| | Manuscript Collection | Save | | 21 | Title: | Musical Art Society Records
| | | | Creator: | Musical Art Society | | | | Dates: | 1912-1994 | | | | Abstract: | The Musical Art Society, a women's music club, was founded in 1912 in Cleveland, Ohio. Performance and audition standards were criteria for admission of members; and meetings, held at members' homes, included vocal and instrumental performances and presentation of papers on composers and musical topics. The Society also sponsored musical and cultural events for the public, and offered scholarships to promising young musicians and vocalists in the Cleveland area. The collection consists of constitutions and bylaws, minutes, correspondence, programs, seasonal yearbooks, and scrapbooks. | | | | Call #: | MS 4714 | | | | Extent: | 1.10 linear feet (3 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Musical Art Society (Cleveland, Ohio). | Music -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Music -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies, etc. | Women -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies and clubs. | Clubs -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Women -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 22 | Title: | Cleveland Opera Association Records
| | | | Creator: | Cleveland Opera Association | | | | Dates: | 1931-1971 | | | | Abstract: | The Cleveland Opera Association was incorporated in 1944 as a non-profit organization to promote and present concerts in Cleveland, Ohio. The founder, Giacomo Bernardi, served as managing director until his death in 1966. After his death, his wife, Harriet, served as manager. Board of trustee members included Harry F. Payer, William Stinchcomb, Benjamin Nicola, Willard W. Brown, Thomas A. Farwick, and Chisholm Halle. Performers were both classical and popular musicians and artists. These included the Bolshoi Ballet, Jose Greco, Yehudi Menuhin, Vladimir Horowitz, Andres Segovia, Jan Pierce, Lily Pons, Marian Anderson, Charles Laughton, Victor Borge, and Simon and Garfunkel. Most of the performances took place in Music Hall. The predecessor of the Cleveland Opera Association was the Cleveland Concert Association, organized by Giacomo Bernardi in 1919 and operated by him until its demise in 1932. The collection consists of newspaper clippings, letters, and other materials relating to Giacomo Bernardi; association financial reports; minutes of meetings; and scrapbooks of performances. The scrapbooks contain both programs and newspaper clippings. | | | | Call #: | MS 4739 | | | | Extent: | 0.40 linear feet (2 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Bernardi, Giacomo. | Cleveland Opera Association. | Music -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Music -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies, etc. | Music -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Performance. | Concerts -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Opera -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 23 | Title: | Chamber Music Guild Records
| | | | Creator: | Chamber Music Guild | | | | Dates: | 1946-1976 | | | | Abstract: | The Chamber Music Guild was found ca. 1946 in Cleveland, Ohio, by a group of chamber music lovers in order to provide them with the opportunity to hear chamber music played by local professional musicians and singers. Membership was limited to forty members, and recitals were held in members' homes on a monthly basis. One concert per year was held for the general public. Performers included members of the Cleveland Orchestra and teachers at local musical institutions. Performances included new compositions by several contemporary northern Ohio composers, including Herbert Elwell, J.D. Bain Murray, Rudolph Bubalo, Klaus George Roy, and Katharine Warne. The collection consists of correspondence, account books, notebooks, reports, receipts, a list of performers, notes, membership records, newspaper clippings, and programs. | | | | Call #: | MS 4744 | | | | Extent: | 0.60 linear feet (2 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Chamber Music Guild. | Chamber Music. | Music -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Music -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies, etc. | Music -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Performance. | Concerts -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Composers -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 24 | Title: | Cleveland Chamber Music Society Records
| | | | Creator: | Cleveland Chamber Music Society | | | | Dates: | 1950-1997 | | | | Abstract: | The Cleveland Chamber Music Society was founded in 1949 by a small group of individuals in order to sponsor chamber music concerts of high quality by world class musicians in the Greater Cleveland, Ohio, area. Concerts took place at a number of venues, many in the University Circle area, and also at the Fairmount Temple Auditorium, Beachwood, Ohio. In 1953, the Society established a school concert program, bringing local chamber music ensembles to schools throughout the Greater Cleveland, Ohio, area. In 1969, the Society became affiliated with the national program, Young Audiences Inc., whose goals were also to educate young students in the field of chamber music. The society continued to support these concerts when Young Audiences became an independent organization in 1978. Another mission of the Society was to commission the writing and performing of new compositions by local Cleveland composers, included Arthur Shepherd, Normand Lockwood, Walter Aschaffenburg, Starling Cumberworth, and Gerald R. Humel. The collection consists of articles of incorporation, code of regulations, minutes, correspondence, histories, reports, programs, contracts, financial statements, lists, publicity materials, news releases, newspaper clippings, tax documents, schedules, brochures, and manuscript music. | | | | Call #: | MS 4775 | | | | Extent: | 4.15 linear feet (5 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Cleveland Chamber Music Society. | Young Audiences, Inc. | Chamber Music. | Music -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Music -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Societies, etc. | Music -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Performance. | Concerts -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Composers -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 25 | Title: | Frank Hruby, Sr. Family Papers
| | | | Creator: | Hruby Family | | | | Dates: | 1883-2012 | | | | Abstract: | The Hruby family was one of the most prominent musical families in Cleveland, Ohio, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In 1883 clarinetist Frank Hruby, Sr. (IV) arrived in Cleveland from Cehnice, Bohemia (now Czech Republic). Frank IV organized and played in many local musical groups, including the Great Western Band, Lakeside, Ohio, summer orchestra, and the Euclid Opera House. He and his wife Katerina had seven children who all became musicians, and who all taught at the Hruby Conservatory of Music, which was located at Broadway Avenue and East 55th Street in Cleveland. The collection consists of newspaper clippings, correspondence, event programs, family history documents, financial documents, maps, scrapbooks, sheet music, tour itineraries, and travel journals. | | | | Call #: | MS 5258 | | | | Extent: | 2.20 linear feet (7 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.
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| Photograph Collection | Save | | 26 | 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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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 29 | Title: | Sean A. Boland Papers
| | | | Creator: | Boland, Sean A. | | | | Dates: | 1995-2000 | | | | Abstract: | Sean A. Boland (1943-2000) was born in Manchester, England. At two years of age, his family moved to Gurteen, County Sligo, Ireland. After his mother Margaret Boland died, he was adopted by his uncle and his wife, James, and Bridie Boland. This family immigrated to Cleveland, Ohio, when Sean was twelve years old. Sean graduated from St. Joseph High School and married Bridget Ginty, and together they had three children. Sean joined the Ohio Lottery Commission in 1974, working as an investigator, marketing director, and lastly as a fiscal officer in the purchasing department. Sean was involved in the Irish community during his short life. His uncle, Gus Boland, introduced him to Irish dancing, and together they organized an annual Cleveland Feis. In later years, Sean was president of the Greater Cleveland Feis Society, and he is credited with making it the largest such society in North America. Sean led the Cleveland Feis for seventeen years, and also served on the North American Feis Commission as President and board member. He was the driving force behind the establishment of the Irish Music Academy of Cleveland in 1993 and was an avid supporter of the Cleveland Branch of the Comhaltas Ceoltoiri Eireann (Music, Language and Dance of Ireland). Sean was a member of the Irish American Archives Society, the Irish Northern Aid Society, the Irish American East Side, Inc., the West Side Irish American Club, the Ancient Order of Hibernians, Comhaltas Ceoltiori Eireann, Cleveland Branch, and the Cleveland Irish Cultural Festival Committee. In 1994, he was named Irish Person of the Year. During the last ten years of his life, he made annual trips to Gurteen and became involved in establishing the Michael Coleman Heritage Center. In Cleveland, Sean was instrumental in planning the Cleveland Memorial in the Flats, in memory of those who died in the Great Famine. The collection consists of correspondence, a biographical sketch, a Liturgy, a memorial, an obituary, a souvenir program and a tribute. | | | | Call #: | MS 4880 | | | | Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) | | | | Subjects: | Boland, Sean A., 1943-2000. | Folk music -- Ireland. | Irish Americans -- Societies, etc. | Irish Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- History -- Sources. | Irish Americans -- Ohio -- East Cleveland -- History -- Sources. | Irish Americans -- Archives. | Dance -- Ireland. | Irish Americans -- Ohio -- Cleveland -- Social life and customs. | Music -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 20th century. | United States -- Emigration and immigration -- 20th century. | Ireland -- Emigration and immigration -- 20th century.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 30 | Title: | Al Russ Papers
| | | | Creator: | Russ, Al | | | | Dates: | 1918-1998 | | | | Abstract: | Al Russ was a Cleveland, Ohio, popular music orchestra leader, composer, arranger, string bass player, and producer. His career spanned the 1940s-1990s. In addition to his work as leader of the Al Russ Orchestra, Russ conducted, arranged music, and contracted musicians for performances featuring nationally known artists at the Front Row Theater. He also wrote and arranged music for such nationally known performers as Perry Como and Steve Lawrence, and composed polkas for polka band leader Frank Yankovic. His work as a composer of advertising commercials and jingles for local and national companies included Cleveland's best-known jingle, "Garfield one, two-three, two-three." The collection consists of orchestral and vocal arrangements of popular music, his original compositions, newspaper clippings, correspondence, and Cleveland Federation of Musicians contracts between Russ and hired players. | | | | Call #: | MS 4825 | | | | Extent: | 10.0 linear feet (10 containers) | | | | Subjects: | Russ, Al, 1918-1998. | Yankovic, Frank. | Jeffries, Joe. | Macey, Hugh. | Al Russ Orchestra. | Ohio Bell Telephone Company Chorus. | Society National Bank (Cleveland, Ohio) | National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (U.S.). Cleveland Chapter. | American Federation of Musicians. Local No. 4 (Cleveland, Ohio) | Music -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Popular music -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Conductors (Music) -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Composers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jingles (Advertising songs) -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Arrangements (Popular music and jazz). | Arrangers (Musicians) -- Ohio -- Cleveland.
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| Manuscript Collection | Save | | 31 | Title: | Laszlo and Susan Krausz Papers
| | | | Creator: | Krausz, Laszlo and Susan | | | | Dates: | 1903-2008 | | | | Abstract: | Laszlo Krausz (1903-1979) and Susan Krausz (1914-2008) were a Jewish couple from Cleveland Heights, Ohio, who were accomplished musicians. Laszlo Krausz was born in Pecs, Hungary in 1903. From an early age he studied violin, travelling to Budapest, Vienna, and Paris to continue his education, until settling in Switzerland in 1929 to study viola. Susan Strauss Krausz was born in Stuttgart, Germany in 1914. She completed piano studies at the Musikhochschule of Stuttgart and then moved to Switzerland in 1933. Following their 1935 marriage, Laszlo and Susan performed a series of viola-piano sonatas for Radio Geneva before immigrating to the United States in 1947. The Krausz family initially settled in New York where Laszlo accepted a position at the New York College of Music and played with the Carnegie Hall Pops Orchestra. Laszlo was then offered a position with the Cleveland Orchestra under George Szell and moved to Cleveland, Ohio, in the fall of 1947. While a member of the Cleveland Orchestra, Laszlo also founded the Cleveland Chamber Orchestra and conducted both the Mansfield Symphony Orchestra and the Akron Symphony Orchestra. He also pursued the sketching and painting that would become his full-time passion following his retirement from the orchestra in 1969. Laszlo's art was shown at various galleries, including the Butler Museum of Art. Susan Krausz joined the faculty of the Cleveland Music School Settlement upon her arrival in the city, and was awarded her M.A. in music from Western Reserve University in 1956. She continued to perform and compose while also teaching piano at Case Western Reserve University and in her home. The Krauszs had two sons, Peter, who owned a public relations firm in Israel until his death in 1989, and Michael, who is currently a philosophy professor at Bryn Mawr College. The collection consists of academic records, address books, advertisements, agreements, appointment books, art catalogs, artwork, awards, biographical information, calendars, certificates, charts, codes of conduct, contracts, correspondence, datebooks, degrees, diaries, exhibit commentaries, flyers, genealogical charts, itineraries, letters of recommendation, lists, magazine articles, magazine and newspaper clippings, music compositions, naturalization documents, notebooks, notes, passport documents, posters, press releases, programs, publications, a radio script, a recipe book, registers, regulations, repertoire books, resident alien documentation, resumes, reviews, schedules, scrapbooks, sketchbooks, sketches, speeches, telegrams, travel documents, wills, and writings. | | | | Call #: | MS 5064 | | | | Extent: | 25.43 linear feet (21 containers, 10 oversize volumes, and 30 oversize folders) | | | | Subjects: | Krausz, Lazlo, 1903-1979. | Krausz, Susan, 1914-2008. | Krausz, Peter, 1938-1989. | Krausz, Michael, 1942- | Krause family. | Cleveland Orchestra. | Akron Symphony Orchestra. | Cleveland Music School Settlement. | Case Western Reserve University. | Musicians -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Artists -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Jews -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | College teachers -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Art -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Music -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | Performing arts -- Ohio -- Cleveland. | World War, 1939-1945 -- Jews -- Personal narratives. | Hungary -- Emigration and immigration. | Switzerland -- Emigration and immigration. | Cleveland (Ohio) -- Emigration and immigration.
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