Stage & Screen: The Star Quality of Vanderbilt’s Performing Arts Collections, on view at Vanderbilt’s renovated Central Library and Special Collections, invites viewers to step “behind the curtain” of some of the world’s most memorable productions. The exhibit runs through June 28, 2013.
“Music City’s first-rate performing arts community inspired Stage & Screen,” says Connie Vinita Dowell, MLS’79, dean of libraries. “In galleries where opera and Opry comfortably share the stage, this exhibit reflects the city we were and the one we have become.”
Materials from the Francis Robinson Collection of Theatre, Music and Dance—a treasure trove of the history of opera, theater and ballet—were donated by Robinson, BA’32, an alumnus who was assistant manager of the Metropolitan Opera Co.
Items drawn from the collection of the late Delbert Mann, BA’41, who directed scores of Hollywood films and television productions, spotlight the progression of the film industry during the 1950s and ’60s. Mann directed Marty, winner of the 1955 Academy Award for Best Picture. His Oscar and his Cannes Film Festival Palme d’Or for that film are on loan from the Mann family. Mann served on Vanderbilt’s Board of Trust.
Satellite library presentations include Films from Children’s Books at Peabody Library, God in Music City at the Divinity Library, and The Metropolitan Tours and The Life of Francis Robinson at Ingram Hall.