Berea College
Organization
Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:
Margaret Belknap Allen papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.02
Abstract
This collection contains the papers of Margaret Belknap Allen.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1943-1991
Celebration of Traditional Music
Collection — 6.12 Oversized Posters
Identifier: RG 06-6.12.5
Abstract
Records documenting the Celebration of Traditional Music, an annual event striving to represent homemade music passed on from person to person in the Appalachian Region and the musicians who play it.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1974 -
Children of God Oratorio Collection
Collection
Identifier: RG 11-11.01
Abstract
Children of God: An Oratorio on the Brotherhood of Man is a major choral work commissioned in 1956 by Berea College and the National Council of Churches of Christ in the United States of America (NCC). A specially created Berea College Oratorio Choir first performed the work the following year in two significant events: Part I only was presented on both Feb. 1 and 2, 1957 at the Cincinnati Music Hall,with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra and guest soloists, Thor Johnson conducting. The...
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1953-1980
John Courter Papers
Collection
Identifier: RG 09-9.11
Abstract
John Courter was an organist, carillonneur, and professor of music at Berea College. Courter joined the Berea College faculty in 1971 as a teacher and organist. After retiring from teaching in 2007, he continued to serve as College Organist and was also the College Carillonneur. In addition, to work at the Courter was the organist at Union Church and a long-time contributor to the music of St. Clare Catholic Church, both in Berea.
A native of Lansing, Michigan, Courter earned a bachelor’s...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: c. 1980-2010
Katherine Jackson French Ballad Collection
Collection — Box 1: Series 1; Series 2; Series 3; Series Series 4
Identifier: BCA 0005-SAA 004
Abstract
Katherine Jackson French was influenced to collect mountain ballads through friends who had attended a lecture—in 1905—at which two instructors from Berea College, Kentucky, spoke about the uncollected ballads in the mountains of Kentucky. She was writing her dissertation at Columbia University at the time and she delayed investigating the matter of collecting mountain ballads until 1909 when she returned to London, Kentucky, to attend her mother who was ill. On at least two occasions in...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1909-1916
Music Department
Collection
Identifier: RG 06-6.29
Abstract
Records of the Berea College Music Department dating back to 1879.
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: Majority of material found in 1879-2020
Recreation Extension Service
Collection
Identifier: RG 05-5.45
Abstract
The Recreation Extension Service was formally established in 1937 under the direction of Frank H. Smith with the aim of increasing the appreciation of Appalachian cultural heritage through participation in recreational activities based on traditional folk material. Recreation
Extension services included folk arts programming, the Christmas Country Dance School, the Mountain Folk Festival, the Country Dancers and other recreational campus groups, itineranct recreation services to schools and...
Dates:
translation missing: en.enumerations.date_label.created: 1914-1995
Wilderness Road Drama Collection
Collection
Identifier: RG 11-11.04
Abstract
Wilderness Road, an outdoor symphonic drama, was commissioned by Berea College to help commemorate the school’s centennial celebration in the summer of 1955. The drama was written by Pulitzer prize-winning author, Paul Green, who also authored The Common Glory, The Lost Colony, and The Stephen Foster Story. Green received the Freedom Foundation’s George...
Dates:
Other: Majority of material found in 1942-1980
Filtered By
- Subject: Music. X
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Berea (Ky.) 2
- Folk and music festivals. 2
- Folk music -- Appalachian Region. 2
- Music -- Appalachian Region. 2
- Music -- Instruction and study. 2
- African Americans. 1
- Appalachian Region. 1
- Ballads, English -- Appalachian Region, Southern. 1
- Ballads, English -- Kentucky. 1
- Berea College -- Buildings -- Windswept 1
- Berea, Kentucky -- Women's Christian Temperance Union 1
- Bible in music -- History. 1
- Bluegrass music. 1
- Carillons. 1
- Children's songs, English. 1
- Church music -- Appalachian Region. 1
- Church music -- Protestant churches. 1
- Eurythmics. 1
- Fiddle tunes -- Appalachian Region. 1
- Fiddle tunes. 1
- Folk art -- Appalachian Region, Southern. 1
- Folk dancing -- Appalachian Region, Southern. 1
- Folk songs -- Appalachian Region, Southern. 1
- Folk songs -- Kentucky. 1
- Indian Fort Theatre 1
- Kentucky -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Drama. 1
- Music. 1
- Musical meter and rhythm -- Studies and exercises. 1
- Oratorios. 1
- Organ music. Arranged 1
- Songs with piano. 1
- Sonnets. 1
- String band music -- Appalachian Region. 1
- Theater, Open-air -- Kentucky. 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Songs and music. 1 + ∧ less
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