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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 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 The collection contains published and unpublished choral music by Black composers.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 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 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 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 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 Robert A. Harris Collection, Columbia College Chicago
Guide To The Robert A. Harris Collection, Columbia College Chicago
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Robert Allen Harris is a composer, conductor of choral music, and choir clinician. The collection reflects his work as a choir director and professor as well as his published and unpublished compositions, primarily of choral music, recordings, and works from other composers are also present.
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 Guido Sinclair Collection, Columbia College Chicago
Guide To The Guido Sinclair Collection, Columbia College Chicago
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Guido Sinclair was born Sinclair Greenwell, Jr. A jazz saxophonist, he performed with many well-known jazz and rhythm and blues artists. In the late 1970s, he moved to Chicago, Illinois, and later moved downstate to Champaign-Urbana, Illinois. The collection contains original compositions, programs, and interviews, and recordings of performances of his original compositions.
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.
Guide To The Society Of Black Composers Records, Columbia College Chicago
Guide To The Society Of Black Composers Records, Columbia College Chicago
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The Society of Black Composers was founded by a group of composers in the New York City area in 1968 and ceased operation in 1973. The collection houses the organizational records of the Society.
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 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.