In honor of Women’s History Month, we invite you to look at some examples of sheet music composed by Queen Liliʻuokalani of Hawaiʻi. The Historical Sheet Music Collections are home to a great number of songs about Hawaiʻi, many of them written by popular music composers in the period following the annexation of the islands…
New on OASIS in March
Finding aids for five newly cataloged collections have been added to the OASIS database this month: Processed by: Irina Klyagin Guy Sheppard costume designs, sketches and caricatures (MS Thr 1310) Processed by: Jennifer Lyons Modern American theater programs (MS Thr 1138) Randall Thompson music scores (MS Thr 1202) Photographs of theatrical performers and sets (MS Thr 1248)…
Benzedrine for Breakfast
This post is part of an ongoing series featuring items recently cataloged from the Julio Mario Santo Domingo Collection. Benzedrine for Breakfast is the autobiography of Noreen Price, who lived quite an unconventional life. Born in South Africa by accident because her Dutch mother missed the boat while visiting relatives there. Noreen was schooled in a…