Addresses
edit- 1905: East 17th Street, Manhattan
African American students
editAt Dvořák's prodding, enrollment of African American students at the conservatory grew to well over one hundred fifty among the 600-plus students enrolled.[1]
Music schools that accepted African Americans in the 19th century
edit- National Conservatory of Music of America – the American School of Opera was a division
- Shepard Nathaniel Edmonds (1876– ), founder The Attucks Music Publishing Company in 1903 with money he earned from his song, "I'm Goin' to Live Anyhow, Till I Die"
- Sidney Leonard Perrin (1886– ), songwriter and minstrel show performer
- John Rosamond Johnson (1873–1954)
- Leader Hoffman, choral director
- Henry Thacker Burleigh (1866–1949), Dvořák's assistant at the conservatory
- Wendell Phillips Dabney (1865–1952)
- James Tim Brymn (1881–1946)
- Maurice Arnold Strothotte (1865–1937)
- Paul Clarence Bolin (1869–1946), music educator and organist
- Addie J. Lewis (1879–1901), studied piano, music teacher
- Melville Charlton (1880–1973), organist, studied with Charles Otto Heinroth (1874–1963)[2]
- Alice Randolph Jackson, studied piano with Jeannette Thurber and Ignace Paderewski, became an acclaimed dancer
- Will Marion Cook (1869–1944)
- Washington Conservatory of Music
- Mando Mozart National Conservatory of Music
- (founded September 2, 1912, by John T. Douglass; extended by Albert F. Mando)
- Wendell Phillips Dabney (1865–1952)
- William Grant Still (1895–1978)
- Garnet C. Wilkinson (1879–1969), M Street High School class of 1898, bachelor of arts from Oberlin 1902
Music schools that accepted African Americans in the early 20th century
edit- Music School Settlement for Colored
- Martin-Smith School of Music[3]
General stuff
edit- Receipt: to The National Conservatory of Music of America, 1894 Apr. 26 at Music Division at the New York Public Library
Wayne Douglas Shirley (born 1936), from about 1965 to about 2000, worked at the Library of Congress. He began as a reference librarian, then music specialist in the Music Division. Shirley was also the founding editor of the Journal of the Society for American Music. (OCLC 4779683717)
References
edit- ^ "African-American Influences," Dvořák American Heritage Assocation, n.d. (retrieved February 7, 2020)
- ^ Melville Charlton collection, 1915–1973 at Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division at the New York Public Library; OCLC 144652231
- ^ Biographical Dictionary of Afro-American and African Musicians, by Eileen Jackson Southern (1920–2002), Greenwood Press (1982); OCLC 902119012