MUS/Cl. Classical

The Irving Wolfe Collection reflects the work of Wolfe as a former Head of Division of Music at George Peabody College for Teachers, Nashville, Tennessee. It consists of materials related to music pedagogy for children including songbooks, music scores, lyric sheets, pamphlets, sound recordings, and letters and correspondence.

A working short-score manuscript for Sinfonisches Vorspiel for the entire work notated in pencil on 32-stave "Star Nr. 37" music manuscript paper, containing numerous corrections, amendations, directions, indications pertaining to scoring, and furnished with lists of numbers (in cm) indicating the space to be allowed for the width of each bar in the successive fair-copy autograph.

The Records of the Leonard Bernstein Center for Education Through the Arts consists of the organizatonal papers, audiovisual materials, educational handbooks and more from the Bernstein Center, which developed and implemented art-infused education, called "Artful Learning," in K-12 schools in Nashville, Tennessee from its founding in 1992 to its dissolution in 1999.

This collection is composed of .5 Hollinger box with ten folders inside. More specifically there is incoming correspondence to Brown, a press release and photo of Richard M. “Pek” Gunn, the Fulbright program from 1956 to 1957, a report of the Fulbright program, and the music program at Peabody College. Productions tied to Brown include the play “The Beautiful People,” sheet music to “My Homeland, Tennessee,” and various other performances. Finally, there are writings by Brown.

The Sarah Dawson Autograph Collection, 1936-1950, consists of performance programs and restaurant menus with the autographs of singers, musicians, and other performers.

The Katherine Barnes Collection, 1907-1970, consists of programs for theatre, ballet, and musical performances attended by writer Katherine Barnes, 1914-2003.

The Cyrus Daniel Papers include compositions and arrangements by Daniel; miscellaneous programs 1944-1951; a bound copy of Vanderbilt University A Cappella Choir History, 1937-1967; and a selection of A Cappella Choir records, 1944-1965.

The Doris Fleming Collection documents the life and contributions of Doris Fleming, a singer and patron involved in multiple music clubs in Nashville. This collection encompasses a wide range of personal and biographical materials, including correspondence, photographs, and writings. The most significant part of the collection is the Music Collection, consisting of sheet music, programs, and notes on the music and songs.