Box 2
Contains 23 Results:
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Ballad of Harry Simms
"Ballad of Henry Simms" was written by composer Lan Adomian, with lyrics by Harry Alan Potamkin, was about the NMU organizer in Kentucky who was murdered in 1932. This song was part of the Worker's Museum League's "Workers Song Book No. 2," first published in 1935.
Cohen, Ronald D. Depression Folk: Grassroots Music and Left-Wing Politics in 1930s America. CHAPEL HILL: University of North Carolina Press, 2016.
Stances Le Cri de Charité, AWV 132, 1825 - 1834
Roi Lear, 1908 January 18-31
"The Cloisters at Midnight" AMS, 1920
Op. 43 "The Lovers" AMS, 1971
"Scherzo con Trio" with coda, fragment, 1837
Dresden manuscript, 1859 September 9
Wenn die Schwalben heimwärts ziehen, op. 39, no. 1, 1880 September 17
Braunschweig. 2 pp. Fair copy of the song composed by Abt in 1842; accompanied by a letter sending the manuscript to a Herr Bantlin in Cincinnati, one page, 18 September 1880; and further accompanied by a steel engraving of the composer.
An die neue Tricolore, op. 398, no. 9, 1872 April 27
AMS, Inn Rhein, 27 April 1872, 4 pp. Song for two tenors and bass. Separate leaf for each part, one combining all three. Presentation inscription to a Captain Meyer, first performer of the first tenor part. With a second set of parts (three pages) in an unknown hand.