PITTSBURGH MUSIC - ARCHIVAL MATERIAL

REED KENNEDY (1900-1952)

Contents

• Papers
• Scrapbook (A Career in Music)
• Programs
• Clippings
• Article in December 1936 issue of "Radio Mirror" about him and his family
• Correspondence (includes letter from Jerome Kern)

Time period  1933-1950

Subject

Reed Kennedy was born in Pittsburgh in 1900. He became a baritone whose career in radio, church and concert appears to have been strong from 1933 through 1950. He was also a businessman (coal).

Location

Oliver Room, Pittsburgh Music Archive #14 (2 boxes)

See

Pittsburgh Music Information File

FINDING LIST

BOX 1

Large scrapbook: "A Career in Music, 1933-1950"
Includes clippings, reviews, playbills, correspondence and telegrams, and newspaper obituary.

BOX 2

Scrapbook
Includes programs, radio performance information, correspondence (includes letter from Jerome Kern), partial (incomplete) biography, and repertoire list.

Folders (2)
Miscellaneous papers

Magazine
December 1936 issue of "Radio Mirror" - contains article about Kennedy.