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Item A Bill Dixon Concert Performance to Benefit Silo '83 (Poster)(Bennington College, 1983-05-08)Item Bennington Jazz Weekend (Program and Panel Transcription)(Bennington College, 1964-04)Item Item Item Milford Graves Performs(Bennington College, 1970)Milford Graves, Bennington College faculty member 1973-2012Item Item John Hagen(Bennington College, 1970)Item Bill Dixon conducts his Advanced Ensemble in a concert at Comstock Prison - November 1973(Bennington College, 1973-11)Bill Dixon, Bennington College faculty 1968-1995.Item Bill Dixon conducts rehearsal for his concert - May 1973(Bennington College, 1973-05)Bill Dixon, Bennington College faculty 1968-1995.Item Bill Dixon Conducts - May 11, 1973(Bennington College, 1973-05-11)Bill Dixon, Bennington College faculty 1968-1995.Item Bill Dixon Conducts(Bennington College, 1973-11)Bill Dixon conducts his Black Music Ensemble in a concert at Comstock Prison - November 1973Item Bill Dixon rehearsing for his concert - May 11, 1973(Bennington College, 1973-05-11)Bill Dixon, Bennington College faculty member 1968-1995.Item Bill Dixon Conducts(Bennington College, 1973-11)Bill Dixon, Bennington College faculty 1968-1995. Bill Dixon conducts his Advanced Ensemble in a performance at Great Meadow Correctional Facility in Comstock, N.Y.Item Bill Dixon Conducts(Bennington College, 1973-11)Bill Dixon, Bennington College faculty member 1968-1995. Bill Dixon conducts his advanced ensemble in concert at Great Meadow Correctional Facility in Comstock, N.Y. November 1973Item Clayton Riley - Spring 1974(Bennington College, 1974)Hadley Lecture speaker, Clayton Riley, in the spring of 1974.Item Item Bill Dixon and Glynis Loman - Jack Moore's Improvisation Class 1973-1974(Bennington College, 1973)Bill Dixon, Bennington College faculty member 1968-1995.Item Bill Dixon Interview(1975-05-15)Topics: Part One History of Black Music in United States, George Gershwin, the popularity of jazz in Europe, the role of historians and critics in art, writing and conducting a score for a United States Information Agency film in 1967 (The Wealth of a Nation, produced and directed by William Greaves) the Black esthetic, improvisation. “…in the West, we have come up with the idea that like, composition as we define it, is the highest order and improvisation has to come less than that. Now we know that Bach, Beethoven, Haydn, Mozart were all incredible improvisers, we know that from history, you know, because the music, before people became so caught up with notation, that was the way people did music. The way improvisation has functioned in Black Music, it has not been an adjunct, it’s been the music.” Topics: Part Two His work at the United Nations, musical influences, writing music, the role of Black Music in academia, the nature of art, and his teaching philosophies. “I have sort of fantasized and said that like for every society that has an overt musical display there must people in the society like I am in this one, that functions in another way, without the endorsement of the society.” Part Two Topics: His work at the United Nations, musical influences, writing music, the role of Black Music in academia, the nature of art, his teaching philosophies. Topics: Part Two: “I have sort of fantasized and said that like for every society that has an overt musical display there must people in the society like I am in this one, that functions in another way, without the endorsement of the society.”Item Bill Dixon Interview(1973-05-15) Dixon, BillBill Dixon interview - May 1973. Topics include: 0:52 his childhood growing up in Nantucket, MA and 6:48 Harlem, NYC, 13:44 his school P.S. 89, 22:00 seeing Louis Armstrong play, 24:48 getting his first instrument at age 16, 25:00 attending art school, 32:00 hearing bands at the Apollo, studying music at age 20, 42:53 racism, 43:08 his time in the US Army, 44:00 studying at the Art Students League, 44:16 the GI Bill, 54:00 working on a retrospective of his work,1:01:20 relationships with other musicians, the elusive quality of happiness, playing at Cafe Bohemia and Birdland, and planning the Black Music Festival at Bennington College.Item Quadrille, Vol 11, No 3(Bennington College, 1977) Brown, Alex; Edelmann, SusanArticles: Inauguration Weekend Brings Out Bennington's Best / Inaugural Speaker Harriman Comments on Carter, World Peace / Balanced Operating Budget Announced by Trustees / Balanced Budget Hinges on Maintenance Savings / Alumni News / Reunion '77 / Inauguration Concert Features Alumni Composers and Performers / Alumni Council Meeting Wins a Convert / A Word from New Alumni Association Officers / Geoffrey Hartman Delivers Stanley Edgar Hyman Memorial Lecture / Commencement 1977 / Faculty Notes / Judith.Di Maio '72 Awarded Rome Prize Fellowship in Architecture / Two New Trustees Elected / Memorial Service Held for Honorary Trustee Charles Dollard / Gladys Y. Leslie (obituary) / New Administrators/ Curtis Photo Exhibit and Indian Symposium Held at Bennington / Three Bennington Sculptors Win Awards / Reflections on June '77 Black Music by Stephen Horenstein / Alumni & Friends Invited to Performance Weekend / The Musicfest Wednesdays of New Student Music by Henry Brant / A Summer Life for Bennington College by Christine Graham / Bennington Workshops " View from the Pedestal: workshops concerning the 'legal status of women conducted" by attorneys Pat Barr and Jill Laurie Goodman