Harpists -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Singers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Italian American women -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Italian Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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2	Title:	Frank Hruby, Sr. Family Photographs
	Creator:	Hruby Family
	Dates:	1884-2001
	Abstract:	Frank Hruby Sr. (1856-1812) was the founder and patriarch of one of Cleveland, Ohio's leading musical families. A native of Bohemia, he traveled throughout Europe as a musician and conductor before settling in 1884 in Cleveland, where he organized the Great Western Band in 1889. His eight children all became musicians, including several who became members of the Cleveland Orchestra. In 1916, two of his children, Frank (V) and Fred, founded the Hruby Conservatory of Music in Cleveland. The collection consists of 400 mostly black and white photographs, 280 slides, 100 negatives, and 20 sound recordings (17 records, one cassette, and one reel-to-reel tape).
	Call #:	PG 608
	Extent:	0.80 linear feet (4 containers)
	Subjects:	Great Western Band (Cleveland, Ohio). \| Musicians -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Conductors (Music) -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Arrangers (Musicians) -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Music -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Czech Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Czechs -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Orchestral music.
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3	Title:	Cleveland Music Group Records
	Creator:	Anastasia Pantsios
	Dates:	1989-1998
	Abstract:	The Cleveland Music Group was a nonprofit, member-supported organization whose mission was to promote and assist Cleveland, Ohio, musicians both locally and nationally. During the 1990s the group conducted periodic educational forums on topics related to the music business as well as a monthly songwriters workshop at Peabody's Down Under in the Flats. The 150-member group consisted of music industry insiders, sound engineers, journalists and photographers, agents and club owners, radio personalities and musicians. The collection consists of board minutes, newspaper clippings, correspondence, financial documents, lists, newsletters, ephemera (including event flyers and tickets), and press releases.
	Call #:	MS 5288
	Extent:	0.60 linear feet (2 containers)
	Subjects:	Rock music -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Musicians -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Music -- Economic aspects -- United States
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4	Title:	Amateur Music Makers Records
	Creator:	Amateur Music Makers
	Dates:	1959-1964
	Abstract:	The Amateur Music Makers was a network of nonprofessional musicians in Cleveland, Ohio, sponsored by the Cleveland Public Library. Members, many of whom were immigrants, used the network to meet other musicians and to play informally in community orchestras, bands, and chamber groups. The collection consists of correspondence, directories, meeting minutes, and membership lists.
	Call #:	MS 5297
	Extent:	1.60 linear feet (3 containers)
	Subjects:	Cleveland Public Library \| Musicians -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Musical groups -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Clubs -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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5	Title:	Dorothy E. Smith Family Papers
	Creator:	Smith, Dorothy E. Family
	Dates:	1865-1995
	Abstract:	Dorothy E. Smith was a Cleveland, Ohio, African American music teacher and the first African American member of the Cleveland Women's Orchestra. A violinist, she was a 1931 graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Music and was a music teacher at the Cleveland Music School Settlement, the Phillis Wheatley Association, the Friendly Inn Settlement, and Knoxville College. She was also a supervisor for the Ohio State Department of Aid for the Aged until her retirement in 1973. Dorothy E. Smith was the daughter of Joseph W. Smith and Elizabeth Rayner. Joseph W. Smith moved to Cleveland in the late 1880s. He established a barbershop on Central Avenue in Cleveland, managed baseball teams in the 1890s and early 1900s, and was also a musician. The collection consists of correspondence, letters, cards, cemetery records, funeral programs, obituaries, legal files, memberships, a deed, certificates, newspaper clippings, student newspapers, playscripts, postcards, programs, reports, receipts, sheet music, yearbooks, and memorabilia.
	Call #:	MS 4854
	Extent:	1.00 linear feet (3 containers)
	Subjects:	Smith, Dorothy E. 1905-1995. \| Smith (Dorothy E.) family. \| Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967. \| Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963. \| Cleveland Women's Orchestra. \| Gilpin Players. \| Central High School (Cleveland, Ohio) \| Knoxville College. \| African Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| African American women -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| African American musicians -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| African American music teachers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| Musicians -- Ohio -- Cleveland. \| African American soldiers -- Correspondence. \| African American sailors -- Correspondence.
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