Clippings File

ABBREVIATIONS:

Chi Def (Chicago Defender), Pitts Cour or Pitts C (Pittsburgh Courier), Wash Afro (Washington Afro American)

ADAMS, ALTON AUGUSTUS
.....Photo. Adams and his band, U.S. Naval Band, at St. Thomas, VI, Pittsburgh Courier, 6/16/23, (2)
.....First and only colored bandmaster for 17 years, Pittsburgh Courier, 8/25/34 (8/1)

ADAMS, W. THOMAS
.....Photo. Professor W. Thomas Adams, Editor of the "Boston Advocate"., Negro Music Journal, 12/1902 (56)
.....Director of the Regent Music School and Female Symphonic Orchestra of Boston, Negro Music Journal, 12/02 (56)

AEOLIAN OPERA COMPANY
.....Debuts in New York, Pitts Courier, 7/14/34 (6/1)

AFRICAN EAGLE (Periodical)
.....New periodical issued, Wash Afro, 10/27/45 (21)

AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSIC
.....Fundamental part of serious American music, Wash Afro, 1/29/49 (5/2)
.....Evolved new types of melody and harmony, Wash Afro, 1/29/49 (5/2)
.....Result of mixture of racial cultures, white and colored, Wash Afro, 1/29/49 (5/2)

AKA'S
.....Minn AKA's rank first on campus, People's Voice, 1/22/44, 23

ALABAMA STATE UNIVERSITY
.....Presents Hazel Harrison, Wash Afro, 1/22/49 (6/2)
.....Marian Anderson honored, Wash Afro, 2/3/49 (2/3)
.....Hazel Harrison honored, Wash Afro, 2/3/49 (2/3)
.....Changes name, Pitts C, 8/10/29 (8/2)
.....H.C. Trenholm, grad of Morehouse, president since 1925, Pitts C, 8/10/29 (8/2)

ALLEN, WILLIAM
.....Accompanies Louia Vaughn Jones in a DC concert, Pitts C, 11/10/34 (9/2)

ALMAMO THEATRE CORPORATION
.....Advertisement, Wash Afro, 2/12/49 (14)

ALSTON, MARY E.
.....Presents students in recital, NNOC: 17/5

AMATEUR HOUR
....Imperial Quartette, Amsterdam News, 4/13/35
....Clyde Barrie won first prize, Pitts C, 6/22/35 (8/2)

AMERICAN GUILD OF ORGANISTS
.....Ernest Haywood Hays, Pitts C, 6/29/35 (2/1)
.....Wilbur P. Johnson elected, Amst News, 5/25/35

AMERICAN NEGRO LIGHT OPERA ASSOCIATION
....A Chicago nonprofit presents Pinaforte, 4/13/40, Chi Daily Tribune, 3/22/40, p20

AMSTERDAM NEWS RADIO HOUR
.....Over station WHOM, Amsterdam News, 2/18/39 (20)

ANDERSON, MARIAN
.....Honored by Alabama Sorority, Wash Afro, 2/5/49 (2/3)
.....Featured arrangements and compositions by Edward Boatner, Wash Afro, 2/12/49 (7)
.....Sings at the Department of the Interior, Chicago Defender, 1/9/43
.....Award won by Camilla Williams, Chicago Defender, 1/30/43
.....Camilla Williams won Marian Anderson award twice, Wash Afro, 10/13/45 (20)
.....Voted among prominent local women by the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, Wash Afro, 10/13/45 (18)
.....Insulted by D.A.R., Amsterdam News, 1/28/39 (2)
.....Aids 4 Organizations, Amsterdam News, 2/4/39 (5)
.....Success predicted by Minnie Johnson, a musician and educator, Amsterdam News, 8/26/39 (FP)
.....Mary Cardwell Dawson compares one of her finds, Bernice Hill, to Anderson, Pittsburgh Courier, 7/22/50.
.....Breaks Baltimore Ban. Jet, 2/21/54, p59. Marian Anderson appeared in a recital Jan 8 at Baltimore's Lyric Theater, marking the first time in 25 years that a Negro artist had performed on the theater's stage.

ARTISTS
.....Charles White, talented young negro artist whose mural at Hampton got a lot of attention, People's Voice, 1/29/44, 15 (picture)

ARTISTS UNDER 30
....Caleb Peterson, Jr., 17 year old concert bariton refused a contract in radio to go to high school, Amsterdam News, 9/7/35, 20

AWARDS
.....Ralph Bunch (Howard University) receives Toppan Prize from Harvard, Pitts Courier, 7/7/34 (7/2)

BAKER, JOSEPHINE
.....Asks for high salary, Amsterdam News, 1/28/39 (17)
.....Irving Berlin buys score to "The Siren of the Tropics", Pitts C, 11/9/29 (3/2)

BALTIMORE SYMPHONY
.....Joseph Leavitt joins Modern School of Music staff, Wash Afro, 1/8/49 (6)

BANDMASTERS' CLINIC
.....North Carolina A & T University hosts 9th Annual North Carolina Bandmasters' Clinic, Wash Afro, 2/12/49 (6)

BARRIE, CLYDE
.....Won first prize on Amateur Program, Pitts C, 6/22/35 (8/2)

BASS, JOSEPH
.....Publisher and Editor of the California Eagle (newspaper) dies, Pitts C, 11/10/34 (3/2)

BATHING BEAUTY CONTEST
.....William Woogie Harris, judge, Pitts Courier, 8/11/34 (7/1)

BENNETT COLLEGE
.....Dorothy Maynor recital, Wash Afro, 1/15/49 (12/2)
.....Theater Guild presents "The Fool", Wash Afro, 4/25/36 (11)

BETHUNE COOKMAN QUARTETTE
.....Bethune Cookman Quartette scores, Pitts C, 11/9/29 (3/1)
.....Male quartette, in NYC last week (11/14/29), Pitts C, 11/16/29, (7/1)
.....Directed by Wilhelm A. Sykes, director of music at Bethune Cookman, Pitts C, 11/16/29 97/10

BIGOTRY
.....Carol Brice's Carnegie Hall Recital Called National Protest Against DAR, Wash Afro, 1/15/49 (6/2)
.....Donated concert in protest to DAR's refusal of Mary Bethune, Wash Afro, 1/15/49 (6/2)
.....Muriel Rahn waged fight to break down segregated audiences in the South, Wash Afro, 2/12/49 (14)
.....Hazel Scott refused service in Washington state cafe, Wash Afro, 2/19/49
.....William Grant Still resigned as music supervisor of a negro film called "Stormy Weather" because it opposed the welfare of millions, Chicago Defender, 2/13/43
.....Hazel Scott claims that Mrs. Truman's presence at event sanctions prohibition, Wash Afro, 10/20/45 (26)
.....Hazel Scott pleased by President Truman's state against race discrimination, Wash Afr 10/20/45 (26)
.....Hazel Scott calls that racial discrimination is stupidly reactionary and vicious, Wash Afro, 10/20/45 (26)
.....Marian Anderson insulted by D.A.R., Amsterdam News, 1/28/39 (2)

BIRTH OF A NATION
.....Jenkins Orphanage Band serenades D.W. Griffith, Pittsburgh Courier, 1/13/23 (3)

BLACKS DISCOVER NON BLACKS
.....Claims Vodery Made Gershwin. (Pitts C, 1/18/30 (16)
Will Vodery, a colored composer, actually discovered George Gershwin, our foremost tune builder, according to Walter Winchell, whose "On Broadway" appears in the New York World. Through Vodery, Winchell claims Gershwin reached the notice of Ned Wayburn, who not only hired him for the rehearsals of "Miss 1917" at the Centurey Theater, but retained him on salary after the premiere. Shortly after, Gershwin was signed by Harma.

BLACK CARL
...Noted Carriage Caller at Opera Dies of Grief. Pitts C, 11/23/29 (front page)
"Black Carl", for over 25 years head carriage man at the Metropolitan Opera House and known by that name to dozens of stars and opera patrons died at the home of relatives in Kansas City, Kansas, Sunday. (He died because he was disappointed over being fired. His name was Edward Johnson. He had a nervous break down before that and had to retire, but didn't want to).

BLACK DEVILS
.....Band led by J. Timm Brimm, Pitts C, 8/17/29 (3/1)

BLACKS IN MUSICALS
.....Archie Savage, who appeared in London production of "South Pacific" was cast as a native chieftain in Warner's "His Majesty O'Keefe" and arrived in Fiji to star in the role. Start is Burt Lancaster. Jet 9/25/52, p60

BLEDSOE, JULES
.....Photo, Pitts Courier, 7/14/34 (8/2)
.....Sings in "The Emperor Jones", Pitts Courier, 7/14/34 (8/2)
.....Sings with Aeolian Opera Company, Pitts Courier, 7/14/34 (6/1)

BLIND TOM
.....Mother (Charity Wiggins) dies, Negro Music Journal, 12/1902 (64)

BOATNER CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC
.....Holds auditions for 1000 voice choir, Wash Afro, 2/12/49 (7)

BOATNER, EDWARD
.....Begins rehearsals for 1000 voice choir, Wash Afro, 2/12/49 (7)
.....Director of Boatner Conservatory of Music, Wash Afro, 2/12/49 (7)
.....Was in charge of msuic for National Batist Convention for number of years, Wash Afro, 2/12/49 (7)
.....Compositions and arrangements featured by Marian Anderson, Dorothy Maynor, Nelson Eddy and Paul Robeson, Wash Afro, 2/12/49 (7)

BONDS, MARGARET
.....Accompanies Etta Moten in recital, Amsterdam News, 2/4/39 (20)

BOOKER T. WASHINGTON
.....Indians tell life story of Booker T. Washington, Pitts C, 9/4/26, 13

BRADFORD, PERRY
.....Sentenced to penitentary over publication of song "he may be your man, but he comes to see me sometimes", Amst news, 1/17/23, 1 (Lemuel Fowler song)

BRAITHWAITE, INA
.....Gives concert at Jordan Hall, Amsterdam News, 2/4/39 (20)

BRICE, CAROL
.....Carnegie Hall Recital Called National Protest Against DAR, Wash Afro, 1/15/49 (6/2)
.....Donated concert in protest to DAR's refusal of Mary Bethune, Wash Afro, 1/15/49 (6/2)
....Sang for a crowd in Pittsfield, Massachusetts at a concert sponsored by the South Mountain Association, an org foudned by Mrs. Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge., People's Voice, 8/5/44, p22 (pic with Jonathan at the piano) COOLIDGE

BRIDGETOWER, GEORG A.P
.....Pitts C, 3/2/35 (11/2)

BRIGHT, VIVIEN KING
.....Recital at the Academy of Music and Art, Wash Afro, 11/10/45 (20)

BROADFIELD, CLAUDIUS JAMES
.....Boston tenor returns east, Pitts C, 12/7/29 (11/1)
.....Accompanied by Mary Cardwell Dawson, 12/7/29 (11/1)
.....Recital, Pitts C, 11/9/29 (8/1)

BROOKLYN MUSIC
.....12th Annual presentation, Amsterdam News, 2/11/39 (14)

BROOKLYN STRING TRIO
.....Performs at the 16th Nat Assoc of Negro Musicians convention, Amst News, 8/24/35

BROWN, ROMAINE
.....Studied violin with Gertrude Martin, head of the violin department of the Martin Smith School, Amsterdam News, 2/11/39 (14)
.....On program with Gustava M'Curdy in Brooklyn, Amsterdam News, 2/18/39 (11)

BRYANT-JONES, MILDRED
.....Co-Director of the Wendell Phillips High School Chorus (Chicago), Pitts C, 11/17/34 (2/2)

BRYMM, TIMM
.....Lieut. J. Timm Brimm, leader of the famous Black Devils., Pitts C8/17/29 (3/1)

BUCKNER, LEAH
.....Gives piano recital, Pitts Courier, 7/14/34 (8/1)

BURGE, LOUISE
.....Wins fellowship to Juilliard, , Pitts C, 12/8/34 (3/1)

BURLEIGH, ALSTON
.....? Amsterdam News, 6/22/35

BUTCHER, BERNARD
.....12 year old Brooklyn pianistm Amst News, 8/31/35

CALIFORNIA EAGLE
....Editor and Publisher, Joseph B. Bass, dies, Pitts C., 11/10/34 (3/2)

CAMPBELL, DICK
....Director of Rose McClendon Players, Amsterdam News, 2/25/39 (4)

CARDWELL DAWSON COLORED CHOIR
.....Participated in a concert that took place in Pittsburgh. Chic Def, 11/10/34, p23

CARDWELL DAWSON FEMALE CHORUS
.....Listed in NNOC 17/4 clipping (Choruses and Choir Entered in Jubilee)
.....Elsie T. Paige and Bernice Johnson (child pianist) will be presented by their teacher, Mary Carwell Dawson, NNOC: 17/5

CARMEN JONES
.....Which Muriel (Rahn or Smith) playing Carmen? People's Voice, 1/29/44, 25
.....No venue, initially. Chi Def, 10/27/43, p10
.....Cast picked by John Hammond, Jr., Chi Def, 12/11/43, p10 (pic)

CATO, MINTO
.....Won first prize in a context of the New York Evening Journal. Amst News, 8/24/35

CHILD PRODEGIES
.....Tella Marie Cole (pianist), Pitts Courier, 7/21/34 (2/1)
.....Bernice Johnson (child prodegy), MCD's student, NNOC: 17/5
.....Ellis Lane Larkins, piano prodigy, Pitts Cour, 7/7/34 (6/1)
.....Philippa Schyuler, 21, flew from NY for a concert tour that will take her to 7 eyropean countries. Jet 10/29/53, p31


CHURCHES
.....In 1844, The Methodist Church broke up over slavery, Amst News, 8/24/35
.....Sharp Street Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church (Baltimore), one of the oldest if not the oldest and most prominent city churches (Crisis Mag, Nov 19111, 26)

CLEF CLUB
.....In the midst of a busy season, Pittsburgh Courier, 4/28/23 (23)

CLOUGH, ESTELLE
.....Sings AIDA with Theodore Drury Opera Company, Negro Music Journal, 1/1903 (1)

COLLINS, FRANKYE
.....Specialist in Indian songs. Chic Def, 1/21/28, p5

COLLINS, LEON
.....(2/7/22-4/16/85) famous black American tap dancer from Chicago.

CONTESTS
.....City-wide contest sponsored by the DC Federation of Parent Teacher Associations, Wash Afro, 5/9/36 (6)

COLE, TELLA MARIE
.....Child prodigy pianist, Pitts Courier, 7/21/34 (2/1)

COLLEGE/UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS
.....Wilhelm A. Sykes, Wilberforce, Pittsburgh Courier, 8/25/34 (9/1)

COLORED AMERICAN POPS NIGHT
.....Talent hunt, Wash Afro, 2/12/49 (6)

COLORED CATHOLICS
.....11th annual convention, Amst News, 9/7/35
.....Detroit prepares for Catholics, Pitts C, 11/16/29 (5/1)

COLORED MERCHANT'S ASSOCIATION (Montgomery, AL)
.....Formed 7/31/28 by the National Negro Business League: ten store owners charter members., Pitts C, 8/10/29 (ed page)

COLORED MUNICIPAL BAND
.....Baltimore. Directed by Charles Harris. Pitts C, 11/9/29 (3/10

COLORED ORPHAN GLEE CLUB
.....Takes part in musicale and tea party, Amsterdam News, 6/22/35

COLSTON, VIOLA
.....One of the dancing girls in "Showboat", Amst News, 9/12/28, 6

COLUMBIAN ORCHESTRA
.....Plays on Capital Hill, Negro Music Journal, 12/1902 (64)
.....Lead by Sylvester Thomas, organist at St. Cyprian's Catholic Church. Washington, DC. [THE NEGRO MUSIC JOURNAL, October, 1902, p32]

CONTESTS
.....City Wide Young People's Forum, Wash Afro, 4/18/36 (8)

COOK, WILL MARION
.....Participant in Chicago's race pageant, Pitts Courier, 7/21/34 (9/2)

COZART, ALANNA
.....Presented in recital, Amsterdam News, 6/22/35
.....Wife of the late Richard B. Harrison, Amsterdam news, 6/22/35

CULLEN, COUNTEE
.....Poems by Cullen and Hughes translated into German -published in Germany under the title "Africa Sings", Amst News, 11/25/31, 7
..... * (1623) Zemlinsky, Alexander, 1872-1942. Symphonische Gesänge für Singstimme und Orchester, op. 20 : AMs with AMs corrections and revisions (reproduction), 1929. 1 score (1 v?).
With 3 separate Ms leaves (reproduction) containing the English words for 3 songs.
Words by Countee Cullen, Frank Horne, Langston Hughes, and Jean Toomer, from a 1929 anthology Africa sings.
(http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~hou00093)

CUNHA, DORIS
.....Presented her pupils in their second annual piano recital, Amsterdam News, 9/22/35

DANCE
.....Sheldon B. Hoskins, Baltimore Dance Teacher, Wash Afro, 4/25/36 (11)
.....Jigsaw Jackson sails to Paris, Wash Afro, 4/25/36 (11)
.....Dancers appear in "The Garden of Allah" Wash Afro, 4/25/36 (11)
.....World's greatest Colored Russian dancer, Dewey Weinglass. Pitts C, 9/4/26, 3 photo
.....Leroy Broomfield and Aurora Greely, famous Eastern dance team PItts C, 8/10/49 (3/2). Picture.
.....Ray, Elizabeth Anne. Tuskegee Dancer in DC Recital. Afro, 5/27/44, p10. A dance recital by Elizabeth Anne Ray assisted by Doris V. Evans, pianist was presented by Beta Siga Chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sority in Banneker Jr High last Saturday. Miss Ray, who has develoted three years to teaching the danc at Tuskegee and Howard, presented a number of interpretive dances in cluding "Uncle Sam Says" or "Jim Crow" in the armed forces. Miss Evans, an honor student in the Howard Univesity School of Music played "Nocturne in F Mjaor: "Garden in the Raid" "Post Ludium" "Intermezzo Op 117 and other selections. Afro, 5/27/44, p10
.....Sheldon B. Hoskins. Themla Hill. Listed in Notable American Women: A Biographical Dictionary Completing the Twentieth ...
By Susan Ware, Stacy Lorraine Braukman
....Janet Collins, the Met Opera ballerina, is as good an artist as she is a dance. She will soon have a one woman exhibit of her paintings which art critics are already raving over. Jet, 10/30/52, p63 (pic, p64)
....."Cuban Dancers Star in Sonja Henie Ice Show" The cuban voodoo dance team of Martha and Alexander--shapely, 21 year old Martha Elena Castillo and 26 year old Arsenio Alexander -became the first Negroes to perform in a major ice show. Featured in the brilliant "Cuban Fantasy" in Sonuja Henie's 1953 Ice Revue, the talented young dancers were imported from Havana by Miss Henie to give her newly-created Latin-American production number and authentic air. A team since last December, Martha and Alexander first became famous when the Havana Committee for Cultural Advancement voted their sensuous gyrations Cuba's best for originality. Jet, 9/25/52, p61
GUS SOLOMON
HOPE CLARKE
CARMEN DE LAVALLADE
DUDLEY WILLIAMS
(FOR THE ABOVE NAMES AND BIOG INFO, TYPE THEM IN INDIVIDUALLY. THEY'RE IN THE NAMES LIST)

DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION (DAR)
.....Carol Brice's Carnegie Hall recital called national protest, Wash Afro, 1/15/49 (6/2)
.....Refused Mary McLeod Bethune use of Constitution Hall, Wash Afro, 1/15/49 (6/2)

DAUGHTERS OF THE CONFEDERACY
.....HOnor Prof. Geo W. Carver, Pitts C, 6/2/23, 4

DAWSON, MARY CARDWELL
.....Accompanies student, Gertrude E. Johnson at recital, Pitts Courier, 7/14/34 (7/1)
.....Chair of the local (Pittsburgh) committee for the Aug 34 convention of the NANW, Pitts Courier, 7/14/34 (7/1)
.....Laurels await musicians, Pitts Courier, 5/25/35 (8/1)
.....Sings at NANM Convention, Pitts Courier, 9/23/33 (NNOC: 17/2)
.....Says that Bernice Hill, one of Dawson's finds, has a voice that posses many of the excellent qualities posed by Marian Anderson" Pittsburgh Courier, 7/22/50
.....Given AFRO award, Washington Afro, 3/25/50
.....National Negro Opera Company hits snag in Capitol, People's Voice, 8/12/44, 23
.....Accompanies Claudius Broadfield in recital, Pitts C 11/9/29 (8/10)
.....Choir sings at 16th National Assoc of Negro Musicians Convention in Brooklyn, Amst News, 8/24/35
.....Courier prize winner, Pitts C, 12/29/34 (Front Page)
.....Pictured with the cup the Cardwell School Choir won in the Nationalist contest., Pitts C, 10/27/34 (9/1)
.....Mary C. Dawson has been asked to discuss "Women in Music" at function. Chic Def (Pittsburgh News section), 3/21/31, p21
.....Toured east and middle west with her 150 voice choir. Chi Def, 9/12/36, p3

DAWSON, WILLIAM
.....Recital by white orchestra at Tuskegee... plays William Dawson's Negro Folk Symphony, Pittsburgh Courier, 4/20/35 (8/2)
.....Talks about his Negro Folk Symphony", Pitts C, 11/24/34 (8/2)
.....Dawson replies to his accusers (who claims that his symphony is plagiarized), Pitts C, 11/24/34. (8/2)

DEBATE CONTEST
.....Atlanta University defeats Howard., Pitts C, 4/28/23
Topic: Afirmative (Atlanta University) "resolved that the republican party, by its attitude toward the Dyer Bill, has forfeited the allegiance of the Negro voter in the US". Team consisted of Atla: Alonzo Bohannon (Fort Valley), William Pendleton (Galveston, TZX). Howard U. Yancey L Sims and Marcellus A. Goff.

DEAN
.....Dean Harrison H. Ferrell. Chi Def, 1/21/28, p5

DEBUTS
.....Flora Thomas, pianist from New York. Debuted at Steinway Hall in 1934, Pittsburgh Courier, 8/25/34 (8/1)
.....Caterina Jarboro, honorary member of AKA, debuted with Chicago Opera Company in 1933, Pittsburgh Courier, 8/25/34 (7/1)

DETROIT NEGRO OPERA COMPANY
.....Presented two performances of "Aida" at the Art Institute. Chi Def, 4/29/39, 3
.....Miss Fannie Bethel was chose chair of the DNO's second annual pre-opera ball. Chi Def, 5/6/39,16

DETT, ROBERT NATHANIEL
.....Dett to get degree from Oberlin. Pitts C, 5/15/26, p10
Dett, head of department at Hampton will receive his doctorates in June. Dett has made the department of music at hampton one of the strongest in the country and the many musical festivals under his direction at hampton are among the brilliant features of the cultural life of the school. His sabbatical year at Harvard (1920-21) he won the literary prize for his essay on "The Emancipation of Negro Music" and also the Francis Boot music prize for his six-part motet "Don't be weary traveler" Dett wrote a motet entitled "Gently, Lord, oh Gently Lead Us", which was founded on a Negro spiritual from the Bahama Islands.
.....Dies of heart attack in Battle Creek, MI, where he had gone to direct musical activites at a USO clubhouse at Fort Custer. At the time of his death, he was working on the third and fourth movements of a symphony which CBS had commissioned him to write, Chi Def, 10/16/43, p22
.....Presided over National Assoc of Negro Musicians' Pittsburgh meeting (1934), Wednesday night program which paied homage to various musicians. Chi Def, 9/15/34, p4

DEXTRA NEGRO CHORUS
.....William C. Elkins, Director, Amst News, 9/26/28, 8

DICKERSON, CLEO
.....The first performance of Standar Opera in Chicago by Negro Talent was announced on th eprogram of the Chicago South Side Opera Company, James A. Mundy, Gen Director and Manager., Cleo Dickerson, Musical Director. Chi Def, 12/10/21, 5

DISC JOCKEY
.....Allen Knight, Jr., Virginia's first (WXGI: Richmond), Wash Afro, 2/19/49

DIVORCE
.....Neota Louise McCurdy Dyett (pianist) divorces Walter Henri Dyett (bandmaster of the Wendell Phillips High School Band), Pitts C12/15/34 (4/1)

DIXON, DEAN
....Conducts his first opera, "Tales of Hoffman" (by Jacques Offenbach), Chicago Defender, 2/6/43
.....Symphony Orch. challenges appeal of jazz band. People's Voice, 7/15/44, 22

DELEWARE, MARY
.....Sings for the inaugural concert of the National Negro Opera Company, Chicago Defender, 1/23/43

DISMOND, GERALDYN
....."Lady Nicotine", WEB DuBois, by Levering Lewis.

DOBBS, MATTIWILDA
.....Mattiwilda Dobbs to make U.S. Concert Tour, Jet, 12/23/54, 59
Mattiwilda Dobbs, Atlanta-born coloratura soprano, will return to the U.S. for a coast to coast, three month concert tour upon completion of a European concert jaunt late this month. She will b presented by Sol Hurok in her first Town Hall recital on January 23 (1955). The soprano scored a triumph in her NY debut with the Little Orchestra Society last spring, appeared at London's Royal Opera and Covent Garden and was the first Negro to sing at Milan's famed La Scala Opera House. During her European tour, Sweden's King Gustav presented her with Stockholm's Order of the North Star

DOLLS (WHITE)
.....Black children now playing with yellow dolls, Pitts C, 11/24/34 (3/1)

DRA-MU OPERA COMPANY
.....Presents "Faust" in enlgih. Directed by ZHenri Elkans, former dir of Street Pier Opera Co, who has been credited with discovering Camilla Williams. Dra-Mu Company was the only all negro troupe in the country devoting itself entirely to grand opera. Chic Def, 12/28/46, 3
.....Philadelphia gets Haitian Revolution Opera (Ouanga: 10/27/50), Chi Def, 9/9/50, p2
.....A few years ago, Raymond L. Smith, a West Philadelphia Post office clerk, got an idea. He was a violinist and in his spare time, he conducted the Philadelphia Concert Orchestra. So many egro figures applied to him to appear with the orchestra that he decided to organize them into an opera company. A group of public spirited citizens raised the funds and the Dra Mu Opera Company, an all Negro organization, was founded. It will open its third season, Nov 3 (1947) with a performance of "Carmen. NYT, 10/26/47, X7


DRURY, THEODORE
.....Well known colored baryton-tenor of New York. The Negro Music Journal, 11/1902, 48
.....Advertisement for performance of AIDA (in English), Negro Music Journal, 1/1903 (1)

DUNBAR, RUDOLPH
.....British Guianan musician, conductor of top rank, Chicago Defender, 1/30/43
.....Invited to lead the London Symphony, Chicago Defender, 1/30/43
.....See also: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/pip/pp33t/

DUNCAN, TODD
.....Sings for inaugural concert of the National Negro Opera Company, Chicago Defender, 1/23/43
.....Gives recital in Baltimore, MD, Wash Afro, 10/13/45 (19)
.....Performed with the New York City Opera, Wash Afro, 10/13/45 (19)
.....Was claimed to achieve greatest success in the history of Panama, Wash Afro, 10/13/45 (19)
.....Sings for Secretary treasury's guest. Pitts C, 2/169/35 (8/1)

DYETT, WALTER
.....Participant in Chicago's race pageant, Pitts Courier, 7/21/34 (9/2)
.....Taught at Wendell Phillips High School, 7/21/34 (9/2)

EDUCATION (NEGRO)
.....Hilda V. Grayson instrumental in getting negro books in public schools, Amsterdam News, 8/26/39 (3)
.....Teach negro history in DC Public Schools, Pitts C, 11/2/29 (1/5)
.....Bar books using "nigger". Pitts C, 11/2/29 (2/1)
.....Integration brings drop in white pupil enrollment in dc schools. Jet, 11/25/54, p22

ELLIS, RUTH
.....Dramatic artist who performed on recital of Miss Cunha's pupils, Amst News 9/22/35

ELZY, RUBY
.....Won national acclaim by singing the role of Serena in Gershwin's opera "Porgy and Bess, Amsterdam News, 1/28/39 (17)
.....Presented in recital at Occidental College, Amsterdam News, 1/28/39 (17)
.....Had leading role in Hall Johnson's record breaking "Run Little Chillun", Amsterdam News, 1/28/39 (17)

EQUAL OPPORTUNITUES
.....Etude Magazine giving negroes equal opportunities, Pitts C., 6/29/35 (2/1)

EUBANKS, J.L.
.....Director, Washington Junior College of Music, Wash Afro, 1/8/49 (4)

EUROPE, JAMES REESE
.....Introduced Jazz to New York, New Journal/Guide, 4/18/22, 4

EVA JESSYE CHOIR
.....Advertisement, Wash Afro, 2/5/49 (2/3)

EVANTI CHORALE
.....of 18 women will be presented by the Culture for Service Committee of the Zion Baptist Church, Washington Star, 5/14/50, c10

EVANTI, MADAME LILLIAN
.....Major and Mrs. Loving Entertain for Evanti, Pitts Courier, 4/20/35 (11/1)
.....Sings with Fisk Singers in Chicago, Pitts Courier, 4/27/35 (8/1)
.....Sings at inaugural concert for NNOC, Chicago Defender, 1/23/43
.....Donates recording to raise money, Chicago Defender, 2/6/43
.....Sings at Bishop College, NNOC: 17/35
.....Sings for NANM, Pittsburgh Courier, 8/25/34 (front page)
.....Sings at Orchestra Hall, Chicago, for NANM, Pitts C4/27/35 (8/1)

EXCLUSION OF NEGRO TROOPS
.....Negro troop omission from movies protested, People's Voice, 1/15/44, 9
.....War Dept to show "missing negro troops, People's Voice, 1/22/44, 4

FAILURE DUE TO LACK OF SUPPORT
.....Hospital in Harlem fails due to lack of negro support, Pitts C, 11/2/29 (3/2)

FEMALE SYMPHONIC ORCHESTRA (Cambridge, Mass)
.....Directed by W. Thomas Adams, Negro Music Journal, 12/1902 (56)

FERRELL, HARRISON H
.....Violinist, Dean, Dir of Ferrell Symphony Orchestra, Chi Def 1/21/28, p5

FERRELL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
.....Director, Harrison Ferrell. performs at Kimball Hall, Chi Def 1/21/28, p5
.....Only negro symphony orchestra in the world that played classical music exclusively, Chi Def, 1/21/28, p5

FESTIVALS
....American Negro Song Festival (chicago), Chi Daily Tribune, 8/24/41, F5

FILM
.....Exclusion of Negro troops from movies depicting their active participation in war efforts, People's Voice 1/15/44,19
.....Newsreel ignore order to film troops in action, People's Voice, 1/15/44, 2

FISK JUBILEE SINGERS
.....Sing at the Hollywood Bowl (California), Pitts C, 8/17/29 (9/1)
.....Original Fisk Jubilee singer laid to rest, Pitts C, 8/10/35 (8/1)
.....Fisk singers on the air. Pitts C, 10/12/35 (5/1)

FLEMING, ROGER
.....Appears on YMCA, Amsterdam News, 2/11/39 (14)
.....Pupil of Beatrice Wade, Amsterdam News, 2/11/39 (14)

FLEMING, H. HARLESTON (Pianist)
.....Hampton student participates in City Wide forum, Wash Afro, 4/18/36 (8)

FOLK SONG
....Water Boy, Musical America, 8/19/22, 18

FOWLER, MANETT HARRISON (MRS)
.....President of the Texas Assoc of Negro Musicians, Pitts C, 8/17/29 (3/1)
.....Presides over meeing of the 16th Nat Assoc of Negro Musicians convention in New York, Amst News, 8/24/35

FRASIER, AWILDA
.....Pupil of Prof Rudolph Grant, organist of Salem Methodist Episcopal Church, Amsterdam News, 2/11/39 (9)

FRED ALLEN SHOW
.....June McMechen appears on the Fred Allen Show, 3/29/42, Chi Def, 2/21/42 (12)

FREEMAN, H. LAWRENCE
.....Participant in Chicago's race pageant, Pitts Courier, 7/21/34 (9/2)
.....Negro Opera Company produces "Voodoo", Amst News, 8/22/28, 6
.....Arranger of spirituals, Amst News, 8/29/28, 7
.....Director of the Negro Choral Society, Inc., Amst News, 8/29-28, 7

GARNET, ANN
.....Dances for benefit, Wash Afro, 2/5/49 (2/5)

GARNETT, DOROTHY
.....Instructor of Garrett School of Music pupils (photo), Wash Afro, 10/20/45 (9)

GARRETT SCHOOL OF MUSIC
.....Pupils in recital, Wash Afro, 10/20/45 (9)
.....Dorothy Garnett, instructor, Wash Afr, 10/20/45 (9)

GERSHWIN, GEORGE
.....Muriel Rahn and Eddie Matthews sing in All Gershwin program at Watergate, 1950, Washington Evening Star, 7/28/50, A6

GLENN, GAYLA
....Member of MU-TE-OR Branch of NANM, Amsterdam News, 1/21/39 (11)

GOODWIN, W.J.
.....Music faculty member of Virginia Union University, Wash Afro, 3/5/49 (7/2)

GOSPEL MELODY SINGERS
.....Gospel Melody Singers (WDC), Wash Afro, 1/1/49 (9)

GRAINGER, PORTER
.....Irving Berlin buys score of "The Siren of the Tropics", Pitts C, 11/9/29 (3/2), See also: Josephine Baker

GRANT, PROF RUDOLPH
.....Teacher of Awilda Frasier. Grant's the organist of Salem ME Church, Amsterdam News, 2/11/39 (9)

GRAYSON, HILDA V.
.....Helped get negro books put in schools, Amsterdam News, 8/26/39 (3)

GRIFFIN, EDNA L.
.....First woman internist at the John A. Andrews Memorial Hospital, Tuskegee Institute, Pitts Courier, 7/14/34 (5/1)

HACKLEY, E. AZALIA
.....Accompanied by Florence Cole Talbert, Pitts C, 8/17/35 (8/1)
.....Encouraged Talbert to pursue a singing career, Pitts C, 8/17/35 (8/1), see: "Advice Given"
.....Died in Detroit at the age of 54. Jet, 12/16/54, 8

HALL, FREDERICK D.
.....Returned to US from a 2 year study and research on music developments in the educational system of Britain and Wales, Pitts C, 8/17/35 (pic included with his wife)

HALL JOHNSON CHOIR
.... Performs at Griffith Stadium (Washington, DC), Wash AFro, 10/13/45 (6)

HAMPTON ASSOCIATION (NEW YORK)
.....Presents Creative Dance Group, Amsterdam News, 2/25/39 (4)
.....Chair of the Hampton Association of New Yor, William Jay Schieffelin, Amsterdam News, 2/25/39 (4)

HANDY, W.C.
.....Ed Sullivan said in his column that Handy's sight was improving, when it wasn't. People's Voice, 1/22/44, 25

HAMPTON INSTITUTE
.....Choir sings for President Eisenhower, Wash Post, 5/17/53 (25M)

HARDY, NORMAN
.....One of the leading performers in the spanish lay "El Gitano", Pittsburgh Courier, 8/18/34 (4/1)

HARLEM OPERA HOUSE
.....Merged with the Apollo and has new manager. James Marshall, former RKO stage star, Pitts C, 12/22/34 (8/2)

HARLEM YMCA
.....Ethyl Wise Sings at Harlem YMCA accompanied by Hugo Bornn. New York Times 1/1/48

HARLEM MUSICIANS
.....Some Harlem musicians worked with English bands, Amst News, 9/7/35

HARMON FOUNDATION
.....Story of the Harmon Foundation, Opportunity, 4/1925, p115


HARRELD, JOSEPHINE
.....Graduates from Juilliard at age 19, Pitts Courier, 7/14/34 (2/1)
.....Lucien White is her maternal uncle. Atl Daily World, 2/16/38, 2
.....Graduated from Spelman at 18, Atl Daily World, 2/16/38, 2
HARRIS, PHIL
.....Made famous by Bert Williams, Pitts Courier, 7/7/34 (6/1)

HARRIS, WILLIAM WOOGIE
.....Presiding judge of Bathing Beauty Contest, Pitts Courier, 8/11/34 (7/1)
.....Manager of the Norris Beach No-Sox Mushball Team, Pitts Courier, 8/11/34 (7/1

HARRISON, HAZEL
.....Appears in recital at Alabama State, Wash Afro, 1/22/49 (6/2)
.....Honored by Alabama sorority, Wash Afro, 2/5/49 (2/3)
.....Soloist on a program at Carnegie Music Hall with Cardwell Dawson Choir. Clip dated 2/10/35 in NNOC 17/4 (Piani Duo in Bow...)
.....Howard University recital, Wash Afro, 10/13/45 (21)
.....Recital ad, Wash Afro, 10/13/45 (21)
.....Buries her mother in Chicago, Chicago World 1942, NNOC: 17/11
.....Appeared at the Kelly miller Auditorium, Salem College, Clarksburg, W Va, Pitts C, 11/16/29 (10/1)


HARRIS, MARJORIE
.....Dramatic soprano, presented in a recital, Amsterdam News, 4/13/35

HARVARD STUDENT
.....Negro named Harvard Student Council Head. Jet, 2/21/54. Clifford L. Alexander, 20 year old son of a NYC housing project manager was elected president of the Harvard College Student Council and became the first negro to be elected to that office.

HAYES, DANIEL LEO
.....Veteran of the theatre, radio and motion pictures, Amsterdam News, 2/18/39 (17)

HAYES, ROLAND
.....Has become a fashionable lad in Paris, Musical America, 8/12/22, 7
.....Says he's going to africa to study Negro folk music, Musical America, 8/12/22, 7

HAYS, ERNEST HAYWOOD
.....Organist at Hampton. Member of AAOG, Pitts C, 6/25/35 (2/1)

HIGH SCHOOL CADETS
.....Emmet J. Scott pays tribute, Pitts C, 4/28/23, 16
High tribute was paid the Washington High School Cadets by Emmet J. Scott, secretary-treasurer of Howard University in presenting commissions to officers of the 24th regiment of the Cadet Corps at exercises yesterday afternoon on the campus. "I have been told," said Mr. Scott, "that the men who came from Washington High School Cadet Cors are those who take first rank in the military organizations here at Howard.

HINDERAS, NATALIE
.....Hinderas showing school teacher Jimmy East of Philly not that she has hit the big time. East introducted her to the public relations agency which helped get her on Hoagy Carmichael's coast-to-coast television show., Jet 11/25/54, 47

HISTORICAL FIRSTS
.....Baltimore will form one of the first negro symphony orchestras in the US, Pitts C, 11/9/29 (3/1)
.....Joseph Cole, the first black singer with the Detroit Civic Orchestra. Chic Def, 2/5/38, 6
.....Fisk Jubilee Singers received first recognition as a trained group. Chic Def, 12/17/38, 17
.....Anita Patti Brown was the first black recitalist to tour the US, Chi Def, 12/17/38, 17
.....Negro named Harvard Student Council Head. Jet, 2/21/54. Clifford L. Alexander, 20 year old son of a NYC housing project manager was elected president of the Harvard College Student Council and became the first negro to be elected to that office.
.....Dec, 16, 1937, Augusta Savage, sculptress, was commissioned by the NY World's Fair Committee to do a piece which would symbolize the contributions of Negroes to the field of Music,. It was the first such commission ever given to a Negro. Jet. 12/17/53, p10 [pic]
.....Helen Hagan was the first black to earn a B Mus from Yale 1912)
.....Our first known writer of a book: Phyllis Wheatley" Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral" published in 1773 in London. CRISIS Mag, Nov 1911, 33 (http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/tri013.html)
.....Wade H. Hammond was the first African American bandmaster appointed to instructed black musicians in the US Army. Afro America, 2/18/11, 6
.....Eva Jessye directed choir for first black sound film, "Hallelujah" Baltimore Afro, 2/2/85, 11

HISTORY (NEGRO)
.....Hilda V. Harris instrumental in getting black books put in public schools, Amsterdam News, 8/26/39 (3)

HOLMES, GRACE ISABELLE
.....Marries Paul Lawrence Peeler, Pitts C, 11/17/34 (5/1). Photo

HORNE, FRANK
.....Poems by Cullen and Hughes translated into German -published in Germany under the title "Africa Sings", Amst News, 11/25/31, 7
..... * (1623) Zemlinsky, Alexander, 1872-1942. Symphonische Gesänge für Singstimme und Orchester, op. 20 : AMs with AMs corrections and revisions (reproduction), 1929. 1 score (1 v?).
With 3 separate Ms leaves (reproduction) containing the English words for 3 songs.
Words by Countee Cullen, Frank Horne, Langston Hughes, and Jean Toomer, from a 1929 anthology Africa sings.
(http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~hou00093)
.....First negro sound movie, Hallelujah (1929)

HOSKINS, SHELDON B.
.....Presents dance recital, Wash Afro, 4/25/36 (11)
.....Baltimore dance teacher, Wash Afro, 4/25/36 (11)

HOT MIKADO
.....Michael Todd, producer, Amsterdam News, 8/5/39 (19)
.....Bill Robinson invested in show and risked losing $10K because of the competitor, "Swingcopated Mikado" that was being brought to New York from Chicago. Amsterdam News, 8/5/39 (19)
.....Pressured by the Actored Equity Association, Amsterdam News, 8/5/39 (19)
.....Cast made unusual demands, Amsterdam News, 8/5/39 (19)
.....WPA 'Mikado' comes to N.Y., Amsterdam News, 2/25/39 (17)
.....Bill Robinson leads in Hot Mikado in New York, Amsterdam News, 2/25/39 (17)

HOWARD SINGERS
.....Sing at White House, Wash Afro, 1/22/49 (11)

HOWARD UNIVERSITY CHOIR
.....In recital at Metropolitan AME Church, Wash Afro, 1/22/49 (6/2)
.....Presented in recital at Metropolitan AME Church by Kappas, Wash Afro, 1/22/49 (6/2)
.....Presented concert at New jersey Avenue School (New Jersey), Wash Afro, 3/5/49 (7/2)

HOWARD UNIVERSITY
.....Hazel Harrison recital, Wash Afro, 10/13/45 (21)
.....Hazel Harrison recital (advertisement), Wash Afro, 10/13/21 (21)
.....Hosts programs for National Music Week, Wash Afro, 5/9/36 (7)
.....Harvard awards Ralph Bunch (Political Science Department) with the Toppan Prize, Pitts Courier, 7/7/34 (7/2)
.....Poll Howard University Students for Air Program, Chi Def, 2/21/42 (12)
.....Louise Burge receives fellowship to Juilliard, Pitts C, 12/8/34 (3/1)
.....Emmet J. Scott gives praise to colored cadets. Pitts C, 4/28/23, 16

HUGHES, LANGSTON
.....Poems by Cullen and Hughes translated into German -published in Germany under the title "Africa Sings", Amst News, 11/25/31, 7
..... * (1623) Zemlinsky, Alexander, 1872-1942. Symphonische Gesänge für Singstimme und Orchester, op. 20 : AMs with AMs corrections and revisions (reproduction), 1929. 1 score (1 v?).
With 3 separate Ms leaves (reproduction) containing the English words for 3 songs. Words by Countee Cullen, Frank Horne, Langston Hughes, and Jean Toomer, from a 1929 anthology Africa sings.
(http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~hou00093)

HUNT, AIMEE
.....Piano teacher: students, Ruth Jackson, Jose Barrerro, Clarice Charles, Bertha Apaulding, Dorothy Wyche, John Etts, Thodora Mitchell, Anita Barrero, Ethel Peters, Carmen Davis, and May Jackson. Amst News, 6/22/35

IMPERIAL QUARTETTE
.....Auditioned on Major Bowes, Amsterdam News, 4/13/35. See also: BROADCASTS.

ILLINOIS, Chicago
.....Race pageant, Pitts Courier, 7/21/34 (9/2)

INJUSTICE, EDUCATIONAL
.....Fla sherriff outs 'colored' pupils, FBI probes. Jet, 12/16/54, 28
.....Heman Sweatt, 41, Cleveland Urban Leagure official and first Negro to sue for admission to the University of Texas, is writing a book about the changing South entitled "The White Picket Fence" Jet, 12/16/54, 30

INVENTION (RADIO)
.....Rufus P. Turner credited with building one of the smallest radios in history, Pitts Courier, 7/7/34 (7/2)

INVINCIBLE ORCHESTRA
.....Plays on Capital Hill, Negro Music Journal, 12/1902 (64)

IRA ALRIDGE DRAMATRIC GUILD
.....Johnson C. Smith's guild presents three one act plays, Wash Afro, 2/12/49 (7)

JACKSON, JIGSAW
.....Sails for Paris, Wash Afro, 4/25/36 (11)

JAMIESON, MITCHELL
.....Painted mural of Marian Anderson singing on steps of Lincoln Memorial (1939), Chic Def, 1/9/43

JARBORO, CATERINA
.....Honorary AKA, debuted with Chicago Opera Company in '33, Pittsburgh Courier, 8/25/34 (7/1)
.....Sings at North Carolina A&T, Pitts C, 11/24/34 (9/1)
.....Tour includes A&T, Bethune Cookman, Tuskegee, the St. Ambrose Rectory, and Johnson C. Smith, Pitts C., 11/17/34 (4/1)

JAZZ (ORIGIN THEORIES)
....French airs of the 17th and 18th centuries were the basis of the syncopaedied melodies (jazz), claims D.B. Wyndham Lewis, an English writer. Pitts C, 12/7/29 (front page)

JENKINS ORPHANAGE BAND
.....Serenaded D.W. Griffith, producer of "Birth of a Nation", Pittsburgh Courier, 1/13/23 (3)
.....Sings at Bethune-Cookman College, Pitts C, 11/24/34 (front page)

JIM CROW (BATTLES AGAINST)
.....Opera Diva Fights Jimcro. "The Equity Life insurance Company, through its agent, Woid/Dolson, has refused to renew its lease for a penthouse at 260 West End Av with Mme Grete Stueckgold, internationally favorite opera singer, because some of the tenants objected to her Negro students' using the front elevator. Mme Stueckgold, who was with the met for 15 years, was told not to move out of her apt." People's Voice, 9/2/44, p23

JOHNSON C. SMITH
.....Ira Alridge Dramatic Guild presents three one act plays, Wash Afro, 2/12/49 (7)
.....Presents June McMechen in concert, Wash Afro, 3/5/49 (7/2)

JOHNSON, GERTRUDE E.
.....Renders concert at Carter Chapel CME Church, Pitts Courier, 7/14/34 (7/1)
.....Mary Cardwell Dawson accompanies her at Carter Chapel recital, Pitts Courier, 7/14/34 (7/1)
.....Sang at NANM Convention, Pitts Courier, 9/23/33 (NNOC: 17/3)
.....Gives recital, accompanied by Lillie Mae Solomon at Cardwell SOM, NNOC: 17/5

JOHNSON, HALL
.....Forms the Alliance for the Developmment of Negro Music, headquarters at the Abyssinian Community Center, Ams News, 6/8/35

JOHNSON, JOHN ROSAMOND
.....Obit. 81, died of a heart attack at home in NYC, jet 11/25/54, 25

JOHNSON, LUTHER H. (Photographer)
....Husband of Maudelina Johnson, Pitts C, 5/16/25, 6
....Staff photographer for the Courier.
....Studio moved to 1911 Center Avenue (2d Floor) in 1928, Pitts C, 1/14/28, 10
....Four and a half years in Pittsburgh on Center Avenue., Pitts C, 1/14/28, 10
....Biographical (From New York), Pitts C, 10/16/76, 17

JOHNSON, LUTHER (JR)
....Recital. Pitts C, 2/25/56, 26

JOHNSON, MAUDELINA
....Wife of Luther H. Johnson (Photographer). Pitts C, 5/16/25, 6
....Son, Luther Jr., studied voice with her former teacher in new York, Pitts C, 5/12/45, 8
.....Discovered and taught Robert Freeman, Pitts C, 4/27/63, 17

JOHNSON, MINNIE
.....Predicted the success of Marian Anderson, Amsterdam News, 8/26/39 (FP)
.....Dies, Amsterdam News, 8/26/39 (FP)

JOHNSON, PENELOPE
.....Presents violin recital, Amsterdam News, 6/22/35. See also: http://www.mdhs.org/eubieblake/subs/catsearch.asp?Key=Johnson,%20Penelope%20--%20Performances%20--%20New%20York%20(State)%20--%20New%20York.

JOHNSON, WILBUR P.
.....Admitted to the American Guild of Organists, Amst News, 5/25/35 (photo included)

JONES, LOUIA VAUGHN
.....Performs with William Allen in Washington, DC concert, Pitts C, 11/10/34 (9/2)

JONES, PEARL WILLIAMS
.....See: Pearl Williams

JONES, VALENA C
.....VCJ School erected in New Orleans, Pitts C, 11/2/29 (front page)

JORDAN, JOE
.....Irving Berlin buys score of "The Siren of the Tropics", Pitts C, 11/9/29 (3/2), (See: Josephine Baker)

JUILLIARD
.....Josephine Harreld graduates at age 19, Pitts Courier, 7/14/34 (2/1)

JULIEN, PERCY LAVAR
.....One of America's greatest chemists, Wash Afro, 2/12/49, 14

KENTUCKY STATE INDUSTRIAL COLLEGE
.....Presents Tella Marie Cole, a child prodigy pianist, 7/21/34 (2/1)

KNIGHT, ALLEN (JR)
.....Virginia's first disc jockey (WXGI: Richmond), Wash Afro, 2/19/49
.....Photograph, Wash Afro, 2/19/49

KNIGHT, REV. HEYWOOD G.
.....Gives recital, Wash Afro, 2/19/49 (4). 3/5/49 (7/2)

KNOXVILLE COLLEGE QUARTET
.....Photograph, NNOC: 17/3

LAMB, WILSON
.....Of Orange, NJ, well known concert singer and voice instructor., Amst News, 3/28/28, p5
.....Clarence Cameron White, guest soloist with the Wilson Lamb Ensemble, 6/4/36 at East Orange HS, Amst News, 5/16/36, p9

LAWRENCE, WILLIAM
.....Appears at Grace Congregational Church, Amsterdam News, 4/13/35

LAWSON, WARNER
.....Directs Howard University Choir in recital at Metropolitan AME Church, Wash Afro, 1/22/49 (6/2)
.....Presents duo recital with Bernard Mason, instructor of orch music at Howard U, Wash Afro, 1/22/49 (6/2)
.....Photograph, Wash Afro, 2/5/49 (2/3)

LEAVITT, JOSEPH
.....Joins faculty of the Modern School of Music, Wash Afro, 1/8/49 (6)

LEE COUNTY TRAINING SCHOOL BAND (TUPELO, MISS)
.....Outdoor musicale, Pitts Courier, 6/1/35 (5/1). See also: newdeal.feri.org/library/u74.htm

LEGARR, PROF. C.F.
......Director of the Mother AME Zion Church choir, Amsterdam News, 4/13/35

LEMON, LILLIAN M.
.....LeMon studio gives recital. Pitts C, Pitts C, 5/29/26, 7

LIBRARY
.....Public library fof use of colored citizens of Beaumont Texas. Pitts C, 11/2/29 (2/1)
.....New library at Fisk, Pitts C, 11/2/29 (2/1)

LINCOLN COLONADE
.....Benefit dance given by the Washington Guild of the National Negro Opera Company, Wash Afro, 2/5/49 (2/5)

LINCOLN CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH
.....Presents June McMechen, Wash Afro 3/12/49 (4/2)

LOCKE, ALAIN
.....More colored must enter field of art, Wash Afro, 10/20/45
.....All colored talent must be recognized, cultivated and supported, Wash Afro, 10/20/45

LONDON SYMPHONY
.....Invites Rudolph Dunbar, a British Guianan conductor, to lead it, Chicago Defender, 1/30/43

LONG, AVON
.....Gained prominence for his role as Sportin' Life in "Porgy and Bess", Wash Afro, 11/3/45 (18)

LOVING, MAJOR AND MRS.
.....Major and Mrs Loving entertain for Madame Evanti, Pittsburgh Courier, 4/20/35
(11/1)

MABEL SANFORD LEWIS JUNIOR MUSIC GROUP
.....Organized as a branch of the Naitonal Assoc of NEgro Musics, Chi Def 1/29/38, p14

MACK, CECIL
.....From Norfolk, New Journal and Guide, 3/11/33, A8


MARGETSON, MARGARET
.....Presents advanced pupils in recital, Amsterdam News, 6/22/35
....Advanced pupils presented in recital, 5/24/36 at Elks Auditorium, 160 W 129th St, NYC, Amst News, 5/16/36, p9

MARTIN-SMITH SCHOOL OF MUSIC
.....Gertrude Martin, Dir of the violin department and teacher of Romain Brown, Amsterdam News, 2/11/39 (14)
.....Held its 28th Annual Recital, Amsterdam News, 6/22/35

MARTIN, GERTRUDE
.....Teacher of Romaine Brown (violin). Director of violin department at the Martin Smith School of Music, Amsterdam News, 2/11/39 (14)
.....On the Board of Directors of the Hope Day Nursery. Gave benefit concert at the Martin Smith Music School, Amst News, 11/25/31, p7

MARY BRUCE CHORUS
.....Mary Brucer dancers presented at Apollo, Amsterdam News, 2/18/39 (17)

MASON, BERNARD
.....Instructor of orch music at Howard presents duo recital with Warner Lawson, Wash Afro, 1/22/49 (6/2)

MASON, LYDIA
.....Station accompanist for WEVD, Amsterdam News, 8/12/39 (13)
.....Photograph, Amsterdam News, 8/12/39 (13)
.....Plays Chopin sonata, "Amst News 8/2/28, 8

MATTHEWS, EDDIE
.....Given important role in musical version of Porgy. Amst News, 7/6/35, 11
.....Well known baritone and staff artist of HN appeared in recital at Pelham. He stapears with the Major Bowes Capitol Hour over WEAF every Sunday morning at 11:30 and every weekday afternoon at 1:15 over WHM. He sings over that staion at 7:15 on Mondays. Amst New, 6/1/35

MAYNOR, DOROTHY
.....Recital at Bennett College, Wash Afro, 1/15/49 (12/2)
.....Sings for President Truman at National Guard Armory, 1/22/49 (Front Page)
.....Featured arrangements and compositions by Edward Boatner, Wash Afr, 2/12/49 (7)
.....Voted among prominent local women by the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, Wash Afro, 10/13/45 (18)
.....Sings for North Carolina A&T Students, Wash Afro, 10/13/45 (15)
.....Sings for President Eisenhower, Wash Post, 5/17/53 (25M)

MCCURDY, GUSTAVA
.....Recital in Brooklyn, Amsterdam News, 2/18/39 (11)
.....Romaine Brown, violinist, also on program, Amsterdam News, 2/18/39 (11)
.....Performs at New York YWCA, Amsterdam News, 2/4/39 (20)
.....World's fair soprano, Pitts C, 11/17/34 (2/2)

MCGRAY'S PLAYGROUND
.....138th Street between Fitfth and Lennox Avenue (NY), Amsterdam News, 4/13/35

MCMECHEN, JUNE
.....Presented concert at Johnson C. Smith University, Wash Afro, 3/5/49 (7/2)
.....Howard University's most talented music student, Wash Afro, 3/5/49 (7/2)
.....Presents concert at Lincoln Congregational Church, Wash Afro, 3/12/49 (4/2)
.....Debuted in 1947 at Lewisohn Stadium on Gershwin Evening of Music, Wash Afro, 3/12/49 (4/2)
.....Appeared at Carnegie Hall as a "Bop" star and at the Water Gate as "Violetta" in La Traviata", Wash Afro, 3/12/49 (4/2)
.....Poll Howard Students for Air Program, Chi Def, 2/21/42 (12)

Recording of JUNE MCMECHEN singing "Summertime" (Gershwin): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yU54LN0Ysws

METROPOLITAN AME CHURCH
.....Howard University Choir in recital, Wash Afro, 1/22/49 (6/2)
.....Kappa Alpha Psi presents HU Choir at Metropolitan AME, 1/22/49 (6/2)

METROPOLITAN OPERA COMPANY
....http://www.vahistory.org/WWII/image_archive/image.php?image_id=1130&page=image_archive
Glamorous soprano Virginia Paris of Los Angeles, who is one of th efew Negro singers added to the Metropolitan Opera's enlarged chorus. She made her choral debut same night another Angeleno bowed, prima ballerina Janet Collins. Movie star Loretta young gave La Paris her big break which led to a European tour. The soprano once was her maid. jet 11/8/51, p44
.....Four negro singers sign met opera contracts. Four talented Negro singers have signed contracts to sing background music for the Metropolitan presentation of Pietro Mascagna's "Cavalleria Rusticana". Rhea Jackson, Helen Colbert, Dorothy Candee and Ida Jackson's singing in "Aida" earlier this year so impressed the Metropolitan's Choral master ,Kurt Adler, that he signed them for the new opera. The signing of the four marks another step forward for Negroes in the staid Metropolitan since Rudolph Bing took over as director. Bing signed Janet Collins as premiere danseuse before the season's start and has been giving her featured billing for every performance. Jet12/27/51, p64
(Also)
The Music of Black Americans: A History - Google Books Result
by Eileen Southern - 1997 - Music - 678 pages
... Charles Holland, Charlotte Holloman, Rhea Jackson, Leonora Lafayette, ... One route was to win first place in the Metropolitan Auditions of the Air. ...
books.google.com/books?isbn=0393038432...

METROPOLIAN POLICE BAND
.....Sgt. John E. Winters, ass't band mgr, Wash Afro, 1/22/49 (Front Page)

MILLER/LYLES
.....Creators of "Shuffle Along". Pitts C, 5/22/26, p10. F.E. Miller and A.L. Lyles.

MILLER, JAMES
.....Pupils' recital, Pitts Courier, 7/21/34 (7/1). 7/14/34 (8/1).
.....BA in Music from Carnegie Institute of Technology, and MA in Music from Duquesne, Pitts Courier, 7/14/34 (8/1)
.....Organist at Bethesda Presbyterian in Pittsburgh, Pitts Courier, 7/14/34 (8/1)
.....Piano recital, Pitts C, 11/9/29 (8/1)
.....Triumphs in New York recital, Pitts C, 12/15/34 (8/2)
.....Re-elected president of the society for music study, Pitts C, 12/22/34 (8/1)

MILLS, IRVING
.....Recruited William Grant Still to serve as music supervisor for all negro film, "Stormy Weather", Chicago Defender, 2/13/43

MITCHELL, ABBIE
.....Sings with the Aeolian Opera Company, Pitts Courier, 7/14/34 (6/1)
.....Recital, Town Hall, Amst News, 11/25/31, p7
.....After recital, went to Tuskegee to accept a position as head of the vocal department, Amst News, 11/25/31, p7

MODERN SCHOOL OF MUSIC
.....Modern School of Music, Wash Afro, 1/8/49 (6)
.....National Symphony Aces join staff, Wash Afro, 1/8/49 (6)
.....Arthur E. Smith, Founder, Wash Afro, 1/8/49 (6)
.....Began in 1935, Wash Afro, 1/8/49 (6)
.....Adds new buildings and equipment, Wash Afro, 1/8/49 (6)
.....Photograph, Wash Afro, 1/8/49 (4)
.....Presented in third annual concert at Armstrong High, Wash Afro, 2/12/49 (6)
.....Founded in December, 1935, Wash Afro, 2/12/49 (14)
.....Offers music instruction to Vets, Wash Afro, 2/12/49 (14)

MONTAGUE, J. HAROLD
.....Director of Virginia State University Choir, Wash Afro, 4/25/36 (11)

MONTGOMERY, ALMA JAMES
.....Accompanied Pearl Cox in recital, Wash Afro, 10/20/45

MONTGOMERY, MARGARET
....Recital, John Wesley AMEZ Church, Wash Afro, 11/10/45 (20)

MOORE, UNDINE SMITH
......Consults for Music clinic, Wash Afro, 2/5/49 (2/9)

MORAN AND MACK
.....Two black crows: Charles E. Black (on of the crows), Amst News, 8/22/28, 8

MOSES, ETHEL
.....Often acclaimed America's most beautiful colored girl, Pitts C, 8/17/29, Feature Section

MOTEN, ETTA
......Gives concert at McDowell Memorial Community Church, Amsterdam News, 2/4/39 (20)

MUNDY, JAMES A
.....The first performance of Standar Opera in Chicago by Negro Talent was announced on th eprogram of the Chicago South Side Opera Company, James A. Mundy, Gen Director and Manager., Cleo Dickerson, Musical Director. Chi Def, 12/10/21, 5

MUSICAL THEATER
.....Frank Wilson played leading role in "Porgy", Pitts C, 8/10/29 (3/2)

MU-SO-LIT
.....Auxiliary hostesses at Sunday tea, Wash Afro, 3/5/49 (12/1)
.....Mu-So-Lit house, one of the oldest men's clubs, Wash Afro, 3/5/49 (12/1)
.....Sunday tea attended by Madame Lillian Evanti, Wash Afro, 3/5/49 (12/1)

MU-TE-OR (NANM)
.....Monthly meeting, Amsterdam News, 1/21/39 (11)

NATIONAL ACADEMY OF MUSIC AND ART
....Presents recital, Wash Afro American, 10/20/45

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF COLORED PEOPLE
.....Pittsburgh Courier holds a "Self-Respect Campaign for NAACP, Pitts Courier, 7/14/34 (2/1)

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF NEGRO MUSICIANS
.....Carl Diton Branch (Brooklyn) prepares for Boston Convention, 8/20-8/27, Amsterdam News, 8/5/39 (19)
.....MU-TE-OR Branch elects officers, Amsterdam News, 2/18/39 (11)
.....MU-TE-OR Branch monthly meeting, Amsterdam News, 1/21/39 (11)
.....Meet in Marshall Texas, Mar 1936, NNOC: 17/5
.....Madame Lillian Evanti sings in Pittsburgh at meeting, Pittsburgh Courier, 8/25/34 (front page)
.....Meets in Fort Worth, TX, Pitts C, 8/17/29 (3/1)
.....Mrs. Manot Fowler, president of the Texas Assoc., Pitts C, 8/17/29 (3/1)
.....Mayme Richardson, president of the Detroit Assoc, Pitts C, 8/17/29 (3/1)
.....New York branch will hold membership drive @ St. Mark's 137/Nicholas Ave, Amst News, 11/25/31, p7
.....Emmanuel Mansfield, promonent local (Boston) music, plans to reorg the local branch of the NANM, Pitts C, 3/9/35 (9/2)
.....Pittsburgh Branch hosts, Chi Def, 9/15/34, p4
.....J. Lemons named head of musicians (Columbus Ohio branch). 1/31/35. pitts C, 2/2/35 FP

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF TEACHERS OF COLORED SCHOOLS
.....HC Trenholm on executive council, Pitts C, 8/10/29 (8/2)

NATIONAL BAPTIST CONVENTION
....Baptists Reelect Jemison, Set 4-Term Limit. Jet, 9/25/52, p28 (pic)
The National Baptist Convention, USA, reelected 77-year old Dr. David. V. Jemison of Selma, AL as president at its 72nd Annual Session in Chicago. At the same time, the convention redically revised its constitution to limit tenure of the presidency to four consecutive years. Constitutional revisions were adopted only after a stormy afternoon session which at times threatened to develop into a free-for-all platform brawl. Leading the fight for the changes were Dr. Marshall L. Shepard of Philadelphia, Dr. H.H. Humes of Mississippi, Rev. Gardner Taylor of Brooklyn, Rev. J. Raymond Henderson of Los Angeles, Rev. L. Evans of Nashville, and Rev. L.K. Jackson of Gary, Ind. The new document calls for appointment of a paid executive secretary, election of nine members at large to the board of directors, appointment of a certified public accountant of the church.
...."Reelect All Officers in Baptist Meet in New York". Jet, 9/25/52, p30
The National Baptist Convention of America closed its 72nd Annual Meeting in New York by reelecting Dr. G.L. Prince of Galveston, Texas as president along with the entire roster of Baptist officials. The convention also established for the first time a National Baptist Youth Convention for young people between the ages of 12-24, the purpose of which is to coordinate their activities with the church. Jet, 9/25/52, p30

NATIONAL BAPTIST PUBLISHING BOARD
.....Secretary Henry Allen Boyd is also president of the Citizens Savings Bank and Trust Company, the oldest negro bank in the country, Pitts C, 8/17/29 (2/1)

NATIONAL GUARD ARMORY
.....Dorothy Maynor sings for President Truman, Wash Afro, 1/22/49 (Front Page)

NATIONAL MUSIC WEEK
.....Programs held at Howard University, Wash Afro, 5/9/36 (7)

NATIONAL NEGRO OPERA COMPANY
.....Holds benefit at Lincoln Colonade, Wash Afro, 2/5/49 (2/5)
.....Dancer Ann Garnet performs at benefit, Wash Afro, 2/5/49 (2/5)
.....Inaugural concert at Wendell Phillips High School, Chicago Defender, 1/23/43
.....Original Chicago NOC, Chapter 1, Chicago Defender, 1/23/43
.....35,000 thrilled by gala music jubilee (Forbes Field, Pittsburgh), NNOC: 17/4
.....[clippings related to the competition at Forbes Field, NNOC: 17/4]
.....Robert Freeman performed with. Pitts C, 4/27/63, 17

NATIONAL SYMPHONY
.....Members join faculty of Modern School of Music, Wash Afro, 1/8/49 (6)

NEGRO
.....Board of Education, West Virginia State BOE, Pitts Courier, 7/7/34 (9/2)

NEGRO ACHIEVEMENT HOUR
.....WABC broadcasts two hours of Negro Achievement Hour, Amst News, 3/28/28, p5
.....50th consecutive broadcast over WABC, Chi Def, 12/22/28, p2
.....Program hosted by Geraldyn Dismond (See: Geraldyn Hodges Major)
.....Aaron Douglass, well known Artist's depiction of negro achievement (his art work) is presented to WABC for fifty years on the air, Chi Def, 12/22/28, p2

NEGRO CHORAL SOCIETY
.....H. Lawrence Freeman, Director, Amst News, 8/29/28, 7

NEGRO FOLK SONG (WATER BOY)
....Negro folk song by Winthrop Robers, LTD, sung in London by Roland Hayes, Musical America, 8/19/22, 18

NEGRO FOLK SYMPHONY
.....Played at Tuskegee by Birmingham Orchestra. Pittsburgh Courier, 4/20/35 (8/2)

NEGRO MUSICIANS
.....Etude Magazine giving race "equal opportunities", Pitts C, 6/29/35 (2/1)

NEGRO PROBLEM
.....Too many negroes in one place causes white flight, Pitts C, 11/9/29 (ed. page)

NEGRO PUBLIC SCHOOLS
.....Baltimore. Director. Francis N. Wood. Pitts C, 11/9/29 (3/1)

NEGRO RESENTMENT
.....Negroes resent certain plantation melodies, Musical America, 8/12/22, 8

NEGRO SPIRITUAL MELODY
.....Kreisler-Clarence Cameron White arrangement, Amst New, 6/22/35

NEGRO SYMPHONY (BALTIMORE)
.....Negro symphony orchestra is being formed in Baltimore., Pitts C, 12/7/29 (3/2)

NORTH CAROLINA A & T UNIVERSITY
.....Hosts 9th annual North Carolina Bandmasters; Association Clinic, Wash Afro, 2/12/49 (6)
.....Ethyl Wise was Director of Music Department before her marriage to K. Garner (Nashville Mortician) in 1936, NNOC: 17/5

OLD NORTH STATE MEDICAL SOCIETY (NORTH CAROLINA)
.....Oldest association of black physicians, Pitts Courier, 7/7/34 (6/2)

ORCHESTRAS
.....Ferrell Symphony Orchestra, Chi Def, 1/21/28, p5

OPERA
.....Promoters discuss forming a Negro Opera Company, Amst News, 9/26/28, 8
.....Advertisement for performance of AIDA (in English), Negro Music Journal, 1/1903 (1)
.....Alexander Pope presenting play the week prior to the Aug 34 NANW Convention to raise money, Pitts C, 7/14/34 (7/1)
.....Negro invades the grand opera field, Amst News, 8/22/28, 6
.....Negro Opera Company will produce H. L. Freeman's "Voodoo", Amst News, 8/22/28, 6
....."Voodoo" referred to as a negro jazz grand opera, Amst News, 8/29/28, 7
.....National negro Opera Company hits snag in capitol. People's Voice, 8/12/44, 23
.....Detroit Negro Opera which present two performances of Aida, Chi Def, 4/29/39, 3
.....Fannie Bethel was chair of the Detroit Negro Opera's second annual pre-opera ball. Chi Def, 5/6/39,16
.....Apollo Theatre and Harlem Opera House merge, Amst News, 5/18/35
.....Harlem Opera House was under the management of Frank Schiffman who was also in charge of the Lafayette Theater., Amst News, 5/18/35
.....Appollo/Harlem Opera House Merge, Amst News, 5/18/35
.....Aeolian Opera Company, the idea of Peter Creatore, an Italian whose father immigrant father was Giuseppe, seconded only to John Philip Sousa. The new company made its debut at the Mecca Temple on July 10th with a double bill of "Emperor Jones" an operatic version of the play and Cavalleria Rusticana. (Moline: City of Hills, p78. F549.M7C66)
.....Proper Training and Study Needed for Serious Attamp at Opera. (Fredi Washington's editorial published in "People's Voice" questioned the National Negro Opera Company's readiness for serious opera at Madison Square Gardens. People's Voice, 3/25/44, p22
.....The first performance of Standar Opera in Chicago by Negro Talent was announced on the program of the Chicago South Side Opera Company, James A. Mundy, Gen Director and Manager., Cleo Dickerson, Musical Director. Chi Def, 12/10/21, 5
....First negro opens with the Met opera. For the first time in its 670year history, a negro dancer appeared on the stage of New York's world famed Metropolitan Opera house when ballerina Janet Collins danced a lead role in the extravagant ballet scene in "Aida", which opened the Met's 1950-51 opera season. Appearance of Miss Collins in the cast was in accord with a policy promise made to Rudolph Bing when he took over the management of the socially elegant but financially insolvent Opera House last year. Said Bing: "I have no objections to casting Negros in grand opera roles." A chorus of 13 professional Negroe singers appeared as Negro slaves in the "Aida" production. As first Negro to appear, Dancer Collins may help perk up the Met's lagging box office. An indication of this was seen when Harlem socialite Modesta Rockmore, purchased a $30.00 dress circle seat for the opening which entitled her to sit in the gilded "Diamond Horseshoe," a section usually reserved for top bracket names in US finance and government. Mrs. Rockmore, whose husband is Pullman porter, wore a $20,000 ermine coat. Jet, 11/8/51, p54
.....Celeste Cole Opera Workshop. 1925 (Performed at the NANM)

OPPORTUNITY PERIOD (NAME OF A RADIO PROGRAM)
.....Muriel Rahn directed it over WHOM (Radio: New York), Amsterdam News, 2/18/39 (20)
.....James A. Munday produced and managed the first performance in Chicago of opera by Negro talent. Chi Def, 12/10/21, p5

ORCHESTRA
.....City Colored Orchestra and Chorus, Pitts Courier, 7/7/34 (6/1)
.....Piano prodigy Ellis Lane Larkins performs with Colored City Orchestra and chorus, Pitts Courier, 7/7/34 (6/1)
.....Baltimore to have one of the first negro symphony orchestras in the country, Pitts C, 11/9/29 (3/1)

OUANGA
.....Perforance given by Dra Mu, 10/27, 50 in Philadelphia. Composed in Paris in 1930, won Bispham Memorial Medal for American opera in 1032, but it was not until 1941 that it received its first audition in a concert performance prensented by the Studio theater of New York's school for Social Resarchl Last june (1949) it was performed on a large scale in the Central High School Auditorium in South Bend, Indiana. Chic Def, 9/9/50, p2
.....Carmen Malebranche, a native of Por Au Prince, was engaged by Dr Mu to sing the part of Defilee in Ouanga. World premiere of Ouanga was given in South Bend under the auspices of the South Bend Music Assoc. Chic Def, 10/21/50, p21
.....Edwin Wittstein's colored sets and costumes (for Ouanga) elicited applause. NYT, 10/28/50, p10
.....Holton Hackett played Dessalines, Carmen Malibranche (Defilee) and Lois Raye (voodoo princess, Mougali), NYT, 10/28/50, p10

OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT
.....Minnesota University AKA's rank first on campus. People's Voice, 1/22/44, 23

PACE, HARRY
.....Judge in an oratorical contest, Amst News, 8/31/35
.....Former grand exalted rule (Elks), Amst News, 8/31/35
.....Elected to diocesan council, Pitts C, 2/16/35 (11/2)
.....Lectures in Akron, Pitts C, 2/16/35 (7/2)

PANKEY, AUBREY
.....Wins new honor as singer
Hampton, Va, 4/5/23 - a large representative and enthusiastic audience of white and colored sitizens attended the conert of the Hampton Institute Glee Club, which was recently given in the academy of music at newport news, va. under the direction of composer, pianist R. Nathaniel Dett. He was assisted by three pupils: Burke M. Matthis of Boley, OK (tenor), Aubrey W. Pankey, Pittsburgh (Baritone), and Gerald E. Wilson of Salem, Va (pianist). The 30 member sof the glee club and the assisting artists did yeoman missionary service. Pitts C, 4/7/23 (Woman's page)

PATTERSON, MADAME IDELLE
.....Taught June McMechen, Wash Afro, 3/5/49 (7/2)

PEELER, P. LAWRENCE
.....Marries Grace Isabelle Holms, Sat, Oct 20, 1934, Pitts C, 11/17/34 (7/1)

PIANISTS
.....Flora Thomas, debuted at Steinway Hall in 1934, Pittsburgh Courier, 8/25/34 (8/1)

PLANTATION MELODIES
.....Negroes resent certain plantation melodies, Musical America, 8/12/22, 7

PLAYGROUND CHILDREN'S ORCHESTRA
.....Will be organized for boys and girls from 7-16 years of age, Amsterdam News, 4/13/35

POPE, ANTHONY (Evanston, IL)
.....Presenting play the week prior to the Aug 34 NANW Convention to raise money, Pitts Courier, 7/14/34 (7/1)

PORGY
.....Porgy star to direct staging of "The Wall Between". "The Wall Between" is a play written by Frank Wilson, well known Negro actor who played the leading role in "Porgy".. Pitts C, 8/10/29 (3/2)

PORGY AND BESS
.....Avon Long gain prominence for his role as Sportin' Life, Wash Afro, 11/3/45 (18)
.....Ruby Elzy gained prominence for her role as Serene, Amsterdam News, 1/28/39 (17)
.....Negroes boycott Porgy & Bess Mississipi showing because Mayor decrees main floor of venue for whites only. Chi Def, 12/18/43, p4

PREDICTIONS
.....Minnie Johnson predicts Marian Anderson's success, Amsterdam News, 8/26/39 (FP)

PRICE, FLORENCE
....Presents her pupil, Marietta C. Hall, in recital at the Girvin School of Music, Feb. 16, 1935. Musical America, 2/25/35, 33

PRINCE JARAHAL
.....Presented in recital, Amsterdam News, 6/22/35
.....Advertisement, Amsterdam News, 6/22/35
.....Sings baritone/soprano and opera in seven languages, Amst News, 6/22/35

PRODIGY (MUSICAL)
.....Philippa Schuyler, "First orchestral work" People's Voice, 8/12/44
.....Hertha Gibbs, the brilliant 16 y/o pianist in concert by Frances kraft Reckling music Studio at Steinway hall, 9/10/44. People's Voice, 8/26/44, p23
.....Philippa Schuyler Tours Caribbean. Jet, 2/21/54, p62. Recently completed a European tour, began a tour of Caribbean islands with a series of concerts in the Dutch island of Aruba.

PROTESTS
.....Exclusion of Negro troops from movies depicting their active participation in war efforts, People's Voice 1/15/44,19
.....Newsreel ignore order to film troops in action, People's Voice, 1/15/44, 2
.....Negroes boycott Porgy & Bess Mississipi showing because Mayor decrees main floor of venue for whites only. Chi Def, 12/18/43, p4

RACE PAGEANT
......Famous musicians arrive in Chicago for city's greatest race pageant, Pitts Courier, 7/21/34 (9/2)
......Participants included: Will Vodery, H. Lawrence Freeman, Will Marion Cook, Capt. Walter Dyett, Major N. Clarke Smith, Pitts Courier, 7/21/34 (9/2)

RACE-BASED THEORIES
.....Americans aren't interested in negro combat troops. People's Voice, 1/15/44, 2 (Troops not covered by newsreel)
.....French airs of the 17th and 18th centuries were the basis of the syncopaedied melodies (jazz), claims D.B. Wyndham Lewis, an English writer. Pitts C, 12/7/29 (front page)
.....Kick on offensive word (Darkey) gets apology, Afro American, 6/19/26, 6

RADIO
.....SOS sent out for Radio Stars, Amsterdam News, 2/18/39 (20)
.....Contact Muriel Rahn, Director of the Oportunity Period, Amsterdam News, 2/18/39 (20)

RADIO STAR
.....Thomas Anderson (photograph), Amsterdam News, 2/11/39 (21)

RADIO STATION ACCOMPANIST
.....Lydia Mason is radio station accompanist over station WEVD (New York), Amsterdam News, 8/12/39 (13)

RAHN, MURIEL
.....First to sing with Metropolitan Opera Co., Wash Afro, 2/12/49 (14)
.....Waged fight to break down segregated audiences in the South, Wash Afro, 2/12/49.....Sent SOS out for radio stars, Amsterdam News, 2/18/39 (20)
.....Director of the Opportunity Period, 2/18/39 (20)
.....Sings with the San Carlo Opera Company, Evening Star, 4/29/49
.....Achieved most imp accomplishment in the field of opera during the last 25 years when she stepped on the stage of the Boston Opera House with the San Carlo in the role of "Aida", Washington Afro, 1/3/50
.....Presented an award by Mary McLeod Bethune on behalf of the NANW, Washington Afro, 1/3/50
.....Sing in Gershwin Memorial program (along with Eddie Matthews) at the Watergate in 1950, Washington Evening Star, 7/28/50, A6
.....Muriel Rahn's Home Looted. Afro, 11/18/44, p18. A thief broke the lock, took her coats, Dick campbell's suits, his typewriter and her electric iron, all valued at $350.00

RECITALS/CONCERTS
.....Mrs. E.C. Bellinger's piano pupils presented in recital, Pitts Courier, 7/7/34 (9/1)
.....James Miller's students presented in recital, Pitts Courier, 7/7/34 (9/1)
.....Mildred Spence Smith (Buster) of Cleveland presents piano students in recital, Pitts Courier, 7/7/34 (9/1)
.....Third annual recital of Miss Leah Buckner, piano instructor, Pitts Courier, 7/14/34 (8/1)

RED CAP CHOIR
.....Featured on Phillips Lord air program, (photo) NNOC: 17/5

RED CAPS QUINTET
Tapped by New York Recorded Programs Council as "best novelty", Wash Afro, 11/10/45 (20)

REED, EDNA CURTIS
.....Participant in a Bethesda Bazaar (week of music activitiy), Pitts C, 11/9/29(7/1)

REGENT MUSIC SCHOOL
....Director, W. Thomas Adams, Negro Music Journal, 12/1902 (56)

RHEA, LA JULIA
.....The little brown girl that sings opera for jazz loving theatre audiences and makes 'em like it. (From a paragraph in the Amateur Hour Notebooks. The short article therein is entitled "Back Door Stuff")

RILEY, CHARLES L
.....Presents recital in New York, Wash Afro, 2/19/49

ROBESON, PAUL
.....Features arrangements and compositions by Edward Boatner, Wash Afro, 2/12/49 (7)
.....No "Othello" jimcro for Paul Robeson; won't perform for segregated audience, People's Voice, 7/8/44, 27

ROBINSON, BILL (BOJANGLES)
.....Chair of the National Defense Fund Campaign (NAACP), Pitts Cour, 7/14/34 (2/1)

ROGERS, HOWARD H.
.....Violinist (Pittsburgh). Vice president of the local branch of National Association of Negro Musicians. photo, Pittsburgh Courier, 8/18/34 (4/1)

ROMEO AND JULIET
.....Negroes to present Romeo and Juliet, Pitts C, 12/15/34 (8/2)

ROOSEVELT, FRANKLIN DELANO
.....Visits Fisk University, Pitts C, 11/24/34 (4/1)

RUFFIN, GEO. L (Boston baryton)
.....Sings AIDA with Theodore Drury Opera Company, Negro Music Journal, 1-1903 (1)

SALMAGGI OPERA COMPANY
.....Gives blacks a chance. Muriel Rahn stars in "Aida", Amsterdam News, 7/19/49

SCHUBERT SOCIETY
.....Edward Margetson is director appears Dec 27 at the Imperial Auditorium, NY 160 West 129th St., Amst News, 11/25/31, p7

SCHOOL
.....Colored musicians lease Schumann Heink Home, Musical America, 8/12/22, 17
.....Valena C. Jones school erected in New Orleans, Pitts C. 11/2/29 (Front page)

SCHUYLER, PHILIPPA
.....First orchestral work, People's Voice, 8/12/44, 23
.....Budding romance with Merid Beyene. Jet, 12/2/54, p41
Discreet whispers are being fanned into a rumor of the budding romance between beautiful, talented Pilippa Duke Schuyler and Columbia University student Merid Beyene, grandson of Emperor Haile Selassie.

SCOTT, HAZEL
.....Refused services in Washington state cafe, Wash Afro, 2/19/49
.....Says Mrs. Truman's presenc at eent sanctions prohibition, Wash Afr, 10/20/45 (26)
.....Pleased by President Trumans statement against discrimination, Wash Afro, 10/20/45 (26)
....."Race discrimination is stupidly reactionary and vicious", Wash Afro, 10/20/45 (26)

SHUFFLE ALONG
.....Created by Miller/Lyles. Pitts C, 5/22/26, p10

SINGING SAM
.....Inspired by Bert Williams, Pitts Courier, 7/7/34 (6/1)

SLAVE-PREACHER
.....The Bapt Assoc of Ala once owned a slave name Caesar Blackwell, an african who was converted while serving in bondage in Lowndes County, Ala, Amst News, 8/31/35

SLAVERY
....In 1844, the Methodist Church broke up over slavery. Amst News, 8/24/35

SLEET, MONETA (1926-1996)
.....First black to win a Pulitzer in Photography (1969). http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://kchr.ky.gov/NR/rdonlyres/5BCA2265-6522-4378-96AE-2F931EE7EC4B/0/sleet22.gif&imgrefurl=http://kchr.ky.gov/gallergreatblack.htm%3F%26pageOrder%3D2%26selectedPic%3D21&h=1098&w=868&sz=435&tbnid=FjYDBjSPV753AM:&tbnh=150&tbnw=119&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dmoneta%2Bsleet%2Bphotographs&hl=en&usg=__7NfNjQnxxlbWumVlBkQ_WTYIPRM=&ei=cZJTSqadGZSxtweAj_ijCA&sa=X&oi=image_result&resnum=2&ct=image
Ebony Photographer

ONETA J. SLEET (Senate - October 03, 1996)

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Mr. LEVIN. Mr. President, on September 30, 1996, our Nation, and the world, lost one of its most gifted documenters of history, photographer Moneta J. Sleet.

Moneta was the first African-American to win journalism's most prestigious award. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1969 for documenting the funeral of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. His photograph of Coretta Scott King holding her 5-year-old daughter at Dr. King's funeral has come to symbolize the tragedy of this turbulent period in our nation's history.

Moneta spent the majority of his career chronicling our Nation's civil rights movement. We are grateful to have had Moneta to record this important part of our history. In 1956, he met a 28-year-old Martin Luther King, Jr., who at the time was a minister in Atlanta. Moneta fostered a close relationship with King, and later would travel with him to Sweden when he received the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize. Moneta also accompanied Vice President Richard M. Nixon to Africa in 1957 when that continent was on the verge of independence.

Moneta was born in Kentucky in 1926. He attended Kentucky State and received a master's degree in journalism from New York University. Moneta went on to work for the Amsterdam News, Our World, Ebony, and Jet magazines. Moneta Sleet died in New York City at the age of 70, leaving behind his wife, three children, and three grandchildren.

On September 30, we lost an American treasure. I know my Senate colleagues join me in honoring the life of Moneta J. Sleet.

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SOCIETY FOR MUSIC STUDY
.....Celebrates picnic, Pitts Courier, 7/14/34 (8/1)
.....Elected officers. James Miller re-elected as President. Rosanne Charlton re-elected as treasurer. Pitts C, 12/22/34 (8/1)

SOLDIERS' FIELD (Chicago)
.....Race pageant, Pitts Courier, 7/21/34 (9/2)

SOUTH SIDE OPERA COMPANY
.....The first performance of Standar Opera in Chicago by Negro Talent was announced on th eprogram of the Chicago South Side Opera Company, James A. Mundy, Gen Director and Manager., Cleo Dickerson, Musical Director. Chi Def, 12/10/21, 5

SMITH, ARTHUR E.
.....Director of the Modern School of Music, Wash Afro, 2/12/49 (14)
.....Photograph, Wash Afro, 2/12/49 (14)
.....Found The Modern School of Music in December 1935, Wash Afro, 2/12/49 (14)

SMITH, BESSIE
.....A collection of 42 songs composed by Bessie Smith have been put up for sale in New York by her widower, Jack Gee. None of the songs have been available before in printed copies.Jet, 9/25/52, p42

SMITH, ETHEL HARDY
.....Boston soprano appears in recital at St. Mark's ME Church in NYC, Amsterdam News, 4/13/35

SMITH, MILDRED SPENCE
.....Pupils in recital, Pitts Courier, 7/7/34 (9/1)

SMITH, N. CLARKE
.....Participant in Chicago's race pageant, Pitts Courier, 7/21/34 (9/2)

SMOTHERS, MAUDE G
.....Directress of the Metropolitan Choir of Washington, DC., Amsterdam News, 9/22/35

SPIRITUALS
.....Role of Spiritual in serious music cited by New York Times critic, Wash Afro, 1/29/49 (5/2)
.....Never unpoetic, Wash Afro, 1/29/49 (5/2)
.....Evolved new types of melody and harmony, Wash Afro, 1/29/49 (5/2)
.....Result of mixture of racial cultures, white and colored, Wash Afro, 1/29/49 (5/2)
.....Will provide inexhaustible source of inspiration, Wash Afro, 1/29/49 (5/2)
.....Preserve Negro music and protect spirituals, Musical America, 8/12/22, 3-4
.....Negroes resent certain plantation melodies, Musical America, 8/12/22, 7
.....Association of Negro Musicians protest abuse of Spirituals, "Musical America", 8/12/22, p3.
.....Dett wrote "Gently, Lord, Oh Gently Lead Us". The spiritual was founded on a Negro spiritual from the Bahama Islands. Pitts C, 5/15/26, p10

SMITH, MURIEL
.....When M Smith got on the plane for London -to play the leading role in "The King and I", she took a bunch of bras for the cast. Jet, 12/23/54, p63

SMITH, N. CLARK
.....Chicagoans memorialize Major N. Clark Smith, Pitts C, 12/7/35

SMITH, RAYMOND L. [DRA MU]
.....Philadelphia post office clerk, violinist and director of the PHiladelphia Concert Orchestra. Also, founder of the Dra Mu Opera COmpany. NYT 12/27/46, p15

STILL, WILLIAM GRANT
.....Resigned as music supervisor for a negro film called "Stormy Weather"., Chicago Defender, 2/13/43
.....Asked by Irving Mills to accept job as music supervisor for negro film "Stormy Weather", Chicago Defender, 2/13/43
.....Alleges that negro film, "Stormy Weather" was built on racial stereotypes, Chicago Defender, 2/13/43
...."La Guiablesse" presented in Chicago, danced by a negro cast, including Katherine Dunham, Pitts C, 12/8/34 (9/2)
...."Afro American Symphony" presented in Berlin, Stuttgart and Leipsig German in 1933, Pitts C, 12/8/34 (9/2)
....."Afro American" was presented by the Rochester Symphony Orchestra in 1933, , Pitts C, 12/15/34 (8/2)

STORMY WEATHER
.....Initially called "Thanks, Pal", Chicago Defender, 2/13/43
.....William Grant Still resigned as music supervisor for a negro film called "Stormy Weather, Chicago Defender, 2/13/43
.....Still resigns as music supervisor of all negro film: music director instructed dancing to be erotic, Chicago Defender, 2/13/43

SUPPORT BLACK BUSINESS
.....Black banker says take care of your community and it'll take care of you", Pitts C, 11/9/29 (2/2)

SWAN, A. SINCLAIR (Orator)
.....Hampton student participates in City Wide Contest, Wash Afro 4/18/36 (8)

SWANSON, HOWARD
.....European critics who heard Howard Swanson's music for the first time predicted his compositions would become immortal. Dubbed the Cinderella Composer", Swanson has written two symphonies and 30 other works while working as letter carrier, has had pieced recorded by famed conductor Dimitri Mitropoulos. Jet 12/27/51, p1

SWING MUSIC
.....Is African, declares a Nigerian Prince, Amsterdam news, 1/21/39 (16)

SYKES, WILHELM A
.....Of Wilberforce University. Has had wide experience in developing local community sing, Pittsburgh Courier, 8/25/34 (9/1)
.....Head of the Music Department at several class "A" colleges, Pittsburgh Courier, 8/25/34 (9/1)
.....Director of Music at Bethune Cookman, Director of the Bethune Cookman Quartette, Pitts C, 11/16/29 (7/1)

SYMPHONIES BASED ON NEGRO THEMES
....."Afro American Symphony" William Grant Still (1931), Negro Folk Symphony" William L. Dawson (1934), Florence Prices's "Symphony in E Minor" (1933), Pitts C, 1215/34 (8/2)

TALBERT, FLORENCE COLE (See also: McCleave, Florence)
.....Visits Pittsburgh, Pitts C, 11/9/29 (7/1)
.....Returns after three years in Europe, Amst News, 10/26/27, 10
.....Will appear in Detroit 2/17/28. Chi Def, 1/21/28, p5
.....Will sing at the World's fair, Pitts C, 8/17/35 (8/1)
.....Accompanied E. Azalia Hackley, Pitts C, 8/17/35
.....Encouraged to pursue a singing career and not instrumental (E. Azalia Hackley encouraged her: see also "Advice Given"), Pitts C, 8/17/35, (8/1)
.....Taught by Mme Gloria Mayne, Pitts C, 8/17/35 (8/1)

TAYLOR, EVA
.....Wife of Clarence Williams, was the only colored woman of note on Broadway in 1921., Pitts C, 2/4/28, A1

THOMAS, BLANCHE
.....Director of the Thomas Negro Composers Study Group. Joseph Thomas, Business Manager, Amst News, 6/22/35

THOMAS, FLORA
.....Pianist from New York, debuted at Steinway Hall in 1934, Pittsburgh Courier, 8/25/34 (8/1)

THOMAS, JOSEPH
.....Business mgr of the Thomas Negro Composers Study Group. Blanche Thomas, Director. Amst News, 6/22/35

THOMAS NEGRO COMPOSERS STUDY GROUP (young artists)
.....Presents From "Tom-Tom to Cantata," Amsterdam News, 2/18/39 (19)
.....Presented in a costume recital, Amsterdam News, 6/22/35
.....Blanche Thomas, Director, Joseph Thomas, Business Manager

TOOMER, JEAN
.....Poems by Cullen and Hughes translated into German -published in Germany under the title "Africa Sings", Amst News, 11/25/31, 7
..... * (1623) Zemlinsky, Alexander, 1872-1942. Symphonische Gesänge für Singstimme und Orchester, op. 20 : AMs with AMs corrections and revisions (reproduction), 1929. 1 score (1 v?).
With 3 separate Ms leaves (reproduction) containing the English words for 3 songs.
Words by Countee Cullen, Frank Horne, Langston Hughes, and Jean Toomer, from a 1929 anthology Africa sings.
(http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~hou00093)

TREEMONISHA
......Scott Joplin opera will be produced. Pitts C, 5/8/26, p10
Mrs. Lottie Joplin, wido of Scott Joplin, recently produced from the files of the late composer the manuscript of the opera "Treemonisha" written by him fifteen years ago. Chris Smith, songwriter, has just closed a deal with Harold Dixon Music COmopany to produce it. Excerpts will be printed in book form. Five thousand dollars was paid in advance for royalties.

TRIORA GIRLS
.....Elaine Durant, accompanist.

TURNER, RUFUS P.
.....Credited with building one of the smallest radios in history, Pitts Courier, 7/7/34 (7/2)

TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE
.....Abbie Mitchell went to Tuskegee to accept the position as head of the vocal department after her Town Hall recital. Amst News, 11/25/31, 7

TUSKEGEE QUARTET
.....Photo. Recognized as the cream of the south, Pittsburgh Courier, 4/28/23 (16)

TYNES, MARGARET
.....Biographical, New Journal and Guide, 4/14/48
UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND
.....President Eisenhower to address a lunch at the National Press Club, Wash Post, 5/17/53 (25M)
.....Hampton and Dorothy Maynor sings that National Press Club for Eisenhower, Wash Post, 5/17/53 (25M)

VARONA, KATHERINE
.....Organists at Mother AME Zion Church (NY), Amsterdam News, 4/13/35

VIRGIN ISLANDS
.....Clarence Cameron White invited to visit, Pitts Courier, 7/7/34 (5/1)

VIRGINIA UNION UNIVERSITY
.....Produces Virginia's first disc jockey, Allen Knight, Jr. over WXGI Richmond, Wash Afro, 2/19/49
.....Gives concert at Summit High School, Wash Afro, 3/5/49 (7/2)

VIRGINIA STATE UNIVERSITY
.....Camilla Williams opens artists' recital, Wash Afro, 10/13/45 (20)
.....Virginia State Choir gives concert, Wash Afro, 4/25/36 (11)

VODERY, WILL
.....Participant in Chicago's race pageant, Pitts Cour, 7/21/34 (9/2)

WASHINGTON HIGH SCHOOL CADETS
.....See: High School Cadets

WATER BOY (NEGRO FOLK SONG)
.....Fine Negro folk song, "Water Boy", Musical American 8/19/22, 18

WEST VIRGINIA STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION
.....All negro, Pitts Courier, 7/7/34 (9/2)

WEVD (Radio: NEW YORK)
.....Lydia mason station accompanist (photo), Amsterdam News, 8/12/39 (13)

WHOM (Radio: NEW YORK)
....Ran the Amsterdam News Radio Hour, Amsterda, News, 2/18/39 (20)

WXGI (RADIO: RICHMOND)
.....Allen Knight, Jr., Virginia's first disc jockey, Wash Afro, 2/19/49

WADE, BEATRICE
.....Teacher of Roger Fleming, Amsterdam News, 2/11/39 (14)

WALKER, J. RODGERS
.....Contemporary of Mary Cardwell Dawson in Pittsburgh. Served community since 1909, Goes (attempts to move) to NY, Pitts C, 9/4/26, 7. Pitts C, 9/11/26, 7
.....Community protests his moving from pittsburgh, Pitts C, 9/18/26, 7

WAR DEPARTMENT
.....Exclusion of Negro troops from movies depicting their active participation in war efforts, People's Voice 1/15/44,19
.....Newsreel ignore order to film troops in action, People's Voice, 1/15/44, 2

WASHINGTON CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC AND SCHOOL OF EXPRESSION
.....Advertisement, Wash Afro, 1/15/49 (4)
.....Featured Elizabeth Belle Wheeler, Pittsburgh Courier, 6/9/23 (4)
.....Elizabeth Belle Wheeler, featured in concert., Pitts C, 6/2/23

WASHINGTON JUNIOR COLLEGE OF MUSIC
.....J.L. Eubanks, Director, Wash Afro, 1/8/49 (4)
.....Advertisement, Wash Afro, 10/13/45 (14)

WEEKS, S.S.
.....Composer, entertainment contractor, orchestra leader and former pres of Clef Club, Amst News, 8/10/35

WESTCHESTER NEGRO JUBILEE
.....Presented at the County Center, White Plains, 6/4/36, Amst News, 5/16/36, p9
.....Westchester negro jubilee directed by Alston Burleigh again this year, Amst News, 5/16/36, p9

WESTCHESTER NEGRO CHORAL UNION
.....Conducted by Alston Burleigh, Amst News, 5/16/36, p9
.....Comprised of singers from White plains, yonkers, mt. vernon, new rochelle, rye, tuckahoe, tarrytown, ossining, and port chester. Amst News, 5/16/36, p9

WHEELER, ELIZABETH BELLE
.....Feature of a concert at the Washington Conservatory of Music, Pittsburgh Courier, 6/9/23 (4)

WHITE, CLARENCE CAMERON
.....Invited to visit Virgin Islands, Pitts Courier, 7/7/34 (5/1)
.....Guest in Spring concert, Wash Afro, 3/5/49 (6/2)
.....Appears as guest soloist with the Wilson Lamb Ensemble, 6/4/36 at East Orange HS Auditorium., Amst News, 5/16/36, p9

WHITE, HAROLD (tenor)
.....Participates in City-Wide Young People's Forum (contest), Wash Afro, 4/18/36 (8)

WHITE, LUCIEN H.
.....Music editor of the New York Age, Amst News, 9/26/28, 8

WIGGINS, CHARITY
.....Mother of Blind Tom dies, Negro Music Journal, 12/1902 (64)

WILDER, J.R.
.....President of a Colored DC Company, Negro Music Journal, 12/1902 64)

WILLIAMS, BERT
.....Inspired Harry Fangle "Singing Sam", Pitts Courier, 7/7/34 (6/1)
.....Made Phil Harris famous, Pitts Courier, 7/7/34 (6/1)

WILLIAMS, CAMILLA
.....Wins Marian Anderson award, Chicago Defender, 1/30/43
.....Former Danville, Virginia school teacher, Chicago Defender, 1/30/43
.....Had only seven months formal vocal training, Chicago Defender, 1/30/43
.....Opens artists' recital at Virginia State College, Wash Afro, 10/13/45 (20)
.....Native of Danville, Va, Wash Afro, 10/13/45 (20)
.....Won Marian Anderson award twice, Wash Afro, 10/13/45 (20)
.....Won Philadelphia Youth Concert Auditions for 1944, Wash Afro, 10/13/45 (20)

WILLIAMS, PEARL
.....Sing in Spring concert, Wash Afro, 3/5/49 (5/2)

WILLIAMS, WILSON
.....Heads negro dance company, Amsterdam News, 2/4/39 (16)

WILSON, FRANK
.....Played leading role in "porgy", Pitts C, 8/10/29 (3/2)

WILSON WILLIAMS NEGRO DANCE COMPANY
.....Initial performance, Amsterdam News, 2/4/39 (16)

WINTERS, LAWRENCE
.....Broadcast over station WJZ, Chicago Defender, 2/3/43
.....Almost first at Met. Jet, 12/2/54, p63
Concert singer, Larry Winters may be the first Negro male to sing at the Met Opera house. Met officials are talking with him about the role of "Othello"

WINTERS, SGT. JOHN E
.....Ass't band manager of the Metropolitan Police Band, Wash Afro, 1/22/49 (Front Page)

WISE, ETHYL
.....Sings at Harlem YMCA accompanied by Hugo Bornn. New York Times 1/1/48
.....Ethyl B. Wise recently married to K. Garner (Nashville mortician), NNOC: 17/5
.....Was Director of Mus Dept (A&T) before marriage, NNOC: 17/5
......Invited to Inaugural. Native washington and concert artist, who recently returned from the Mediterraneant Theatre as ballad singer of the USO Unit 249, the first colored group to entertain in that area, was invited to the inauguration ceremonies at Washington on Saturday as honored guest. Was Afro, 1/27/45, p14

WOMEN (EARLY WOMEN'S MUSICAL CONTRIBUTIONS)
.....Mme Neal H. Buckner (coloratura), soloist at the World's Columbian Exposition, traveled through Europe and Australia with the Buckner Jubilee Singers, Chi Def, 12/17/38, 17
.....Gertrude (Mrs. Richard B.) Harrison, pianist, was directress of "The Bell of Saratoga" given by the Wright Opera company at Medinah Temple in 1893. Chi Def, 12/17/38, 17
.....Anna Hocker, Della Ridgeway, Pearl Pitts, and Effie Jones, members of an impromptu quartett directed by Carrie Jacobs Bond. Chi Def, 12/17/38, 17
.....E. Azalia Hackley, coloratura, traveled all over US promoting black music, training choirs. Chi Def, 12/17/38, 17
.....Anita Patti Brown, first recitalist to tour the country. Chi Def, 12/17/38, 17
.....M. Calloway Byron spent most of her time abroad in Russia. Chi Def, 12/17/38, 17
.....Florence Cole Talbert sings at the worlds fair, Pitts C, 8/17/35 (8/1)

WORK, FREDERICK J.
.....Dir of music at the Bordentown Manual Training and Industrial School, Bordentown, NJ for the past 9 nears, brother of John W. Work of Fisk, born in Nashville, gad from Fisk, studied at Columbia U, directs the Bordentown Glee Club. Pitts C, 8/3/29 (11/1) picture

YALE (MUSIC SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS)
.....Two of three scholarship winner in 1911 was Helen Hagan and Jessie Estell Muse (both pictures are under "iconography") Miss Muse was a singer and Helen E. Hagan was a pianist. Miss Hagan had the distinction of being the only student (white or colored) to take the course in the music school in connection with school work elsewhere. CRISIS MAG, Nov, 1911, p 18

YOUNG MEN'S EDUCATIONAL AID ASSOCIATION
.....W. Thomas Adams, pianist., Negro Music Journal, 12/1902 (56)