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Russian Folk Music: Kasura and Kutin

The Music Library holds the personal music libraries of Walter J. Kasura (1919-1983), director of the Balalaika and Domra Society of New York, and Alexander Kutin (1899-1986), director of the Balalaika Symphonic Orchestra, also based in New York. These collections provide scores and/or parts for more than 23,000 works for Russian folk orchestra.

Locate Russian Folk Music materials using the Kasura Collection Finding Aid.

Walter J. Kasura (1919-1983)

Sheet Music

Among sheet music collections are about 100,000 titles of popular US music from the 1790s through the 1970s, approximately 700 Brazilian editions from the 1930s, other Latin American imprints, and numerous Western European resources. Use the card catalog and online sheet music catalog to search.

Cover of a 1861 item from the Sheet Music Collection

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