Collection of material related to careers of composer Igor Stravinsky and Ballets Russes founder Serge Diaghilev, assembled by the Stravinsky-Diaghilev Foundation founder and president, Parmenia Migel Ekstrom.
Dates
- 1912-1989
Language of Materials
Collection materials are in English, Russian, and French.
Conditions Governing Access
There are no restrictions on physical access to this material.
Extent
18 linear feet (33 boxes and 3 pf drawers)
This collection came as part of a larger donation of papers of Parmenia Migel Ekstrom. The papers consist of three major sections: original material related to Ballet Russes, collected by the Stravinsky-Diaghilev foundation; research files, assembled by the Stravinsky-Diaghilev Foundation; and personal papers of Parmenia Migel Ekstrom. A separate finding aid was created for each section of the donation.
This collection includes typescripts and manuscripts of memoirs of members of Ballets Russes, and compositions on ballet history by others; collected correspondence of members of Ballets Russes, Serge Diaghilev's contracts with dancers and companies; Ballets Russes financial records, primarily for the 1913 ballet and opera season in Paris, photographs from private collections of Ballets Russes dancers, picture files, original costume and stage designs for Ballets Russes productions and productions of Stravinsky's operas, and other material related to Igor Stravinsky, Serge Diaghilev, and Ballets Russes.
Material in this collection represents a smaller part of the entire Stravinsky-Diaghilev Foundation collection related to Ballets Russes. The majority of the material is at the Theatre Museum in London .
This collection includes typescripts and manuscripts of memoirs of members of Ballets Russes, and compositions on ballet history by others; collected correspondence of members of Ballets Russes, Serge Diaghilev's contracts with dancers and companies; Ballets Russes financial records, primarily for the 1913 ballet and opera season in Paris, photographs from private collections of Ballets Russes dancers, picture files, original costume and stage designs for Ballets Russes productions and productions of Stravinsky's operas, and other material related to Igor Stravinsky, Serge Diaghilev, and Ballets Russes.
Material in this collection represents a smaller part of the entire Stravinsky-Diaghilev Foundation collection related to Ballets Russes. The majority of the material is at the Theatre Museum in London .
Biographical / Historical
Stravinsky-Diaghilev Foundation was established in New York in the late 1950s by the dance scholar and writer Parmenia Migel Ekstrom (1908-1989). Although she started her career as a writer under her maiden name, Parmenia Migel, in her subsequent career as a dance scholar and collector, she used her married name, Mrs. Parmenia Ekstrom. The form Parmenia Migel Ekstrom (PME) is used in this finding aid.
Stravinsky-Diaghilev Foundation collected materials related to Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) and Serge Diaghilev (1870-1929), organized exhibitions on dance, promoted dance research, and supported a great number of writers, researchers and students of dance by providing reference and giving them access to the collection.
Stravinsky-Diaghilev Foundation collected materials related to Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) and Serge Diaghilev (1870-1929), organized exhibitions on dance, promoted dance research, and supported a great number of writers, researchers and students of dance by providing reference and giving them access to the collection.
Arrangement
Arranged into the following series:
- I. Compositions
- II. Autograph letters
- III. Ballets Russes business records
- IV. Music scores
- V. Sound recordings and film
- VI. Photographs
- VII. Picture files
- VIII. Drawings and designs
- IX. Prints
- X. Objects
- XI. Posters
Physical Location
b, HD
Immediate Source of Acquisition
89-90.177; 90-91.6.1-632; 90-91.7.1-106; 93-94. 097. Gift of Arne H. Ekstrom, 525 East 85th Street, New York, New York, 10028; received: 1990-1994.
Separated Materials
The other papers received in the donation from Parmenia Migel Ekstrom have been cataloged into separate finding aids as:
Also separated from this collection were books on dance, theatre and design from the Stravinsky-Diaghilev Foundation and Parmenia Migel Ekstrom's library, programs, postersfor exhibitions and companies, and early theatrical portraits. Books were cataloged in Harvard's HOLLIS catalog; programs, posters and theatrical portraits were incorporated into the Harvard Theatre Collection general files. Provenance for each item was indicated.
Listing of original deposit is available in the curatorial file for the collection.
Listing of original deposit is available in the curatorial file for the collection.
- Title
- Migel, Parmenia, collector. Stravinsky-Diaghilev Foundation collection, 1912-1989: Guide.
- Author
- Harvard Theatre Collection, Houghton Library, Harvard College Library
- Description rules
- dacs
- EAD ID
- hou01892
Repository Details
Part of the Houghton Library Repository
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Harvard Yard
Harvard University
Cambridge MA 02138 USA
(617) 495-2440
Houghton_Library@harvard.edu