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Daniel Moore papers, approximately 1959-2016.
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Daniel Moore papers, approximately 1959-2016Creator/Contributor:
Moore, Daniel, 1940-, creator, creator.Creator/Contributor:
Floating Lotus Magic Opera Company (Berkeley, Calif.)Abstract:
Handwritten and typescript notebooks containing poems, stories, notes on dreams, diary entries and other occasional writings,
some illustrated with drawings; unbound manuscripts of poems; drawings; galley proofs and an annotated copy of Dawn Visions;
drawings and printed plates for This Body of Black Light; material relating to Floating Lotus Magic Opera Company, including
notebooks with manuscripts of Moore's librettos, sketches for sets and costumes, notes, poems, etc.; photographs taken during
performances; clippings of reviews and articles about the company.
Date:
1959 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caMoore, Daniel -- 1940- -- Archives
Floating Lotus Magic Opera Company (Berkeley, Calif.)
Poets, American
Opera -- California -- Berkeley
Note:
COLLECTION STORED, IN PART, OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.
Additions (cartons 4-11, oversize box 1) : UNARRANGED COLLECTION. UNAVAILABLE FOR USE. Inquiries regarding these materials
should be submitted to The Bancroft Library via the Notice of Interest in Unprocessed Collections form.
Daniel Moore papers, BANC MSS 73/63 c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Drawings and photographs transferred to the Pictorial Collections of The Bancroft Library. (BANC PIC 1973.027-.028).
Printed materials have been transferred to the Print Collections of The Bancroft Library.
Audio-visual materials have been transferred to the Audio-Visual Collections of The Bancroft Library.
Daniel Abdal-Hayy Moore, born in 1940 in Oakland, California, had his first book of poems, Dawn Visions, published by Lawrence
Ferlinghetti of City Lights Books, San Francisco, in 1964, and the second in 1972, Burnt Heart/Ode to the War Dead. He created
and directed The Floating Lotus Magic Opera Company, a poetic sacred folk theater group, in Berkeley, California in the late
1960s, and presented two major productions, The Walls Are Running Blood, and Bliss Apocalypse. He died April 18, 2016 in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania.
In English.
Type:
Diaries.Poems.
Galley proofs (Printing)
Drawings.
Manuscripts for publication.
Librettos.
Physical Description:
print
approximately 16 (11 1 1 1
Language:
English
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Origin:
CaliforniaCopyright Note:
COLLECTION STORED, IN PART, OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for use.
Additions (cartons 4-11, oversize box 1) : UNARRANGED COLLECTION. UNAVAILABLE FOR USE. Inquiries regarding these materials
should be submitted to The Bancroft Library via the Notice of Interest in Unprocessed Collections form.