Black Musicians in our Collections
01dec7:00 pm8:00 pmBlack Musicians in our CollectionsMember Event
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Wednesday, December 1, 2021, 7pm Featuring Sarah Weatherwax A Library Company Virtual Collection Review Although Black professional musicians such as Philadelphia bandleader
Event Details
Wednesday, December 1, 2021, 7pm
Featuring Sarah Weatherwax
A Library Company Virtual Collection Review
Although Black professional musicians such as Philadelphia bandleader Francis Johnson, vocalist Elizabeth Taylor Greenfield, and composer James Reese Europe had a significant impact on American music, their contributions are not widely known today. Join Sarah Weatherwax, Senior Curator of Graphic Arts and curator of the Library Company’s 1997 exhibition, A Noteworthy City: Music in Philadelphia, 1750-1915, as she shares the stories of professional and amateur Black musicians as seen through the Library Company’s collection of sheet music, broadsides, books, graphics, and ephemera.
Image: Treble Clef String Orchestra. Philadelphia: Sullivan Studio. Gelatin silver photograph, ca. 1910. Stevens-Cogdell/ Sanders-Venning Collection. Gift of descendants Cordelia H. Brown, Lillie V. Dickerson, Mary Hinkson Jackson, and Georgine E. Willis in honor of Phil Lapsansky.
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(Wednesday) 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm(GMT-05:00)
