
Collection Summary
	Creator	Graham, Martha
	Title	Martha Graham Collection
	Span Dates	1896-2003(bulk 1926-1991)
	Abstract:	Martha Graham was an American modern dancer, choreographer, teacher and company director. The Martha Graham Collection is comprised of materials that document her career and trace the history of the development of her company, Martha Graham Dance Company, which became the Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance, and school, Martha Graham School, later to be called the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance.
	Extent:	350,100 items398 containers590 linear feet
	Language:	Collection material in English
	Identification:	ML31.G727

Biographical Note

Martha Graham, a pioneer in the establishment of American modern dance, was one of the principal choreographers of the twentieth century. Her work, which spanned more than seven decades, resulted in the development of a movement technique and a body of 180 choreographic works. Known also for her innovative collaborations, Graham worked with sculptor Isamu Noguchi, who created over thirty-five designs for Graham works; lighting designer Jean Rosenthal; costume designer Halston; and many composers, including Aaron Copland, Samuel Barber, Robert Starer, William Schuman, and Louis Horst, who acted as accompanist, composer, and music director for Graham from 1926 to 1948. Graham founded a dance company in the 1920s that continues to perform her repertory (www.marthagraham.org).

The following timeline makes reference to only a few of Graham’s choreographic works. For a complete repertory list, please consult Don McDonagh’s book, Martha Graham (1973).


	Date	Event
	1894 May 11	Martha Graham is born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania
	1916	Graham begins studies with Ted Shawn and Ruth St. Denis at their Denishawn School
	1918	Graham begins teaching at the Denishawn School
	1919	Graham dances with Denishawn until 1923, appearing in title roles such as Xochitl
	1923-1925	Graham appears in John Murray Anderson’s Greenwich Village Follies, dancing Ted Shawn’s Serenata Morisca and Michio Ito’s The Garden of Kama
	1925	Graham establishes her first dance company and begins to develop her specialized dance technique
	1926	Graham presents her first independent concert at the 48th Street Theater in New York City, assisted by the Martha Graham Concert Group. The New York Herald Tribune noted, “Miss Graham gave a successful performance, showing ability to present a mood or a picture, with the assets of grace, agility, effective poses and well chosen costumes”
	1927	In a review of a program at New York City’s Little Theatre, the New York American said “Slender, sinuous and supple, and ever with a definite command of grace, Miss Graham may have many competitors in Terpsichore’s guild, but few rivals”
	1928	Graham begins an association with the Neighborhood Playhouse and, in conjunction with the Cleveland Orchestra, Graham performs in Nuages and Fetes (music by Debussy) with dancer/choreographer Michio Ito
	1929	Graham presents a concert which includes her first group masterpiece, Heretic
	1930	Graham begins a seven-year relationship with Washington Irving High School in New York City and presents yearly concerts. She performs in Léonide Massine’s Rite of Spring with the Philadelphia Orchestra
	1932	Graham is the first dancer to receive a John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship
	1936	Graham tours the United States in a solo program. She is invited, but rejects, an offer to represent the U.S. at the International Dance Festival, held in conjunction with the Berlin Olympics. She states: “so many artists have been persecuted that I refuse to identify myself with the regime that made it possible”
	1937	At the invitation of President and Mrs. Roosevelt, Graham is the first dancer to appear at the White House. Graham and her company make their first transcontinental tour
	1938	Graham begins a relationship with Bennington Collect in Vermont where she teaches each summer until 1941. Erick Hawkins becomes the first man to join her dance company. Merce Cunningham joins in 1939
	1944	Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge commissions three works: Imagined Wing (music by Darius Milhaud), Hérodiade (music by Paul Hindemith), and Appalachian Spring (music by Aaron Copland). The works are premiered in the Library of Congress Coolidge Auditorium. Writing about Appalachian Spring for the New York Times, critic John Martin states, “nothing Miss Graham has done before has had such deep joyousness about it”
	1948	Graham marries dancer/choreographer Erick Hawkins
	1950	The Louisville Symphony Orchestra commissions Graham to choreograph a new work (Judith to music by William Schuman). The Columbus [Ohio] Dispatch declares the work to be “a dance of smashing impact”
	1951	Graham’s second commission by the Louisville Symphony Orchestra results in The Triumph of St. Joan (music by Norman Dello Joio)
	1954	The Graham company tours Europe, sponsored by the U.S. State Department.
	1955	The Graham company tours Asia, sponsored by the U.S. State Department
	1957	Graham receives a Dance Magazine Award
	1960	Graham is recipient of a Capezio Award
	1965	Graham receives an Aspen Award in Humanities
	1966	Graham receives honorary doctorate from Harvard
	1968	Graham choreographs the last new dance in which she appears (The Lady of the House of Sleep with music by Robert Starer). The Washington Post reports that it is “one of the most tangled and troubled of Graham dances”
	1969	At age 64, Graham dances for the last time on 20 April and retires from the stage
	1971	Graham receives honorary doctorates from Yale and Wesleyan
	1976	President Gerald Ford presents the Medal of Freedom to Graham
	1978	Graham choreographs Frescoes (music by Samuel Barber) for the dedication ceremonies of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Sackler Wing
	1979	Graham receives a Kennedy Center Honors Award, Washington, DC and the Royal Medal of Jordan
	1981	Graham receives the Samuel H. Scripps American Dance Festival Award
	1982	Graham accepts the Algur H. Meadows Award for Excellence in the Arts, from Southern Methodist University
	1984	The Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur is presented to Graham by President François Mitterand
	1985	Graham receives a National Medal of Arts awarded by President Ronald Reagan and the Carina Ari Medal, which is presented by Princess Christina of Sweden
	1991 April 1	Martha Graham dies in New York City

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Scope and Content Note

The Martha Graham Collection is comprised of materials that document the career of modern dance pioneer Martha Graham and trace the history of the development of her company, the Martha Graham Dance Company, which became the Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance, and school, Martha Graham School, later to be called the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance. The collection also includes, unprocessed and unavailable for viewing at this time, five linear feet of materials from the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance and four linear feet of archival materials relating to Graham’s sister, Georgia Graham Sargent.

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Selected Search Terms

People

Barber, Samuel, 1910-1981.
Copland, Aaron, 1900-1990.
Dello Joio, Norman, 1913-2008.
El-Dabh, Halim, 1921-
Emmons, Beverly.
Graham, Martha--Archives.
Graham, Martha--Correspondence.
Graham, Martha--Photographs.
Graham, Martha.
Graham, Martha.
Hindemith, Paul, 1895-1963.
Horst, Louis.
Hovhaness, Alan, 1911-2000.
Karan, Donna, 1948-
Lester, Eugene.
Menotti, Gian Carlo, 1911-2007.
Noguchi, Isamu, 1904-1988.
Noguchi, Isamu, 1904-1988.
Riegger, Wallingford, 1885-1961.
Rosenthal, Jean, 1912-
Rosenthal, Jean, 1912-
Schuman, William, 1910-1992.
Skelton, Thomas R.
Starer, Robert.
Ter-Arutunian, Rouben, 1920-
Tipton, Jennifer.
Weissberger, L. Arnold, 1907-1981.

Organizations

Graham (Martha) Collection (Library of Congress)
Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance.
Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance.
Martha Graham Dance Company.
Martha Graham Dance Company.
Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance.
Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance.

Subjects

Choreographers--United States--Correspondence.
Choreographers--United States--Photographs.
Choreographers--United States.
Choreography--United States.
Costume design--United States.
Dance companies--United States.
Dance schools--United States.
Dance--Production and direction.
Dance--Stage-setting and scenery--United States.
Dance--United States.
Dancers--Photographs.
Dancers--United States.
Modern dance music.
Modern dance--United States.

Form/Genre

Artifacts (Object genre)
Clippings (Information artifacts)
Correspondence.
Financial records.
Photographic prints.
Programs (Documents)
Scrapbooks.

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Organization of the Martha Graham Collection

The Martha Graham Collection is organized into fifteen series:

Music Inventory
Scrapbooks
Photographic Material
Clippings
Public Relations, Fundraising, and Special Events
New York City Seasons and National and International Tours, 1948-1996
Choreographic Notebooks
Correspondence
Production Elements
Special Projects
Writings by and about Martha Graham
Programs
Business Papers
Personal Papers and Finances
Realia

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Container List

Music Inventory

One of the highlights of the collection is the Music Inventory that describes seventy-three of Graham’s works. It consists of original holograph or autograph scores by composers such as Aaron Copland, Samuel Barber, Alan Hovhaness, Louis Horst, Halim El-Dabh, Eugene Lester, Norman Dello Joio, Paul Hindemith, Gian-Carlo Menotti, Robert Starer, William Schuman, and Wallingford Riegger. The series also includes orchestral parts and piano rehearsal scores which often include choreographic notes.

Arranged by title of choreographic work, however, composers and alternate or original titles of compositions are cross-referenced in the finding aid.

Choreographed Works

Acrobats of God(1960)Composer: Carlos Surinach

Violoncello part

Acts of Light(1981)Composer: Carl Nielson

Photocopy published full score

Published extra parts

Extra parts

Photocopy full score, with choreographic notes

Full score with choreographic notes, part II (Ved en ung Kunstners Baare) (2 copies)

Published parts, part II

Extra parts, part II

Photocopy full score, with choreographic notes, part III (Helios)

Published parts

Extra parts, part III

Alcestis(1960)Composer: Vivian Fine

Ozalid full score

Piano rehearsal score, with choreographic notes

Ozalid parts

Extra parts

American Document(1938)Composer: Ray Green

Photocopy full score: Concerto for Oboe and Orchestra (1989 version)

Ink piano rehearsal score, with choreographic notes; music by Ray Green and Louis Horst

Ink piano rehearsal score

Photocopy of piano score, with choreographic notes

Photocopy of piano score (incomplete)

Negative Photostat of piano score

Ink parts

Adromache’s Lament(1982)Composer: Samuel Barber

Piano/vocal score

Wind parts

Percussion-harp parts

String parts

Extra string parts

Appalachian Spring(1944)Composer: Aaron Copland

Copyist’s original parts, woodwinds-piano

Copyist’s string partsOzalid full score with pencil annotationsOzalid rehearsal piano score with choreographic notes (copy 1 missing)Ozalid piano score, with choreographic notes (copy 2)

Ozalid copyist’s set of parts

Ozalid extra parts

New parts, string

Extra string parts

Parts (flute, clarinet, bassoon, piano)

Archaic Hours, The(1969)Composer: Eugene Lester

Ozalid full score

Ozalid piano rehearsal score, with choreographic notes

Ozalid piano rehearsal score, no choreographic notes

Ozalid piano rehearsal score, with choreographic notes, incomplete

Copyist’s deschens parts

Extra parts

Ardent Song(1954)Composer: Alan Hovhaness

Ozalid full score

Copyist’s parts

Extra parts

Arma, Paul [Imre Weisshaus] seeSatyric Festival Song

Baal Shem (1926)Composer: Ernst Bloch

Piano/Violin part

Baccanale (1931)Composer: Wallingford Reigger

Piano four hands

Photocopy, with notes

Photocopy, piano four hands

Ink copyists’ parts of oboe, piccolo, and piano

Ballet for Martha see Appalachian Spring

Barber, Samuel see Andromache’s Lament seeCave of the Heart

Bloch, Ernst seeBaal Shem

But Not For Me(1999)Composer: George Gershwin

Photocopy of full score

Canticle for Innocent Comedians(1952)Composer: Thomas Ribbink

Ozalid full score

Photocopy full score

Ink and pencil piano score, with choreographic notes

Photocopy piano score, with pencil notes

Photocopy piano score

Photocopy piano score (copy 3)

Ink piano score, with corrections (incomplete)

Deschen piano score

Deschen parts

Deschen parts (string)

Obsolete parts

Deschen parts; ink parts (flute, clarinet, oboe bassoon, horn, percussion)

Photocopy percussion (2 copies)

Ink vocal score

Photocopy vocal score

Ink string parts

Extra parts

Deschen parts

Photocopy vocal score

Cave of the Heart(1946)Composer: Samuel Barber

Ink rehearsal piano score with choreographic notes

Ozalid piano score

Ozalid wind parts

Ozalid piano part

Ozalid string parts

Ozalid extra parts

Extra parts

Celebration(1934)Composer: Louis Horst

Rehearsal piano score, with choreographic notes

Photocopy rehearsal piano score, with choreographic notes

Ozalid parts

Extra parts

Copyist’s deschens

Chávez, Carlos seeDark Meadow

Chronicle seePrelude to Action; Steps in the Street

Circe (1963)Composer: Alan Hovhaness

Ozalid full score, with choreographic notes

Ozalid full score, revised

Holograph piano rehearsal score, with choreographic notes

Photostats (negative and positive), piano rehearsal score, with choreographic notes

Piano score in pencil, reduction by Howard Douenfeld

Photocopy of piano score, reduction by Howard Douenfeld

Piano score in pencil, fragment and negative Photostat

Ozalid parts, winds

Ozalid parts, percussion-harp

Ozalid parts, strings

Extra parts

Circe, op. 204 seeCirce

Clytemnestra(1958)Composer: Halim El-Dabh

Ozalid full score

Ozalid full score, act 1, part 1

Ozalid full score, act 1, part 2

Ozalid full score

Photocopy piano score, with cuts in pencil

Piano score of “Prologue,” with choreographic notes

Ozalid piano score of act 1, with choreographic notes

Ozalid piano score of act 2 and epilogue, with choreographic notes

Photocopy piano score (complete)

Piano score of “Prologue,” with choreographic notes

Piano score of act 1, with choreographic notes

Piano score of act 2 and epilogue, with choreographic notes

Ozalid flute (piccolo) part

Ozalid oboe/English horn part

Ozalid clarinet part

Ozalid bassoon part

Ozalid horn part

Ozalid trumpet part

Ozalid trombone part

Ozalid percussion part

Ozalid piano part

Ozalid harp part

Ozalid violin I part

Ozalid violin II part

Ozalid viola part

Ozalid violoncello part

Ozalid double bass part

Concerto a tre see Secular Games

Concertante seePart Real-Part Dream

Copland, Aaron seeAppalachian Spring; Dithyrambic

Corigliano, John seeAmerican Document

Cortege of Eagles(1967)Composer: Eugene Lester

Ozalid full score

Photocopy full score (Hecabe)

Ozalid piano score, with choreographic notes

Ozalid parts

Extra parts

Unfoldered box of piano mutes

Extra parts

Misc. parts

Crumb, George seePhaedra’s Dream

Dance Songs seeSatyric Festival Song

Dances of the Golden Hall(1982)Composer: Andrzej Panufnik

Published full score, with choreographic notes

Published full score, without choreographic notes

Ozalid parts

Ozalid extra parts

Dark Meadow(1946)Composer: Carlos Chávez

Ink conductor’s score

Ink piano rehearsal score, with choreographic notes

Ozalid parts

Extra parts

Copyist’s deschens of bassoon part

Deaths and Entrances(1943)Composer: Hunter Johnson

Ozalid full score

Ozalid full score, chamber version

Photocopy/ink piano rehearsal score, with choreographic notes

Photocopy piano rehearsal score, with choreographic notes

Photocopy piano rehearsal score, with choreographic notes, (fragment)

Ozalid full score, reduced version, with choreographic notes

Copyist’s parts (ink), chamber version

Parts (old set)

Parts (new set)

Extra parts (new set)

Dello Joio, Norman seeDiversion of Angels; A Time of Snow; Triumph of St. Joan [Seraphic Dialogue]

Diamond, David seeA Formal Dance

Dithyrambic, 1931Composer: Aaron Copland

Copyists’ score in ink (incomplete); photocopy laid in

Diversion of Angels(1948)Composer: Norman Dello Joio

Ozalid full score

Ink rehearsal piano score, with choreographic notes

Photocopy rehearsal piano score, with choreographic notes

Ozalid wind-piano parts

Ozalid string parts

Extra parts

Ozalid extra parts

Drei Klavierstücke, op. 32 see Harlequinade

Ecuatorial(1978)Composer: Edgar Varèse

Published full score

Egge, Klaus seeTangled Night

El-Dabh, Halim see A Look at Lighting; Lucifer; One More Gaudy Night

Elegiac (1933)Composer: Paul Hindemith

Copyists’ part for clarinet

Embattled Garden(1958)Composer: Carlos Surinach

Ozalid full score

Photocopy full score

Piano rehearsal score, with choreographic notes

Piano rehearsal score, no choreographic notes

Piano rehearsal score, with choreographic notes

Ozalid parts

Extra parts

Copyist deschens for 3 parts

Extra copies of copyist deschens for 3 parts

Engle, Lehman see Transitions

Episodes, Part I (1959)Composer: Anton Webern

Full score, with choreographic notes

Piano rehearsal score, with choreographic notes

Photocopy of piano rehearsal score, with choreographic notes

Published parts

Extra parts

Published full score, with choreographic notes (Six pieces, op. 6)

Ozalid piano rehearsal score, with choreographic notes (Six pieces, op. 6)

Photocopy piano rehearsal score, with choreographic notes (Six pieces, op. 6)

Published parts

Extra parts

Notated piano reduction score: Passacaglia for orchestra, op. 1, photocopy

Errand into the Maze (1947)Composer: Gian-Carlo Menotti

Photocopy full score

Ink piano rehearsal score, with choreographic notes

Photocopy piano rehearsal score, with choreographic notes

Copyist parts, old set

Ozalid old parts

Deschens, new set of complete parts

Ozalid woodwind parts, new set

Ozalid horn-2nd piano

Extra parts

Every Soul is a Circus (1939)Composer: Paul Nordoff

Ink conductor’s score (arranged for seven instruments)

Conductor’s full score (orchestration by Ted Dale)

Conductor’s full score (arranged for eleven instruments)

Ink parts (arranged for eleven instruments)

Piano rehearsal score, with choreographic notes

Ink parts (arranged for eleven instruments)

Ink parts (arranged for seven instruments)

Ink parts (arranged for twelve instruments)

Ink piano part (arranged for eleven instruments)

Parts (arranged by Ted Dale)

Extra parts, violins

Extra parts, cello bass, viola

Negative photostat piano rehearsal score

Deschens full score

Negative photostat parts

Negative photostat piano part

Negative photostat strings

Deschens parts

Eye of Anguish, The(1950)Composer: Vincent Persichetti

Ozalid full score

Piano rehearsal score, with choreographic notes

Piano rehearsal score, without choreographic notes

Copyist parts (ink)

Fantasy Sonata for Violin and Piano seeO Thou Desire to Who Art about to Sing

Fine, Vivian see Alcestis

Flute of Pan (1978)Composer: [Geheorghe] Zamfir

Full score, pencil

Formal Dance, A(1935) [Later titled Praeludium no. 2]Composer: David Diamond

Holograph score and parts

Flute and clarinet parts

Frontier(1935)Composer: Louis Horst

Full score in pencil

Photocopy full score

Deschens full score

Piano rehearsal score, with choreographic notes

Piano rehearsal score (negative photostat)

Photocopy piano rehearsal score

Ink parts

Ozalid piano part

Extra parts

Ink parts (old set)

Gershwin, George seeBut Not For Me

Gospel of Eve(1950)Composer: Paul Nordoff

Ozalid full score

Ozalid piano rehearsal score, with choreographic notes

Ozalid piano rehearsal score, no choreographic notes

Copyist’s deschen piano rehearsal score

Copyist’s parts

Green, Ray seeAmerican Document

Harlequinade (1930)Composer: Ernst Toch

Published piano score; photocopy laid in

Hecabe seeCortege of Eagles

Helios, op. 17 seeActs of Light

Heloïse and Abelard seeTime of Snow

Heretic (1929)Composer: Louis Horst

Piano fragment in ink

Piano part

Photocopy fragment (as recalled by Paul Creston)

Hérodiade(1944)Composer: Paul Hindemith

Photocopy full score, with choreographic notes

Photocopy full score

Piano rehearsal score, with choreographic notes (incomplete)

Ozalid parts

Extra parts [missing]

Extra parts, strings

Extra parts

Hija de Cólquidea, La seeDark Meadow

Hindemith, Paul seeElegiac; Hérodiade

Holy Jungle(1974)Composer: Robert Starer

Ozalid full score

Piano rehearsal score, with choreographic notes

Ozalid parts

Extra parts

Horst, Louis seeAmerican Document; Celebration; Heretic; Primitive Mysteries; Frontier; El Penitente

Hovhaness, Alan seeArdent Song; Circe; Myth of a Voyage

Intégrales seeJudith

Johnson, Hunter seeDeaths and Entrances; Letter to the World; Scarlet Letter

Judith(1950; new music 1980)Composer, original version: William Schuman

Ozalid full score

Piano score in ink and pencil, with choreographic notes

Judith(1980 version)Composer: Edgar Varèse

Published full score Intégrales

Ozalid full score Intégrales

Ozalid parts Intégrales

Photocopy full score Offrandes

Published piano-vocal score Offrandes

Ozalid parts

Ozalid extra parts

Published full score (part III) Octandre

Ozalid parts Octandre

Lady of the House of Sleep(1968)Composer: Robert Starer

Ozalid full score

Ozalid rehearsal piano score, with choreographic notes

Ozalid rehearsal piano score, no choreographic notes

Deschen parts

Extra parts

Lear seeEye of Anguish, The

Legend of Judith(1962)Composer: Mordecai Seter

Ozalid full score

Ozalid full score in 3 volumes

Ozalid full score

Ozalid piano rehearsal score, with choreographic notes, 2 volumes

Extra parts

Lester, Eugene seeArchaic Hours, The; Cortege of Eagles; The Plain of Prayer

Letter to the World(1940)Composer: Hunter Johnson

Ozalid full score

Deschens full score

Ozalid piano rehearsal score, with choreographic notes

Ozalid piano rehearsal score, no choreographic notes

Copyist parts (ink)

Extra parts

Typed script of narration

Lloyd, Norman seePanorama

Look at Lightning, A(1962)Composer: Halim El-Dabh

Ozalid full score

Published piano score

Published piano score with choreographic notes

Holograph in pencil

Ozalid parts, flute-harp

Extra parts [some missing]

Lucifer(1975)Composer: Halim El-Dabh

Ozalid full score

Lux Aterna for 5 Masked Musicians seePhaedra’s Dream

Medea seeCave of the Heart

Mekta’ In the Art of Kita’ seeLook at Lightning, A

Menotti, Gian-Carlo seeErrand into the Maze

Momenta Rustica (1929)Composer: Françoise Poulenc

Published piano four hands (incomplete)

Morisca seeSerenata Morisca

Music for Martha Graham seeArdent Song

Myth of a Voyage(1973)Composer: Alan Hovhaness

Ozalid full score

Ozalid full score (original version)

Copyist full score

Photocopy piano rehearsal score (incomplete)

Copyist Deschens

Extra parts

Original parts

Extra parts

Nielson, Carl seeActs of Light

New Dance seeSteps in the Street

Night Journey(1947)Composer: William Schuman

Photocopy full score

Ozalid full score

Ink piano rehearsal score, with choreographic notes

Negative Photostat piano rehearsal score, with choreographic notes

Ozalid parts, old set

Deschens parts, new set

Ozalid extra parts, new set

Nocturne for Orchestra seeDances of the Golden Hall

Nordoff Paul seeEvery Soul is a Circus; Gospel of Eve; Salem Shore

Octandre see Judith

Offrandes seeJudith

One More Gaudy Night (1961)Composer: Halim El-Dabh

Ozalid full score

Ozalid piano score

Ozalid parts, woodwinds

Ozalid parts, brass-harp

Ozalid parts, string

Extra parts

Opening Dance for Martha Graham seePanorama

Ornstein Leo seePoems of 1917

O Thou Desire to Who Art about to Sing (1977)Composer: Meyer Kupferman

Published score and part

Photocopy score “Death and Water”

Photocopy score “Suspended Sun Solo”

Photocopy score “Stars Duet”

Photocopy score “Wind”

Photocopy score “Fire”

Photocopy score “Sun and Moon Love Duet”

Owl and the Pussycat(1978)Composer: Carlos Surinach

Ozalid full score, with choreographic notes

Ozalid full score, no choreographic notes

Photocopy, full score, no choreographic notes

Ozalid piano rehearsal score, with choreographic notes

Ozalid parts

Extra parts

Ozalid full score, reduced orchestra

Ozalid parts, reduced orchestra

Extra parts, reduced orchestra

Panorama(1935)Composer: Norman Lloyd

Reduction, arranged by Stanley Sussman

Photocopy reduction, arranged by Stanley Sussman

Photocopy piano score

Copyist’s ink deschens, parts (Sussman arrangement)

Extra parts

Ink piano score, Opening Dance for Martha Graham

Pan og Syrinx [Pan and Syrinx], op. 49 seeActs of Light

Panufnik, Andrzei seeDances of the Golden Hall

Part Real-Part Dream(1965)Composer: Mordecai Seter

Conductor’s score

Piano-rehearsal score, with choreographic notes

Conductor’s score

Conductor’s score, no. 2

String parts

Parts (woodwinds, brass, harp, celeste); Deschen parts for flute

Ink deschens, full score

Ink deschens, copyist parts, woodwinds and brass

Ink deschens, copyist parts, percussion-harp

Ink deschens, copyist parts, strings

Miscellaneous inserts

Passacaglia for Orchestra, op. 1 seeEpisodes: Part I

Penitente, El(1940)Composer: Louis Horst

Ozalid full score

Photocopy full score

Ink piano rehearsal score, with choreographic notes

Ozalid piano part

Photocopy set of parts

Photocopy extra parts

Persichetti, Vincent seeEye of Anguish, The

Perspectives: Frontier and Marching Song seeFrontier

Phaedra(1962)Composer: Robert Starer

Full score

Full score (arrarnge for seven instruments)

Ink full score

Piano-rehearsal score, with choreographic notes

Piano-rehearsal score, without choreographic notes

Piano-rehearsal score, incomplete

Parts (flute, clarinet, English horn, bassoon, horn, percussion [4], piano, oboe, trumpet, trombone)

String parts (violin I, violin II, viola, cello, bass)

Full set of parts

“Tiento de Peña,” violin (ink) part

“Phaedra” Ozalid, violin I part

Deschens string parts

Phaedra’s Dream(1983)Composer: George Crumb

Published full score

Parts

Piano Concerto no. 2, op. 21 seeTangled Night

Piano Variations seeDithyrambic

Plain of Prayer, The(1968)Composer: Eugene Lester

Ozalid full score

Photocopy full score

Ozalid piano rehearsal score, with choreographic notes

Ozalid piano rehearsal score, no choreographic notes

Ozalid parts

Extra parts

Poems of 1917(1928)Composer: Leo Ornstein

Published piano score

Point of Crossing(1975)Composer: Mordecai Seter

Published extra parts

Photocopy full score

Published full score

Published parts

Published extra parts

Poulanc, Françoise seeMomenta Rustica

Praeludium no. 2 seeA Formal Dance

Prelude to Action(from Chronicle) (1936)Composer: Wallingford Riegger

Photocopy full score

Photocopied parts

Photocopied extra parts

Primitive Mysteries(1931)Composer: Louis Horst

Photocopy full score

Oboe part

Flute part

Ozalid piano part

Ink piano score, with choreographic notes

Ozalid piano score

Photocopy full score

Punch and the Judy(1941)Composer: Robert McBride

Ink piano score, with choreographic notes

Photocopy piano score, no choreographic notes

Ozalid full score

Ozalid 2-piano version

Copyist’s parts, woodwinds

Copyist’s parts in ink, bassoon, horn, piano

Copyist’s parts in ink, violin I and violin II

Copyist’s parts in ink, viola, violoncello, double bass

Ozalid parts, alternate version

Riegger, Wallingford seeBaccanale; Prelude to Action; Steps in the Street

Ribbink, Thomas seeCanticle for Innocent Comedians

Rite of Spring(1984)Composer: Igor Stravinsky

Published score, revised version with reduced orchestra by Robert Rudolf

Photocopy published score, revised version with reduced orchestra by Robert Rudolf

Ozalid parts

Extra parts

Salem Shore(1943)Composer: Paul Nordoff

Ozalid rehearsal piano score, with choreographic notes

Ink full score reduction, with choreographic notes

Photocopy of full score reduction, with choreographic notes

Set of parts for 4 instruments

Ozalid full score for 7 instruments

Photocopy full score, with pencil emendations

Copyist’s deschens parts

Extra parts

Satyric Festival Song(1932)Composer: Arma, Paul [Imre Weisshaus]

Ink piccolo part, Satyric Festival Song

Scarlet Letter, The(1975)Composer: Hunter Johnson

Ozalid full score

Ozalid piano rehearsal score, with choreographic notes

Ozalid parts

Extra parts

Satie, Erik seeTrois Gnossiennes

Schuman, William seeJudith; Night Journey; Voyage; Witch of Endor

Secular Games(1962)Composer: Robert Starer

Published score and parts

Seraphic Dialogue seeTriumph of St. Joan

Serenata, op. 13 seeSerenata Morisca

Serenata Morisca(1916)Composer: Enrico Tarenghi

Photocopy full score, orchestrated by J. McPhee

Copyist transparency parts

Set of parts

Photocopy extra parts

Serpent Heart seeCave of the Heart

Seter, Mordecai seeLegend of Judith; Part Real-Part Dream; Point of Crossing

Six Pieces, op. 6 seeEpisodes: Part I

Starer, Robert seeHoly Jungle; Lady of the House of Sleep; Phaedra; Visionary Recital; Secular Games

Steps in the Street(1989)Composer: Wallingford Reigger

Photocopy full score

Ozalid parts

Extra parts

Steps in the Street, orchestrated by Justin Dello Joio (reduced)

Parts

Extra parts

Transparency master

Stravinsky, Igor seeRite of Spring

Stroman, Susan seeBut Not for Me

Surinach, Carlos seeAcrobats of God; Embattled Garden; Owl and the Pussycat

Táncszviť[Dance Suite] seeTemptations of the Moon

Tangled Night(1986)Composer: Klaus Egge

Published full scores (2)

Published parts

Extra parts

Temptations of the Moon(1986)Composer: Béla Bartók

Published full score

Photocopy published full score

Ozalid parts

Ozalid published parts

Extra parts

Time of Snow, A(1968)Composer: Norman Dello Joio

Photocopy full score

Photocopy piano/vocal score, with choreographic notes

Ozalid parts

Extra parts

Toch, Ernst seeHarlequinade

Transitions(1934)Composer: Lehman Engle

Trumpet part in ink

Triumph of St. Joan Symphony, The seeTriumph of St. Joan

Triumph of St. Joan, The(1951)Composer: Norman Dello Joio

Ozalid full score, arranged for chamber orchestra by Abraham Skulsky

Ink piano rehearsal score, with choreographic notes

Ozalid parts (old set)

Extra parts

Copyist’s transparencies, parts

Ozalid string parts (new set)

Ozalid parts, extra parts

Extra parts

Sing parts

Trois Gnossiennes(1926)Composer: Erik Satie

Piano score for no. 2; photocopy laid in ink

Varèse, Edgar seeEcuatorial; Judith

Ved en Ung kunstners baare [At the Bier of a Young Artist] seeActs of Light

Visionary Recital(1961)Composer: Robert Starer

Ozalid full score

Ozalid piano rehearsal score, with choreographic notes

Ozalid piano rehearsal score, no choreographic notes

Ozalid parts

Extra parts

Voyage(1953)Composer: William Schuman

Ozalid full score

Piano rehearsal score, with choreographic notes

Published piano score, with choreographic notes

Piano rehearsal score, with choreographic notes (incomplete)

Ozalid parts, woodwinds

Ozalid parts, horn, piano

Ozalid parts, string

Ozalid extra parts

Webern, Anton seeEpisodes, Part I

Weisshaus, Imre seeSatyric Festival Song

Wilderness Stair seeDiversion of Angels

Witch of Endor(1965)Composer: William Schuman

Ozalid piano rehearsal score, with choreographic notes (vol 1)

Ozalid parts

Extra parts

Zamfir, [Geheorghe] seeFlute of Pan

Supplementary Music

Music by Louis Horst, composed and/or arranged for the Martha Graham Dance technique classes, circa 1927-1929

Photocopy of above

Twenty-three pieces by Clifford Bowens, with audiocassette

Elite Sync by Adam Ben-David (audiocassette)

Sonata for Two Violins by Mordecai Seter (2 scores)

Ricercar by Mordecai Seter (score)

Chacone et Scherzo pour Piano by Mordecai Seter (score)

Yemenite Suite by Mordecai Seter (score)

Movement for Piano by Yeshiva Lakner (score)

Sextett by Yeshiva Lakner (score and parts: Fl, Ob, Cl in C, Cor in C, Fag, Piano)

String Quartet by Josef Tal (Score and Parts: Violin I, Violin II, Viola, Cello)

Dance (duet for two flutes) by Josef Tal (score)

Out of the Dust by Ben-Zion Orgad (score)

Morning Stars for alto, flute, violin, viola, and cello by Ben-Zion Orgad (score)

Celestial Spheres for alto, flute, violin, viola, and cello by Ben-Zion Orgad (score)

Songs of Rahel by Abraham Daus (two violas and flute)

Chronique by Carlos Surinach (Ozalid full score)

Chronique by Carlos Surinach (piano score)

Two scenes from Anthony and Cleopatra by Samuel Barber (published full score)

Lord Hear my Longing by Johann Sebastian Bach; orchestrated by Walton

Concerto for Derabucca and Strings by Halim El-Dabh (ozalid full score)

Music for Mouths, Marimba, Nbira, and Roto-toms by Malcolm Forsyth (published full score)

Tomorrow the Festivals, op. 130 by Alan Hovaness (ozalid full score)

Sonata for Horn, Trumpet, and Trombone by François Poulanc (published score and parts)

Notturno (Jacob’s Dream), op. 44 by Karol Rathaus (published full score)

Night Music by George Rochberg (published full score)

String Quartet by George Rochberg (published score and parts)

Dance Sonata, op. 24 by Marion Bauer (photocopy piano score)

Prelude by Paul Creston (pencil score/ink score)

Myriologue, A by David Diamond (holograph in ink piano score)

Songs of an Ancient People, op. 10 by Lehman Engle (piano sketch in ink; ozalid piano score)

Dance by Herbert Haufreucht (ozalid piano score)

To Martha Graham by Charles Naginski (ozalid piano score)

Dance by Paul Nordoff (ink piano score)

Evocation by Wallingford Riegger (ink piano score, four-hands)

Eclogue by Dane Rudman (photostat piano score)

Dance by Elie Siegmeister (ink piano score)

Six pieces for solo voice by Imre Weisshause (vocal score)

Four Songs by Pelkam Whyte (ozalid piano-vocal score)

The Train to Johannisberg (composer unknown) (ozalid piano-vocal score)

G by Carlos Chávez (piano score)

Tarantella in E minor by W. Lomas (piano score)

Tarentella, op. 26 by Théodore Lack (piano score)

Toccata, op. 1 by Serge Prokofiev (piano score)

3rd Gymnopédie by Erik Satie (piano score)

Dance by Gustave Ferrari (piano score)

Music from Louis Horst’s Dance classes

“Star Spangled Banner” (published orchestration)

Dance Symphony by Aaron Copland (photocopy 2nd flute part)

Fragments

Scrapbooks

The Martha Graham Collection contains an especially rich collection of Scrapbooks that span from 1926 to 1976. Documents contained within the scrapbooks include the official invitation from Germany to participate in the 1936 Olympics and Graham’s carbon copy of her refusal; transcripts of a German radio program from 1941; telegrams and notes of congratulations from luminaries such as Helen Hayes, Mary Wigman, Lincoln Kirstein, Sir Frederick Ashton, Svetlana Beriosova, and Michael Somes; and significant information on the Graham Company’s European tours during the Cold War. Other materials contained within the scrapbooks include invitations, speeches, fan mail, interviews, photographs, correspondence, reviews, and letters of tribute. For similar materials, the reader should see other parts of the collection, including Clippings; Programs; Writings By and About Martha Graham; and New York City Season and National and International Touring.

Arranged in chronological order.

1926-1929

1929-1930

1932-1933

1935-1936

1936 Tour

1936-1937

1938-1939

1939 Tour

1939-1940

1940 Tour

1940-1941

1941-1942

1941-1950

1942-1944

1944-1945

1945-1946

1946 Tour

1946-1947

1949-1951

1950

1950 Tour

1950-1967

1955 Tour (Asia)

1955 Tour (Singapore)

1955 Tour (Indonesia, Burma)

1955 Tour (Japan) 2 volumes

1955 Tour (India, Pakistan)

1955 Tour (Philippines)

1955 Tour (Japan) and 1955 NYC Season 2 volumes

1955-1956 Tour (Israel, Greece)

1956 Tour (India, Pakistan, Iran, Ceylon) 2 volumes

1957-1963

1957 Tour (Berlin)

1958

1958 Tour (Israel)

1958

1958 NYC Season

1959 NYC Season

1960 NYC Season

1960 Capezio Award; 1961 General

1961 NYC Season

1962 Tour (Israel)

1962 Tour (Turkey, Yugoslavia)

1962

1962 Tour (Poland, Germany, Sweden)

1962 NYC Season

1962 Tour (Finland, Netherlands, Germany)

1963 (September-October "Congressional Issue"); 1963 (October Eskin Court Case)

1963 NYC Season

1963 Tour (Edinburgh Festival and London)

1963

1964

1965

1966

1966-1967

1967-1968

1968

1968-1969 2 volumes

1969-1970

1970 Tour (U.S.)

1970

1973-1975

1974 Tour (Asia)

1975-1976

1976

1941-1951 Martha Graham Dance School and Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance

Photographic Material

The Photographic Material series consists of over 8,000 photographs, dating from Graham’s Denishawn days through the late 1980s. In addition, there are family photographs and a number of informal shots taken at fund-raising events by former Graham board chair, Arnold Weissberger.

Primarily arranged alphabetically by name of choreographic work.

Acrobats of God

Hinkson, McGehee, MG, Powell, other

Hinkson, McGehee, MG, Wood, others

Kanda, McGehee, MG, Winter, Wood, others

Kanda, MG, Wood

Kanda, Taylor

McGehee, MG, Wood

McGehee, MG, Wood (incl. negatives)

McGehee, Ross

McGehee, Wood

McGehee, MG, Winter

McGehee, MG, Winter (negatives)

MG

MG (incl. negatives)

MG, Powell

MG, Powell, Wood

MG, Ross, Winter

MG, Ross, Winter, Wood

MG, Winter, Wood, [Yuriko], other

MG, Wood

MG, Wood, other

MG, Wood, Yuriko

Wood

Group (negative)

Contact sheets

Rehearsals for film

Proofs

Acts of Light

Asakawa, Walker

Dakin

Garay, White

Kimura

Lyman, Sparling

Lyman, Wengerd, group

Sparling

Adorations

Asakawa, Walker

Delamo, Eilber, Homsey, Lyman, Maloney, Sparling, WalkerDelamo, Eilber, Homsey, Maloney

Eilber, Lyman, McGuire

Gray, Maloney, Wengerd, Yu

Homsey, Maloney

Homsey, Maloney, other

Maloney, McGuire

Alcestis

Hodes (Linda), McGehee, MG, Winter, others

Kuch, Winter, others

MG

MG, Ross

MG, Ross (incl. negative)

MG, Ross, Taylor

MG, Ross, Taylor, group

MG, Taylor

MG, group

MG, others

MG, women (negative)

Taylor

Taylor, MG, Wood, others

Taylor, others

Contact sheets/proofs

Group

Set

American Document

Hawkins

Hawkins, Maslow, women

Hawkins, MG

MG

Andromache’s Lament

Brown, Ruddy

Foreman, Morin, Ruddy

Lyman

Ruddy

Appalachian Spring

Asakawa, Gutelius, Lapsezon, other

Asakawa, Gutelius, Lapsezon, Wood (Marne), other

Capucilli, Littleford

Carter

Carter, other

Carter, Gutelius

Carter, Gutelius, Walker, others

Cohan, Turney, Winter

Cohan, Turney, Winter, others

Cohan, Winter, others

Cole, Hinkson, McGehee, Yuriko

Cole, Hinkson, others

Cole, Hodes, McGehee, MG, Ross, Turney, Winter, Yuriko

Cole, Hodes, MG, Ross, Turney, Winter, Yuriko

Eilber, others [Kimura, Wengerd]

Fonaroff, Lang, Mazia, MG, O’Donnell, Yuriko

Gray, Wengerd

Gutelius

Gutelius, Walker, others

Hawkins, Cunningham, others

Hawkins, Cunningham, MG, O’Donnell

Hawkins, MG, O’Donnell, Lang, Yuriko, other

Hawkins, MG

Hawkins, MG, O’Donnell, others

Hawkins, MG, other

Hodes (Stuart)

Hodes (Stuart), MG

Hodes, McGehee, MG, Ross, Turney, Winter, Yuriko

Hodes (Stuart), MG, Ross, Turney

Hodes, Turney

Kimura

Kimura, Sparling, Wengerd

Kimura, Wengerd

Kimura, [Wengerd], others

Lang

Littleford

Lyman

Lyman, Sparling, chorus

MG

MG (negative)

MG, O’Donnell

MG, Ross

MG, others

Nureyev, others [Eilber]

O’Donnell

Rooks

Ross

Sherman

Sparling

Walker

Walker, others

Wengerd

White (Larry)

Winter

Winter, others

Unidentified

Contact sheets/proofs

Slides (color)

Group

Scene drawings

The Archaic House

Cohan, Louther, Ross, Thompson, others

Cohan, Powell, Ross, others

Dakin, [Thompson], others

Dakin, group

Ardent Song

Cohan, Lang, Wood

Hodes, McGehee, Taylor, Wood; Hodes, McGehee, Taylor, Wood,other

McGehee

Group

Canticle for Innocent Comedians

Cohan, McGehee

Cole, Hinkson, Hodes (Linda and Stuart)

Cole, Hodes (Linda and Stuart)

Hinkson

Hinkson, and others

Hodes (Linda and Stuart), Wood

Hodes (Stuart)

Lang, Ross

Lapsezon

McGehee

McGehee, Ross

Ross

Ross, Yuriko

Winter

Yuriko

Cave of the Heart

Asakawa

Asakawa, Hart, Parkes

Brown, Capucilli

Buglisi, White

Cohan, McGehee

Cohan, McGehee, Turney, Yuriko

Cohan, McGehee, Yuriko; Eilber (postcard)

Gray

Gray, Kimura

Hawkins, MG

Hawkins, MG, O’Donnell, Yuriko; MG, O’Donnell, Yuriko

Hawkins, Yuriko

Homsey, Wengerd

Kimura

Kimura, and other

McGehee

MG

MG, O’Donnell; MG, O’Donnell, Yuriko

Monte

Monte, Parkes

Ruddy

Turney

Washington, Wengerd

White, Wilber

Contact sheets

Set

Circe

Asakawa

Gain, Hinkson, [McDonald], Powell

Gain, Hinkson, Powell

Gain, Hinkson, Powell, [Randazzo]

Gain, Hinkson, Powell (incl. negatives)

Gain, Hinkson, others

Gain, Ross, Thompson

Garay

Garay, Morin, White

Hinkson

Hinkson, [McDonald], [Randazzo], [Ross], Thompson, other

Hinkson, [McDonald], [Randazzo], Thompson, others

Hinkson, Powell, Randazzo

Hinkson, Powell, Randazzo, Ross, Thompson

Hinkson, Powell, Ross

Hinkson, Ross, Thompson, other

Hinkson, Thompson, others

Powell

Rooks

Ross, Thompson

Ross, Thompson, others

Thompson

Contact sheets

Group

Set

Clytemnestra

Asakawa

Asakawa, Chase, Homsey

Asakawa, Chase, others

Asakawa, Parkes

Asakawa, Powell

Asakawa, other

Capucilli, Foreman, Littleford

Cohan

Cohan, Graff

Cohan, McGehee, MG

Foreman, Lyman, Sherman

Foreman, others

Gain

Gain, MG, Ross

Graff

Graff, McGehee, MG

Graff, McGehee, MG, Ross, Wagoner, other

Graff, MG, Ross, other

Graff, McGehee, MG

Hodes (Linda)

Kimura

Kuch

Kuch, Ross, Wagoner, Yuriko

Kuch, Wagoner, Yuriko, other

Kuch, other

Littleford, Lyman, Rooks

Lyman, Rioult

McDonald

McDonald, McGehee, MG, Ross

McDonald, McGehee, MG, Ross, other

McDonald, McGehee, Ross

McDonald, MG, Ross

McDonald, McGehee, MG, Ross, Taylor, Turney, Winter, Yuriko

McDonald, MG, Ross, other [Graff]

McDonald, MG, Turney, other

[McDonald], MG, Ross, Turney

McDonald, MG, Ross, Turney

McDonald, MG, Winter

McDonald, MG, other

McDonald, Winter; McDonald, Winter, other

McGehee

McGehee, others

McGehee, MG, Ross (incl. negative)

McGehee, MG, Ross, Taylor

MG

MG, Ross (incl. negative)

MG, Ross

MG, Ross, others

MG, Taylor

MG, Wood

MG, Yuriko, others

MG, spear bearers

Ross, Yuriko

Ross, Yuriko, others

Cortege of Eagles

Cohan, Cohen, MG, Powell, Randozzo,Winter

Cohan, MG, Ross, Cohen, Powell

Cohan, MG, Ross, others

MG, Powell, others

MG, Robinson, Ross, Wood, others

MG, group

Rooks

White [George]

Group

Dancing Ground

Asakawa, McGehee, Powell

Asakawa, McGehee, Powell, others

Asakawa, Powell

McGehee, Powell

McGehee, Powell, group

McGehee, group

Group

Women

Dark Meadow

Asakawa

Asakawa, Walker

Cohan

Cohan, Hodes (Linda)

Hawkins, MG; Hodes (Stuart), others

Hinkson, Ross; Hinkson, Ross, Wood, Yuriko

Hodes (Stuart), Yuriko, others

Kimura

Kimura, Lyman

Kimura, others

Lang, Winter, Yuriko

Lyman

McLain

MG, other

Monte

O’Donnell

Sparling

Turney, MG

Slides

Women

Deaths and Entrances

Butler (incl. negative)

Butler (John and Ethel), Cunningham, Dudley, Fonaroff, Hawkins, Lang, Maslow, MG

Butler, Cunningham, Dudley, Hawkins, Maslow, MG

Butler, Cunningham, Hawkins, Horan, MG

Butler, Cunningham, Horan, Maslow, MG

Butler, Fonaroff, Lang, MG

Butler, Hawkins, MG (negative)

Butler, MG (incl. negative)

Capucilli

Capucilli, Garay, Giovanola

Capucilli, Morin

Capucilli, Morin, Rooks

Cohan

Cohan, Hodes (Stuart)

Cohen, Hinkson, Ross, Walker

Cohen, Hinkson, Turney; Cohen, Hinkson, Walker

Cunningham, Hawkins, MG

Dudley, Maslow, MG

Garay, Giovanola

Gray, Hinkson, Kimura; Gutelius, Hinkson, Kuch, Ross, Turney

Gutelius, Newton

Gutelius, Newton, Parkes

Hawkins

Hawkins, MG

Hinkson

Hinkson, Kuch

Hodes

Lang

MG

Morin, Rooks

Deep Song

MG

Diversion of Angels

Asakawa

Asakawa, Chao, Delamo, Homsey, Mitchell

Cohan, Lang

Cohan, Winter

Dakin, Terborgh

Delamo, Kimura, Lyman

Delamo, Kimura, Tuddy

Delamo, Kimura, others

Delamo, Lyman

Eilber

Eilber, Wengerd

Hart, Wengerd

Hinkson, Powell, Winter

Hinkson, Powell, Winter (incl. negative)

Hinkson, Ross

Kimura, Lyman, others

Lyman; Lyman, other

McGehee

Ross, others

Sparling

Winter, others

Winter, others (incl. negative)

Wood

Contact sheets/proofs

Group

Group (incl. negative)

Unidentified (negative)

Ecuatorial

Delamo, Kimura

Proofs

Ekstasis

MG

Embattled Garden

Hinkson, other

Kimura

Kimura, Lyman, Maloney, Parkes

Kimura, Maloney

Kimura, Ross (incl. two negatives)

Kimura, Ross, other

Kimura, others

[Ross], Turney, other

Ross, Tetley, Turney, Yuriko

Ross, other (negative)

Taylor

Unidentified (incl. negative)

Contact sheets/proofs

Episodes

MG

MG, Ross

MG, Ross, Wilson [in rehearsal]

MG, Wilson

MG, Ross, others

MG, Wilson, others; MG, group

MG, other

Wilson; Wilson, others

Errand into the Maze

Brown, Monte

Capucilli, White (Larry)

Dakin

Kimura

Kimura, Wengerd

McGehee, Thompson

Thompson; Thompson, Turney; Turney

Set

Contact sheets/proofs

Slides/negatives

Every Soul Is a Circus

Asakawa

Asakawa, others

Birch, Ross

Butler, Cunningham, Flier, Marohowsky, Mazia, Hawkins, MG

Cunningham, Mazia, Flier, Butler, Maslow

Hawkins, MG

MG

MG, Cunningham

MG, Dudley, Hawkins

Proofs

Eye of Anguish

Cohan, Lang

Cohan, Ross

The Flute of Kirshna

Sabin, set, various groups and individuals

Flute of Pan

Eilber

Frescoes

Brown

Brown, Lyman; Lyman, chorus

Lyman, Wengerd

Lyman, Wengerd, chorus

Frontier

Lyman

MG

Winter

Heretic

MG, others

Hérodiade

Lang

MG

MG (incl. negative)

MG (incl. negatives)

MG, O’Donnell

MG, O’Donnell (small size)

O’Donnell

Winter

Set

Imperial Gesture

MG

Judith

Asakawa

Asakawa, White

Brown [Charles]

Brown, Foreman, Lyman, Wengerd, White

Brown [David]

Capucilli

Capucilli, White

Foreman; Foreman, Monte

Lyman

Lyman, Wengerd

Lyman, Wengerd, other(s)

Lyman, others

MG

White

Men

Set

Lady of the House of Sleep

Louther

MG, and other(s)

Group

Lamentation

Eilber

Lyman

MG

Legend of Judith

Cohan

Cain

Lyman, MG, Ross

MG

MG (incl. negative)

MG, Ross; MG, Ross, other

MG, Ross, other (incl. negative)

MG, Thompson, Yuriko

MG, others

Wood

Set

Letter to the World

Butler, MG

Cohan

Cohan, MG

Dudley, Hawkins, MG

Dudley, Lang, McGehee, MG, Yuriko

Dudley, Lang, McGehee, Yuriko

Dudley, women

Erdman, MG

Hawkins, MG

Lang

Lang, other

MG

Contact sheets/proofs

A Look at Lightning

Hodes (Linda), Powell

Powell, Ross

[Powell], Ross, Turney

Powell, Ross, Turney, other

Lucifer

Delamo

Contact sheets

Marionette Show

Biracree, MacDonald, Sabin

Mendicants of Evening

Group and contact sheets

Myth of a Voyage

Contact sheets

Night Journey

Birch, McGehee, MG, Ross, Turney

Cohan, MG

Cohan, MG, Ross

Foreman, Lyman

Gray

Gray, Lyman, Wengerd, others

Gray, Maloney, Wengerd

Gray, Nureyev

Gray, Parkes

Gray, Parkes, Walker

Gray, Wengerd

Gutelius

Hawkins, chorus

Hawkins, Lang, chorus

Hawkins, MG

Hawkins, MG, chorus

Kimura

Kimura, Walker

Kimura, Wengerd

Lang

Lyman

Lyman, Wengerd

McGehee

MG

MG, other

MG, Ross

MG, Ross, chorus

MG, Ross (incl. negative)

MG, Ross, chorus

MG, Ross

MG, Ross, Taylor

MG, Taylor; MG, Taylor, chorus

Nureyev

Parkes

Ross

Ross, chorus

Ross, chorus (negative)

Ross, Winter

Ross, Winter, chorus

Sparling

Taylor

Turney

Wengerd

Winter

Chorus

Contact sheets/proofs (small)

Group

O Thou Desire Who Art About to Sing

Dakin, Terborgh

Monte (incl. contact sheets)

Monte, Wengerd

One More Gaudy Night

Set

The Owl and the Pussycat

Brown

Brown, Monte, Salvatori, White

Dakin, Kimura, Mitchell, Sparling, Tyers, Wengerd

Dakin, Mitchell, Tyers

Eilber

Eilber, Kimura, Wengerd

Kimura

Kimura, Minnelli, Sparling, Terborgh, Wengerd, dolphin chorus

Kimura, Minnelli, Terborgh, Wengerd

Kimura, Sparling, Wengerd

Kimura, Terborgh

Kimura, Wengerd

Kimura, Wengerd, White

MG, Minnelli; Minnelli

Minnelli, dolphin chorus

Minnelli, Wengerd

Monte, Salvatori

Salvatori

Sparling

Stewart

Wengerd

White

Contact sheets

Part Real-Part Dream

Cohan, Hinkson, Ross, Turney

Cohan, Turney

Hinkson

Hinkson, Turney, other

Ross, Turney

Turney

Group

Set

Women

El Penitente

Brown, Buglisi, Hochoy

Gutelius

Hawkins

McDonald, Wood (David), Wood (Marne)

MG

Ross, others

Contact sheet

Persephone

Group

Phaedra

Cohan, Hodes (Linda), Powell

Cohan, McGehee, MG, Ross, Winter

Cohan, MG

[Cohan], MG

Cohan, MG (negative)

Cohan, MG, Winter

Eilber, Sparling; Eilber, Sparling, Wengerd

Eilber, Wengerd

Gain, Hodes (Linda), Powell, other

Gain, [Powell], Thompson, Winter, Wood, others (incl. negative)

Hinkson, Hodes, McGehee, MG, Turney

Hodes (Linda)

Hodes (Linda), Powell

Homsey

Homsey, others

McGehee, MG, Ross, Winter

McGehee, Ross

MG

MG (incl. negative)

MG, Ross

MG, Winter

Powell

Ross, Turney

Winter (incl. negative)

Contact sheet

Unidentified negatives

Groups

Phaedra’s Dream

Capucilli

Capucilli, Rooks, White

Dakin

Dakin, Morin, White

Dakin, others

Morin

Unidentified

The Plain of Prayer

Eilber

Eilber, Sparling

Contact sheet/color slides

Point of Crossing

Gray, Wengerd

Parkes, Smith

Primitive Mysteries

Gutelius, group

MG

MG, group

Yuriko

Yuriko, group

Yuriko, group (incl. negative)

Proofs

Punch and the Judy

Cunningham, Hawkins, MG, others

Hawkins

Lang

Rite of Spring

Capucilli, White

Capucilli, White, other

Dakin

White, group

White

Salem Shore

MG

Sarabande from Transitions

MG

The Scarlet Letter

Eilber, Homsey, Nureyev

Secular Games

Eilber, Maloney

Fisher, MG, Thompson [in rehearsal]

Fisher, Thompson

McGehee, Powell

McGehee, Thompson

McGehee, Thompson (negative)

McGehee, others

Powell, Randazzo, Thompson

Powell, others; Randazzo, others

Thompson

Contact sheet

Group

Seraphic Dialogue

Asakawa, Walker

Dakin

Dakin, McLain, Tyers, White

Dakin, Walker, others

Dakin, White

Delamo, Eilber

Delamo, Eilber, McLain, Monte, Tyers; Delamo, McLain, Mitchell, Tyers; Delamo, McLain, Monte, Tyers

Delamo, Gray

Delamo, McLain, Tyers

Eilber

Eilber, McLain, White

Eilber, Sparling

Eilber, White

Gutelius, Ross, Winter

Hinkson, Ross, others

Hinkson, others

McGehee

Hodes, McGehee, Winter, Yuriko (incl. negative)

Hodes, Ross

Hodes, Ross (negative)

Homsey

Homsey, Walker

Kanda

Kimura

Kimura, others

Lyman

McGehee

McGehee, Ross

McGehee, Ross, Stevens, Turney, other

McGehee, Ross, Winter, other

McGehee, Ross, others

MG, others

Monte

Ross

[Ross] (incl. negative)

Ross, Turney

Ross, Turney, others

Ross, Winter, others

Ross, others

Turney

van der Hoeven

Walker

White

White, other

Winter

Winter, others

Yuriko, others

Contact sheets/proofs

Proofs

Group

Slides

Unidentified

Song

Barnes, Sparling

Tangara from Trois Gnossiennes

MG

Tangled Night

Dakin, Foreman, other

Temptations of the Moon

Capucilli, White, others

A Time of Snow

Lapzseon, MG

Lapsezon, MG, Ross; Lapsezon, MG, Ross, other

MG, Ross

Contact sheet

Two Primitive Canticles

MG

Voyage/Theatre for a Voyage

MG, Ross; Set

Other Performance Photographs

Graham, Georgia (with Denishawn)

Miscellaneous contact sheets

Unidentified performance photographs

Martha Graham Alone

Age 2

At airport

Bennington College, 1938

Columbia University (in performance), 1935

Denishawn

Denishawn School

Dogs

Early roles, (1920s-1930s)

Early roles

Edinburgh, 1963

Greenwich Village Follies, 1924

Headshots

Madonna

Outdoors (by tree)

Painting

Princess of Isis, 1916

Pyramid to Quetzalcóatl, Teotihuacán, Mexico

Santa Barbara, California

Sarah Lawrence, 1937

Stage shot

Stonehenge, 1967

Various roles

Wearing kimono

Youth

Miscellaneous

Martha Graham with Others

Bolshoi Ballet at the Metropolitan Opera, 1966

Capucilli, Terborgh at rehearsal for Rite of Spring

Cohan, Hinkson, Hodes (Linda), McGehee, Ross, Turney, Wood in rehearsal

Cohan, McGehee, MG in rehearsal

Coolidge, Mrs. Elizabeth Sprague

Copland, Aaron

Copland, Nureyev, MG (contact sheet)

Dance group

Dance group (1920s)

DeMille, Agnes

DeMille, Horst, other

DeMille; Schuman, William

Denishawn School dancers

Denishawn on tour

Ford, Betty; Ford, Betty with others, 1975

Ford, Betty and dancers

Ford, Gerald and Betty

Halston; Minnelli; Peck, Gregory

Halston; Tiegs, Cheryl; other

Halston, others

Hawkins

Hawkins and others

Hinkson

Hinkson, Ross, Turney, and others (contact sheet)

Horst, Louis (in Graham’s studio), 1938

Horst, others (in Graham’s studio), 1938

Kelly, Gene; Reagan, Nancy; and others

Legarda, Mrs. Trinidad

Minnelli

Nureyev

Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy, and others at rehearsal

Protas, Ron

Malagueña with Ted Shawn, 1922

Sargent, Georgia (sister)

Sills, Beverly

St. Denis, Ruth

Taj Mahal

White House, 1976

White House, 1976 Metal of Freedom

Yuriko and students in rehearsal

Unidentified

Unidentified groups

Contact sheets

Unidentified contact sheets

Unidentified negatives and slides

Family Members with Graham

Aunt Ree, father, Georgia (sister), Lizzie (Elizabeth Prendergast), Mary (sister), uncle; Aunt Ree, Georgia, Lizzie, Mary, mother, uncle

Georgia, Mary

Georgia, Mary, mother

Georgia, Mary, William (brother)

Mary

Mary, mother

Mother

Miscellaneous family

Family Members (no Graham)

Aunt Ree

[Aunt Ree], mother

Father (George Greenfield Graham)

Georgia

Georgia, Lizzie (Elizabeth Prendergast), Mary

Georgia, Mary, William

Georgia, mother

Grandmother, great-grandmother

Grandmother, mother, others

Mary

Mother (Jane Beers Graham)

Parents; parents with children; unidentified large group

William

Miscellaneous family members

Special Events and Tours (Graham with others)

Bloomingdale’s event (contact sheet), 1981

Family of Man Awards dinner, 1968

Berlin, 1956-1957

India, 1950s

Indonesia, 1955

Lecture/demonstration in Cologne, Germany, 1962

Lecture/demonstration at Lincoln Center

Martha Graham Center (contact sheets), 1971-1972

Philippines

Portugal

Rehearsal for Primitive Mysteries (Horst, MG, dancers, dog), 1931

Rehearsal for Primitive Mysteries (Yuriko, Hodes [Linda]), 1982

Rehearsal for Rite of Spring, 1984

Taiwan

White House (Gerald and Betty Ford and others)

Miscellaneous

Other People/Places (no Graham)

Alvarez, Anita

Asakawa, Takako at Carnegie Hall; Asakawa, Takako at the New York World’s Fair, 1936-1937

Bird, Bonnie

Bird, Dorothy

Butler, John and other (Bennington College)

Chase, David (contact sheet)

Copland, Aaron

Cunningham, Merce (technique demonstration)

De Valois, Ninette, 1961

Denishawn Company

Dietrich, Marlene (postcard)

Duncan, Isadora

Gutelius, Phyllis

Halston

Hawkins

Hinkson, Mary

Horst

Horst, St. Denis

Horst, others

Kinch, Myra

Lyman, Peggy

MacDonald, Betty; Sabin, Evelyn

Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance

McDonald, Gene

McGehee, Helen

McGehee, Helen; Ross, Bertram

Minnelli, Liza

Minnelli, Liza; Peck, Gregory

Native American

Nureyev, Rudolf

O’Donnell, May (Bennington College), 1938

Powell, Lillian and other in Julnar of the Sea

Powell, Robert

Protas, Ron

Repertory Playhouse Associates

Ross, Bertram

Roosevelt, Eleanor

Ross, Bertram

(?) de Rothschild

Shawn, Ted

Shawn, Ted and Ruth St. Denis

Shawn and St. Denis in Jonas of the Sea

Sherman, Maxine in The Incense

Sparling, Peter

St. Denis

Swanson, Gloria and her husband

Thompson, Clive

Tully, Alice and other

Turney, Matt

Weiss, Jerome

Winter, Ethel

Wood, David

Yuriko

Unidentified

White House performance

Rome (sculpture)

Statues

Temple of Dundar

Woodpile

Contact sheets

Miscellaneous and Unidentified Photographs

Bennington College

China (Denishawn tour)

Carnegie Hall, 1989

Israel (en route)

Malaysia (Hodes and others)

Mexico

Technique demonstration

Annual June course, 1945

Artwork of P Chann

Cover of November 1950 The Atlantic

Car accident, 1977

Doves

Graham's home in Santa Barbara

Louis Horst Memorial Chair, Jacob’s Pillow

Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance

Noguchi sets and models

Spanish mission church

Temple of Dundar (Metropolitan Museum of Art)

White Sands National Monument

Winter Garden, World Financial Center, 1989

Unidentified individuals

Unidentified groups of people

Unidentified contact sheets

Unidentified negatives

Miscellaneous

Photographs by Arnold Weissberger, 1974-1975

MG (alone); Performances (miscellaneous); Frontier

Photographs by Arnold Weissberger, Rehearsal shots (miscellaneous), 1974

Lamentations

“Pas de Deux” from White Swan

Seraphic Dialogue

Adorations

Photographs by Arnold Weissberger, Performance shots, 1974

Night Journey

Letter to the World

Diversion of Angels

Lucifer

Photographs by Arnold Weissberger, 1974-1975

MG, Paul Newman, Betty FordMG and Andy WarholMG and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.MG and Betty FordMG, Mrs. Igor Stravinsky, and othersMG and others

Photographs by Arnold Weissberger

Album #9, Album #10, Album #11, Album #12, 1972197519761980

Photo Album from Carroll Russell

Album #1: Far East trip (dinner party at the Rice Bowl)Album #2: Far East trip (dinner party at the Rice Bowl)

Album #3: Far East tripAlbum #4: Indonesia (Indonesian dance poses)

Album #5: Iran tourAlbum #6: Rubin Academy, Israel

Album #7: Family albumAlbum #8: Georgia Graham and friends

Clippings

The Clippings series contains newspaper and other periodical reviews and articles about Martha Graham and the Martha Graham Dance Company, ranging from 1925 to 1996. A more extensive collection of reviews is contained in the Scrapbooks series.

Arranged chronologically.

1925; 1931; 1932; 1938

1940; 1941; 1942; 1946

1947

1950; 1951; 1952; 1953

1954; 1955

1956; 1957; 1958

1959; 1950s (n.d.)

1960; 1961; 1962

1963; 1964; 1965; 1966

1967; 1968

1969

1970

1973

1974

1975

1976

1977

1978

1979

1970s (n.d.)

1980; 1981

1982; 1983

1984; 1985

1986

1987

1988

1989; 1990

1991

1992

1994; 1996

pre-1990s (n.d.)

1990s (n.d.)

Public Relations, Fundraising, and Special Events

The Public Relations, Fundraising, and Special Events series consists of sponsor lists, potential donors, information on corporate and foundation solicitations, press releases, business plans, general public relations materials, grant proposals, and correspondence relating to the 1966 fundraising campaign. This series also contains flyers and posters dating from the 1920s to the 1990s as well as information on special events, galas, and benefits. The materials span 1947 to 1996.

1947; 1950; 1960; 1971

1972; 1973

1975

1984; 1986

1987

1987 journal ads

1987 journal ads (contracts)

1987-1988 fundraising report

1988

1988 business plan

1988 guild membership campaign

1989 business plan

1989; 1990; 1991

1992; 1993; 1995; 1996

Potential donors, directors, and advisory council members

Plan for Martha Graham dancewear

Staff/artist biographies; notes on repertory

Program for the future

Plan for debt reduction, undated

Martha Graham Dance, undated

Grant Proposals and Letters of Inquiry

Jerome Foundation, Doris Duke Foundation, Liz Claiborne Foundation, Wang Machines, ABC Television Network, American Tobacco Co., American Airlines, Chase Manhattan Bank, Helena Rubinstein Foundation, Joyce Mertz-Gilmore Foundation, SER, AT&T Foundation, Chase Manhattan Bank, Cosmair, Inc., Crédit Agricole, Crum and Forster Foundation, Equitable Life Assurance Society of the U.S., Educational Foundation of America, EPAC, Inc., 1979198819881988198919891989198919891989198919901990199019901990199019911991

Cowles Charitable TrustELF Atochem North America, New York Community Trust, Owen Cheatham Foundation, Booth Ferris Foundation, Hecksher Foundation for Children, 1994199419941995-1996(?)1995

Joyce Mertz-Gilmore Foundation, Metropolitan Life Foundation, National Initiative to Preserve American Dance, Heathcote Art Foundation, 1995199519951995

Coca Cola Company, 1996

Coca Cola Company, 1993-1996

Graham Next, A Chance to Dance (Lincoln Center), 19941995

Fund for Dance, 1993-1994

Department of Cultural Affairs, 1989

Educational outreach programs funding, 1994-1995

New York State Council on the Arts applications, 1971-1973

New York State Council on the Arts applications, 1974-1975

National Endowment for the Arts application, 1973

National Endowment for the Arts, challenge grant, 1983

National Endowment for the Arts, 1987

National Endowment for the Arts, 1988

National Endowment for the Arts, final report, 1989

1966 Fundraising Campaign

Undated or unidentified

School-related materials

Lists/Public relations

Film projects

Miro lithograph fundraising project, 1975-1976

Public Relations

Warhol purchases, 1987

Flyers and posters, 1920s; 1930s; 1940s; 1950s

Flyers and posters, 1960s

Flyers and posters, 1970s; 1983; 1984; 1985

Flyers and posters, 1986; 1987; 1988

Flyers and posters, 1988; 1989

Flyers and posters, 1990s

Flyers and posters, undated

Flyers and posters: non-Graham

Special Events

Tribute to Martha Graham, 1974

50th anniversary season, 1975

Celebration tribute to Alexander Calder, 1977

Opening night at the Metropolitan Opera House, 1978

A celebration for Halston, 1979

55th anniversary season, 1980

Gala world premiere, Washington, D.C., “A Halston Night for Martha Graham,” 19811981

Martha Graham Guild gala garden party, 1982

Soiree de Gala, 1984

February tribute year, 1984

Los Angeles tribute to Martha Graham, 1984

Martha Graham School gala, 1984

World premiere gala, “A Supper on the Côte d’Azur,” 19851985

60th anniversary celebration, Philadelphia, 1986

60th anniversary diamond jubilee, 1986

“Temptations of the Moon,” 1986

“Peggy Sue Got Married,” 1986

Cake sale gala, 1987

New York City season gala, 1987

“A Diamond for Martha,” 1987

Cake sale, 1987

New York City season gala, 1988

Night journey harbor cruise, 1988

Open rehearsal, 1988

Special evening for the Gotham Chapter of YPO, 1988

“In the American Grain” gala, 1989

“American Document” gala, 1989

Night journey harbor cruise, 1989

Suzanne Vega/Philip Glass benefit, 1989

Boston gala, 1989

Cake sale, 1989

Homage to Martha (Sotheby’s), 1989

96th birthday celebration, 1990

64th anniversary gala, 1990

“A Valentine for Martha”

Celebration of the publication of Blood Memory, 1991

66th anniversary gala, 1992

“Champagne on Ice,” 1992

Harbor cruise, 1992

“Kick-Off-Your-Shoes,” 1993

67th anniversary gala, 1993

“Radical Graham,” 1994

Centennial celebration, 1994

New York City season gala, 1995

New York City Seasons and National and International Tours, 1948-1996

The New York City Seasons and National and International Tours series consists of correspondence, memoranda, telefaxes, telegrams, cast lists, budgets, and itineraries for the Graham Company’s New York City seasons and national and international tours between 1948 and 1996. Further information on the New York City seasons and touring can be found in Correspondence; Scrapbooks; Production Elements; and Public Relations, Fundraising, and Special Events.

1948; 1949

1950

1955

1962

1963

1967

1970

1971

1972

1973

1974

1974 Asia tour

1975

1980

1983

1984

1985

1986

1987

1988

1989

1989-1990 Asia tour

1990

1991

1992

1993

1994

1995

1996 Australia tour

Undated cast and repertory lists

Tour contact sheets

Requirements list for tours, undated

Undated or unidentified

Choreographic Notebooks

The Choreographic Notebooks series contains notebooks of ideas, sketches, steps, and steps sequences for approximately twenty-three of Graham’s choreographic works. Many were published in 1973 as The Notebooks of Martha Graham, with an introduction by Nancy Wilson Ross and published by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. The piano-rehearsal scores found in the Music Inventory series often contain choreographic notes.

In the End is My Beginning (Mary Queen of Scots)

I Salute My Love

Clytemnestra; Canticle for Innocent Comedians

Heloise; Time of Snow (Later thoughts on Heloise and Abelard)

Witch of Endor and Circe

Notes for dances never choreographed

Choreographic studies for Clytemnestra and Alcestis

The Dark Meadow of the Soul

Miscellaneous notes (Errand into the Maze)

Studies for Saint Joan, Heloise and Abelard, and Phaedra

Deaths and Entrances

Every Soul is a Circus

Medea (Cave of the Heart)

Herodiade

Panorama and Formal Dance

Judith

Unidentified

American Document

Hecuba (Cortege of Eagles)

Correspondence

The Correspondence series in the Martha Graham Collection is divided into two sections. The first covers the day-to-day activities of the Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance and the Martha Graham School. The letters (some carbon copies and xeroxes), memoranda, telefaxes, and telegrams are arranged chronologically by year. The correspondence is not inclusive, but covers activities from 1930 to 1996, with the majority of items from the 1980s and 1990s. The series also contains consignments, contracts, letters of agreement, promissory notes, and licenses, as well as correspondence, agendas, and member lists for the Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance Board of Trustees and legal documents relating to the day-to-day activities of the Center. The second section consists of correspondence to and from Martha Graham that was unrestricted in 2008. Finally there are twelve containers of correspondence determined to be of a personal nature that are currently restricted.

The first section is arranged chronologically by year. The second section is arranged alphabetically by name.

Correspondence Dealing with Activities of the Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance and the Martha Graham School

Letters, Memoranda, Telefaxes, and Telegrams

1930; 1931; 1937; 1940; 1942; 1944; 1945; 1946

1947; 1948; 1949

1950

1951

1952

1953

1954; 1955; 1956

1957; 1958

1960; 1962; 1963; 1965; 1968; 1969

1970

1971

1972

1973

1974

1975; 1976; 1977; 1979

1980; 1981; 1982; 1983

1984; 1985

1986

1987

1988

1989

1990

1991

1993

1994

1995

1996

Undated items; letter fragments; unknown senders

Fan mail; cards and invitations

Consignments, Contracts, Letters of Agreement, Promissory Notes, and Licenses

American National Theatre and Academy, Isadora Bennett, Juilliard School of Music, Nathan Kroll, Martha Graham Foundation for Contemporary Dance, Inc., 19481948195219561966

Adams Productions, Brooklyn College of CUNY (Shaw Concerts), State University of New York, Binghamton, Kritas Productions, Athens, New York State Council on the Arts, Alvin Theatre, Takako Asakawa, Feller Scenery Studios, Four Star Stage Lighting, Lake Placid Association, Merlin Group, Ltd., National Public Television, Dance Notation Bureau, Inc., C.F. Peters Corporation, David Hatch Walker, 197019701970197119721973197319731973197319731973-1975[197-?]19731973

Columbia Artists, Department of State, Far East Conference, Feller Scenery Studios, Inc., Kazuko Hillyer International, Inc., Nippon Cultural Centre, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Educational Broadcasting Corporation, Pace University/Schimel Center for the Arts, 197419741974197419741974197519761979

Alison Dodd, 55th Street Dance Theater Foundation, “A Diamond for Martha” auction agreement, WNET/Thirteen, Art Planning, Doubleday, Educational Broadcasting Corporation, National Corporate Fund for Dance, Inc., Sotheby’s, Paul Szilard Productions, Inc., WNET/Thirteen, 19801982198619881989198919891989198919891989

Chase Manhattan Bank, Spain ’92 Foundation, Creative Artists Agency, Inc., L’Opera de Paris, Carl Fischer, City Center, Gedeon Saul, Juilliard School, Marymount Manhattan College, 19901990 (2)1991199119921992199219921992

Chase Manhattan Bank, Marymount Manhattan College, North American Watch, Isamu Noguchi Foundation, PaceWildenstein, WNET/Thirteen, Contract Proposal for Ballet Companies, United Scenic Artists, Local 829, Release, Dance in America, Television Espanola, S.A., 199319931993199519961996 (2)undatedundatedundated

Contract fragments (1st or 1st and 2nd pages), undated; 1973; 1975; 1990; 1991

Correspondence and Materials Related to the Board of Trustees and Legal Documents, 1968-1988

Minutes, Board of Trustees

Agendas, Board of Trustees

Lists of members, Board of Trustees

Legal documents: United States Department of Justice, Notice of Approval or Extension of Nonimmigrant Visa Petition, Department of Treasury non-509 (a) determination, Bylaws of the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance, Inc., Certification of Incorporation, Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance; Certificate of Change of Name of Martha Graham Foundation for Contemporary Dance to Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance, Consent of Sole Surviving Member/Incorporator, 19881975undated19681987

Unrestricted Correspondence

To Martha Graham

Armstrong (US Ambassador)

Baer, Joseph

Baity, Elizabeth Chesley

Barton, Craig

Batchelder, William H.

Bentley, Eric

Brennecke, Tom (to and from)

Buchanan, Wiley T. [US Ambassador to Austria, 1975-1977]

Carson, Mrs. G. Prentice

Chavda, Shiavax

Council of Fashion Designers

Curtis, Donald (Church of Religious Science)

Dance News Invitation-Chamié, Tatiana

Davis, I.

Fine, Michael [Cunningham Dance Foundation]

Fischer, Barry

Fonteyn, Margot

Ford, Betty

Furse, Anna

Goldberg, H.

Goodkind, Louis W.

Graham Dance Company (card to Martha)

Graham, Martha (solicitations)

Graham School

Hare, Raymond (US Ambassador to Turkey, 1961-1965)

Harkness, Mrs. William H.

Hendelson, Margaret

Highet, Helen

Hindemith, Paul (assistant to)

Hoffman, May Foke

Hovhaness, Alan

Jackson, David

Johns, Jasper (from Martha Graham)

Jones, Lewis

Kanda, Akiko

Kawakami, Takako

Kenedy, Hailou

Kikuchi, Yuriko

Kirstein, Lincoln

Kuypens, John M.

Lalaounis, Ilias

Leona, Margaret

Leonard, Fox, Ltd. [rare books]

Liebenberg, Jean

MacArthur, Gray [New York State Council on the Arts]

Masrty-Ané, C.

Masani, Mrs. M. R.

McBean, Angus

McCormick, K.D.

Menotti, Gian Carlo

Merola, James

Morgan, Barbara

Moschopoulos, Paris

Newhouse, Mitzi

Ohba, Sab.

Onassis, Jackie

Parsons, J. Graham [US Ambassador to Stockholm 1961-1965]

Price, Richard

Ralph M. Chait Gallery

Robbins, Jerome

Rothschild, Bethsabee de

Shawn, Ted

St. Denis, Ruth

Taggard, Genevieve

Taylor, Conni

Tcherepnin, Ming & Alexander

Thompson, Daryl

Thomson, Virgil

Tucker, John A.

Tully, Alice

Welch, Mary

Wigman, Mary

Wilson, Dwight

Windhausen, Wolfgang

Xu, Han [Ambassador from People’s Republic of China to US 1985-1989]

Zemach, Benjamin [University of Judaism]

Unidentified

From Martha Graham

Barber, Samuel

Dello Joio, Norman

De Mille, Agnes

Protas, Ron

Rabin, Arnold

Restricted Correspondence

Production Elements

The Production Elements series consists of information relating to the New York City season performances and touring, including hanging plots, light plots and light cue tracks, call sheets, and condition reports. The lighting, set, and costume designers include Jean Rosenthal, Rouben Ter-Arutunian, Isamu Noguchi, Donna Karan, Beverly Emmons, Jennifer Tipton, and Thomas Skelton.

Equipment lists: Fall tour, Blossom Festival, 1970undated

Condition reports, 1973, 1991

Orchestra requirements, undated

Shipments: London, European tour, Mexico City, 196319671968

Hanging plots: Mark Hellinger Theatre, New York City, Saville Theatre, London, Unidentified, 19671967undated

Lighting cues

Performance venue technical sheets

Light and hanging plots for 1974 tour

Hanging plot, lighting plot, and main scaffold in elevation for Episodes

Light plot by Jean Rosenthal for the Long Island Festival, 1967

Light plot, Blossom Festival, undated

Light plot by Jean Rosenthal for North American tour, 1989

Light plot, Israel tour, 1958

Light cue track for Part Real – Part Dream, 1968

Light cue track for Cortege of Eagles, [1967?]

Light plot by Jean Rosenthal for 1960 New York City season, 54th Street Theatre

Light plot by Thomas Skelton for the American Dance Festival, 1961

Section plot by Thomas Skelton for the American Dance Festival, 1962

Board hookup, 1962 Broadway season, 54th Street Theatre

Light plot and hanging plot, New York City Center season, 1969

Light plot, 54th Street Theatre, 1968

Light plot by lighting designers: Beverly Emmons, Jean Rosenthal, Jennifer Tipton, Thomas Skelton for the American Dance Festival, Connecticut College, 1967

Hanging, stage, and auditorium sections for Edinburgh International Festival and photographs of the venues

Donna Karan costume designs

Sketches for set design by Isamu Noguchi

Section light plot (preliminary plot), American Dance Festival, Connecticut College, 1967

Elevation, hanging plot, and light plot from 1960 New York City season, 54th Street Theatre

1963 New York City season, Lunt Fontanne Theatre light plot by Jean Rosenthal; Tormenters

Architects drawings for Space Theater for Dance and Noguchi sets (architects: Isamu Noguchi/Fuller & Sadao, Inc.), 1975

Touring light and hanging plots, 1974

Light and hanging plots, 1970 Fall tour

Elevation, Adelphi Theatre, New York City, 1958-1961

From One More Gaudy Night: ground plan and elevation, design by Jean Rosenthal; stool and moon set plans; elevations and boat

From Phaedra, Broadway 1962/Connecticut College 1962, cue sheet with scenery, set pieces, props

From Night Journey, 54th Street Theatre, New York City 1960, cue sheet

Call sheet (cast and crew), 1961 April 10

Basic touring light and hanging plots, 1970 (revised 1973)

Visionary recital for Martha Graham, 1961 March 8; Ground plan, design by Rouben Ter-Arutunian

Louis Horst memorial, American Dance Festival, light plots, 1964

House fronts and Cyc Border; Graham draperies and torms, Israel and Europe, 1962

Empire Theater, Edinburgh, electric layout, 1963

Martha Graham 1962 European tour, equipment layout

1966 U.S. tour, light plot, lighting by Jean Rosenthal; ground plan

Hartwell Theatre, lighting and rigging

Crate list and shipping lists

Unidentified production items

List of Noguchi sets and props

Special Projects

The Special Projects series consists of materials that relate to activities of the Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance between 1973 and 1992. It contains letters, memoranda, faxes, telegrams, and other items (notes, budgets, itineraries) for a number of ventures, including the 1973 summer Lake Placid, New York residency; the 1993 patrons tour to Spain; the Marymount Choreographers Project, 1988 and 1992; and special projects with sculptor Isamu Noguchi from 1982 to 1985.

Arranged by project.

MGCCD summer 1973 Lake Placid, New York residency

MGCCD patrons tour to Spain, 1993

MGCCD art planning, Rimini, Italy, 1988-1990

MGCCD 1990 Spain ’92 Foundation

MGCCD Marymount Choreographers Project, 1988

MGCCD Marymount Choreographers Project, 1992

MGCCD Noguchi projects, 1982-1985

MGCCD Noguchi collaboration, 1985

Writings by and about Martha Graham

The series Writings by and about Martha Graham consists of literary notes by Martha Graham or others for various choreographic works; articles and speeches by Martha Graham; interviews; articles about Martha Graham; poems and miscellaneous writings sent to Graham or contained in her papers, and fragments of literary works by and for Graham.

Organized by major heading (“Literary Notes,” for example) and arranged alphabetically by author or by choreographic work therein. In some cases, folders are organized chronologically.

Literary Notes

Literary notes by Martha Graham for choreographic works (some fragments); literary notes by others for choreographic works.

Alcestis

American Document

Appalachian Spring

Canticle for Innocent Comedians

Clytemnestra

Every Soul is a Circus

Heloise and Abelard

Holy Jungle

I Salute My Love

Lucifer

Punch and the Judy

Salem Shore (choreographic notes by Terese Capucilli and Carol Fried)

Scarlet Letter

Stone of Destiny

Witch of Endor

“Valley of Vision,” “Nautilus,” “The Lady of the Labyrinth” (notes by Robert Starer); Diversion of Angels (notes by B.B.)

Unidentified fragments of literary notes for choreographic works; miscellaneous writings (15 items)

Articles and Speeches by Martha Graham

“John Martin Remembered,” in Ballet Review, Spring 1988“Relates to After Tudor,” n.d.“Introduction,” draft, 1963 February 15“A Tribute to Margot Fonteyn,” 1990

Writings about Martha Graham

Poems, writings, and scripts sent to Graham or contained in her papers (authors identified).

Angelou, Maya. Still I Rise.Apostolos-Cappadona, Diane. “The Ritual of Sculpture: Isamu Noguchi’s ‘From Behind Inner Seeking: Síva’s Dance,” 1984.Armitage, Merle. “Modern Dance,” (section) 1935.Armitage, Merle. “Modern Dance,” (section in French), n.d. Armitage, Merle, et al. “Big Chief of the Southwest.” (shooting script), n.d.

Ballard, Adele, M. “Midnight at June Second,” n.d.Barnhardt, Harry. Script for unnamed ballet, n.d.Berg, Paul. “Martha Graham’s Dancers” in St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Sunday, 1970 October 18.Berlitt, Ben. “Soundstage,” 1945.Blofeld, John. [lacks title and date]Buckwalter, John. “Byzantine Eyes,” n.d.Buckwalter, John. “A Psalm of Joy,” 1963.

Cahn, Sammy. “His Way.”Candee, Helen Churchill. “Ankor, the Magnificant,” n.d.Caras, Roger. Quotes from “The Private Lives of Animals,” n.d.Code, Grant. “Prologue,” n.d.Cook, Helen Fetter. “Enchanted Land,” 1944.

De LaRosa, L. “Production by Martha Graham,” 1987.De Mille, Agnes. No title, n.d.Devi, Rukmini. Chapter for a book, Where Theosophy and Science Meet, by Prof. D.D. Kanga, n.d.

Eisner, Igor. “Evocation de Martha Graham,” 1991.Engle, Paul. “Door,” n.d.Engle, Paul. “Variations,” n.d.

Fowlie, Wallace. “Martha Graham as Hérodiade,” n.d.Fowlie, Wallace. “Martha Graham comme Hérodiade,” n.d.

Gable, Maureen Clark. “Gone With Noelle,” n.d.Gale, Joseph. “The First Lady of Modern American Dance,” in Newark Sunday News, 1970 September 27.Gold, Ronald. “From Pungent Image to Vivid Life,” in Dance Magazine, 1969 May.Goodman, Saul. “Takako Asakawa,” in Dance Magazine, 1971 January.Goodman, Saul. “Rahamin Ron,” in Dance Magazine, 1971 February.Grendysa, Peter. “The Case of the Disappearing Composer,” n.d.

Hawwend (?), Richard. “Scenario for Abstract Ballet on the Story of Solomon – for Martha Graham,” 1931.Hodes, Stuart. “Review of Blood Memory,” in Ballet Review, 1991.Horosko, Marian. “Frontier of the Mind: Martha Graham at 95,” in Dance Magazine, 1989 May.Howard, Robin. Obituary in Ballet Review, 1989.Hull, William D. “On Martha Graham’s visit to Ceylon,” n.d.

Ignatin, Irving. “New Theatre,” 1935 December.

Jacobsohn, Helmuth. “The World-Weary Man and his Soul,” 1952.Jellinghaus, Fritz. [no title,] 1981.

Kaplan, Howard. “Simple Gifts,” 1987.Kostopoulos, Carmela. “For Martha Graham on her 90th Birthday,” n.d.Kulick, Jonathan, et al. “A True Story for Martha Graham,” n.d.

Larsson, Raymond E.F. “Good Friday Music,” n.d.Leatherman, LeRoy. [“A Note on Martha Graham’s Symbolism”], n.d.Leatherman, LeRoy. “Homage to the Secret-Bearer,” in The Sewanee Review, vol. LXXII, No. 2, April-June 1964.Legisos, Gloria M. “Danza Contemporanea Iniciacion al Aprendizaje de la Tecnica Graham,” Santiago, Chile, 1977

March, William. “The Bad Seed,” n.d.Marchal, Sappho. “Danses Cambodgiennes,” Saigon, MCMXXVI. Martin, John. [quotation in French], n.d.Martin, John. “A Classic,” n.d.Mason, Francis. “Martha Graham Dance Company,” n.d.McDonagh, Don. “Modern Dance Chronicle,” in The Hudson Review, vol XXII, no. 2, Summer 1969.Meursinge, B. “The Tree of Great Sorrow,” n.d.Mishima, Yukio. “The Damask Drum,” in Five Modern Nō Plays, 1957.Moe, Henry Allen. Remarks for Martha Graham convocation, Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies, 1965. Acceptance speech for Aspen Award by Martha Graham.Myers, L.H. “The/Root and the/Flower,” n.d.

Nauman, Hilda. “Around Eastern Connecticut,” n.d.Neal, Josie. “Modern Dance: The American Experience,” 1989.

Patterson, Daniel W. “Early Shaker Spirituals,” 1976.Pena, Jose Z de la. “The Four Apparitions of the Blessed Virgin of Guadalupe,” n.d.Perse, Saint-John. “Anabasis, “ n.d.Phelps, Mary. “Advertisement,” 1938.

Rudhyar, D. “Martha Graham’s Utterances Reveal a New Dance Rhythm,” n.d.

Sabin, Robert. “The Evolution of Martha Graham’s Dance Technique,” n.d.Saint Victor, Hugh de. “Conversation Concerning the Wedding Gift of the Soul (summary)”Barbara Hanna, translator. Sark. “A Creative Companion,” n.d.Sherman, Jane and Norton Owen. “Martha Graham and Ted Shawn,” in Dance Magazine, 1995.Shirley, Wayne. A Ballet for Martha. Library of Congress.[Soars, Janet]. “Interview with [Christena Schlundt] on Ruth St. Denis,” in Dance Chronicle, n.d.Smith, Arthur Galusha. “Indian,” n.d.Smith, Cecil. “The Maze of the Heart,” in Theatre Arts, May 1947.Stav, Arie. “The Dance in Israel,” in Hadassah Magazine, Hartford, Connecticut, February 1971.Stodelle, Ernestine. “The View from Vermont,” chapter 7 from Deep Song: The Dance Story of Martha Graham, 1983.Sweeney, James Johnson. “Martha Graham,” n.d.[Synge, John Millinton]. Riders to the Sea, 1904.

Richman, Robert. “Erick Hawkins,” n.d.Rothschild, Bethsabee de. Extract from La Danse Artistique aux USA, 1949.

Taylor, Harold. Remarks by president of Sarah Lawrence College at Dance Magazine Awards ceremony, 1958.Terry, Walter. “Martha Graham’s Repertory,” n.d.Tracy, Robert. “Noguchi: Collaborating with Graham,” in Ballet Review, 9, Winter 1986Tracy, Robert. “Artist’s Dialogue: Isamu Noguchi,” n.d.

Ulrich, Celeste. “Martha Graham,” n.d.

Weigle, Marta. “The Penitentes of the Southwest,” n.d.Weinberg, Nathan. “Horses, Machines and Dancers,” n.d.Williams, Peter and Clive Barnes. “Two Looks at Lighting: Martha Graham in Edinburgh and London,” in Dance and Dancers, 1963.Winters, Pamela. “An Introduction to Sacred Dance,” 1988.Wolfe, Katharine A. “Martha Graham,” n.d.

Interviews

Madoff Enterprises interview with Martha GrahamInterview fragmentsInterview, Interview, and Interview, Interview Nathan Kroll and Martha Graham, Interview with Bianca Jagger, Interview with Ron Protas (fragment, undated)Interview with Ron Protas (?) (fragments, undated)Interview with "Ruth," undated15 December 198917 December 198910 January 19896-7 December 197115 March 1990November 1951

Writings about Martha Graham (Authors Unidentified)

Poems, writings, and scripts sent to Graham or contained in her papers (authors unidentified).

“A Note on Martha Graham’s Symbolism,” no author, n.d.“The Aesthetic of Martha Graham,” no author, n.d. “Martha Graham ‘In the American Grain,’” no author, n.d.“About Martha Graham,” no author, n.d. “For Martha Graham,” no author, n.d.“Scenario for Martha Graham,” no author, n.d.“Martha Graham est un novatrice...” no author, n.d.“Martha Graham fait figure de preue sur...” no author, n.d.“She is Priestess of Intellectual Ballet,” 1947 (fragment)R ́esume for Martha Graham

“Decor for Hysteria,” no author, n.d.“Luke Tanner’s Daughter,” no author, n.d. “Poem: A Cambodian Dancer,” no author, n.d. “Phenomenal Woman,” no author, n.d.“The Mills of the Gods Grind Slow,” no author, n.d.“Marie Wigman, Danseuse Faustienne,” chapter 2 of unknown book manuscript, 1972.

“When the Pale Unraveling Brain Falls from Ariadne’s Anxious Hand,” no author, n.d.Lear, Edward. “The Owl and the Pussy Cat Went to Sea,” n.d.“An Alpha of Insight,” no author, n.d. “Reflections on Dance,” no author, n.d.“Prelude and Exhortation, 1936,” no author, n.d.“Directions and Suggestions concerning the Canto Hondo and its Percussion,” no author, n.d.“Speaking of Pictures...Dancers,” Life, 1938.“European Martha Graham Workshop of Contemporary Dance,” in Danzare, 1988Collection of Poems by Jean’s Fourth Grade, n.d.

Miscellaneous

Fragments, quotes, unidentified manuscripts

Notes/drafts for Blood Memory

Notes, Martha, the Musical

“Beauty and the Buckskins” and “Mahanttan Corner” by D.C. Glover, Jr., 1952

Barnes, Clive. “The Cold War in Modern-Dance,” in The New York Times Magazine, July 28, 1968.

Dreyer, Martin, “Foot Loose and Fancy,” in Houston Chronicle, Texas Magazine, Sunday, January 24, 1971.

Fragments of writings in the hand of Martha Graham (Restricted)

Programs

The Programs series contains a selection of programs that span the 1930s to 2003. A significant number of programs are also contained in the Scrapbooks series.

Arranged chronologically.

1930s (xerox copies)

1940; 1941; 1947; 1940s undated

1949

1950s

1960s

1971; 1973; 1974

1975

1976

1978; 1979

1984; 1985

1986

1987

1988

1990s; 2003

Programs, undated

Drafts of programs; notes for programs; corrections for programs

Programs and flyers, non-Graham

Business Papers

The Business Papers series of the Martha Graham Dance Company; Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance; and Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance consists of financial information that spans 1941 to 1993, including payroll and salary information; bank statements; deposit information; checkbook stubs; cancelled checks; budget information; purchase orders and invoices; and tax information. To view the materials in this series, please consult the curator of dance.

Martha Graham Dance Company

Invoices, 1941

Checkbook stubs, 1942

Receipts and invoices, 1944

Cancelled checks, 1944 April 24 – June 2

Bank statements and cancelled checks, 1944

Receipts and invoices, 1944

Payroll book, 1944

Payroll book, 1945

Cancelled checks, 1945

Check stubs, 1945

Petty cash receipts, 1945

Receipts and invoices, 1945

Payroll book, 1946

Cancelled checks, 1946

Payroll book, 1947

Profit and loss statements, 1942-1947

Payroll book, 1948

Checkbook/stubs, 1948

Salary list, 1948

New York City season budgets, 1948

Box office and ticket information, New York City season, February 1948

Invoices – William’s Theatrical Haulage, Inc., New York City season, February 1948

Payroll book, 1949

Budget information, 1949

Martha Graham Dance Company (MGDC) and Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance (MGSCD)

Cash dispersements, MGDC, 1947-1950

Cash dispersements, MGSCD, 1949-1952

Martha Graham Dance Company

Checkbook/stubs, 1949 April 1-1950 June 7

Payroll book, 1950

Bank statements and cancelled checks, 1950

Checkbook, 1950

Budget information, 1950

Checkbook/stubs, 1950-1951

Cancelled checks, 1950

Budget information, 1950-1951

Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance

Checkbook/stubs, 1951-1952

Cancelled checks, 1951-1952

Cancelled checks/bank statements, 1951-1952

Budget information, 1952

Receipts, 1951-1952

Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance

Checkbook/stubs, 1952-1953

Checkbook/stubs, 1953

Martha Graham Dance Company and Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance

Receipts (MGSCD), 1960

Auditor’s report for 1965 (MGDC)

Payroll, 1965 New York season

Purchase orders for 1965 New York season

B. de Rothschild Foundation

Miscellaneous budget notes and petty cash summary, 1965

Purchase orders for 1965 New York season

Income/expense statement (MGSCD), 1965

Payroll (MGDC), 1966

Martha Graham Foundation checkbook, 1968-1969

Petty cash (MGDC), 1969

Ledger, 1968

Ledger, (MGDC/MGSCD), 1969 August 1-1970 July 31

Checkbook/stubs (MGSCD), 1969 July-1970 August

Checkbook/stubs (MGDC), 1969 March-1970 June

Checkbook/stubs (MGSDC), 1969-1970

Martha Graham Dance Company

Checkbook/stubs (MGDC), 1968-1969

Checkbook/stubs (MGDC), 1967-1968

Martha Graham Dance Company and Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance

Ledger, 1970 August 1-1971 July 31

Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance (MGCCD) and Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance (MGSCD), 1970-1973

Checkbook/stubs (for National Endowment grant), 1970

Checkbook/stubs (MGCCD), 1970 August 1-1972 January 20

Checkbook/stubs (MGCCD), 1970 August 17-1970 October 23

Checkbook/stubs (MGCCD), 1970 June 24-1971 January 28

Checkbook/stubs (MGSCD), 1970 September 22-1972 May 16

Checkbook/stubs (MGCCD), 1970 October 23 -1971 January 18

Checkbook/stubs (MGCCD), 1970 November 26-1970 December 2

Checkbook/stubs (MGCCD), 1970 January 1-1973 April 23

Miscellaneous receipts (MGSCD), 1971-1973

Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance (MGCCD) and Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance (MGSCD), 1971-1972

Ledger (MGCCD/MGSCD), Receipts/certificates of deposit, Payroll ledger (MGCCD/MGSCD), Payroll ledger (MGCCD/MGSCD), 1971 August 1-1972 July 311971-197219711972

Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance and Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance, 1972-1973

Checkbook/stubs (MGCCD), 1972 January 24-1973 July 19

Petty cash receipts, 1972

Charities registration, State of New York, Ledger (MGCCD/MGSCD), 19731972 August 1-1973 July 31

Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance

Financial information, Cumulative ledger (MGCCD), 1973; 1975; 1980; 1982-1983; 1985-19861 January 1987-31 December 1987

Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance and Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance—Tax Information

Tax liabilities (MGSCD/MGCCD), 1986

State/city taxes, New York, 1984-1985

New York Department of Labor, 1984-1986

Quarterly tax return (MGSCD), 1984

Monthly returns (MGSCD), 1984

Sales and use tax, 1984

Quarterly federal tax (MGCCD), 1984

State/city taxes, New York (MGCCD), 1984

Quarterly wage report, 1984

Unpaid tax file, 1986

Unpaid tax file, 1987

Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance, 1984-1988

Earned income receipts, Unearned income receipts, 1985-19861985-1986

Tax returns, 1988-1989

Year end processing for annual information, 1988

1099 reports, 1988

Payroll charges breakdown, 1988

Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance

Balance sheets/Cash flow, 1988

Petty cash receipts, 1988

Chemical Bank, 1988

W2 forms, 1988

Tax account/Debit slips, 1988

Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance—Deposits 1988

January 1988

February 1988

March 1988

April 1988

May 1988

June 1988

July 1988

August 1988

Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance—Deposits 1988

September 1988

October 1988

Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance—Deposits 1988

November 1988

December 1988

Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance and Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance, budgets, 1968-1993

1968; 1970-1971; 1973-1975

1984-1987

1991-1993

Martha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance and Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance, 1989-1990

Year end processing, Ledger, 19901989

1990-1996

Budgets, 1989

Independent auditors report, 1989

Personal Papers and Finances

The Personal Papers and Finances series contains Graham’s personal papers, receipts, and tax returns. This series is currently restricted.

Arranged chronologically.

Tax returns, 1948

Tax returns, 1955

Tax returns, 1957

Tax returns, 1958

Tax returns, 1959

Tax returns, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1966

Application for Medicaid, 1966

Group insurance benefits, 1984

Will of Alice Tully, 1995

Address book, Date book, undated1969

Receipts, 1940s

Receipts, 1950s; 1960s

Receipts, 1970s

Receipts, 1988; undated

Realia

The Realia series contains a collection of awards, plaques, statues, honorary degrees, and other ephemera that honors the achievements of Martha Graham.

Awards and Honorary Degrees

To: Martha Graham, guide and mentor of Batsheva Dance Company. From: America-Israel Cultural Foundation, New York, 1970 December 8 Plexiglas (piece missing?)

To: Martha Graham, Woman of Achievement, ADL, 1975 November 13 Plexiglas; artist: Millicent Zahn

To: Martha Graham, National Treasure. From: Family Weekly Magazine, 1983 Plexiglas base, with sterling silver plaque (damaged, separated from base)

To: Martha Graham, Woman of Accomplishment. From: Harper’s Bazaar, 1967 Plexiglas egg

To: Martha Graham for Outstanding Achievement in the Arts. From: North Shore Community Arts Center, 1966 Annual Award Bronze with plaque detached (base in poor condition)

To: Martha Graham, Award of Merit. From: The Lotos Club, 1967 January 24 Plexiglas

“Frontier.” From: unknown, 1989 Bronze on marble base; artist: Beau Gage

To: Martha Graham. From: Studio Vandoni Premio Porselli “un a vita per la danza,” 1987 Bronze, marble base

To: Martha Graham. Meadows Award for Excellence in the Arts, 1989 Marble

Unknown Blue plastic on marble base, inscription plaque missing

To: Martha Graham, Centennial Achievement Award for Achieving Excellence in the Arts, Metropolitan Opera House. From: Local One, I.A.T.S.E., 1986 June 15 Plexiglas on wood base (separated)

To: Martha Graham, Ethel M. Barber Visiting Artist. From: Northwestern University, the Tribute Year, October 30 – November 5 [no year] Bronze medallion; wood and glass frame

To: Martha Graham. An ancient shepherd’s flute to which maidens danced in Biblical times. From: In friendship, Teddy Kolieck. Jerusalem, 1974 July 4 Flute in glass and wood box

To: Martha Graham, For an Extraordinary Lifetime of Contribution to American Culture Through the Performing Arts. From: John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, 1979 December 2 Brass bars attached to multicolored ribbons and reception program in wood box with Plexiglas top

To: Martha Graham. From: Honor America and Boehm present the American Bald Eagle plate to honor America and Commemorate our Bicentennial Porcelain plate in blue box; artist: Adapted from the porcelain sculpture of Edward Marshall Boehm

To: Martha Graham. From: The Chattanooga Welcoming Committee, Award of Welcome Wood plaque

To: Martha Graham, The American-Israel Award for the Arts, Sciences and Industry, New York City. From: The Israel Prime Minister’s Club, 1979 March 9 Stainless steel on wood

Daily Telegraph and Morning Post “World’s Best Dance Film,” 1959 October 15 Framed enlargement of article on wood

To: Martha Graham. From: Office of the Mayor, City of Tucson, Arizona. Certificate of Appreciation, 1988 November 7 Copper paper in wood and glass frame

Japanese Award, undated Star on red, white, blue ribbon in velvet box

Three brass medals. Il sindaco di Firenze, undated Contained in red leather box

To: Martha Graham, Honored for her contributions to the world of dance, New York City Dance Showcase IV. From: New York State Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance (NYSAHPERD), 1991 May 29 Brass plaque on wood

Aaron Copland and Martha Graham; photo by Bill Cunningham Plaque on aluminum on wood

To: Martha Graham, High Priestess of the Dance. From: DTCB (or DCB) Brass plaque on wood

To: Martha Graham. Presidential Medal of Freedom, 10-14-76 Monnaie de Paris, 1976 October 14

To: Martha Graham, to a great artist with great admiration. From: Shlomo Lahat, Mayor of Tel-Aviv-Yato, 1979 August Brass medal in wooden box

Silver commemorative medal (Winston Churchill) Silver medal in leather box

Stabilmenti Artistica Fiorentini “Il Sindaco di Firenze”

Gold coin in red leather box

To: Martha Graham, Distinguished New Yorker Award 1967 on Occasion of the 75th Anniversary of The City Club of New York, 1967 Brass medal in maroon leather case

To: Martha Graham, with highest regards. From: Mayor Jonathan Hayes, San Jose, California Brass and plastic plaque on wood

To: Martha Graham, For your dedication and outstanding contribution to dance and the American musical tradition. From: The Hartford Symphony Women’s Auxillary, 1966 September 14 Brass plaque on wood

To: Martha Graham. From: Mayor W. Wilson Goode, City of Philadelphia, 1986 October 24 Brass plaque on wood (tray)

Management Achievement Award presented to Arizona State University for Martha Graham Dance Company Arizona Residency. From: The Association of College, University and Community Arts Administrators, Inc., 1983 December 18 Brass plaque on wood

To: Martha Graham, A Special Distinguished Pennsylvania Artist for more than 70 Years. From: Governor Dick Thornburgh, 1986 November Brass medal attached to red/black ribbon

Brass medal attached to small red/white ribbon, Margareta II Regina Dante

To: Martha Graham. Brandeis Book Collections, Brandeis University Library. In Honor of Martha Graham. From: The Cleveland Chapter, Brandeis University National Women’s Committee, undated Small brown leather booklet with Graham’s name embossed on front

To: Martha Graham Dance Company. Premio Positano “L. Massine” per l’arte della danza XXIII Edizione, 3 Settembre 1994 Aluminum plaque on red velvet in black leather box

To: Martha Graham. 2 Juillet 1984, Avant Lion Le Melhor Brass medal in red box

To: Martha Graham. Henry Hadley Medal for her service to American music, 1955 May 19 Brass medal in black leather box

To: Martha Graham, for her outstanding contributions to the Arts. From: The MacDowell Colony, 1974 November 7 Brass medal in black leather box; artist: Ernest Bruce Haswell, 1916

To: Martha Graham. The Family of Man Award, 1968 October 23 Brass medal in black leather box

Commemorative 5 Dollar Coin, Seventh SEAP Games, Singapore, 1973 Coin in green box

Commemorative 10 Dollar Coin, Singapore, 1973 Coin in beige box

Visite aux Etats-Unis d’Amerique De Monsieur Valéry Giscard d’Estaing, Président de la République Française, 1976 May 17-22 Brass medal in black leather box

Camp David Meeting Medal, September 1978, Given to Martha Graham by Frank Nothmann, Public Relations Manager, Jerusalem Hilton Gold-plated medal in wooden box

Olav V Norges Konge, undated Gold or silver-plated medal attached to red ribbon

To: Martha Graham, in recognition of her distinguished career in the theatre by John V. Lindsay, Mayor of the City of New York, 1970 October 2 Brass medal in black leather box; artist: Charlotte Temper Armus

To: Martha Graham. Commission Award for Noble Achievement in the Creative Arts, 1968 Brass medal in black leather box

Ville de Paris a Martha Graham, 1985 Brass or gold-plated medal in green box

Photo of Graham and Bertram Ross Rendered in metal on wood

Award stand (?) inscribed “J. Mesne(?) Brown, 1968” Plastic laminate on wood

Seven-sided Plexiglas paper weight

Biennale di Venezia Diploma Speciale al film Dancer’s World, 1958 Copy

Honorary Doctorate, Rutgers University, 1959

Laurel Leaf Award. From: American Composers Alliance, [1959]

Proclamation by his Excellency Michael S. Dukakis, Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1984 June 21

State of New York, Mario M. Cuomo, Governor, sends congratulations on the occasion of the presentation of the Royal Golden Medal for talent and art by Her Majesty, Queen Margrethe II of Denmark to Martha Graham, 1987 January 14

Orfanatorios Latino American donor certificate to Martha Graham, undated

Award of Merit given by The National Association for American Composers and Conductors, 1946-1947 season (musical program included)

Govenor’s Citation by Milton J. Sharp, Governor of The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 1972 November 15

New School for Social Research Citation of Honor, 1962 September 20

Doctor of Fine Arts, Wesleyan University, 1971 June 6

Doctor of Humane Letters, Arizona State University, 1982 October 17

Doctor of Humane Letters, Marygrove College, 1973 December 2

Doctor of Fine Arts, Smith College, 1969 June 1

Certificate of Appreciation, City of New York, Edward I. Koch, Mayor, 1984 February 28

Presidential Medal of Freedom, Gerald R. Ford, 1976 October 14

Warm regards from Dick Thornburgh, Governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 1986 November 14

Bravo Award presented by San Antonio Performing Arts Association, San Antonio, Texas, 1983 September 27

Doctor of Humane Letters, Skidmore College, 1978 April 26

Letter of Salutation, Edward I. Koch, Mayor of the City of New York, 1988 May 19

Proclamation from Raymond L. Flynn, Mayor of the City of Boston (declaring October 27, 1989 as “Martha Graham Day”)

Scroll of Honor from McKinley Elementary School on the 300th Birthday of the Founding of Pennsylvania

The President of the United States (Ronald Reagan) Recognizes Martha Graham, 1985 April 23

The State of Tennessee by Lamar Alexander, Governor. Honorary Citizen of Tennessee, 1986 November 26

Certificate of Honor, the Board of Supervisors, City and County of San Francisco, 1976 March 15

Doctor of Humane Letters, Bard College, 1952

Doctor of Arts, Harvard University (damaged), 1960 June 26

Doctor of Arts, Yale University (damaged), 1971

To: Martha Graham, 1986 National Honor. From: Dance/USA, 1986

Night Journey selected for exhibition at the Fifteenth International Edinburgh Film Festival, 1961 August 20 – September 3

To: Martha Graham, Conservator of the Arts. From: American Conservatory Theatre, undated

To: Martha Graham, Life Membership in The Actors’ Fund of America, 1985 April 25

To: Martha Graham, Citation for Distinguished and Exceptional Service. From: John V. Lindsay, Mayor of the City of New York, undated

Citation to Martha Graham from the State of New York, Hugh L. Carey, Governor, 1981 January 30

City of Pittsburgh, Sophie Masloff, Mayor, Proclaims Martha Graham Day, 1989 January 30

Martha Graham elected to American Honorary Membership, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, 1983

Diploma Medalha do Mérito Artístico de Dança, 1989

Artwork--Miscellaneous

[Artwork, miscellaneous items, etc.]

Realia

Blue/white handkerchief with embroidered “G”Airmail envelope marked “Rubies”Japanese scarfEight silver or silver-plate spoons; Four bar implementsMartha Graham Center of Contemporary Dance blank stationeryBeaded and metal-ornamented hat

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Contents

Martha Graham Collection

Processed by the Music Division of the Library of Congress

2007

Collection Summary

Biographical Note

Scope and Content Note

Selected Search Terms

People

Organizations

Subjects

Form/Genre

Organization of the Martha Graham Collection

Container List

Music Inventory

Choreographed Works

Acrobats of God(1960)Composer: Carlos Surinach

Violoncello part

Acts of Light(1981)Composer: Carl Nielson

Photocopy published full score

Photocopy published full score

Published extra parts

Published extra parts

Extra parts

Photocopy full score, with choreographic notes

Full score with choreographic notes, part II (Ved en ung Kunstners Baare) (2 copies)

Published parts, part II

Extra parts, part II

Photocopy full score, with choreographic notes, part III (Helios)

Photocopy full score, with choreographic notes, part III (Helios)

Published parts

Extra parts, part III

Alcestis(1960)Composer: Vivian Fine

Ozalid full score

Ozalid full score

Ozalid full score

Ozalid full score

Piano rehearsal score, with choreographic notes

Piano rehearsal score, with choreographic notes

Ozalid parts

Extra parts

American Document(1938)Composer: Ray Green

Photocopy full score: Concerto for Oboe and Orchestra (1989 version)

Ink piano rehearsal score, with choreographic notes; music by Ray Green and Louis Horst

Ink piano rehearsal score

Photocopy of piano score, with choreographic notes

Photocopy of piano score, with choreographic notes

Photocopy of piano score (incomplete)

Negative Photostat of piano score

Ink parts

Adromache’s Lament(1982)Composer: Samuel Barber

Piano/vocal score

Wind parts

Percussion-harp parts

String parts

Extra string parts

Appalachian Spring(1944)Composer: Aaron Copland

Copyist’s original parts, woodwinds-piano

Copyist’s string partsOzalid full score with pencil annotationsOzalid rehearsal piano score with choreographic notes (copy 1 missing)Ozalid piano score, with choreographic notes (copy 2)

Ozalid copyist’s set of parts

Ozalid extra parts

New parts, string

Extra string parts

Parts (flute, clarinet, bassoon, piano)

Archaic Hours, The(1969)Composer: Eugene Lester

Ozalid full score

Ozalid full score

Ozalid piano rehearsal score, with choreographic notes

Ozalid piano rehearsal score, no choreographic notes

Ozalid piano rehearsal score, with choreographic notes, incomplete

Copyist’s deschens parts

Extra parts

Extra parts

Extra parts

Ardent Song(1954)Composer: Alan Hovhaness

Ozalid full score

Ozalid full score

Ozalid full score

Copyist’s parts

Extra parts