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David Wendell Guion:

A Preliminary Inventory of an Addition to His Collection in the Manuscript Collection at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center

Creator: Guion, David W. (David Wendell) 1892-1981
Title: David Wendell Guion Addition to His Collection
Dates: 1930-1932
Extent: 2 boxes (.84 linear feet)
Abstract: This collection contains scores and choreographic notes used to stage the first full ballet performance of David W. Guion's work Shingandi in 1933, by Theodore Kosloff and the Kosloff Ballet Company.
Call Number: Manuscript Collection MS-01756
Language: English
Access: Open for research


Administrative Information


Acquisition: Purchase, 2006 (Reg. no. 15431)
Processed by: Hope Rider, 2006
Repository:

Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin

Scope and Contents


This collection contains scores and choreographic notes used to stage the first full ballet performance of David W. Guion's work Shingandi in 1933, by Theodore Kosloff and the Kosloff Ballet Company. It contains an orchestral score, a set of orchestral parts, a piano score, and two-piano parts. The piano score is heavily annotated with choreographic directions by Kosloff.
These materials form an addition to the David Wendell Guion Collection at the Ransom Center, which also includes an original manuscript sketch and two piano parts of Shingandi, dating from approximately 1929.

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