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Guide To The Jean Stor Collection, Columbia College Chicago
Guide To The Jean Stor Collection, Columbia College Chicago
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Jean Stor was the pseudonym of William Astor Morgan, a composer, choral conductor, and playwright, who worked mainly in New York City. The collection contains manuscripts and scores for a number of symphonies, tone poems, concertos and other classical works, along with choral works, spiritual arrangements, art songs, popular songs, and theatrical numbers as well as several play scripts, short stories, and photographs.
Guide To The Robert Leigh Morris Collection, Columbia College Chicago
Guide To The Robert Leigh Morris Collection, Columbia College Chicago
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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 Herbert Zane Knauss Collection, Columbia College Chicago
Guide To The Herbert Zane Knauss Collection, Columbia College Chicago
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Herbert Zane Knauss served as the University of South Carolina's Director of Information Services and was a jazz enthusiast who combined his musical passion with local history by creating a documentary about South Carolina native Dizzy Gillespie titled Cheraw for Dizzy. The collection holds radio broadcasts Zane Knauss produced about jazz artists and the original soundtrack for his documentary film about Dizzy Gillespie.
Guide To The Melba Liston Collection, Columbia College Chicago
Guide To The Melba Liston Collection, Columbia College Chicago
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The Melba Liston Collection primarily documents her careers as arranger, composer, and educator rather than her accomplishments as a trombonist. It contains lead sheets to her own and other people’s compositions and manuscript scores of many of her arrangements for Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Clark Terry, and Mary Lou Williams, among others. One extensive series contains numerous arrangements for Randy Weston, and her late computer scores for him are also present.
Guide To The Evelyn Davidson White Collection, Columbia College Chicago
Guide To The Evelyn Davidson White Collection, Columbia College Chicago
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Evelyn Davidson White, a professor of music at Howard University, was an educator, choral instructor, scholar, clinician, mezzo-soprano vocalist, and author who authored Choral Music by African-American Composers. The collection contains published and unpublished choral music by Black composers.
Guide To The Patsy Ford Simms Collection, Columbia College Chicago
Guide To The Patsy Ford Simms Collection, Columbia College Chicago
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Patsy Ford Simms is an internationally recognized arranger, composer and clinician who began writing and arranging out of necessity due to the lack of choral octavos for the junior high/middle school voice during the first decade of her teaching career. The collection contains original sheet music, arrangements, concert programs, press clippings, catalogues, and recordings.
Guide To The Bo Diddley Track Program At American Society On Aging & The Gerontological Society Of America Annual Conferences Collection, Columbia College Chicago
Guide To The Bo Diddley Track Program At American Society On Aging & The Gerontological Society Of America Annual Conferences Collection, Columbia College Chicago
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The Bo Diddley Track Program at American Society on Aging & the Gerontological Society of America Annual Conferences Collection consist of sound and video recordings, meeting materials, photographs and posters for a program track at the two major gerontological societies annual conferences in the United States, honoring elderly blues musicians: the American Society on Aging and the Gerontological Society of America. The event was conceived and created by Michael Marcus and John Migliaccio.
Guide To The Irene Britton Smith Collection, Columbia College Chicago
Guide To The Irene Britton Smith Collection, Columbia College Chicago
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Irene Britton Smith taught in the Chicago Public Schools and during summer vacations, studied music, eventually earning a MM from DePaul University. The collection contain her compositions for orchestra, solo violin, and piano and choral works and spiritual arrangements.
Guide To The Lee V. Cloud Collection, Columbia College Chicago
Guide To The Lee V. Cloud Collection, Columbia College Chicago
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Lee V. Cloud was a composer, educator and choral clinician who taught at several institutions, before serving as coordinator of Education for the Center for Black Music Research. His collection contains his scores and sketches as well as personal papers and programs.
Guide To The Paul Freeman Collection, Columbia College Chicago
Guide To The Paul Freeman Collection, Columbia College Chicago
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Paul Freeman was a conductor, composer, and founder of the Chicago Sinfonietta. The collection contains conductor scores, recordings, and other materials related to his conducting performances with the Chicago Sinfonietta and other orchestras.
Guide To The Anna Gardner Goodwin Collection, Columbia College Chicago
Guide To The Anna Gardner Goodwin Collection, Columbia College Chicago
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Anna Gardner Goodwin was a composer of classical music. Her compositions include “Adelene” and “Freedom to All March.” and the collection also contains biographical and genealogical documents, musical scores, and other material related to her family.
Guide To The Charles E. Hamm Collection, Columbia College Chicago
Guide To The Charles E. Hamm Collection, Columbia College Chicago
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Charles E. Hamm was a musicologist, composer, author, and educator, The collection centers around his research trips to South Africa in the early 1980s to study and collect materials for is unfinished book on the history of jive. Present in the collection are notes, clippings and other research materials on South African popular music and South African radio, including a manuscript of a book on township jive.
Guide To The Paul Eduard Miller Collection, Columbia College Chicago
Guide To The Paul Eduard Miller Collection, Columbia College Chicago
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Paul Eduard Miller was a jazz critic and journalist who wrote from Down Beat and Esquire, and hosted a Chicago radio show called “This is Jazz”. The collection contains typescripts of his published and unpublished writings, radio scripts, playlists, photographs, sound recordings, and copies of his publications.
Guide To The Paul Robeson Centennial Project Records, Columbia College Chicago
Guide To The Paul Robeson Centennial Project Records, Columbia College Chicago
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These records chronicle the Chicago centennial project in honor of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Paul Robeson, actor, athlete, singer, and activist, headquartered at Columbia College Chicago; one of many such local committees who came together globally.
Guide To The Richard E. Stamz Collection, Columbia College Chicago
Guide To The Richard E. Stamz Collection, Columbia College Chicago
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Richard E. Stamz was a broadcast pioneer and active member of Chicago’s Englewood community. His 1950s radio show on WGES, “Open the Door, Richard,” helped promote and popularize urban black musical genres such as soul, blues, and gospel, and was an outlet for advertisers to reach African American audiences. The collection includes material from his broadcasting career, his involvement in the Englewood community, and his personal life.
Guide To The Edmund Thornton Jenkins Collection, Columbia College Chicago
Guide To The Edmund Thornton Jenkins Collection, Columbia College Chicago
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Edmund Thornton Jenkins was a composer, music publisher, and musician. The collection contains manuscripts of his musical compositions, printed music of his compositions published at his own press in Paris, France, and biographical information. Also included are clippings and a program (1940) concerning his sister, Mildred Jenkins Haughton, and sheet music (1917–1937 and undated) belonging to her.
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
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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.
Guide To The Collection Of De Paur Chorus Materials, Columbia College Chicago
Guide To The Collection Of De Paur Chorus Materials, Columbia College Chicago
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The Collection of De Paur Chorus Materials is small and holds sound recordings, photographs and ephemera documenting the De Paur Chorus and its activities, primarily during the early 1950s, a chorus established by Leonard de Paur.
Guide To The Eddie "Memphis" Curtis Collection, Columbia College Chicago
Guide To The Eddie "Memphis" Curtis Collection, Columbia College Chicago
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Eddie Curtis (Memphis E. Curtis) was a composer, arranger, and singer. The collection consists primarily of manuscript lead sheets for his original compositions, manuscript scores and parts, and other materials relating to his musical career.
Guide To The Dena J. Epstein Collection, Columbia College Chicago
Guide To The Dena J. Epstein Collection, Columbia College Chicago
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The Dena J. Epstein Collection consists of correspondence, reference notes and materials, articles and presentations, illustration photographs, biographical information, and an oral history transcript which span her nearly 60 year career as music librarian and historian.
Guide To The Collection Of Materials On The National Association Of Negro Musicians (Nanm), Columbia College Chicago
Guide To The Collection Of Materials On The National Association Of Negro Musicians (Nanm), Columbia College Chicago
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The National Association of Negro Musicians (NANM) was founded in Chicago by a group of African-American professional musicians and composers to advance the education and careers of African-American musicians; there are local branches of NANM in many cities. The collection contains materials about the National Association of Negro Musicians and its history and activities, particularly the primary documents included in A Documentary History of the National Association of Negro Musicians, edited by Doris Evans McGinty.
Guide To The Wendell Wright Collection, Columbia College Chicago
Guide To The Wendell Wright Collection, Columbia College Chicago
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The Wendell G. Wright Collection consists primarily of materials relating to the Lois J. Wright Memorial Concert Series as well as programs and correspondence. Also included are several published musical scores by Black composers and manuscript and facsimile manuscripts of Gerald Burks Wilson.
Guide To The Alton Augustus Adams, Sr. Collection, Columbia College Chicago
Guide To The Alton Augustus Adams, Sr. Collection, Columbia College Chicago
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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
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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
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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 William A. Brown Collection, Columbia College Chicago
Guide To The William A. Brown Collection, Columbia College Chicago
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William A. Brown was a founding member of the Center for Black Music Repertory Ensemble and a Distinguished Professor of Voice at the University of North Florida. He was a tenor and a recitalist and his collection includes concert programs, promotional materials, photographs, correspondence, and media chronicling his career.
Guide To The Sue Cassidy Clark Collection, Columbia College Chicago
Guide To The Sue Cassidy Clark Collection, Columbia College Chicago
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Sue Cassidy Clark is a music journalist and photographer who specialized in soul, gospel, and rock music in the late 1960s and early 1970s and the collection contains her recorded interviews, interview transcripts, and other research materials for her interviews of the musical pioneers she interviewed.
Guide To The Cyril Felix William Creque Collection, Columbia College Chicago
Guide To The Cyril Felix William Creque Collection, Columbia College Chicago
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Cyril Creque was a poet, composer, and Health Department officer, born on St. Thomas and was one of the forerunners of the Virgin Islands poetic tradition. The collection contains a few of his music manuscripts, sheet music for one published song, and one book of poetry.
Guide To The Dominique-René De Lerma Collection, Columbia College Chicago
Guide To The Dominique-René De Lerma Collection, Columbia College Chicago
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Dominique-René de Lerma (1928–2015) was a prominent, pioneering scholar in black music research, an oboist, an author, and an educator. The collection contains his research materials, collected scores, and sound recordings.
Guide To The R. Nathaniel Dett Club Records, Columbia College Chicago
Guide To The R. Nathaniel Dett Club Records, Columbia College Chicago
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The R. Nathaniel Dett Club Records contain the administrative records of this Chicago branch of the National Association of Negro Musicians (NANM) including bylaws, constitutions, minutes and agendas and also, programs from concerts and other events.