Research Catalog

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Additional authors

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

Description

1. 35 audiocassettes

Summary

1. The collection consists of 35 audio recordings primarily of work with his students and recitals.

Subject

1. Sound recordings
2. Music teachers
3. African American singers
4. African Americans in the performing arts
5. Music > Instruction and study
6. Singing > Instruction and study
7. Wilkerson, Frederick (Frederick Douglas), 1913-1980

Genre/Form

1. Sound recordings.

Call number

1. Sc MIRS Wilkerson 1985-64

Note

1. Frederick Douglass "Wilkie" Wilkerson (1903-1980) was a singer, vocal instructor, and founder of the Frederick Wilkerson Scholarship Foundation. He worked with and taught many well-known entertainers and artists including Maya Angelou, Roberta Flack, and Bernice Johnson Reagon. Born in Texas in 1903, Wilkerson began performing at age thirteen, and trained at Brick's College in North Carolina. After singing in Europe under the stage name Gilbert Adams, Wilkerson became a vocal instructor at Howard University and Catholic University, both located in Washington, D.C. Wilkerson taught private lessons in New York City and opened a studio in Washington D.C., where he began co-teaching with former student Joy McLean in 1962. He assembled his students in several choral groups including the Frederick Wilkerson Studio Choir and the Frederick Wilkerson Male Ensemble.

Linking entry (note)

1. See the Manuscripts, Archvies and Rare Books Division for the Frederick Wilkerson papers. Sc MG 377.

Author

1. Wilkerson, Frederick (Frederick Douglas), 1913-1980, creator.

Title

1. Frederick Wilkerson audio collection.

Publisher

1. [1985]

Type of content

1. performed music

Type of medium

1. audio

Type of carrier

1. audiocassette

Linking entry

1. See the Manuscripts, Archvies and Rare Books Division for the Frederick Wilkerson papers. Sc MG 377.

Connect to:

1. Finding Aid for the collection
2. Request Access to Schomburg Moving Images and Recorded Sound

Added author

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

Research call number

1. Sc MIRS Wilkerson 1985-64