Allen Tanner writes a brief autobiography for the liner notes of his 1967 album Allen Tanner Plays Bach, Debussy, Scriabin, Granados, Rachmaninoff, Liszt, and Steinert.
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1967
Location: MC 2013.13 B4, F39
Subject: Visual and Performing Arts
Format: Essays and Dissertations
Time Period: 1960-1979
1967
This postcard is an advertisement for Allen Tanner's 1967 album Allen Tanner Plays Bach, Debussy, Scriabin, Granados, Rachmaninoff, Steinert.
Location: MC 2013.3, B4, F56
Subject: Visual and Performing Arts
Format: Memorabilia and Ephemera
Time Period: 1960-1979
1974
Catalog for "Leonard Baskin in Massachusetts," an exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts in Springfield, Massachusetts. Baskin received the Dickinson College Arts Award in 1963.
Location: I-Friends-1979-1
Subject: Visual and Performing Arts
Format: Books and Pamphlets
Time Period: 1960-1979
April 1974
The Dickinson Women's Newsletter is produced by the Advisory and Planning Committee on Women's Programs.
Selected highlights from this issue include:
- "Having Options as a Women: H. O. W?," by Pamelee McFarland.
- ...
Location: RG 5/99, S11, B8, F36
Subject: Dickinson College Organizations, Dickinson College Student Life, Education, Health and Medicine, Social Reform and Advocacy, Visual and Performing Arts
Format: Newspapers and Magazines
Time Period: 1960-1979
April 6-13, 1975
The 5th Annual Black Arts Festival is presented by Dickinson College's Congress of African Students. The program for this festival highlights its theme, "the Black Light of Truth,” as the schedule includes a film screening of Claudine, speeches from prominent figures in the African-...
Location: RG 8/93, B1, F2
Subject: Dickinson College Organizations, Dickinson College Student Life, Education, Social Reform and Advocacy, Visual and Performing Arts
Format: Memorabilia and Ephemera
Time Period: 1960-1979
April 8, 1975
In this letter to Dick Fletcher, Allen Tanner writes about opera singer Mary Garden for a biography project. He describes meeting Garden in Chicago after watching her perform in "Pelleas" around 1916-1917.
Location: MC 2013.3, B1, F31
Subject: Visual and Performing Arts
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1960-1979
March 9, 1976
This program is for “360° of Blackness,” a performance event by members of Dickinson College's Congress of African Students and members of the community, as part of the Sixth Annual Black Arts Festival.
Location: RG 8/93, B1, F2
Subject: Dickinson College Organizations, Dickinson College Student Life, Education, Social Reform and Advocacy, Visual and Performing Arts
Format: Memorabilia and Ephemera
Time Period: 1960-1979
June 13, 1976
In this letter to Janet Figler, mother of donor Liz Hamill Howard, Allen Tanner writes that he no longer gives piano lessons due to ongoing health problems. He also offers musical training advice for Hamill Howard.
Location: MC 2013.3, B1, F28
Subject: Personal and Family Life, Visual and Performing Arts
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1960-1979
July 25, 1977
In this letter to Liz Hamill Howard, Allen Tanner describes where he purchased an Alexander Scriabin album, and offers advice to Hamilll Howard on her piano playing technique.
Location: MC 2013.3, B1, F47
Subject: Personal and Family Life, Visual and Performing Arts
Format: Letters/Correspondence
Time Period: 1960-1979
March 4-10, 1984
The 1984 Annual Black Arts Festival is presented by Dickinson College's Congress of African Students. The program for this festival highlights its theme, "Reflections on a Culture,” as the schedule includes numerous lectures and performance from prominent members of the African-American...
Location: RG 8/93, B1, F5
Subject: Dickinson College Organizations, Dickinson College Student Life, Social Reform and Advocacy, Visual and Performing Arts
Format: Memorabilia and Ephemera
Time Period: 1980-1999
March 3-9, 1985
The 1985 Annual Black Arts Festival is presented by Dickinson College's Congress of African Students. The program for this festival highlights its theme, "A Cultural Celebration,” as the schedule includes numerous lectures and performance from prominent members of the African-American community...
Location: RG 8/93, B1, F5
Subject: Dickinson College Organizations, Dickinson College Student Life, Social Reform and Advocacy, Visual and Performing Arts
Format: Memorabilia and Ephemera
Time Period: 1980-1999
March 8, 1985
A program for a the Tony Award winning musical Ain’t Misbehavin’, which is performed in Mathers Theatre as part of the 1985 Black Arts Festival.
Location: RG 8/93, B1, F6
Subject: Dickinson College Organizations, Dickinson College Student Life, Education, Visual and Performing Arts
Format: Memorabilia and Ephemera
Time Period: 1980-1999
March 3- April 10, 1986
The 18th Annual Black Artists Festival program highlights the three artists - Willie Birch, Vincent Smith, and Gilberto Wilson - whose work is on display in the Emil R. Weiss Center of the Arts as part of the “Black Artists Living in the Mid-Atlantic States” exhibition. These artists' are...
Location: RG 8/93, B1, F6
Subject: Dickinson College Organizations, Dickinson College Student Life, Education, Social Reform and Advocacy, Visual and Performing Arts
Format: Memorabilia and Ephemera
Time Period: 1980-1999
March 3-March 9, 1986
This brochure outlines the schedule for the Dickinson College's Congress of African Students' 18th Black Arts Festival. Events include lectures and workshops by three artists, a jazz ensemble, a disc jockey show, and a “program of gospel music.”
Location: RG 8/93, B1, F6
Subject: Dickinson College Events, Dickinson College Organizations, Dickinson College Student Life, Education, Social Reform and Advocacy, Visual and Performing Arts
Format: Memorabilia and Ephemera
Time Period: 1980-1999
March 5-March 8, 1987
This brochure outlines the schedule for the Dickinson College's Congress of African Students' 19th Black Arts Festival. Events include a comedy show, a film festival, a production of the musical One Mo’ Time, and a Catholic mass.
Location: RG 8/93, B1, F6
Subject: Dickinson College Organizations, Dickinson College Student Life, Education, Social Reform and Advocacy, Visual and Performing Arts
Format: Memorabilia and Ephemera
Time Period: 1980-1999
March 17, 1987
The cover of a keepsake book produced for "Form and Content: The Art of the Book in the Pioneer Valley," an exhibition at the Northampton Center for the Arts including works by Weiss Prize recipient Leonard Baskin.
Location: I-Friends-1987-1
Subject: Visual and Performing Arts
Format: Books and Pamphlets
Time Period: 1980-1999
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This newspaper clipping is about French opera singer Georgette LeBlanc.
Location: MC 2013.3, B5, F23
Subject: Visual and Performing Arts
Format: Newspapers and Magazines
Time Period:
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In this brief essay draft, Allen Tanner describes the ballet "Ode," which Pavel Tchelitchew designed the sets for. Transcript included.
Location: MC 2013.3, B4, F44
Subject: Visual and Performing Arts
Format: Essays and Dissertations
Time Period:
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This news clipping describes a piano recital by Allen Tanner at the home of Signor Gianni Parente.
Location: MC 2013.3, B5, F23
Subject: Visual and Performing Arts
Format: Newspapers and Magazines
Time Period:
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In this draft essay, Allen Tanner writes about piano technique.
Location: MC 2013.3, B4, F32
Subject: Visual and Performing Arts
Format: Essays and Dissertations
Time Period:
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In this essay draft, Allen Tanner writes about growing up in a musical family in rural Illinois, and his disappointment regarding Edith Sitwell's depiction of Pavel Tchelitchew in her autobiography. Transcript included.
Location: MC 2013.3, B4, F40
Subject: Personal and Family Life, Visual and Performing Arts
Format: Essays and Dissertations
Time Period:
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This news clipping describes a performance by Chicago pianist Wanda Paul of Polish composer Karol Szymanowski's symphony. Allen Tanner is listed as a close friend of Szymanowski.
Location: MC 2013.3, B5, F23
Subject: Visual and Performing Arts
Format: Newspapers and Magazines
Time Period:
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This newspaper article describes the musical talents of Allen Tanner and his siblings.
Location: MC 2013.3, B5, F21
Subject: Visual and Performing Arts
Format: Newspapers and Magazines
Time Period:
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This newspaper clipping depicts dancer Thamara Swirskaya in costume.
Location: MC 2013.3, B5, F20
Subject: Visual and Performing Arts
Format: Newspapers and Magazines
Time Period:
Undated
This social column by Mrs. Henry Field describes Allen Tanner's return to the United States from Europe with Pavel Tchelitchew. Field also hints at the end of Tanner's friendship with Gertrude Stein.
Location: MC 2013.3, B5, F28
Subject: Visual and Performing Arts
Format: Newspapers and Magazines
Time Period:
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