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Guide To The Robert Leigh Morris Collection, Columbia College Chicago
Guide To The Robert Leigh Morris Collection, Columbia College Chicago
CBMR Collection Guides / Finding Aids
Robert Leigh Morris (b. 1941) is an American composer and music instructor. The Robert Leigh Morris Collection contains his personal music scores, from published works to drafts, and programs from his performances, as well as scores by other composers. Professional correspondences, documents, and some of Morris’s writings are also included.
Guide To The Charles 'Chuck' Suber Collection, Charles Suber
Guide To The Charles 'Chuck' Suber Collection, Charles Suber
CBMR Collection Guides / Finding Aids
The Charles 'Chuck' Suber collection reflects his activities as the First Chorus columnist for Down Beat magazine, his work toward restoring funding to Chicago Public Schools for music and arts programs, and his interview by Richard Wang recalling memories and musicians from his life.
Richard 'Dick' Wang Collection, Columbia College Chicago
Richard 'Dick' Wang Collection, Columbia College Chicago
CBMR Collection Guides / Finding Aids
Richard Wang was a musician, historian, and educator specializing in jazz. The collection consists of a series of arrangements by Mary Lou Williams, a jazz pianist, arranger, and composer, and an interview he conducted with Charles Suber, a jazz critic, educator, journalist, and Down Beat columnist.
Guide To The Doug Lofstrom Music Collection, College Archives & Special Collections
Guide To The Doug Lofstrom Music Collection, College Archives & Special Collections
Collection Guides / Finding Aids
A composer and bassist whose scores reflect his involvement in theater, dance, film and symphonic music, Doug Lofstrom also formed The New Quartet, a chamber ensemble which performs original music and arrangements, Trillium, and, most recently, joined the group The Last Word. He was composer-in-residence for the Metropolis Symphony Orchestra and musical director of Chicago's Free Street Theatre before joining the faculty of Columbia College Chicago’s Music Department.
Guide To The Alton Augustus Adams, Sr. Collection, Columbia College Chicago
Guide To The Alton Augustus Adams, Sr. Collection, Columbia College Chicago
CBMR Collection Guides / Finding Aids
The Alton Augustus Adams, Sr. Collection reflects his activities as a bandmaster, a press correspondent, activities in the Hotel Association of the Virgin Islands, and as educator, civic leader, composer, author, and local historian in St. Thomas, Virgin Islands.
Guide To The William C. Banfield Collection, Columbia College Chicago
Guide To The William C. Banfield Collection, Columbia College Chicago
CBMR Collection Guides / Finding Aids
William “Bill” Cedric Banfield is a professor and director of the Africana Studies/Music and Society initiative at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. The collection contains his compositions, including songs and jazz works, but is especially strong in concert music, correspondence, writings, and flyers and programs documenting his career.
Guide To The Ed Bland Collection, Columbia College Chicago
Guide To The Ed Bland Collection, Columbia College Chicago
CBMR Collection Guides / Finding Aids
The Ed Bland Collection contains his scores and recordings of his compositions; his later works are primarily compositions for larger ensembles with each work listing the instrumentation required to perform the piece.
Guide To The James Furman Collection, Columbia College Chicago
Guide To The James Furman Collection, Columbia College Chicago
CBMR Collection Guides / Finding Aids
The James Furman Collection contains materials relating to several genres of music, writings, including his unpublished book on gospel music, personal papers, and original and copies of musical compositions; most was collected while he taught at Western Connecticut State University in Connecticut.
Guide To The Gospel Sheet Music Collection, Columbia College Chicago
Guide To The Gospel Sheet Music Collection, Columbia College Chicago
CBMR Collection Guides / Finding Aids
The gospel sheet music contains published music given to the CBMR from individual donors that has been gathered into one collection for access and use. the collection is arranged by alphabetically by composer's last name.
Guide To The Alice Rosalee Marshall Collection Of Materials On The National Convention Of Gospel Choirs And Choruses (Ncgcc) And Other Gospel-Related Materials, Columbia College Chicago
Guide To The Alice Rosalee Marshall Collection Of Materials On The National Convention Of Gospel Choirs And Choruses (Ncgcc) And Other Gospel-Related Materials, Columbia College Chicago
CBMR Collection Guides / Finding Aids
Alice Rosalee Marshall attended many of the NCGCC events, as well as churches in the Chicago area. She recorded services, revivals, and special events at local churches and at the NCGCC conventions. The collection consists of sound recordings on audiocassette of these events, church services, and choir rehearsals and programs and material from the conventions.
Guide To The Kenneth M. Bilby Oral History Collection On Foundations Of Jamaican Popular Music, Columbia College Chicago
Guide To The Kenneth M. Bilby Oral History Collection On Foundations Of Jamaican Popular Music, Columbia College Chicago
CBMR Collection Guides / Finding Aids
Sound recordings and accompanying logs of oral history interviews conducted by Dr. Kenneth M. Bilby with studio musicians and arrangers active in the creation of Jamaican popular music during the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. The collection is open for on-site research use only and cannot be copied or distributed without the permission of Kenneth M. Bilby.
Scrapbooks, Doug Lofstrom
Scrapbooks, Doug Lofstrom
Doug Lofstrom Music Collection
Spanning from the beginning of his career to the dawn of the internet, the scrapbook covers the years 1967 to 1997 and showcase flyers, newspaper articles, critic reviews, programs, promotional materials, newsletters and photographs highlighting his work.
Black Music Research Bulletin, Fall 1990, Samuel Floyd
Black Music Research Bulletin, Fall 1990, Samuel Floyd
Center for Black Music Research Newsletter
BMR Bulletin is published by the Columbia College Center for Black Music Research and is devoted to the encouragement and promotion of scholarship and cultural activity in black American music, and is intended to serve as a medium for the sharing of ideas and information regarding current and future research and activities in universities and research centers. Articles: "A Historical Overview of Soul Music in Chicago"/Robert Pruter; "Chicago Gospel"/Horace Clarence Boyer; "Jazz in Chicago: A Historical Overview"/Richard Wang; "Florence B. Price and Margaret Bonds: The Chicago Years"/Rae Linda Brown; "Chicago Imprints in the CBMR Database"/Otha Day; "Jubilee Singing Groups in …
Black Music Research Bulletin, Spring 1990, Samuel Floyd
Black Music Research Bulletin, Spring 1990, Samuel Floyd
Center for Black Music Research Newsletter
BMR Bulletin is published by the Columbia College Center for Black Music Research and is devoted to the encouragement and promotion of scholarship and cultural activity in black American music, and is intended to serve as a medium for the sharing of ideas and information regarding current and future research and activities in universities and research centers. Articles: "Freedom in the Air': An Overview of the Songs of the Civil Rights Movement"/Guy and Candie Carawan; "The Lined Hymn as a Song of Freedom"/Bernice Johnson Reagon; "Paul Robeson, Civil Rights Activist: An Opinion"/Hale Smith; "Twentieth Century Civil Rights Collections in the …
Black Music Research Bulletin, Fall 1989, Samuel Floyd
Black Music Research Bulletin, Fall 1989, Samuel Floyd
Center for Black Music Research Newsletter
BMR Newsletter is published by the Columbia College Center for Black Music Research and is devoted to the encouragement and promotion of scholarship and cultural activity in black American music, and is intended to serve as a medium for the sharing of ideas and information regarding current and future research and activities in universities and research centers. Articles: "Mose McQuitty's Unknown Career: A Personal History of Black Music in America"/D. Alex Albright; "A South Carolina Band in London, 1914"/Jeffrey P. Green; "Aspects of Musical Activities in the Black Communities of Baltimore and Washington, D.C, . 1840 to the Early 1920s"/ …
Black Music Research Bulletin, Spring 1989, Samuel Floyd
Black Music Research Bulletin, Spring 1989, Samuel Floyd
Center for Black Music Research Newsletter
BMR Bulletin is published by the Columbia College Center for Black Music Research and is devoted to the encouragement and promotion of scholarship and cultural activity in black American music, and is intended to serve as a medium for the sharing of ideas and information regarding current and future research and activities in universities and research centers. Articles: "Turn-of-the-Century Jug Bands in the Southeastern United States"/Bruce Bastin and Jeffrey Green; Black Vaudeville and the TOBA in Atlanta"/Thomas L. Riis; "Kemper Harreld and Willis James: Music at Atlanta University, Morehouse College, and Spelman College"/Rebecca T. Cureau; Black Music Scholarship and the …
Black Music Research Bulletin Fall 1988, Samuel Floyd
Black Music Research Bulletin Fall 1988, Samuel Floyd
Center for Black Music Research Newsletter
BMR Bulletin is published by the Columbia College Center for Black Music Research and is devoted to the encouragement and promotion of scholarship and cultural activity in black American music, and is intended to serve as a medium for the sharing of ideas and information regarding current and future research and activities in universities and research centers. Articles: "Looking Toward St. Louis: Installment 1"; "Eddie Randle and the St. Louis Blue Devils"/Paul DeMarinis; "Ragtime in St. Louis"/Trebor Jay Tichenor; "James Reese Europe and His Impact on the New York Scene"/Leonard Goines and Mikki Shepard; "The Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s"/Samuel …
Black Music Research Bulletin Spring 1988, Samuel Floyd
Black Music Research Bulletin Spring 1988, Samuel Floyd
Center for Black Music Research Newsletter
BMR Bulletin is published by the Columbia College Center for Black Music Research and is devoted to the encouragement and promotion of scholarship and cultural activity in black American music, and is intended to serve as a medium for the sharing of ideas and information regarding current and future research and activities in universities and research centers. Articles: "A Historical Overview of Black Gospel Music in Los Angeles"/Jacqueline Cogdell DjeDje; "Music in the Lives of Blacks in California: The Beginnings"/Hansonia L. Caldwell; "A Selective Survey of Black Musicians in Los Angeles, 1890-ca. 1945"/Bette Y. Cox; "Jazz Musicians in San Diego"/Stanley …
Black Music Research Newsletter, Fall 1987, Samuel Floyd
Black Music Research Newsletter, Fall 1987, Samuel Floyd
Center for Black Music Research Newsletter
BMR Newsletter is published by the Columbia College Center for Black Music Research and is devoted to the encouragement and promotion of scholarship and cultural activity in black American music, and is intended to serve as a medium for the sharing of ideas and information regarding current and future research and activities in universities and research centers. Articles: "Chicago's Jazz Trail: 1893-1950"/Dempsey J. Travis; "Black Concert Music in Chicago, 1890 to the 1930s"/Ellistine Perkins Holly; "Black Music at Columbia College Chicago"/Gail Schmoller; "Composers Corner: Lena Johnson McLin, Composer"/Lucius R. Wyatt; "Introducing...Members of the National Advisory Board of the Center for …
Black Music Research Newsletter, Spring 1987, Samuel Floyd
Black Music Research Newsletter, Spring 1987, Samuel Floyd
Center for Black Music Research Newsletter
BMR Newsletter is published by the Columbia College Center for Black Music Research and is devoted to the encouragement and promotion of scholarship and cultural activity in black American music, and is intended to serve as a medium for the sharing of ideas and information regarding current and future research and activities in universities and research centers. Articles: "Black Music in New Orleans: A Historical Overview"/Curtis D. Jerde; "Composers Corner: Six Composers of Nineteenth-Century New Orleans"/Lucius R. Wyatt; "Black Music Collections in New Orleans"/Deborra Richardson; "Researching Black Music in New Orleans: A National Conference on Black Music Research"; "Introducing...Members of …
Black Music Research Newsletter, Fall 1986, Samuel Floyd
Black Music Research Newsletter, Fall 1986, Samuel Floyd
Center for Black Music Research Newsletter
BMR Newsletter is published by the Columbia College Center for Black Music Research and is devoted to the encouragement and promotion of scholarship and cultural activity in black American music, and is intended to serve as a medium for the sharing of ideas and information regarding current and future research and activities in universities and research centers. Articles: "Introducing..Members of the National Advisory Board of the Center for Black Music Research"/Bruce Tucker; "An Alternative Index to Black Music in the United States"/Dominique-Rene de Lerma; "Composers Corner/Lucius R. Wyatt; "The Music Collections at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture/Deborra …
Black Music Research Newsletter, Spring 1986, Samuel Floyd
Black Music Research Newsletter, Spring 1986, Samuel Floyd
Center for Black Music Research Newsletter
BMR Newsletter is published by the Columbia College Center for Black Music Research and is devoted to the encouragement and promotion of scholarship and cultural activity in black American music, and is intended to serve as a medium for the sharing of ideas and information regarding current and future research and activities in universities and research centers. Articles: "CBMR Database: The Union Catalog and Reference System"/D.W. Krummel; "Milestones of Black-American Composition"/Eileen Southern; "A Prelimary Bibliographical Guide to Periodical Literature for Black Music Research"/Josephine Wright; "Black Spirituals: Their Emergence Into Public Knowledge"/Dena J.Epstein; "Introducing...Members of the National Advisory Board of the …
Black Music Research Newsletter, Fall 1985, Samuel Floyd
Black Music Research Newsletter, Fall 1985, Samuel Floyd
Center for Black Music Research Newsletter
BMR Newsletter is published by the Columbia College Center for Black Music Research and is devoted to the encouragement and promotion of scholarship and cultural activity in black American music, and is intended to serve as a medium for the sharing of ideas and information regarding current and future research and activities in universities and research centers. Articles: "A Brief Introduction to the Zulu Choirs"/Doug Seroff; "Beethoven As a Black Composer"/Dominique-Rene de Lerma; "Composers Corner/Lucius R. Wyatt; "The Music Department at the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center"/Deborra Richardson; "Introducing....Members of the National Advisory Board of the Center for Black Music Research"/Bruce Tucker; …
Black Music Research Newsletter, Spring 1985, Samuel Floyd
Black Music Research Newsletter, Spring 1985, Samuel Floyd
Center for Black Music Research Newsletter
BMR Newsletter is published by the Columbia College Center for Black Music Research and is devoted to the encouragement and promotion of scholarship and cultural activity in black American music, and is intended to serve as a medium for the sharing of ideas and information regarding current and future research and activities in universities and research centers. Articles: "On 'Soldier Boy': The Development of an Opera/ T.J.Anderson; "Provocative Opinion: The Death of Jazz?" /Larry Kart; Announcements. Editor: Samuel A. Floyd, Jr. Vol.7, No.2. 8 pages.
Black Music Research Newsletter, Fall 1984, Samuel Floyd
Black Music Research Newsletter, Fall 1984, Samuel Floyd
Center for Black Music Research Newsletter
"BMR Newsletter is published jointly by the Columbia College Center for Black Music Research and the Fisk University Institute for Research in Black American Music." Article:"Black Music and the Humantities in America: A Summer Institue for Faculty from United Negro College Fund-Affiliated Schools"/William T. Dargan; "Composers Corner"/Lucius Wyatt; "British Newspapers as Source Material: The Case of James Douglass Bohee"/Jeffrey P. Green; "Bibliography of Music by Black Composers"/notes from Dominique-Rene de Lerma. Editor: Samuel A. Floyd. Vol. 7, No. 1. 6 pages.
89th Annual Convocation; Annual Spring Concert, The Sherwood Conservatory Of Music
89th Annual Convocation; Annual Spring Concert, The Sherwood Conservatory Of Music
Commencement Programs
Programs for the Sherwood Music School 89th Annual Convocation ceremony held at Recital Hall (1014 South Michigan Avenue) on June 3, 1984 and the Annual Spring Concert on May 20, 1984
Black Music Research Newsletter, Spring 1984, Samuel Floyd
Black Music Research Newsletter, Spring 1984, Samuel Floyd
Center for Black Music Research Newsletter
"BMR Newsletter is published jointly by the Columbia College Center for Black Music Research and the Fisk University Institute for Research in Black American Music". Article: "Afro-American Folksong Scholarship"/Darius Thieme; "Composers Corner"/Lucius R. Wyatt; "A Selected List of Music for Organ Solo by Black Composers"/Dominique-Rene de Lerma and Herndon Spillman. Editor: Samuel A. Floyd, Jr. Vol. 6, No. 2. 6 pages.
88th Annual Convocation, The Sherwood Conservatory Of Music
88th Annual Convocation, The Sherwood Conservatory Of Music
Commencement Programs
Program for the Sherwood Music School 88th Annual Convocation ceremony held at Recital Hall (1014 South Michigan Avenue) on June 3, 1983
87th Annual Convocation; Annual Spring Concert, Sherwood Music School
87th Annual Convocation; Annual Spring Concert, Sherwood Music School
Commencement Programs
Programs for the Sherwood Music School 87th Annual Convocation ceremony held at Recital Hall (1014 South Michigan Avenue) on June 4, 1982 and the Annual Spring Concert on May 23, 1982
Black Music Research Newsletter, Spring 1982, Samuel Floyd
Black Music Research Newsletter, Spring 1982, Samuel Floyd
Center for Black Music Research Newsletter
"BMR NEWSLETTER is devoted to the encouragement and promotion of scholarship and cultural activity in black American music, and is intended to serve as a medium for the sharing of ideas and information regarding current and future research and musical activities in universities and research centers." Articles: "A Musical and Sociological Review of Scott Joplin's 'Treemonisha'"/Dominique-Rene de Lerma; "Black Instrumental Mujsic Traditions in the Ex-Slave Narratives"/Robert B. Winans; Research and Announcements; "Composers Corner"/Lucius R. Wyatt; "Letters From Black People and Institutions in the Correspondence Collections of the Music Division of the Library of Congress"/Wayne Shirley. Editor: Orin Moe.Vol. 5, No. …