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Freeman, Peggy Pierce, tape 1, side a

ca. November 8, 1991

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Freeman, Peggy Pierce, tape 1, side a
  • Title
  • Freeman, Peggy Pierce, tape 1, side a
  • Date
  • ca. November 8, 1991
  • Identifier
  • CLP-OHMP-010-Freeman-01-a
  • Source Identifier
  • OHMP 10
  • Description
  • Peggy Pierce Freeman (1923-2006) was a Pittsburgh pianist, piano accompanist, organist and piano teacher. Freeman talks about her early music training with her piano teacher Mary Cardwell Dawson starting at 7 years old (1930); how Dawson remained her teacher even after she went to college; her education at Carnegie Tech (Carnegie Mellon) and her status as the only black woman studying music at the college; her association with the National Negro Opera Company and other people in the group; the Syria Mosque and the protests to preserve it from being demolished; Mary Cardwell Dawson's challenges to staging opera productions; her participation with the Treble Clef Choir and it's founder Maudelena Johnson; her husband Robert J. Freeman's music career; the Women's Civic Choir founded by Professor Ralph Davis.
  • Extent
  • 30 minutes
  • Type
  • sound recordings-nonmusical
  • Genre
  • oral histories (literary genre)
  • Subject
  • Musicians
    Pianists
    Music teachers
    African American musicians
    Freeman, Peggy Pierce
    National Association of Negro Musicians (U.S.)
  • Geographic Subjects
  • Pittsburgh (Pa.)
  • Source
  • Maurice Levy Oral History of Music in Pittsburgh Collection (OHMP)
  • Language
  • eng
  • Contributor
  • Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
  • Collection
  • Maurice Levy Oral History of Music in Pittsburgh Collection
  • Rights Information
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  • Rights Holder
  • Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh