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Mary Cardwell Dawson papers
- Title
- Mary Cardwell Dawson papers, 1937-1984.
- Author
- Dawson, Mary Cardwell, 1894-1962.
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| Status | Container | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | 1 | Mixed material | Use in library | Sc MG 104 1 | Schomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives |
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- Description
- 11 items (1 folder)
- Summary
- Collection of documents relating to Dawson and the National Negro Opera Company.
- Donor/Sponsor
- Schomburg NEH Automated Access to Special Collections Project.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Programs.
- Certificates.
- Note
- Photograph transferred to Photographs and Prints Division, and is described separately.
- Biography (note)
- Opera director, concert singer, teacher, conductor and impresario, Dawson was the founder, president and general manager of the National Negro Opera Company.
- Processing Action (note)
- processed
- Call Number
- Sc MG 104
- OCLC
- NYPW086000045-A
- Author
- Dawson, Mary Cardwell, 1894-1962.
- Title
- Mary Cardwell Dawson papers, 1937-1984.
- Biography
- Opera director, concert singer, teacher, conductor and impresario, Dawson was the founder, president and general manager of the National Negro Opera Company. Formed in 1941 due to Dawson's concern regarding the lack of opportunity for Afro-Americans in opera because of racial discrimination, for over 20 years the Company presented such productions as Verdi's Aida and La Traviata, and C.C. White's Ouanga. Among the featured opera singers were Minto Cato, Lillian Evanti, Muriel Rahn, Edward Boatner and Robert Mc Ferrin. Ms. Dawson also founded the Cardwell School of Music and the prize winning Cardwell-Dawson Chorus. At the time of Dawson's death in 1962, her proteges were appearing in the great opera houses of the world.
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- Sc MG 104