AMERICAN MUSIC SERIES                                                                              32 a,b

William Grant Still (and Mrs. Still)

With Liz Gant

Los Angeles, CA

November 22, 1972

                                                            TABLE OF CONTENTS

Side a                                                                                                             pp. 1-18

Early interest in music--playing the violin--college--playing in Columbus, Ohio--composing--looking up to other Negro musicians--working with W.C. Handy--Still’s parents--book: Oranges and Lemons--Harlem--joining the Navy--playing violin in the Navy--working in New York after the war--returning to Oberlin--studying theory and composition--W.C. Handy--Harlem: prominent Negro clubs including. Cotton Club--learning about instruments--composing operas--playing Negro shows.

Side b                                                                                                                        pp. 18-24

“Telephone Hour”--“Old Gold Hour”--Paul Whiteman--composing and arranging--Guggenheim Fellowship--work in film studios--G Minor Symphony--And they lynched him on a Tree--Deep River Hour--Sahdji.

Side c                                                                                                             pp. 24-32

Work with Alain Locke—setting his poetry—composing and arranging in the thirties—coming of television—traveling—young composers.