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Guide to the James Schwabacher Collection ARS.0024

Finding aid prepared by Franz Kunst Archive of Recorded Sound Braun Music Center 541 Lasuen Mall Stanford University Stanford, California, 94305-3076 650-723-9312 [email protected] © 2012 The Board of Trustees of Stanford University. All rights reserved.

Guide to the James Schwabacher ARS.0024 1 Collection ARS.0024 Descriptive Summary Title: James Schwabacher Collection Dates: 1860-2006 Collection number: ARS.0024 Creator: Schwabacher, James Collection size: 71 boxes Repository: Archive of Recorded Sound Abstract: The James Schwabacher Collection consists of sound recordings, correspondence, scores, scrapbooks, clippings, programs, teaching material and other papers from San Francisco philanthropist and lyric tenor James Schwabacher. Language of Material: English Access Open for research; material must be requested at least two business days in advance of intended use. Contact the Archive for assistance. Publication Rights Property rights reside with repository. Publication and reproduction rights reside with the creators or their heirs. To obtain permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the Head Librarian of the Archive of Recorded Sound. Preferred Citation James Schwabacher Collection, ARS-0024. Courtesy of the Stanford Archive of Recorded Sound, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif. Source The James Schwabacher Collection was donated to the Stanford Archive of Recorded Sound by James Schwabacher in 2006. Sponsor This finding aid was produced with generous financial support from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission. Scope and Contents The James Schwabacher Collection consists of sound recordings, correspondence, scores, scrapbooks, photographs, programs, teaching material and other papers from philanthropist and lyric tenor James Schwabacher (1920-2006). A tireless champion of vocal music, Schwabacher was extremely active in the San Francisco Bay area, not only as a performer, but as a teacher, vocal coach, and radio and television host. Perhaps most significantly, Schwabacher founded the Merola Opera Program, an annual workshop for aspiring singers, in 1957, San Francisco Performances in 1980, and the Schwabacher Debut Recital Series in 1983. The Schwabacher name belongs to one of San Francisco's more prestigious families: Schwabacher-Frey was a major West Coast printer and stationer, and Schwabacher and Company was a successful investment banking firm. His grandmother Carrie, who was a Fleishhacker before marriage, was a composer and pianist, and James grew up surrounded by music. Scrapbooks reveal regular attendance at performances, long before he made it to the SF Opera stage himself. After graduating from Cal in 1941, Schwabacher taught briefly at Stanford, where he conducted the Glee Club and sang in the West Coast premiere of Britten's Peter Grimes and alongside Dorothy Warenskjold in her debut in Der Freischütz. In 1948 Schwabacher joined the San Francisco Opera, playing fourteen roles over four seasons. Schwabacher would soon move away from opera, however, and the majority of his years performing were in recitals and oratorios. His singing career is most notable for a twenty-five year run as the Evangelist in The Passions of St. John and Matthew in the Carmel Bach Festival. The collection contains many recordings from these performances, but it also covers the period where Schwabacher was teaching, mentoring and administrating (he was president of the San Francisco Symphony Foundation and a member of their Board of Governors since 1959, and he was also on the board of the San Francisco Opera Foundation). For more biographical information, consult the oral history by Caroline C. Crawford titled "Renaissance Man of Bay Area Music: Tenor, Teacher, Administrator, Impresario: James H. Schwabacher, Jr." (available at http://content.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt987006sc). Arrangement The collection has been arranged into fifteen series: 1. Awards and honors ; 2. Clippings ; 3. Correspondence ; 4. Media ; 5. Merola Opera Program ; 6. Misc. papers ; 7. Notes and notebooks ; 8. Photographs ; 9. Posters ; 10. Programs ; 11. Publicity and biographies ; 12. S.F. Symphony and Opera business ; 13. Scores ; 14. Scrapbooks and binders ; 15. Teaching materials. Related Collections

Guide to the James Schwabacher ARS.0024 2 Collection ARS.0024 The Archive of Recorded Sound also holds the Carmel Bach Festival Tape Collection, ARS0025. Indexing Terms San Francisco Opera. San Francisco Symphony Orchestra. Schwabacher, James Tenors (Singers)

Box 4, Box 1 1. Awards and honors Scope and Contents San Francisco Conservatory honorary degree 1983 ; IVI Voice Symposium plaque 2000 ; 40th and 60th Birthday tributes

Box 116, Box 2 2. Clippings Physical Description: 2 boxes Scope and Contents Newspaper clippings and photocopies of reviews, profiles, etc. Includes coverage of Carmel Bach, Ojai and other festivals.

Box 4, Box 96, 3. Correspondence 1955-2000 Box 86, Box 5 Physical Description: 4 boxes Scope and Contents Almost all incoming. Mix of personal and professional, but mostly personal (holiday and birthday cards, postcards, letters from Sophie Schwabacher). Includes mail from Kurt Adler, Darius Milhaud, Leontyne Pryce, Sandor Salgo, Wallace Berry, Ned Rorem, Blanche Thebom, Elizabeth Schwarzkopf, Ansel Adams, Bidu Sayao, and Leonard Bernstein. Many concerning Merola program, especially its 20th anniversary.

4. Media Physical Description: 45 boxes451 open reel tapes ; 559 audiocassettes ; 711 instantanous discs ; 66 compact discs ; 33 videocassettes

Box 103 Compact discs and CD-Rs Physical Description: 66 compact discsand CD-Rs Scope and Contents Mix of commercially released and unpublished works. Unrelated published discs were added to regular collection. Among the titles retained here: Allen Bond Sings Schwanengesang ; The Jewish School/Roslyn Bazak ; Traviata/NYC Opera ; Goerne/Schneider SF Performances Recital ; Songs of Ned Rorem/Susan Graham ; Twilight Fancies/Ruth Golden ; Tosca Excerpts/Chautauqua Opera ; Joseph Merrick dit Elephant Man/Petit firard ; Kenneth Goodson Recital and Oratorio Sampler ; Robert Breault, Tenor ; Elizabeth Anker Recital.

Guide to the James Schwabacher ARS.0024 3 Collection ARS.0024 4. Media Instantaneous discs and custom pressings

Box 107, Box 106, Instantaneous discs and custom pressings Box 105, Box 104, Physical Description: 711 instantaneous discs59 5-7" discs ; 550 8-10" discs ; 102 Box 108, Box 109, 10.5-12" discs Box 110, Box 111 Scope and Contents Discs are in no particular order, although most multi-part sets are in sequence. Original sleeves have been retained when information is written on them. Variety of brands, some locally recorded. Many of the 12" discs are NBC Reference discs originally used in broadcasts. Majority are opera broadcasts, especially from the . A partial list of these discs (dated 1939-1944) is available. There are also many Schwabacher performances and interviews (including one on KBFC from 1948 and several KPFA airchecks), as well as Schwabacher family recordings. Other discs with local interest include recordings of a Stanford-WSC Playoff from 3/14/41, the Tom Coakley Orchestra at the Palace Hotel over NBC on 11/15/34, the St. Francis Orchestra in 1946, and several recordings of Schwabacher's friend Harry Owens, the Hawaiian orchestra leader. Some custom pressings are by MacGregor and Ingram, others are unlabeled microgroove vinyl discs, possibly for teaching use. Other airchecks and recordings, including Bing Crosby (also one custom press), Burns and Allen, Eddie Cantor, and Jack Benny, are actually from Cynthia Schwabacher's donation from 1993-94.

Box 95

James Schwabacher, "If Music Be The Food Of Love... Recital Performances 1952-1967" (Cambria CD 1127) 2002

Physical Description: 3 compact discs

Box 113

James Schwabacher, "My Life in Music" with tapes of broadcast

Physical Description: 2 audiocassettes

Box 96, Box 94, Schwabacher Debut Recitals Box 95, Box 93 Physical Description: 97 items50 CD-Rs ; 47 audiocassettes Scope and Contents Recordings of performances from the Schwabacher Debut Recital series on cassette and CD-R, each in a manila envelope with the singer's name and date. A few contain only the program and no recording. There are also two folders of promotional material (programs, brochures, mailers), a folder of reviews, one folder of correspondence, and two folders of miscellaneous SDR material.

Tapes, cassette Physical Description: 559 audiocassettes Scope and Contents Opera, recitals, demos, interviews, off-air recordings, lectures, classes, copies of commercial releases, etc. Relatively few feature Schwabacher performances.

Guide to the James Schwabacher ARS.0024 4 Collection ARS.0024 4. Media Tapes, cassette

Box 103, Box 91, cassettes 1 Box 92, Box 89, Physical Description: 228 audiocassettes ; 1 DAT Box 90, Box 87, Scope and Contents Box 88 Selected titles: San Francisco Opera Gala 11/78 ; 4/84 ; Fromm Lecture 1995 ; Opera Quiz: Tenors ; Singher Inrterview, SFO Pelleas Broadcast 9/79 ; Piano Practice Tape ; Roberto Devereux SFO Broadcast 10/79 ; Dialogue of the Carmelites SFO 1982 ; various Met broadcasts ; Shere, The Bride ; Boy’s Chorus Lunch for Schwabacher ; Norskog Town Hall Concert 1980 ; Johansen Interview ; JHS Das ist Aus ; Mildred Warenskjold Class 1982 ; Winther Anderson Memorial Concert 1982 ; Cantor Joseph Portnoy Musical Reminiscences 1939-1986 ; Merola Memories ; Cenacolo Lectures ; Death In Venice Spring Opera Preview 1975 ; Monte Pederson Recital ; KKHI Merola Marathon ; A Guide to Pronouncing Medieval and Renaissance French.

Box 128, Box 129, cassettes 2 Box 126, Box 125, Physical Description: 331 audiocassettes Box 127, Box 122, Scope and Contents Box 130, Box 124, Selected titles: Hawaiian Favorites ; San Francisco Bach Choir ; SF Opera House: Box 123 Pacific Voices ; German Lessons ; Berg, Lulu ; Marc Coles Recital ; Lesson with William Pell ; Robert Swenson Radio Interview ; answering machine cassettes ; Lotte Lehman Farewell Recital 2/16/51 ; Merola Finals ; N.Y. Auditions 1981 ; Met Finalists 1981 ; SFOA Finals ; Carmel Excerpts 1986 ; Opening Broadcast, Tribute to KHA, with JHS 1978 ; Chanticleer Season Highlights 1990-1991 ; Merola Memories 1991 ; Hawaiian 78s ; James Schwabacher Sings Hawaiian ; James Schwabacher, Tales From the Vienna Woods ; Merola Auditions ; Joseph Ciami Recital ; 1993 Adams Fellows ; William Corbett-Jones ; Saint Ignatius Church Gala Organ Concert ; JHS Berlioz, Te Deum ; Baroque Arts Ensemble, SF Girls Chorus ; Opera Favorites ; William Sharp, Baritone ; DAT Transfer of JS Disc ; Jeff Carney Demo Tape ; Jose Garcia (Bass) ; Polva Frijsh ; Didi Boring's Songbook ; Bonynge - Schwabacher Interview ; Carrie Schwabacher ; A Chinese Soprano With A Wobble ; JHS KDFC 10/31/85 ; JHS Salvation Army 1950, Stern Grove 1972 ; Dorothy Warenskjold, Jan Popper Tribute to JHS, SF Boys Choir Luncheon 4/19/84 ; Gunnar Johansen ; Bing Day, KMPX ; JHS TRibute to Otto Guth 11/79 ; Tekanawa Interview ; Alan Farley Speaks About Discography ; Margaret Price, J. Reginald DeFoe Interviews ; San Francisco Profiles: Jim Schwabacher's SF Opera 10/31/85 ; Il Mio Tesoro, Schipa, McCormack, Schiotz, Hackett, JHS ; JHS Informances - The American Song 3/21/96 ; Lecture on Wozzeck 11/4/81 ; SF Opera Intermissions ; Men, Women, And Wagnerian Tenors, Complete Broadcast ; KKHI Musical Quiz 11/2/90 ; Opera Preview, Henze Elegy ; Tenor, Before and After Lessons ; JHS Interviews for Schwab Song Series ; Fromm Lectures ; SFO Stern Grove ; SF Conservatory Of Music 3/20/83 ; JHS Heather Boy Trial 10/84 ; SF Opera Gala 1978 ; My Life In Music 1932-11/86 ; JHS Sings Poulenc ; Ferrugio Interview, Commentary ; Marie Louse's 60th Birthday ; Conversation with Riegelman ; Haugtassa Performance, Mills ; James Schwabacher's 60th Birthday

Guide to the James Schwabacher ARS.0024 5 Collection ARS.0024 4. Media Tapes, reel

Box 73-85, Box Tapes, reel 131 Physical Description: 451 open reel tapes2 12" reels ; 6 12" reels (1/2 inch tape) ; 350 7" reels ; 91 5" reels ; 3 3" reels Scope and Contents note The majority recordings feature Schwabacher in performance or as host. There are many recitals (some of which are airchecks from stations such as KQED, KPFA, and KEAR), as well as auditions, studio master recordings (on half-inch tape), soundtracks, rehearsals, and previews. Schwabacher was the host of a long-running (1968-1975) program on KKHI titled "Your Symphony: News, Views, Previews" which aired features and interviews with such people as Josef Krips, Seiji Ozawa, Andre Watts, Placido Domingo, the Siegel-Schwall Band (about their collaboration with Ozawa and the SF Symphony), Peggy Salkind, György Ligeti, Yehudi Menuhin, Sandor Salgo, and Oliver Messiaen. There are many tapes from these programs, as well as audio from Schwabacher's 1958 television program on KQED titled "History of Song." The San Francisco Opera and Symphony are well-represented in recordings, and there are also a number of Metropolitan Opera and BBC broadcasts. The tapes are minimally annotated. A compact disc has been released of material from Schwabacher's recitals on tape (Cambria CD-1127, also in the collection). A sampling: Opera Jazz Group 1965 ; Tel Aviv recital 1963 ; London recital 1967 ; KPFA recitals 1955, 1957 ; 1750 Arch recital ; audition tapes (many from 1963) ; SFOA Finals 1982 ; Carmel Bach Festival ; Washington DC recital 1973 ; Cabrillo Festival KPFA ; KQED Meistersinger 1959 ; Stalingrad ; Schumann duets 1963 ; Lesson with Riegelman 1958, 1960 (also lessons with others) ; Spring Opera Preview ; Metropolitan Opera 1951-1974, etc. ; Tristan, Covent Garden 1936 ; San Bernadino Symphony 1966 ; Popper, San Francisco Symphony 1960 (and many other SFO) ; KEAR American Singers, Critics Choice, Opera in English, George Livermore Interview, etc. ; Bernstein, Rosenkavalier ; KKHI Your Symphony: News, Views, Previews (NVP) 68-75 (JHS host) ; SF City College Recital 1961 ; Musgrave, Mary Queen of Scots BBC ; Stanford Recital 1961 ; KEAR Request Program ; JHS Recording, Coffing 1970 ; Vancouver recital 1956 ; Oakland Museum Concert 1961 ; Faust intermission, spoken excerpts ; Schubert Lieder and Duets SF Chamber Concert 1972 ; JHS Singing 1953 ; Carmel Consort Rehearsal ; SFO 50th Anniversary, Stern Grove 8/20/72 ; JHS 40th Birthday Party ; Gianni Cigna Dinner Party 1957 ; Robert Weede Last Recital 9/20/68 ; JHS Fol De Rol 1958 ; SF Opera Debut Auditions 1957, 1963 ; Golden State Recorders recording session 1972 ; Telemusic Quiz 1973 ; SFO 25th Anniversary Tosca with Dorothy Kirsten 11/29/70 ; History of Song 1958 ; Kiss Me Kate, Hallmark Program (TV) 11/20/58 ; St. John Passion, New York 1963 ; KEAR Types of Voices, etc. ; SF Conservatory Lieder Recital 1959 ; Prince Orlovsky Garden Party 1972 ; Stanford recital 1961 ; General MacArthur Speech 1951

Box 85, Box 131 Videocassettes Physical Description: 33 videocassettes Scope and Contents There do not appear to be many Schwabacher performances on the videotapes. Many are semi-commercial or recorded from television programs. A few highlights: Debut Recital Auditions ; Yi-Kwe Sze Memorial Service ; Vienna Excerpts 1982-87 ; Metropolitan Opera ; Yehudi Menuhin Conversations ; SFO Dangerous Liasons World Premiere 9/10/94 ; Great Tenors vol. 1-2 ; Barbara Bonney Symposium on Jenny Lind, Herbst Theatre 2000 ; Regine Crespin interview ; 1982 Anderson Memorial Concert, SFO Adler, Schwabacher ; Legendary Singers on TV ; SFO Gala 1977 ; S.V. Symphony 1994 ; Schwabacher John Callaway Interviews 1982

Box 86 5. Merola Opera Program 1981-1985 Physical Description: 5 folders Scope and Contents Applications and evaluations of participants in the annual Merola Opera training program.

Guide to the James Schwabacher ARS.0024 6 Collection ARS.0024 6. Miscellaneous papers speech draft notebook, radio scripts, Fol De Rol cue sheets

6. Miscellaneous papers Physical Description: 9 folder

Box 86 speech draft notebook, radio scripts, Fol De Rol cue sheets Physical Description: 3 folders

Box 4

UCB Oral History interview transcript [printed and bound 1994] 1986

Physical Description: 1 book

Box 113

Gold Curtain, KEAR. Program Notes and Letters 1955

Physical Description: 1 folder

Scope and Contents

Scripts for Schwabacher's radio program The Gold Curtain on San Francisco station KEAR, along with correspondence from listeners.

Box 4, Box 116 misc. essays, papers, reports, periodicals Physical Description: 4 folders

Box 112, Box 5, 7. Notes and notebooks Box 1 Physical Description: 5 folders Scope and Contents Various bound notepads containing notes, song lyrics, travelogues, etc. Two folders of loose notes, clippings, correspondence and other ephemera removed from book collection in boxes 5 and 112.

Box 86, Box 1 8. Photographs Physical Description: 2 boxes Scope and Contents Majority are publicity portraits, especially of Schwabacher. Some inscribed portraits of former students. Some snapshots, family photographs (including 1920s-era Fleishhacker family photos), travel pictures (especially from Spain and North Africa, 1981), and an album of a circa-1940s costume party.

Folder 137, Folder 9. Posters 135, Folder 136, Physical Description: 5 folders Folder 133, Folder 134

Guide to the James Schwabacher ARS.0024 7 Collection ARS.0024 10. Programs

Box 116, Box 3, 10. Programs Box 112, Box 4, Physical Description: 5 boxes Box 5 Scope and Contents Programs, handbills, fliers, press releases, radio and television program guides, etc. Includes programs from Carmel Bach Festival, San Francisco Opera, San Francisco Symphony, etc. A folder in box 4 contains theatre handbills from the 1860s-1880s originally owned by James H. Schwabacher, Sr.

Box 4, Box 86 11. Publicity and biographies Physical Description: 3 folders Scope and Contents Brochures, reviews, programs and handbills, N.Y. debut correspondence 1962, etc.

Box 4, Box 96 12. San Francisco Symphony and Opera business Physical Description: 2 folders Scope and Contents Correspondence, memoranda, board minutes, etc.

Box 112, Box 138, 13. Scores, annotated and inscribed Box 139, Audio Physical Description: 4 boxes 140, Box 6 Scope and Contents Some are manuscripts or copies. Many are inscribed by their composer to Schwabacher (including works by Francis Poulenc, Gian Carlo Menotti, Charles Boone, Francis Parmentier, Richard Felciano, Harry Owens, Ernst Bacon, Ellis Kohs, Frederick Jacobi, Hans Linne, and Anthony Milner). Others are personally inscribed to Schwabacher's friend Noel Sullivan by Langston Hughes, W.C. Handy, and Ernest Bloch. There is also the sheet music for James' grandmother Carrie Schwabacher's Philomath March.

14. Scrapbooks and binders Physical Description: 35 scrapbooks; 3 binders

Box 7 Music 1931-1935 Physical Description: 1 scrapbook Scope and Contents note Programs, review clippings, and ticket stubs from the San Francisco Opera, San Francisco Symphony, etc.

Box 7 Plays, Movies, Sports 1932-1935 Physical Description: 1 scrapbook Scope and Contents note Includes JHS school drama productions

Box 7 Entertainment 1934-1937 Physical Description: 1 scrapbook Scope and Contents note Mostly newspaper clippings with photographs and biographical profiles of opera stars. Also some (unpublished?) reviews written by JHS.

Box 7, Box 86 opera scrapbooks 1936-1937 Physical Description: 2 scrapbooks

Guide to the James Schwabacher ARS.0024 8 Collection ARS.0024 14. Scrapbooks and binders

Box 7 Schwabacher clippings and programs 1946-1948 Physical Description: 1 scrapbook Scope and Contents note Chronicles Schwabacher's activity at Stanford in the late 1940s as an assistant professor in the music department, conductor of the glee club, associate conductor of chorus, and program director for a listening party at the Tressider residence (Music at Home series). Many clippings are from the Stanford Daily.

Box 8 Schwabacher clippings and programs 5/40-7/48 1940-1948 Physical Description: 1 scrapbook

Box 8 Schwabacher clippings and programs 8/48-11/50 1948-1950 Physical Description: 1 scrapbook

Box 8 Schwabacher clippings and programs 9/50-8/51 1950-1951 Physical Description: 1 scrapbook

Box 8 Schwabacher clippings and programs 8/51-11/52 1951-1952 Physical Description: 1 scrapbook

Box 8 Schwabacher clippings and programs 1/53-6/55 1953-1955 Physical Description: 1 scrapbook

Box 8 Schwabacher clippings and programs 7/55-12/56 1955-1956 Physical Description: 1 scrapbook

Box 9 Schwabacher clippings and programs 2-10/57 1957 Physical Description: 1 scrapbook

Box 9 Schwabacher clippings and programs 11/57-1/59 1957-1959 Physical Description: 1 scrapbook

Box 9 Schwabacher clippings and programs 1/59-7/60 1959-1960 Physical Description: 1 scrapbook

Box 9 Schwabacher clippings and programs 7/60-5/61 1960-1961 Physical Description: 1 scrapbook

Box 9 Schwabacher clippings and programs 5-12/61 1961 Physical Description: 1 scrapbook

Box 9 Schwabacher clippings and programs 1-2/62 1962 Physical Description: 1 scrapbook

Box 10 Schwabacher clippings and programs 2/62-3/63 1962-1963 Physical Description: 1 scrapbook

Box 10 Schwabacher clippings and programs 5/63-6/64 1963-1964 Physical Description: 1 scrapbook

Box 10 Schwabacher clippings and programs 6/64-4/65 1964-1965 Physical Description: 1 scrapbook

Guide to the James Schwabacher ARS.0024 9 Collection ARS.0024 14. Scrapbooks and binders

Box 10 Schwabacher clippings and programs 4-10/65 1965 Physical Description: 1 scrapbook

Box 10 Schwabacher clippings and programs 10/65-7/66 1965-1966 Physical Description: 1 scrapbook

Box 10 Schwabacher clippings and programs 8/66-6/67 1966-1967 Physical Description: 1 scrapbook

Box 11 Schwabacher clippings and programs 7-12/67 1967 Physical Description: 1 scrapbook

Box 11 Schwabacher clippings and programs 2-12/68 1968 Physical Description: 1 scrapbook

Box 11 Schwabacher clippings and programs 1-12/69 1969 Physical Description: 1 scrapbook

Box 11 Schwabacher clippings and programs 1/70-11/71 1970-1971 Physical Description: 1 scrapbook

Box 11 Schwabacher clippings and programs 1/72-12/73 1972-1973 Physical Description: 1 scrapbook

Box 12 Schwabacher clippings and programs 1-9/74 1974 Physical Description: 1 scrapbook

Box 12 Schwabacher clippings and programs 10/74-3/76 1974-1976 Physical Description: 1 scrapbook

Box 12 Schwabacher clippings and programs 4/76-7/78 1976-1978 Physical Description: 1 scrapbook

Box 13 Schwabacher clippings and programs 7/78-4/80 1978-1980 Physical Description: 1 scrapbook

Box 13 Schwabacher clippings and programs 5-8/80 1980 Physical Description: 1 scrapbook

Box 13 Merola 20th Anniversary 1982 Physical Description: 1 scrapbook

Box 4 Merola Memorial Fund/The Early Days binder 1956-1970 Physical Description: 1 folder

Box 4 Spring Opera binder 1960-1964 Physical Description: 1 folder

Box 4 Spring Opera Promotions binder 1978 Physical Description: 1 folder

Guide to the James Schwabacher ARS.0024 10 Collection ARS.0024 15. Teaching material

Box 115, Box 114, 15. Teaching material Box 4, Box 113, Physical Description: 6 boxes Box 86, Box 116 Scope and Contents Notes, articles, scores, scripts, audiocassettes, etc. Most are in manila envelopes pertaining to a single work. Particular focus on Verdi, Wagner, Mozart, and Strauss. There are also folders on French pronunciation, humor, and the history of opera in San Francisco. Classes include S.F. Girl's Chorus lectures, an Eastman masterclass from 1985, and San Francisco Performances "Informances."

Guide to the James Schwabacher ARS.0024 11 Collection ARS.0024