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53 relations: Aeolian Hall (Manhattan), African Americans, African-American musical theater, Arlington National Cemetery, Arrangement, Bandleader, Benny Goodman, Blue note, Blues, Boston, Carnegie Hall, Clef Club, Colored Music Settlement School, Composer, Cover version, Dixieland, Eubie Blake, Foxtrot, George Gershwin, Gunther Schuller, Harry Burleigh, Jazz, John Philip Sousa, Lieutenant, Martin Luther King Jr., Mary Europe, Massachusetts, Mechanics Hall (Boston, Massachusetts), Military band, Mobile, Alabama, New York Army National Guard, Noble Sissle, Officer (armed forces), Original Dixieland Jass Band, Pathé, Pathé Records, Paul Whiteman, Phonograph record, Ragtime, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Shuffle Along, Spiritual (music), Symphony, The Frogs (club), The Memphis Blues, The Stars and Stripes Forever, Vernon and Irene Castle, Victor Herbert, Victor Talking Machine Company, W. C. Handy, ..., Washington, D.C., Will Marion Cook, 369th Infantry Regiment (United States). Expand index (3 more) »
Aeolian Hall (Manhattan)
Aeolian Hall was a concert hall in midtown Manhattan in New York City, located on the third floor of 29-33 West 42nd Street (also 34 West 43rd Street, from the other side) across the street from Bryant Park.
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African Americans
African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group of Americans with total or partial ancestry from any of the black racial groups of Africa.
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African-American musical theater
African-American musical theater relates to the historic musical theater of the African American community, particularly prominent in New York City during the first half of the 20th Century.
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Arlington National Cemetery
Arlington National Cemetery is a United States military cemetery in Arlington County, Virginia, across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C., in whose the dead of the nation's conflicts have been buried, beginning with the Civil War, as well as reinterred dead from earlier wars.
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Arrangement
In music, an arrangement is a musical reconceptualization of a previously composed work.
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Bandleader
A bandleader is the leader of a music group such as a rock or pop group or jazz quartet.
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Benny Goodman
Benjamin David "Benny" Goodman (May 30, 1909 – June 13, 1986) was an American jazz clarinetist and bandleader known as the "King of Swing".
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Blue note
In jazz and blues, a blue note (also "worried" note) is a note that—for expressive purposes—is sung or played at a slightly different pitch than standard.
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Blues
Blues is a music genre and musical form originated by African Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the end of the 19th century.
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Boston
Boston is the capital city and most populous municipality of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.
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Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall (but more commonly) is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, United States, located at 881 Seventh Avenue, occupying the east side of Seventh Avenue between West 56th Street and West 57th Street, two blocks south of Central Park.
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Clef Club
The Clef Club was a popular entertainment venue and society for African-American musicians in Harlem, achieving its largest success in the 1910s.
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Colored Music Settlement School
The Colored Musical Settlement School, also known as Colored Musical School Settlement for Colored People in the City of New York, Inc. was a New York City school established and operated to provide music education for African-American children, who were generally excluded from other music schools.
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Composer
A composer (Latin ''compōnō''; literally "one who puts together") is a musician who is an author of music in any form, including vocal music (for a singer or choir), instrumental music, electronic music, and music which combines multiple forms.
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Cover version
In popular music, a cover version, cover song, or simply cover, is a new performance or recording by someone other than the original artist or composer of a previously recorded, commercially released song.
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Dixieland
Dixieland, sometimes referred to as hot jazz or traditional jazz, is a style of jazz based on the music that developed in New Orleans at the start of the 20th century.
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Eubie Blake
James Hubert Blake (February 7, 1887February 12, 1983), known as Eubie Blake, was an American composer, lyricist, and pianist of ragtime, jazz, and popular music.
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Foxtrot
The foxtrot is a smooth, progressive dance characterized by long, continuous flowing movements across the dance floor.
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George Gershwin
George Jacob Gershwin (September 26, 1898 July 11, 1937) was an American composer and pianist.
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Gunther Schuller
Gunther Alexander Schuller (November 22, 1925June 21, 2015) was an American composer, conductor, horn player, author, historian and jazz musician.
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Harry Burleigh
Henry Thacker "Harry" Burleigh (December 2, 1866 – September 12, 1949), was an African-American classical composer, arranger, and professional singer known for his baritone voice.
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Jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime.
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John Philip Sousa
John Philip Sousa (November 6, 1854 – March 6, 1932) was an American composer and conductor of the late Romantic era, known primarily for American military and patriotic marches.
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Lieutenant
A lieutenant (abbreviated Lt, LT, Lieut and similar) is a junior commissioned officer in the armed forces, fire services, police and other organizations of many nations.
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Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the civil rights movement from 1954 until his death in 1968.
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Mary Europe
Mary Loraine Europe was an African-American pianist, organist and music educator, who rose to prominence musically during the early 1900s as a performer with the Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Choral Society.
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Massachusetts
Massachusetts, officially known as the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is the most populous state in the New England region of the northeastern United States.
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Mechanics Hall (Boston, Massachusetts)
Mechanics Hall (Boston, Massachusetts) was a building and community institution on Huntington Avenue at West Newton Street, from 1881 to 1959.
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Military band
A military band is a group of personnel that performs musical duties for military functions, usually for the armed forces.
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Mobile, Alabama
Mobile is the county seat of Mobile County, Alabama, United States.
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New York Army National Guard
The New York Army National Guard is a component of the New York National Guard and the Army National Guard.
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Noble Sissle
Noble Lee Sissle (July 10, 1889 – December 17, 1975) was an African-American jazz composer, lyricist, bandleader, singer, and playwright, best known for the Broadway musical Shuffle Along (1921), and its hit song I'm Just Wild About Harry.
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Officer (armed forces)
An officer is a member of an armed force or uniformed service who holds a position of authority.
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Original Dixieland Jass Band
The Original Dixieland Jass Band (ODJB) was a Dixieland jazz band that made the first jazz recordings in early 1917.
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Pathé
Pathé or Pathé Frères (styled as PATHÉ!) is the name of various French businesses that were founded and originally run by the Pathé Brothers of France starting in 1896.
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Pathé Records
Pathé Records was a France-based international record company and label and producer of phonographs, active from the 1890s through the 1930s.
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Paul Whiteman
Paul Samuel Whiteman (March 28, 1890 – December 29, 1967) was an American bandleader, composer, orchestral director, and violinist.
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Phonograph record
A phonograph record (also known as a gramophone record, especially in British English, or record) is an analog sound storage medium in the form of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove.
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Ragtime
Ragtime – also spelled rag-time or rag time – is a musical style that enjoyed its peak popularity between 1895 and 1918.
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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor (15 August 18751 September 1912) was an English composer and conductor who was mixed-race; his father was a Sierra Leone Creole physician.
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Shuffle Along
Shuffle Along is a musical with music and lyrics by Noble Sissle and Eubie Blake, and a thin revue-style connecting plot about a mayoral race, written by Flournoy Miller and Aubrey Lyles.
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Spiritual (music)
Spirituals (or Negro spirituals) are generally Christian songs that were created by African Americans.
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Symphony
A symphony is an extended musical composition in Western classical music, most often written by composers for orchestra.
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The Frogs (club)
The Frogs was a charitable organization for African Americans designed and influenced by The American Actors Beneficial Association.
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The Memphis Blues
"The Memphis Blues" is a song described by its composer, W. C. Handy, as a "southern rag".
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The Stars and Stripes Forever
"The Stars and Stripes Forever" is a patriotic American march widely considered to be the magnum opus of composer John Philip Sousa.
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Vernon and Irene Castle
Vernon and Irene Castle were a husband-and-wife team of ballroom dancers and dance teachers who appeared on Broadway and in silent films early in the early 20th century.
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Victor Herbert
Victor August Herbert (February 1, 1859 – May 26, 1924) was an Irish-born, German-raised American composer, cellist and conductor.
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Victor Talking Machine Company
The Victor Talking Machine Company was an American record company and phonograph manufacturer headquartered in Camden, New Jersey.
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W. C. Handy
William Christopher Handy (November 16, 1873 – March 28, 1958) was a composer and musician, known as the Father of the Blues.
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Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington or D.C., is the capital of the United States of America.
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Will Marion Cook
William Mercer Cook (January 27, 1869 – July 19, 1944), better known as Will Marion Cook, was an African-American composer and violinist from the United States.
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369th Infantry Regiment (United States)
The 369th Infantry Regiment, formerly known as the 15th New York National Guard Regiment, was an infantry regiment of the New York Army National Guard during World War I and World War II.
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