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August 6, 2016
Willis C. Patterson, professor emeritus of voice and past associate dean, joined the faculty of the University of Michigan in 1968 after having taught at Southern University (Louisiana) and Virginia State College. Mr. Patterson...
August 6, 2016
1924 - 1979 Julia Perry occupied a unique place among black composers during the 1950's. Her sex and long years of study in Europe are to be considered in discussing both the black and...
August 6, 2016
1910 - 1992 Evelyn Pittman studied with Kemper Harreld, black violinist and head of the music department at Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia. It was during her college years that she became committed to...
January 6, 2017
September 28, 2016
Dr. Jeannie Pool is an ASCAP composer whose compositions were heard during recent season in California, Washington, D.C., Ohio, Denmark, and Toronto, Canada. As a music historian and producer, she served as the Executive...
August 6, 2016
Zenobia Powell Perry (1908-2004) was a fascinating and prolific American composer and pianist. She wrote songs, piano pieces, chamber works, an opera, and music for orchestra and symphonic wind band. Of African-American and Creek...
August 6, 2016
Dr. Rosephanye Dunn Powell, Associate Professor of Music at Auburn University, holds degrees from Alabama State University (B.M.E., summa cum laude), Westminster Choir College (M.M. in vocal performance and pedagogy, with distinction), and The...
March 6, 2021
August 6, 2016
b. 1888-1953 Florence Price is considered the first black woman in the United states to win recognition as a composer. Her parents, both artistic, carefully guided her early musical training, and at age fourteen,...