http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/search?docsPerPage%3D100;smode%3Dadvanced;subject%3DComposers%20--%20Ohio%20--%20Cleveland.;subject-join%3Dexact Results for your query: docsPerPage=100;smode=advanced;subject=Composers -- Ohio -- Cleveland.;subject-join=exact Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=marc/skclmarc202890322046876.mrc http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=marc/skclmarc202890322046876.mrc Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3131.xml James Hotchkiss Rogers (1857-1940) was the music editor of the Cleveland News and the Cleveland Plain Dealer (1913-1932) who composed over 130 songs and over 350 works in all. He was a professional organist, working at the Euclid Avenue Temple in Cleveland and several churches in the Cleveland, Ohio area. The collection consists of music (mostly printed) written by James H. Rogers. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS3131.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=marc/skclmarc202890322046876.mrc http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=marc/skclmarc202890322046876.mrc Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=marc/skclmarc202890322046876.mrc http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=marc/skclmarc202890322046876.mrc Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=marc/skclmarc202890322046876.mrc http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=marc/skclmarc202890322046876.mrc Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=marc/skclmarc202890322046876.mrc http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=marc/skclmarc202890322046876.mrc Thu, 01 Jan 1970 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4690.xml Charles Perry, a trained musician from Cleveland, Ohio, wrote and composed "The Kennedy Prayer," a dedicatory to John F. Kennedy upon the occasion of the latter's assassination in 1963. Copies of the song were sent to Jacqueline Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, and entertainers, government officials, and heads of state. A copy of the song is also housed in the John F. Kennedy Memorial Library. The collection consists of letters and cards acknowledging receipt of "The Kennedy Prayer," as well as a proclamation and a photograph. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4690.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4706.xml The Bascom Little Fund was created in 1966 to promote new music composed and performed in the Cleveland, Ohio, area, through the granting of funds to individual composers. The Bascom Little Fund also helps support the Cleveland Composers Guild of the Fortnightly Musical Club in the performance of new works by Guild members. The Fund began as a memorial to Bascom Little, a local architect and composer, by his wife Sue Lohmiller Little. The three original trustees were A. Dean Perry, H. Chapman Rose, and Dixon Morgan. The collection consists of correspondence, programs, grant requests, authorizations, minutes, reviews, newspaper clippings, tax returns, financial statements, and contracts. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4706.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4712.xml The Cleveland Philharmonic Orchestra was founded in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1938, by three musicians, Irving Klein, Alfred Zetzer, and Robert Zupnick. They envisioned the orchestra as a training ground for young musicians seeking orchestral experience towards future professional careers and as an outlet for talented amateur musicians. F. Karl Grossman, professor of music at Western Reserve University, was the first conductor and music director of the group, serving for 25 years. Affiliated with Western Reserve University in its early years, the orchestra performed at various locations. Later conductors included Zoltan Rozsnyai, Jose Serebrier, Robert Marcellus, John Ross, and William Slocum. In 1973, the orchestra first sponsored the Young Person's Concerto Competition, later renamed the Frieda Schumacher Concerto Competition. The orchestra also extended its outreach into the community, playing concerts for specific ethnic groups at the Bohemian National Hall, for the Polish-American Congress and the Lithuanian c... http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4712.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4744.xml 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. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4744.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4775.xml 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. Th... http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4775.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5021.xml Hyman Gurland was a Russian-born Jew who emigrated to the United States in 1906 and settled in Cleveland, Ohio. A building contractor by trade, Gurland was also a talented musician who performed with the Cleveland Jewish Band from 1914 to 1918. He married Blanche Kaplan, and had three daughters, Gladys, Rita, and Norma. Gladys Gurland was a composer who actively tried to publish her work and succeeded in copyrighting several of her songs. The collection consists of a certificate, newspaper clippings, a notebook, correspondence, a scrapbook, and original scores of songs composed by Gladys Gurland. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS5021.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4825.xml 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. http://norton.wrhs.org/collections/view?docId=ead/MS4825.xml Wed, 01 Jan 2014 12:00:00 GMT