Collection Summary
Munsel, Patrice, 1925-2016
Patrice Munsel Collection
circa 1940-1969
Performing Arts Collection PA-00141
81 boxes, 5 record storage cartons, 1 oversize box (43.07 linear feet)
Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin
This collection consists primarily of musical works (orchestral parts, vocal scores, piano/conductor scores) used by Munsel for her performances in opera, concert, musical comedy, and television productions. The scores range from grand opera arias to popular ballads of musical comedy. The orchestral arrangements for the most part are the workof the award-winning composer, conductor, and orchestrator Irwin Kostal. Also present are music, scripts, and other materials related to her television show, The Patrice Munsel Show, 1957-1958.
English
Biographical Sketch
American soprano Patrice Munsel (born Spokane, Washington, 14 May 1925), studied in New York and made her debut as Philine in Mignon at the Metropolitan in 1943. The youngest singer ever to be engaged by the company, she appeared in the principal roles of the coloratura repertory -- Lucia, Rosina, Gilda, Olympia and the Queen of Shemakha (The Golden Cockerel). Rudolf Bing presented her in soubrette roles including Zerlina, Despina, Strauss's Adele and, particularly, Offenbach's Perichole, in which she was extremely popular. Following her many successful concerts and recordings, her European tour, and her own radio show, she hosted a weekly musical variety series, The Patrice Munsel Show, for one season on ABC Television, 1957-1958. In 1953 she starred in Melba, a British film biography of the Australian singer. By 1960 she had virtually retired from opera.
Scope and Contents
This collection consists primarily of musical works (orchestral parts, vocal scores, piano/conductor scores) used by Munsel for her performances in opera, concert, musical comedy, and television productions. The scores range from grand opera arias to popular ballads of musical comedy. The orchestral arrangements for the most part are the workof the award-winning composer, conductor, and orchestrator Irwin Kostal. Also present are music, scripts, and other materials related to her television show, The Patrice Munsel Show, 1957-1958.
A more detailed description of the music (whether vocal, piano-conductor, or full score, parts present, number of pages) is available in the repository for items with “PM” or “M” numbers in the box list for the collection.
Acquisition:
Gift, 1986 (G2980)
Access:
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Preferred Citation
Patrice Munsel Collection (Performing Arts Collection PA-00141). Harry Ransom Center, The University of Texas at Austin.
Processed by:
Valerie Burns, 2002; Kevin O’Sullivan, 2010
Related Material
For additional materials related to Patrice Munsel at the Harry Ransom Center, see the Music Manuscripts Collection, and the Sheet Music Collection.
Container List
Series I. Music
1.1-1.3
76 Trombones, PM-82
1.4-1.5
An Affair to Remember, PM-16
1.6
Album of Familiar Songs
1.7
Album of song hits
1.8
Albums of songs
2.1
All of You, PM-95
2.2
All the Things You Are, PM-99
2.3
Always True to You, PM-177
2.4, 3.1
Another Opening, PM-199
3.2-3.4
Anything You Can Do, PM-66
3.5
April in Paris, PM-129
3.6-3.7
April Love, PM-54
4.1-4.2
Around the World, PM-108
4.3-4.4
Artist’s Life, M-29
4.5
Autumn in New York, PM-38
4.6, 5.1
A, Miscellaneous songs by title
5.2-5.5
Balboa, PM-161
6.1-6.2
Ballin’ the Jack, PM-45
6.3-6.4
Ballin’ the Jack, PM-174
6.5-6.6, 7.1-7.2
Be a Clown, PM-152
7.3
The Beautiful Blue Danube, M-26
7.4
Before I Gaze at You Again, PM-225
7.5
Bella Bimba, M-14
8.1-8.2
Bess, You Is My Woman, PM-69
8.3-8.4
Beyond the Blue Horizon, PM-127
8.5-8.6
Beyond the Blue Horizon, PM-211
8.7
Big Wide Wonderful World, PM-157
9.1-9.2
Bird in a Gilded Cage, PM-153
9.3-9.4
Blah, Blah, Blah, Love, PM-28
9.5-9.6
Blatella, PM-215
9.7, 10.1-10.2
Breezy and Easy, PM-10
10.3-10.4
Buckle Down Winsocki, PM-208
10.5-10.6
Buick Opening, PM-31, PM-32
10.7-10.8
Buick Theme, PM-31
10.9, 11.1
By Strauss, PM-222
11.2-11.3
Bye Bye Baby, PM-213
11.4
B, Miscellaneous songs by title
11.5-11.6
Carousel Waltz, PM-148
11.7, 12.1
Catch a Falling Star, PM-124
12.2
Cavalcade of Song Hits
12.3
Chiquitita La Novia, M-10
12.4-12.5
Christmas carols, PM-204
12.6-12.7
The Circus on Parade, PM-150
12.8-12.9
Circus Routine, PM-146
13.1
Come On-a My House, PM-220
13.2-13.4
Costume Medley, PM-25
13.5-13.6
A Couple of Swells, PM-94
14.1-14.4
Crazy Horse, PM-188
14.5
C, Miscellaneous songs by title
15.1-15.2
Dancing in the Dark, PM-104
15.3
Dean Martin Show, Alfie, M-40
15.4
Deed I Do, M-3
15.5, 16.1-16.4
Dick Tracy, PM-181
16.5
The Doctor’s Song and I Could Fly, PM-210
16.6
D, Miscellaneous songs by title
17.1-17.2
Easy to Live, PM-49
17.3-17.4
Ebb Tide, PM-165
17.5-17.6
Eddie’s Guitar, PM-6
17.7
Eleanor Rigby medley, PM-231
17.8-17.9
Emperor Waltz, M-19
18.1-18.3
Everybody Loves to Take a Bow, PM-214
18.4
E, Miscellaneous songs by title
18.5
Familiar song hits
18.6
Fate reprise, PM-168
18.7-18.8
Folk song medley, PM-155
19.1
Folks Songs of the British Isles
19.2-19.3
For Every Man There’s a Woman, PM-115
19.4-19.5
French Lesson, PM-102
19.6-19.8
Friendship, PM-202
20.1-20.2
Frigidaire, PM-36
20.3-20.4
Frigidaire, PM-37
20.5-20.6
Frigidaire opening, PM-136
20.7
Fruhlingstimmen, M-4
20.8
F, Miscellaneous songs by title
20.9-20.10
Gary Indiana, PM-85
21.1-21.4
Get Happy, PM-114
21.5
Getting to Know You, PM-24
22.1-22.2
GM close, PM-46
22.3-22.4
God’s Country, PM-71
22.5, 23.1-23.2
Gotta Dance, PM-184
23.3-23.5, 24.1
Gotta Dance, PM-205
24.2
Granada, PM-17
24.3-24.4
Grand Night for Singing, PM-88
24.5, 25.1-25.2
Great Day, PM-67
25.3
The Gypsy Baron, M-27
25.4
G, Miscellaneous songs by title
25.5
Habanera, M-2
25.6
Happiness is a Thing Called Joe, PM-19
25.7, 26.1
Happy Easter, PM-158
26.2
Happy medley, PM-140
26.3-26.4
Happy Talk, PM-27
26.5-26.6
He and She, PM-5
26.7-26.8
Heartaches, Bei Mir Bist Du Schon, PM-118
27.1-27.2
Hello Springtime, PM-142
27.3-27.4
Hi Lili Hi Lo, PM-58
27.5-27.6, 28.1
Hooray for Hollywood, PM-91
28.2-28.3
How About You, PM-80
28.4-28.5
How Could You Believe Me, PM-193
28.6
Hymne and Soleil, M-30
29.1
H, Miscellaneous songs by title
29.2-29.4
I Can’t Say No, PM-109
29.5
I Can’t Wait, PM-201
30.1-30.2
I Could Have Danced All Night, PM-55
30.3-30.4
I Feel a Song Coming On, PM-30
30.5-30.6, 31.1
I Feel Pretty, PM-56
31.2
I Get a Kick Out of You, PM-15
31.3-31.5
I Got Rhythm, PM-119
32.1-32.2
I Love a Piano, PM-43
32.3-32.5
I Love a Violin, PM-101
32.6-32.7
I Love Paris, PM-57
33.1
I Love You So, M-18
33.2-33.3
I Wanna Be Loved, PM-74
33.4-33.5
I’ll Remember April, PM-164
33.6, 34.1-34.4
I’m Flying, Part I, PM-212
35.1-35.2
I’m Just Wild About Harry, PM-48
35.3-35.4
I’m Late for a Rockin’ Chair, PM-14
35.5-35.6
I’m Old Fashioned, PM-195
35.7
I’ve Got the World on a String, M-15
35.8
I’ve Got the World on a String, PM-135
36.1-36.3
If This Isn’t Love, PM-169
36.4-36.6
If You Feel Like Singing, PM-190
36.7
In the Still of the Night, PM-29
37.1-37.2
Inch Worm, PM-189
37.3
Ipanema, PM-228
37.4-37.5
It Ain’t Necessarily So, PM-62
37.6
It’s All Right With Me, M-12
37.7
Italian Street Song, M-11
37.8
Italian Street Song, PM-113
37.9, 38.1-38.2
I, Miscellaneous songs by title
38.3
Jimmy McHugh Song Book
38.4-38.5, 39.1
John Henry, PM-7
39.2
Joropo, M-8
39.3
Just One of Those Things, PM-41
39.4
J, Miscellaneous songs by title
39.5
K, Miscellaneous songs by title
39.6
The Laughing Song, M-20
39.7-39.8
Left Foot Mambo, PM-63
39.9
Let Go, PM-229
40.1-40.2
Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off, PM-96
40.3-40.4
Lida Rose, PM-83
40.5-40.6
Liebe, Du Himmel Auf Erden, M-17
41.1-41.3
Light on Your Feet, PM-26
41.4-41.5
Little Buckaroo, PM-75
41.6-41.7
Little Girl Blue, PM-149
41.8
Lonesome Road, PM-221
42.1-42.2
Look to the Rainbow, PM-35
42.3
The Lord’s Prayer, PM-159
42.5
Love, M-33
42.6
Love, PM-23
42.7-42.8
Love and Marriage, PM-90
43.1-43.3
Love Is Where You Find It, M-22
43.4
Love Me or Leave Me, (Lullabye of Birdland), PM-39
43.5-43.6, 44.1
Lovely to Look At, PM-172
44.2-44.4
Lucky Day, PM-78
44.5
Lucky Day, PM-176
44.6-44.8
Lullabye of Broadway, PM-40
45.1-45.2
Lydia the Tattooed Lady, PM-151
45.3-45.4
L, Miscellaneous songs by title
45.5-45.6, 46.1-46.3
Mack the Black, PM-197
46.4-46.5
Make the Man Love Me, PM-175
47.1-47.3
Makin’ Whoopee, PM-3
47.4-47.6
Manhattan, PM-185
48.1-48.2
Melba Waltz, M-3
48.3-48.5
The Merry Widow, 3 scripts
48.6-48.8
Mine, PM-14
49.1
Mon Amour, PM-178
49.2-49.3
Moses, PM-107
49.4-49.5
Mountain Greenery, PM-186
49.6
Mountain High, PM-144
50.1
My Man’s Gone Now, PM-217
50.2
My Romance, PM-79
50.3-50.4
M, Miscellaneous songs by title
50.5-50.6
New Sun in the Sky, PM-72
51.1-51.2
No Business Like Show Business, PM-86
51.3-51.5
Not Since Ninevah, PM-128
51.6
N, Miscellaneous songs by title
52.1-52.2
Object of My Affection, PM-116
52.3
An Occasional Man, M-31
52.4-52.5
An Occasional Man, PM-206
52.6-52.7
Oh, Holy Night, PM-121
52.8-52.9
Oh, Mama, PM-112
52.10-52.11
Old MacDonald Had a Farm, PM-134
53.1-53.2
Opening, PM-9
53.3
Opening, PM-18
53.4
Opening, Forests of Amazon
53.5-53.6
Opera and Jazz, M-9
53.7-53.8
Out of My Dreams, PM-171
53.9, 54.2
Out of This World, PM-34
54.3
O, Miscellaneous songs by title
54.4-54.5
Pantomime for Martha, PM-139
54.6, 55.1
Pass That Peace Pipe, PM-209
55.2-55.3
Pat and George, Intro, PM-92
55.4
Pat Munsel Medley
55.5
The Patrice Munsel Show, 10-11-57, Opening, PM-18
55.6-55.7
The Patrice Munsel Show, 11-01-57, I Love A Piano, PM-43
55.8
The Patrice Munsel Show, 11-08-57, Opening, PM-53
55.9-55.10
The Patrice Munsel Show, 11-22-57, Opening, PM-68
55.11-55.12
The Patrice Munsel Show, 11-29-57, Opening, PM-70
55.13
The Patrice Munsel Show, Openings
55.14
Peter Ibbetson Drama, libretto
55.15-55.16
Play a Simple Melody, PM-163
55.17-55.18
Presenting, PM-20
56.1
P, Miscellaneous songs by title
56.2
Quel Gala, PM-61
56.3-56.4
Remember Me, PM-73
56.5-56.7
Riding High, PM-98
57.1
Round Up Memories
57.2
Rudolph Friml Songbook
57.3
R, Miscellaneous songs by title
57.4-57.5
Schnitzelbank, PM-87
57.6-57.7
The Secret Life of a Wife, M-23
58.1
Serenade, Student Prince, PM-147
58.2-58.4
The Sewing Machine, PM-125
58.5-58.6
Shady Lady Bird, PM-173
58.7-58.8
Shall We Dance?, PM-162
59.1-59.2
The Sheik, PM-47
59.3
Sigmund Romberg, Book I
59.4
Sigmund Romberg, Book II
59.5-59.6
Sing to Me Guitar, PM-8
59.7-59.8
Sing You Six Guns, PM-154
59.9-59.10, 60.1-60.2
Singers Medley in 5 parts, PM-137
60.3-60.4
Sister Kate, PM-50
60.5-60.7
Sisters, PM-111
61.1
Skip to My Lou, PM-145
61.2-61.3
Sleeping Bee, PM-187
61.4-61.6
Soft in the Heart, PM-200
61.7
Softly, As In a Morning Sunrise, PM-34
62.1-62.2
Something Wonderful, PM-77
62.3
Sometimes I’m Happy, PM-140
62.4
Songs You’ll Always Remember
62.5
Sound of Music, PM-223
62.6
Stairway to Paradise, PM-179
62.7-62.8
Step to the Rear of My Heart, PM-8
62.9-62.10, 63.1
Stephen Foster Medley, PM-191
63.2
Stranger in Paradise, PM-123
63.3-63.4
Such Is My Love, PM-97
63.5-63.6
S, Miscellaneous songs by title
64.1-64.3
Tales from the Vienna Woods, M-16
64.4
Talk to Me, PM-203
64.5-64.6
Tenderly, PM-183
65.1-65.3
That’s What Makes Paris, Paree, PM-126
65.4-65.5
They Didn’t Believe Me, PM-60
65.6
This Is My Beloved, PM-93
65.7
This Is My Beloved, PM-93A
65.8, 66.1
This Little Round Ball, PM-33
66.2-66.3
Three Little Fishies, PM-117
66.4-66.5
Til There Was You, PM-84
66.6
Tonight, PM-133
66.7-66.8
Too Late Show, PM-167
66.9
Trashy, PM-227
66.10, 67.1-67.4
Trolley Song, PM-100
67.5-67.6
Tumbling Tumbleweeds, PM-156
67.7, 68.1
Two Sleepy People, PM-130
68.2-68.3
T, Miscellaneous songs by title
68.4-69.6
Un Bel Di, M-32
68.7
U, Miscellaneous songs by title
68.8
Victor Herbert, Song Album I
68.9
Victor Herbert, Song Album II
68.10
Vilia, M-39
68.11
Visi D’arte, PM-89
69.1-69.3
Vocalize, PM-141
69.4
Vo-vo-de-oh, M-24
69.5
V, Miscellaneous songs by title
69.6
Wait ‘til You See Him, M-36
69.7
The Way You Look Tonight, M-37
69.8-69.9
Welcome to Our Show, PM-52
69.10-69.11
We Never Talk Much, PM-13
70.1-70.2
What Do You Think I Am, PM-207
70.3
What’s the Use of Wondering, PM-1
70.4-70.6
When Johnny Comes Down to Hilo, PM-196
70.7, 71.1-71.2
When You Wore a Tulip, PM-180
71.3
When You’re Smiling, PM-44
71.4-71.5
Where Is the Life That I Led, PM-132
71.6
While We’re Young, PM-11
71.7, 72.1
Who Cares, PM-22
72.2
Why Do I Love You, PM-194
72.3
Wine, Women, and Song, M-28
72.4-72.5
Wish I May, PM-105
73.1-73.2
Witchcraft, PM-182
73.3-73.5
Wonderful, Wonderful Day, PM-131
73.6
World on a String, PM-135
73.7
Wunderbar, PM-166
74.1
W, Miscellaneous songs by title
74.2
Yesterdays, PM-170
74.3
You Are Love, PM-192
74.4
You Can’t Take That Away From Me, PM-59
74.5-74.7
You Make Me Feel So Young, PM-51
74.8, 75.1
You Make Me Feel So Young, PM-216
75.2-75.3
You Ought to Be In Pictures, PM-160
75.4-75.5
You Took Advantage of Me, PM-2
75.6-75.7
You Will Wear Velvet, PM-65
75.8
X, Y, Z, Miscellaneous songs by title
76.1-76.4
Various operatic aria
76.5
Various operatic arias by composer
77.1
Various operatic arias colora tura son
77.2
Various operatic areas Italian songs of the 18th century
77.3-77.5, 78.1-78.2
Various song albums (includes Victor Young, Anthony Newley, and other American artists)
78.3-78.4
Various songs
78.5
Various albums
79.1
Various vocal solos
79.2-79.3
Various song albums
79.4
German songs
79.5
Christmas songs
79.6
Russian songs
80.1
Community Song Book
80.2
Song of Norway, script
80.3
Man of La Mancha, songs
80.4
Various classical arias
80.5
Willow Song
80.6
Thrane (Norwegian Echo Song)
81.1-81.2
Miscellaneous notes and music fragments
81.3
Forests of the Amazon, songs
81.4
Colette, Musical Play Script
Series II. Patrice Munsel Show, Television Scripts and Papers
1957-1958
82.1
Eddie Albert, October 4, 1957
82.2-82.3
Fernando Lamas (tape produced) October 11, 1957, presented on air December 6, 1957
82.4-82.5
Eddie Albert , October 18, 1957
82.6-82.7
Cyril Richard, October 25, 1957
82.8
Vic Damone , November 1, 1957
82.9-82.10
Bert Lahr, Nanette Fabray, November 8, 1957
82.11-82.12
Carl Reiner , November 15, 1957
82.13-82.14
Buddy Hackett, Robert Merrill, November 22, 1957
83.1-83.3
Tom Ewell, November 29, 1957
83.4-83.5
Julius LaRosa, December 13, 1957
83.6
Cyril Richard, Evelyn Rudie, December 20, 1957
83.7-83.8
Walter Slezak, Andy Williams, December 27, 1957
83.9-83.10
Buddy Hackett, Sal Mineo, January 3, 1958
83.11
George Sanders, Anrnold Stang, January 10, 1958
83.12-83.13
Kay Thompson, Micky Shaughnessy, January 24, 1958
84.1-84.2
Tony Bennett, Howard Morris, January 31, 1958
84.3
Cesar Romero, Carol Haney, February 7, 1958
84.4
Buddy Hackett, Rudy Vallee, February 14, 1958
84.5-84.6
John Raitt, Arnold Stang, February 21, 1958
84.7-84.8
Eddie Bracken, Genevieve, February 28, 1958
84.9-84.10
Eddie Albert, March 7, 1958
84.11-84.12
John Raitt, Louis Nye, March 7, 1958
84.13-84.14, 85.1
Eddie Albert, March 7, 1958
85.2-85.3
Martha Raye, March 14, 1958
85.4
Jan Peerce, March 28, 1958
85.5-85.6
Julius LaRosa, Alice Pearce, April 4, 1958
85.7
Cesar Romero, John Johnson, April 11, 1958
85.8-85.9
Alfred Drake, April 18, 1958
85.10-85.12
Nancy Walker, Georges Guetary, April 25, 1958
85.13-85.14
Buddy Hackett, May 2, 1958
86.1-86.2
Kaye Ballard, Richard Haydn, May 9, 1958
86.3-86.4
Steve Laurence, Pat Carroll, May 16, 1958
86.5-86.6
Eddie Bracken, James Hearts, May 23, 1958
86.7
John Raitt, Howard Morris, May 30, 1958
86.8
Buddy Hackett, June 6, 1958
86.9
Idlewild Airport, June 13, 1958
86.10-86.11
Music index and extra lyrics
87
So nice, oversize materials
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