Item Type: Music- Minting

Summary

Full Description: Minting Music: Concertina music by Boris & Gregory Matusewitch. Harry was friendly with these two New York musicians, and visited them in their Manhattan studio. Most of these pieces are written or arranged by Boris Matusewitch, and are hand-written or photographically-copied, showing a very large style of writing the notes and staves. Titles include Chopin’s Minute Waltz, Flight of the Bumble Bee, Ellington’s Solitude, Lara’s Theme, and numerous pop and jazz standards. See elsewhere in this section for correspondence from the Matusewitch brothers.

Source Catalogue No: The Concertina Museum: 2.1.1.1-125