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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 The collection contains published and unpublished choral music by Black composers.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 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 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 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 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 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 James Furman Collection, Columbia College Chicago
Guide To The James Furman Collection, Columbia College Chicago
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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 Talib Rasul Hakim Collection, Columbia College Chicago
Guide To The Talib Rasul Hakim Collection, Columbia College Chicago
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Talib Rasul Hakim was born Stephen Alexander Chambers and was an educator, musician, and composer. This collection contains his early scores and notes on the performance of his compositions will prove invaluable to performers and scholars.
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 Zenobia Powell Perry Collection, Columbia College Chicago
Guide To The Zenobia Powell Perry Collection, Columbia College Chicago
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Zenobia Powell Perry was a professor, pianist, and composer of classical music. The collection is comprised entirely of Perry’s unpublished scores and music manuscripts, and the collection was arranged by her biographer, Jeannie Gayle Pool.
Guide To The Daniel Bernard Roumain Collection, Columbia College Chicago
Guide To The Daniel Bernard Roumain Collection, Columbia College Chicago
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Daniel Bernard Roumain is a classically trained violinist, composer, performer, educator, and bandleader whose work can weaves together funk, hip-hop, classical music, and rock. The collection holds scores of his compositions, programs, photographs, and other documents; some material held includes his work while a student at Vanderbilt University and the University of Michigan.
Guide To The Hale Smith And Melba Liston Recordings, Columbia College Chicago
Guide To The Hale Smith And Melba Liston Recordings, Columbia College Chicago
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This set of five recordings were taped in Hale Smith’s Black Studies class at University of Connecticut- Storrs and include class lectures by Melba Liston as well as tapes from a WKCR radio program, and a studio track of “The Marijuana Affair” by Melba Liston, conducted by Hale Smith. These recordings were received from Randy Weston, who worked closely with Melba Liston, and Juanita Smith, wife of Hale Smith.