Opera -- Georgia -- Atlanta
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:
Atlanta Music Club photographs and video
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS245
Scope and Content
The collection consists of images of club members and performers, club member meetings, and concerts and events produced by the Atlanta Music Club. A variety of images of events are represented in the collection such as color and black and white images from the Atlanta Community Symphony Orchestra's 26th Annual Young Artists' Concerto Concert (2000); the club's Spring Promenade (1982); the All-Star Concert Series (1985) and a fashion show (1993). There are a small number of unidentified...
Dates:
1950-2001, undated
Atlanta Music Club records
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS404
Scope and Content
This collection consists of records created by the Atlanta Music Club and its subsidiary organizations including correspondence, meeting minutes, rosters, by-laws, financial statements, and committee reports. Also included are marketing materials such as press releases, advertising contracts, correspondence regarding advertising and publicity arrangements, concert series programs, newsletters, and information about artists who performed for the club. The collection contains publications of...
Dates:
1915-2001, undated; Majority of material found within 1940 - 1970
Atlanta Music Festival Association records
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS332
Scope and Content
This collection contains records from the Atlanta Music Festival Association and Metropolitan Opera performances in Atlanta. Included in the collection are correspondence, donor gift records, ticket office operations manuals and ticket sales data mostly from the mid-1980s until the end of the Metropolitan Opera tour in 1986. The collection also contains annual reports, scrapbooks, librettos, newspaper clippings, publications, repertoires, seating charts, and ticket order forms from the New...
Dates:
1902-1986, undated
Atlanta Opera records
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS700
Scope and Content
This collection consists of minutes of Board of Directors meetings, season programs, playbills, publicity brochures, financial documents, correspondence, benefit invitations, press coverage, newsletters, and Atlanta Opera staff directories.
Dates:
1979-1991, undated
Charles and Nina Netherton collection
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS462
Scope and Content
This collection contains a scrapbook titled "Opera, Vol II" compiled by Nina Morrison Netherton on visits of the Metropolitan Opera to Atlanta. It includes photographs, newspaper clippings, invitations, programs, and other ephemeral materials.
Dates:
1940-1980, undated
Choral Guild of Atlanta records
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1251
Scope and Contents
This collection contains records that document the activities, practices, and performances of the Choral Guild of Atlanta. Included in the collection are board proceedings, financial records, chorus member handbooks, clippings and articles, organizational history, itineraries, performance announcements, schedules, and programs. Also a part of the collection are administrative binders that detail CGA's mission, history, by-laws, meeting minutes, member handbooks, budgets, timeline, and...
Dates:
1939-2018, undated
Edmund W. Hughes photographs
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS186
Scope and Content
This collection contains images that document the metropolitan Atlanta region and photographs illustrating social events in the city. Bell and Stanton Public Relations used these photographs documenting the Atlanta area as promotional images. Most of the images were taken in the late 1960s and include the Atlanta Civic Center, Atlanta Memorial Arts Center, First Federal Savings and Loan building, Hartford Insurance building, Peachtree Center, and the Trust Company of Georgia. The collection...
Dates:
1958-1968
Emily Bourne Grigsby papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1201
Scope and Contents
This collection contains documents from Emily Bourne Grigsby's career as an opera singer and model, as well as her time as president of the Atlanta Music Club and her association with the Atlanta Opera Arts Association. Included are opera show programs from her performances with the San Francisco Opera chorus, the Atlanta Pops Orchestra, and Moonlight Opera Company in Atlanta, Georgia. There are also newspaper clippings of Grigsby's modeling career and her involvement in the 1954 "Feast of...
Dates:
1943-2004, undated
Emily Bourne Grigsby visual arts materials
Collection
Collection number: ahc.VIS391
Scope and Contents
This collection contains images of Emily Bourne Grigsby's career as an opera singer and model, as well as her time as president of the Atlanta Music Club. Included are production stills from The Tales of Hoffman and Rigoletto with the San Francisco Opera, and images from the Moonlight Opera Company in Atlanta, Georgia. There are also photographs of Grigsby modeling at The Cloister at Sea Island, Georgia; on top of Stone Mountain; for an...
Dates:
1940-2004, undated
Junior League of Atlanta records
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS347
Scope and Content
This collection is comprised of the records of the Junior League of Atlanta. Included in the collection are scrapbooks, yearbooks, minutes, and annual reports as well as programs from events sponsored by the League. Of particular interest is the scrapbook about the Gone With the Wind Ball.
Dates:
1917-1989
Mrs. Witherspoon Dodge scrapbook
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS896
Scope and Content
This collection contains one scrapbook of newspaper clippings kept by Mrs. Witherspoon Dodge of Atlanta, Georgia. All the clippings relate to various opera performances and symphony concerts held in Atlanta or to opera and musical stars, such as Lawrence Tibbett and Kirsten Flagstad. A few of the clippings are from New York newspapers, but the majority appear to be from Atlanta papers.
Dates:
1938-1941
Thomas Trotter papers
Collection
Collection number: ahc.MSS1163
Scope and Content
This collection documents Thomas Trotter's education and career as an opera singer. Materials primarily include signed high school year books from Avondale High school, Avonues, and scrapbooks. Scrapbooks contain photographs, newspaper clippings, and ephemera that document Trotter's opera career. Of particular note are recordings of Trotter and his memorial service. Most of the cards and correspondence were sent by colleagues thanking and congratulating him...
Dates:
1978-2017, undated