Willard Robison Deep River Orchestra Arrangements
odd: label: General note
content: Arrangers:

WGS -- William Grant Still

KS -- Kenn Sisson

FS -- Frank Skinner

LG -- Len. Gray
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Ellington, Duke, 1899-1974
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content: Duke Ellington Collection
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content: Duke Ellington Collection / Series 1: Music Manuscripts
unitdate: label: Date
content: undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0301, Subseries 1.5
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Consists of scores and parts that were arranged for Robison's Deep River Orchestra and in particular for the Deep River Hour, a weekly radio show broadcast from New York City that aired from 1929 to 1932. Many of these arrangements are original manuscripts of William Grant Still (1895-1978) who is considered one of the most significant African-American classical composers of the twentieth century.