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William Grant Still and Verna Arvey scrapbooks
Subseries 1, William Grant Still's music scrapbooks, includes articles, reviews, clippings, programs, correspondence, booklets, program guides, broadsides, and cards. They trace Still's career as performer, composer, conductor, lecturer, and arts patron; Verna Arvey's collaboration with him as librettist and lyricist; his musical relationships with W.C. Handy, Howard Hanson, Ulysses Simpson Kay and others; and his relationshop with his family. Subseries 2, Verna Arvey's scrapbooks, includes articles, clippings, programs, correspondence, cards, some of her music manuscripts, and sheet music of some of her husband's compositions. They trace Arvey's career as Manual Arts high school student, journalist, recitalist, traveler, and music collaborator with Still. Subseries 3 contains one scrapbook of clippings and articles on Samuel Barber, Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, George Gershwin, Howard Hanson, and Gian Carlo Menotti; one scrapbook on Judith Anne Still, daughter of William Grant and Verna Avery Still; and scrapbooks on communism, communism and the Negro, and McCarthyism.
- "Subseries 1, William Grant Still's music scrapbooks, includes articles, reviews, clippings, programs, correspondence, booklets, program guides, broadsides, and cards. They trace Still's career as performer, composer, conductor, lecturer, and arts patron; Verna Arvey's collaboration with him as librettist and lyricist; his musical relationships with W.C. Handy, Howard Hanson, Ulysses Simpson Kay and others; and his relationshop with his family. Subseries 2, Verna Arvey's scrapbooks, includes articles, clippings, programs, correspondence, cards, some of her music manuscripts, and sheet music of some of her husband's compositions. They trace Arvey's career as Manual Arts high school student, journalist, recitalist, traveler, and music collaborator with Still. Subseries 3 contains one scrapbook of clippings and articles on Samuel Barber, Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, George Gershwin, Howard Hanson, and Gian Carlo Menotti; one scrapbook on Judith Anne Still, daughter of William Grant and Verna Avery Still; and scrapbooks on communism, communism and the Negro, and McCarthyism."@en
- "William Grant Still and Verna Arvey scrapbooks"@en