Research Catalog
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Donald White.
- Title
- The HistoryMakers video oral history with Donald White.
- Publication
- Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Available Online
Details
- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (4 video files (1 hr., 39 min., 2 sec.)) : sound, color.
- Summary
- Cellist Donald White was born in Richmond, Indiana on July 9, 1925. The middle of seven children, began playing the cello when he was sixteen. After he was drafted into the United States Navy in 1943, he played bass tuba and peckhorn in the Navy band while continuing his cello studies. After leaving the U.S. Navy, he earned a music degree at Roosevelt University in Chicago. White then earned a fellowship from the University of Hartford, granting him the position of assistant principal cellist of the Hartford Symphony Orchestra. He received his M.A. degree from the University of Hartford and worked four years with the Hartford Symphony Orchestra. After successfully auditioning with Maestro George Szell, White was invited to join the Cleveland Orchestra in 1957. He was the first African American member of the orchestra. White married pianist, composer, and retired educator, Dolores White. He passed away July 31, 2005.
- Alternative Title
- History Makers video oral history with Donald White
- Donald White
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Internet videos.
- Interviews.
- Nonfiction films.
- Oral histories.
- Credits (note)
- Videographer, Scott Stearns.
- OCLC
- 1003150315
- Title
- The HistoryMakers video oral history with Donald White.
- Publisher
- Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
- Country of Producing Entity
- United States naf
- Playing Time
- 013902
- Type of Content
- two-dimensional moving image
- Type of Medium
- computer
- Type of Carrier
- online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
- video file
- Performer
- Regennia Williams, interviewer.
- Credits
- Videographer, Scott Stearns.
- Event
- Recorded Cleveland, Ohio 2005 January 13.
- Source of description
- Vendor-supplied metadata.
- Connect to:
- Indexed Term
- Cellist.
- Added Author
- White, Donald, 1925-2005, interviewee.Williams, Regennia N., interviewer.Stearns, Scott, director of photography.HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.