The
Larry Taylor-Billy Matthews Musical Theater Archive is a comprehensive
collection of recordings and music focusing primarily on American
musical theater and popular music.
The
collection includes 15,000 long-playing records, 2500 compact discs,
several hundred video and audio cassettes, and 20,000 pieces of sheet
music. There are more than 1,000 piano-conductor scores, vocal scores
and volumes of vocal selections, 50 of the piano-conductor scores being
special presentation editions produced by the Chelsea Music Service.
Also in the collection are 3,000 playbills and programs. A portion
of these collections have been compiled into a database that is
searchable online (see below).
The
Archive includes complete coverage of American recordings and a
virtually complete representation of British recordings of Broadway
musicals. There is also a wide selection of foreign recordings. Many of
the audio cassettes are unpublished recordings made in the studio at
the time the published recordings were made. These versions are often
more complete than those released for sale.
This
database contains information for the playbills collection currently
available in the Larry Taylor-Billy Matthews Musical Theater Archive.
Information includes show title, cast, theatre, city, and date
This
database contains a song index to the sheet music and vocal selections
currently available in the Larry Taylor-Billy Matthews Musical Theater
Archive.
The
University of Miami Library continues to acquire recordings and scores
of the American musical theater as part of its commitment to build upon
the work begun by Mr.Taylor and Matthews.
