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Description

1. 5.2 lin. ft.

Summary

1. Musical scores, compositions, and librettos, including White's opera "Ouanga," and an earlier version entitled "Cocomacaque;" and correspondence, biographical information, writings, contracts, financial records, programs, sheet music, press releases, newspaper clippings, and printed material relating to the first thirty years of White's career. Included are letters to his wife, Beatrice Louise (Warrick) White, and from her father, Thomas Warrick. Correspondents include family, friends, and business associates, his mother, Jennie White Connor, Amanda Ira Aldridge, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, James Weldon Johnson, George Foster Peabody, A.W. Reid Taylor, Myra Reynolds Richards, Ona Talbot, and Henry O. Tanner.

Subject

1. White, Clarence Cameron, 1880-1960
2. African American teachers
3. African American musicians
4. African American composers
5. African Americans in the performing arts
6. Warrick, Thomas
7. African Americans > Families
8. Aldridge, Amanda Ira, 1866-1956
9. Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel, 1875-1912
10. White, Clarence Cameron, 1880-1960 > Ouanga
11. Opera > United States
12. Richards, Myra Reynolds
13. Scores
14. Peabody, George Foster, 1852-1938
15. Sheet music
16. Taylor, A. W. Reid
17. Talbot, Ona
18. White, Beatrice Louise Warrick
19. African Americans > Music
20. Tanner, Henry Ossawa, 1859-1937
21. Johnson, James Weldon, 1871-1938
22. Connor, Jennie White

Genre/Form

1. Sheet music.
2. Scores.

Call number

1. Sc Micro R-2474

Note

1. Photographs transferred to Photographs and Prints Division.
2. Art work transferred to Art and Artifacts Division.
3. Sc MG 27

Access (note)

1. Researchers are restricted to microfilm copy.

Source (note)

1. Luber, Anna

Biography (note)

1. Clarence Cameron White was a composer, violinist, educator and author. He studied music at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and in London, England. He also studied with Will Marion Cook and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, who is credited with inspiring him to become a composer. White frequently used folk music as a source for his compositions. He collaborated with John F. Matheus, a professor of Romance languages (librettist), on two works, "Tambour" and the opera "Ouanga," which was based on the life of Jean-Jacques Dessalines, one of the slave leaders of the Haitian Revolution. White's other major works include the ballet score for "A Night in San Souci," the orchestral work "Elegy," "Symphony in D Minor," a cantata "Heritage," and "Bandanna Sketches," composed for the violin. He also wrote "Dance Rhapsody," "Pantomime," and "Poeme: For Orchestra."

Processing action (note)

1. Surveyed
2. Processed
3. Cataloging updated

Author

1. White, Clarence Cameron, 1880-1960.

Title

1. Clarence Cameron White papers, 1901-1940.

Access

1. Researchers are restricted to microfilm copy.

Biography

1. Clarence Cameron White was a composer, violinist, educator and author. He studied music at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and in London, England. He also studied with Will Marion Cook and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, who is credited with inspiring him to become a composer. White frequently used folk music as a source for his compositions. He collaborated with John F. Matheus, a professor of Romance languages (librettist), on two works, "Tambour" and the opera "Ouanga," which was based on the life of Jean-Jacques Dessalines, one of the slave leaders of the Haitian Revolution. White's other major works include the ballet score for "A Night in San Souci," the orchestral work "Elegy," "Symphony in D Minor," a cantata "Heritage," and "Bandanna Sketches," composed for the violin. He also wrote "Dance Rhapsody," "Pantomime," and "Poeme: For Orchestra."
2. White's teaching career spanned the Boston public school system (1912-1923), his directorship of music at West Virginia State College (1924-1931), and Hampton Institute in Hampton, Virginia, where as director of music he conducted the Hampton Institute Choir from 1933 to 1935.

Connect to:

1. Finding Aid

Added author

1. White, Clarence Cameron, 1880-1960.

LCCN

1. ms 79001893

Research call number

1. Sc Micro R-2474