Students in the Summer Youth Project participate in a wind ensemble rehearsal.
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Wind Ensemble Rehearsal, early 1970s, Tuba Student-Prep CITA Program, Photographs, Summer Youth Project, Arthur Friedheim Library, Peabody Institute, The Johns Hopkins University.
Four students in the Summer Youth Project pose on columns at Peabody’s front entrance, just outside the George Peabody Library.
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Students on Peabody Front Columns, 1971, Summer Youth Project 1971, Photographs, Summer Youth Project, Arthur Friedheim Library, Peabody Institute, The Johns Hopkins University.
Five students in the Summer Youth Project pose in front of the Peabody Institute sign at the corner of Washington Place and Monument Street.
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Students by Peabody Institute Sign, early 1970s, Students-Prep CITA Program, Photographs, Summer Youth Project, Arthur Friedheim Library, Peabody Institute, The Johns Hopkins University.
Students in the Summer Youth Project participate in a choir rehearsal in North Hall (now Leith Symington Griswold Hall).
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Choir Rehearsal in North Hall, early 1970s, Voice Students-CITA Program, Photographs, Summer Youth Project, Arthur Friedheim Library, Peabody Institute, The Johns Hopkins University.
This is an interview involving Peabody and non-Peabody affiliates, in which the purpose and other details of the Summer Youth Program are discussed.
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Interview about Summer Youth Project, May 1967, Special Youth Project 1967 Proposal Original and Final, VII.P.1, Conservatory of Music Summer Youth Project 1967, Arthur Friedheim Library, Peabody Institute, The Johns Hopkins University.
This is the opening speech for the first Summer Youth Project, a Peabody program geared towards underserved Baltimore music students.
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Summer Youth Project Opening Speech, 1967, Special Youth Project 1967 Proposal Original and Final, VII.P.1, Conservatory of Music Summer Youth Project 1967, Arthur Friedheim Library, Peabody Institute, The Johns Hopkins University.
Trumpet player Wilmer Wise was the first African-American faculty member at the Peabody Institute and the first African-American member of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra.
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Photo of Wilmer Wise at Druid Hill Park, Item 141, Box 15, Sounds and Stories collection, PIMS.0091, Arthur Friedheim Library Archives, Peabody Institute, The Johns Hopkins University.
Paul A. Brent, the first African-American student to enroll at the Peabody Conservatory, graduated with a Teacher’s Certificate in Piano in the class of 1953. In this photo, he is second from the right on the back row.
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Photograph of the Class of 1953, Peabody Institute photographs, PIRG.12.01, Arthur Friedheim Library Special Collections, Peabody Institute, The Johns Hopkins University. Available online at http://cdm16613.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p16613coll11/id/285