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William Grant Still, conducting the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra at the Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, 1936

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Title: William Grant Still, conducting the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra at the Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, 1936
Alternative Title: "William Grant Still, Composer" from Miriam Matthews' Binder
Contributor: Moore, Pryor
Date Created and/or Issued: 1936
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
Rights Information: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
Description: William Grant Still was an American composer, who composed more than 150 works, including five symphonies and eight operas. [Wikipedia]
Portrait of William Grant Still conducting the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra during a rehearsal at the Hollywood Bowl.
Grant Still-first Negro to conduct a major symphony orchestra. Rehearsing the L.A. Philharmonic Orchestra in the Hollywood Bowl (1936) Snapped by Pryor Moore.
Type: image
Identifier: uclalsc_1889_b21_f14_023a.tif
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Subject: African American composers
African American musicians
Orchestras
Hollywood Bowl (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Still, William Grant, 1895-1978
Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra
Source: Miriam Matthews Photograph Collection
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