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Size | 15 items |
Abstract | The collection of white pianist and publisher Robert Silverman contains sound recordings of piano music on open-reel audio tape, a 1987 interview of Silverman by folklorist Amy Davis on audio cassette tape with accompanying notes made by Davis, a 1984/1985 issue of Silverman's publication, and black-and-white photographs taken in North Carolina and dated 1947. Music recordings include Silverman's composition for the Joffrey Ballet's 1948. In the interview, Silverman discusses a 1947 trip to the South including North Carolina and Tennessee and the tobacco worker strike in Winston-Salem, N.C., that year, a folk festival in Asheville, N.C., poverty in the mountains, Tennessee Valley Authority dams, and sharecroppers in Alabama. Acquired as part of the Southern Folklife Collection. |
Creator | Silverman, Robert Joseph, 1925- |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Folklife Collection. |
Language | English |
This summary description was created in January 2019 to provide information about unprocessed materials in Wilson Special Collections Library.
Encoded by: Laura Smith
Updated by: Jodi Berkowitz, April 2019
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Back to TopPianist and composer Robert Joseph Silverman (1925-) of Wilmington, Vt., was editor and publisher of from 1972 to 1992. He studied at Cornell University and Juilliard School of Music and composed music for the Joffrey Ballet's 1948 and for modern dance choreographer Donald McKayle.
Back to TopThe collection of white pianist and publisher Robert Silverman contains sound recordings of piano music on open-reel audio tape, a 1987 interview of Silverman by folklorist Amy Davis on audio cassette tape with accompanying notes made by Davis, a 1984/1985 issue of Silverman's publication, and black-and-white photographs taken in North Carolina and dated 1947. Music recordings include Silverman's composition for the Joffrey Ballet's 1948. In the interview, Silverman discusses a 1947 trip to the South including North Carolina and Tennessee and the tobacco worker strike in Winston-Salem, N.C., that year, a folk festival in Asheville, N.C., poverty in the mountains, Tennessee Valley Authority dams, and sharecroppers in Alabama.
Back to TopFolder 1 |
The Piano Quarterly, Winter 1984-1985 |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20311/1 |
Robert Silverman, interview, 1987: tape 1 of 2Audiocassette Robert Silverman interviewed by Amy Davis at his home in Wilmington, Vt., tape 1 of 2 |
SFC Audio Cassette FS-20311/2 |
Robert Silverman, interview, 1987: tape 2 of 2Audiocassette Robert Silverman interviewed by Amy Davis at his home in Wilmington, Vt., tape 2 of 2 |
SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20311/1 |
Toscanini Aida, undated1/4" Open Reel Audio 7.5" reel |
SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20311/2 |
Piano Quarterly, undated1/4" Open Reel Audio 7.5" reel |
SFC Audio Open Reel FT-20311/3 |
Persephone and Born Mass, 19891/4" Open Reel Audio 7.5" reel |
Image Folder PF-20311/1 |
Photographs, 1947 |