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1. DATABASES: SCIENCE ENGINEERING COMPUTER AND TECHNOLOGY : TECHNOLOGY:
From: David P. Dillard
2. LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS: RESEARCH: NSF, NEH Boost Efforts to Make
From: David P. Dillard
3. TIME MARCHES ON: The End of Cowboy Diplomacy
From: David P. Dillard
4. IN TIMES PAST: Person of the Year 2004 and Haberdashery
From: David P. Dillard
5. MUSIC: CLASSICAL: COMPOSERS: AFRICAN AMERICAN : MUSIC: CLASSICAL:
From: David P. Dillard
6. */Conrad Black grilled on how he's paying his bills/
From: George Lessard
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1. DATABASES: SCIENCE ENGINEERING COMPUTER AND TECHNOLOGY : TECHNOLOGY:
Posted by: "David P. Dillard" [EMAIL PROTECTED] jwneastro
Date: Thu Jul 13, 2006 4:09 am (PDT)
DATABASES: SCIENCE ENGINEERING COMPUTER AND TECHNOLOGY :
TECHNOLOGY: INVENTIONS AND INVENTORS:
HISTORY: SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY:
HISTORY: ARCHIVES:
MIND: Modern Inventors Documentation Program
MIND: Modern Inventors Documentation Program
The Lemelson Center
and
The National Museum of American History Archives Center
<http://www.invention.smithsonian.org/resources/MIND_Search_Basic.aspx>
MIND: Modern Inventors Documentation Program
"The Lemelson Center and the National Museum of American History Archives
Center established the Modern Inventors Documentation (MIND) Program to
promote the advancement and diffusion of knowledge about American"
About MIND: Modern Inventors Documentation Program
<http://www.invention.smithsonian.org/resources/MIND_about.aspx>
"The MIND Program acts as a clearinghouse for inventors seeking to
preserve and donate their historical materials; identifies and preserves
the papers and other historical materials of living inventors; promotes
access to and use of this documentary record by scholars, students, and
the public; and identifies inventors whose papers and artifacts have
particular significance to the research and educational goals of the
National Museum of American History.
Download An Inventor's Guide to the Preservation, Protection, and
Donation of Personal Papers (PDF file, 950K)
About the MIND Database
Information in the database was drawn from many sources: Research
Libraries Information Network (RLIN); Online Computer Library Center
(OCLC ); National Union Catalog of Manuscripts Collections (NUCMC);
online catalogs for universities, colleges, historical societies, and
other organizations; ArchiveGrid (a service of RLG); Sources in
Electrical History 3: An International Guide to Corporate Records and
Archives of Companies in Electrical, Electronics, and Computer Industries
compiled by the IEEE, 1995; and A Directory of History of Medicine
Collections, 9th Edition, compiled by National Library of Medicine, 1999.
All database entries were sent to the appropriate repository for
verification. In some instances, repositories submitted additional
information on their holdings. The records reflect differing descriptive
practices among repositories. Researchers seeking additional information
should contact the repository.
Alison Oswald of the Lemelson Center staff researched and edited the
database entries with the assistance of Lemelson Center and Archives
Center staff at the National Museum of American History. The database was
designed by Interactive Knowledge of Charlotte, North Carolina.
Contributing to the MIND Database
This MIND Database is an ongoing project to gather and provide
information about invention and technology collections in archives,
libraries, historical societies, and museums. The database will assist
scholars, inventors, teachers, and students. Additionally, the database
will enable the Lemelson Center to identify gaps in the invention record,
for example the papers of women and minority inventors.
We seek information about inventors (corporate, government, and
independent), scientists and industries in all areas associated with
invention. We also seek information on records of institutions such as
academic departments and research laboratories. The database contains
information from all time periods. If papers are held privately, but
available for research, we welcome this information. Additionally, we
would like to know if papers of significant inventors have been
destroyed. The types of materials included in the database are:
correspondence, course notes, diaries, drawings, financial records, grant
applications, instructional materials, logbooks, notebooks, patents,
patent applications, photographs, publications, sound recordings,
videotapes, film, and artifacts, objects, invention prototypes, and tools
associated with archival collections."
Sample Search and Sample of the Results of That Search
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Alden B. Dow personal papers, 1910-1999 (bulk 1930-1975) -
Architect, inventor, creativity pioneer, philanthropist, civic leader, and
philosopher, of Midland, Mich.; member of Taliesin Fellowship; built Stein
House in 1933; friend of Frank Lloyd Wright...
Allen Balcom Du Mont Collection, 1884-1965. -
Du Mont was an engineer for Westinghouse Lamp Company. From 1928 to 1931
he was chief engineer for the DeForest Radio Company. At that time he
established his own firm, Du Mont Laboratories Inc., and direct...
Anthony Thieme Papers, 1909-1972 -
...
C. Willard Geer Scrapbooks, 1944-1962 - Assistant Professor of Physics,
University of Southern California, 1943-1968. In 1944, he was granted the
basic patent in color television for his tri-color television device which
enabled the practical production of color images by television receiving
a...
Charles H. Pell Papers, 1853-1906 - Business correspondence and other
legal papers. Includes material relating to litigation between Pells
client, Hannibal Goodwin (1822-1900) and Eastman Kodak Company over patent
recognition of Goodwins invention of flexible celluloid photographic film.
...
Chicago Daily News, 1902-1933 - The Chicago Daily News Negative Collection
comprises more than 55,000 images of urban life captured bewtween
1902-1933 by photographers employed by the Chciago Daily News, then one of
Chicagos leading newspapers. Images of inventors, inventions, and arch...
Corona Camera: A Videohistory, 1996 - This videohistory explores the
contributions of Walter Levison, Frank Madden, and F. Dow Smith in
creating a satellite camera that provided photographic imagery of earth
from space. Discussed are the technical antecedents of the camera in two
balloon reco...
David Gittens innovative Lives Presentation, May 7, 1997 - Gittens's
Ikenga 5302 has several applications--aerial photography, aerial
surveying, air courier, border patrol, cattle herding, commuting, crop
spraying, flying doctors, intelligence gathering, pipe line inspection,
postal service, reconnaissance, and s...
David Peck Todd Papers, 1862-1939 -
Astronomer, teacher, writer, aeronautical enthusiast, inventor; B.A.,
Amherst, 1875; Ph.D. Washington and Jefferson College, 1888; professor of
astronomy and director of the observatory at Amherst College, 1888-1917;
leader of expeditions to observe so...
Earl Theisen Collection, 1771-1935 -
The Earl Theisen Collection spans the years 1773-1935 (bulk 1895-1934) and
encompasses 1.0 linear foot. The collection consists primarily of
correspondence and general files relating to the early history of the
cinema. The correspondence files contain ...
Edward Rolke Farber Papers, 1914-1981 - Papers of farber, a prize-winning
Milwaukee Journal photographer and inventor of the first portable flash
unit called the stroboflash used by news photographers. The papers manily
concern his development of the stroboflash, which the Journal began u...
Ernst F.W. Alexanderson Oral History, 1951 - Oral history gives an account
of Alexandersons earliest days of radio, with particular attention to the
types of sending apparatus, followed by subsequent developments and early
experiments with television. ...
Essanay Film Manufacturing Company manuscript collection [manuscript],
1918-1972 - Scripts, magazines, and a scrapbook related to Spoor's career
as a pioneer motion picture producer. Articles decribe his work as a
distributor of films in the Chicago area (1897-1907), as co-founder of the
Essanay Film Manufacturing Company (1907-1917), a...
Exactus Photo-Film Corporation Records, 1914-1918 - These records include
correspondence, work reports, inventories, financial papers, legal and
official documents, American Consular Service reports on overseas film
distribution, descriptions and illustrations for patent applications,
scenarios, promotiona...
Fairchild KS-25 High Acuity Camera System Documentation , 1956-1967 -
Fairchild Camera and Instrument Corp. designed the KS-25 High Acuity
Camera System, an integrated camera/lens system using a wide-angle 24
focal length lens capable of producing transparencies with resolutions of
140 lines/mm on a high contrast target or...
Frank Jay Haynes Records, 1876-1962 - Frank Jay Haynes was official
photographer for the Northern Pacific Railroad and for Yellowstone
National Park. Haynes and his son Jack Ellis Haynes had a photography
business Records contain miscellaneous documentation on the patent for the
Haynes Rapid ...
Fred Waller Records, 1925-1977 - Photocopies of correspondence and
patents. The records include a copy of a patent, brochure clippings,
correspondence, advertisements related to the Akwa Skee (water ski),
photograph of the Ske boat and copy of a letter describing development of
the Ciner...
George Kleine Papers, 1886-1946 - Chiefly business records consisting of
correspondence, financial and legal papers, newspaper clippings, printed
matter, and other papers, relating primarily to Kleines various ventures
in the early motion picture industry. Includes files relating to pate...
George S. Moler papers, 1908-1913 -
Professor in Physics Dept., Cornell University. Built first dynamo in
United States.
Correspondence and legal documents pertai...
George W. Goddard Papers, 1889-1984 (bulk 1940-1976) - Correspondence,
memoranda, wirtings, transcripts, research files, reports, patents,
grants, diagrams, newspaper clippings, printed material and photographs
relating chiefly to Goddards assignments in the U.S. Army Air Corps. ...
Gordon Hendricks Motion Picture History Papers, ca. 1895-1970 - Gordon
Hendricks was an art historian who wrote books on such painters as Albert
Bierstadt and Thomas Eakins, as well as the photographer Eadweard
Muybridge, and was an authority on the early history of motion pictures
who debunked the notion that Edison ...
Harold E. Edgerton Papers, 1889-1990 -
Harold "Doc" Eugene Edgerton, 1903-1990, B.S. 1926, University of
Nebraska; S.M. 1927 and Sc.D. 1931 in electrical engineering,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, w...
Heidrich-Blessing photograph collection, 1929-1969 - Includes the
photographic archive of the first forty years of work produced by
Heidrich-Blessing, a Chicago studio that specializes in architectural
photography. Images primarily show interior and exterior views of
buildings and structures....
Holography Patents, 1970-1977 - Abstracts as well as full descriptions
with diagrams of technical improvements of holography. Some of the
inventors include Emmett N. Leith, Juris Upatnieks, Nile F. Hartman, Asger
T. Nielsen, and Byron Brenden. ...
James D. Law Diary, 1895 - Diary of a Scottish inventor for 1895. Law was
born in Scotland and migrated to the United States in 1886. Entries
include business matters, poems, and personal relationships. Law notes in
his diary his correspondence with various individuals. Law invente...
James G. Black Papers, 1921-1983 -
The papers of Dr. James Gilbert Black are contained in two boxes. Both
professional and personal papers are included. Dr. Black was a friendly,
tolerant, brilliant man whose major concern was the quality of education
which the youth were receiving. The...
John A. Maurer Papers, 1928(ca. 1950)-(1972)1987 - The papers of John
Maurer date largely from 1950 to 1972 and consist predominantly of
engineering drawings and calculations pertaining to optical equipment,
especially 16mm and 8mm film projectors and printers and aerial cameras.
Also included in this col...
John Hays Hammond, Jr. Papers, 1912-1963 - Hammond was an inventor and a
pioneer in systems radio control of moving objects (torpedoes, ships). His
papers contain printed patents, reports, and related material on his
system for the radio control of torpedoes, inventions for musical
instruments, an...
Joseph S. Mertle Collection on the History of Photomechanics - Collection
contains original books, journals, photographs, and manuscripts relating
to photographic processes in printing from the early period to the middle
of the twentieth century....
Julius & Carl Neubronner Collection, 1909-1918 - This collection consists
of reprints of thirteen photographs and related material on the
Neubronners contribution to aerial photography. The photographs were taken
either by pigeon, kite, observation balloon, or German aircraft in World
War I. Related ma...
Lee De Forest Papers, 1896-1971 -
Lee de Forest was born in Council Bluffs, Iowa, on August 26, 1873. He was
a graduate of the Sheffield Scientific School at Yale University in 1896
and received a Ph.D. from Yale in 1899. He was an important contributor in
the development of wireless t...
Lee De Forest Scrapbook, 1919-1924 - De Forest was born in Iowa. He worked
on an apparatus for radio telegraphy. He invented the triode, the
prototype of all eletcronic amplifiers. He also invented sound film and
colored television....
Leo H. Baekeland Papers, 1881-1968 - Baekeland came to the U.S. in 1890
from Belgium. His first major invention was "Velox" photographic paper. He
started the Nepera Chemical Co. in 1893, and in 1899 sold it to Eastman
Kodak. He is best known for inventing the first commercial synthetic
resi...
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One may click on the name of the collection or document set to obtain more
information about a specific item in the search results. Here is one such
complete record:
Nathan Lerner collection of visual materials [graphic], ca. 1933-1997
INVENTOR NAME: Lerner, Nathan
REPOSITORY:
Chicago Historical Society
Clark St. at North Ave.
Chicago, IL 60614-6071
312-642-4600
http://www.chicagohs.org/collections/archives.html
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION:
ca. 100 photographic prints : b&w ; 4 x 5 in. or smaller. Series 1. ca. 50
photograph prints : b&w ; 8 x 10 in. or smaller. Series 1. ca. 100
photographic prints : col. ; 4 x 5 in. or smaller. Series 2. ca. 50
photographic prints : col. ; 8 x 10 in.
SUMMARY:
Visual materials by or about Nathan Lerner relating to his career as a
photographer, artist, educator, and inventor and to his personal life. He
was associated with the New Bauhaus, the School of Design, and later the
Institute of Design in Chicago (Ill.) for many years. Collection contains
primarily original negatives and slides of his early photographic work, of
his paintings, and of his design work, including his lightbox
explorations. Most negatives are not represented by photoprints in this
collection. Photoprints in the collection are primarily family snapshots
made in the United States, Japan, Mexico, or Europe and contact sheets,
clippings from contact sheets, and other work prints. Also present are
index cards (3 x 5 in.) by Lerner cataloging dates and locations for many
of his photographs; exhibition posters for some of his exhibits, films,
and videos; and films and videos about his work.
Films include "Nathan Lerner, the Bauhaus Years" (1972) and "Nathan Lerner
Outakes," and videos include "It's All About Light," by Ben Kerns; "Nathan
Lerner, The Bauhaus Years, 1935-1945," by Gerald Fromberg (1974); "School
of Design/ Jealousy - Do not Disturb," by Lazslo Moholy-Nagy and School of
Design students; "Bauhaus in America," by Judith Pearlman, and "Nathan
Lerner interview," by Ben Kerns (1983).
ACCESS:
FINDING AID:
SUBJECTS: Art & culture, Photography, film, television, & video
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Educational Materials
Multimedia and print materials for classroom use.
<http://www.invention.smithsonian.org/resources/menu_edu_materials.aspx>
Multimedia
Publications
Experiments
Online Educational Features
Research Opportunities
Fellowships, internships, and travel grants.
<http://www.invention.smithsonian.org/resources/default_research.aspx>
Lemelson Center Fellowships support projects that present creative
approaches to the study of invention and innovation in American society.
Travel to collections awards provide travel funds for research on the
history of invention and innovation using the extensive holdings of the
Museum's Archives Center and curatorial divisions.
Archival internships offer training for graduate students in archives
studies programs each summer.
Online Articles
Articles on invention and innovation.
<http://www.invention.smithsonian.org/
resources/default_online_articles.aspx>
A shorter URL for the above link:
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Archives Invention archives at the National Museum of American History
Archives Center.
<http://www.invention.smithsonian.org/resources/default_archives.aspx>
MIND: Modern Inventors Documentation Program Database of invention
archives in the United States.
<http://www.invention.smithsonian.org/resources/MIND_Search_Basic.aspx>
Oral & Video Histories Guide to audiovisual material on invention at the
National Museum of American History Archives Center.
<http://www.invention.smithsonian.org/resources/default_oralandvideo.aspx>
Books Books about invention from the Lemelson Center, and reading lists
for historians, inventors, and students.
<http://www.invention.smithsonian.org/resources/default_bibliography.aspx>
Web sites Invention-related sites for history buffs, kids, and
inventors.
<http://www.invention.smithsonian.org/
resources/default_sites_weblinks.aspx>
A shorter URL for the above link:
<http://snipurl.com/t60n>
For Students and Teachers
<http://www.invention.smithsonian.org/resources/sites_teachers.aspx>
For History Buffs
<http://www.invention.smithsonian.org/resources/sites_history.aspx>
For Inventors
<http://www.invention.smithsonian.org/resources/sites_inventors.aspx>
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U.S. Museums
American Computer Museum, Bozeman, Montana
Exhibits computing technology from cave art to the present.
Bakken Library and Museum, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Collects archival materials related to the history of electricity and
magnetism in medicine and the life sciences and promotes the public
understanding of science and its role in history.
Computer History Museum, Mountain View, California
Celebrates computing history by preserving and presenting the artifacts
and stories of the information age.
Early Office Virtual Museum
Engages in research on the history and evolution of offices, antique
office machines and equipment, and business technology, based on original
documents and artifacts.
Exploratorium, San Francisco, California
Provides access to, and information about, science, nature, art, human
perception, and technology through interactive exhibits.
Franklin Institute Science Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Inspires an understanding of and passion for science and technology
learning.
The Henry Ford
Brings the American experience to life through exhibits, demonstrations,
programs, and reenactments.
Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
(215) 204 - 4584
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2. LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS: RESEARCH: NSF, NEH Boost Efforts to Make
Posted by: "David P. Dillard" [EMAIL PROTECTED] jwneastro
Date: Thu Jul 13, 2006 4:47 am (PDT)
LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS: RESEARCH:
NSF, NEH Boost Efforts to Make Digital Records of Dying Languages
NSF, NEH Boost Efforts to Make Digital Records of Dying Languages
More than half of 7,000 current languages at risk of disappearing
Public release date: 10-Jul-2006
Eureka Alert
<http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-07/nsf-nnb071006.php>
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the National Science
Foundation (NSF) today announced the awarding of 12 fellowships and 22
institutional grants in the two agencies' partnership on Documenting
Endangered Languages (DEL). This is the second round of their multi-year
campaign to preserve records of languages threatened with extinction.
Experts estimate that more than half of the approximately 7,000 currently
used human languages are headed for oblivion in this century. These new
DEL awards, totaling $5 million, will support digital documentation work
on more than 60 such languages.
No more than 20 speakers of Washo, a Native American language, remain, for
example. They are elderly and scattered in several townships near the
Nev.-Calif. border. There is little by way of a dictionary or grammar for
the language. A new DEL grant will enable field workers from the
University of Chicago and the Washo community itself to carry out
comprehensive multimedia documentation of interviews with these last
speakers. Seventeen endangered languages of Africa, the country recently
highlighted by UNESCO as having the highest concentration of disappearing
languages, will be documented under six other DEL awards.
"The immense diversity of linguistic data presents a unique opportunity to
understand many aspects of human cognition," noted NSF Director Arden L.
Bement, Jr. "I am pleased that researchers are responding with urgency, as
well as with precision and thoroughness."
"Not only is this a time of great potential loss," said NEH Chairman Bruce
L. Cole, "it is also a moment for enormous potential gain. In this modern
age of computers and our growing technological capabilities, we can
preserve, assemble, analyze, and understand unprecedented riches of
linguistic and cultural information."
As part of the International Polar Year initiative, NSF is investing in
the documentation and preservation of endangered languages in the Arctic,
where approximately 70 percent of the spoken indigenous languages are
highly endangered. Three projects covering six languages in Russia and
Alaska will receive over $800,000 in DEL grants. Sealaska Heritage
Institute will videotape 30 hours of narrative in Northern Haida, a
language of Alaska and British Columbia that has only 14 remaining
speakers. The first writing systems will be devised for two of the five
endangered Eurasian languages to be documented by a new DEL project
directed by Alexander Nakhimovsky of Colgate University.
One new DEL grant to the University of Texas at Austin will enable the
Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America (AILLA) to digitize
and archive eight major collections of materials from prominent
researchers on indigenous languages of Mexico, Costa Rica, Colombia,
Venezuela and Brazil. A DEL fellowship will support Jeffrey Davis of the
University of Tennessee in digitizing, translating, and assessing 19th
century materials in the once widely used Plains Indian Sign Language that
are housed at the Smithsonian Institution.
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The complete press release may be read at the URL above.
Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
(215) 204 - 4584
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3. TIME MARCHES ON: The End of Cowboy Diplomacy
Posted by: "David P. Dillard" [EMAIL PROTECTED] jwneastro
Date: Thu Jul 13, 2006 10:39 am (PDT)
The End of Cowboy Diplomacy : July 17, 2006
A Timely Coverage of the Matter.
<http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,20060717,00.html>
Take the TIME to have a LOOK as a moment from your busy LIFE.
Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
(215) 204 - 4584
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4. IN TIMES PAST: Person of the Year 2004 and Haberdashery
Posted by: "David P. Dillard" [EMAIL PROTECTED] jwneastro
Date: Thu Jul 13, 2006 10:46 am (PDT)
IN TIMES PAST: Person of the Year 2004 and Haberdashery
Person of the Year 2004
<http://www.time.com/time/personoftheyear/2004/>
George W. Bush
For sticking to his guns (literally and figuratively), for reshaping the
rules of politics to fit his ten-gallon-hat leadership style and for
persuading a majority of voters that he deserved to be in the White House
for another four years, George W. Bush is TIME's 2004 Person of the Year
By NANCY GIBBS and JOHN F. DICKERSON
<http://www.time.com/time/personoftheyear/2004/story.html>
George indeed may have stuck to his guns, but can he point and shoot?
Time : July 17, 2006
<http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,20060717,00.html>
Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
(215) 204 - 4584
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5. MUSIC: CLASSICAL: COMPOSERS: AFRICAN AMERICAN : MUSIC: CLASSICAL:
Posted by: "David P. Dillard" [EMAIL PROTECTED] jwneastro
Date: Thu Jul 13, 2006 1:05 pm (PDT)
MUSIC: CLASSICAL: COMPOSERS: AFRICAN AMERICAN :
MUSIC: CLASSICAL: RECORDINGS:
Classical Music Recordings of Black Composers: A Reference Guide
Classical Music Recordings of Black Composers: A Reference Guide
Compiled by Richard Greene
<http://astro.temple.edu/~rgreene/BlackComp/index.html>
Classical Music Recordings of Black Composers:
A Comprehensive Reference Guide to Recorded Works Available on
Compact Disc
Compiled by Richard Greene
Website Table of Contents
Project Overview
Comprehensive CD Recording
Publication
Composer Listing
128 names
Recent Recordings
Updated
May 2006
Reference Sources and Web Links
Suggested Listening
Performers and Conductors
Philadelphia Music
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Project Overview
Musicians, Educators, Librarians and Friends of Music
<http://astro.temple.edu/~rgreene/BlackComp/index.html>
"Less well known and often invisible, black and African heritage
classical composers span three centuries and come from the continents of
Europe, Africa, and the Americas . In an effort to increase awareness,
this effort is being undertaken to unveil and to acknowledge black
composers and their creative output within the rich tapestry of classical
music.
It may also be of interest to learn that in 1934 the Philadelphia
Orchestra, conducted by Leopold Stokowski, premiered William Levi Dawsons
Negro Folk Symphony. For the classical music world, this was
significant and historic - but it was not a first. Dawson was only one
among many talented African heritage composers whose musical voices began
to emerge in the early 1900s.
At this web site you will find varied information including a
comprehensive Black composer discography. It will ease the search for
specific recorded works by these composers. Currently, more than 130
black composers have been recorded on compact discs.
The 800 (+) listed works are primarily instrumental, ranging in format
from solo to orchestral."
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Publication (updated December 2004)
Comprehensive Reference Guide to Black Composer Recordings
alphabetical by composer and composition title: includes album title, CD
label and catalog number.
<http://astro.temple.edu/~rgreene/BlackComp/index.html>
BLACK COMPOSERS on COMPACT DISC
The following composers are included in the:.
Comprehensive Reference Guide to Black Composer Recordings
<http://astro.temple.edu/~rgreene/BlackComp/index.html>
RECENT BLACK COMPOSER CD RELEASES
Updated June 2006
<http://astro.temple.edu/~rgreene/BlackComp/index.html>
This listing supplements the
Comprehensive Reference Guide to Black Composer Recordings
Year of release
2006
2005
2004
2003
2002
2001
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Selected Reference Bibliography : Historical LP Recording of Note :
Web Information Links
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African American History & Heritage Site : Offers wide-ranging information
regarding history - including music. Focuses on teacher resources and
information.
African-American Sheet Music; 1850 1920: From the collections of Brown
University, this includes 1,305 pieces of African-American sheet music
dating from 1850 through 1920. Post-Civil War music reflects the problems
of Reconstruction and the beginnings of urbanization and the northern
migration of African Americans. Selected African-American composers
include James Bland, James Reese Europe, and Will Marion Cook.
Afrocentric Voices in Classical Music : Focuses on African-American
performers and composers and on the vocal music forms they influenced;
especially opera, art songs and Negro spirituals composed for concert
performance. Includes an extensive bibliography, a chronology of major
events and accomplishments, a list of libraries and research centers with
significant resources by and about African-American musicians.
Archives of African American Music and Culture : The Undine Smith Moore
Collection includes a collection of original scores and manuscripts by
African-American composers. The Archives of AAAMC is devoted to the
collection, preservation, and dissemination of materials for the purpose
of research and study of African-American music and culture.
Center for Southern African-American Music: at the University of South
Carolina's School of Music. There are three components: an Archive,
Curriculum Initiatives, and an Educational Outreach Program.
Classical Music in Black and White: a National Public Radio interview with
musicologist Dr. Dominique-Ren de Lerma.
Dictionary of African Composers: This project aims to more properly
document the music of Africa and its composers. The dictionary is a
research project of the University of Pretoria's music department (South
Africa). Edited by Alexander Johnson and Chris Wallon. Where possible,
each composer entry is given in both English and their mother tongue.
Dr. Estrella's Incredibly Abridged Dictionary of Composers : Accurate
biographical information on more than 500 composers of Western art music.
Jamaica's Classical Musicians: Identifies and provides background
information on individuals who have achieved an international classical
music reputation - composers and musicians. There is also some emphasis
on those who have pursued their careers chiefly in Jamaica.
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Always a subjective arena, I am providing suggested listening from
available Black composer recordings. I recognize that there are many
recordings to choose from so I intend to periodically offer additional
suggestions in the future. RG
Recommended selections by composer:
Fela Sowande's African Suite is available on several recordings. It is a
delightful blend of Nigerian melodies and orchestrations for strings and
harp.
A recent recording of piano compositions by "Blind Tom" (Thomas Wiggins
Bethune) has been released. It offers an extraordinary glimpse into the
capabilities of one born into U.S. slavery and who had evident musical
talent.
The MAPS Violin Concerto by Anthony Davis has long been a personal
favorite. The final movement can be likened to a duo concertante for
violin and percussion.
George Walker's Lyric for Strings is a beautiful composition that should
be required listening and performing. Originally written as the second
movement of a string quartet it has been rewritten for string orchestra.
It deserves the same attention as Samuel Barber's famous Adagio for
Strings.
Almost any of the available recordings by Chevalier de Saint-Georges are
worthy listening. There are many to choose from including string
quartets, violin concertos, sonatas and symphonies.
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CLASSICAL MUSIC PERFORMERS and PERFORMANCES of SPECIAL INTEREST
<http://astro.temple.edu/~rgreene/BlackComp/index.html>
Black and African-American
Music Performance Groups and Organizations
Musicians
Conductors
Special Interest
Directory of Philadelphia Area Groups and Performances
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PHILADELPHIA AREA CLASSICAL MUSIC ORGANIZATIONS and CONCERT SERIES
<http://astro.temple.edu/~rgreene/BlackComp/index.html>
Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
(215) 204 - 4584
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Conrad Black's tangled finances provoked sharp questioning Wednesday by a
federal judge who wondered how the former media baron pays his $200,000-a-month
living expenses -- without having an income.
Judge Amy St. Eve grilled Black's lawyer on discrepancies between a financial
statement Black filed in November and one filed this week. The recent statement
shows stock and a bank account of greater value than disclosed last year, for
example.
"The value of these investments has gone up substantially," St. Eve said.
Black, 61, faces charges he helped steal $84 million from Hollinger
International, the company that owns the Chicago Sun-Times and other
newspapers.
When charged last year, Black put up his Palm Beach, Fla., mansion to
cover part
of his bond. But last month, prosecutors asked for additional bond,
saying Black
overstated the mansion's value and lied about his finances.
St. Eve held off ruling on Black's bond Wednesday. Instead, she gave Black's
lawyer until July 21 to explain the discrepancies and list all assets of Conrad
Black Capital Corp., his personal holding company.
Black has denied all wrongdoing and pleaded not guilty to the charges, which
include racketeering and conspiracy.
Discussing Black's revised financial disclosure, St. Eve wondered how
he met his
monthly expenses -- including $9,000 for gardening -- even with loans
from his wife.
Source: Eric Herman, The Chicago Sun-Times
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