Elinor Remick Warren Collection
Span: 1900-1990
Bulk: 1930-1970
English
collection
6 ft.
13 boxes
Born and raised in Los Angeles, Elinor Remick Warren (1900-1991) trained as a pianist and became a highly coveted recital partner, but she saw herself first and foremost as a composer. Over the course of her career, Warren published some 200 art songs, which were regularly performed by such artists as Kirsten Flagstad and Bidu Sayao. In the 1930s she expanded her range into larger choral and orchestral works. Her first international success came in 1940, when the Los Angeles Philharmonic premiered The Legend of King Arthur, a choral symphony based on Tennyson's Idylls of the King. Celebrations surrounding the centenary of her birth in 2000 led to new recognition and in recent years her work has found new audiences.
Published music and music manuscripts, correspondence (290), photographs (90), programs, scrapbooks
Elinor Remick Warren Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress
Warren, Elinor Remick
Music manuscripts and papers of the American composer Elinor Remick Warren
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Choral Music
Orchestral Music
Piano Music
Songs
Women in the Performing Arts
Women Composers
Bori, Lucrezia
Boulanger, Nadia
Cadman, Charles Wakefield
Eddy, Nelson
Filsinger, Sara Teasdale
Kostelanetz, Andre
Pelletier, Wilfred
Solti, Georg
Tibbett, Lawrence
Warren, Elinor Remick
Performing Arts Encyclopedia
scdb
Music Division, Library of Congress
IHAS
090604
loc.natlib.scdb.200033815