The Arthur Hall Collection
1973 Archive
Note:
The items in the Arthur Hall Collection
listed here are now located in the
Special Collections Research Center
Temple University Libraries
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Abbreviations:
JN=Joe Nash
ER=Elizabeth Roberts
AH=Arthur Hall
AADE=Afro-American Dance Ensemble
1973 general notes:
Ile Ife House of Love
(1973 16mm 30 min)
by Ray Hartung
Original page included the following note:
[Seek print of film, outs and information]
Since then, Ray Hartung provided a much faded print, along with rights to copy.
Arthur Hall's print went missing in 1988 and has never been found.
The digital copy from Ray Hartung's print can be seen here:
American Dance Festival, USIA, Chicago TV
w/ Bobby Artist & Lisa Williams
seek information
Orpheus at Greaterford Prison
JN Pan-Afrikan Reception, Nov 23, 1973 Waldorf Astoria,
Starlight Ballroom
Chronological Outline
Collection Directory
(1973? 16mm 90 min)
Original page included the following note:
seek any material or information
Orpheus @ Greaterford Prison, "Assignment" program on KPVI
television
John Miller, producer seek Jon Miller
Since then, the videotape of Orpheus at Graterford Prison was found to be
deposited at the Special Collections Research Center at Temple University,
BUT the American Broadcasting Corporation (ABC)
refuses to allow us to make copies.
See also Orpheus @ Phila Museum of Art, June 5,
1983
Arthur Hall and Ile-Ife Museum of Afro-American Art and Culture
are mentioned in Elsa Honig Fine's
The Afro-American Artist: A Search for Identity
(New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1973, page 171).
Apparent source for this information is Victoria Donohoe's "Gallery Tour,"
Philadelphia Inquirer, April 28, 1972, p. 20.
[ref: Tom Weissinger,
John Henrik Clarke Africana Library
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY]
1973 Chronology
JN AHAADE Feb 10, 1973
@ Inglis House, Phila Home for the Incurable [program]
JN "Phila Folk Song Society" April 3, 1973
@ Museum of Phila
Civic Center w/ Ile Ife Singers
JN, ER Orpheus world premiere, May 13-14, 19-20 (1973)
Shubert Theatre
Orpheus
Two Rolls of 8mm film (Silent, 1973) of Orpheus in Performance
Audio recording (1973) of Orpheus in performance
Overture to Orpheus
An attempt to put the two together.
AH "Hall Dancers Unveil Style In 'Orpheus'"
Phila Inquirer, May 11, 1973 [p.B-1]
JN AHAADE, Summer evenings in Rittenhouse Square, June 4, 1973
ER poster Orpheus, return engagement, June 19 - July 1
(1973)
Schubert Theater, 250 S Broad
JN "New Outlooks at Ile Ife: It's the Conga Drum, not booze &
Junk"
Sunday Bulletin 10/21/73, p.1
AH Dancers w/ Imamu Amiri Baraka &c
[Congress
of Afrikan People, Newark NJ]
JN
Obatala & the Philadelphia Orchestra
Dec 12, 1973, Academy
of Music
[program]
Additional material sought
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Collection Index