Music of the Black American Composer
name: label: Collection Collector
content: Maltsby, Portia
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content: Smithsonian Institution. Program in African American Culture
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content: Program in African American Culture Collection
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content: Program in African American Culture Collection / Series 1: Program Files
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content: 1986 May 25
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content: Box 15, Folder 12
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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content: Archival materials
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content: Annual program held on Sunday, May 25, 1986, featured an afternoon of performance and discussion in the Hall of Musical Instruments, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution. Performing artists included William E. Terry, Raymond Jackson, Janese Sampson, Pamela Barr, Leon D. Neal, Gregory Hopkins, Reginald Evans, Sylvia Olden Lee, Henry Burroughs, and The Morgan State University Singers, including Nathan Carter, director; Margaret Lindsay-Johnson, soprano; James Bradley, tenor; and Eric Conway, pianist. They performed music from Frederick Tillis, David Baker, Samuel Snaer, William Grant Still, Sylvia Olden Lee, William Dawson, R. Nathaniel Dett, Olly Wilson, Adolphus Hailstork, Hale Smith, Ulysses Kay, Undine Smith Moore, and Thomas Greene Bethune. The lecture was given by Eileen Southern. Program number AC408.42.