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Performing Arts

 Subject
Subject Source: Archiveswest

Found in 66 Collections and/or Records:

Cartoon for the Orpheum Theatre

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 5359
Abstract

Pen and ink cartoon of a bird announcing "They're coming" to a fan in a grandstand. Note on back indicates it was published in the Daily News (Portland, Or.).

Dates: circa 1920-1929

Performing Arts History Committee records

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 314
Abstract

Records of a committee organized by the Oregon Historical Society around 1966 to seek out information and materials documenting performing arts in the state. The collection consists primarily of meeting minutes from 1966-1976 and attached correspondence and other documents, and also includes two papers written for seminars at Lewis and Clark College in 1966 and 1968, concerning music history in Oregon.

Dates: 1966-1976

Portland Civic Auditorium plans

 Collection
Identifier: Mss3063
Abstract

Collection includes a design, 3 blueprint plans on 3 sheets, for the Portland Civic Auditorium at SW 3rd Ave. and SW Clay St. in Portland, Oregon, 1913. This design was never implemented.

Dates: 1913

Portland Civic Auditorium plans

 Collection
Identifier: Mss3124
Abstract

Collection includes 4 blueprint plans and sections on 3 sheets of the Portland Civic Auditorium at SW 3rd Ave. and SW Clay St. in Portland, Oregon. Plans are by the New York firm of Freelander & Seymour, which won the design competition for the auditorium, now known as Keller Auditorium, in 1917.

Dates: 1915

Portland Civic Theatre Guild records

 Collection
Identifier: Coll 1048
Abstract Records of the Portland Civic Theatre Guild, a volunteer fundraising organization in Portland, Oregon. The collection's contents include administrative records, programs, bylaws, directories, information about the Leslie G. Fulton endowment and the guild's fellowship awards, and clippings. The Portland Civic Theatre Guild was founded in 1958, and dissolved in 2023. The records in this collection reflect the period in the 1990s when the Portland Civic Theatre closed and the guild shifted its...
Dates: 1990-2004

Portland Symphony Society records

 Collection
Identifier: Mss 1149
Abstract

Records of the parent organization of the Portland Symphony Orchestra, later the Oregon Symphony. Records include by-laws and minutes of board meetings, reports, contracts, financial records, and ephemera.

Dates: 1913-1969

Francis Richter papers

 Collection
Identifier: Coll 584
Abstract

Papers of composer Francis Richter (1888-1938), including scorebooks for Richter's compositions, recordings of musical performances by Richter, personal papers, and biographical materials. Richter was a blind composer, pianist, and organist who lived in Portland, Oregon, and in Minnesota.

Dates: 1895-2017; Majority of material found within 1895-1949

Oral history interview with Ariel Rubstein

 Collection
Identifier: SR 9340
Abstract

Oral history interview with Ariel Rubstein conducted by Charles Digregorio on August 16, 1978. Rubstein was a concert director and pianist in Portland, Oregon.

Dates: 1978 August 16

Oral history interview with Ariel Rubstein

 Collection
Identifier: SR 438
Abstract

Oral history interview with Ariel Rubstein conducted by Marian W. Kolisch from December 17, 1984, to February 18, 1985. Rubstein, a pianist and music instructor, discusses his early life in Russia, and his life and career in Portland, Oregon.

Dates: 1984 December 17-1985 February 18

Dorothy Scales photographic collection

 Collection
Identifier: Org. Lot 1131
Abstract

Collection consists of two photographs: a hand colored group portrait of the Mary V. Dodge Irvington School Orchestra, and a black and white group portrait of the Portland Junior Symphony on a stage. Dorothy Scales (then Dorothy Edlefsen) is among the people in the photographs but is not identified.

Dates: circa 1910-1929