{"id":5878,"date":"2015-09-14T20:23:45","date_gmt":"2015-09-14T20:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/?p=5878"},"modified":"2015-09-14T20:36:02","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T20:36:02","slug":"black-experience-in-the-arts-rare-sound-recordings-now-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2015\/09\/14\/black-experience-in-the-arts-rare-sound-recordings-now-available\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Experience in the Arts: Rare Sound Recordings Now Available"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I grew up in Brooklyn on a diet of the public schools and the Brooklyn Dodgers, spending probably as much time in Ebbetts Field as anybody else did during that period.\u00a0 I am a violinist.\u00a0 That\u2019s unusual, I suppose, for two reasons: one, because there are not a lot of violinists in this world, and there are even fewer black violinists. It leaves one feeling a bit like a rare bird. I must admit I didn\u2019t think terribly much about that when I started playing the violin. \u00a0I suppose if I had, I probably wouldn’t have done it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\"Sanford-Allen-Web\"<\/a>On October 29, 1974, Sanford Allen,\u00a0one of the first African American musicians to play\u00a0with a major symphony orchestra and\u00a0the only African American in the New York Philharmonic since 1964, spoke to a rapt audience at the University of Connecticut. \u00a0The recording of his lecture, interview and performance is being preserved and made available digitally by Archives and Special Collections. \u00a0The sound\u00a0recordings are part of a large archive\u00a0that document a groundbreaking course and performance series led\u00a0by faculty of the Music Department, Edward O’Connor and Hale Smith, and the Center for Black Studies, entitled Black Experience in the Arts<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Between 1970 and 1990, hundreds of African American artists, actors, musicians, composers, TV producers, dancers, opera singers, poets, historians, critics, and journalists visited UConn at the invitation of Edward O’Connor and Hale Smith. \u00a0Smith,\u00a0a performer and arranger who had worked with jazz greats such as Dizzy Gillespie, Chico Hamilton and the pianist Ahmad Jamal, joined the UConn faculty in 1970. \u00a0Originally supported by a grant from the Ford Foundation, Black Experience in the Arts<\/strong>\u00a0brought Orde Coombs, Conrad Buckner, Stanley Crouch, Edythe Jason, Louise Meriwether, Frederick Tillis, Oscar Walters, Jayne Cortez, Raul Abdul and others to the University, sometimes for repeat visits over the course of their careers.<\/p>\n

Stay tuned as we continue to preserve and to make these valuable recordings more widely known and available at archives.lib.uconn.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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