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Additional authors

1. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division

Description

1. 10 audio discs (analog)

Summary

1. The collection consists of 10 audio recordings of musical events with which Des Verney was involved.

Subject

1. Des Verney, Bertha
2. National Association of Negro Musicians (U.S.)
3. Mother African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church (New York, N.Y.)
4. Washington Music School (Albany, N.Y.)
5. Ministers of Music and Drama League (New York, N.Y.)
6. African American musicians
7. African American music teachers
8. African American singers
9. African Americans in the performing arts
10. African Americans -- Songs and music
11. African American women composers
12. Arrangers (Musicians) -- United States -- 20th century
13. Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Social life and customs

Genre/Form

1. Sound recordings.

Call number

1. Sc MIRS Des Verney 1991-77

Note

1. Bertha Des Verney was an African American pianist, composer/arranger, singer, playwright, concert promoter, and music teacher, who devoted much of her time to church and community activities. Des Verney joined Harlem's Mother A.M.E. Zion Church in 1919 and for more than forty years served as the director of several of its choirs and was president of the church's Dramatic Club. Among other educational responsibilities, she was director of the Washington Music School in Albany, New York in the 1930s. Des Verney was a member of the National Association of Negro Musicians, serving as president in 1964. She also organized the Ministers of Music and Drama League, which honored performing artists. She died in 1975 in New York City.

Linking entry (note)

1. See the Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division for the Bertha Des Verney papers, 1929-1977 (Sc MG 449). Photographs can be found in the Photographs and Prints Division. Books and magazines can be found in the General Research and Reference Division.

Author

1. Des Verney, Bertha, creator.

Title

1. Bertha Des Verney audio collection.

Publisher

1. [1991]

Linking entry

1. See the Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division for the Bertha Des Verney papers, 1929-1977 (Sc MG 449). Photographs can be found in the Photographs and Prints Division. Books and magazines can be found in the General Research and Reference Division.

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Added author

1. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Moving Image and Recorded Sound Division.

Research call number

1. Sc MIRS Des Verney 1991-77