Frances Breeze Music Collection

Access and use

Location of collection:
College of William and Mary
Special Collections Research Center
Earl Gregg Swem Library
College of William and Mary
400 Landrum Drive
PO 8795
Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795
Contact for questions and access:
Phone: (757) 221-3090
Fax: (757) 221-5440
Restrictions:

Collection is open to all researchers.

Terms of access:

Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.

Preferred citation:

Frances Breeze Music Collection, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Summary

Extent:
1.25 Linear Feet
Creator:
Breeze, Frances, 1919-2002, Chapman, Harold, Halstead, Roland, Stanton, Josephine Carey, and Webb, Dianne
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

Frances Breeze Music Collection, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Background

Scope and content:

Book and individual sheet music of musical scores, probably collected by Frances Breeze. Scrapbooks created by Josephone Carey Stanton and possibly others. Roland Halstead's collection of ephemera from trips abroad and musical production programs and guides. Undetermined parts of the collection were given by Dianne Webb (via Frances Breeze) in memory of Manny and Harold Chapman. Includes a handwritten score by Harold Chapman.

Collected by Harold Halstead.

Includes programs from Chrysler Hall, Smithfield, Hampton Roads Coliseum, York High School, Kecoughtan High School, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, James Blair Elementary School, William and Mary Concert Series, Virginia Museum Theatre, Bruton Parish Church, Virginia Opera Association and others. Some newspaper reviews included.

Drawings by C. Allan Gilbert. Published by arrangement with Mr. Marcus R. Mayer. R.H. Russell, New York, Publisher.

Theatre programs, newspaper articles, and photographs of actors and actresses.

Three catalogues for cooking items.

1966 ticket stub from the Silver City Ferry and a 1962 ticket stub for the Pan American, from Munich to Berlin.

The Royal Edition of the Contral to Album with Italian and English Words, edited by J. Pittman, Boosey & Co., London and New York. Edition is prior to 1899.

The Victor Book of the Opera, Victor Talking Machine Co., Campden, New Jersey, 1912, owned by Harold Chapman.

Operatic Anthology and Celebrated Arias..., edited by Max Specker, G. Schirmer, 1904. Frances Breeze performed some of this music.

The Sound of Music, Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein, II, Libretto, Williamson Music, Inc., New York, 1960.

Biographical / historical:

Frances was a soprano who performed with many of the world's leading musical companies and on the Broadway stage. She attended Julliard School of Music in NYC. She was a faculty member at William and Mary from 1973 to 1983.

Acquisition information:
Gift.
Processing information:

Processing and finding aid completed by Anne Johnson, Special Collections Assistant, in January 2014.

Arrangement:

Arranged in series by name of creator and subseries by type of material. Series 4 contains list of items removed from collection and filed elsewhere.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard