Music of the Black American Composer: Preservation of the Spiritual, program brochures
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: 1989 May 7
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content: Box 18, Folder 15
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content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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content: Archival materials
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content: On Sunday, May 7, 1989, the Program in Black American Culture, National
Museum of American History, welcomed another Music of the Black American
Composer program—a concert series created in 1984 to celebrate African
American composers—honoring the preservation of the spiritual, in the Hall of Musical Instruments. This program honored the work of Francis Hall Johnson and Wendell P. Whalum and included a lecture by Doris Evan McGinty and a concert with Reginald Pindell, baritone; Sylvia Olden Lee, accompanist; the Moorehouse College Quartet, including Troy Ellis, Illya Davis, James Duke, Theodore Debro, and David Morrow; and the Evelyn White Chamber Singers. Program number AC408.62.