Collection: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection / Names: Still, William Grant, 1895-1978 - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

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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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:: Cast photograph of approximately 100 people in "black face" and wearing ethnic costumes. Center front is a man covered in black makeup, no shirt, wearing a feather headgear. Men on the left have large, painted oval shields. The group is on a stage in front of painted backdrop with tropical foliage including palm trees, and there is a thatched-roof building on the left.
Date:: [circa 1949]
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:: 1920
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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Description:: William Grant Still played in the pit orchestra for Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake's musical, Shuffle Along. The appearance of Blake and Still in this photograph, and Blake's name on the dedication photograph dedication, indicates that this is the pit band for that musical.
Date:: [circa 1921]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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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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Description:: Portraits and brief biographical notes on 16 African American. Left to right, and top to bottom: Composer-William Grant Still, Labor Leader-A. Philip Randolph, United States Congress Representative-Arthur Mitchell, Architect-Paul R. Williams, Baritone-Paul Robeson, Writer-Claude McKay, Soldier-Benjamin O. Davis, Contralto-Marian Anderson, Educator-Robert R. Moton, Writer-Langston Hughes, Tycoon-Charles C. Spaulding, Sociologist-W.E.B. Du Bois, Scientist-George Washington Carver, Communist-James Ford, Lawyer-Eunice [Carter] Smith, Musician-Edward K. “Duke” Ellington.
Date:: [circa 1938]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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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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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
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