Verna Arvey (February 16, 1910 – November 22, 1987) was an American librettist, pianist and writer who is best known for her musical collaborations with her husband William Grant Still, a musician and composer.
VernaArvey (February 16, 1910 – November 22, 1987) was an American librettist, pianist and writer who is best known for her musical collaborations with...
of Chicago, Illinois Richard D. Arvey, American psychology professor VernaArvey (1910–1987), American librettist, pianist and writer Places: Saint-Jean-d'Arvey...
The papers of Still and his second wife, the librettist and writer VernaArvey, are currently held by the University of Arkansas. William Grant Still...
composer, William Grant Still; and the white Russian-Jewish pianist, VernaArvey. Headlee graduated from Northern Arizona University (NAU) and then received...
Grant Still, with a libretto by his wife and frequent collaborator, VernaArvey. Set in a 20th-century Creole village in the Mississippi Delta, the opera...
Still, with a libretto begun by poet Langston Hughes and completed by VernaArvey. She married the composer following their collaboration. Set in Haiti...
Godly perfection." Three Visions was composed by Still for his wife, VernaArvey, who first played the composition in Los Angeles in 1936. The suite is...
(liver cancer) November 16 – Zubir Said, composer, 80 November 22 – VernaArvey, librettist and pianist November 23 – Joseph Beer, composer, 79 December...
of 1952 Gus Arriola, cartoonist and creator of Gordo, class of 1935 VernaArvey, musician and writer Roy L. Ash, (1918–2012), president of Litton Industries...
Horsemen Summerland Radiant Pinnacle Related articles List of compositions VernaArvey George Whitefield Chadwick W. C. Handy James P. Johnson Edgard Varèse...
2024-02-20 – via Newspapers.com. "Collection: William Grant Still and VernaArvey Papers". ArchivesSpace at the University of Arkansas. Retrieved 2024-02-20...
– Tata Vasco William Grant Still – A Bayou Legend, with libretto by VernaArvey Bernard Herrmann – Citizen Kane Bernard Herrmann – The Devil and Daniel...
"Visits to the Homes of Famous Composers—George Frederick McKay" by VernaArvey (William Grant Still's wife) San Francisco Opera and Concert; May, 1948;...
also included a performance by Paul Robeson. A notice by Still's wife VernaArvey in the New York Times in advance of the premiere wrote: … Miss Chapin's...
Music-makers. New Hampshire: Ayer Publishing. p. 7. ISBN 0-8369-0724-8. Arvey, Verna (2007). Choreographic Music for the Dance. London: Read Country Books...
in Sadie 2001. Also at Oxford Music Online (subscription required). Arvey, Verna. (1941). Choreographic Music for the Dance. New York: E. P. Dutton &...
Claude Debussy. Courier Dover Publications. p. 63. ISBN 0-486-21567-9. Arvey, Verna; Hsu, Samuel; Grolnic, Sidney; Peters, Mark A. (2007). Choreographic...
Music-makers. New Hampshire: Ayer Publishing. p. 7. ISBN 978-0-8369-0724-7. Arvey, Verna (2007). Choreographic Music for the Dance. London: Read Country Books...
in the Twentieth Century. Still, William Grant; Powell, Rosephanye; Arvey, Verna (2000). An art song collection. "Rosephanye Powell". Archived from the...
Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s. Duke University Press. ISBN 9780822374169. Arvey, Verna (Winter 1944). "By Her Own Bootstraps". Opportunity: A Journal of Negro...