African American singers

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Inscribed photograph of Josephine Baker. Full-length portrait, inscribed by Baker to "Frank." Photograph taken in 1951 and inscribed in 1964.

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The collection consists of programs and promotional materials for the Colour of Music Festival dating from 2022 to 2024. These include performances at Carnegie Hall; Charleston, SC; and Sacramento, CA.

Scope and Contents The collection documents the D.C. Youth Chorale (the official city-wide chorus of the D.C. Public School System) and its director, Edward Jackson, Jr., primarily from the 1960s to the early 1980s. It includes concert programs, advertisements, and newspaper clippings, as well as materials collected for Jackson's application for the 1983-1984 National Teacher of the Year Award. The collection also contains a photograph album documenting an event held in celebration of Jackson and the D.C....

Scope and Contents The collection contains photographs, programs, posters and other materials that document the career of opera singer Alvy Powell. The materials primarily document two aspects of Powell's career: his opera performances, especially the role of Porgy in the Porgy and Bess, and his time performing in the U.S. Army Chorus. The collection includes photographs, notes of thanks, and autographs from a number of U.S. Presidents and their families, including the Ford family, the Reagan family, the Bush...

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The collection consists of Evelyn Simpson-Curenton music manuscriots, scores, programs, correspondance, materials related to the 1990 Kathleen Battle and Jessye Norman performance at Carnegie Hall, and one compact disc of recorded music by Simpson-Curenton titled "Reflections" (2009).

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The collection documents the career of mezzo-soprano Sylvia V.C. Twine. It includes concert programs, advertisements, and newspaper clippings (1989-2016); curricula vitae; portrait photographs; two compact discs of Twine recordings; and Twine's Master of Music degree from the University of Michigan School of Music (2001).