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Chicago Music Association collection
Collection
Identifier: 86
Content Description
This collection is comprised of 7.84 linear feet of printed items of the Chicago Music Association, the first incorporated branch of the National Association of Negro Musicians, Inc. and of collected printed items highlighting the musical activities of the members of the Association, the recipients of its yearly cash awards, and other professional African American musicians, singers and organizations. Formats in the collection include programs, playbills, flyers and newsletters. The bulk of...
Dates:
1936 - 1991, undated
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Larney Goodkind papers
Collection
Identifier: 726
Content Description
The papers primarily document Larney Goodkind’s client, William Warfield, and highlight Goodkind’s efforts to promote Warfield’s career as an international classical operatic performer. Some materials pertain to other clients as well, including African American soprano Leontyne Price. Formats in the collection include correspondence, concert programs and stage bills, concert reviews, photographs, contracts, biographical sketches, scrapbooks, certificates and awards, press releases, and sound...
Dates:
1948-1997, undated
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Helen R. White collection
Collection
Identifier: 2245
Content Description
The Helen R. White collection is comprised of theater playbills, clippings, concert programs and related ephemera pertaining to performing arts in Chicago. Included are programs for a production of Black Nativity by Langston Hughes; a concert by Leontyne Price; a concert by Pearl Bailey; a production of Martin Duberman's In White America; and a performance by The Singing Whites, comprised of soprano Helen R. White and Lewis V. White. Also included is a program for the 1968 debutante ball of...
Dates:
Other: 1944-1989
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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