Author: William Dawson BrownPublisher:
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Languages : en
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William Dawson Brown Collection
Author: William Dawson BrownWilliam Dawson Brown Collection
Author: William Dawson BrownPublisher:
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Description: The collection consists of a typescript of an autobiography, dealing mostly with William Dawson Brown{u2019}s life in Indiana. Although not a Quaker, Brown's mother came from a large Quaker family, and the autobiographical journal has considerable information on Quaker neighbours and relatives. The original journal is in the possession of Brown's great grand-daughter, Mrs Mary Ellen (Winters) Kling (Joseph) in Portland, Oregon. The journal describes the family move from Ohio to Indiana, births and deaths in the family, pioneer frontier life in the early nineteenth century, religious faith, and travelling experiences in Iowa, Indiana, Illinois, Ohio and Missouri. Pages 1-79 are written by William; the remaining 9 pages are written by his daughter Viola after her father's death.
The Artworks of William Dawson
Author: William DawsonPublisher:
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Category : African American artists
Languages : en
Pages : 56
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Selections from the Correspondence of William Dawson
Author: William DawsonWilliam L. Dawson
Author: Gwynne Kuhner BrownPublisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252047141
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 136
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William L. Dawson is recognized for his genre-defining choral spirituals and for his Negro Folk Symphony, a masterpiece enjoying a twenty-first-century renaissance. Gwynne Kuhner Brown’s engaging and tirelessly researched biography reintroduces a musical leader whose legacy is more important today than ever. Born in 1899, Dawson studied at the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. He worked as a church, jazz, and orchestral musician in Kansas City and Chicago in the 1920s while continuing his education as a composer. He then joined the Tuskegee faculty, where for 25 years he led the Tuskegee Institute Choir to national prominence through performances of spirituals at the opening of Radio City Music Hall, on radio and television, and at the White House. The Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Leopold Stokowski premiered Dawson’s Negro Folk Symphony in 1934. Engaging and long overdue, William L. Dawson celebrates a pioneering Black composer whose contributions to African American music, history, and education inspire performers and audiences to this day.
Sir William Dawson Pamphlet Collection
Author: Sir John William DawsonPublisher:
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
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Catalogue of the Confederate Museum of the Confederate Memorial Literary Society ... Richmond, Virginia
Author: Confederate Memorial Literary Society, Richmond, Va. Confederate MuseumPublisher:
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Category : Confederate States of America
Languages : en
Pages : 314
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William Brown Collection
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Collection contains clipping, photograph, program and publicity files.
Memoirs of the Life, Character, and Ministry of William Dawson
Author: James EverettPublisher:
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Category : Clergy
Languages : en
Pages : 592
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William Levi Dawson
Author: Mark Hugh MalonePublisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 149684484X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 172
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William Levi Dawson (1899–1990) overcame adversity and Jim Crow racism to become a nationally recognized composer, choral arranger, conductor, and professor of music. In William Levi Dawson: American Music Educator, Mark Hugh Malone tells the fascinating tale of Dawson’s early life, quest for education, rise to success at the Tuskegee Institute, achievement of national notoriety as a composer, and retirement years spent conducting choirs throughout the US and world. From his days as a student at Tuskegee in the final years of Booker T. Washington’s presidency, Dawson continually pursued education in music, despite racial barriers to college admission. Returning to Tuskegee later in life, he became director of the School of Music. Under his direction, the Tuskegee Choir achieved national recognition by singing at Radio City Music Hall, presenting concerts for Presidents Herbert Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt, and performing on nationwide radio and television broadcasts. Dawson’s Negro Folk Symphony, only the second extended musical work to be written by an African American, was premiered by Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra in both Philadelphia and New York City. Dawson’s arrangements of spirituals, the original folk music of African Americans enslaved in America during the antebellum period, quickly became highly sought-after choral works. This biographical account of Dawson's life is narrated with a generous sprinkling of his personal memories and photographs.