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Black conductors / by D. Antoinette Handy.
| Author/creator | Handy, D. Antoinette |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press, 1995. |
| Description | xii, 557 pages : portraits ; 23 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Part 1. The art of conducting: a historical overview -- Conductor training and competitions -- The anointed one - conductor/music director -- Big band (jazz) leaders -- For women conductors, an opening door -- Brothers and sisters "keep on steppin'" -- Prelude to black conductor profiles -- Part II. Conductor profiles, B-H. William James "Count" Basie, Jr. -- Blanche (Dorothea) Calloway (Jones) -- Cabel "Cab" Calloway -- Will Marion Cook -- Jackson Collier Crawford, Jr. -- William "Bill" Henry Curry -- Charles Darden -- Denis Montague de Coteau -- James Anderson DePreist -- (Charles) Dean Dixon -- W. Rudolph Dunbar -- Leslie Byron Dunner -- Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington -- James Reese Europe -- Harvey Felder -- Dingwall Fleary -- James Frazier, Jr. -- Paul Douglas Freeman -- F(lowers) Nathaniel Gatlin -- Lionel Hampton -- Margaret Rosiezarian Harris -- Raymond Curtis Harvey -- (James) Fletcher Hamilton "Smack" Henderson, Jr. -- Luther LIncoln Henderson, Jr. -- Luther Lincoln Henderson, III -- Earl "Fatha" Hines -- Darrold Victor Hunt -- Leroy E. Hurte -- Part III. COnductor profiles, J-W. Isaiah Allen Jackson, III -- Francis "Frank" Johnson -- William LaRue Jones -- Everett Astor Lee -- Tania (Justina) Leon (Ferran) -- Henry Lewis -- Walter Howard Loving -- James Melvin "Jimmie" Lunceford -- (Georgianne) Anne Lundy -- Marsha Eve Mabrey -- Kermit Diton Moore -- Michael DeVard Morgan -- Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson -- Karl Hampton Porter -- Kay George Roberts -- Jon Robertson -- Calvin Simmons -- Andre Raphel Smith -- Kirk Edward Smith -- Leon Everette Thompson -- Will(iam) Henry Bennett Vodery (Vodrey) -- Willie Anthony Waters -- William Henry "Chick" Webb -- Thomas Alphonso Wilkins -- Julius Penson Williams -- Warren George Wilson -- Part IV. More conductor profiles. Alton Augustus Adams -- Edward Gilbert Anderson -- Hallie Anderson -- Joseph G. Anderson -- Lovie Austin -- David N. Baker -- Joyce Brown -- James "Tim" Brymn -- George Byrd -- Bennett "Benny" Lester -- Consuella Carter -- Paul Elliott Cobbs -- Walter F. Craig -- Jacques Constantin Deburque -- Edmond Dede -- Leonard DePaur -- Walter Henri Dyett -- Mercer Kennedy Ellington -- Anthony Elliott -- Wendell English -- Harrison Herbert Ferrell -- Theodore Finney -- William Fitzpatrick -- Frank (Benjamin) Foster, III -- Harry Lawrence Freeman -- D. Jerlene Harding -- Charles Harris -- Erskine "The Hawk" Ramsey Hawkins -- William Henderson -- Robert Jackson -- Thaddeus "Thad" Joseph Jones -- Andrew "Andy" Dewey Kirk -- Ulysses Kirksey -- Irene Armstrong Kitchings -- Richard Lambert -- P. H. Loveridge -- Marie Lucas -- George Morrison -- Bennie Moten -- William Joseph Nickerson -- Nevilla Ottley -- John T. Peek -- Corilla Rochon -- Andrew Fletcher Rosemond -- Luis Carl Russell -- Noble Lee Sissle -- Major N. Clark Smith -- Jesse Stone -- Herman "Sonny" Blount) Sun Ra -- William "Billy" Edward Taylor -- A(lfred) Jack Thomas -- Egbert E. Thompson -- Edythe Turnham -- Linda Twine -- Harold Wheeler -- Earl H. Williams -- Henry "Harry" A. Williams -- Judith Williams-Gartrell -- Anna Mae Darden Winburn -- Appendixes. Black conductors attend "Toward greater participation of black Americans in symphony orchestras" conference (1988) -- Letter to black conductors -- Survey instrument. |
| Abstract | This book is the first collective biography of Black American conductors of instrumental ensembles from the early 19th century to the present. Leaders of instrumental ensembles in the following areas are represented: traditional Western European (symphony, chamber, opera, and musical theater orchestra), concert and marching bands, and jazz (big bands). Fifty-four conductors are thoroughly profiled (with photos), with emphasis not only on their activities as identified, but also on the forces, trends, and issues (social, cultural, economic, racial, and political) that affected their lives and creative work in the highly competitive and exclusionary world of instrumental conducting. Well documented and indexed, the book also includes a historical overview of the art of conducting and discussions of conductor training, competitions, the anointment of conductors/music directors, opening doors for women, and Blacks in the conducting mainstream. |
| Local note | Little-292551--305130045756$ |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 524-526) and index. |
| LCCN | 94034560 |
| ISBN | 0810829304 (acid-free paper) |