869 results for: Performing Arts and Music
Photograph
Coliseum Theater, Seattle, 1967
In March 1915, local lumber baron and businessman C. D. Stimson leased lots on the northeast corner of Fifth Avenue and Pike Street to the newly formed Coliseum Company to build an elegant theater designed specifically for movies, then called photoplays. The Coliseum remained Seattle's premier movie house into the 1980s, when it lost out to suburban multiplexes. It closed…
ID Number:1980.7067.1.11.1
Date:Circa 1967
Program
Metropolitan Theatre program for Martha Graham recital, June 2, 1930
Martha Graham, the pioneering modern dancer and choreographer, performed at the Metropolitan Theatre in Seattle in 1930. This program lists the twelve pieces performed, including "Immigrant," "Adolescence," and "Poems of 1917." Martha Graham was accompanied by composer-pianist Louis Horst. The center of the program advertises a special dance course to be offered by Martha Graham at The Cornish School of…
ID Number:1980.7083.11
Date:1930
Ephemera
Martha Graham recital summary, June 3, 1930
This is a summary and review of the June 2, 1930, dance recital by noted modern dancer and choreographer Martha Graham at the Metropolitan Theatre in Seattle. The summary is unsigned and typewritten but includes handwritten amendments to the text. The text describes the twelve dances Martha Graham performed with commentary and criticism of each piece and ends advising "she…
ID Number:1980.7083.12
Date:1930
Music, notated
Golden Potlatch Carnival March and Two Step
The Tilikums of Elttaes were a fraternal, civic organization composed primarily of influential white Seattle area businessmen, who used Native American imagery to promote tourism and the economic development of the city. In July 1911 the Tilikums ("Friends" in Chinook Jargon; Elttaes is Seattle spelled backward) organized the first Golden Potlatch celebration. The Golden Potlatch was a city-wide festival held…
ID Number:1980.7097A.1
Date:1912
Music, notated
Come Thru: Official Song of the Seattle Girls' War Relief Bazaar
When the United States joined World War I in 1917, the University of Washington was selected as the location for a military hospital, named Base Hospital 50. The city was responsible for building and outfitting the hospital, a cost estimated at $50,000. The Seattle Girls’ War Work Association organized a huge, six-day bazaar to raise the funds. Over 12,500 volunteers…
ID Number:1980.7097A.4
Date:1917
Music, notated
I'll Meet You in Seattle 19 and 9
Seattle held its first world's fair, the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (AYPE) in 1909. The fair promoted the region's growth and prosperity that had begun with the 1897 arrival of the first shipment of Yukon gold. "I'll Meet You In Seattle '19 and 9'" was but one of the songs written at the time to promote the AYPE.Only the covers of the…
ID Number:1980.7097A.10
Date:1909
Music, notated
Come Out West and Be Our Guest
Seattle held its first world’s fair, the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (AYPE) in 1909. The fair promoted the region’s growth and prosperity that had begun with the 1897 arrival of the first shipment of Yukon gold. The lyrics to "Come Out West And Be Our Guest" invite people from all sections of the country to visit the AYPE. The cover shows Mount…
ID Number:1980.7097A.14
Date:1909
Music, notated
The New Steel Trail
The Chicago, Milwaukee, & St. Paul Railway, known as The Milwaukee Road, started service between the Midwest and Seattle in 1909. In 1911, the company added two new, all-steel, state of the art trains to the line, one of which was called The Olympian. When the United States entered World War I in 1918, the Milwaukee Road reduced all trains'…
ID Number:1980.7097A.15
Date:1918
Music, notated
See You in Seattle (at the Big World's Fair)
The Century 21 Exposition, Seattle's World's Fair, ran from April 21 to October 21, 1962. The fair promoted the worlds of space, science, and the future. The cover of this sheet music shows a woman, a man, and a little girl walking excitedly through the fairgrounds below the Space Needle. The official logo of the fair is printed below the…
ID Number:1980.7097A.20
Date:1961
Music, notated
The Boosters
The words and music for "The Boosters," a march and two-step dedicated to the officials of the A. Y. P. E., were written by Axel Gylfe, a photographer and musician who lived in Aberdeen. The Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition (AYPE) was a world's fair held in 1909 on the campus of Seattle's University of Washington to promote the growth and prosperity of…
ID Number:1980.7097A.21
Date:1908