[Rarebooks] MUSIC East and Music WEST - exhibited for sale at the upcoming ABAA Boston Boo Fair

Wed Nov 8 04:10:37 EST 2006

MUSIC EAST:  A NEW ENGLAND CATHOLIC FAMILY 
ARCHIVE =    HARRIET CHANLER PICKMAN     THEODORE 
CHANLER      EDWARD MOTLEY PICKMAN.   THEODORE 
CHANLER = (American composer 1902-1961)

         His mother was Margaret “Daisy” Chanler, 
the beloved correspondent of Edith Wharton. 
Wharton’s letters to “Daisy” are at the Beinecke. 
The Wharton collection at Yale was “formed from 
gifts from the Edith Wharton Estate  (1938-1939), 
Gaillard Lapsley (1938-1946), Oscar Lichtenberg 
(1959-1965), Percy  Lubbock (1954), Georges 
Markow-Totevy (1980), and Louis Auchincloss (?), 
with smaller bequests from numerous other donors 
(especially John Hugh Smith and Margaret Chanler) 
[the later “Daisy”?] and with purchases with Beinecke funds.”
Chanler, famous in particular for his songs,  was 
the student and friend of the French teacher of 
music Nadia Boulanger. Harvard has 43 items 
(Ms.Coll. 101 = letters, etc.) from Boulanger to 
Theodore, to Daisy Chanler, to Theodore’s wife, 
to his sister Hester [q.v.] and to Hester’s 
husband, the historian Edward Pickman 
[q.v.]   Present here are exceptionally witty 
letters to his niece and mss drafts by his sister Harriet to his opera CIRCE.

SUMMARY OF VALUES

             Alfred 
(William) 
150.00
             Ando 
(Nisuke) 
200.00
             Baja 
(Elisa) 
100.00
             Berenson 
(Bernard) 
50.00
             Chanler (Theodore)   TS, letters, 
musical documents; early notice of Robert Lowell                     1500.00
             Delacey Fund file of correspondents 
and 
documents 
1000.00
             Hughes 
(Daniel) 
250.00
             Landowska, Copeland and Salzedo 
letters (in re performing at Chamber Music Club)                     250.00
             MacLeish 
(Archibald) 
200.00
             Magsam 
(Charles) 
100.00
             Pickman (Edward Motley) Letters to 
and 
from 
500.00
             Pickman (Hester Chandler)  Letters 
to and from her, “Circe” libretto 
drafts                                       4000.00
             Whitehead (Alfred North) Important 
letter, 
1937 
200.00

                         NB! This is an extended 
family archive, with enlightened Catholicism as a 
bond in common, and Hester at the center.  Though 
complete in the sense that nothing has been 
removed from the lot as discovered [as we might 
well have been tempted to remove Theodore 
Chanler’s letter about the young Robert Lowell], 
no premium is placed on the whole.  Rather, all 
other items in the 44pp catalogue not 
specifically mentioned here are included at no value.

$8500.00 post paid

MUSIC WEST:  CONCERT MUSIC  IN BERKELEY 
(1910-1935) A Collection of Signed Programs. 
William Edwin Chamberlain, American baritone, 
organized the Berkeley [CA] Musical Association 
in 1910. 5 concerts a year.  Each program is 
signed by the featured performer(s).  Not an 
“autograph” collection, but the partial record of 
a quarter century of concert music in a 
particular place, shaped by a wise man.
December 14, 1910 - April 4, 1934  (I:1-4 - 
II:1-XXII:4).  117 programs, some with inserts 
(of a possible 121 or 122).  Series XI had six 
concerts;  Series XXII had six concerts; XXII:4 
(2 different artists sign on two 
copies);  lacking I: 5 [if it existed]; IX:4; 
XI:4; XII:5; XIV:5.  The artists who signed 
(parentheses indicate different events):  Aguilar 
Lute Quartet; Alcock; Alda; Amato; Barrere (3); 
Barham; Bartlett; Bauer (3); Bay
Beel; Benoist; Bernstein; Bibb; Blinder; Bos; 
Brailowsky; Breslau; Brown (Eddy); Cameron (2); 
Casals; Case; Casini; Chambellan; Cortot (2)
Crooks (2); Culp (2); Destinn (2); Dobrowen (2); 
Dusolina; Dux; Easton Elman (3);Enesco [= 
Enescu]; English Singers (2); Evans (Philip); Flesch
Flonzaley Quartet (7); Friedman (Ignaz); 
Gabrilowitsch (3); Gadski; Ganz; Garrison; Gates; 
Gerhardt (2); Giseking Godowsky; Gogorza (Emilio 
de)  (3); Grainger; Graveure (3); Hackett 
(Arthur); Hackett (Constance); Harris (Edward); 
Hayes; Hegner; Hempel; Hinkle; Hofmann (Josef) (2);
Iturbi (2); Jaroff; Johnson (Edward); Kefer; 
Kibalchich; Kneisel Quartet; Kocian; Kreutzberg; 
Laforge; Lehmann (Lotte); Leopold (Ralph); 
LePeyre; Lewis (Mary); Lhevinne (3); Loesser; 
London String Quartet; Longari; Longas; Magadoff; 
Maier (3); Marin; Mario; Martin (Riccardo); 
Matzenauer; Mednikoff; Murphy (Lambert); Muzio 
(2); NY Chamber Music Society; Oberhoffer; 
Onegin; Ormay; Page; Parlow; Pattison (3); Peay; 
Piatigorsky; Powell (Maud); Pro Arte String 
Quartet; Rethberg [Lisbeth Sattler]; 
Rider-Kelsey; Robertson; Roth Quartet; Rubenstein 
(Beryl); Ruegger; Salzedo; Sandor; Scheib Schipa 
(2); Schmitz; Schwarz; Seidel; Serato; Siemonn; Spalding (2); Spier; Szigeti;
Tanara; Terr (Max); Thibaud; Tibbett (3); 
Warlich; Werrenrath; Wille; Winkler; Winslow; Ysaye; Zimbalist (3).
Zoller  (2)

Present also: signed photographs (programs only 
are so noted) of Aguilar Lute Quartet; Anderson 
(Marian) (2); Barrere; Bauer (2); Bispham;
Damrosch (+ program & TLS); Dux; English Singers 
(sextet); Flagstad (ALS, no photo); Flonzaley 
Quartet (1920 configuration); Gates; Gogorza 
(Emilio); Gogorza (Emma) (2 ALS, no photo); 
Graveure; Hertz; Lehmann (Lotte) (damaged); Lert 
(damaged); Lewis (Mary); London String Quartet; 
Lucchesi (signed program, no photo); Maier; Maier 
& Pattison (unsigned); Maier and Pattison; Maier, 
Chamberlain, and McMannes (unsigned); Martin 
(Riccardo) (signed printed image); Maynor & Wolff 
(signed Oakland program); Menuhin (he is 16) 
inscribed; Menuhin with Hepzibah (1935), she is 
15; Merola (Gaetano); Mischa Elman String 
Quartet; Molinari; Onegin; Page and Kreutzberg 
(2); Piatigorsky; Rachmaninoff; Schipa + Renato 
Bellini  (program, no photo); Schwarz; Segovia 
(signed Master Class  leaflet); Szigeti; 
Templeton (photo + UC program); Thibaud; Thomas 
(John Charles + Molinari)  (program); Thomas 
(John Charles); Tibbett (4 TLS, no photo); Valdez 
(Luis)  (program only); Ysaye (dinner program 
signed by many), ..............plus: Arthur Foote 
–  very fine illustrated watercolor of dinner 
menu for him (in Oakland, CA) by Alan Dunn, 1911.

$30,000.00

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