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	William Dawson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		William Dawson (mayor), mayor of Dunedin, New Zealand
		William Dawson (William and Mary), President of College of William and Mary
		William Levi Dawson (politician) (1886–1970), U.S. Representative from Illinois
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Dawson (139 words)

	William L. Dawson
		illiam Levi Dawson was born in Anniston, and at the age of thirteen ran away from home to enter Tuskegee Institute.
		The Tuskegee Choir, under the direction of Dr. Dawson, performed for Presidents Herbert Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt.
		Dawson has made guest appearances throughout the United States and abroad.
	www.alamhof.org /dawsonwl.htm (182 words)

	Art Song Alliance: William Levi Dawson
		William Dawson received his education at Tuskegee Institute, Horner Institute of Fine Arts in Missouri, the M.M. from the American Conservatory of Music, and eventually became the first trombonist of the Chicago Civic Symphony.
		Dawson taught in the public schools of Topeka, Kansas and Kansas City, Missouri.
		Dawson wrote in many forms, but he was best known for his spiritual arrangements and his "Negro Folk Symphony" (1935) which received its world premier in 1934 by the Philadelphia orchestra conducted by Leopold Stokowski.
	www.darryltaylor.com /alliance/dawson.bio.html (110 words)

	African American Registry: William L. Dawson, "Windy City" congressman
		William Levi* Dawson was born on this date in 1886 in Albany, Georgia.
		William Levi Dawson became one of Chicago's most influential politicians, serving as an elected representative and a political power broker in that city.
		William Dawson spoke out about the poll tax and was credited with defeating the Winstead Amendment, which would have allowed military personnel to choose whether or not they would serve in integrated units.
	www.aaregistry.com /african_american_history/164/William_L_Dawson_Windy_City_congressman (299 words)

	William Levi Dawson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		William Levi Dawson (1886 - 1970), a member of the United States House of Representatives from Illinois.
		William Levi Dawson (1899 - 1990), an African-American composer.
		This human name article is a disambiguation page – a list of pages that might otherwise share the same title, which is a person's or persons' name.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Levi_Dawson (126 words)

	William Levi Dawson Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		William Levi Dawson was born on September 26, 1899, in Anniston, Ala.
		Dawson's membership in the band and orchestra at Tuskegee had been excellent professional preparation for serving as first trombonist with the Chicago Civic Orchestra from 1926 to 1930.
		Dawson was guest conductor with the Kansas City Philharmonic Orchestra (1966), the Nashville Symphony Orchestra (1966), the Wayne State University (Michigan) Glee Club (1970), and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (1975).
	www.bookrags.com /biography/william-levi-dawson (476 words)

	African American Registry: William Dawson, an Alabama musician!
		William Levi* Dawson was born on this date in 1899.
		Dawson was a director and consultant to many festival groups.
		Dawson was guest conductor with the Kansas City Philharmonic Orchestra and the Nashville Symphony Orchestra (1966), the Wayne State University (Michigan) Glee Club (1970), and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra (1975).
	www.aaregistry.com /african_american_history/2202/William_Dawson_an_Alabama_musician (353 words)

	Dawson — FactMonster.com
		William Levi Dawson - William Levi Dawson American musician and conductor Born: September 26, 1899 Birthplace: Anniston,...
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	www.factmonster.com /ce6/world/A0814827.html (177 words)

	Vignette: William Levi Dawson
		William Dawson was an African-American composer, choir director, and professor specializing in Black religious folk music.
		Dawson’s teaching career began in the Kansas City public school system.This career opportunity was followed by tenure with the Tuskegee Institute from 1931 through 1956.
		Dawson’s best orchestral and choral works, however, are based on spirituals like his Negro Folk Symphony (1934), which received international praise and was performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra at its world premiere.
	faculty.washington.edu /qtaylor/aa_Vignettes/dawson_william.htm (332 words)

	The Negro Spiritual
		William L. Dawson, one of the world’s most celebrated and best known African-American composers, arranger of Negro Spirituals and music historian, would have been 100 years old this year.
		Born in Anniston, Alabama, September 26, 1899, Dawson won fame as composer of the Negro Folk Symphony (premiered in 1934 with Leopold Stokowski conducting the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra) and for more than a quarter century as director of the world famous Tuskegee Institute Choir.
		Dawson’s student and a member of his choir from 1945 through 1949.
	www.dogonvillage.com /negrospirituals/one/pg3.htm (428 words)

	William Levi Dawson - African-American composer, musician and educator
		Additionally, Dawson also developed the choir, the Tuskegee Institute Choir, into an internationally renowned ensemble; they were invited to sing at New York City's Radio City Music Hall in 1932 for a week of six daily performances.
		As a composer, Dawson began at a young age, and it was early on in his compositional career that his Trio for Violin, Cello and Piano was performed by the Kansas City Symphony Orchestra.
		William Levi Dawson, born in 1899, was educated at Tuskegee Institute, the Horner Institute of Fine Arts, and the American Conservatory, and wrote his own "Dawson's Negro Folk Symphony" in 1934.
	www.singers.com /composers/williamdawson.html (988 words)

	William Levi Dawson, African American Composer & Choral Director
		William Levi Dawson was an African American composer, professor and choir director.
		Dawson's Negro Folk Symphony (28:26) was recorded by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Neeme Järvi, Conductor, on Chandos 9226 (1993).
		William Levi Dawson died in Montgomery, Alabama on February 5, 1990.
	chevalierdesaintgeorges.homestead.com /Dawson.html (3841 words)

	Emory University News Release - dawson
		Dawson founded the Tuskegee Institute of Music in 1930 and led its choir in the next 25 years to international renown.
		Dawson's arrangements of spirituals now represent a part of the canon for choral societies throughout the world.
		Emory's special collections and archives are home to Dawson's personal archive, and the Woodruff Library currently marks the official opening of the archive to scholars with an exhibition drawn from those materials.
	news.emory.edu /Releases/dawson1106344549.html (938 words)

	Michael Carter on Apt.Org... The Story of Joseph Boulogne (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		But the name that first comes to mind when one thinks of a purely classical African-American composer is that of William Levi Dawson (1899-1990), the former head of the Department of Music at Tuskegee Institute (now Tuskegee University) in Alabama.
		Dawson -- along with José White, William Grant Still, George Theophilus Walker, and many others -- forms part of a long line of African-American composers and performers whose classical music heritage and artistic ancestors included an African-English composer and conductor named Samuel Coleridge-Taylor.
		In the second decade of the 20th century, he was the first man of African heritage to conduct the New York Philharmonic and his ability was described by those who played under him as being on a par with the finest European conductors of the day.
	www.wual.ua.edu /carter_page_01.asp (1552 words)

	Combs &c. Bible of Levi Dawson
		Bible of Levi Dawson Family of Washington County, Pennsylvania, transcribed and submitted by Kristy Rowley who adds: I received these copies 25 years ago from a very elderly great aunt who did not know what the connection with the Combs family was.
		Cuthbert, William, and Mary Combs are all listed in the 1850 U.S. Census, East Bethlehem, Washington County, Pennsylvania.
		I believe the Margaret Dawson in the bible listing is Cuthbert's daughter (or niece?) Margaret Combs who married Thomas Dawson in Allegany County in 1820.
	www.combs-families.org /combs/bible/levi-dawson.htm (318 words)

	William Levi Dawson — Infoplease.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Dawson: Negro Folk Symphony; Ellington: Suite From the "River," "Solitude" (William Levi Dawson, Edward "Duke" Ellington, Ne…
		WILLIAM DAWSON, "THE NEW NEGRO," AND HIS FOLK IDIOM.
		Pure Resistance: Queer(y)ing Virginity in William Shakespeare's Measure for Measure and Margaret Cavendish's The Convent of Pleasure....
	www.infoplease.com /ipea/A0930416.html (290 words)

	Alabama Music Hall of Fame: William Levi Dawson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Born in Anniston, A1., in 1899, William Levi Dawson entered Tuskegee Institute at the age of 15 and completed his education there in 1921.
		Following studies at Horner Institute of Fine Arts, the American Conservatory of Music, and Eastman School of Music, Dawson performed with the Chicago Civic Symphony.
		Dawson is the 1989 Lifework Award for Non-Performing Achievement recipient.
	www.archives.state.al.us /famous/music/wdawson.html (118 words)

	Dawson Technical Institute, CHICAGO (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The William L. Dawson Technical Institute is a memorial in honor of William Levi Dawson, the late United States Representative from the First Congressional District in Illinois.
		During 28 years as a Congressman, his first duty was to Chicago and to the people who consistently chose him to represent their views in Washington, D.C. He was, however, a humanitarian who worked for progressive legislation to benefit the needy throughout the United States.
		After several years of successful law practice, be entered politics in 1928_ He became a Republican State Central Committeeman for the First Congressional District of Illinois the district he represented in the House of Representatives.
	kennedyking.ccc.edu /dawson/about_dawson.htm (547 words)

	Discography of Music by Black Composers
		William Grant Still: Symphony no. 2 (Song of a New Race); William Levi Dawson: Negro Folk Symphony; Duke Ellington: Harlem.
		Performed by the Tuskegee Institute Choir conducted by William L. Dawson.
		Banfield, William C. “Wagussyduke.” On: Extensions of the Tradition.
	www.cbmr.org /lib/records.htm (2516 words)

	Composers Official Site of Negro Spirituals, antique Gospel Music
		His father Rev. William D. Johnson gave him the opportunity to hear old slave songs.
		He acquired his musical training in several institutions, including the University of Pennsylvania and the Institute of Musical Art in New York.
		William L. Dawson directed also the Fisk University Choir.
	www.negrospirituals.com /composers.htm (982 words)

	Classics Today.com - Your Online Guide to Classical Music
		Excellently paired with William Levi Dawson's Negro Folk Symphony (another work that obfuscates strict categorization), this is a recording to treasure.
		Beginning with two ultra-exposed trumpet parts (played by Walter White and William Lucas), the Detroit players confidently swagger through the score: catch the blazing horns at 11:21 and again at Harlem's conclusion.
		For William Levi Dawson, Dvorak and Tchaikovsky were major influences.
	www.classicstoday.com /review.asp?ReviewNum=3656 (485 words)

	William Levi Dawson — FactMonster.com
		William Levi Dawson attended the Tuskegee Institute at age 13, and after graduating in 1921, went on to receive a B.A. at the Horner Institute of Fine Arts in Kansas City, Missouri (1925), and a Master's degree at the American Conservatory of Music in Chicago.
		In 1931, he created the School of Music at Tuskegee and became the conductor of the Tuskegee Choir.
		William Levi DAWSON - DAWSON, William Levi (1886—1970) DAWSON, William Levi, a Representative from Illinois; born...
	www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0930416.html (157 words)

	William Levi Dawson (politician) Encyclopedia Article @ FolkArtMuseum.com (Folk Art Museum) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		William Levi Dawson (politician) Encyclopedia Article @ FolkArtMuseum.com (Folk Art Museum)
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	www.folkartmuseum.com /encyclopedia/William_Levi_Dawson_%28politician%29 (86 words)

	African American Odyssey: The Depression, The New Deal, and World War II (Part 2)
		William Grant Still's Afro-American Symphony, written in 1930 and first performed in 1931, epitomizes the African American composer's right to be heard in the concert hall.
		It is one of several symphonies written by fl composers in the early 1930s, including the Florence Price E. Minor Symphony, the Negro Folk Symphony by William Levi Dawson, and the Harlem Symphony by James P. Johnson.
		The Library owns two manuscripts of the Afro-American Symphony: the original 1930 version and the second revision of the original (or the third version) done ca.
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart8b.html (1777 words)

	Definitions of Style - Black Secular and Sacred Folk Music
		The songs themselves could be slow and mournful or in a more rhythmic and up-tempo style also associated with the ring shout, a holy dance.
		A number of important composers, notably Harry T. Burleigh, R. Nathaniel Dett, William Levi Dawson, Margaret Bonds, Hall Johnson, and more recently Moses Hogan, have made arrangements of traditional spirituals that are sung in churches and concert halls.
		Allen, William Francis, Charles Pickard Ware, and Lucy McKim Garrison.
	www.cbmr.org /styles/secular.htm (575 words)

	iBerkshires / N. Berkshire Chorale tunes in to community -
		Dawson was one of the first composers to draw on the American spiritual as a source for choral works.
		Mary Jo Carpenter was, she said, one of “those who then found themselves with no place to sing.” Some, but not all, trekked up to Bennington, Vt. to sing with a group there.
		Auditions are Jan. 27; appointments may be made by calling Michelle Picard in the office of the Williams College music department, 597—2127.
	www.iberkshires.com /story.php?story_id=16550 (787 words)

	A King Celebration
		We'll celebrate his centennial year [born in 1900] with his stirring tribute to Abraham Lincoln, narrated by S. Epatha Merkerson.
		We'll also hear a couple of Dawson's celebrated spiritual arrangements performed by the Morehouse and Spelman glee clubs.
		A great crossover artist before the term was invented -- stride piano, dance music, symphonic idiom, of which we'll hear "Drums"
	www.npr.org /programs/specials/mlk2000/composers.html (282 words)

	Mixed Up Class Playlist, 8/25/1997 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		William Dawson, the African American composer and conductor is represented with his Negro Folk Symphony and two of his choral arrangements of spirituals in this program.
		Also, the anniversary of the birth of Leonard Bernstein (25 August 1918) is commemorated with works composed by him in each hour of this program.
		The representative work from the BBC Promenade Concerts is Kurt Weill's The Seven Deadly Sins, from this season's Prom 19 (August 3) concert.
	kzsu.stanford.edu /~romain/playlists/1997/970825p.html (109 words)

	William Levi Dawson - Classical music composer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		There Is A Balm In Gilead By William Dawson.
		King Jesus Is a-Listening Arranged by William L. Dawson.
		There Is A Balm In Gilead Ttbb By William Dawson.
	www.classical-composers.org /comp/dawson (914 words)

	Spirituals, Tuskegee Institute Choir CD
		Known and revered the world over, William Levi Dawson was one of the greatest contributors to the art of American choral music.
		Deeply rooted in the flowering era of the American a cappella choir and African-American folk traditions, William Dawson fashioned the most widely performed selection of such original American choral music, the Tuskegee Choir Series, now published by the Neil A. Kjos Music Company.
		Music with an edition number is available in print from Kjos.
	www.kjos.com /choral/dawson_spirituals_sounds.htm (111 words)

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