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Leon Fleisher papers

 Collection
Identifier: PIMS-0081
Abstract Pianist, conductor, and teacher Leon Fleisher (1928-2020) had a career in music stretching more than 70 years, including 61 years as a faculty member of the Peabody Conservatory. After making his debut at age 16 with Pierre Monteux conducting, Fleisher toured internationally as a soloist until a neurological condition caused him to lose the full use of his right hand. After three decades of focusing on performing the piano repertoire for the left hand, conducting various ensembles, and...
Dates: 1875 - 2021
Found in: Peabody Archives

Max G. Lowenherz collection of Kennedy family photographs

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Identifier: PIMS-0132
Abstract The Max G. Lowenherz collection of Kennedy family photographs contains photographs by Orlando Suero of John F. and Jacqueline Kennedy in May 1954. Suero photographed the Kennedys on more than twenty occasions over the span of five days in Washington, D.C., capturing them at John F. Kennedy's U.S. Senate office, at small dinners with the Kennedys' friends and relatives, alone together in the backyard of their Georgetown home on Sunday morning, and playing in the park with Robert and Ethel...
Dates: 1954-2001; Majority of material found in 1954
Found in: Peabody Archives

Peabody Institute photograph collection

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Identifier: PIRG-12-01
Abstract

The Peabody Institute photograph collection contains photographic prints, negatives, slides, contact sheets, and postcards related to the Peabody Institute and associated individuals, events, and places. Images date from the dedication of the Institute in 1866 to 2019, with the bulk of the collection created between approximately 1960 and 2000.

Dates: 1866 - 2019; Majority of material found within 1960-2000
Found in: Peabody Archives

Roy McCoy photographs

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Identifier: PIMS-0101
Abstract

Roy McCoy (1920-2001) was a jazz trumpeter from Baltimore who performed with such ensembles as the house band of the Royal Theater and the Lionel Hampton Band in the late 1930s and 1940s. McCoy took many pictures of his friends and associates in the Baltimore musical scene. The McCoy photographs collection contains prints, negatives, and a photo album of musicians and associates, primarily from approximately 1935 to 1965.

Dates: 1934 - 1999
Found in: Peabody Archives

Sounds and Stories collection

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Identifier: PIMS-0091
Abstract

Sounds and Stories began in 2002 as an oral-history project. A Peabody Conservatory musicology seminar of 18 students interviewed dozens of participants in the music of Baltimore's black community to record their memories and to document their world and their legacy. The collection was assembled primarily from 1998 to 2004 and contains oral histories, photographs, and supporting research about African-American musical culture, especially in Baltimore from approximately 1930 to 1960.

Dates: 1923-2012; Majority of material found within 1998-2004
Found in: Peabody Archives