The collection documents the career of Mickey Thomas Terry as an organist and historian of African American classical music.
It includes correspondence, music programs, posters, interviews with George Walker and Jean Guillou, music recordings, clippings, and other materials related to African American composers and organists. Other individuals who are represented in the collection include David Hurd, Ruth Norman, Noel Da Costa, and William B. Cooper, among others.
The collection consists of music manuscripts of compositions by Eugene W. Hancock. It also includes biographies of Hancock and other Black composers, a letter from Robert J. Batastini (G.I.A. Publications), "Spiritual Lullaby" by William B. Cooper, "Funf Stucke fur Orchester" by Anton Webern, and the 1990-1991 choral music schedule for West End Presbyterian Church.
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.
Photographs, audio and video tapes.
Photographs, audio and video tapes.
Maps of the continent of South America.
Manuscripts of poems and essays by H. A. Jules-Bois, beginning with poetry and ending with essays and fragments.
The Subject Files series contains correspondence, notes, articles, printouts, clippings, and other ephemera of Stephen Graubard, primarily relating to his work as Editor of Daedalus and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, but including material regarding his work for the Carnegie Scholars program, as professor at Brown University, etc. The series is further divided into two sub-series comprising alphabetical and chronologically arranged files.