Ruth Page Collection, 1944-1960
Span: 1944-1960
English
collection
.5 ft.
1 boxes
This collection consists primarily of the correspondence of American dancer, choreographer, and company director Ruth Page and her first husband attorney Thomas Fisher, along with programs and clippings highlighting Page's career. The collection spans the years 1944 to 1960. The correspondence includes personal letters, contracts, telegrams, and postal cards between Page, Fisher, and French composer Remi Gassman regarding the creation and production of Page's ballet Billy Sunday. Other correspondence includes material from Gassman's wife, Marthe, ballet producer, S. J. Denham, composer Howard Hanson, and others. The collection documents Page's performances of her ballets Frankie and Johnny, The Bells, Billy Sunday, and Scrapbook, which were performed in the United States and France between 1946 and 1950. Clippings in the collection consist of several reviews of Page's works by well-known critics of the time.
Correspondence, legal papers, programs, clippings and other papers.
Ruth Page Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress
Page, Ruth
Correspondence and other papers relating to the American dancer and choreographer.
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Ballet
Modern Dance
Dance
Page, Ruth
Gassman, Remi
Hanson, Howard
Kirstein, Lincoln
ML31.P34
Performing Arts Encyclopedia
scdb
Music Division, Library of Congress
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu2005.wp.0033
IHAS
120823
loc.natlib.scdb.200033702