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Hall Clovis papers, ca. 1920-1970, (bulk 1930s)

Title: Hall Clovis papers, ca. 1920-1970 (bulk 1930s)

Singer Hall Clovis (b. 1900) began his career in Omaha singing operettas. He later moved to New York where he sang the lead in the premier of Ernest Trow Carter's Blonde Donna, recorded for Gennett records with the vocal quartet the Four Bachelors and performed widely in the 1930s as the vocal duo Clovis-Steele with his wife soprano Eleanor Steele. Clovis-Steele commissioned and sang pieces by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Darius Milhaud, H.T. Burleigh, Samuel Richards Gaines, Jeno Takacs, Fannie Charles Dillon and Katherine Ruth Heyman. The collection includes manuscripts of works written for Clovis-Steele, copies of recordings, programs, clippings and photos and color films of their travels in Europe in the 1930s.

ArchivalResource: 5 linear ft.; (7 boxes); 8 sound recordings; 13 films

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt0z09n4k0 View

The J. Rosamond Johnson Papers, 1879-1975 (inclusive)

Title: The J. Rosamond Johnson Papers 1879-1975 (inclusive)

Music, correspondence and other papers, photographs, and additional materials by and about the African-American musician, writer, actor, and educator J. Rosamond Johnson (1873-1954).

ArchivalResource: 9 boxes (8 linear ft.)

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/music.mss.0021 View

Johnson, J. Rosamond (John Rosamond), 1873-1954. The John Rosamond Johnson papers, 1879-1975 (inclusive).

Title: The John Rosamond Johnson papers, 1879-1975 (inclusive).

The John Rosamond Johnson Papers document Johnson's varied career as a composer, actor, vaudeville performer, and administrator. The Papers contain sketches, manuscript scores, and published editions of Johnson's musical compositions and arrangements. The correspondence includes letters to and from Johnson and family members, musicians, writers, and political figures. Johnson's life and work are further documented by: programs, newspaper clippings, and advertisements; diaries and scrapbooks; photographs; business and financial records; and miscellaneous items.

ArchivalResource: 8 linear ft. (9 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122548810 View

Anderson, Marian, 1897-1993. An evening with Marian Anderson [sound recording].

Title: An evening with Marian Anderson [sound recording]. [1962]

ArchivalResource: 2 sound tape reels : analog, 7 1/2 ips, 2 tracks ; 10 1/2 in., 1/4 in. tape.1 sound tape reel : analog, 7 1/2 ips, 2 tracks, NAB standard ; 10 1/2 in., 1/4 in. tape.2 sound cassettes : analog, Dolby B processed.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/228819644 View

Ellabelle Davis papers, 1903-[ca. 1950, 1926-1950

Title: Ellabelle Davis papers 1903-[ca. 1950 1926-1950

Soprano opera singer. Programs, news clippings, and personal papers pertaining to Davis' career. A few programs document her appearance in a concert with black composer Harry T. Burleigh.

ArchivalResource: .3 lin. ft.

http://archives.nypl.org/scm/20691 View

Nettie J. Asberry Photograph Collection, ca. 1917-1941

Title: Nettie J. Asberry Photograph Collection ca. 1917-1941

Portraits collected by Nettie J. Asberry of herself and prominent African Americans of the early 20th century

ArchivalResource: 4 photographic prints 1 photomechanical print : halftone

http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv81062 View

Burleigh, H. T. (Harry Thacker), 1866-1949. Correspondence with Marian Anderson, 1928-1940.

Title: Correspondence with Marian Anderson, 1928-1940.

ArchivalResource: 23 items (34 l.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63564814 View

Logan, Rayford Whittingham, 1897-. Papers, 1925-1982.

Title: Papers, 1925-1982.

Correspondence, diaries, and biographical material, documenting Logan's concern with racial inequality and his career as an historian of Africans and African Americans. Topics include his army service in France during World War I; the Pan-African movement of the 1920s and 1930s; Haitian diplomatic soirées; the founding conference of the United Nations, San Francisco, Calif. (1945); Logan's meetings with African independence leaders, Kwame Nkrumah and Nnamdi Azikiwe; and his career at Howard University and colleagues including Mordecai W. Johnson. Correspondents include Harry T. Burleigh, Betty Riis, Roger William Riis, and Logan's wife, Ruth Robinson Logan.

ArchivalResource: 4 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34576583 View

Ellabelle Davis papers, 1903-[ca. 1950], 1926-1950 (bulk).

Title: Ellabelle Davis papers, 1903-[ca. 1950], 1926-1950 (bulk).

Programs, news clippings, and personal papers pertaining to Davis' career. A few programs document her appearance in a concert with black composer Harry T. Burleigh.

ArchivalResource: .3 lin. ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122314099 View

Burleigh, H. T. (Harry Thacker), 1866-1949. In de Lord ... : Negro spiritual / arr. Burleigh ; orchestrated by Harold Byrns.

Title: In de Lord ... : Negro spiritual / arr. Burleigh ; orchestrated by Harold Byrns. [1943].

ArchivalResource: 1 ms. score (8 p.) ; 35 cm. + 59 ms. parts ; 32-36 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63553517 View

Trent family. Lloyd A. Trent, Jr. family papers, 1850-1996.

Title: Lloyd A. Trent, Jr. family papers, 1850-1996.

Includes letters, public and church records, news clippings, ephemera, a videotape, and 87 photographs.

ArchivalResource: 3 boxes, (1.5 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/53337821 View

Brice, Carol, 1916-1985. Papers. 1905-1978.

Title: Papers. 1905-1978.

Singer and professor of music, University of Oklahoma, Norman. Chiefly programs from Brice's appearances in recitals, concerts, and operas, together with announcements, brochures, posters, clippings, photos, and other related publicity material; and ca. 700 family, personal, and business letters (1927-78), diaries (partial, 1934, 1936, 1946), documents and lists (1940-44), and memorabilia (1916-55). Includes material on her performance at the third inauguration of Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt (1941), winning of the Walter H. Naumburg Foundation prize, appearances with Serge Koussevitsky and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, tours of South America and Germany, and roles in the operas Regina and Porgy and Bess, and musical Showboat; papers (1968-78) documenting the career of her second husband, Thomas Devore Carey (b. 1931), singer and professor of music, University of Oklahoma; letters by and about her aunt, Dr. Charlotte (Hawkins) Brown (1883-1961), founder of Palmer Memorial Institute, Sedalia, N.C., where Brice was educated; letters (1954-60), reflecting struggles of black performers in Europe from singer Vera Little (b. ca. 1915). Material on other black singers and musicians, including Marian Anderson, Harry Thacker Burleigh, Ellabelle Davis, Roland Wiltse Hayes, Dorothy Maynor, Paul Robeson, and Neil Scott (Brice's first husband). Other correspondents include family members and Frank Goodall Harrison, professor of music at Talladega College (Ala.), where Brice also studied.

ArchivalResource: ca. 4000 items. and 6 v.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/18886405 View

Burleigh, H. T. (Harry Thacker), 1866-1949. I doan' want fu' t' stay hyeah no longer / arr. by H.T. Burleigh.

Title: I doan' want fu' t' stay hyeah no longer / arr. by H.T. Burleigh. [19--]

ArchivalResource: 1 ms. score ([3] p.) ; 32 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63553514 View

Burleigh, H. T. (Harry Thacker), 1866-1949. Deep river / arranged by H.T. Burleigh.

Title: Deep river / arranged by H.T. Burleigh. [19--]

ArchivalResource: 1 ms. score ([2] p.) ; 29 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63553510 View

Alexander, E. R. (Ernest Raymond), 1892-1960. Alexander collection of sheet music, [undated].

Title: Alexander collection of sheet music, [undated].

Materials include biographical information, correspondence, and sheet music.

ArchivalResource: 3.5 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70970127 View

Lloyd A. Trent, Jr. Family Papers MS 373., 1850-1996

Title: Lloyd A. Trent, Jr. Family Papers 1850-1996

Five generations of an African-American family that achieved commercial success and wealth through the restaurant and catering business as well as extensive real estate investments at the turn of the 20th century in New York City, Brooklyn, and Sea Cliff, Long Island, New York. Includes letters, public and church records, news clippings, ephemera, a videotape, and 87 photographs.

ArchivalResource: 3 boxes; (1.5 linear ft.)

http://asteria.fivecolleges.edu/findaids/umass/mums373.html View

DePreist, James, 1936-. Go down Moses ; He's got the whole world in his hands ; Let us break bread together on our knees / orchestrated by James De Preist.

Title: Go down Moses ; He's got the whole world in his hands ; Let us break bread together on our knees / orchestrated by James De Preist. [1965]

ArchivalResource: 1 ms. score (7 p.) ; 48 cm. + 8 ms. parts ; 32 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63552049 View

Johnson, J. Rosamond (John Rosamond), 1873-1954. The J. Rosamond Johnson papers, 1879-1975 (inclusive).

Title: The J. Rosamond Johnson papers, 1879-1975 (inclusive).

The J. Rosamond Johnson Papers document Johnson's varied career as a composer, actor, vaudeville performer, and administrator. The Papers contain sketches, manuscript scores, and published editions of Johnson's musical compositions and arrangements. The correspondence includes letters to and from Johnson and family members, musicians, writers, and political figures. Johnson's life and work are further documented by: programs, newspaper clippings, and advertisements; diaries and scrapbooks; photographs; business and financial records; and miscellaneous items.

ArchivalResource: 8 linear ft. (9 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702190373 View

Smith, Paul, 1953-. Advancement of Black artists [sound recording].

Title: Advancement of Black artists [sound recording]. 2000 [i.e. 2001].

ArchivalResource: 1 sound disc (54:02) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/51805081 View

Still, William Grant, 1895-1978. William Grant Still and Verna Arvey Papers, 1894-1991.

Title: William Grant Still and Verna Arvey Papers, 1894-1991.

The papers consist of professional and personal correspondence of Still and Arvey, as well as biographical documents, research files, and other papers which document the couple's continuing interest and activities in music, spiritualism, politics, and family matters.

ArchivalResource: 80 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/27347587 View

Burleigh, H. T. (Harry Thacker), 1866-1949. I stood on de Ribber ob Jordan : Negro spiritual / arranged by H.T. Burleigh.

Title: I stood on de Ribber ob Jordan : Negro spiritual / arranged by H.T. Burleigh. [19--]

ArchivalResource: 1 ms. score ([3] p.) ; 31 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63553513 View

Lloyd A. Trent, Jr. Family Papers MS 373., 1850-1996

Title: Lloyd A. Trent, Jr. Family Papers 1850-1996

Five generations of an African-American family that achieved commercial success and wealth through the restaurant and catering business as well as extensive real estate investments at the turn of the 20th century in New York City, Brooklyn, and Sea Cliff, Long Island, New York. Includes letters, public and church records, news clippings, ephemera, a videotape, and 87 photographs.

ArchivalResource: 3 boxes; (1.5 linear ft.)

http://asteria.fivecolleges.edu/findaids/umass/mums373.html View

Rayford Whittingham Logan Papers, 1925-1982

Title: Rayford Whittingham Logan Papers 1925-1982

Historian and educator. Correspondence, diaries, and biographical material documenting Logan's concern with racial inequality and his career as an historian of Africans and African Americans.

ArchivalResource: 800 items; 10 containers; 4.0 linear feet; 1 microfilm reel

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010010 View

Burleigh, H. T. (Harry Thacker), 1866-1949. [In Christ there is no East or West] : old Negro melody / adapted by H.T. Burleigh.

Title: [In Christ there is no East or West] : old Negro melody / adapted by H.T. Burleigh. 1939.

ArchivalResource: 1 ms. close score (1 leaf) ; 21 x 26 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63553515 View

Burleigh, H. T. (Harry Thacker), 1866-1949. The absent-minded beggar / [words by] Rudyard Kipling ; [music by] H.T. Burleigh.

Title: The absent-minded beggar / [words by] Rudyard Kipling ; [music by] H.T. Burleigh. [19--?]

ArchivalResource: 1 ms. score ([4] p.) ; 35 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79994197 View

Nettie J. Asberry Photograph Collection, ca. 1917-1941

Title: Nettie J. Asberry Photograph Collection ca. 1917-1941

Portraits collected by Nettie J. Asberry of herself and prominent African Americans of the early 20th century

ArchivalResource: 4 photographic prints 1 photomechanical print : halftone

http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv81062 View

Music Manuscripts, 1785-1948

Title: Music Manuscripts 1785-1948

Music scores, principally by early 20th century American composers, such as Mrs. Beach, R.R. Bennett, and W.G. Still; European composers, such as Gounod, Mendelssohn; and Poulenc, are also included.

ArchivalResource: 2 containers.; 1 linear feet of shelf space.

http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv62929 View

Burleigh, H. T. (Harry Thacker), 1866-1949. H.T. Burleigh collection.

Title: H.T. Burleigh collection.

This collection contains materials related to composer H.T. Burleigh, including sheet music, scores and some personal papers.

ArchivalResource: .5 linear ft. (1 box and 3 oversized papers (OP))

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/751990004 View

Lawson, Raymond Augustus, 1875-1959. Papers, 1859-1976.

Title: Papers, 1859-1976.

Notices, reviews and programs of African American pianist and his correspondence with Harry T. Burleigh, Roland Hayes, Robert A. Moody, Ossip Gabrilowitch and Susan Lee Warner; includes papers of his son, Warner Lawson and manumission documents of the ancestors of his wife Ida Napier Lawson.

ArchivalResource: 2 boxes (ca. 320 items), 1 v. : ill. ; 39 x 26 x 12 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/23248542 View

Ambrosini, Jeffrey. Centennial celebration [sound recording] : a voice faculty concert.

Title: Centennial celebration [sound recording] : a voice faculty concert. [2007]

ArchivalResource: 1 sound disc (ca. 60 min.) : digital, stereo ; 4 3/4 in. + program (1 folded sheet) and translations (3 sheets)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/243596945 View

Clovis, Hall. Hall Clovis papers, ca. 1900-1970.

Title: Hall Clovis papers, ca. 1900-1970.

Singer Hall Clovis (b. 1900) studied with Anna Eugenie Schoen-Rene and began his career in Omaha singing operettas. He later moved to New York where he sang the lead in the premier of Ernest Trow Carter's Blonde Donna. He recorded for Gennett records with the vocal quartet the Four Bachelors and performed widely as the vocal duo Clovis-Steele with his wife soprano Eleanor Steele, concertizing throughout the 1930s. Clovis-Steele commissioned and sang pieces by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Darius Milhaud, H.T. Burleigh, Samuel Richards Gaines, Jeno Takacs, Fannie Charles Dillon and Katherine Ruth Heyman. Clovis and Steele moved to Santa Barbara and were later divorced. Clovis lived in Santa Barbara until his death with Charles Lee in the Summerland home of Leopold Stokowski. The collection includes manuscripts of works written for Clovis-Steele, copies of recordings, programs, clippings and photos and color films of their travels in Europe in the 1930s.

ArchivalResource: 13 film reels ; 16 mm.Accession PA2008-002 .5 linear ft. (1 box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/62466296 View

Voorhees, Donald. Encores from the Bell Telephone Hour [sound recording].

Title: Encores from the Bell Telephone Hour [sound recording]. [1969]

Marian Anderson discusses her previous work on the Bell Telephone Hour, the background of the spiritual, He's got the whole world in His hands, and her love of opera. Mention of other artists includes Madame Cahier, John Charles Thomas, and Marian Kirby.

ArchivalResource: 1 sound tape reel : analog, 7 1/2 ips, 2 tracks ; 7 in., 1/4 in. tape.1 sound tape reel : analog, 7 1/2 ips, 2 tracks, NAB standard ; 10 1/2 in., 1/4 in. tape.1 sound cassette : analog, Dolby B processed.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/228815557 View