Performance and Entertainment

Digital collections that fall within the John Hay Library’s Performance and Entertainment STRATEGIC COLLECTING DIRECTION. Here you will find digitized materials that document the history and creative process of performing arts and provides a window into public life and popular entertainment in the Americas through plays, dance, film, music, photography, and pornography.
This collection is part of Brown University Library, hosted by Brown University.

Items in this collection

Fall in! U.S.A.

Fall in! U.S.A.

Brown University

words by Azubah J. Latham ; [music by] William J. Kraft. For voice and piano. Caption title. "H.W. Gray Company, sole agents for Novello & Co., Ltd., London"--Cover. Advertisements for other songs: p. [2, 7, 8] Additional verses: p. [4] Cover illustration: U.S. flag topped by phrygian cap.

Fall Dance Concert

Fall Dance Concert

Brown University

This annual concert devoted to student choreography highlighted choreographers affiliated with extra curriular dance companies, ImPulse Dance Company, Badmaash Dance Company, and Fusion Dance Company. Student choreographers from faculty directed companies, Dance Extension (Julie Adams Strandberg) and New World/World Traditions (Michelle Bach-Coulibaly) also contributed pieces. Producer Julie Adams Strandberg's note discussed the complexity of the choreographic process and describes the mentoring involved in preparing this program. The student choreographers for this show were: Remy Fernandez-O'Brien, Iris Pak, Nicole Parma, Shiyu "Rhyme" Lu, Claire Goetschel, Jessie LaFargue, Srihari Srithran, Danielle Lo, Nicolas Baird, Michelle Le, Cameron Donald, Graciela Kincade, Madeleine O'Neill, Marie Siwicki, Doug McDonald, Andrea Dillon, Sarah Friedland, Rosemary Le, Nadia Hannan, Susan Trinh, Sam Jambrovic, Deepa Chellappa. This annual concert devoted to student choreography highlighted choreographers affiliated with extra curriular dance companies, ImPulse Dance Company, Badmaash Dance Company, and Fusion Dance Company. Student choreographers from faculty directed companies, Dance Extension (Julie Adams Strandberg) and New World/World Traditions (Michelle Bach-Coulibaly) also contributed pieces. Producer Julie Adams Strandberg's note discussed the complexity of the choreographic process and describes the mentoring involved in preparing this program. The student choreographers for this show were: Remy Fernandez-O'Brien, Iris Pak, Nicole Parma, Shiyu "Rhyme" Lu, Claire Goetschel, Jessie LaFargue, Srihari Srithran, Danielle Lo, Nicolas Baird, Michelle Le, Cameron Donald, Graciela Kincade, Madeleine O'Neill, Marie Siwicki, Doug McDonald, Andrea Dillon, Sarah Friedland, Rosemary Le, Nadia Hannan, Susan Trinh, Sam Jambrovic, Deepa Chellappa. Stuart Theatre, Faunce House Fall Dance Concert, Department of Theatre Arts records, OF.1Q.T1, Brown University Library Digital object made available by: Brown University Library, John Hay Library, University Archives and Manuscripts, Box A, Brown University, Providence, RI, 02912, U.S.A., (http://library.brown.edu/)

Faith hymn

Faith hymn

Brown University

Tune: I will sprinkle you with water.

Fairy Belle

Fairy Belle

Brown University

Includes illustration of young woman. Manuscript letter on verso.

Fairy Belle

Fairy Belle

Brown University

Includes illustration of young woman. Manuscript letter on verso.

Fairy Belle

Fairy Belle

Brown University

Includes illustration of young woman. Manuscript letter on verso.

Fair Sylvia: lyric

Fair Sylvia: lyric

Brown University

by Michael Sweeney. Pages [2] and [4] blank. Page [1] within ornamental border. Text of song in three eight-line stanzas with eight-line chorus beginning: Once more I'm on the train.

Fair Sylvia: lyric

Fair Sylvia: lyric

Brown University

by Michael Sweeney. Pages [2] and [4] blank. Page [1] within ornamental border. Text of song in three eight-line stanzas with eight-line chorus beginning: Once more I'm on the train.

Fair Rosamond: a lamentable ditty

Poetry printed in three columns; attributed by Thomas L. Philbrick in "British authorship of ballads in the Isaiah Thomas collection", Studies in bibliography, papers of the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, v. 9, 1957, p. 255-258, to Thomas Deloney. Cut of women in landscape at left of title above first column. At end of third column: Printed by Nathaniel Coverly, Jun. Milk-Street--Boston. Coverly was listed at above address from 1810 to 1824. According to information from the American Antiquarian Society, this printing not later than 1814.

Fair Harvard

Fair Harvard

Brown University

Printed in red. At end of text: At the signal from the Chorister, all will rise and sing "Fair Harvard."

Fair Harvard

Fair Harvard

Brown University

Printed in red. At end of text: At the signal from the Chorister, all will rise and sing "Fair Harvard."

Factotum: A new novel

Factotum: A new novel

Brown University

by Charles Bukowski. Advertising flyer. Printed within ornamental border in red and black on yellow paper.