CATALOG UPDATES
Hei hei! NAHA is currently undating our archival catalog. Some finding aids are currently unavailable. Please contact the NAHA archivist with any questions.
Ola Hanche-Olsen papers, 1908-1995
- Title
- Ola Hanche-Olsen papers, 1908-1995
- Identifier
- P1502
- Date
- 1908-1995
- Creator
- Hanche-Olsen, Ola
- Description
- Tidevann; Sandefjord gutten som ble en av verdens største dirigenter, a biography or a documentary novel by a nephew of the director and composer Ole Windingstad based on information Hanche-Olsen garnered from his parents who visited Windingstad, from letters Windingstad wrote to his sister, and from extensive reviews, reports, and critiques that had appeared in Norwegian-American newspapers. Windingstad was born May 18, l886, at Sandefjord, Norway. After studies in Oslo and Leipzig, he settled in New York in 1906. He was director of the Nord-mændenes Sangforening in Brooklyn from 1911 to 1939, but also led many other choral, orchestral, and operatic groups in the New York area, including visiting musical organizations from Norway. He conducted the New Orleans Symphony Orchestra for four years. He made orchestral arrangements and composed a number of pieces. His most notable symphonic work may have been "The Tides." He died June 3, l959. The file also contains 35 clippings, a 1922 concert program, and a 1923 letter.
Includes:- photocopy of Ola, Hanche-Olsen, Tidevann: Sandefjordgutten som ble en av verdens største dirigenter, a private publication, intended (for the time being) for a restricted circle…number 11 of 12, 264 pp. (1989). 1989
- Book. Clippings on Windingstad. Includes: news clippings (1910-1955), most in Norwegian, about Ole Windingstad, including Bravo! Ole Windingstad! (at that time conductor of The Greater New Orleans Symphony Orchestra); The Times-Picayune (Jul. 12, 1943); Who Is This Sinatra? Phooey on Jazzicians! (Fri. Aug. 13); Windingstad Conducts Grieg's A-Minor Concerto at Poughkeepsie (Nov. 11, 1948); article about Windingstad and Percy Grainger at Carnegie Hall, Nordisk Tidende (1953). Many of the articles contain pictures of Windingstad. File also contains copy of Ole Windingstad Sandefjordgutten som ble berømt amerikansk dirigent, The Norseman (Nov. 1995), pp. 30-33; Wetlesen, Anton, Ole Windingstad, copy of part of text about Windingstad, Norden (Jan.(?), 1931); Synopsis, Grand Norwegian Concert, in Brooklyn Academy of Music, The Scandinavian Symphony Orchestra, The United Scandinavian Singers, Ole Windingstad, Augusta Tollefesen, Erik Bye, Nora Fauchald (Feb. 26, 1922); letter to Carl Hansen (letter says Hansen) from J. A. O. Stub re: Windingstad's merits and the possibility of his coming to Minneapolis (Jan. 15, 1923). 1910-1995
- Book. Clippings about Skandinavisk Musikforening (conductor: Windingstad). Includes: 4 newspaper clippings (in Norwegian) (1908). 1908
- Extent
- 3 folders
- Subject
- Skandinavisk Musikforening
- Type
- Book
- Clippings
Citation
Hanche-Olsen, Ola, “Ola Hanche-Olsen papers, 1908-1995,” Norwegian-American Historical Association, accessed September 21, 2024, https://norwegianamericanhistory.org/catalog/items/show/10749.