Subject: African American composers / Names: Still, William Grant, 1895-1978 - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Description:: William Grant Still conducting with his baton raised. The acoustic tiles on the wall behind suggest that he is in a recording studio.
Date:: [1965-1978]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: William Grant Still was an American composer, who composed more than 150 works, including five symphonies and eight operas. [Wikipedia]
Date:: [1940-1960]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: William Grant Still was an American composer, who composed more than 150 works, including five symphonies and eight operas. [Wikipedia]
Date:: 1936
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Moore, Pryor
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: William Grant Still seated next at a piano and looking at a music score as he works on a composition.
Date:: [1960-1970]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Harry Lawrence Freeman was a composer, conductor, impresario and teacher. He was the first African-American to write an opera (Epthalia, 1891) that was successfully produced. Freeman founded the Freeman School of Music and the Freeman School of Grand Opera, as well as several short-lived opera companies which gave first performances of his own compositions. He was married to actress and singer, Charlotte (Carlotta) Louise Thomas.
Date:: [circa 1930
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: Advertisement for the "A Bayou Legend," a three-act opera composed by William Grant Still with a libretto by Verna Arvey, with photos of three scenes in the opera.
Date:: [circa 1974]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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