Download or read book William Levi Dawson b 1898 and an Analysis of His Negro Folk Symphony 1932 Rev 1952 written by Jacqueline Kay Thompson and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book William Levi Dawson written by Mark Hugh Malone and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2023-04-17 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Levi Dawson (1899–1990) overcame adversity and Jim Crow racism to become a nationally recognized composer, choral arranger, conductor, and professor of music. In William Levi Dawson: American Music Educator, Mark Hugh Malone tells the fascinating tale of Dawson’s early life, quest for education, rise to success at the Tuskegee Institute, achievement of national notoriety as a composer, and retirement years spent conducting choirs throughout the US and world. From his days as a student at Tuskegee in the final years of Booker T. Washington’s presidency, Dawson continually pursued education in music, despite racial barriers to college admission. Returning to Tuskegee later in life, he became director of the School of Music. Under his direction, the Tuskegee Choir achieved national recognition by singing at Radio City Music Hall, presenting concerts for Presidents Herbert Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt, and performing on nationwide radio and television broadcasts. Dawson’s Negro Folk Symphony, only the second extended musical work to be written by an African American, was premiered by Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra in both Philadelphia and New York City. Dawson’s arrangements of spirituals, the original folk music of African Americans enslaved in America during the antebellum period, quickly became highly sought-after choral works. This biographical account of Dawson's life is narrated with a generous sprinkling of his personal memories and photographs.
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Download or read book William L Dawson written by Gwynne Kuhner Brown and published by . This book was released on 2024 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Black composer William L. Dawson earned wide recognition for his arrangements of Black American spirituals and his Negro Folk Symphony. Gwynne Kuhner Brown provides a sensitive and multifaceted look at the career of an important twentieth-century artist. Born in 1899, Dawson studied music at the Tuskegee Institute before embarking on a wide-ranging career. Brown's account follows the composer from his Kansas City years of studying music and performing on trombone to his time in Chicago. There, he played with the likes of Louis Armstrong and Earl Hines while sitting as first trombone for the Chicago Civic Orchestra and continuing his college and conservatory studies. Dawson's position as music director at Atlanta's Ebenezer Baptist Church sparked an interest in Black folksong that led him to publish arrangements of Black spirituals. During his subsequent twenty-five years teaching at Tuskegee, Dawson directed the school choir in performances of his own work with spirituals and led the group to international acclaim. Engaging and long overdue, William L. Dawson offers the first full-length look at a pioneering Black composer"--
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Download or read book William Levi Dawson written by Vernon Edward Huff and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Levi Dawson (1899-1990), director of the Tuskegee Institute Choir from 1931 to 1956, was one of the most important arrangers of Negro spirituals in the twentieth century. He is also remembered as an outstanding composer, conductor, speaker, and leader of festival choruses. His arrangements are still sung by choirs all over the world. Save a small number of dissertations and various articles, however, very little has been written about him. In fact, almost no significant writing has been undertaken utilizing the Dawson papers held at the Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Books Library at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. This study utilizes that collection in examining four areas of Dawson's life: his work as a composer, his work as an arranger of Negro spirituals, his work as a choral conductor and music pedagogue, and his life as an African American man living in segregated times. Dawson is shown as a thoughtful, deliberate practitioner of his art who built his career with intention, and who, through his various activities, sought both to affirm the traditional music of his people and to transcend his era's problems with the definitions, associations, and prejudices attached to the term "race." Using a diverse selection of letters, notes, and speeches held in the archive, it is possible to develop a fuller, more nuanced portrait of Dawson. Through a thorough examination of a select few of these documents, his growth can be traced from a young composer living in Chicago, to a college choral director dealing with the realities of racial inequality in the mid-twentieth century, to a seasoned, respected elder in his field, endeavoring to pass on to others knowledge of the music he spent his life arranging and teaching.
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Download or read book Baker s Biographical Dictionary of Twentieth century Classical Musicians written by Nicolas Slonimsky and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 1997 with total page 1618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition (last, 1992) includes entries on some 500 musicians who were not included in the eighth edition (such as violin virtuoso Sarah Chang) and updates many others (such as composer John Cage, who died after the 8th edition was published). As before, entries also include musicians and composers of the 1800s and artists from other musical genres whose work has significantly influenced 20th century classical music. A glossary of terms is included at the end of the volume. c. Book News Inc.
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Download or read book William Levi Dawson written by Emory University. Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Internet exhibition commemorating the life, work, and legacy of composer and conductor William Levi Dawson. Highlighting a collection of materials ranging from letters and books to film and radio broadcasts, the exhibition details Dawson's life from early childhood to the posthumous symposium celebrating his life, work, and lasting contributions that was hosted by Emory University on March 3-5, 2005, "In Celebration of William L. Dawson: An Exploration of African American Music and Identity at the Dawn of the 21st Century." Included are digitized maps, photographs, correspondence, manuscript music, and sound excerpts of Dawson interviews, compositions, performances, and field recordings in Africa, as well as photographs and video clips from the symposium and other materials. The site was prepared by a collaborative effort of Emory University's Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library (MARBL) and the Digital Programs and Systems Division of the Robert W. Woodruff Library with funding from the Ford Foundation.
