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Still, William Grant, 1895-1978

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1895-05-11 - 1978-12-03

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Beverly Soll Research Collection on William Grant Still

 Collection
Identifier: RG 30-426
Scope and Contents This collection was created, compiled and organized by Beverly Soll in preparation for the writing of her book, I Dream a World: The Operas of William Grant Still (University of Arkansas Press, 2005).  The collection consists primarily of copies pertaining to Still’s operas from the William Grant Still and Verna Arvey Papers at the University of Arkansas-Fayetteville, but also includes material from the Library of Congress and other sources, as well as...
Dates: ca. 1920s-1980s; Other: Date acquired: 2013 September 18

William Grant Still and Verna Arvey Papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG 30-162
Scope and Contents Material at the Oberlin College Archives (Accession 1983/41) The material given to the Oberlin College Archives consists of clippings, programs, writings by and about William Grant Still and Verna Arvey, a book of Still’s music, press kits and publicity for the opera “A Bayou Legend,” photographs, a copy of an oral history with William Grant Still for the California Black Oral History Project at California State University, Fullerton in 1967, and...
Dates: 1921 - 1995; Other: Date acquired: 1983 October 28