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4 unusual facts about New York Public Library for the Performing Arts


A Night in Old Paris

Never published, its manuscript full score, vocal score, and orchestral parts are all in the collection of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, at Lincoln Center in New York City.

Drexel Collection

Donated by Joseph W. Drexel in 1888 to the Lenox Library (which later became The New York Public Library), the collection, located today at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, is rich with materials on music theory and music history as well as other musical subjects.

Gena Branscombe

After her death, her manuscripts were donated to the Music Division of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.

Philadelphia Civic Grand Opera Company

New York Public Library for the Performing Arts: Folder: Philadelphia Civic Grand Opera Company


Joseph William Drexel

When the Lenox Library was joined with those of John Jacob Astor and Samuel Tilden to form The New York Public Library, Drexel's collection became the basis for the Library's Music Division, housed today in the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.


see also

Jazz Loft Project

The project culminated in late 2009 with a book, a radio series in collaboration with WNYC Radio in New York, and a traveling exhibition which opened at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts in February 2010 and will move to the Chicago Cultural Center in July 2010, the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University in February 2011, the Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego May 2012, and the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona through March 2013.