Bach Choir of Bethlehem (Bethlehem, Pa.)
Organization
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Jacob Mark Frey Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0068
Abstract
Collection of correspondence, photographs, newspaper clippings gathered by J. Mark Frey, related to Lehigh University, Lehigh YMCA, Chinese students, Bethlehem Bach Choir and Bethlehem Steel Corporation. Frey was the secretary of Lehigh YMCA and involved with Americanization and naturalization classes for Bethlehem Steel’s immigrant workers and an enthusiast of the Bethlehem Bach Choir. The collection provides a valuable picture of one employee’s life at Lehigh University in the...
Dates:
1916-1942; Majority of material found in 1919
Found in:
Lehigh University Special Collections
John Frederick Wolle Music Manuscripts
Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0087
Abstract
An interesting collection of musical scores in J. Fred. Wolle’s own hand which exhibits Wolle’s diverse musical talent. Although, Wolle is primarily known as a serious J. S. Bach scholar and founder of the Bethlehem Bach Choir, the musical scores included in this collection display both his creative side with student chorus songs of humorous nature as well as serious hymns written for church liturgies. The collection contains an assortment of secular and sacred music and two songs that...
Dates:
1884 - 1915
Found in:
Lehigh University Special Collections
Scrapbook of Bethlehem Bach Choir, January 1917
Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0236
Abstract
This scrapbook contains newspaper clippings relating to the Bach Choir’s first appearance outside Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
This event occurred in January 1917 appearing in Carnegie Hall, New YorkCity as a featured participant in the New York
Philharmonic’s 75th anniversary festival. Charles Schwab of Bethlehem Steel Company generously paid for the trip to New York.
Lehigh University’s Henry Drinker provided the logistics for getting the 300 members of the Choir to New York for the...
Dates:
1916-1917; October 1916 to June 2, 1917
Found in:
Lehigh University Special Collections
William L. Estes, Jr. Papers, 1895-1971
Collection
Identifier: SC MS 0014
Abstract
Personal papers of William L. Estes, Jr., M.D. Includes diary of his experiences as Army surgeon in World War I, and papers relating to his subsequent medical career in Bethlehem, Pa., and his civic activities in that city.
Dates:
1895-1971
Found in:
Lehigh University Special Collections
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- Musicians 2
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- Alumni Memorial Building 1
- Audiotapes 1
- Bach Choir, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 1
- Bethlehem (Pa.) 1
- Bethlehem (Pa.)—History. 1
- Carnegie Hall, New York City 1
- Chinese students 1
- Composers 1
- Diaries 1
- Diplomas 1
- Drown Memorial Hall 1
- Lecture notes 1
- Lehigh University 1
- Letters (correspondence) 1
- Medicine 1
- Military medic 1
- Moravians 1
- Music 1
- Musical event 1
- Musical manuscripts 1
- Naturalization -- United States 1
- New York Philharmonic 1
- Notebooks 1
- Notes 1
- Packer Memorial Church 1
- Packer Memorial Church (Bethlehem, Pa.) 1
- Pamphlets 1
- Phonograph records 1
- Postcards. 1
- Price Hall 1
- Scrapbooks 1
- Students, Foreign 1
- Surgeon General 1
- Typescripts 1
- United States -- Emigration and immigration 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- France 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Medical care -- France 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives 1
- YMCA of the USA. 1
- Young Men's Christian Association (Lehigh University) 1 + ∧ less
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