Vernon Duke Collection, 1918-1968
Span: 1918-1968
English
collection
52 ft.
145 boxes
Vernon Duke, author, poet, translator, and business man, as well as composer, was born Vladimir Alexandrovitch Dukelsky on Oct. 10, 1903, in Minsk. He studied composition with Reinhold Glière and Marian Dombrovsky at the Kiev Conservatory. Upon fleeing the Revolution with his family, Dukelsky ended up in New York in 1921. There followed a string of musicals, principally in London and New York, from 1925 to 1956. During the same period, Vernon Duke (his legally changed name from 1939, when he became a U.S. citizen) composed music for film and the concert hall. He died on Jan. 16, 1969, in Santa Monica, California.
Stage, vocal, and instrumental music by Duke; sketchbooks; lyric sheets; music by others, including the holograph of Signature for the High-low concerts by Aaron Copland; correspondence; subject files; clippings; photographs; programs; scrapbooks; and other miscellaneous material.
Recordings (reel-to-reel tapes, acetate disks, and commercial recordings) have been transferred to the custody of the Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division.
Vernon Duke Collection, Music Division, Library of Congress
Duke
The papers of the Russian-born American composer.
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Composers
American Musical Theater
Duke, Vernon
Balanchine, George
Charnin, Martin
Copland, Aaron
De Vries, Peter
Dietz, Howard
Dixon, Dean
Ertegun, Nesuhi
Gershwin, Ira
Herrmann, Bernard
Koussevitzky, Natalie
Koussevitzky, Olga
Koussevitzky, Serge
Latouche, John
Lawrence, Jerome
Lee, Robert Edwin
Lehmann, Lotte
ML31.D98
Performing Arts Encyclopedia
scdb
Music Division, Library of Congress
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.music/eadmus.mu005004
IHAS
110216
loc.natlib.scdb.200033725