Musicologist Creed Slideshow

1. A slideshow presentation by the Time Lords
Yearning Dreams
by Tod Clifton

2. • Lived from 1895 – 1978
• Born in Woodville, Mississippi
• Grew up in Little Rock, Arkansas
• Started musical training at 15
• Took violin lessons
• Taught himself several other instruments
• Musical interest sparked by step-father and grandmother
• Received Guggenheim Fellowship
Life Overview

3. Education
• Attended Wilberforce University
• Earned Bachelors of Science
• Started unofficial musical career
• Conducted the university band
• Learned to play more instruments
• Later attended Oberlin Conservatory of Music
• Studied under George Whitefield Chadwhick
• Later studied under Edgard Varèse

4. Orchestral
Genres
Symphonies
Ballets
Film and
Radio
Vocal
Genres
Operas
Choruses
Radio
Yearning
Dreams
Symphony
Blues
Jazz

5. Yearning
Dreams
Premiered
1926
Rochester,
NY
Influenced
Gershwin
Inspired by
Paul
Dunbar
Poems

7. Associated “isms”
Neoclassicism
Nationalism
Historicism