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National Conservatory of Music of America

Addresses

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1905: East 17th Street, Manhattan

African American students

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At Dvořák's prodding, enrollment of African American students at the conservatory grew to well over one hundred fifty among the 600-plus students enrolled.[1]


Music schools that accepted African Americans in the 19th century

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National Conservatory of Music of America – the American School of Opera was a division
  • Shepard Nathaniel Edmonds (1876– ), founder The Attucks Music Publishing Company in 1903 with money he earned from his song, "I'm Goin' to Live Anyhow, Till I Die"
  • Sidney Leonard Perrin (1886– ), songwriter and minstrel show performer
  • John Rosamond Johnson (1873–1954)
  • Leader Hoffman, choral director
  • Henry Thacker Burleigh (1866–1949), Dvořák's assistant at the conservatory
  • Wendell Phillips Dabney (1865–1952)
  • James Tim Brymn (1881–1946)
  • Maurice Arnold Strothotte (1865–1937)
  • Paul Clarence Bolin (1869–1946), music educator and organist
  • Addie J. Lewis (1879–1901), studied piano, music teacher
  • Melville Charlton (1880–1973), organist, studied with Charles Otto Heinroth (1874–1963)[2]
  • Alice Randolph Jackson, studied piano with Jeannette Thurber and Ignace Paderewski, became an acclaimed dancer
  • Will Marion Cook (1869–1944)
Washington Conservatory of Music
Mando Mozart National Conservatory of Music
(founded September 2, 1912, by John T. Douglass; extended by Albert F. Mando)
Oberlin Conservatory of Music
New England Conservatory

Music schools that accepted African Americans in the early 20th century

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New York

General stuff

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Wayne Douglas Shirley (born 1936), from about 1965 to about 2000, worked at the Library of Congress. He began as a reference librarian, then music specialist in the Music Division. Shirley was also the founding editor of the Journal of the Society for American Music. (OCLC 4779683717)

References

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  1. ^ "African-American Influences," Dvořák American Heritage Assocation, n.d. (retrieved February 7, 2020)
  2. ^ Melville Charlton collection, 1915–1973 at Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division at the New York Public Library; OCLC 144652231
  3. ^ Biographical Dictionary of Afro-American and African Musicians, by Eileen Jackson Southern (1920–2002), Greenwood Press (1982); OCLC 902119012