Box Oversize Box 2
Container
Contains 5 Results:
Four Indigenous Portraits, string quartet and flute, [1957]
File — Box: Oversize Box 2, Folder: 3
Identifier: MC 1125 3 1 3
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
This series contains musical scores composed, arranged, and/or orchestrated by William Grant Still. Scores refer to manuscripts, photocopies or copies of manuscripts, published scores, or photocopies or copies of published scores. Authors of text, libretto, narration, or scenario are noted; many texts are by Verna Arvey. The series is divided into scores for keyboard; voice or voices with piano; chamber music; band; orchestra with soloists or chorus; orchestra; the stage; and...
Dates:
[1957]
Symphony No. 2 In G Minor (Song Of A New Race), revised version, [1937]
File — Box: Oversize Box 2, Folder: 4
Identifier: MC 1125 3 1 6
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
This series contains musical scores composed, arranged, and/or orchestrated by William Grant Still. Scores refer to manuscripts, photocopies or copies of manuscripts, published scores, or photocopies or copies of published scores. Authors of text, libretto, narration, or scenario are noted; many texts are by Verna Arvey. The series is divided into scores for keyboard; voice or voices with piano; chamber music; band; orchestra with soloists or chorus; orchestra; the stage; and...
Dates:
[1937]
Symphony No. 2 In G Minor (Song Of A New Race), revised version, [1937]
File — Box: Oversize Box 2, Folder: 5
Identifier: MC 1125 3 1 6
Scope and Contents
Violin I, 1 complete part, 12 pp. Violin II, 1 complete part, 9 pp. Viola, 1 complete part, 9 pp. Cello, 1 complete part, 9 pp. Bass, 1 complete part, 8 pp. Flute I, 1 complete part, 9 pp. Flute II, 1 complete part, 6 pp. Flute III and Piccolo, 1 complete part, 7 pp. Oboe I, 1 complete part, 5 pp. Oboe II, 1 complete part, 4 pp. English Horn, 1 complete part, 4 pp....
Dates:
[1937]
Symphony No. 3 (The Sunday Symphony), [1958]
File — Box: Oversize Box 2, Folder: 6
Identifier: MC 1125 3 1 6
Scope and Contents
Violin I, 1 complete part, 6 pp. Violin II, 1 complete part, 6 pp. Viola, 1 complete part, 6 pp. Cello, 1 complete part, 6 pp. Bass, 1 complete part, 4 pp. Flute I, 1 complete part, 5 pp. Flute II, 1 complete part, 5 pp. Flute III, and Piccolo, 1 complete part, 4 pp. Oboe I, 1 complete part, 4 pp. Oboe II, 1 complete part, 4 pp. English Horn, 1 complete part, 4 pp....
Dates:
[1958]
Portrait: William Grant Still by Lester Latour in oils, May 1970
File — Box: Oversize Box 2, Folder: 1
Identifier: MC 1125 4 7
Scope and Content Note
From the Collection:
The careers of William Grant Still and Verna Arvey were far-reaching as they related to not only the emerging status of African-Americans in classical music, but also as they related to United States social history, race relations and politics. The William Grant Still and Verna Arvey collection contains materials that span the 20th century, and it serves as a rare testament to a period of time in which little documentation exists for African-Americans in American history. The...
Dates:
May 1970