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George Avakian and Anahid Ajemian at Basin Street, watching the Benny Goodman Orchestra
Photograph by Bernard Seeman, 1951
Music For Moderns: The Partnership of George Avakian and Anahid…
A flyer advertising Anahid Ajemian's debut recital at Town Hall on November 19th, 1946.
The violinist Anahid Ajemian, who dedicated her artistic life to performing and fostering new music, …
The Jerome Robbins Dance Division is pleased to announce that the Ted Shawn papers, Additions is now open for research.Â
This material was donated to the Library in 1992 by the John …
A flyer advertising Anahid Ajemian's debut recital at Town Hall on November 19th, 1946.
The violinist Anahid Ajemian, who dedicated her artistic life to performing and fostering new music, …
A guest blog by volunteer and former intern Emma Winter ZeigÂ
Photograph taken by the author.
Before a television ad sells a product to the consumer, the company behind the product ha…
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Anti-Prom 2016 was a great success. The outfits designed by the High School of Fashion Industries were beautiful interpretations of…
Much has been written about the diversity reflected in the 2015-2016 Broadway season. Â A recent Playbill.com article states "Of the 40 acting nominations in eight categories, 14 went to a…
Ben West, founder and director of UnsungMusicalsCo., is on a mission to give new life to the lesser-known authors and works of American musical theater. With the help of the unparalleled col…
Rose dancer, 1914. Image ID: 5208659
It is almost time for the Library's fabulous Anti-Prom. On Friday, June 17, New York teens will assemble on the steps of the Schwarzman Building and…
On the third floor of the Library for the Performing Arts, one of the exhibit cases has recently been devoted to unique film related materials found in the Billy Rose Theatre Collection. Cur…
Music For Moderns: The Partnership of George Avakian and Anahid Ajemian, a forthcoming exhibition at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, tells the story of two remarkable fi…
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts has launched a new Fellows of the Jerome Robbins Dance Division program. This class of six fellows was chosen by the Committee for the Jer…
All art is cultural expression, but none is more integrative than dance, which is made of our bodies"how we move, where we move, what we wear"to tell every story there is to tell of how we, …
I have been a member of the Burckhardt family since 1979, through my relationship with Jacob Burckhardt, filmmaker and photographer. Edwin Denby was also a member of this family. By way of a…
A Second Home
Upon moving to New York City at age fourteen to complete my dance training at the School of American Ballet (SAB), I made a very important discovery. My new address, 70 Lincol…
Years ago I read a book called Gods Who Dance, written by American dancer Ted Shawn (1891-1972). It tells the tale of his exploratory dance travels. Shawn was one half of Denishawn, a sem…
I was flattered and intrigued when asked by the Jerome Robbins Dance Division of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts to participate in their scholar's program to explore thei…
I was in The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Jerome Robbins Dance Division research room looking through a box of photographs when I found it, a postcard of my mother, Irina…
The Music Division is celebrating the completion of its Clipping File inventory (done entirely by volunteers) with a blog series. Melissa is one of the volunteers who contributed so much to …
As the world commemorates the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death this year, The New York Library for the Performing Arts is doing its part by sharing with the world some of our unique …
John Street Theatre, NYC, c. 1791. Image ID: 1650651
A guest post on the research that informed the earliest material in Shakespeare's Star Turn in America, by volunteer (and former intern)…
On March 21, 2016, the Library for the Performing Arts (LPA) debuted Archives of Sound, an interactive audio installation inspired by collections in the Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of R…
Sara Banleigh is a folk singer, music historian, and avid user of NYPL's Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center. During her songwriting process, Sara comes to the Library to disco…
Henry V. Stage-plot. Directions for scenery, curtains, drops, etc. with drawings and diagrams. *NDB [RBS] 97-1287 (Shakespeare, W. Henry V)
This post is a report by volunteer/former intern …
James H. Hackett as Falstaff. Image ID: TH-26477
Shakespeare's Star Turn in America focuses on production of Shakespeare's works in North American theaters and why certain plays were popula…
