Teacher, pianist, and accompanist to concert artists : oral history transcript / William Duncan Allen
Creator
Allen, William Duncan, Interviewee
Contributor
Allen, William Duncan, Interviewee Crawford, Caroline, Interviewer
Date Created and/or Issued
1996
Publication Information
The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-6000; http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/ Berkeley, Calif : Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office
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Duncan Allen discusses his family background and childhood in Oregon; his studies at Oberlin and Juilliard; teaching at Howard and Fisk Universities; accompanying various singers,including Todd Duncan, Paul Robeson, Adele Addison, William Warfield, and Betty Allen;and working as a columnist for San Francisco Bay Area newspapers. He comments upon segregation in the United States as it affects Black musicians, fostering Black music and Black composers, and directing choral groups in the Bay Area Part of the African American Oral History Collection from the Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley This manuscript is made available for research purposes only. All publication rights are reserved to The Bancroft Library of the University of California, Berkeley. Requests for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to the Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley
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