Collection Name: Brice, Carol
Collection Dates: 1916-
Repository Name: Amistad Research Center, Tulane
University , New Orleans LA
NUCMC Number: MS 81-2
Type: Papers
Dates: 1905-1978
Extent: ca. 4000 items and 6 v.
Description: Singer and professor of music, University of
Oklahoma, Norman. Chiefly programs from Brice's appearances in recitals,
concerts, and operas, together with announcements, brochures, posters,
clippings, photos, and other related publicity material; and ca. 700 family,
personal, and business letters (1927-78), diaries (partial, 1934, 1936, 1946),
documents and lists (1940-44), and memorabilia (1916-55). Includes material on
her performance at the third inauguration of Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt
(1941), winning of the Walter H. Naumburg Foundation prize, appearances with
Serge Koussevitsky and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, tours of South America
and Germany, and roles in the operas Regina and Porgy and Bess, and musical
Showboat; papers (1968-78) documenting the career of her second husband,
Thomas Devore Carey (b. 1931), singer and professor of music, University of
Oklahoma; letters by and about her aunt, Dr. Charlotte (Hawkins) Brown
(1883-1961), founder of Palmer Memorial Institute, Sedalia, N.C., where Brice
was educated; letters (1954-60), reflecting struggles of black performers in
Europe from singer Vera Little (b. ca. 1915); and material on other black
singers and musicians, including Marian Anderson, Harry Thacker Burleigh,
Ellabelle Davis, Roland Wiltse Hayes, Dorothy Maynor, Paul Robeson,
and Neil Scott (Brice's first husband). Other correspondents include family
members and Frank Goodall Harrison, professor of music at Talladega College
(Ala.), where Brice also studied. Unpublished finding aid in the
repository. Gift of Miss Brice, 1972 and 1978. Additions to the collection are
expected.
Index Terms: NUCMC
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