16. Music collections

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Carter Crawford was a Rice University graduate, who worked in oil and gas, and was also deeply interested in music, particularly for viola. These materials include performance scores and notes, family photos and genealogical materials, travel photos, and musicology books / scores. Carter Crawford's Rice diploma is stored with the Rice diplomas collection.

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This collection consists of fliers, issues of Public News, and concert recordings on CD.

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This collection mainly contains audio files of the works of Joseph R. Farrell.

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This collection consists of photography by James Fraher, which documents members of the Houston blues and the Texas zydeco community.

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This archival collection includes rapper and entreprenuer Scotty ATL's grill molds from actor, writer and producer Issa Rae; rapper, producer, and actor Big Boi; Atlanta rapper T.I.; and an oral history interview with Scotty ATL, by Corey Garrett, CERCL Community Archives Affiliate.

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Photographs, promotional cards, posters, published interviews and music of Swisha House artists such as Paul Wall, Lil Mario, SLim Thug, Coota Bang, Michael 5000 Watts, Big Tyme, Lester Roy, Sabwarfare, Archie Lee, J Dawg and many others. Music is on audiocassette, LP album, and CD. Additionally, this collection features a large framed platinum record presented to CERCL to commemorate the sale 1 million copies of Paul Wall's The Peoples Champ album. (1 box plus framed platinum record)

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This collection consists primarily of musical scores composed by two twentieth-century residents of Houston, Texas, Frantz H. Brogniez and John R. Cardone. There are eleven short pieces by Brogniez and eight by Cardone, five of them written to accompany the seventeenth-century masque Comus by John Milton.

Abstract Robert Avalon (1955-2004) was an independent musician, who lived the last 15 years of his life in Houston, Texas, where he established himself as a prominent composer, performer, and teacher. His compositions represent an important body of work reflecting several trends in the modern music scene in the Texas area. The lion’s share of this collection consists of the composer’s complete music portfolio from solo instrumental works to large-scale orchestral compositions, as well as the...