Max Rabinoff papers, 1908-1961

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Series III: Artifacts/Ephemera

The series contains material related to Rabinoff's activities as a music impresario. It is arranged chronologically and consists of correspondence, musical programs, photographs, and clippings.



Box 1 Folder 4 Contains information on Rabinoff's struggle to institute Sunday concerts in Chicago, on the Chicago auditorium, on performances for the Mexican government (1910), and on Rabinoff's wife, the soprano Marie La Salle, [n.p.], 1908-1916


Box 1 Folder 5 Contains information on Rabinoff's opera companies and protégés, [n.p.], 1917-1960


Box 1 Folder 6 Contains material from Rabinoff's scrapbook, some of which repeats the previous two files. Information is present on the performances for the Mexican government (1910), the production of The Miracle (1914), Marie La Salle, the US appearances of the Ukrainian National Chorus, the Imperial Balalaika Orchestra, and the American Institute of Operatic Arts at Stony Brook (1920s), [n.p.], 1910-1960


Box 1 Folder 7 Includes information on the Cosmopolitan Opera Company and Rabinoff's protégés, [n.p.], 1931-1961


Box 1 Folder 8 Chicago Grand Opera Company, [n.p.], 1908-1910



Box 2 Folder 1 Mexican National Opera, [n.p.], 1910-1944


Box 2 Folder 2 & 3 Boston Opera Company, [n.p.], 1910-1934


Box 2 Folder 4 Anna Pavlova


Box 2 Folder 5 & 6 American Institute of Operatic Art


Box 2 Folder 7 Cosmopolitan Opera Association, [n.p.], 1932-1943


Box 2 Folder 8 Photographs and biographical material