A Guide to the Thomas Simmons Music Collection 1940-1966
A Collection in
The Special Collections Department
Accession Number 4824-f
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Administrative Information
Access Restrictions
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Preferred Citation
Thomas Simmons Music Collection, Accession #4824-f, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.
Acquisition Information
This collection was given to the library by David Baker of Hartford, Connecticut on March 16, 1988.
Biographical/Historical Information
American composer.
Scope and Content Information
The collection contains musical settings by Simmons for traditional ballads collected by Winston Wilkinson, as well as for troubadour songs and miscellaneous lyrics. Of interest are a musical play "The wife of Usher's well" in collaboration with Frank Baer, John Powell's introduction to Wilkinson's Blue Ridge ballads, and Cecil Sharp's arrangement of "Fanny Blair".
Correspondents include Frank Baer, Elio Gianturco, Sarah Cecil Stafford, and Winston Wilkinson.