sound recordings -- phonograph records

Scope and Contents The records of the Conservatory of Music span the years 1841 to the present, the earliest records consisting of printed catalogs and concert programs. Few records have survived to illuminate the period from 1867, when the Conservatory became a division of the College, to 1928, the date of the earliest surviving correspondence of a Conservatory Director (Frank Holcomb Shaw). The bulk of the collection, concentrated in the period 1930 to 1990, details the administrative and educational...