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William Grant Still
Author | : Michael J. Dabrishus,Carolyn Quin,Judith A. Still |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 1996-08-20 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780313036446 |
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Presenting the life and professional career of The Dean of Afro-American Composers, this is the first comprehensive book on the writings by and about Still, the compositions with manuscript sources, the performances of Still's works, and the reviews of those performances. It includes a touching personal reminiscence by his daughter Judith Anne. The full resources of the extensive collection known as The William Grant Still and Verna Arvey Papers at the University of Arkansas Libraries, Fayetteville, give this book the distinction of being the first one about Still that utilizes diaries, letters, scrapbooks, and family papers to provide information on his works and performances. Still performed, composed, and arranged in the commercial music field before he began to write orchestral works and opera. He is called the Dean of Afro-American Composers because of his pioneering efforts on behalf of American music and his achievements as an African American. Still was the first African American to write a symphony that was performed by a major symphony orchestra in the United States, the first to conduct a major symphony orchestra, the first to conduct a major symphony in the Deep South, the first to direct a white radio orchestra, the first to have an opera produced by a major company, and the first to have an opera televised over a national network. His career tells an important story about the development of an American style of music.
William Grant Still
Author | : Catherine Parsons Smith |
Publsiher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 138 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : African American composers |
ISBN | : 9780252033223 |
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In this compact introduction to the life and work of eminent African American composer William Grant Still (1895-1978), Catherine Parsons Smith tracks the composer's interrelated careers in popular and concert music. Still merged both musical traditions in his work, studying composition with George W. Chadwick at the New England Conservatory, collaborating with Langston Hughes on "Troubled Island," and working as a commercial arranger and composer on Broadway and radio during the Harlem Renaissance. Still also played in the pit band for "Shuffle Along," served as recording director for the first black-owned record label, Black Swan, and arranged music for artists such as Sophie Tucker, Paul Whiteman, and Artie Shaw. Best known for his "Afro-American Symphony" and other works that drew heavily on black American musical heritage, Still struggled against financial hardship and declining attention to his work, which he attributed to political and racist conspiracies. This "dean of Afro-American composers" created his own, unique version of musical modernism, influencing commercial music, symphonic music, and opera in the process."
I Dream a World
Author | : Beverly Soll |
Publsiher | : University of Arkansas Press |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2005-01-01 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1557287899 |
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William Grant Still (1895-1978) dreamed of a world in which his eight operas--for him the ultimate form of musical expression--would be heard in the major opera houses in the United States, devoting most of his career toward the pursuit of this goal. The first part of I Dream a World creates a context for Still's operas and explores commonalities among them, including structural elements and musical characteristics. The second part traces the research, composition, and perform-ances of the operas as a way of documenting the history of the composer and his contributions to American opera. Although I Dream a World is not intentionally biographical, it is very pers-onal. It is more than the story of William Grant Still's love of operatic music, of the libretti that reflect his own life and philosophy, and of the world he dreamed through his work. It opens a window on Still the man as well as on Still the composer that offers important insights into the social milieu of this pioneering figure.
The William Grant Still Reader
Author | : William Grant Still |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : African Americans |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105111075144 |
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William Grant Still
Author | : Judith Anne Still |
Publsiher | : Master Player Library |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : UOM:39015056791331 |
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A series of published and unpublished essays about the 'Dean of Afro-American composers, ' his racial attitudes and his artistic, spiritual and cultural beliefs, written by the composer's daughter.
William Grant Still
Author | : William Grant Still |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Composers |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105028934730 |
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My Life My Words
Author | : William Grant Still,Judith Anne Still |
Publsiher | : The Master-Player Library |
Total Pages | : 299 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : African American composers |
ISBN | : 1877873276 |
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The autobiography of American Master composer, William Grant Still (1895-1978), with additional material by Judith Anne Still (the composer's daughter).
William Grant Still and the Fusion of Cultures in American Music
Author | : Judith Anne Still |
Publsiher | : Master Player Library |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1877873012 |
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