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Donald Martino (1931 – 2005) was an American, Pulitzer Prize winning composer and a proponent of serialism as composed and instructed by his teacher, Luigi Dallapiccola. The collection consists of five musical greeting cards created by Donald Martino. For the birthdays of his composer friends and peers, Martino composed single-page scores of solo clarinet music. Some of the motifs and inspirations for the compositions are based off of the French musical cryptogram system, which allows the...
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Dr. Donald McGinnis (1917-2016) was a prominent band director, clarinetist, flutist, teacher, and clinician through the middle of the 20th century. He served as the woodwind instructor and assistant director of the Concert Band and Marching Band in 1941 at the Ohio State University. In 1952 he was promoted to director of the Ohio State University Concert Band, which he led in performances at Carnegie Hall and other tours. Dr. McGinnis held this position until he retired in 1979. The Donald...
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Donald Pond (1906-1983) was a music educator, composer, and performer. Born in England, Pond immigrated to New York City at the age of twenty-seven and began working at the Dalton School, the Children's Theatre Arts Workshop, and as a guest lecturer at Teachers College, Columbia University. In 1937, Pond became the Music Director of the Pillsbury Foundation School, which was established with assistance from Leopold Stokowski for the study of young children's spontaneous music-making. After...
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Donald Dunn Duvall (March 7, 1946–August 7, 2010) was an American information technology consultant and music lover who organized and maintained a sizeable record collection started by his maternal uncle, Claude James Dunn (January 13, 1902–July 23, 1990). The Duvall record collection contains more than 200 LPs from the twentieth century; the bulk of the materials are undated, though two recordings are dated 1949. Styles of music represented in the collection include jazz and big band...
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E. Thomas Starcher was best known for his teachings in the University of Maryland's Speech department from 1949 through 1984, as well as for being the originator and director of UMD's Drama Wing from 1954 to 1984. The E. Thomas Starcher collection on the UMD Drama Wing consists of one bound book including newspaper and magazine photograph clippings of theater performances, speech department students, drama students, and some photos of Starcher. Most of the photographs are credited to...
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Dr. Earl A. Slocum was born near Concord, Michigan and became the first male student to graduate from Albion College with a public school music certificate. After receiving his Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Michigan, Slocum took a position as director of bands at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and conductor of the University Symphony Orchestra. He remained at the University until his retirement in 1967. Dr. Slocum was elected to the American Bandmasters...
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Earl Wild (1915-2010) was one of the great virtuoso pianists of the 20th Century, in addition to being a composer of original compositions and a prolific transcriber of works by other composers which he arranged for solo piano. He was best-known for his all-Chopin and all-Liszt concerts and his piano transcriptions of Rachmaninoff and Gershwin pieces. Wild also was active as a teacher and adjudicator. The collection consists of correspondence, programs, reviews, articles, flyers, recordings,...
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Edmund Cykler (1903-1988) was a musicologist and music educator who helped found the International Society for Music Education (ISME). The Cykler Collection of International Music Education Resources consists of 299 books, periodicals, and scores from many countries and in 15 different languages.
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Edward Bailey Birge was born in Northampton, Massachusetts in 1868 and died in Bloomington, Indiana on July 16, 1952. Birge was a founding member and later president of the Music Supervisors National Conference. The Edward Bailey Birge papers covers the period from 1890-1952; the bulk of the material dates from 1900-1965. The collection consists published articles about Birge, published and non-published writings and music by Birge, personal and professional correspondence, documents...
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Dr. Edward L. Longley (1925 – 2006) was an educator and American watercolor painter from Baltimore, Maryland. He studied at Columbia University Teacher’s College, American University, Penn State College, and the University of Maryland, where he was an Associate Professor of Art Education from 1952 to 1984. His work has been displayed in both prominent and local spaces since 1964. During his tenure, both Jim Henson and Jane Henson studied puppetry in his courses. The Edward L. Longley papers...
