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Soundings; Walter Robinson and His Music

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Walter Robinson and His Music


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Series
Soundings
Program
Walter Robinson and His Music
Series Description

Four performance documentaries featuring award-winning composers. Each program features the composer working with musicians in rehearsal and in studio performances of several works, so that the viewer watches the process as the creative team moves toward a product. Series release date: 1986

Program Description

Documentary containing interview footage with the composer and narrated overview of his life and music. Includes footage from committee meeting with the members of the W. E. B. DuBois Fellows--Harvard. Also includes performances of his music specifically recorded for this program, compositions which relate to African American history.

Asset Type

Broadcast program

Media Type

Video

Subjects
Music
Documentaries and factual works
Interviews
Harvard University. W.E.B. Du Bois Fellows
Composers
Genres
Documentary
Performance in a Studio
Topics
Music
Contributors
Robinson, Walter ()
Jones, Vernon ()
Taylor, Howard ()
Carroll, Margo ()
Elliott, Bill ()
Hewitt, Donna ()
Citation
Chicago: “Soundings; Walter Robinson and His Music,” GBH Archives, accessed December 22, 2024, http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_DC5887E0639A41819F57A3DD4D739150.
MLA: “Soundings; Walter Robinson and His Music.” GBH Archives. Web. December 22, 2024. <http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_DC5887E0639A41819F57A3DD4D739150>.
APA: Soundings; Walter Robinson and His Music. Boston, MA: GBH Archives. Retrieved from http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_DC5887E0639A41819F57A3DD4D739150
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