The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Saladini, Robert. American Catholic Church Music: The Baltimore Cathedral. M.A. thesis, Catholic University, 1984.
Categories: Music and Theater, Religion, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore City
Shields, Sara Sue. A Mirror for Society: The Theater in Annapolis and Baltimore, 1752-1800. M.A. thesis, Georgetown University, 1975.
Categories: Music and Theater, Eighteenth Century, Anne Arundel County, Baltimore City
Shifflet, Anne Louise. Church Music and Musical Life in Frederick, Maryland 1745-1845. M.A. thesis, American University, 1971.
Categories: Fine and Decorative Arts, Music and Theater, Religion, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Frederick County
Smith, Beth. "Ageless Voices." Mid-Atlantic Country 12 (December 1991): 28-33, 79.
Categories: Music and Theater
Somerville, Atwell Wilson, Jr. The Tuesday Club of Annapolis (1745-1756) as Cultural Theater. Ph.D. diss., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1992.
Categories: Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Music and Theater, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Eighteenth Century, Anne Arundel County
Speller, John L. "The Charles Strohl Organ and Historic Old Salem, Catonsville, Maryland." The Tracker 33, no. 4 (Richmond: the Organ Historical Society, 1990): 19-22.
Categories: Music and Theater, Religion, Nineteenth Century, Howard County
Spencer, William B. The Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, 1965-1982: The Meyerhoff Years. D.M.A. diss., Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University, Peabody Conservatory of Music, 1994.
Notes: Spencer's dissertation examines the remarkable growth of the orchestra during Joseph Meyerhoff's tenure as chairman of the orchestra's board of trustees. Drawing on the orchestra's extensive historical records, oral history interviews and archival documents at Maryland Historical Society, the Peabody Archives and Pratt's Maryland Room, Spencer paints a vibrant portrait of an orchestra in transition and the struggle to build a performance hall. Union negotiations, race-relations, management strategies, and the changing image of the orchestra are reviewed in depth. Spencer enlivens his text with back-stage stories from musicians and former conductors.
Categories: Fine and Decorative Arts, Music and Theater, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Sprenkle, Elam Ray. The Life and Works of Louis Cheslock. D.M.A. diss., Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University, Peabody Conservatory of Music, 1979.
Notes: The life of Louis Cheslock proveds an expansive view of the musical life of Baltimore from the 'teens to the 1970s. Cheslock's story begins in 1893 when his older brother, Henry Czeslak, fled from Poland to England to avoid conscription into the Russian army and changed his name to Rosenberg to avoid detection. His parents followed and eventually moved to Baltimore with their children. Louis Cheslock was one of the original members of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (founded in 1916), a faculty member at Peabody from 1922 to 1976, a member of Henry Mencken's Saturday Night Club from 1927 to its final gathering in 1950, a composer who wrote over 150 works (including opera in collaboration with Mencken), writer and music critic. Cheslock witnessed and wrote on the emergence of jazz as an art form, the rise of radio and the scientific study of music.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, County and Local History, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Music and Theater, Science and Technology, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century
Standifer, J. A. "Reminiscences of Black Musicians." Jazz Research 17 (1985): 205-22.
Notes: Eubie Blake.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Music and Theater, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century
Stoddard, Hope. "Music in Maryland." International Musician 51 (Oct. 1952): 2-4.
Categories: Music and Theater
Suggs, R. "The Annapolis Brass Quintet, 1971-1993." Journal of the International Trumpet Guild 17 (May 1993): 16-21.
Suid, Lawrence. "Hollywood Comes to Annapolis." Naval History 9 (October 1995): 40-45.
Categories: County and Local History, Military, Music and Theater
Talley, John Barry. Secular Music in Colonial Annapolis: The Tuesday Club, 1745 - 1756. D.M.A. diss., Peabody Institute of Johns Hopkins University, Peabody Conservatory of Music, 1983.
Categories: County and Local History, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Music and Theater, Eighteenth Century, Anne Arundel County
Talley, John Barry. Secular Music in Colonial Annapolis: The Tuesday Club, 1745-1756. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1988.
Notes: Companion volume to Breslaw, Records of the Tuesday Club . . . listed above . Some of the earliest music composed in the colonies came from the pens of Rev. Thomas Bacon, Dr. Alexander Hamilton, and other members of this important social/musical organization. Talley presents the background biographies and musical contributions of these men, with a good focus on the music itself (including background and transcriptions of songs and instrumental music). Many club members being recent immigrants from Scotland and England, these largely upper- and upper-middle class amateur musicians had a huge impact on the musical life of mid-18th-century Maryland, and beyond. The book closes with transcriptions of 55 minuets by non club-member John Ormsby, from a manuscript music book copied in Annapolis in 1758.
Categories: County and Local History, Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Music and Theater, Eighteenth Century, Anne Arundel County
Taney, Roger Brooke. "By the Dawn's Early Light." American History Illustrated 2 (1967): 12-17.
Categories: Music and Theater
Thaiss, Christopher J. "Shakespeare in Maryland, 1752-1860." In Shakespeare in the South: Essays on Performance. Edited by Philip C. Kolin, Jackson, MS: University of Mississippi Press, 1983.
Categories: Intellectual Life, Literature, and Publishing, Music and Theater, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century
"Theatre Entertainment in Garrett County." Glades Star 8 (December 1998): 463-67, 470-71.
Categories: Fine and Decorative Arts, Music and Theater, Garrett County
Treat, William Phelps. A Survey of Flutists and Flute Activities in Eighteenth Century America. D.M.A. diss., University of Washington, 1991.
Categories: General, Music and Theater, Eighteenth Century
Van Newkirk, Betty. "Theatres and Opera Houses in Western Maryland." Journal of the Alleghenies 27 (1991): 73-86.
Categories: Fine and Decorative Arts, Music and Theater, Allegany County, Frederick County, Garrett County, Washington County
Ward, Kathryn Painter. "The Maryland Theatrical Season of 1760." Maryland Historical Magazine 72 (Fall 1977): 335-45.
Ward, Kathryn Painter. "The First Professional Theater in Maryland in its Colonial Setting." Maryland Historical Magazine 70 (Spring 1975): 29-44.
Weems, Helen R. The History of the Women's String Orchestra. M.M. thesis, Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University, Peabody Conservatory of Music, 1990.
Notes: The Women's String Orchestra was organized in 1936 to provide performance opportunities to women musicians barred from the all-male Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. The orchestra, which numbered between 35 to 40 players, performed at the Baltimore Museum of Art, Cadoa Hall and the Peabody. Less than two months after the debut of the Women's String Orchestra, the Baltimore Symphony opened its auditions to women (five of the women string players were hired). Weems' thesis examines the public response to female orchestral musicians in Baltimore and elsewhere in the United States and the role of women in the musical life of the city in the late 1930s. Her interviews with the founding members of the orchestra provide vivid accounts of the barriers placed in the paths of these pioneering women and how they surmounted them.
Categories: County and Local History, Music and Theater, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Women, Twentieth Century
White, Roger. "Capitol Theatre." Anne Arundel County History Notes 26 (January 1995): 9.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Music and Theater, Anne Arundel County
White, Roger. "Circle Theater." Anne Arundel County History Notes 26 (October 1994): 7-8, 17.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Music and Theater, Anne Arundel County