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Category: From the Director

Digitizing the Grauman Collection

2021/12/01 kpleonard

I’m delighted to announce that SFSMA will be working with the American Music Research Center (AMRC) at the University of Read More …

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Grant from the Victor Herbert Foundation

2021/05/03 kpleonard

I’m delighted to announce that SFSMA has received a grant from the Victor Herbert Foundation to assist with the transcribing, Read More …

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Erno Rapee, Motion Picture Moods

2021/03/172021/03/17 kpleonard

I am delighted to announce that at last we have a beautiful and clean scan of Erno Rapee’s Motion Picture Read More …

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SFSMA in the Journal of the Society for American Music

2020/12/022020/12/02 kpleonard

SFSMA’s gotten a great review by Erin M. Brooks in The Journal of the Society for American Music! Download it as Read More …

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Black Lives Matter

2020/06/04 kpleonard

The Board of the Silent Film Sound and Music Archive condemns the murders of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, Read More …

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New Acquisitions

2020/04/21 kpleonard

SFSMA is delighted to announce the acquisition of three new collections for the Archive. We’ll be scanning materials and creating Read More …

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Thank you!

2019/11/13 kpleonard

Thank you to everyone who has supported SFSMA this year! We appreciate your time, material donations, and financial generosity in Read More …

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New: Cue Sheets from the Adele V. Sullivan Collection

2019/02/082019/02/08 kpleonard

We’ve just added 41 cue sheets from the collection of Adele V. Sullivan, a Colorado cinema accompanist whose papers are Read More …

From the Directorcue sheets, part-talkie, phonographs

On cue sheets

2018/11/15 kpleonard

SFSMA Executive Director Kendra Leonard on the uses and adaptations of cue sheets for NewMusicBox: “Taking a Cue: Accompanying Early Read More …

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SFSMA on NewMusicBox!

2018/11/08 kpleonard

SFSMA Executive Director Kendra Leonard has authored four articles for NewMusicBox on music for silent films old and new! Check Read More …

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