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Rosenbaum

 

COLLECTION: Edna Phillips Rosenbaum Collection

 

LOCATION: 219 Smith Music Hall, housed in a single archival box

 

PROVENANCE: Personal collection of Edna Phillips Rosenbaum (1908-2003), donated to the library by her daughter Joan Solaun, of Urbana.

 

WHEN ACQUIRED: January 2004

 

DESCRIPTION: Edna Phillips Rosenbaum was principal harpist of the Philadelphia Orchestra from 1930 to 1946. The collection consists primarily of scores (in manuscript or facsimile) of works for harp and orchestra commissioned by Ms. Rosenbaum.  Many of the scores include her markings.

 

CONTENTS:

 

Bacarisse, Salvador

 

Concerto in Eb Major for Harp and Wind Instruments, op. 92; transcription for harp and piano

 

            Score (ink manuscript on onionskin paper, 48 pp.)

 

Berezowsky, Nicholas

 

[I. Salzedo, from ?Concerto for harp]

 

            Solo harp part (ozalid, 8 pp.; with markings by EPR)

 

Castaldo, Joseph

 

Concertante for harp & string quartet

 

            Score (pencil manuscript, 31 pp.)

            Score (ozalid, 30 pp.; at end: “Philadelphia, Nov. 23, 1957”)

 

Csonka, Paul

 

Concierto de Navidad for harp and female chorus

 

            Score (ink manuscript on onionskin paper, 22 pp.) “revised full score with both Spanish words & English (C.W. Wright) trans.”--envelope.

Score (ink manuscript on onionskin paper, 16 pp.; at end "August 1953, Paul Csonka")

            Score (ozalid, of above MS.)

 

Movements: I. Amoroso pastorcillo de Diomesio Solis; II. Al nino Jesusde Ventura de la Vega; III. La Nana de R.S. Gomis

 

Ginastera, Alberto

 

Concerto for Harp and Orchestra, op. 25

 

            Solo harp part (ozalid, 40 pp.)

 

            Third movement

                        Solo harp part (ozalid, 4 pp.)

 

Green, Ray

 

Rhapsody for Harp and Orchestra, “based on the Appalachian mountain ballad ‘You got to cross that lonesome valley...’”

 

            Score (ozalid, with conductor’s markings, 66 pp.)

Solo harp part (ink manuscript, 16 pp., with markings by EPR; at end: “New York, July 25, `50”)

 

Maayani, Ami

 

2 Madrigals for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, and harp

 

            Score (ozalid, 23 pp.; at end: “New York, April 1969”)

 

McDonald, Harl

 

Concerto for Harp and Orchestra: “Suite from Childhood”

 

            Third movement

                        Solo harp part (ozalid, with pasteovers, 7 pp.)

 

Persichetti, Vincent

 

Serenade no. 10, for flute and harp (1957)

 

            Score (ozalid, 25 pp.)

 

Ravel, Maurice

 

Introduction et allegro for harp, string quartet, flute, and clarinet (Paris: Durand, c1906; one flute part, one clarinet part, six violin I parts, seven violin II part, five viola part, four cello part with markings)

 

 

Pièce en forme de habanera for instrument and piano (Paris: Alphonse Leduc, c1926; with markings by EPR)

 

Thomas, John

 

DEWIS DETHOL oymarferiadau Telyn (SELECTED STUDIES for the Harp) (Abergavenny, Gwent: Adlais, n.d.)

 

Ffarwel y telynor i'w enedigol Wlad (The Minstrel’s Adieu To His Native Land) (Abergavenny, Gwent: Adlais, n.d.)

 

White, Paul

 

Sea-Chanty Quintet (1941)

 

            Score (pencil manuscript, unpaged)

 

 

Unidentified

 

Nouba for harp, op. 44 (1960), by [?Paul Rousing [illegible]]

 

            Score (ozalid, 6 pp.)

 

Richard Griscom, 29 January 2004; rev Ann Yeung 2005