A brief chronology / Carolyn L. Quin -- Contributed essays. The formative years of William Grant Still: Little Rock, Arkansas, 1895-1911 / Willard B. Gatewood ; "Dean of Afro-American composers" or ...
Essays about the Composer -- Carrie Still Shepperson: The Hollows of Her Footsteps -- In My Father's House -- My Life as a Composer's Daughter -- From Composer to Composition: The Visionary Path -- ...
In 1954, American composer William Grant Still traveled to Bates to accept an honorary Doctor of Letters degree for creating music that placed him “among the leaders in interracial influence.” Seventy ...