UCLA Library Special Collections, Performing Arts

Jim Arkatov has had distinguished careers as a musician and photographer. He was born in Odessa, Russia and left with his family at an early age for San Francisco, where he developed as a child prodigy and gave his debut cello recital at age 14. At age 18, he was invited by Fritz Feiner to join the Pittsburgh Symphony. Later, he joined the San Francisco Symphony with Pierre Monteux, and went on to be principal cellist of the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra under Fabien Sevitzky. Arkatov returned to California in 1946 as a freelance musician in major studios of Hollywood and …

Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Performing Arts

Music manuscript fragments used in bindings. Copied in Switzerland, Germany and the Low Countries. Contents from Missal, Gradual, Hymnal, Breviary and Antiphonal, dating between the 11th and 15th centuries.

Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Performing Arts

Howard Morehead was a photographer, broadcast news cameraman, and impresario. A native of Topeka, Kansas, he moved to Los Angeles after World War II and joined the staff of the Los Angeles Sentinel and did freelance work for a number of magazines. He also founded the Miss Bronze California beauty pageant as a reaction to the systematic discrimination faced by African American women. The collection consists predominantly of photographs of musicians and venues documenting the Los Angeles jazz scene from the mid-1950s through the 1990s. There are also a number of actors and politicians represented. Some personal and business papers …

Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Performing Arts

Photographs taken by Mark Weber of experimental jazz musicians from the 1970s-2000s, with predominant focus on photos taken in Los Angeles from 1976-1985.

Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Performing Arts