Hildred Roach Collection on Pan African Composers
Scope and Contents
The collection contains materials related to Pan African composers and musicians that was collected by Hildred Roach. It includes music scores from a variety of Black composers, Hildred Roach concert programs, and music recordings (phonograph records, compact discs, and open reel). The collection includes William Grant Still, Ulysses Kay, George Walker, and many others.
Please see the External Documents section below for preliminary inventories of the collection.
Dates
- Creation: 1900 - 2023
Creator
- Roach, Hildred (Collector, Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Most manuscripts collections at the Georgetown University Booth Family Center for Special Collections are open to researchers; however, restrictions may apply to some collections. Collections stored off site require a minimum of three days for retrieval. For use of all manuscripts collections, researchers are advised to contact the Booth Family Center for Special Collections in advance of any visit.
Conditions Governing Use
Researchers are solely responsible for determining the copyright status of the materials being used, establishing who the copyright owner is, locating the copyright owner, and obtaining permission for intended use.
Biographical Note
Hildred Roach, pianist, educator, lecturer, and author, is a native of Charlotte, N.C. A retired professor from the University of the District of Columbia, she also taught at Tuskegee, Fayetteville State, Howard and Virginia State Universities. Having received B.A. and M.M. degrees from Fisk and Yale Universities respectively, she studied at the Juilliard School of Music and the University of Ghana with such noted musicians as Carrie R. Quander, Margaret Welch Wilson, Richard Stark, Katherine Bacon, Seymour Fink, William Masselos, Alan Forte, Ward Davenny, Janet Knapp, Bela Nagy, F. Laires, and J. Kwabena Nketia. The founder of Group 3 (which played works of Pan African composers in the 1960s-80s), a member of Alpha Kappa, and Phi Beta Kappa, she earned scholarships from Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, John Hay Whitney, the Ford Foundation, Yale and Fisk, etc.; she is listed in Eileen Southern’s Dictionary of African and Afro-American Musicians, Who’s Who of American Women and Outstanding Educators of the South.
[Provided by Hildred Roach]
Extent
4 Cubic Feet (11 boxes, 3 compact discs, 1 open reel audio recording, and 3 additional phonograph records)
Language of Materials
English
Metadata Rights Declarations
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Hildred Roach, 2023-2024. The collection consists of five accessions: GTM-20230714, GTM-20230726, GTM-20231115, GTM-20240211, and GTM-20240715.
Processing Information
The collection has been rehoused in acid-free containers.
- Title
- Hildred Roach Collection on Pan African Composers
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- John Zarrillo
- Date
- 2023
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Revision Statements
- 2024-03: Accessions GTM-20231115 and GTM-20240211 added to the collection by John Zarrillo.
- 2024-07: Accession GTM-20240715 added to the collection by John Zarrillo.
- 2024-10: Item-level inventory added to the finding aid by Rachel Barton.
- Hildred Roach Collection on Pan African Composers - Music Scores Inventory
- Hildred Roach Collection on Pan African Composers - Music Recordings Inventory
- Hildred Roach Collection on Pan African Composers - Second Donation Inventory
- Hildred Roach Collection on Pan African Composers - Third Donation Inventory
- Hildred Roach Collection on Pan African Composers - Fourth Donation Inventory
- Hildred Roach Collection on Pan African Composers - Fifth Donation Inventory
Repository Details
Part of the Georgetown University Manuscripts Repository
Lauinger Library, 5th Floor
37th and O Streets, N.W.
Washington DC 20057
speccoll@georgetown.edu