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	William Grant Still - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		William Grant Still was born in Woodville, Mississippi.
		Still was associated with the Harlem Renaissance movement and was active in the jazz and popular music scenes.
		Still's works were also performed by the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, the London Symphony Orchestra, the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, and the BBC Orchestra.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Grant_Still (545 words)

	William Grant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The William Grant Still and Verna Arvey Papers Short biographies of the composer and his pianist wife with details about the collection and its availability to scholars from the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville.
		William Grant Still Collection, Duke University Includes biography with photographs, copies of original scores, and details about his life, compositions, chronology of his place among other African American composers and musicians, and links.
		Glenfiddich In the autumn of 1886, William Grant purchased some land in the valley of the River Fiddich, in Speyside, deep in the heart of Grant territory in the Scottish Highlands.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-William_Grant.html (503 words)

	William Grant Still, African American Composer, Arranger & Oboist
		William Grant Still was born in Woodville, Mississippi on May 11, 1895.
		Still is virtually a native of Little Rock; and was graduated at the age of 16 as valedictorian of the 1912 class of Dunbar High School.
		Still was a firm believer and an active participant in the "Harlem Renaissance", and his music showed its influence for the rest of his life.
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	William Grant Still -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Still was associated with the (A period in the 1920s when African-American achievements in art and music and literature flourished) Harlem Renaissance movement and was active in the jazz and popular music scenes.
		Still's works were also performed by the (Click link for more info and facts about Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra) Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, the (Click link for more info and facts about London Symphony Orchestra) London Symphony Orchestra, the Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra, and the BBC Orchestra.
		Still is best remembered today for his Afro-American Symphony, a four-movement symphony, which combines themes inherent in much modern (A type of folksong that originated among Black Americans at the beginning of the 20th century; has a melancholy sound from repeated use of blue notes) blues music with symphonic dimension and meticulous orchestration.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/w/wi/william_grant_still.htm (743 words)

	William Grant Still (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		William Grant Still (May 11 1895 - December 3 1978) was a ground-breaking African-American classical composer.
		Still was in 1939 to Verna Arvey a Russian-Jewish musician.
		Still received two Guggenheim Fellowships honorary doctorates from Oberlin College Wilberforce Howard University Bates College and the University of Arkansas.
	www.freeglossary.com /William_Grant_Still (502 words)

	William Grant Still @ Soundbug
		William Grant Still (May 11, 1895-December 3, 1978) was a ground-breaking African-American classical composer.
		Still served in the United States Navy during World War I. He attended Wilberforce College and Oberlin College seeking a medical degree.
		Still later studied under avant-garde composer Edgard Varese and George Whitfield Chadwick.
	www.soundbug.com /artist/1681 (375 words)

	American Composer Series #3 - William Grant Still (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Still was a bright student, and was the valedictorian of his 1911 high school class.
		Still went on to compose such pieces as the ballet 'Lenox Avenue' (1936), 'And They Lynched Him on a Tree' (1940), 'A Bayou Legend' (1940), and the opera 'Troubled Island' (1941), which dealt with the slave rebellion in Haiti.
		Still continued to compose into the 1950s, turning his attention toward music for children, writing such pieces as 'The Little Song That Wanted to Be a Symphony' (1954), 'The Little Red Schoolhouse' (1957), and 'The American Scene' (1957), a set of five pieces based on different regions of the country.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/4473/44037 (546 words)

	Still, William Grant Music Web Links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		William Grant Still Collection, Duke University - Includes biography with photographs, copies of original scores, and details about his life, compositions, chronology of his place among other African American composers and musicians, and links.
		The William Grant Still and Verna Arvey Papers - Short biographies of the composer and his pianist wife with details about the collection and its availability to scholars from the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville.
		Still, William Grant Happiness, it is said, is seldom found by those who seek it, and never by those who seek it for themselves.
	www.searchmusicnetwork.com /Composition_Composers_S_Still,_William_Grant.html (1782 words)

	African American Music Collection: the interviews
		Still, I believe so far we have gotten to the point where he is working with doing some thing with W. Handy.
		Still then and she came on the scene soon after the Wilberforce era ended and during the course of their marriage there were four children born.
		All right, Dr. Still, you were just giving us some idea about your reaction to today's music and what you feel young students of all races should do if they expire to be a fine musician and to do some of the things that you have accomplished in your magnificent life.
	www.umich.edu /~afroammu/standifer/still.html (6633 words)

	William Grant Still (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Grant County dispatch records said a vehicle fire was reported at...
		Investigators still were attempting to piece together the cause of the...
		Still was married in 1939 to Verna Arvey, a Russian-Jewish musician.
	william-grant-still.wikiverse.org (505 words)

	WGS Biographical Notes
		Still’s service to the cause of brotherhood is evidenced by his many firsts in the musical realm: Still was the first Afro-American in the United States to have a symphony performed by a major symphony orchestra.
		With these “firsts,” Still was a pioneer, but, in a larger sense, he pioneered because he was able to create music capable of interesting the greatest conductors of the day: truly serious music, but with a definite American flavor.
		Still wrote over 150 compositions (well over 200 if his lost early works could be counted), including operas, ballets, symphonies, chamber works, and arrangements of folk themes, especially Negro spirituals, plus instrumental, choral and solo vocal works.
	www.williamgrantstill.com /wgsbiography (995 words)

	William Grant Still Biography / Biography of William Grant Still Biography Biography
		Still was producing or revising earlier works even while in his late seventies.
		The next year, Still was honored on his 80th birthday at the University of Southern California with a program of his works.
		The William Grant Still Community Arts Center was dedicated in Los Angeles shortly before his death, and a memorial concert featuring his key compositions was presented at the University of Southern California in May 1979.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-william-grant-still/index.html (757 words)

	William Grant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		William Grant Still (1895-1978) was an African American classical composer and oboist whose works were influenced by the blues and jazz.
		William Grant Still was born in Woodville, Mississippi on...
		William Grant Still, a musician and composer born in Woodville, Mississippi, was the first African-American composer to attain worldwide recognition.
	www.musicbyartist.com /William-Grant.html (545 words)

	American Music Teacher: The multifaceted nationalism of William Grant Still - African American Musician
		William C. Handy put it well when he said that if he needed money, it was easily acquired if he pretended he wanted it to purchase liquor or to gamble, but not if its purpose was to buy books for his children.
		Still was neither a child of the ghetto nor a culturally or educationally deprived person.
		Still was exposed to the world of classical music: by attending concerts and operettas with his stepfather and listening to recordings of Italian operas such as Il Trovatore, Rigoletto and L'Elisir d'Amore.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2493/is_1_52/ai_90307696 (1229 words)

	Still, William Grant
		Long known as the dean of Afro-American composers, William Grant Still was born May 11, 1895 in Woodville, Mississippi to musician parents of African-American, Native American, Spanish, Irish and Scotch heritage.
		Following the death of Still's father when William was only a few months old, the family moved to Little Rock, Arkansas, where the young Still began has musical education with violin lessons from a private teacher and a stack of Red Seal opera recordings bought for him by his stepfather.
		Still received a B.S. degree from Wilberforce University, spending his time there conducting the band and learning to play the various instruments in it as he made his first attempts to compose and orchestrate.
	stevenestrella.com /composers/composerfiles/still1978.html (530 words)

	The Legacy of Composer William Grant Still to be Celebrated at Wellesley College (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The William Grant Still Legacy, a multimedia performance and presentation of the life and music of the dean of African-American composers, will be celebrated at Wellesley College on Tuesday, April 23, at 8:00 p.m.
		Still used the folk idiom, African, Jewish and Latin American themes in many of his compositions, a fact which gives the music an earthly character, yet his compositions are among the most sophisticated of the through-composed works of the musical repertoire.
		To Still, music was a divine calling through which he ministered to the people, for through the creation of beauty and harmony he dreamed of a better world.
	www.wellesley.edu /PublicAffairs/PAhomepage/still.html (319 words)

	william grant still and other grants related information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Catherine Parsons Smith is the author of the biography William Grant Still: A Study in Contradictions, published in 2000 by the University of California...
		William Grant Still was the son of a bandmaster.
		During the 1930s and 1940s William Grant Still (1895-1978) was known as the "Dean of Afro-American Composers." He worked as an arranger for early radio, on Broadway, and in Hollywood; major symphony...
	www.nethorde.com /grants/william-grant-still.html (307 words)

	William Grant Still, musician from Woodville, Mississippi.
		William was nine or ten years of age when his widowed mother married Charles B. Shepperson, who was also a lover of music (Sewell and Dwight 286).
		William Grant Still's mother, Carrie Still, had a chance to witness her son's creative success to some extent, but Carrie Still died in 1927, a couple of years after his first works were released (Sewell and Dwight 286).
		Still had married Grace Bundy in 1915 and had four children (The Digital Scriptorium), but Bundy left Still in 1932, taking their children, and beginning a new life without him (Sewell and Dwight 291).
	www.shs.starkville.k12.ms.us /mswm/MSWritersAndMusicians/musicians/WGStill.html (2088 words)

	Univ. of Arkansas, Fayetteville: WILLIAM GRANT STILL & VERNA ARVEY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		William Grant Still was born on May 11, 1895, in Woodville, Mississippi, to William Grant Still, Sr.
		Still's early years were influenced by his mother's discipline and love of learning, his maternal grandmother's singing of Negro spirituals, and his stepfather's collection of Red Seal phonographs.
		William Grant Still and Verna Arvey of Los Angeles, California, bequeathed their papers to Special Collections on July 3, 1973.
	libinfo.uark.edu /SpecialCollections/findingaids/still/still1aid.html (793 words)

	African American Review: William Grant Still: A Bio-Bibliography. - book reviews
		The significance of American composer William Grant Still (1895-1978) has been gained and reaffirmed through decades of performances by musicians of the first rank and by the receptivity of audiences throughout the world.
		William Grant Still: A Bio-Bibliography is, in the main, a referential compilation of Still's compositions, arrangements, orchestrations, discography, selected reviews, writings (including those with and by his wife Verna Arvey), and a general biography.
		The William Grant Still and Verna Arvey Papers archive, now at the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, serves as the principal source for the compilations.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2838/is_n2_v32/ai_21059972 (1285 words)

	African American Registry: William Grant Still, a symphonic composer!
		William Grant Still and his first wife Grace Bundy had four children.
		Still took a break from his musical studies at Oberlin during World War I to join the Navy.
		Still was the first African-American to conduct a major symphony orchestra, the first African-American to have an opera, Troubled Island (1949), performed by a major opera company, and the first to have an opera, A Bayou Legend, performed on national television (1981).
	www.aaregistry.com /african_american_history/271/William_Grant_Still_a_symphonic_composer (384 words)

	William Grant Still and His World, June 1997 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Performances, papers, and presentations of all kinds are sought for a meeting on William Grant Still and his world.
		WILLIAM GRANT STILL (1895-1978) was an important contributor to the development of commercial music on Broadway and radio in the period 1919-1934, when he worked in New York City.
		The meeting is a follow-up to numerous celebrations of Still's centennial in 1995, especially the conference held at the University of Arkansas-Fayetteville, where the William Grant Still and Verna Arvey Archive is located.
	www.sun.rhbnc.ac.uk /Music/Conferences/97-6-wgs.html (349 words)

	"An Outstanding Arkansas Composer William Grant Still", 309 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Thus he gained a broadly based knowledge which was invaluable to him when he finally turned his back on financial considerations, and began to concentrate exclusively on serious composing.
		He was born in Woodville, Mississippi, May 11, 1895, the son of William Grant and Carrie Lena (Flambro) Still.
		Still brought her tiny son to Little Rock and began to teach in the schools there.
	www.saumag.edu /swark/articles/ahq/african_americans/still/wg-still309.html (309 words)

	William Grant Still, Composer
		William's mother taught in the local high school and later remarried.
		William's interest in music was encouraged and he often attended concerts as well as studied the violin.
		William Grant has composed works for orchestra, chamber music, operas, and ballets, as well as songs, piano pieces, and repertoire for band.
	www.dsokids.com /2001/dso.asp?PageID=325 (266 words)

	William Grant Still - Gemini Press
		In the 1920s, Still made his first appearances as a serious composer in New York, and began a valued friendship with Howard Hanson.
		Dr. Still’s service to the cause of brotherhood is evidenced by his many firsts in the musical realm: Still was the first Afro-American in the United States to have a symphony performed by a major symphony orchestra.
		He was the first to conduct a major symphony orchestra in the United States, when in 1936, he directed the Los Angeles Philharmonic in his compositions at the Hollywood Bowl.
	www.tritone-tenuto.com /still.htm (802 words)

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