Names: Still, William Grant, 1895-1978 - UCLA Library Digital Collections Search Results

Musicians William Grant Still, L. Wolfe Gilbert, W. C. Handy, Frank Drye and Andy Razaf in Los Angeles, Calif., circa 1954

Date:: 1954
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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
OpenUCLA Collections

William Grant Still, 1965-1978

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

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 playing a cello, New York, 1919

Description:: William Grant Still playing the cello.
Date:: 1919
Resource Type:: still image
Photographer:: Strand Studio
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Cast photograph, possibly of the William Grant Still opera "Troubled Island," New York, circa 1949

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
OpenUCLA Collections

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
OpenUCLA Collections

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
OpenUCLA Collections

William Grant Still, 1930-1950

Description:: Studio portrait of William Grant Still as a young man.
Date:: [1930-1950]
Resource Type:: still image
Collection:: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
OpenUCLA Collections

Orchestra, possibly for Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake's musical "Shuffle Along," circa 1921

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
OpenUCLA Collections

African American composers and arrangers, circa 1930

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
OpenUCLA Collections

Advertisement for "A Bayou Legend," circa 1974

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
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

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
OpenUCLA Collections

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
OpenUCLA Collections

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
OpenUCLA Collections

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
OpenUCLA Collections

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
OpenUCLA Collections

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
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
OpenUCLA Collections

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
OpenUCLA Collections

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
OpenUCLA Collections

Twenty of America's most distinguished Negros: Politicians, Poets, circa 1938

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
OpenUCLA Collections

William Grant Still, 1960-1978

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

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

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
OpenUCLA Collections

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Musicians William Grant Still, L. Wolfe Gilbert, W. C. Handy, Frank Drye and Andy Razaf in Los Angeles, Calif., circa 1954

William Grant Still conducting, 1965-1978

William Grant Still, 1965-1978

William Grant Still, 1940-1960

William Grant Still playing a cello, New York, 1919

Cast photograph, possibly of the William Grant Still opera "Troubled Island," New York, circa 1949

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

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

William Grant Still, 1930-1950

Orchestra, possibly for Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake's musical "Shuffle Along," circa 1921

African American composers and arrangers, circa 1930

Advertisement for "A Bayou Legend," circa 1974

William Grant Still, 1920s

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

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

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

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

William Grant Still, 1950-1970

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

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

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

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

Twenty of America's most distinguished Negros: Politicians, Poets, circa 1938

William Grant Still, 1960-1978

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

William Grant Still and Vilem Sokol, 1970-1978

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