Music of the Black American Composer Series, Black Women Composers
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: 1988 May 15
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content: Box 17, Folder 19
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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 15, 1988, 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 — celebrating Black women composers, in the Hall of Musical Instruments. The program included a lecture by D. Antoinette Handy and a concert, featuring music composed by Gertrude Rivers Robinson, Amanda Ira Aldridge, Zenobia Powell Perry, Valerie Gail Capers, Florence Beatrice Price, Julia Amanda Perry, Undine Smith Moore, Betty Jackson king, Lena Johnson McLin, and Dorothy Rudd Moore. The performing artists were Reginald Jackson, soprano and saxophone; Constance Hobson, piano; Manuel Melendez, tenor; Hortense Kerr, accompanist; Ada Saunders, oboe; Janese Sampson, flute; Elvira Green, mezzo soprano; Sylvia Olden Lee, accompanist; Thomas J. Flagg, piano; the Tigot String Quartet, including Marc Ramirez, Awadagin Pratt, Michelle La Course, and Daniel Malkin; and the Morgan State University Singers, directed by Nathan Carter. Program number AC408.56.