Series I: Acquisition Correspondence.
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Arrangement
Series II: Biographical Materials.
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Series III: Concerts.
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Series IV: Correspondence.
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Series V: Blinder's students and friends.
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Series VI: Blinder's violin.
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Series VII: Photographs.
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Naoum Blinder
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Pierre Monteux
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Signed studio pictures from friends and students.
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Other miscellaneous pictures.
Series VIII: Blinder's music
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Series IX: Eugene Getzeld Blinder.
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Series X: American Jewish Archives.
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Series 1: Acquisition Correspondence
Acquisition Correspondence
Series 2: Biographical Materials
Immigration, 1928-1930
A statement (in English translation) from Moscow Conservatory stating that he was a professor of violin there from 1923 to September 1, 1927.
A letter from the Dean of the Juilliard School to the American Consul in Montreal, Canada.
A statement of his activities in the United States from January, 1928 to June, 1930.
Manchester
4 documents (1910-1913) from The Royal Manchester College of Music pertaining to his studies there.
"Extracts from student register of (the) Royal Manchester College of Music"
History of the Royal Manchester College of Music (excerpts), mentioning Naoum Blinder.
"Extract from Annual Report of Royal Manchester College of Music, 1914."
Other Biographical Materials
The Frank Mancini Music Teaching Award Certificate
A publicity release (biographical sketch)
Press Release No. 2, and No. 4
A script from KCBS radio station (San Francisco), dated July 26, 1957, announcing the retirement of Naoum Blinder from the San Francisco Symphony. Includes biographical sketch.
"Naoum Blinder -- His Career"
From Famous Jewish Musicians (p.321-322)
International Musician (January, 1947) --
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Incomplete clipping of article on Blinder. "The Remarkable Record fo the Symphony's Violin Teacher," San Francisco Sunday Chronicle (This World), January 14, 1962, page 26.
8 clippings from magazines and newspapers about Blinder.
Other Biographical Materials (Oversize) Ministere de l'Education Nationale Certificate
Obituaries (4 pages): Newspaper clippings.
Series III: Concerts
Programs and Reviews, Russia, 1923-1926
Programs and Reviews, Russia
Concert Posters.
Programs and Reviews, Tel Aviv, 1926
Programs and Reviews, Turkey, 1926-1927
Programs and Reviews, Japan, 1927
Programs and Reviews, United States
Programs and Reviews, United States
Posters, New York.
Scrapbook 1. Reviews of concerts from various stages of Blinder's career.
Original of scrapbook 1 without inserts.
Scrapbook 2 -- Original and acid-free photocopy (22 pp.)
Tapes (3)-- Concert tapes with Fresno Philharmonic
Series IV: Correspondence
Letters and telegrams
A. Letters from Isaac Stern
12-30-1939.
11-9-1955.
No date. Hobart, Tasmania.
B. From others
Bloch, Ernest. 3-3-1945.
Bobchinsky, Isaac and Shura. Telegram. 2-5-1958.
Busse, Phyllis. 1-13-1946.
Forbes, Robert J. 11-24-1925.
Forbes, Robert J. 1-24-1930.
Forbes, Robert J. 9-3-1950.
Gaucheron, Roger. 12-1-1938.
Hapgood, Elizabeth. 3-30-1928.
Monteagle, Kenneth. 12-18-1957. 1 p. And reply from Blinder. 12-27-1957.
Monteux, Pierre. 3-6-1958.
[Monteux, Pierre.] Letter from Charlotte, sister of Mrs. Monteux, describing the last illness of Pierre Monteux. [June 1964]
Nimitz, Admiral Chester W. 4-20-1963.
Oistrakh, David. 2-1-1960. 2 pp. In Russian
Oistrakh, David. 6-23-1962.
Schumann-Heink, Henry. 2-23-1949.
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Shostakovich, Dmitri. 1-7-1961.
Spitalny, Leopold. No date.
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Series V: Blinder's Students and Friends
General
Brown, William Howard -- A log of his Russian tour August-September, 1960.
Dicterow, Glenn
Mana-Zucca
Reller, Austin
Sheinfeld, David
Stern, Isaac (1950s to 1989) Article on Stern in Horizon, outside folder 7.
Stern, Isaac
Series VI: Blinder's Violin
7 small and 3 large color photographs of the violin
9 documents regarding appraisals, etc.
Series VII: Photographs
Naoum Blinder-Some with Mrs. Blinder
Large Studio Portraits, 13, 1 with Mrs. Blinder
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Small b/w photographs of N. Blinder (4)
Small color photographs with Eugenia Blinder (3)
Pencil drawings of Naoum Blinder (2)
Oversized studio portrait of Naoum Blinder
San Francisco Quartet
San Francisco Quartet
San Francisco Sumphony Orchestra
Signed Studio Photographs (29)
Abel, David (3)
Blair, Zena (2)
Chavez, Carlos
Fiedler, Arthur
Heifetz, Jascha
Joffa, Betty (2) (signed Kee Coleman)
Kantor, Gerhard
Kozojian(?), Robert
Kraus, Lily
Monteux, Doris
Monteux, Pierre
Nugata, George
Piatigorsky , Gregor
Riedel, Ernestine
Rodzinski, Arthur
Rose, Kent
Skalar, Sabrina(?)
Szigeti, Joseph
Szeryng, Henryk
Tressel, Williard
Vannin, Luisa
Walter, Bruno
Linda
Norma
Val
Pierre Monteux
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Large photographs (8)
Medium photographs
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Small photographs --Monteux School.
18 photographs of Monteux School in Hancock, Maine.
6 photographs marked "On the way to Hancock, Maine"
Miscellaneous (small, 32 items)
7 items -- picture with brother Boris (a cellist), picture with Arthur Fiedler.
4 items -- picture with Howard Skinner and others Igor Stravinsky (1)
Andres Segovia (1)
"George [Nugata?] and Margaret ..."
12 items of Eugenia Blinder and the scenery
6 miscellaneous items
Miscellaneous (10 large and 1 duplicate small picture)
Kimber Award (for best teaching)
With Yehudi Menuhin
With David Abel, Arthur Fiedler, etc. (3)
With Bruno Walter (1 large, 1 small)
With Enrique Gorda
With an unidentified person
Group picture (from Buenos Aires)
Unidentified woman violinist
Series VIII: Music
Music owned by Blinder
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Series IX: Eugenia Getzeld Blinder
Biographical Materials.
Autobiographical essay
Newspaper clipping on Mrs. Blinder and Isaac Stern
Documents:
Birth Certificate (1)
Daughter's (Yelena) birth certificate and synagogue doument (2)
Citizenship papers (2)
Homemade recordings (2)
Interview with George Hellyer, her attorney,
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Photographs
1 group picture
3 with student
Photograph with Mrs. Chikaring
"Song"
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2 unidentified studio portraits, possibly a young Eugenia Getzeld, or Yelena, their daughter.
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Condolence Letters (18)
Telegrams (2)
Other Correspondence
Carmi, Celine (1) of Jerusalem Music Centre. 9-7-1980.
Commanday, Robert (1). 8-4-1980.
Pease, June (1). "Credo"
Stern, Isaac (2) 4-9-1985 regarding appraisal of Naoum Blinder's violin; and 5-16-1985 regarding his concert tours.
Stern, Vera (2) one note undated; one letter thanks Mrs. Blinder for attending Isaac Stern's birthday concert in Jerusalem in July 1980.
Postcard (1) from Margaret and Ken. Postmarked 2-28-89.
Postcards (11), miscellaneous.
Alexen, Vladimir and Tamara
Certificates of Citizenship (2)
Certificate of Marriage (1)
Certificate of Death (1) -- Vladimir Alexen
Miscellaneous items (3)
13 photographs
Photographs (5) Possibly photographs of family from Russia
Miscellaneous documents
Series X: American Jewish Archives
Photocopies of the Blinder materials at the American Jewish Archives.