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Ruth Page Collection, 1944-1960 [collection]
- Title
- Ruth Page Collection, 1944-1960 [collection]
- Date Created
- Span: 1944-1960
- Language
- English
- Form
- collection
- Physical Description
- .5 ft.
- 1 boxes
- Abstract
- This collection consists primarily of the correspondence of American dancer, choreographer, and company director Ruth Page and her first husband attorney Thomas Fisher, along with programs and clippings highlighting Page's career. The collection spans the years 1944 to 1960. The correspondence includes personal letters, contracts, telegrams, and postal cards between Page, Fisher, and French composer Remi Gassman regarding the creation and production of Page's ballet Billy Sunday. Other correspondence includes material from Gassman's wife, Marthe, ballet producer, S. J. Denham, composer Howard Hanson, and others. The collection documents Page's performances of her ballets Frankie and Johnny, The Bells, Billy Sunday, and Scrapbook, which were performed in the United States and France between 1946 and 1950. Clippings in the collection consist of several reviews of Page's works by well-known critics of the time.
- Contents Note
- Correspondence, legal papers, programs, clippings and other papers.
- Preferred Citation
- Ruth Page Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress
- Access Permissions
- Researchers wishing to work with special collections are advised to inquire in advance about availability of material since many special collections are stored off-site.
- Copyright
- Certain restrictions to use or copying of materials may apply.
- Subjects
- Ballet
- Modern Dance
- Dance
- Page, Ruth
- Gassman, Remi
- Hanson, Howard
- Kirstein, Lincoln
- Call Number
- ML31.P34
- Repository
- Music Division, Library of Congress
- Finding Aid
- http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu2005.wp.0033
Last Updated: 08-23-2012