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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.
Items in the Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound See More
The Mapleson Cylinders: Booklet with track listing and liner notes
Window displays, p. 6-9
"A Pretty Easter Display", p. 9
"An Operatic Season Window" and "Boating Window", p. 3
Lionel Mapleson with Edison Home Phonograph and extra large horn, probably at the Metropolitan Opera House
Il pleut bergere
Treasures of the Music Division
Leonard Cohen: a portrait in the first person ; George Melly : a portrait in the first person
Great performances,1998-09-30, Carnegie Hall opening night, 1998
Dmitriĭ Shostakovich (1906-1975): a centennial celebration
Grant Johannesen, piano, 2004-05-06
Leida Snow interviews Marsha Norman: Excerpt from BBC undated radio program Meridian
Jobbers will meet at Atlantic City
Photocopies from another Edison album, housed at the Antique Phonograph Monthly, Brooklyn, NY
Edison Album: back endpapers & inside back cover
![Edison Album, [Back cover]](https://images.nypl.org/index.php?id=57813990&t=t)
Edison Album, [Back cover]
Edison Album, Spine
![Edison Album, [Front cover]](https://images.nypl.org/index.php?id=57813948&t=t)
Edison Album, [Front cover]
Edison Album: inside front cover & front endpages
Edison Album: blank pages
Thomas A. Edison with his phonograph
New Talking Machine. Edison Phonograph with Polyphone.
A Genuine Edision Phonograph
The Edison New Standard Phonograph
Ten Special Amberol Records
Collections in the Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Audio materials
1,439 items
Margaret Carson audio-visual materials
361 items
Leida Snow collection of audio interviews and reports on theater, culture and arts
252 items
Music from Germany (Radio program)
250 items
Lewis Archibald collection of recorded interviews
184 items
Tom Scott audio collection
168 items
The Bell Telephone Hour collection of sound recordings
130 items
The March of Time collection: radio broadcasts, 1935-1943 (incomplete)
94 items
Interviews for the book "They're playing our song"
80 items
General Audio Collection
77 items
Collection of audio interviews about Bobby Clark, 1961-1964
54 items
New Music Quarterly recordings
46 items
First National Congress on Women in Music recordings
44 items
New York Public Library for the Performing Arts lecture/concert series
43 items
ASCAP sponsored radio interviews with musicians and composers collection
42 items
Arthur Bell Collection of Recorded Interviews, 1970-1980
41 items
Edison album
38 items
Ross Lee Finney collection : sound and video recordings,1938-1986
36 items
Mitch Miller collection of audio and moving image
36 items
Katharine Hepburn audiovisual materials
36 items
New Music for Young Ensembles recordings
35 items
Philip Sterling research materials on Bert Williams collection of sound recordings
32 items
Eric Siday collection of sound recordings
32 items
New York Shakespeare Festival recordings collection
32 items
Germany Today (Radio program)
24 items
National Orchestral Association collection of rehearsal and concert recordings, 1938-1968
20 items
Jan Peerce collection of sound recordings,1932-1983
18 items
Henry Cowell collection of noncommercial recordings
18 items
Collegiate Chorale collection of performance recordings
16 items
Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound clipping files
16 items
Yellow Springs Institute Audio/Visual Collection
14 items
Regina Resnik sound recordings materials
14 items
George Avakian and Anahid Ajemian audio collection
14 items
Lawrence and Lee collection of broadcast recordings
12 items
George Antheil Collecton of Sound Recordings
11 items
Little Orchestra Society concert recordings collection
10 items
Carolyn Leigh papers and sound recordings, 1944-1985
10 items
Hugo Weisgall collection of noncommercial recordings
10 items
The Voice of the Victor
9 items
Oratorio Society of New York
8 items
Jacob Druckman collection of noncommercial sound recordings
8 items
Martin Worman audiovisual collection
7 items
Edison white wax cylinders collection
6 items
Rosalyn Tureck collection of sound recordings
6 items
The Toscanini Legacy collection of sound recordings
6 items
Behind the scenes in music (Radio program)
6 items
The Sonora bell
6 items
Anna Balos collection of non-commercial recordings
4 items
Teiji Itō collection of noncommercial recordings
4 items
A. F. R. Lawrence papers
4 items
A.F.R. Lawrence collection of historical spoken word
2 items
Alexander Scourby collection
2 items
Henry Sylvern collection of noncommercial recordings,1941-1958
2 items
Luther Sies collection
2 items
American International Music Fund. Recording Guarantee Project
2 items
Equity Library Theatre collection of performance recordings
2 items
Benedict Stambler Memorial Archive of Jewish Music and Theatre
2 items
New York Philharmonic collection of broadcast concerts 1934-1955
2 items
Jan Holcman collection
2 items
Seth Bingham collection of sound recordings
2 items
Kamernyĭ Orkestr Akademicheskogo Teatra opery i baleta goroda Kazani: ko︠n︡tsert
1 item
The Mapleson cylinders: [1900-1904 ; recorded during performances at the Metropolitan Opera House]
1 item
Wynton Marsalis: playing through the changes
1 item
Leonard Bernstein in Salzau, 1987: international conductor's competition and master course
1 item
Sociedad Fonográfica Española Cylinder Recordings
1 item
Lincoln Center 25th anniversary: in-house presentation
1 item
Lionel Mapleson with Edison Home Phonograph and extra large horn, probably at the Metropolitan Opera House
1 item
Bluestime Power Hour videos
1 item
Signature, Interview with Pearl Bailey
1 item
Lioret cylinders
1 item
Polish music history: [compilation of television programs]
1 item
Album covers
Selections from George Gershwin's folk opera Porgy and Bess, volume 2
Mapleson cylinders [placeholder]
Harlem twist
Hérodiade, Prophète bien aimé
Marcel Duchamp and John Cage