LARRY TAYLORBILLY MATTHEWS MUSICAL THEATRE ARCHIVE

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LARRY TAYLOR-BILLY MATTHEWS MUSICAL
THEATRE ARCHIVE

• NANCY ZAVAC
• MUSIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION 2/12/04

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HISTORY

• Valuable lifetime collection of Musical Theatre
  materials
• Larry Taylor, office coordinator, Chelsea Music
  Service (1946-1991)
• Billy Matthews, director stage manager
  (1920-1997)
• Acquired by the University of Miami in 1991 part
  gift/purchase

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CONTENTS

• LP recordings, cassettes, 78 rpm recordings
• CD recordings
• Videos
• Vocal scores
• Piano conductor scores
• Sheet music, vocal anthologies
• Scripts
• Books
• Playbills

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PIANO CONDUCTOR SCORES
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AUTOGRAPHS
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ACCESS

• IBISweb catalog http//ibisweb.miami.edu/
• Useful to limit by material type
• Music Library webpage http//www.library.miami.edu
  /music/mustheat.html

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IBISWEB SEARCH FOR IRVING BERLIN (LIMIT BY SCORES)

• 1.After You Get What You Want You Don't Want It
  / by Irving Berlin  c1920       Musical Theater
  Archive M1630.2 .B513Mus.Thea.Arch.   2
  Alexander's Ragtime Band / by Irving Berlin 
  c1938       Musical Theater Archive M1630.2
  .B513 Mus.Thea.Arch.   3 Alexander's Ragtime
  Band. / My Walking Stick. Vocal Score  c1938
        Musical Theater Archive MUSICAL THEATER
  ARCHIVE   4 Alexander's Ragtime Band. / Now It
  Can Be Told. Vocal Score  c1938       Musical
  Theater Archive MUSICAL THEATER ARCHIVE   5
  All Alone. / Vocal Score  c1924       Musical
  Theater Archive MUSICAL THEATER ARCHIVE   6
  All Alone. / Vocal Score  c1924       Musical
  Theater Archive MUSICAL THEATER ARCHIVE   7
  All By Myself. / Vocal Score  c1946
        Musical Theater Archive MUSICAL THEATER
  ARCHIVE   8 All By Myself. / Vocal Score 
  c1921       Musical Theater Archive M1630.2
  .B513 Mus.Thea.Arch.   9 All Of My Life / by
  Irving Berlin  c1944       Musical Theater
  Archive M1630.2 .B513 Mus.Thea.Arch.   10
  Along Came Ruth / words And Music By Irving
  Berlin  c1914       Musical Theater Archive
  M1630.2 .B513 Mus.Thea.Arch.   11 Always. /
  Vocal Score  c1925       Musical Theater
  Archive M1630.2 .B513 Mus.Thea.Arch.   12
  Always. / Vocal Score  c1925       Musical
  Theater Archive M1630.2 .B513 Mus.Thea.Arch.  
    Result page1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 ... 32
  Next

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ACCESS

• Music Library webpage http//www.library.miami.edu
  /music/mustheat.html
• Search Results for hate get up TITLE OH! HOW I
  HATE TO GET UP IN THE MORNING ADDENDA lge
  shIrv.BerlinAlexRag.Band

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IBISWEB SEARCH FOR LPs

• Limited toMATERIAL type "SOUND RECORD"
•   Num Mark TITLES (73-78 of 78)
• 73 My Fair Lady Sound Recording          
  MTH-2696    
• 74 My Fair Lady Sound Recording          
  MTH-2716    
• 75 My fair lady Dansk originalindspilning
  MTH-2714    
• 76 My Fair Lady Spanish
      MTH-2710  
• 77 My Fair Lady Swedish        
  MTH-2716    
• 78 My Fair Lady Yiddish        
  MTH-6595      

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ACCESS

• ENTRY FOR LP RECORDING
• TITLE KING AND I CAST OC CAST OC VENUE
  Bway51 COUNTRY USA COMPANY DEC NUMBER
  DL 9008 SPEED 33 SIZE 12 PLAYBILL
  YOC51 COMPOSER Rodgers,Richard LYRICIST
  Hammerstein Jr.,Oscar BOOK Hammerstein
  Jr.,Oscar MUSIC_DIR Dvonch,Frederick
  ORCH_ARR SOURCE book STAR1 Lawrence,G.
  STAR2 Brynner,Yul

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STUDENT USE

• Prepare assignments, especially for the class
  Singing for the Stage. Students are assigned
  to choose, research, learn perform songs of
  various composers.
• Prepare material for auditions, juries, research
  papers program notes.
• On the first day of class the Music Librarian
  gives a presentation on the archive to the
  Musical Theatre freshman class on how to search
  for materials

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STUDENT USE

• Guest composers give performances workshops.
  Past guests Jerry Herman, Jason Robert Brown,
  Charles Strouse, Stephen Schwartz, Tom Jones,
  Harvey Schmidt, Ricky Ian Gordon, Craig Carnelia,
  William Bolcom, Lynn Ahrens, John Bucchino,
  Stephen Flaherty, Andrew Lippa, Marcy Heisler,
  Zina Goldrich, Dan Goggin, Maury Yeston, Frank
  Wildhorn, Barry Kleinbort.

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STUDENT USE

• Guest performers give masterclasses for
  students.
• In Oct. 2004 Jason Graae, Karen Mason Alex
  Rybeck give a cabaret
• performance masterclasses. Past guest
  performers
• Karen Morrow, Paige OHara, K.T. Sullivan,
  Mark Nadler, Keith
• Buterbaugh, Dawnn Lewis, Lewis Cleale, Chris
  Denny, Karen Mason,
• Donald Pippin, Barry Kleinbort, Dave Clemmons,
  Doug Sills, Adam Epstein,
• Desmond Child, Liz Callaway.

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FACULTY USE

• Faculty choose study material for class
  assignments and for theatre productions
• Review new musical scores and CDs
• Give workshops on Vocal Pedagogy for the 21st
  Century

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FACULTY USE

• Used materials from the archive to stage a
  musical review of songs from 1926 celebrating the
  75th anniversary of the University of Miami
• Use material for the Summer Musical Theatre
  Institute for high school students

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OUTSIDE USERS

• Find webpage and email requests for copies of
  songs
• Local performers phone in requests
• Requests for photos of playbill covers e.g. from
  Today Show
• Recordings are being used on a local weekly radio
  show

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COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT

• Annual allocation to purchase materials for the
  collection CDs, vocal scores, vocal selections
  videos
• Gifts to the collection
• CHUCK LINKNER, Orlando, FL, donated 112
  unpublished scripts, Feb. 1992, at time of the
  dedication of the collection
• Family of TERRY MILLER donated 98 cartons of
  material, including unpublished scripts,
  playbills, scores, videos and LPs after his death
  in August 1995
• Memorial cash donations were made in memory of
  Billy Matthews after his death in 1997

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DONORS
Billy Matthews 30 articles in New York Times from
1950-1980 Citing Billy as a director or stage
manager Lawrence Jay Taylor, Music Librarian,
44 New York Times (1857-Current file) Apr 3,
1991 obituary, ProQuest Historical Newspapers
The New York Times pg. B5 Terry Miller, 47,
Photographer And Chronicler of the Village By
ROBERT McG. THOMAS Jr. New York Times
(1857-Current file) Aug 18, 1995 ProQuest
Historical Newspapers The New York Times pg. D17
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PUBLICITIY

• Gala dedication performance and reception in Feb.
  1992 sponsored jointly by Friends of the Library
  and the Friends of the School of Music
• Article in Miami Herald
• Announcement in NOTES for NOTES, September 1992
• Presentation about Archive at the SEMLA chapter
  meeting, Miami, Oct. 1992
• Webpage updates on library webpage by Ray
  Uzwyshyn, Fall 2003 links to archive from School
  of Music webpage http//www.music.miami.edu/progra
  ms/mvp/MTR.html
• Presentation at MLA Feb. 2004

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VENDORS

• Footlight Records, New York http//www.footlight
  .com/index.cfm
• Dress Circle, London
• http//www.dresscircle.co.uk/default.asp

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VENDORS

• DRG records
• http//www.drgrecords.com/
• Fynsworth Alley http//www.fynsworthalley.com/ca
  talog/index.cgi
• LML Music
• http//www.lmlmusic.com/
• Original Cast Records
• http//www.originalcastrecords.com/
• J.W. Pepper http//www.jwpepper.com/catalog/welc
  ome.jsp

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LANGUAGE OF EXCERPTS

• English
• Spanish
• Italian
• German
• Hungarian
• Yiddish

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BOOKPLATE