Description
Personal collection of Walter J. Kasura (1918-1983); donated to the University in 1986 by his family after Kasura’s death. Manuscripts, research notes, personal papers, and published works, including Russian and gypsy folk songs, other vocal and choral works, instrumental solos, scores and parts for orchestral and chamber performing ensembles (including many arrangements by Kasura), instrumental methods books, and reference books on performance practice, repertory, and historical development of the balalaika, domra, and Slavic folk orchestra.
Holdings of Russian and East European music for folk ensembles have been complemented by subsequent acquisitions of the Alexander Kutin Collection and by smaller donations, notably from the estates of Mark A. Selivan and Emanuil Sheynkman.
Location/Access
Sousa Archives and Center for American Music
- See the Walter J. Kasura Russian Folk Music Collection, 1960-1983 finding aid for details about the collection at the Sousa Archives and Center for American Music.
Music and Performing Arts Library
- A small number of published materials were added to MPAL.
Index terms
- Balalaika music
- Belorussian folk music
- Domra music
- Grushko, Nicholas
- Kasura, Walter
- Russian folk instrument ensemble music
- Russian folk music
- Ukrainian folk music