Halim El-Dabh letters and concert programs received from Peggy Glanville-Hicks, 1959-1964

MLMSS 7840

fonds

1959-1964

839542

0.01 metres of textual material (1 folder) - Manuscript, typescript and printed (photocopies)

Halim El-Dabh, composer, was born in Cairo on 4 March, 1921, From 1941-1944 he studied piano and Western music at the Sulcz Cons. in Cairo. On a Fulbright scholarship he went to the USA in 1950 where he studied composition with Aaron Copland and Irving Fine at the Berkshire Music Centre at Tanglewood. El-Dabh became a naturalised American citizen in 1961. His teaching posts include Haile Selassie University in Ethiopa (1962-1964), Howard University (1966-1969) and Kent State University, Ohio (from 1969). He became co-director of Kent State University Centre for the study of world music in 1979.
Reference: The International Cyclopedia of music and musicians, Eleventh Edition.

Photocopy letter dated August 14 [1960?] - Peggy Glanville-Hicks to Halim El-Dabh.

Photocopy postcard dated July 12, 1964 - Peggy Glanville-Hicks to Halim El-Dabh.

Photocopy Composers' Forum concert program - Fourth Concert, January 17, 1958-59 season.

Photocopy Living Theatre concert program, 1959

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