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Collection name McCann Collection: USA (1893-1990)
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Description A collection of three boxes of programmes from the McCann Collection. The collection contains programmes from concerts given outside the United Kingdom and were collected by the concert agent Norman McCann (1920-1999).

The collection contains programmes from a wide variety of venues within the United States. However, there is a significant amount of programmes from concerts given in New York City, especially Carnegie Hall and various venues within the Lincoln Centre. The majority of programmes in the collection date from concerts given in the 1970s and 1980s. The collection also contains a significant amount of programmes from recitals given by Richard Tauber, in a wide array of venues across the United States.

New York City:

Main venues:

Lincoln Centre:
Avery Fisher Hall – 35 programmes
Alice Tully Hall – 7 programmes
Metropolitan Opera House – 2 programmes
Philharmonic Hall – 6 programmes
Library and Museum of the Performing Arts – 1 programme
Bruno Walter Auditorium, New York Public Library – 1 programme
Auditorium, New York Public Library – 1 programme

In addition, there are three programmes from unspecified venues within the Lincoln Centre, or general programmes for the centre.

Carnegie Hall – 54 programmes
Carnegie Recital Hall – 6 programmes

Town Hall – 14 programmes

Merkin Concert Hall, Abraham Goodman House – 6 programmes

Other New York City Venues:
St. Patrick’s Cathedral; Education Auditorium, New York University; Education Theatre, New York University; Evelyn and Louis A. Green Auditorium; Steinway Hall; Auditorium, Donnell Library Centre (4); Hunter College, City University of New York (2); Garrick Theater; Academy of Music (2); Auditorium, Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York; St. Matthews Lutheran Church Auditorium [5405 Wren Avenue]; Curran Theater; Deutsches Haus, New York University [42 Washington Mews]; New York Hippodrome; Brooklyn Jewish Center; Lewisohn Stadium [“College of the City of New York”].

In addition, there is a prospectus for the New York City Handel Festival.

Rest of the USA

There are programmes from the following venues:
Garden States Arts Centre, Holmdel, N.J.; Galliard Municipal Auditorium, Pittsburgh; Greenville Senior High School, Greenville; Municipal Auditorium, Oklahoma City (3); Chattanogra High School, Music Hall; Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco; War Memorial opera House, San Francisco (2); Mann Music Centre, Philadelphia; Pioneer Theatre Auditorium, Reno (2); Municipal Auditorium, San Antonio (2); St. Matthew’s Cathedral, Washington D.C.; Mosque Theatre, Newark, N.J. (2); Hotel Dennis, Atlantic City, N.J.; Eastman Theatre, University of Rochester (2); Civic Auditorium, Seattle; Lutkin Hall, Evanston, Illinois (3); Moore Theatre, Seattle; Music Hall, Houston (2); Arkansas Hall [Arkansas]; Armory, Kalamazoo (2); Civic Opera House, Chicago (2); Convention Hall, Tulsa, Oklahoma (2); Denver Auditorium (5); Orange County Performing Arts Center (3); Engelmann Hall, Department of Music, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; San Angelo Coliseum; Metropolitan Theater, Seattle (2); Robin Hood Dell, Fairmount Park [Philadelphia]; Watergate, Washington; Music Hall, Boston; Margaret Phipps Auditorium, Macmillan Hall, Wells College; Severance Hall, Cleveland; Victoria College Auditorium; Fry Studio, White Planes, New York; Concert Hall, School of Music, DePaul University, Chicago [800 West Belden]; Sheldon Concert Hall, University of Missouri-St. Louis; Recital Hall, Denton, Texas; Music Recital Hall, Sacramento State College; Advent Lutheran Church, Morgan Hill, California; McAllister Fine Arts Auditorium [San Antonio?]; McFarlin Auditorium [Dallas]; Stanley Theatre, Utica, New York; Coolidge Auditorium, Library of Congress (2); Constitution Hall [Washington D.C.] (3); Music Hall, Cleveland, Ohio; University Auditorium, University of Illnois; Horace Bushnell Memorial Hall [Hartford?]; 45 Common Street, Belmont; Recital Hall, University of Western Ontario; Ball High School Auditorium, Galveston County; White Plains High School, Westchester; Santa Ana High School Auditorium, Orange County; Neighbourhood House, Northeast Harbour, Maine (2); Franklin D. Roosevelt Auditorium, Chicago; World Bank, Washington D.C.; Jordan Hall, Boston (2); Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Chicago; Dock Street Theatre, Charleston; Woolsey Hall, Yale University; The Lyric, Baltimore; Westchester County Center, White Plains, New York; Troy Theatre, Troy, New York; Opera House, Municipal Auditorium, Saint Louis; Hotel Statler Ballroom, Boston; Municipal Auditorium, Orlando, Florida; Philharmonic Auditorium, Los Angeles; Fine Arts Auditorium, Oklahoma City University; Wellesley Junior High School Auditorium, Wellesley, Massachusetts; Recital Hall, Art and Music Building, Georgia State University; Crouse College [Syracuse, N.Y.]; Tawes Recital Hall, University of Maryland, College Park; Provincetown Art Association and Museum; College Auditorium, Kansas State Teachers College, Pittsburg; Saint-Gaudens N.H.S., Cornish, New Hampshire; Redlands Memorial Chapel, Redlands, California; Orchestra Hall, Chicago (5); Academy of Music, Philadelphia (4); Symphony Hall, Boston (3); Kennedy Center, Washington D.C; Luther College, Decorah, Iowa; Sín Sokola Chicago [programme in Czech – venue information on programme “V Síni Sokola Chicago”]; Festival Hall, Chicago [possibly a truncated version of the name].

There are prospectuses, multi-venue concert programmes and concert programmes with unspecified venues from the following orchestras:
Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra; Hartford Symphony Orchestra; San Antonio Symphony Orchestra; New Jersey Symphony Orchestra; Charlotte Philharmonic Orchestra; Springfield Symphony Orchestra (6); Virginia Symphony; San Francisco Symphony; San Antonio Symphony (2); Dallas Symphony Orchestra (2); El Paso Symphony Orchestra; Chicago Symphony Orchestra; New Jersey Symphony Orchestra; Scranton Philharmonic Orchestra; Reno Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra (2); Oklahoma City Symphony Orchestra (7).

There are festival prospectuses or festival programmes from the following:
Summerfare (State University of New York at Purchase); Tanglewood (4); Mahler Festival; Ravinia; Krenek Festival, Santa Barbara, California; Delius Festival, Florida (4).

There is a magazine outlining various American festivals in 1990. There are 44 programmes from concerts where the venue has not been specified, the venue has been specified but geographic location is unknown, or the programme is part of a multi-venue tour.
Date range 1893 - 1990
Associated People and Organisations Charlotte Philharmonic Orchestra - Chicago Symphony Orchestra - Dallas Symphony Orchestra - Delius Festival, Florida - El Paso Symphony Orchestra - Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra - Hartford Symphony Orchestra - Krenek Festival (Santa Barbara, California) - Mahler Festival - New Jersey Symphony Orchestra - New York City Handel Festival - Oklahoma City Symphony Orchestra - Ravinia - Reno Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra - San Antonio Symphony Orchestra - San Antonio Symphony - San Francisco Symphony - Scranton Philharmonic Orchestra - Springfield Symphony Orchestra - Summerfare (State University of New York at Purchase) - Tanglewood - Tauber, Richard - Virginia Symphony -
Associated Places 45 Common Street, Belmont Abraham Goodman House, New York: Merkin Concert Hall Academy of Music, New York Academy of Music, Philadelphia Advent Lutheran Church, Morgan Hill, California Alice Tully Hall Arkansas Hall Armory, Kalamazoo Avery Fisher Hall Ball High School, Galveston County: Auditorium Brooklyn Jewish Center Carnegie Hall, New York Carnegie Recital Hall, New York Chattanooga High School: Music Hall Civic Auditorium, Seattle Civic Opera House, Chicago Constitution Hall, Washington D.C. Convention Hall, Tulsa Crouse College, Syracuse, NY Curran Theater, New York Davies Symphony Hall, San Francisco Denver Auditorium DePaul University, Chicago: Concert Hall, School of Music Deutsches Haus, New York University Donnell Library Centre, New York; Auditorium Eastman Theatre, University of Rochester Evelyn and Louis A. Green Auditorium, New York Festival Hall, Chicago Franklin D. Roosevelt Auditorium, Chicago Fry Studio, White Plains, New York Galliard Municipal Auditorium, Pittsburgh Garden States Arts Centre, Holmdel Garrick Theater, New York Georgia State University: Recital Hall Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York: Auditorium Greenville Senior High School, Greenville Horace Bushnell Memorial Hall Hotel Statler, Boston: Ballroom Hunter College, City University of New York Jordan hall, Boston Kansas State Teachers College, Pittsburgh: College Auditorium Kennedy Center, Washington D.C. Lewisohn Stadium, New York Library and Museum of the Performing Arts, New York Library of Congress: Coolidge Auditorium Lincoln Center Luther College, Decorah, Iowa Lutkin Hall, Evanston, Illinois Lyric Theatre, Baltimore Mann Music Centre, Philadelphia Margaret Phipps Auditorium, Wells College: Macmillan Hall McAllister Fine Arts Auditorium, San Antonio McFarlin Auditorium, Dallas Metropolitan Opera House, New York Metropolitan Theater, Seattle Moore Theatre, Seattle Mosque Theatre, Newark Municipal Auditorium, Oklahoma City Municipal Auditorium, Orlando, Florida Municipal Auditorium, San Antonio Music Hall, Boston Music Hall, Cleveland Music Hall, Houston Neighbourhood House, Maine New York Hippodrome New York Public Library: Auditorium New York Public Library: Bruno Walter Auditorium New York University: Education Auditorium New York University: Education Theatre Oklahoma City University: Fine Arts Auditorium Opera House, Saint Louis: Municipal Auditorium Orange County Performing Arts Center Orchestra Hall, Chicago Philharmonic Auditorium, Los Angeles Philharmonic Hall, New York Pioneer Theatre Auditorium, Reno Provincetown Art Association and Museum Queen Elizabeth Theatre, Chicago Recital Hall, Denton Redlands Memorial Chapel, Redlands, California Robin Hood Dell, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia Sacramento State College: Music Recital Hall Saint-Gaudens N.H.S., Cornish, New Hampshire San Angelo Coliseum Santa Ana High School, Orange County: Auditorium Sín Sokola Chicago St. Matthew's Cathedral, Washington D.C. St. Matthews Lutheran Church, Wren Street, New York: Auditorium St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York Stanley Theatre, Utica, New York Steinway concert hall, New York Town Hall, New York Troy Theatre, Troy, NY University of Illinois: University Auditorium (town unknown) University of Maryland, College Park: Tawes Recital Hall University of Missouri-St. Louis: Sheldon Concert Hall University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee: Engelmann Hall Watergate, Washington Wellesley Junior High School Auditorium, Wellesley, MA Westchester County Center, White Plains, NY White Plains High School, Westchester World Bank, Washington D.C. Yale University: Woolsey Hall
Associated Times 19th century - late Victorian 1876-1899 20th century - early 1900-1930 20th century - late 1971-1999 20th century - mid 1931-1970
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