Scrapbooks

Scrapbooks that were gifted to or created by Herbert and Trudl Zipper. The pages contain materials like newspaper clippings, photographs, and concert programs that showcase their lives as artists and advocates of the arts. The scrapbooks have materials dated from 1915 to 1989.

See the albums below for a selection of scrapbook pages from various scrapbooks: Early Life, Manila, Brooklyn, and Chicago.

Overview
Papers
Music Manuscripts
Photographs
Scrapbooks
Audio and Visual Recordings
Art, Posters, and Objects
Trudl Dubsky Zipper

Manila

Trudl Dubsky’s 1st Dance Recital in Manila (1937)
Herbert Zipper arrives in Manila (July 1939)
Debut performance of Manila Ballet Moderne (November 1939)
First regular symphony concert of The Manila Symphony Orchestra (August 1940)
Articles featuring Dr. Zipper (August 1941)
Santa Cruz liberation concert (May 1945)
U.S. Army symphony concerts at the Rex Theatre (September 1945)
The Zippers return to Manila (1951)
Manila Symphony Society stages “Midsummer Night’s Dream” (September 1951)
President Quirino of the Philippines attends Beethoven Festival (August 1952)
“Two Boys with Magic Bows” (August 1953)
“Kids Like Good Music” (July 1954)
Manila Symphony Society’s “Die Fledermaus” (August 1954)
Manila Symphony Society’s “The Bartered Bride” (August 1955)
“Carmen” in Tagalog (August 1956)
Dr. Zipper conducts an All-Beethoven concert (July 1957)
Dr. Zipper conducts a Pops concert (July 1958)
 

Brooklyn

Early days of Dr. Zipper’s efforts to revive the Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra (June 1947)
Article featuring Dr. Zipper (October 1947)
First rehearsal of the Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra (February 1949)
Premiere concert of the Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra (March 1949)
Review of the premiere concert of the Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra (March 1949)
Articles featuring the Zippers (1949)
Letter from New York State Department (April 1949)
“The Zippers are Free in Brooklyn” (1949)
“The Zippers are Free in Brooklyn” (1949)
Reviews of “The Barrier” (June 1950)
New School of Social Research and Dramatic Workshop (1950 & 1952)
Dramatic Workshop programs (1947)
Dramatic Workshop photograph (1947)
Dramatic Workshop programs (1947)
Dramatic Workshop program and photographs (1947)
 

Chicago

Zippers begin at the Winnetka Music School (August 1953)
School concert review clippings (May 1954)
Community Music Center of the North Shore school concert program( May 1954)
Music Center Symphony Orchestra drawing by Trudl Dubsky Zipper (circa 1954)
Winnetka School of Music materials (1953-1955)
Dr. Zipper named conductor of Chicago Businessmen’s Orchestra (May 1955)
Dr. Zipper and the Chicago Businessmen’s Orchestra (November 1955)
Fine Arts Quartet seminar programs (1956)
Dr. Zipper and the Chicago Businessmen’s Orchestra (November 1956)
Zippers at the Community Music Center of the North Shore (February 1958)
School concerts at Timber Ridge school (October 1958)
Community Music Center of the North Shore dance recital program (May 1959)
Community Music Center of the North Shore production photographs (May 1960)
Dr. Zipper revives Schoenberg’s “Pierrot Lunaire” (May 1960)
Praise for the Music Center of the North Shore (September 1960)