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Music Manuscripts and Printed Music

  • [Program for the first performance of Kurt Weill's Down in the Valley, at the Indiana University Auditorium (Bloomington, Ind.), on 15 July 1948].

  • [Program for the first performance of Leonard Bernstein's Mass, at the Opera House of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (Washington, D.C.), on 8 September 1971].

  • [Program for the first performance of Mendelssohn's Elias (in English, as Elijah), at the Birmingham Music Festival, on 26 August 1846, conducted by the composer].

  • [Program for the first performance of Michael Tippett's Midsummer Marriage, at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, on 27 January 1955, conducted by John Pritchard].

  • [Program for the first performances by The Palestine Orchestra, in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, and Haifa, on 26, 30, and 31 December 1936, conducted by Arturo Toscanini].

  • [Program for the first performances of Béla Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra, by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, on 1 and 2 December 1944, conducted by Serge Koussevitzky].

  • [Program for the first performances of Igor Stravinsky's Rake's Progress, at the Teatro La Fenice (Venice), on 11, 13, and 14 September 1951, conducted by the the composer (11 September) and Ferdinand Leitner (13 and 14 September)].

  • [Program for the first stage performance in Great Britain of Francis Poulenc's Dialogues des Carmélites, at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, on 16 January 1958].

  • [Program for the first staged peformance of El Retablo de maese Pedro by Manuel de Falla, conducted by the composer.]

  • [Program for the first staged peformance of El Retablo de maese Pedro by Manuel de Falla, conducted by the composer.]

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