Music

Abstract Blanche Da Costa Whitney was born September 24, 1882 in Chicago. She studied with Rudolph Ganz at Chicago Musical College before joining Mme Schumann-Heink, a noted opera signer, to Europe. Da Costa sang leading opera roles in Germany. She was forced to leave Germany by World War I and returned to America. She had a son, Frederick Berman, by her first husband. Her son died in 1945. She married Warren C. Whitney, vice president of A. B. Chase Piano Company in 1918. They moved to Denver...

Abstract Otto Mears (1840-1931) was an entrepreneurial businessman who built railroads and was essential to the development of Southwestern Colorado. The son of an English father and Russian mother, he immigrated to the United States after being orphaned at an early age. After making it all the way to California he was placed in a boardinghouse at eleven years old when relatives could not be found to care for him. After serving in the Civil War he moved to Colorado where he began to build his empire....

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The Galen and Ada Belle Spencer Foundation is a civic and social charitable organization in Denver, Colorado. This collection contains personal papers, documents, photographs, clippings, scrapbooks, posters, plaques, and a hand-painted sign reading "Galen and Ada Belle Spencer Foundation".

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This collection contains 78 LPs and 45 LPs of folk dance music. Records were used by folk dancing groups in New Mexico. The music ranges from Spanish to Eastern European.

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Collection contains the records of the Lamont School of Music, founded in 1924 by Florence Lamont Hinman, and merged with the University of Denver in 1941.

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Records of the Lamont Society, a support organization for the Lamont School of Music at the University of Denver. The collection includes scrapbooks and photo albums created by the Lamont Society as well as programs and pamphlets from events hosted by or associated with the Lamont Society.

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Pioneer impresario Arthur M. Oberfelder came to Denver in 1913 and by 1917 had started his own concert management company. He started the Concert Under the Stars at Red Rocks and was responsible for bringing many entertainment groups to Denver. Collection contains invitations, programs, news clippings, portraits, certificates, photographs, scrapbooks, and autograph books related to the Oberfelder family and the Oberfelder Concert series from 1924 through 1978.

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Robert Davine (1924-2001) was a Professor of Accordion and Theory at the University of Denver's Lamont School of Music until his death. Robert Davine founded the school's accordion department in the late 1950s, and was the recipient of the Distinguished Teaching Award for 1998 - 1999. The collection consists of sheet music and scores for various classical accordion compositions, as well as apporximately 50 LP vinyl albums.

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This collection consists of keepsakes owned by Stephen Seifert during his tenure as the Executive Director of the Newman Center for the Performing Arts. Many items are presumed to have been given as commemorative gifts to Stephen Seifert, others to be his personal collectibles.

Abstract Yafa Pinkhasova was born in Bukhara, Uzbekistan on October 5, 1928 and died in Denver, Colorado September 10, 2010. She married Rakhim Pinkhasov in Bukhara in 1952. He was born in 1928 in Bukhara and died in 2006. Tohfaxân Pinkasova sang traditional songs from the women's Sozanda style of music of the Bukharian Jewish and Tajik/Uzbek people of Central Asia. Collection contains a monograph of songs, an LP record of Jewish Bukharan singer, Tohfaxân (Yafa) Pinkasova, flyers, and journal...