Beyond Paper: Treasures and Curiosities from the Gilmore Archives

The Gilmore Music Library is home to numerous important archival collections, manuscripts, and rare books, but our new exhibit, Beyond Paper: Treasures and Curiosities from the Gilmore Archives, focuses instead on 23 objects you might not expect to find in a library. They include the baton from Arturo Toscanini’s last concert before the outbreak of World War II, one of Vladimir Horowitz’s Grammy Awards, baseballs autographed by the Mets and the Cardinals, an Easter egg decorated by Paul Hindemith, Benny Goodman’s dental impressions, Henry Gilbert’s baby hair and death mask, and casts of the hands of Horowitz and Chopin. Beyond Paper is free and open to the public. It will be on display at the Gilmore Music Library through May 31. Read more here...

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