Scurlock, George H. (Hardison), 1919-2005 Search this
Extent:
1 Item
Container:
Box 77
Culture:
African Americans -- Washington (D.C.) Search this
Type:
Archival materials
Photographs
Place:
Washington (D.C.) -- African Americans
Date:
March 1957
Scope and Contents:
No ink on negative. Langston Hughes after a lecture at Howard University. Second from the right is Sterling Brown, poet and head of the English Department at Howard University. "Kodak -- Safety Film" edge imprint. No Scurlock number.
Subseries Restrictions:
Collection is open for research.
Gloves must be worn when handling unprotected photographs and negatives. Special arrangements required to view negatives due to cold storage. Using negatives requires a three hour waiting period. Contact the Archives Center at 202-633-3270.
Subseries Rights:
When the Museum purchased the collection from the Estate of Robert S. Scurlock, it obtained all rights, including copyright. The earliest photographs in the collection are in the public domain because their term of copyright has expired. The Archives Center will control copyright and the use of the collection for reproduction purposes, which will be handled in accordance with its standard reproduction policy guidelines. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
Photographs -- Black-and-white negatives -- Acetate film
Subseries Citation:
Scurlock Studio Records, Archives Center, National Museum of American History. Smithsonian Institution
Sponsor:
The collection was acquired with assistance from the Eugene Meyer Foundation. Elihu and Susan Rose and the Save America's Treasures program, provided funds to stabilize, organize, store, and create digital surrogates of some of the negatives. Processing and encoding funded by a grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources.
In memoriam is contained in one folder consisting of 1 forty three page piano vocal score in Bb Major concert -- in photocopy -- in unidentified hand.
Piano vocal score for a multi-sectional work. Lyrics for "Miss Blues'es child" begin "If the blues would let me, Lord knows I would smile ...". Lyrics for "Baby, oh baby" begin "Baby, oh baby; the years run swiftly by ...". Lyrics for "Requiem and kyrie" begin "Requiem, aeternam ...". Lyrics for "Take me, death" begin "Take me, death, away from Earth ...". Lyrics for "Sleep now" begin "Sleep now, o sleep now, o you unquiet heart ...". -- from the Duke Ellington Library.
General:
Piece is dedicated to the memory of Philip Ball. Handwriting and other details have been reported based on the notes of David Berger, Andrew Homzy, Dr. Theodore Hudson, Walter van de Leur, and Dr. Mark Tucker.
Condition: fair.
Other Title:
Miss Blues'es child.
Baby, oh baby.
Requiem and kyrie.
Take me, death.
Sleep now.
Collection Restrictions:
Collection is open for research but the original and master audiovisual materials are stored off-site and special arrangements must be made to work with it. Contact the Archives Center for information at archivescenter@si.edu or 202-633-3270.
Collection Rights:
Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
Copyright restrictions. Consult the Archives Center at archivescenter@si.edu or 202-633-3270.
Paul Ellington, executor, is represented by:
Richard J.J. Scarola, Scarola Ellis LLP, 888 Seventh Avenue, 45th Floor, New York, New York 10106. Telephone (212) 757-0007 x 235; Fax (212) 757-0469; email: rjjs@selaw.com; www.selaw.com; www.ourlawfirm.com.
The heart of Harlem is contained in one folder consisting of 1 lyric sheet, 1 lead sheet in f minor concert, and 1 two-page piano vocal score in c minor concert -- in ink -- in unidentified hand (Whaley?).
Lyric sheet begins "The buildings in Harlem are brick and stone ...". Lead sheet for voice. Lyrics begin as above. Piano vocal score lyrics begin "It's a song with a minor refrain ...". -- from the Duke Ellington Library.
Biographical / Historical:
There appears to be a number from the Duke Ellington Band Book: 85.
General:
Handwriting and other details have been reported based on the notes of David Berger, Andrew Homzy, Dr. Theodore Hudson, Walter van de Leur, and Dr. Mark Tucker.
Collection Restrictions:
Collection is open for research but the original and master audiovisual materials are stored off-site and special arrangements must be made to work with it. Contact the Archives Center for information at archivescenter@si.edu or 202-633-3270.
Collection Rights:
Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
Copyright restrictions. Consult the Archives Center at archivescenter@si.edu or 202-633-3270.
Paul Ellington, executor, is represented by:
Richard J.J. Scarola, Scarola Ellis LLP, 888 Seventh Avenue, 45th Floor, New York, New York 10106. Telephone (212) 757-0007 x 235; Fax (212) 757-0469; email: rjjs@selaw.com; www.selaw.com; www.ourlawfirm.com.
Topic:
Music -- United States -- 20th century Search this
Genre/Form:
Copy scores
Lead sheet
Piano vocal scores
Manuscripts -- Music -- 20th century
Collection Citation:
Duke Ellington Collection, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Sponsor:
Processing and encoding partially funded by a grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources.
Note: this record duplicates part of the complete record for this composition.
Local Numbers:
AC0301-0000003.tif (AC Scan No., first page)
Collection Restrictions:
Collection is open for research but the original and master audiovisual materials are stored off-site and special arrangements must be made to work with it. Contact the Archives Center for information at archivescenter@si.edu or 202-633-3270.
Collection Rights:
Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.
Copyright restrictions. Consult the Archives Center at archivescenter@si.edu or 202-633-3270.
Paul Ellington, executor, is represented by:
Richard J.J. Scarola, Scarola Ellis LLP, 888 Seventh Avenue, 45th Floor, New York, New York 10106. Telephone (212) 757-0007 x 235; Fax (212) 757-0469; email: rjjs@selaw.com; www.selaw.com; www.ourlawfirm.com.
Genre/Form:
Manuscripts -- Music -- 20th century
Holographs
Collection Citation:
Duke Ellington Collection, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
Sponsor:
Processing and encoding partially funded by a grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources.
For children: natural and manmade sounds depicting "the fundamental rhythms of the world in every aspect of life" with narration, based on "The first book of rhythms" by Langston Hughes. "Descriptive notes are inside pocket"--Container.
Restrictions:
Restrictions on access. No duplication allowed listening and viewing for research purposes only.
Collection Rights:
Copyright restrictions apply. Contact archives staff for additional information.
Documentary, narrated by the author. Includes the voices of Ralph Bunche and Mary McLeod Bethune. With incidental Negro music dubbed from recordings issued by Folkways Records. Script, with bibliography ([12] p.) laid in container.
Restrictions:
Restrictions on access. No duplication allowed listening and viewing for research purposes only.
Collection Rights:
Copyright restrictions apply. Contact archives staff for additional information.
Blues montage (parts I, II & III) / Hughes. Opening blues ; Blues montage ; Commercial theatre ; Morning after ; Could be / Feather (3:10 ; 6:50 ; 7:41) --Testament / Hughes, Feather (5:45) --Consider me / Hughes. The Stranger ; Midnight stroll ; Backstage / Mingus (3:19) --Dream montage / Hughes. Weird nightmare ; Double G train ; Jump monk / Mingus (16:35).
Local Numbers:
FW-ASCH-LP-3849
MGM.3697
Publication, Distribution, Etc. (Imprint):
MGM 1958
General:
Poetry reading to jazz and blues background. Program notes and durations on container. Performer(s): Langston Hughes reads poems to blues and jazz music performed by Red Allen, Vic Dickenson, Sam (The Man) Taylor, Al Williams, Milt Hinton, Osie Johnson, and the Horace Parlan Quintet. Production notes: "The thirty-three Langston Hughes poems read by him on this LP were recorded in New York City March 17 and 18, 1958"--Container.
Restrictions:
Restrictions on access. No duplication allowed listening and viewing for research purposes only.
Collection Rights:
Copyright restrictions apply. Contact archives staff for additional information.
A short and incomplete spoken word snippet that reads: "'Yes Maam,' I said, because I owed her a half a weeks rent and I didn't want to argue right them, though I was mad." From "Landladies" by Langston Hughes.
Restrictions:
Restrictions on access. No duplication allowed listening and viewing for research purposes only.
Collection Rights:
Copyright restrictions apply. Contact archives staff for additional information.
Collection Citation:
Moses and Frances Asch Collection, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, Smithsonian Institution.
Negro speaks of rivers -- Mother to son -- Ma Lord -- I, too, sing America -- To Captain Mulzac -- Porter -- Brass spitoons -- Ku Klux Klan -- Merry-go-round -- Florida road workers -- Good morning Stalingrad -- Harlem sweeties -- Sylvester's dying bed -- Wake -- Little lyric -- The weary blues -- Too blue -- Could be blues -- Late last night -- Little songs -- Silence of burden -- The breath of a rose -- Prayer -- Border line in time of silver rain -- Still here -- Ballad of the landlord -- Big buddy -- Note on commercial theatre.
Local Numbers:
FW-ASCH-78-0317
Asch.454
Publication, Distribution, Etc. (Imprint):
New York Asch
Restrictions:
Restrictions on access. No duplication allowed listening and viewing for research purposes only.
Collection Rights:
Copyright restrictions apply. Contact archives staff for additional information.
Collection Citation:
Moses and Frances Asch Collection, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, Smithsonian Institution.
Storm--African drums--Oh freedom--Steal away--Swing low sweeet chariot--Oh freedom--Let my people go--John Brown's body--I'm not rough--John Brown instrumental--Organ grinder's swing--Oh freedom
Local Numbers:
FW-ASCH-10RR-3566
General:
CDR copy
Restrictions:
Restrictions on access. No duplication allowed listening and viewing for research purposes only.
Collection Rights:
Copyright restrictions apply. Contact archives staff for additional information.
Collection Citation:
Moses and Frances Asch Collection, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, Smithsonian Institution.
