The HistoryMakers video oral history with Blanche Burton-Lyles.

Cultural heritage chief executive and pianist Blanche Burton-Lyles was born March 2, 1933, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She received her B.A. degree in music from the Curtis Institute of Music in 1954; and her B.A. degree in music education from Temple University in 1971. Burton-Lyles was a child...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection) (Production company)
Other Authors: Burton-Lyles, Blanche, 1933-2018 (Interviewee)
Wilson, Shawn (Interviewer)
Burghelea, Neculai (director of photography.)
Language:English
Language of the Original:
English
Published: Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
Subjects:
Burton-Lyles, Blanche, > 1933-2018 > Interviews.
African Americans > Interviews.
African Americans.
Cultural Heritage Chief Executive > Pianist.
Internet videos.
Interviews.
Nonfiction films.
Oral histories.
Genre:
Interviews.
Internet videos.
Nonfiction films.
Oral histories.
Online Access:
Connect to online resource - MSU authorized users (The HistoryMakers)
Physical Description:1 online resource (5 video files (2 hr., 23 min., 38 sec.)) : sound, color.
Variant Title:
History Makers video oral history with Blanche Burton-Lyles
Blanche Burton-Lyles
Format: Electronic Video
Description
Summary:
Cultural heritage chief executive and pianist Blanche Burton-Lyles was born March 2, 1933, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She received her B.A. degree in music from the Curtis Institute of Music in 1954; and her B.A. degree in music education from Temple University in 1971. Burton-Lyles was a child prodigy; she won the Young Audiences Competition in 1947 and was the first African-American female pianist to play at Carnegie Hall with the New York Philharmonic. She attended the same church as Marian Anderson, who became Burton-Lyles' mentor. She performed with the New Haven Symphony and, for fifteen years, with Leroy Bostic and the Mellow Aires. In 1963, she joined the Philadelphia Board of Education as a teacher while Burton-Lyles retired from teaching in 1993, and became the founder and President of the Marian Anderson Historical Society, Inc. Burton-Lyles received the Mary McLeod Bethune Award from the National Council of Negro Women in 2000.
Call Number:E185.97
Playing Time:02:23:38
Credits:Videographer, Neculai Burghelea.
Participant or Performer:
Shawn Wilson, interviewer.
Event Details:
Recorded Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 2006 December 18.
Source of Description:
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