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The HistoryMakers video oral history with Willie L. Brown, Jr
Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Willie L. Brown, Jr.
Publication
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Physical Description
1 online resource (7 video files (3 hr., 8 min., 30 sec.)) : sound, color.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
Access and use
Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
Opera singer Willie Brown, Jr. was born on August 17, 1930, in New Orleans, Louisiana. He received his B. A. degree in music education from Xavier University in 1957; his M. A. degree in musical performance from Governors State University in Illinois; and his Ph.D. degree in music from Faith College in Birmingham, Alabama. His college education was interrupted when he was drafted into the United States Army. His sang his first solo, Heaven's Radio, in kindergarten. In the early 1960s, Brown was a guest soloist on NBC television's Dave Garraway Show. Brown performed with the McLin Opera Company and the Light Opera Company. He performed more than two thousand times as the only African American professional with Chicago's Lyric Opera Company. His musical repertoire included operatic arias in Italian, French and German and oratorio arias in Latin. Brown passed away on February 7, 2014 at age 83.
Variant and related titles
History Makers video oral history with Willie L. Brown, Jr.
Willie L. Brown, Jr.
HistoryMakers. OCLC KB.
Format
Images / Online / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 04, 2021
Credits
Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
Performers
Larry Crowe, interviewer.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Internet videos.
Interviews.
Nonfiction films.
Oral histories.
Oral histories.
Internet videos.
Nonfiction films.
Also listed under
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
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