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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.

Content Description Les Productions fumière présentent CONTRASTE "du Classique au Jazz." Theatre National du Palais de Chaillot, Paris, 15 Juin, 1945. Upright folio. 56 pp. Gray wrappers with raised embossed printing, bound with French red/white/blue twisted silk cord. Semigloss pages printed in black and white with blue highlighting, and including many illustration pages and some advertisements, interspersed with heavy stock pages, some with tipped-in semigloss reproductions of historic documents. Stamped 111...

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Program for a Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra concert in London, February 1964. Bears the signatures of Ellington and approximately 16 members of his orchestra, inscribed to Walter Heugham, president of the Duke Ellington Jazz Society in England.

Scope and Contents The collection contains the records of two formers directors of the Future of Music Coalition.Records of Jean Cook, Future of Music Coalition (FMC) director and researcher, related to the Future of Music Coalition's Artists Revenue Streams Project, international project work, radio consolidation research, and other FMC initiatives. Includes research data, reports, background research files, grant material, training and workshop files, interviews, case study data, and other...

Scope and Contents Comprising seven boxes, eleven linear feet of material, the Lawrence Gilman Papers consist of correspondence, manuscripts, and printed matter relating to the life and career of Lawrence Gilman (1878-1939). The grandnephew of Johns Hopkins' University's first president Daniel Coit Gilman, Lawrence Gilman was a noted music critic for the "New York Herald-Tribune," annotator of orchestral programs for the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra and the Philadelphia Orchestra, and radio...

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....

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Beginning no later than his tertianship, Fr. Richard C. Law regularly performed in barbershop quartets and choirs at various campus and Jesuit community events, including minstrel shows, golden jubilees, and final vow celebrations. This collection contains sheet music and lyrics used for such performances, many of which were personalized for individual Jesuits.

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...

Scope and Contents Note The Joseph Raposo Papers contain original musical compositions by Joseph Raposo (d. 1989), a well renown musician who wrote numerous children's songs. Included in the collection is a set of original lead sheets for songs composed by Raposo for the popular children's television show "Sesame Street." In fact, in addition to composing the music for these songs, Raposo wrote the lyrics for some of them, too. The papers also include a few compositions by Raposo for the Muppets. Moreover, the...

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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).

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The collection consists of papers and audio recordings that document the career of Karen Walwyn. It includes nine compact discs of commercial recordings, concert programs, a copy of The Caged Bird: The life and music of Florence B. Price on DVD (2015), and other documents.