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Collection of William Horne memorabilia

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Held at: Curtis Institute of Music Archives [Contact Us]1720 Locust St, Philadelphia, PA 19103

This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the Curtis Institute of Music Archives. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in their reading room, and not digitally available through the web.

Overview and metadata sections

Call Number:
MSS 03
Repository:
Curtis Institute of Music Archives
Extent:
2.0 linear feet ((2) photo boxes)
Language:
English
Date:
1826-1970 (inclusive)
Creator:
Horne, William, 1913-1983
Abstract:

Tenor William Horne, winner of the Naumberg award in 1939, attended the Curtis Institute of Music where he studied under Emilio de Gorgoza (1934-1938). In 1942 he appeared on Broadway in the Irving Berlin revue This is the Army. In 1944 he made his New York City Opera debut in Puccini's Manon Lescaut and participated in the Broadway operetta Helen Goes To Troy. Additional major opera performances include Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes (1946), and Virgil Thompson's The Mother of Us All (1947). In 1948, Horne recorded an album of Kurt Weill's songs under Weil's supervision.

Programs, photographs, and memorabilia concerning Horne's tenor performances on Broadway and in opera performances.

Gift of Lys Bert Symonette (Voice '39) via the Kurt Weill Foundation, 1991

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Publisher
Curtis Institute of Music Archives
Finding Aid Author
Kristina Wilson
Finding Aid Date
2015
Access Restrictions

The collection is open for research

Collection Inventory

Scrapbook pages, 1936-1937.
Box 1
Opera programs, 1939-1949 and not dated.
Box 2
Press materials, cllppings, and programs, 1939-1956.
Box 2
Letter from Irving Berlin to "Private Bill Horn" concerning performing in This is the Army, 1942 July 13.
Box 2
Letter from Erich Wolfgang Korngold to the company of Helen goes to Troy, 1944 May 29.
Box 2
Magazines covering opera performances, 1945-1955.
Box 2
"Mother of Us All"- Scrapbook, 1949.
Box 1
Artwork by Maria Lucca signed "to Bill from Maria Lucca 1970", 1970.
Box 2
Brochures of recordings, not dated.
Box 2

Headshots and publicity photographs, circa 1940- circa 1950.
Box 1
This is the Army, circa 1942.
Box 1
Manon Lescaut, circa 1944.
Box 1
The Mother of us All, circa 1947.
Box 1
Unidentified, Not dated.
Box 1

Theatre Royal playbills, 1926, 1928.
Box 1
Everybody's favorite songs, not dated.
Box 2
Judith, opera by Eugene Goosens (1927), not dated.
Box 2

Print, Suggest