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: 1985 May 24-25
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content: Box 14, Folder 3-5
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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content: Archival materials
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content: Program held on Friday, May 24, and Saturday, May 25, 1985, and included a concert and a colloquium in the Baird Auditorium, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. The colloquium included "Black Music Scholarship: Selective Specialties" and "Pedagogy and Performance". The performing artists were Thomas J. Flagg, pianist and former Dean of the College of Fine Arts of Howard University; Fred Irby III, teacher, performing artist, and director of the Howard University Jazz Ensemble; Nelda Ormond, vocal coordinator for the Music Department of the University of the District of Columbia; Rawn Spearman, baritone and former member of the Fisk Jubilee Singers; Trio Pro Viva, group, consisting of piano, violoncello, and flute; and The Evelyn White Chamber Singers, group of 28 singers from different professions around the Washington, DC metropolitan area. The panelists were Celia Elizabeth Davidson, D. Antoinette Handy, Doris McGinty, Ulysses Simpson Kay, Hildred Elizabeth Roach, George Shirley, Wendell Phillips Whalum, and Evelyn Davidson White. Program number AC408.31.