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William Grant Still working on a composition in his home, Los Angeles, 1960-1970

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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William Grant Still with his wife, Verna Arvey, and children, Duncan and Judith, Los Angeles, circa 1944

Description:: William Grant Still standing next to a piano holding his son, Duncan, with his wife, Verna Arvey, and daughter, Judith, seated at the piano.
Date:: [circa 1944]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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William Grant Still lectures to school children on "The Little song that wanted to be Symphony," 1970-1978

Description:: William Grant Still lecturing to school children in the recording portion of the publication "The little song that wanted to be a symphony."
Date:: [1970-1978]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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William Grant Still, conducting the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra at the Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, 1936

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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William Grant Still conducting at the Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, circa 1967

Description:: William Grant Still conducting a symphony orchestra at the Hollywood Bowl during the Los Angeles Birthday Fiesta.
Date:: [circa 1967]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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William Grant Still conducting, 1965-1978

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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William Grant Still and Vilem Sokol, 1970-1978

Description:: Vilem Sokol was a Czech-American conductor and professor of music at the University of Washington from 1948 to 1985, where he taught violin, viola, and conducting, as well as music appreciation classes directed primarily toward non-music majors. He was conductor of the Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra from 1960 to 1988, and principal violist of the Seattle Symphony from 1959 to 1963. [Wikipedia]
Date:: [1970-1978]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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William Grant Still and Verna Arvey at a conference, 1960-1978

Description:: William Grant Still (left) and Verna Arvey (2nd from left), seated at a banquet table with a woman and man. They are wearing name badges.
Date:: [1960-1978]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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William Grant Still, and Howard Hanson at U.S.C., Los Angeles, 1975

Description:: William Grant Still was an American composer, who composed more than 150 works, including five symphonies and eight operas. [Wikipedia]
Date:: 1975
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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William Grant Still and an African American sculptor, 1965-1978

Description:: William Grant Still (left) looking at two portrait busts with the artist.
Date:: [1965-1978]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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William Grant Still, 1965-1978

Description:: Color photograph of William Grant Still.
Date:: [1965-1978]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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William Grant Still, 1950-1970

Description:: Snapshot of William Grant Still seated on a chair beside a side table.
Date:: [1950-1970]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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William Grant Still, 1940-1960

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
OpenUCLA Collections

William Grant Still, 1920s

Description:: William Grant Still was an American composer, who composed more than 150 works, including five symphonies and eight operas. [Wikipedia]
Date:: [1920s]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Two photos of William Grant Still playing cello, 1920s, and conducting at the Hollywood Bowl, circa 1967

Description:: William Grant Still playing cello in the 1920s (left), and conducting at the Hollywood Bowl, circa 1967.
Date:: [1920 & 1967]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Press conference for the choir of 2nd Baptist Church with Verna Arvey, William Grant Still and others, Los Angeles, 1964

Description:: Thomas L. Griffith Jr. was a Superior Court judge who was the first black ever elected in a Los Angeles countywide vote and the first black attorney ever admitted to the Los Angeles County Bar Association. From 1934 to 1949 he headed the NAACP here and was at the forefront of the integration of municipal swimming pools.
Date:: April 1964
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Adams, Harry H., 1918-1988
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Employees at the Pace & Handy Music Co. including William Grant Still, New York, 1920

Description:: William Grant Still was an American composer, who composed more than 150 works, including five symphonies and eight operas. [Wikipedia]
Date:: 1920
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

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William Grant Still working on a composition in his home, Los Angeles, 1960-1970

William Grant Still with his wife, Verna Arvey, and children, Duncan and Judith, Los Angeles, circa 1944

William Grant Still lectures to school children on "The Little song that wanted to be Symphony," 1970-1978

William Grant Still, conducting the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra at the Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, 1936

William Grant Still conducting at the Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, circa 1967

William Grant Still conducting, 1965-1978

William Grant Still and Vilem Sokol, 1970-1978

William Grant Still and Verna Arvey at a conference, 1960-1978

William Grant Still, and Howard Hanson at U.S.C., Los Angeles, 1975

William Grant Still and an African American sculptor, 1965-1978

William Grant Still, 1965-1978

William Grant Still, 1950-1970

William Grant Still, 1940-1960

William Grant Still, 1920s

Two photos of William Grant Still playing cello, 1920s, and conducting at the Hollywood Bowl, circa 1967

Press conference for the choir of 2nd Baptist Church with Verna Arvey, William Grant Still and others, Los Angeles, 1964

Employees at the Pace & Handy Music Co. including William Grant Still, New York, 1920

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