Research Catalog

Title

Clarence Cameron White papers, 1901-1940.

Author

White, Clarence Cameron, 1880-1960.

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White, Clarence Cameron, 1880-1960.

Description

• 5.2 lin. ft.
• l0 microfilm reels.

Summary

Musical scores, compositions, and librettos, including White's opera "Ouanga," and an earlier version entitled "Cocomacaque;" and correspondence, biographical information, writings, contracts, financial records, programs, sheet music, press releases, newspaper clippings, and printed material relating to the first thirty years of White's career. Included are letters to his wife, Beatrice Louise (Warrick) White, and from her father, Thomas Warrick. Correspondents include family, friends, and business associates, his mother, Jennie White Connor, Amanda Ira Aldridge, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, James Weldon Johnson, George Foster Peabody, A.W. Reid Taylor, Myra Reynolds Richards, Ona Talbot, and Henry O. Tanner.

Subjects

• White, Clarence Cameron, 1880-1960
• African American teachers
• African American musicians
• African American composers
• African Americans in the performing arts
• Warrick, Thomas
• African Americans > Families
• Aldridge, Amanda Ira, 1866-1956
• Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel, 1875-1912
• White, Clarence Cameron, 1880-1960 > Ouanga
• Opera > United States
• Richards, Myra Reynolds
• Scores
• Peabody, George Foster, 1852-1938
• Sheet music
• Taylor, A. W. Reid
• Talbot, Ona
• White, Beatrice Louise Warrick
• African Americans > Music
• Tanner, Henry Ossawa, 1859-1937
• Johnson, James Weldon, 1871-1938
• Connor, Jennie White

Genre/Form

• Sheet music.
• Scores.

Note

• Photographs transferred to Photographs and Prints Division.
• Art work transferred to Art and Artifacts Division.
• Sc MG 27

Access (note)

• Researchers are restricted to microfilm copy.

Source (note)

• Luber, Anna

Biography (note)

• Clarence Cameron White was a composer, violinist, educator and author. He studied music at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and in London, England. He also studied with Will Marion Cook and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, who is credited with inspiring him to become a composer. White frequently used folk music as a source for his compositions. He collaborated with John F. Matheus, a professor of Romance languages (librettist), on two works, "Tambour" and the opera "Ouanga," which was based on the life of Jean-Jacques Dessalines, one of the slave leaders of the Haitian Revolution. White's other major works include the ballet score for "A Night in San Souci," the orchestral work "Elegy," "Symphony in D Minor," a cantata "Heritage," and "Bandanna Sketches," composed for the violin. He also wrote "Dance Rhapsody," "Pantomime," and "Poeme: For Orchestra."

Processing Action (note)

• Surveyed
• Processed
• Cataloging updated

Call Number

Sc Micro R-2474

OCLC

NYPW89-A229

Author

White, Clarence Cameron, 1880-1960.

Title

Clarence Cameron White papers, 1901-1940.

Access

Researchers are restricted to microfilm copy.

Biography

Clarence Cameron White was a composer, violinist, educator and author. He studied music at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music and in London, England. He also studied with Will Marion Cook and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, who is credited with inspiring him to become a composer. White frequently used folk music as a source for his compositions. He collaborated with John F. Matheus, a professor of Romance languages (librettist), on two works, "Tambour" and the opera "Ouanga," which was based on the life of Jean-Jacques Dessalines, one of the slave leaders of the Haitian Revolution. White's other major works include the ballet score for "A Night in San Souci," the orchestral work "Elegy," "Symphony in D Minor," a cantata "Heritage," and "Bandanna Sketches," composed for the violin. He also wrote "Dance Rhapsody," "Pantomime," and "Poeme: For Orchestra."

White's teaching career spanned the Boston public school system (1912-1923), his directorship of music at West Virginia State College (1924-1931), and Hampton Institute in Hampton, Virginia, where as director of music he conducted the Hampton Institute Choir from 1933 to 1935.

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White, Clarence Cameron, 1880-1960.

LCCN

ms 79001893

Research Call Number

Sc Micro R-2474