The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Ponselle, Rosa, and James A. Drake. Ponselle: A Singer's Life. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1982.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Music and Theater, Women, Twentieth Century
Preston, Katherine K. Opera on the Road: Traveling Opera Troupes in the United States, 1825-60. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1993.
Categories: Music and Theater, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore City
Renda, Kathleen. "What Becomes a Legend Most?" Baltimore 90 (January 1997): 52-57, 106.
Categories: Music and Theater
Rinear, David L. "From Bankrupt to Landed Gentry: William E. Burton and Early Modern Management." Theatre History Studies 19 (1999): 109-32.
Categories: Biography, Autobiography, and Reminiscences, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Music and Theater
Ritchey, David. "The Baltimore Theater and the Yellow Fever Epidemic." Maryland Historical Magazine 67 (1972): 298-301.
Categories: Medicine, Music and Theater, Eighteenth Century, Baltimore City
Ritchey, David. "Baltimore's Eighteenth-Century French Theatre." Southern Speech Communication Journal 38 (1972): 164-167.
Categories: Ethnic History, Music and Theater, Eighteenth Century, Baltimore City
Ritchey, David. "Columbia Garden: Baltimore's First Pleasure Garden." Southern Speech Communication Journal 39 (1974): 241-247.
Categories: Music and Theater, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore City
Ritchey, David, comp., and ed. A Guide to the Baltimore Stage in the Eighteenth Century: A History and Day Book Calendar. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1982.
Categories: Historical Organizations, Libraries, Reference Works, Music and Theater, Eighteenth Century, Baltimore City
Ritchey, David. "The Philadelphia Company Performs in Baltimore." Maryland Historical Magazine 71 (Spring 1976): 80-85.
Categories: Music and Theater, Nineteenth Century, Baltimore City
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
Rybicki, Lynn. "It's Maryland at the Movies!" Maryland 27 (March/April 1995): 17-29, 31.
Categories: Music and Theater
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