Music -- New Mexico -- Albuquerque

Abstract Business records, correspondence, and season and performance information of the Albuquerque Community Concert Association from 1947-1977. The collection holds extensive information about performers and performances from archived event programs.

Abstract The Curtis collection contains a wide variety of recordings including music, programs and interviews. They range from Navajo, Pueblo, Keresan, Laguna and Mescalero Apache and songs and dances, Spanish alabados, Christmas plays, and wedding dances and popular music, to Anglo American fiddle and cowboy tunes and African American gospel music. Also included are some songs from the Cheyenne and Plains Indians, the Tarahumara of Chihuahua, the Indians of Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia and Peru, and a...

Abstract Collection of sheet music written by Elizabeth Garrett (1885-1947), the composer of the New Mexico state song “O Fair New Mexico.” Compositions in the collection span 1915-1933, many of which the music and the words are written by Garrett.

Scope and Content Note This collection contains scrapbooks documenting activities of the Sigma Alpha Iota fraternity, including the Albuquerque Alumnae Chapter, at the University of New Mexico beginning in 1941. There are also clippings, concert programs, yearbooks, invitations, convention programs of the New Mexico Federation of Music Clubs, lists of Alpha Sigma patronesses and alumnae, minutes, bylaws and presidents reports, photographs, newsletters such as Saique notes, and Pan Pipes of Sigma Alpha Iota. There are...