Series II: Public Lectures and Performances
Language of Materials
English.
Scope and Contents
This series consists of audio recordings of public lectures, dramatic readings, and performances presented and organized by Ewen in the 1950s and 1960s. The recordings include performances by Ruby Dee, Ossie Davis, John Randolph, and Sarah Cunningham.
Poetry and the Voice of Mankind Series: Ewen lectures "Whitman - Poet of Democracy" and "William Butler Yeats and T.S. Eliot - The Poetry of Reaction" - Tape 1 of 2 (90 minute tape), Feb 15, 1954 , Feb 22, 1954
Box: 4, Folder: OH 52-27 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Poetry and the Voice of Mankind Series: Ewen lectures "Whitman - Poet of Democracy" and "William Butler Yeats and T.S. Eliot - The Poetry of Reaction" - Tape 2 of 2 (90 minute tape), Feb 15, 1954 , Feb 22, 1954
Box: 4, Folder: OH 52-28 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Poetry and the Voice of Mankind Series: Ewen lecture "Garcia Lorca and Pablo Neruda: Voices of Spain and Latin America" - Tape 1 of 2 (90 minute tape), Mar 1, 1954
Box: 4, Folder: OH 52-29 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Poetry and the Voice of Mankind Series: Ewen lecture "Garcia Lorca and Pablo Neruda: Voices of Spain and Latin America" - Tape 2 of 2 (90 minute tape), Mar 1, 1954
Box: 4, Folder: OH 52-30 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Poetry and the Voice of Mankind Series: Ewen lecture "Singing Tomorrows - The Poetry of Resistance and Heroism" - Tape 1 of 2 (90 minute tape), Mar 8, 1954
Box: 4, Folder: OH 52-31 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Poetry and the Voice of Mankind Series: Ewen lecture "Singing Tomorrows - The Poetry of Resistance and Heroism" - Tape 2 of 2 (90 minute tape), Mar 8, 1954
Box: 4, Folder: OH 52-32 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Theater of Ideas Series with lectures and dramatic readings by Ewen and actors: Euripides' The Trojan Womenand Hans Chlumberg's Miracle at Verdunwith Ruby Dee - Tape 1 of 2 (Performers in the series include Sarah Cunningham, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Ludwig Donath and Marjorie Nelson) (90 minute tape), Oct 4, 1954
Box: 4, Folder: OH 52-33 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Theater of Ideas Series with lectures and dramatic readings by Ewen and actors: Euripides' The Trojan Womenand Hans Chlumberg's Miracle at Verdunwith Ruby Dee - Tape 2 of 2 (Performers in the series include Sarah Cunningham, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Ludwig Donath and Marjorie Nelson) (90 minute tape), Oct 4, 1954
Box: 4, Folder: OH 52-34 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Theater of Ideas Series with lectures and dramatic readings by Ewen and actors: Bertolt Brecht's Galileoand August Strindberg's The Dream Play- Tape 1 of 2 (Performers in the series included Sarah Cunningham, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Ludwig Donath and Marjorie Nelson) (90 minute tape), Oct 25, 1954 , Nov 8, 1954
Box: 4, Folder: OH 52-35 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Theater of Ideas Series with lectures and dramatic readings by Ewen and actors: Bertolt Brecht's Galileoand August Strindberg's The Dream Play- Tape 2 of 2 (Performers in the series included Sarah Cunningham, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Ludwig Donath and Marjorie Nelson) (90 minute tape), Oct 25, 1954 , Nov 8, 1954
Box: 4, Folder: OH 52-36 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Master Institute Drama Tours: scene from Aeschylus' Agamemnon -Tape 1 of 2, and scene from Aristophanes' Lysistratawith lecture by Ewen (Performers in the series included Jacob Ben-Ami, Herschel Bernardi, Morris Carnovsky, Howard Da Silva, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee and John Randolph) (90 minute tape), Jan 31, 1955 , Feb 7, 1955
Box: 4, Folder: OH 52-37 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Master Institute Drama Tours: scene from Aeschylus' Agamemnon- Tape 2 of 2, and Ewen lecture "Elektra" (Performers in the series included Jacob Ben-Ami, Herschel Bernardi, Morris Carnovsky, Howard Da Silva, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee and John Randolph) (90 minute tape), Jan 31, 1955 , Feb 7, 1955
Box: 4, Folder: OH 52-38 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Master Institute Drama Tours: scene from Sophocles' Oedipus Rexwith lecture by Ewen, and Machiavelli's Mandragola(approximately 60 minutes) (Performers in the series included Jacob Ben-Ami, Herschel Bernardi, Morris Carnovsky, Howard Da Silva, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee and John Randolph) (90 minute tape), Jan 31, 1955 , Feb 14, 1955
Box: 4, Folder: OH 52-39 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Master Institute Drama Tours: scenes from [Sophocles'?] Elektraand Shakespeare's Measure for Measure(Performers in the series included Jacob Ben-Ami, Herschel Bernardi, Morris Carnovsky, Howard Da Silva, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee and John Randolph) (90 minute tape), Feb 7, 1955 , Feb 21, 1955
Box: 4, Folder: OH 52-40 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Master Institute Drama Tours: scenes from Christopher Marlowe's Dr. Faustus(with Ossie Davis) and Shakespeare's King Henry VI, Part 3 and Measure for Measure(Performers in the series included Jacob Ben-Ami, Herschel Bernardi, Morris Carnovsky, Howard Da Silva, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee and John Randolph) (90 minute tape), Feb 14, 1955 , Feb 21, 1955
Box: 4, Folder: OH 52-41 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Master Institute Drama Tours: Ewen lecture "Dr. Faustus"; performance of Bertolt Brecht's Mahagonny- Tape 3 of 3 [Tapes 1 and 2 of 3 are on OH 52-54 and OH 52-55] (Performers in the series included Jacob Ben-Ami, Herschel Bernardi, Morris Carnovsky, Howard Da Silva, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee and John Randolph); performance of Bertolt Brecht's Mother Couragewith Germaine Montero and music by Paul Dessau (90 minute tape), Feb 14, 1955 , undated, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: OH 52-42 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Master Institute Drama Tours: Shakespeare's Measure for Measureand John Webster's Duchess of Malfi(Performers in the series included Jacob Ben-Ami, Herschel Bernardi, Morris Carnovsky, Howard Da Silva, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee and John Randolph) (90 minute tape), Feb 21, 1955 , Feb 28, 1955
Box: 4, Folder: OH 52-43 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Master Institute Lecture Series on Greek Tragedy and the Modern Playwright: Ewen lecture "Prometheus and Antigone from Goethe and Shelley to Anouilh" - Tape 1 of 2 [duplicates part of OH 52-53] (90 minute tape), Mar 1, 1958
Box: 4, Folder: OH 52-44 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Master Institute Lecture Series on Greek Tragedy and the Modern Playwright: Ewen lecture "Prometheus and Antigone from Goethe and Shelley to Anouilh" - Tape 2 of 2"Tribute to Robert Burns, in Commemoration of the 200th Anniversary of the Poet's Birth," planned by Ewen with Phoebe Brand, John McLiam, Mary Rose McMaster, Fredi Dundee, Marvin Worden and David Labovitz - Tape 1 of 2 (90 minute tape), Mar 1, 1958 , Dec 27, 1959
Box: 4, Folder: OH 52-45 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Tribute to Robert Burns, in Commemoration of the 200th Anniversary of the Poet's Birth, planned by Ewen with Phoebe Brand, John McLiam, Mary Rose McMaster, Fredi Dundee, Marvin Worden and David Labovitz - Tape 2 of 2. Recordings of works by composer Hanns Eisler: settings of five songs by Bertolt Brecht (Part 1), Nonette #2and Opus 5(Part 2, continued on OH 52-49) - Tape 1 of 2 (90 minute tape) 2 copies, Dec 27, 1959 , undated, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: OH 52-46 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Master Institute Lecture Series: Ewen lecture "The Jew in Modern Drama" with readings by Ludwig Donath and John Randolph (approximately 70 minutes) (90 minute tape), Nov 13, 1960
Box: 4, Folder: OH 52-47 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Camera 3 Production: "Unknown Chekhov" with Ewen and John Randolph; excerpts from Ernst Bloch's Schelomofor cello and Beethoven's FidelioOverture with a reading by John Randolph (90 minute tape), Dec 24, 1967 , undated, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: OH 52-48 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Recordings of works by composer Hanns Eisler: Opus 5(Part 2, continued from OH 52-46), settings of songs by Bertolt Brecht (Parts 3 and 4) Riverside Radio Roundtable Series: "Bertolt Brecht in Our Time: Man or Myth?" hosted by Cyril Peters, with Frederick Ewen and Andzej Wirth - Tape 1 of 2 (90 minute tape) 2 copies, undated , Jan 26, 1968, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: OH 52-49 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Riverside Radio Roundtable Series: "Bertolt Brecht in Our Time: Man or Myth?" hosted by Cyril Peters, with Frederick Ewen and Andzej Wirth - Tape 2 of 2 Performance of Bertolt Brecht's Mahagonny- Tape 1 of 3 (60 minutes) [duplicates part of OH 52-54] (90 minute tape), Jan 26, 1968 , undated, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: OH 52-50 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Ewen lecture on Bertolt Brecht at Columbia University, with John Randolph reading - Tape 1 of 2 (90 minute tape), Mar 18, 1968
Box: 4, Folder: OH 52-51 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Ewen lecture on Bertolt Brecht at Columbia University, with John Randolph reading - Tape 2 of 2 (approximately 40 minutes)(90 minute tape), Mar 18, 1968
Box: 4, Folder: OH 52-52 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Recordings of songs and texts by Bertolt Brecht, introduced by Lee Baxandall. Master Institute Lecture Series on Greek Tragedy and the Modern Playwright: Ewen lecture "Prometheus and Antigone from Goethe and Shelley to Anouilh" - Tape 1 of 2 [duplicates part of OH 52-44] (90 minute tape), undated , Mar. 1, 1958, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: OH 52-53 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Performance of Bertolt Brecht's Mahagonny- Tape 1 of 3 (approximately 60 minutes) (90 minute tape), undated
Box: 4, Folder: OH 52-54 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Performance of Bertolt Brecht's Mahagonny- Tape 2 of 3 (approximately 35 minutes) [Tape 3 of 3 is on OH 52-42] (90 minute tape), undated, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: OH 52-55 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
Performance of Bertolt Brecht's Schweyk in the Second World Warwith Pia Colombo, Jean Bouise and Clotilde Joans (approximately 60 minutes) (90 minute tape), undated, inclusive
Box: 4, Folder: OH 52-56 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
