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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.

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Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound

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Collections in the Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound

Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Audio materials

Lou Reed papers

General Audio Collection

Margaret Carson audio-visual materials

Leida Snow collection of audio interviews and reports on theater, culture and arts

Music from Germany (Radio program)

Lewis Archibald collection of recorded interviews

Tom Scott audio collection

The Bell Telephone Hour collection of sound recordings

The March of Time collection: radio broadcasts, 1935-1943 (incomplete)

Interviews for the book "They're playing our song"

Collection of audio interviews about Bobby Clark, 1961-1964

New Music Quarterly recordings

First National Congress on Women in Music recordings

New York Public Library for the Performing Arts lecture/concert series

ASCAP sponsored radio interviews with musicians and composers collection

Arthur Bell Collection of Recorded Interviews, 1970-1980

Edison album

Ross Lee Finney collection : sound and video recordings,1938-1986

Mitch Miller collection of audio and moving image

Katharine Hepburn audiovisual materials

New Music for Young Ensembles recordings

Philip Sterling research materials on Bert Williams collection of sound recordings

Eric Siday collection of sound recordings

New York Shakespeare Festival recordings collection

Germany Today (Radio program)

National Orchestral Association collection of rehearsal and concert recordings, 1938-1968

Jan Peerce collection of sound recordings,1932-1983

Henry Cowell collection of noncommercial recordings

Collegiate Chorale collection of performance recordings

Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound clipping files

Yellow Springs Institute Audio/Visual Collection

Regina Resnik sound recordings materials

George Avakian and Anahid Ajemian audio collection

Lawrence and Lee collection of broadcast recordings

George Antheil Collecton of Sound Recordings

Little Orchestra Society concert recordings collection

Carolyn Leigh papers and sound recordings, 1944-1985

Hugo Weisgall collection of noncommercial recordings

Oratorio Society of New York

Jacob Druckman collection of noncommercial sound recordings

Martin Worman audiovisual collection

The Voice of the Victor

Edison white wax cylinders collection

Rosalyn Tureck collection of sound recordings

The Toscanini Legacy collection of sound recordings

Behind the scenes in music (Radio program)

The Sonora bell

Anna Balos collection of non-commercial recordings

Teiji Itō collection of noncommercial recordings

A. F. R. Lawrence papers

A.F.R. Lawrence collection of historical spoken word

Alexander Scourby collection

Henry Sylvern collection of noncommercial recordings,1941-1958

Luther Sies collection

American International Music Fund. Recording Guarantee Project

Equity Library Theatre collection of performance recordings

Benedict Stambler Memorial Archive of Jewish Music and Theatre

New York Philharmonic collection of broadcast concerts 1934-1955

Jan Holcman collection

Seth Bingham collection of sound recordings

Sociedad Fonográfica Española Cylinder Recordings

Bluestime Power Hour videos

Lioret cylinders