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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 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 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 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 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 Helen Walker Hill Collection, Columbia College Chicago
Guide To The Helen Walker Hill Collection, Columbia College Chicago
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The Helen Walker-Hill Collection is composed of musical compositions by black women composers throughout the United States and England. This collection was compiled by pianist and musicologist, Dr. Helen Walker-Hill. Duplicates and/or originals also held at University of Colorado at Boulder American Music Research Center.