Blacks in Classical Music : a personal history / by Raoul Abdul.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Abdul, Raoul.

Contributor:

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Composers, Black--Biography.

Composers, Black.

Musicians, Black--Biography.

Musicians, Black.

Genre:

Biographies.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

253 pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : portraits ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Dodd, Mead & Company, [1977]

Contents:

I. Composers. A Chevalier Rediscovered; Creoles, Negroes, and Gottschalk; Coleridge-Taylor: 100 years later; Jazz with a Ph.D.; Fela Sowande's Seventieth Birthday; The Black Experience in Sound; Ulysses Kay: New Horizons; George Walker's New Piece; Hale Smith's Rituals; Olly Wilson and Good Company; Folk Music in Symphonic Garb; Primous Fountain and the Amaks; Black Brazilian Composers; Black Women in Music; Spotlight on Black Composers; Kansas City and the Jazz Heritage; Recordings; Black Piano Music; Rising Pride in Black Music; New Music by Black Composers

II. Singers.. The Art of Roland Hayes; Miss Anderson's Farewell; Paul Robeson, the Singer; Roland Hayes's Children; The Road to the Met; Zelma George Integrates Broadway; Debut Recital: Leontyne Price; Martina Arroyo: A Conversation; Miss Bumbry's Met Debut; Miss Verrett as Lady Macbeth; Prelude to Isolde; A Pair of Sopranos; Four Outstanding Sopranos; High-Powered Don Carlo

III. Operas and Opera Companies. Operas by Black Composers; The Met's New Aida; Verdi's Chocolate Scheme; The Saints Have Returned; Porgy and Bess Revisited; Carmen Moves "Down Home"; Opera as Ballet; Black Opera Companies; Opera Ebony Makes Its Bow

IV. Keyboard Artists. Hazel Harrison Remembered; Philippa Schuyler at Carnegie Hall; Miss Hinderas's Philharmonic Debut; Andre Watts at Lincoln Center; Miss Cole Plays the Harpsichord

V. Instrumentalists. The African Prince; A Master Violinist; Kermit Moore at Alice Tully Hall; Distinguished Music-Making

VI. Conductors, Orchestras, and Choruses. Dean Dixon: A First; Everett Lee's Philharmonic Debut; Henry Lewis: Another First; James De Preist: A Portrait; Symphony of the New World; Hall Johnson Remembered; Eva Jessye is Honored; An Award for Leonard de Paur; Triad and the Black Vocal Quality

VII. Divertissements. Harlem gets a Concert Series; The Cumbos: Living Music History; Clyde Turner's Cultural Garden

VIII. Attitudes. The Critic and His Cat; The Relevance of Classical Music; A Grave Affair; A Nod to Black Creativity; Was it the Fish or the Question?

Notes:

"Jacket design by Chris Kristiansen."

Includes index.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Banks Collection copy has dust jacket retained.

ISBN:

0396073948 :

OCLC:

3223955