The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Heyl, Edgar. "Plays by Marylanders, 1870-1916." Maryland Historical Magazine 63 (1968): 70-77, 179-187, 420-426.
Heyl, Edgar. "Plays by Marylanders, 1870-1916." Maryland Historical Magazine 64 (1969): 74-77, 412-419.
Heyl, Edgar. "Plays by Marylanders, 1870-1916." Maryland Historical Magazine 65 (1970): 181-184, 301-303.
Heyl, Edgar. "Plays by Marylanders, 1870-1916." Maryland Historical Magazine 67 (1972): 71-83.
McCloskey, William. "The Baltimore Opera: An Unobjective Look at 50-Plus Seasons." Peabody News, Sept./Oct. 1992.
Categories: County and Local History, Fine and Decorative Arts, Music and Theater, Twentieth Century
Pearl, Susan G. "Opera in Prince George's County: From 1752 to 1984." News and Notes from the Prince George's County Historical Society 12 (December 1984): 49-50.
Categories: African American, Fine and Decorative Arts, Music and Theater, Eighteenth Century, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Prince George's County
Robson, Nancy Taylor. "The Play's the Thing." Maryland 26 (May/June 1994): 27, 29, 31.
Categories: Fine and Decorative Arts, Music and Theater
Rosalie, Mary. "Music in Early American Catholic Schools." Catholic Educational Review 60 (1962): 577-587.
Categories: Education, Fine and Decorative Arts, Music and Theater, Religion, Nineteenth Century
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
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
"Theatre Entertainment in Garrett County." Glades Star 8 (December 1998): 463-67, 470-71.
Categories: Fine and Decorative Arts, Music and Theater, Garrett County
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.
Wilmer, L. Ann. "The James Adams Floating Theater (1914-1938) Part One: Come Aboard the Showboat for Mesmerizing Maudlin Melodrama." Old Kent 3 (September 1987): 1-3.
Categories: Fine and Decorative Arts, Music and Theater, Twentieth Century, Kent County, Chesapeake Region, Eastern Shore
Wilmer, L. Ann. "The James Adams Floating Theater (1914-1938) Part Two: Showtime on the River Landing, Come and See the Show!" Old Kent 3 (December 1987): 1-2.
Categories: Fine and Decorative Arts, Music and Theater, Twentieth Century, Kent County, Chesapeake Region, Eastern Shore
Alvarez, Rafael. "Stove Shop Now A Warm Memory." In Hometown Boy: The Hoodle Patrol and Other Curiosities of Baltimore. Baltimore: Baltimore Sun, 1999, 292-293.
Notes: Baltimore Museum of Industry.
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Science and Technology, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
"Annual Report for 1990." Bugeye Times 16 (Spring 1991): 5-14.
Notes: Calvert Marine Museum.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Maritime, Science and Technology, Twentieth Century, Calvert County, Chesapeake Region
Baltimore Museum of Art. :Annual I The Museum: Its First Half Century. Baltimore: The Baltimore Museum of Art, 1966.
Notes: A history of the first fifty years of the BMA, from its start as a City-Wide Congress Committee on Founding an Art Museum (1911), to its temporary home in Mount Vernon, to the construction of its permanent home in Wyman Park. A major thesis is that a very modern thinking museum became a great success in a city known for being conservative. Nicely illustrated with works from the collection and photographs of museum activities.
Categories: Architecture, Historic Preservation, and Town Planning, Education, Fine and Decorative Arts, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Women, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Barrett, Daniel. "The Birth of the Calvert Marine Museum." Calvert Historian 2 (October 1987): 22-25.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Maritime, Science and Technology, Twentieth Century, Calvert County
Berry, Paul L. "CMM Broadens its Horizons: Estuarine Biology on Display." Bugeye Times 20 (Fall 1995): 1, 6.
Categories: County and Local History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Maritime, Science and Technology, Twentieth Century, Calvert County, Chesapeake Region
Blazczyk, R. L. "[Baltimore Museum of Industry]." Journal of American History 80 (June 1993): 203-10.
Categories: Economic, Business, and Labor History, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Science and Technology, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Boles, John B., ed. Maryland Heritage: Five Baltimore Institutions Celebrate the American Revolution. Baltimore: Maryland Historical Society, 1976.
Notes: This exhibition catalog joins the efforts of five major collecting institutions through a series of essays and illustrations from their respective exhibits.
Categories: County and Local History, Fine and Decorative Arts, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Politics and Law, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Eighteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Baltimore City
Brandt, Thirza M. "The Historical Society's Photographic Archives Collection." Harford Historical Bulletin 61 (Summer 1994): 133-40.
Categories: Fine and Decorative Arts, Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Harford County