PITTSBURGH MUSIC - ARCHIVAL MATERIAL

THE GARDNER FAMILY

Contents

• Papers and compositions of Carl and Malvine Gardner
• Compositions
• News clippings
• Radio commentaries (13) on cultural trends of the day (1924)
• Correspondence
• Notes from four lectures and programs of Mildred Alvine Gardner

Time period  1868-1992

• Father: Carl G. Gardner 1868 - ?
• Mother: Malvine Gardner (1925 - 1927)
• Daughter: Mildred Alvine Gardner 1899- 1992 (Bakerstown, PA and New York, NY)

Location

Oliver Room, Pittsburgh Music Archive #9 (2 boxes)

FINDING LIST

BOX I

Folder I

• Gardner’s Music Studio pamphlet
• Carl Gardner String Quartet - specimen program
• Gardner’s "Violin", Band and Orchestra School folders (3)
• Gardner’s Military Concert Band - stationery
• Photo: Gardner String Quartet
• Gardner’s Military Band & Orchestra - poster
• Gardner’s Military Band & Orchestra - contract
• Gardner’s Violin, Zither, Mandolin and Orchestral School - folder
• Gardner’s Euphony Orchestra - program
• Music and Musicians - announcement of Gardner’s compositions
• Gardner’s Quintet Club - photo card
• Carl G. Gardner and his "Viennese Zither" - folder
• Educational Record (2)
• Teaching Record (2)

Folder II - Compositions by Carl G. Gardner

Published
• Academy - March and Two-Step
• Hobson-Arnold Kiss
• The Military Band March
• Queen of Youth
• The Seashore Girl
• Wee Curly-Head (arrangement)

Manuscript
• Amorously Adoration - Concert Waltz
• Brigade March
• Giants of the Virgil Club March
• Hymn of Thanksgiving
• Life’s Happy Springtime
• Salute to Greensburg March
• The Spirit of the Infantry - Military March

Folder III - Manuscript Books (2) of her piano compositions (1925-1927)

Folder IV

• Letter from Robert W. Dumm to Kathryn P. Logan - March 28, 2004
• The Music of Mildred Alvine Gardner - concert program of May 26, 1995
• Photo of Mildred Alvine Gardner - presented by Robert Dumm, 2004
• Letter from Robert W. Dumm to Ed Kuhn - May 11, 1995
• Cassette tape of May 26, 1995 and concert program
• Cassette tape April 18, 1984 - conversation between Mildred Gardner and Robert Dumm

Folder V - Newspaper clippings (1924) of her radio appearances on the "Voice of Central Park" (New York City) as pianist and hostess.

Folder VI - Her radio commentaries (13) on cultural trends of the day (1924)

Folder VII - Public relations flyers and notices of her early performances

Folder VIII - Notes from four lectures (1952, 1953, 1962)

Folder IX

• Letters of rejection from publishers (Associated Music Publishers, Boston Music Company, Theodore Presser Co.)
• Certificate of Copyright Registration for "Three Pieces for Woodwind Quartet" (June 30, 1981)

Folder X - Recital programs of students of Mildred Gardner and Carl G. Gardner for 1948, 1951, 1952, 1953, and 1954

BOX II

Compositions of Mildred Alvine Gardner

• And Turn to Music Every Jarring Sound
• And You Sit There Smiling
• Bidding the Moon
• Children’s Sketches
• Come O’er the Sea
• Gentle Lady
• (The) Daisies
• Day Dreams
• Deeper Identification
• Eight Miniatures for Piano
• Fugue
• Gentle Lady
• Gifts for a Girl
• How Dark and Single
• Hymn: "Thou are near, O Lord"
• In Lands I Never Saw
• (The) Lake
• (The) Last Sail
• Love’s Secret
• Madonna
• My Garden
• My Spirit is Free
• My Star
• Night Piece
• Nocturne
• Poem
• Prelude
• Rose Philosophy
• September Separation
• Serenade
• Signature for Tempo I
• (The) Sleep that Flits on Baby’s Eyes
• To Jack Niles
• Sonata for Two Pianos
• Song
• Teach Me Your Mood
• Te Deum
• Three Pieces for Woodwind Quintet
• Three Poems of Thomas Moore
• (The) Time is Short
• When I Am Gone, Dear One
• White Buzzard